Rationing Rationing is the controlled distribution of resources and scarcity goods or services: it restricts how much people are allowed to buy or consume. Rationing controls the size of the ration, one's allotted portion of the resources being distributed on a particular day or at a particular time.
	Ratite A ratite is any of a diverse group of large, flightless birds of Gondwana origin, most of them now extinct. Unlike other flightless birds, the ratites have no keel on their sternum and, lacking a strong anchor for their wing muscles, could not fly even were they to develop suitable wings.
	Ratlines Ratlines, pronounced "rattlin's", are lengths of thin line tied between the shrouds of a sailing ship to form a ladder. They are found invariably on square rigged ships whose crews must go aloft to furl the square sails, but may also be present on larger fore-and-aft rigged vessels in order to make repairs or conduct a lookout from a higher position.
	Rattail Grenadiers or rattails are generally large, brown to black gadiform marine fish of the family Macrouridae. Found at great depths from the Arctic Ocean to Antarctic Ocean, members of this family are among the most abundant of the deep-sea fishes. Grenadiers are perhaps best known for their cameo in the blockbuster film Titanic, where the fish are glimpsed during ROV reconnaissance of the wreck.
	Rattan Rattan, is the name for the roughly six hundred species of Arecaceae in the tribe Calameae, native to tropical regions of Africa, Asia and Australasia. Most rattans are distinct from other palms in having slender stems 2-5 cm diameter with long internodes between the leaf; their consequent growth habit also differs, not being trees but vine-like, scrambling through and over other vegetation.
	Rattlesnake Rattlesnakes are a group of venomous snake New World snakes, genus Crotalus and Sistrurus. They belong to the class of venomous snakes known commonly as Crotalinaes.
	Rattrap Rattrap is the name of a fictional character from the Transformers toyline that appeared in the Beast Wars and Beast Machines series. He is a Maximal and takes the beast form of a rat.
	Rauwolfia Rauwolfia is a genus of evergreen trees and shrubs in the Apocynaceae family. The approximately 85 species in the genus can mainly be found in tropical regions.
	Rave A rave is an all-night dance event where disc jockeys and other performers play electronic dance music and rave music. The slang expression rave was originally used by people of Caribbean descent in London during the 1960s to describe a party. In the late 1980s, the term began to be used to describe the subculture that grew out of the acid house movement that began in Chicago, Illinois and New York, New York and flourished in the United States and United Kingdom
	Ravels Ravels is a municipality located in the Belgium province of Antwerp. The municipality comprises the towns of Poppel, Ravels proper and Weelde. On January 1 2006 Ravels had a total population of 13,762. The total area is 94.99 square kilometre which gives a population density of 145 inhabitants per km.
	Raven Raven is the common name given to several large black birds of the genus Corvus . Other birds in the same genus are the smaller crows, jackdaws, and Rook . In much of Europe and North America, raven is used as a synonym for the widespread Common Raven, and much of the literature and culture surrounding ravens refers to that species.
	Ravenna Ravenna is a city and commune in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. The city is inland, but is connected to the Adriatic Sea by a canal. Ravenna once served as the seat of the Roman Empire and later the Ostrogoths kingdom. It is presently the capital of the province of Ravenna.
	Ravenous Ravenous is a horror film film released in 1999, directed by Antonia Bird, written by Ted Griffin, and starring Guy Pearce. The film revolves around cannibalism in 1850s California. Because of the dark ironic style the piece has been labeled a black comedy by some.
	Ravi Shankar Ravi Shankar is a Bengal-India musician best known for his virtuoso on the sitar. A disciple of Allauddin Khan, Pandit Ravi Shankar is arguably the best-known Indian instrumentalist, and is well known for his pioneering work in bringing the power and appeal of the Indian classical music tradition, as well as music of India and its performers in general, to Western world.
	Ravioli Ravioli is a popular type of pasta, comprised of a filling, commonly though not always meat based, sealed between two layers of pasta dough. Ravioli are commonly rectangle or circle in shape. A common vegetarian option includes ricotta cheese and vegetables such as spinach or nettles in place of meat.
	Raw Deal Raw Deal is a collectible card game published by Comic Images and licensed from World Wrestling Entertainment, designed to replicate the action of a professional wrestling match.
	Rawalpindi Rawalpindi is a city in the Potwar Plateau near Islamabad, the current capital of Pakistan. It is the military headquarters of the Military of Pakistan and also served as the nation's capital while Islamabad was being constructed in the 1960s.
	Ray Bradbury Ray Douglas Bradbury is an United States fantasy, Horror fiction, science fiction, and mystery fiction writer best known for The Martian Chronicles, a 1950 book which has been described both as a short story collection and a novel, and his 1953 dystopia novel Fahrenheit 451.
	Ray of Light Ray of Light is the seventh album by United States pop music–dance music singer Madonna. It was released by Warner Bros. Records on March 2 1998, across Europe. The album was primarily produced by William Orbit and previous Madonna collaborator Patrick Leonard.
	Raymond Chandler Raymond Thornton Chandler was an author of crime fiction. His influence on modern crime fiction has been immense, particularly in the writing style and attitudes that much of the field has adopted over the last 60 years. Chandler's protagonist, Philip Marlowe, has become synonymous with the tradition of the Hardboiled private detective, along with Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade.
	Rayon Rayon is a manufactured regenerated cellulose fiber.
	Razor A razor is an edge tool.
	Razorback Razorbacks, also referred to as an Old World swine, Eurasian wild boar, or Russian wild boar, are feral pigs that were brought to North America by the explorer Hernando de Soto during the mid-1550s. The animal evolved due to a system of farming known as free roam or free range farming, where domesticated animals were allowed to roam freely and are identified by a brand, or burned marking, on their hides.
	Razorbill The Razorbill, Alca torda, is a large Alcidae, 38-43 cm in length, with a 60-69 cm wingspan. It is the only member of the genus Alca. Adult birds are black on their upperparts and white on the breast and belly. The thick black bill has a blunt end. The tail is pointed and longer than that of a Murre.
	Razzle Nicholas Dingley, alias Razzle, was known most famously for being the drummer of Hanoi Rocks from 1982 until his death.
	Read-only memory Read-only memory is a class of storage media used in computers and other electronic devices. Because it cannot be written to, its main uses lie in the distribution of firmware . Modern semiconductor ROMs typically take the shape of integrated circuit packages, i.e. "computer chips", not immediately distinguishable from other chips like Random Access Memory but for the text printed on the chips.
	Reagan Administration Headed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1989, the Reagan Administration was conservatism, steadfastly anti-communism and in favor of tax cuts and smaller government. It also liked to think of itself as supportive of business interests and being tough on crime.
	Real Irish Republican Army The Real Irish Republican Army, otherwise known as the Real IRA, is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation founded before the signing of the 1998 Belfast Agreement by former members of the Provisional IRA who opposed the latter's 1997 cease-fire and acquiescence in the Agreement in the aftermath of a Provisional Irish Republican Army Army Convention in County Donegal.
	Real Presence The Real Presence is the term various Christian traditions use to express their belief that, in the Eucharist, Jesus the Christ is really present in what was previously just bread and wine. Not all Christian traditions accept this dogma. Efforts at mutual understanding of the range of beliefs led in 1980s to consultations on ' through the World Council of Churches, consultations that included the Roman Catholic Church.
	Real tennis Real tennis is the original List of sports#Racket sports from which the modern game of lawn tennis, or tennis, is descended. Real tennis is still played at a small number of active courts in the United Kingdom, Australia, the United States and France. It is also known as "court tennis", jeu de paume and formerly called "royal tennis".
	Real Time Real Time is a webcast based on the long-running United Kingdom science fiction television series Doctor Who which was then subsequently released on CD. It was produced by Big Finish Productions for BBCi, the interactive television service arm of the BBC and was originally webcast on the BBC Doctor Who website from August 2 to September 6, 2002.
	Realgar Realgar, Polymorphism-As4S4, is an arsenic sulfide mineral. It is a soft, sectile mineral occurring in monoclinic crystals, or in granular, compact, or powdery form, often in association with the related mineral, orpiment. It is orange-red in colour, melts at 320 C, and burns with a bluish flame releasing fumes of arsenic and sulfur.
	Reamer A reamer or ream is a tool for enlarging holes and is used in metalworking. It may be used as a hand tool or may have a specialized drive end. For production machine tools the drive will usually be a standard taper. For hand tools the drive will usually be a square drive, intended for use with the same type of tap wrench used to turn a Taps and dies for the cutting of screw threads.
	Reaper The reaper was a horse-drawn farm implement invented in 1831 and patented by Cyrus McCormick in 1834 to cut small cereal crops. It was made obsolete by the binder and later the swather. The mechanical reaper replaced the manual cutting of the crop with scythes and sickles.
	Rear Admiral Rear Admiral is a naval commissioned officer rank that originated from the days of Naval Sailing Squadrons and can trace its origins to the Royal Navy. Each Naval Squadron would be assigned an Admiral as its head, who would command from the centre vessel and direct the activities of the squadron.
	Rear Window Rear Window is a motion picture directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on Cornell Woolrich's short story "It Had to Be Murder". It is considered by many filmgoers, critics and scholars to be one of Hitchcock's best and most thrilling pictures.
	Rearguard The Rearguard is a student newspaper at Portland State University, located in Portland, OR, that provides, as noted in its logo, "a monthly alternative" to the other publications on the PSU campus like the PSU Daily Vanguard and the PSU Spectator. Although formally the Portland State University Rearguard, it is known simply as "the Rearguard."
	Rebekah Rebekah is the wife of Isaac. Her story is told in the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible. The news of Rebekah's birth is told to her great-uncle, Abraham, after Abraham returns from Akeidat Yitz?aq, the episode in which he was told by God to bring Isaac as a sacrifice on a mountain.
	ReBoot ReBoot is a Canada animated series that was produced by Mainframe Entertainment, created by Gavin Blair, Ian Pearson, Phil Mitchell, and John Grace, with character designs by Brendan McCarthy and Ian Gibson. It was credited with being Timeline of CGI in film and television full length, completely computer animated television program.
	Reboxetine Reboxetine is an antidepressant drug used in the treatment of clinical depression, panic disorder and ADHD. Its mesilate salt is sold under tradenames including Edronax, Norebox, Prolift, Solvex or Vestra. Reboxetine has two chiral centers, but it only exists as two enantiomers,-(-)- and-(+)-reboxetine.
	Rebozo A rebozo is a shawl used in Mexico. Rebozos are a product of the intermingling of the cultures Colonialism by Spanish Empire. They are based on Indigenous peoples of Mexico garments, but are woven of silk, a fabric originating in China in a style that originated in the Philippines.
	Rebus A rebus is a kind of word play which uses pictures to represent words or parts of words; for example: H + *Pictogram *Heraldry *I ? NY Category:Word puzzles Category:Typography da:Rebus de:Bilderrtsel fr:Rbus it:Rebus nl:Rebus pl:Rebus
	Receipt A receipt is a written acknowledgement that a specified article or sum of money has been received.
	Recess Recess is a general term for a period of time in which a group of people is temporarily dismissed from its duties. In parliamentary procedure, "recess" refers to Legislature bodies—such as parliaments, Assembly, jury—that are released to reassemble at a later time.
	Recessive gene In genetics, the term "recessive gene" refers to an allele that causes a phenotype that is only seen in a homozygous genotype and never in a heterozygous genotype. Every person has two copies of every gene, one from mother and one from father. If a genetic trait is recessive, a person needs to inherit two copies of the gene for the trait to be expressed.
	Recife Recife, 2005 population 1,501,000 is the third largest city in the Northeastern Region of Brazil and the largest metropolitan area. It is the 5th largest metropolitan area in Brazil and the capital of Pernambuco. Recife is also where the Rio Beberibe meets the Rio Capibaribe to flow into the Atlantic Ocean.
	Recipe A recipe is a set of instructions that show how to prepare or make something, especially a culinary dish. Modern culinary recipes normally consist of several components: *The name of the dish, *How much time it will take to prepare the dish *The required ingredients along with their quantity
	Reciprocating engine A reciprocating engine, also often known as a piston engine, is an engine that uses one or more pistons to convert pressure into a rotating motion. The reciprocating engine was first developed as the now largely obsolete steam engine during the eighteenth century, followed by the Stirling engine in the nineteenth.
	Recoil The recoil is the backward momentum of a gun when fired. It is equal to and opposes the forward momentum of the projectile, due to the law of conservation of momentum. Recoil is absorbed usually by the wrist in case of handguns, the shoulder in case of long guns, or the carriage in case of cannons.
	Reconciliation Reconciliation may mean the following: *Reconciliation may be seen as part of a process of restoring a personal relationship gone awry, typically as the result of one party causing a rift. Critically, reconciliation has become a trap for malicious motives; Forensic Files has many episodes proving it.
	Reconnaissance Reconnaissance is the military term for the active gathering of information about an enemy, or other conditions, by physical observation. It is part of Military intelligence. Compare to counterintelligence. Compare also to surveillance, which is passive gathering of information.
	Reconstruction Reconstruction was a period in United States history, 18651876, that attempted to resolve the issues of the American Civil War when both the Confederate States of America and its system of slavery were destroyed. The period of Reconstruction addressed the return of the southern states that had seceded, the status of ex-Confederate leaders, and the integration of the African-American Freedmen into the legal, political, economic and social system.
	Record changer A record changer or autochanger is a device that plays multiple gramophone records in sequence without user intervention. Record changers first appeared in the late 1920s, and were common until the 1980s. The first commercially successful record changer was the "Automatic Orthophonic" model by the Victor Talking Machine Company, which was launched in the USA in 1927.
	Recorder The recorder is a woodwind instrument musical instrument of the family known as fipple flutes or internal duct flutes—whistle-like instruments which include the tin whistle and ocarina. The recorder is end-blown and the mouth of the instrument is constricted by a wooden plug, known as a block or fipple.
	Recording studio A recording studio is a facility for sound recording.
	Recreation Recreation is the employment of time in a non-profitable way, in many ways also a therapeutic refreshment of one's body or mind. While leisure is more likely a form of entertainment or rest, recreation is active and participatory, but in a refreshing and diverting manner. As people in the world's wealthier regions lead increasingly sedentary lifestyles, the need for recreation has grown.
	Recreational vehicle In North American English the term recreational vehicle and its derived acronym, RV, are generally used to refer to an enclosed piece of equipment dually used as both a vehicle, a temporary travel home or a full time home. In British English the term recreational vehicle is little used; British English terms covering some of the vehicles classified as RVs in North America are camper van and caravan, and the term motorhome is also used.
	Recriminations The Recriminations mini-album reflects The Toasters first real demos, instigated by their mentor Joe Jackson, who produced and mixed this session over the course of one weekend at Chelsea Sound's studio on New York City's Times Square. It encapsulates The Toaster's development as a guitar-based band before the inception of their monster horn section and the introduction of the Unity Two's flying feet fleshed out their sound.
	Recruitment Recruitment refers to the process of finding possible candidates for a employment or function, undertaken by recruiters. It may be undertaken by an employment agency or a member of staff at the business or organization looking for recruits. Advertising is commonly part of the recruiting process, and can occur through several means: through newspapers, using newspaper dedicated to job advertisement, through professional publication, using advertisements placed in windows, through a Job Centre, through ca
	Rectangle In geometry, a rectangle is defined as a quadrilateral where all four of its angles are right angles. From this definition, it follows that a rectangle has two pairs of opposite sides of equal length; that is, a rectangle is a parallelogram. A square is a special kind of rectangle where all four sides have equal length; that is, a square is both a rectangle and a rhombus.
	Rectifier A rectifier is an electrical machine, comprising one or more semiconductor devices or vacuum tubes arranged for converting alternating current to direct current. When just one diode is used to rectify AC the difference between the term diode and the term rectifier is merely one of usage, e.g., the term rectifier describes a diode that is being used to convert AC to DC.
	Recursion In mathematics and computer science, recursion specifies a class of objects or methods by defining a few very simple base cases or methods , and then defining rules to break down complex cases into simpler cases. For example, the following is a recursive definition of person's ancestors:
	Recurvirostridae Recurvirostridae is a family of Avess in the wader suborder Charadrii. It contains two distinct groups: *The avocets, with long legs and long up curved bills which they sweep from side to side when feeding in the brackish or saline wetlands they prefer. *The stilts, which have extremely long legs and long thin bills.
	Recycling   Recycling is the reprocessing of materials that would otherwise become waste in order to make them into new products. This is in contrast with reuse: collecting waste such as food containers to be cleaned, refilled and resold. Recycling prevents waste being landfilled or incineration, reduces the consumption of new raw materials, and is advocated by supporters to require less energy than virgin production.
	Recycling bin A recycling bin is a container used to hold recyclables before they are taken to recycling centers. Recycling bins exist in various sizes for use in homes, offices, and large public facilities. Separate containers are often provided for paper, tin or aluminum cans, and glass or plastic bottles.
	Red Red is any of a number of similar colors at the lowest frequencies of light discernible by the human eye. Red light has a wavelength range of roughly 1 E-7 m Nanometer. Lower frequencies are called infrared, or below red. Red is an additive primary color, complementary to cyan.
	Red Admiral The Red Admiral, also known as the Red Admirable, is a well-known colourful butterfly, found in temperate Europe, Asia and North America. The species is resident only in warmer areas, but migrates north in spring, and sometimes again in autumn. This large butterfly is identified by its striking dark brown, red and black wing pattern.
	Red Alder Red Alder is a deciduous tree native to western North America, from southeast Alaska south to central coastal California, nearly always within about 200 km of the Pacific coast, except for an extension 600 km inland across northern Washington into northernmost Idaho.
	Red algae The red algae?f??t?/, ancient Greek: rhodos phytos = red plant) are a large group of mostly multicellular, ocean algae, including many notable seaweeds. Most of the coralline algae, which secrete calcium carbonate and play a major role in building coral reefs, belong here.
	Red Army Faction The Red Army Faction , was postwar West Germany's most active and prominent left-wing terrorist organization; it described itself as an "urban guerrilla" group. The Red Army Faction operated from the 1970s to 1998, causing great civil unrest, especially in the autumn of 1977, which led to a national crisis that became known as "German Autumn".