| reformation |
the act of reforming or condition of being reformed. [2 definitions] |
| reformatory |
intended to improve or reform. [2 definitions] |
| reformed |
purged of faults, abuses, and errors. [3 definitions] |
| reformer |
a person who works to bring about reform or improvement; reformist. [2 definitions] |
| reformist |
a person supporting or advocating reform. [2 definitions] |
| reform school |
see "reformatory." |
| reformulate |
combined form of formulate. |
| reformulation |
combined form of formulation. |
| refortification |
combined form of fortification. |
| refortify |
combined form of fortify. |
| refoundation |
combined form of foundation. |
| refract |
to bend (rays or waves of light, heat, sound, or the like) in passing (them) obliquely from one medium into another which transmits them at a different speed. |
| refractile |
of, relating to, or capable of refraction; refractive. |
| refracting telescope |
an optical telescope that uses lenses rather than mirrors to focus light rays. (Cf. reflecting telescope.) |
| refraction |
the bending of rays or waves of light, heat, sound, or the like when passed obliquely from one medium to another with a different rate of transmission. [2 definitions] |
| refractor |
something that causes refraction. [2 definitions] |
| refractory |
obstinately disobedient; difficult to control, as a child or animal. [4 definitions] |
| refrain1 |
to hold oneself back; to not enter into a particular action; desist; forbear (often fol. by "from"). |
| refrain2 |
a phrase or verse repeated at regular intervals in a poem or song, esp. at the end of each stanza. [2 definitions] |
| reframe |
combined form of frame. |
| refrangible |
capable of being refracted or bent. |