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- riding lamp/ˈraɪdɪŋ læmp/A lamp displayed on a vessel to indicate it is at anchor.nounVery Low
- riding master/ˈraɪdɪŋ ˌmɑːstə(r)/A person, especially in a military or formal riding establishment, whose job is to teach horse riding and equestrian skills.nounLow
- riding sail/ˈraɪdɪŋ seɪl/A small sail set on a ship to keep its bow facing into the wind and waves while at anchor or riding out a storm, providing stability.nounRare (Technical/Historical)
- riding school/ˈraɪdɪŋ skuːl/An establishment where horses are kept and people, especially beginners, are taught to ride horses.nounC1
- ridley/ˈrɪdli/A marine turtle of the genus Lepidochelys, found primarily in the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico (Kemp's ridley) or the Pacific (olive ridley).nounRare / Technical
- ridotto/rɪˈdɒtəʊ/A public musical entertainment or social assembly, often involving games and dancing, popular in the 18th century.nounVery Low / Archaic
- rie/raɪ/An archaic or dialectal term for rye, a cereal grain.nounRare (historical or dialectal)
- riebeckite/ˈriːbɛkʌɪt/A dark-blue or black sodium-rich mineral of the amphibole group.nounExtremely rare in general English; specialized term.
- riefenstahl/ˈriːfənˌʃtɑːl/A proper noun referring to Leni Riefenstahl (1902–2003), a German film director, photographer, and actress known for her innovative but controversial propaganda films under the Nazi regime.nounC2+ (Very low frequency, specialized)
- rieggerA variant, non-standard, or dialectal spelling of 'rigger' (one who rigs or fits out something; or a specialist in sailing rigging).nounVery Low / N/A
- riel/riːˈɛl/The official currency of Cambodia.nounC1/C2
- riemann/ˈriːmən/A proper noun referring to the German mathematician Bernhard Riemann (1826–1866), whose work has had profound influence on geometry, complex analysis, and number theory.nounC2
- riemann integral/ˈriːmən ˈɪntɪɡrəl/A method of defining the integral of a function on an interval by partitioning the interval into subintervals, evaluating the function at sample points within each subinterval, and taking the limit of the sum of the products of function values and subinterval lengths as the partition becomes infinitely fine.nounVery Low
- riemann sphere/ˈriːmɑːn ˌsfɪə/A model for the extended complex plane, represented as a sphere where every point on the sphere corresponds to a complex number (including infinity at the north pole).nounC2
- riemann surface/ˈriːmæn ˌsɜː.fɪs/A one-dimensional complex manifold, a surface which locally resembles the complex plane near every point, used to understand multi-valued complex functions by converting them into single-valued functions on a covering surface.nounC2
- riemann-stieltjes integral/ˈriːmən ˈstiːltjəs ˈɪntɪɡrəl/A generalization of the Riemann integral that allows integration with respect to a function of bounded variation.nounvery low
- riemannian geometry/ˌriːmæn.i.ən dʒiˈɒm.ə.tri/A branch of differential geometry that studies smooth manifolds equipped with a Riemannian metric, which defines distances, angles, and curvature.nounVery Low (C2+ / Specialist)
- riempie/riˈɛm.pjeɪ/to fill something up completely or to occupy a space.nounB2
- rienzi/riˈɛntsi/The title character of an opera by Richard Wagner, based on the 14th-century Roman tribune Cola di Rienzi.nounVery Low (Proper Noun, specialized cultural/historical/musical reference)
- riesling/ˈriːzlɪŋ/A white grape variety used to make wine.nounC1
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