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rider plate |
Noun
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a horizontal beam (or plate) connected to the top of a ship's vertical keel or to the keelson |
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reservoir |
Noun
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tank used for collecting and storing a liquid (as water or oil) |
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reservoir |
Noun
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lake used to store water for community use |
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reservoir |
Noun
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anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies |
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reservoir |
Noun
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a large or extra supply of something |
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rotisserie |
Noun
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a restaurant that specializes in roasted and barbecued meats |
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rotisserie |
Noun
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an oven or broiler equipped with a rotating spit on which meat cooks as it turns |
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ridge |
Noun
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a beam laid along the edge where two sloping sides of a roof meet at the top |
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ridge |
Noun
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any long raised border or margin of a bone or tooth or membrane |
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ridge |
Noun
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a long narrow natural elevation or striation |
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ridge |
Noun
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a long narrow range of hills |
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ridge |
Noun
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a long narrow natural elevation on the floor of the ocean |
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ridge |
Noun
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any long raised strip |
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ridge |
Verb
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form into a ridge |
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ridge |
Verb
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spade into alternate ridges and troughs |
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ridge |
Verb
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throw soil toward a crop row from both sides |
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ridge |
Verb
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plough alternate strips by throwing the furrow onto an unploughed strip |
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ridge |
Verb
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extend in ridges |
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rocker arm |
Noun
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a lever pivoted at the center |
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rotor |
Noun
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rotating mechanism consisting of an assembly of rotating airfoils |
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rotor |
Noun
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the rotating armature of a motor or generator |
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rotor |
Noun
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the revolving bar of a distributor |
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rocket |
Noun
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a jet engine containing its own propellant and driven by reaction propulsion |
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rocket |
Noun
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any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine |
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rocket |
Noun
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sends a firework display high into the sky |
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rocket |
Noun
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propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon |
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rocket |
Noun
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erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender, known as arugula in some dialects of English |
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rocket |
Verb
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to propel with a rocket |
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rocket |
Verb
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to gain speed abruptly |
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rotor coil |
Noun
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the rotating armature of a motor or generator |
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rotor blade |
Noun
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the long airfoil that rotates to provide the lift that supports a helicopter in the air |
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reset |
Noun
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device for resetting instruments or controls |
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reset |
Verb
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adjust again after an initial failure |
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reset |
Verb
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set to zero |
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reset |
Verb
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set anew |
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rotary wing |
Noun
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the long airfoil that rotates to provide the lift that supports a helicopter in the air |
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ridgepole |
Noun
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a beam laid along the edge where two sloping sides of a roof meet at the top |
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rocket engine |
Noun
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a jet engine containing its own propellant and driven by reaction propulsion |
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rotor head |
Noun
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the axis around which the major rotor of a helicopter turns |
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reset button |
Noun
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a push button that you press to activate the reset mechanism |
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rooftree |
Noun
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a beam laid along the edge where two sloping sides of a roof meet at the top |
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rocket base |
Noun
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a military base for rocket missiles |
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rotor shaft |
Noun
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the axis around which the major rotor of a helicopter turns |
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resistance pyrometer |
Noun
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pyrometer that measures high temperatures by the resistance in a heated wire |
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ridge rope |
Noun
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either of a pair of lifelines running alongside the bowsprit of a ship |
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rocket range |
Noun
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a firing range for rocket missiles |
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rotunda |
Noun
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a large circular room |
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rotunda |
Noun
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a building having a circular plan and a dome |
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resistance thermometer |
Noun
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thermometer that measures temperature by changes in the resistance of a spiral of platinum wire |
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riding bitt |
Noun
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one of the large bitts used to secure the cable of a dropped anchor |