quintopoly
A market situation in which five companies exclusively provide a particular product or service.

quinzee
Alternative spelling of quinzhee.

quinzees
plural of quinzee

quinzhee
A shelter made by hollowing out a pile of snow.

quinzhees
plural of quinzhee

qullqa
An Incan storehouse or warehouse

qullqas
plural of qullqa

qumix
A mixed state in a quantum computing system.

qumixes
plural of qumix

quoy
An area of wasteland (or common land) now enclosed for farming.

quoys
plural of quoy

raajmahal
A palace.

raajmahals
plural of raajmahal

rabbitries
plural of rabbitry

rabbitry
Аn enclosure where rabbits are kept, and often bred.

rabicano
A horse that is colored mostly red, bay, or black, with flecks of white or grey especially on the flanks.

rabicanos
plural of rabicano

raceabout
A small sloop-rigged racing yacht carrying about six hundred square feet of sail, distinguished from a knockabout by having a short bowsprit.

raceabouts
plural of raceabout

racecourse
A course over which races are run.
A racetrack where horse races are run.

racecourses
plural of racecourse

raceground
Synonym of racecourse.

racegrounds
plural of raceground

racetrack
A course over which any type of races are run.
A characteristic circular erosion pattern in deposition processes.

racetracks
plural of racetrack

raceway
A place where races are held; a racetrack.
An easily-accessible conduit or tray for organizing runs of data or power cabling.
The canal for the current that drives a water wheel.

raceways
plural of raceway

racization
The way in which race becomes defined.

radiansphere
A spherical region of radius λ/2π around a small dipole electromagnetic antenna. This is the distance at which the induction and radiation terms are equal in magnitude. Inside, the induction terms dominate. In radio antenna theory the radiansphere is a convenient definition for the boundary between near-field and far-field regions.

radianspheres
plural of radiansphere

radiasterid
Any sea star of the family Radiasteridae

radiasterids
plural of radiasterid

radioimaging
The acquisition of a brand image by a radio station
The injection of radiomarkers into the body and subsequent imaging

radioteria
A store that sells radios.

radioterias
plural of radioteria

raghouse
Part of a paper mill in which the rags are prepared.

raghouses
plural of raghouse

railbeds
plural of railbed

railworks
A factory that manufactures rails for railways.

rainbowism
The disregarding or sugarcoating of race-related issues using the idea of the Rainbow Nation.

rainforest
A forest in a climate with high annual rainfall and no dry season.

rainforests
plural of rainforest

rainland
An area, especially in Africa, in which water for growing crops is supplied by rain (as contrasted with irrigated land and with floodland).

rainlands
plural of rainland

rainpond
A pond which is fed by rain, such as a dewpond.

rainponds
plural of rainpond

raion
An administrative unit of some Eastern European and Asian states.

raions
plural of raion

raiony
plural of raion

rajadom
Alternative form of rajahdom.

rajadoms
plural of rajadom

rajahdom
The territory ruled by a rajah.

rajahdoms
plural of rajahdom

rajbari
a mansion or palace built as a residence for a Hindu rajah, typically in India or Bangladesh.

rajbaris
plural of rajbari

rajmahal
Alternative form of raajmahal.

rajmahals
plural of rajmahal

rajon
Alternative spelling of raion.

rajons
plural of rajon

rakeries
plural of rakery

rakery
Debauchery; lewdness.

rallycross
A format of car racing in which drivers race over wild terrain and specially designed roads, meant to simulate a cross-country ride within a purpose-built circuit.

rampway
A sloping path taking the form of a ramp.

rampways
plural of rampway

ranarium
A place where frogs are bred.

ranariums
plural of ranarium

ranchette
A small ranch or large home lot, often on the outskirts of a major metropolitan area and just past the planned neighborhoods, consisting of 40 acres and a house and possibly a barn or other outbuildings.

ranchettes
plural of ranchette (a small ranch.)

ranchhand
A manual laborer on a ranch, often working under a foreman.

ranchhands
plural of ranchhand

ranchhouse
A ranch-style house.
A house on a ranch.

ranchhouses
plural of ranchhouse

ranchman
An owner or occupant of a ranch
A laborer on a ranch.

ranchmen
plural of ranchman

rancho
A simple hut, such as one with posts, covered with branches or thatch, where herdsmen or farm workers would lodge at night.
A large grazing farm where horses and cattle are raised; distinguished from hacienda, a cultivated farm or plantation.

ranchoes
plural of rancho

ranchos
plural of rancho

ranchstead
A plot of ranchland and the buildings upon it; a ranchhouse and its adjacent outbuildings.

ranchsteads
plural of ranchstead

randkluft
The headwall gap between a glacier or snowfield and the adjacent rock face at the back of the cirque or, more loosely, between the rock face and the side of the glacier.

randklufts
plural of randkluft

randyvoo
A house where the neighbours gather for a chat.

rapidograph
A technical pen.

rapidographs
plural of rapidograph

rapilli
Small fragments of rock, pumice and other ejecta thrown out by a volcano.

ratcastle
a prison.

ratcastles
plural of ratcastle

rattachism
An ideology calling for the French-speaking part of Belgium or Wallonia to secede from the state of Belgium and become part of France.

ravenmaster
A Yeoman Warder responsible for the feeding and welfare of the ravens of the Tower of London.

ravenmasters
plural of ravenmaster

ravenries
plural of ravenry

ravenry
A place where ravens nest and breed or are kept.

ravenstone
A place of execution; gallows
A gravestone

ravenstones
plural of ravenstone

readograph
A backlit sign on which are placed moveable letters spelling out messages - typically used over the entrance of a cinema to indicate what shows are playing.

readographs
plural of readograph

realpolitik
Pragmatic, often expansionist, diplomacy and politics focused on perceived national interests of the state to the near exclusion of ethical, moral, and theoretical objectives.

realpolitiks
plural of realpolitik

rebarbarization
An act which causes people revert again to a state which is primitive and uncivilized.

rebroadcaster
A radio or TV station that relays the programs of another

rebroadcasters
plural of rebroadcaster

recallism
A radical Bolshevik policy demanding that the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party cease all participation in legal state establishments and recall its representatives from the duma.

recluseries
plural of reclusery

reclusery
Alternative form of reclusory.

reclusories
plural of reclusory

reclusory
The place someone uses as a recluse; a hermitage.

reconfiguration
A reconfigured state.
The act of reconfiguring.

reconfigurations
plural of reconfiguration

recubation
recumbence; a state of lying down

recurrence
Return or reversion to a certain state.
The instance of recurring; frequent occurrence.
A return of symptoms as part of the natural progress of a disease.
Recourse.

recurrences
plural of recurrence

redan
A defensive fortification work in the shape of a V.

redans
plural of redan

redintegration
Restoration to a whole or sound state.
Restoration of a mixture to its former nature and state.
The reinstatement of a memory upon the presentation of a stimulus element that was a part of the stimulus complex that had aroused the event.

redintegrations
plural of redintegration

rediploidisation
The evolutionary process that drives reduction of ploidy of a polyploid species back to the diploid state.

rediploidization
Alternative form of rediploidisation.

rediploidizations
plural of rediploidization

reductisol
A permanently waterlogged gley

reductisols
plural of reductisol

reenforcement
Archaic form of reinforcement.

reenforcements
plural of reenforcement

refectories
plural of refectory