| refinery |
an industrial plant where natural resources such as petroleum and sugar are purified into usable products. |
| refinish |
to redo or restore the surface or finish of (woodwork, furniture, or the like). |
| refire |
combined form of fire. |
| refit |
to make or be made fit or ready for use again; resupply; reequip. [2 definitions] |
| refix |
combined form of fix. |
| reflect |
to throw back (light, heat, sound, or the like), as from a surface. [7 definitions] |
| reflectance |
the ratio of the amount of radiation, esp. light, that is reflected from a surface to that of the radiation originally on the surface. |
| reflecting telescope |
an optical telescope that uses mirrors rather than lenses to focus light rays. (Cf. refracting telescope.) |
| reflection |
the act of reflecting or state of being reflected. [4 definitions] |
| reflective |
capable of reflecting light. [3 definitions] |
| reflector |
a surface that throws back heat, light, or sound. [2 definitions] |
| reflex |
denoting or pertaining to an involuntary physiological response or reaction to a stimulus. [7 definitions] |
| reflex camera |
a camera fitted with a mirror behind the lens which reflects the image onto a ground glass plate to achieve an exact focus. |
| reflexive |
of a pronoun, used as an object that refers back to the subject of a sentence, as "himself" in "He admired himself in the mirror". [4 definitions] |
| refloat |
combined form of float. |
| refluent |
flowing back, as in a tide; ebbing. |
| reflux |
the process of flowing back. |
| reforest |
to plant new trees in (an area formerly forested). |
| reforestation |
the act of planting new trees to cover land where a forest had existed previously. |
| reform |
the improvement of wrong or bad conditions, esp. by political means. [5 definitions] |
| re-form |
to gather or form again. |