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  • re-admission — the act of allowing to enter; entrance granted by permission, by provision or existence of pecuniary means, or by the removal of obstacles: the admission of aliens into a country.
  • reading desk — a desk for use in reading, especially by a person standing.
  • reading list — a list of sources (recommended by a teacher or university lecturer) which provide additional or background information on a subject being studied
  • reclassified — to classify anew.
  • red bandfish — a fish, Cepola haastii, found on the inner continental shelf around New Zealand: family Cepolidae
  • red brigades — an extreme leftist terrorist organization in Italy.
  • red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.
  • redesignated — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
  • reemphasized — to give emphasis to; lay stress upon; stress: to emphasize a point; to emphasize the eyes with mascara.
  • res judicata — a thing adjudicated; a case that has been decided.
  • residentiary — residing; resident.
  • respondentia — a loan upon a ship's cargo, which is repaid with interest if the ship reaches its destination, and if the ship does not, the loan is not repaid
  • resyndicated — a group of individuals or organizations combined or making a joint effort to undertake some specific duty or carry out specific transactions or negotiations: The local furniture store is individually owned, but is part of a buying syndicate.
  • rhode island — US state
  • rijksdaalder — a cupronickel or silver coin of the Netherlands, equal to 2½ guilders.
  • rose diamond — a diamond, one side of which is flat, and the other cut into twenty-four triangular facets in two ranges which form a convex face pointed at the top
  • rutlandshire — a former county, now part of Leicestershire, in central England.
  • salamandrine — any tailed amphibian of the order Caudata, having a soft, moist, scaleless skin, typically aquatic as a larva and semiterrestrial as an adult: several species are endangered.
  • sand cricket — Jerusalem cricket.
  • sandpapering — the act or process of polishing or grinding a surface with or as if with sandpaper
  • scalar field — a region with a number assigned at each point.
  • scared stiff — terrified
  • schneiderman — Rose, 1884–1972, U.S. labor leader, born in Poland.
  • scrieveboard — the drawing board of a shipbuilder
  • scrimshander — a person who makes scrimshaw objects.
  • scrive board — a floorlike construction on which the lines of a vessel can be drawn or scribed at full size.
  • self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
  • self-reading — the action or practice of a person who reads.
  • semi-dormant — lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: The lecturer's sudden shout woke the dormant audience.
  • semidarkness — partial darkness.
  • semidiameter — half of a diameter; radius.
  • sendai virus — a paramyxovirus that tends to cause cell fusion: in inactive form, used in biological research to produce cells with multiple nuclei of different genetic constitutions.
  • serial bonds — Serial bonds are bonds that are issued at the same time but have staggered maturity dates.
  • service road — frontage road.
  • shadow price — the calculated price of a good or service for which no market price exists
  • shared logic — the sharing of a central processing unit and associated software among several terminals
  • shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
  • sharp-witted — having or showing mental acuity; intellectually discerning; acute.
  • sherardizing — to coat (steel) with a thin cladding of zinc by heating in a mixture of sand and powdered zinc.
  • shirt-tailed — (of a garment) having a shirt-tail
  • short-haired — having short hair
  • sidereal day — the interval between two successive passages of the vernal equinox over the meridian, being about four minutes shorter than a mean solar day.
  • siderography — the art or technique of engraving on steel.
  • sierra madre — a mountain range extending from S Wyoming into N Colorado.
  • silver medal — a medal, traditionally of silver or silver in color, awarded to a person or team finishing second in a competition, meet, or tournament.
  • six-year-old — being six years in age
  • sixth-grader — a pupil in their sixth US school year after kindergarten, who is usually around 11 or 12 years old
  • slave driver — an overseer of slaves.
  • slave-driver — an overseer of slaves.
  • sliced bread — bread: sold pre-sliced
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