8-letter words starting with red
- red army — the Soviet army.
- red bank — a borough in E central New Jersey.
- red bark — a kind of cinchona containing a high proportion of alkaloids
- red beds — sequences of red sedimentary rocks, usually sandstones or shales, coloured by the oxidization of the iron in them
- red bird — red1 (def 6).
- red book — 1.
Informal name for one of the four standard references on PostScript. The other three official guides are known as the Blue Book, the Green Book, and the White Book. 2. (publication) Informal name for one of the three standard references on Smalltalk. This book also has blue and green siblings. 3. Any of the 1984 standards issued by the ITU-T eighth plenary assembly. These include, among other things, the X.400 electronic mail specification, the Group 1 through 4 fax standards, ISDN, the R2 signalling system (Q.400 series recommendations), data communication via the PSTN (the V series recommendations) and tariffs and metering principles (the D series). 4. The new version of the Green Book - IEEE 1003.1-1990, also known as ISO 9945-1 - is (because of the colour and the fact that it is printed on A4 paper) known in the USA. as "the Ugly Red Book That Won't Fit On The Shelf" and in Europe as "the Ugly Red Book That's A Sensible Size". 5. The NSA "Trusted Network Interpretation" companion to the Orange Book. See also book titles. - red card — Soccer. a red card shown by the referee to a player being sent off the field for a flagrant violation.
- red cell — a red blood cell.
- red cent — a cent, as representative of triviality: His promise isn't worth a red cent.
- red clay — a brown to red, widely distributed deep-sea deposit consisting chiefly of microscopic particles and tinted red by iron oxides and manganese.
- red deer — a city in S central Alberta, in W Canada.
- red drum — a large, edible drum, Sciaenops ocellatus, living in waters off the Atlantic coast of the U.S.
- red feed — small red marine crustaceans of various species that are a major source of food for many commercially important fishes.
- red fire — any of various combustible preparations, as one containing strontium nitrate, that burn with a vivid red light: used chiefly in pyrotechnic displays and in signaling.
- red flag — communist symbol
- red heat — the temperature of a red-hot body.
- red hind — a grouper, Epinephelus guttatus, of Florida, the West Indies, etc., valued as a food fish.
- red kite — a large, rare, bird of prey, Milvus milvus, of parts of Europe and Africa: family Accipitridae
- red lead — an orange to red, heavy, earthy, water-insoluble, poisonous powder, Pb 3 O 4 , obtained by heating litharge in the presence of air: used chiefly as a paint pigment, in the manufacture of glass and glazes, and in storage batteries.
- red line — a point beyond which a person or group is not prepared to negotiate
- red mass — a votive Mass of the Holy Ghost said as a blessing for the legal profession.
- red meat — any meat that is dark-colored before cooking, as beef, lamb, venison, or mutton (distinguished from white meat).
- red mist — a feeling of extreme anger that clouds one's judgment temporarily
- red pine — a pine, Pinus resinosa, of northeastern North America, having needles in groups of two and reddish bark.
- red poll — one of a breed of red, hornless, dual-purpose cattle, raised originally in England.
- red roan — a horse having a bay coat sprinkled with white hairs
- red rose — the emblem of the royal house of Lancaster.
- red sage — a showy, rank-smelling shrub, Lantana camara, of tropical America, having yellow flowers that turn orange or red.
- red snow — snow that has acquired a red color either from airborne particles of red dust or from a type of alga that contains a red pigment.
- red star — any star with a low surface temperature and a reddish color, as a red giant or a red dwarf.
- red tape — excessive formality and routine required before official action can be taken.
- red tide — a brownish-red discoloration of marine waters caused by the presence of enormous numbers of certain microscopic flagellates, especially the dinoflagellates, that often produce a potent neurotoxin that accumulates in the tissues of shellfish, making them poisonous when eaten by humans and other vertebrates.
- red tory — a Conservative who holds liberal or mildly socialist views on certain fiscal and social issues
- red wine — wine having a predominantly red color derived from the skin pigment in the red or other dark-colored grapes used in making it.
- red wing — (Tantangamini) c1750–c1825, Sioux leader.
- red wire — (jargon, hardware) (IBM) Patch wires installed by programmers who have no business mucking with the hardware. It is said that the only thing more dangerous than a hardware guy with a code patch is a softy with a soldering iron. Compare blue wire, yellow wire, purple wire.
- red wolf — a small, reddish-gray American wolf, Canis rufus, similar to the coyote: once abundant in the southeastern U.S., it is now near extinction in the wild.
- red worm — North Central, South Midland, and Southern U.S. an earthworm.
- red zone — (networking) An environment located between internal and external firewalls where software and hardware are deployed to enable access to extranet applications. Compare De-Militarised Zone.
- red-eyed — having bloodshot eyes, esp due to crying or tiredness
- red-flag — to mark or draw attention to for a particular purpose: The department has red-flagged the most urgent repair work to be done.
- redacted — to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
- redactor — to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
- redamage — to damage again
- redargue — to prove wrong or invalid; disprove; refute.
- redbelly — any of various animals having red underparts, esp the char or the redbelly turtle
- redbrick — of, relating to, or associated with a redbrick university.
- reddendo — a legal clause specifying what payment or duties are required in exchange for something
- redditch — a town in W central England, in N Worcestershire: designated a new town in the mid-1960s; metal-working industries. Pop: 74 803 (2001)
- redecide — to solve or conclude (a question, controversy, or struggle) by giving victory to one side: The judge decided the case in favor of the plaintiff.
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