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| RESPONSIVE | | adj. - (often foll. By to) responding readily (to some influence).
- sympathetic.
- a answering. B by way of answer. responsiveness n. | |
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| RESTAURANT | | car n. Dining-car.
- car n. Dining-car.
- n. Public premises where meals may be bought and eaten. [french from restaurer *restore] | |
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| RESUMPTION | | n. Resuming. resumptive adj. [latin: related to *resume] | |
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| RETICULATE | | —v. (-ting) divide or be divided in fact or appearance into a network. —adj. Reticulated. reticulation n. [latin reticulum diminutive of rete net] | |
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| RETIREMENT | | n. - a retiring. B period of one's life as a retired person.
- seclusion.
- pension n. Pension paid by the state to retired people above a certain age. | |
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| RETRACTILE | | adj. Capable of being retracted. | |
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| RETROGRADE | | —adj. - directed backwards.
- reverting, esp. To an inferior state; declining.
- reversed (retrograde order). —v. - move backwards; recede.
- decline, revert. [latin retrogradior -gress- move backwards] | |
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| RETROGRESS | | v. - move backwards.
- deteriorate. retrogression n. Retrogressive adj. | |
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| RETROSPECT | | n. in retrospect when looking back. [from *retro-, *prospect] | |
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| RETROVIRUS | | n. Any of a group of rna viruses which form dna during the replication of their rna, and so transfer genetic material into the dna of host cells. [from the initial letters of reverse transcriptase + *virus] | |
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