9-letter words starting with red
- red alder — a tree, Alnus oregona (or A. rubra), of western North America, having smooth, mottled light gray bark and oval serrate leaves.
- red alert — (in military or civilian defense) the most urgent form of alert, signaling that an enemy attack is believed to be imminent.
- red algae — the numerous algae that constitute the phylum Rhodophyta, which contain a red pigment in addition to chlorophyll. The group includes carrageen, dulse, and laver
- red angus — one of a subpopulation of Aberdeen Angus beef cattle having a reddish coat.
- red biddy — cheap red wine fortified with methylated spirits
- red birch — river birch.
- red brass — an alloy of from 77 to 86 percent copper with the balance zinc; Mannheim gold.
- red cedar — Also called eastern red cedar, savin. an American, coniferous tree, Juniperus virginiana, yielding a fragrant, reddish wood used for making lead pencils, etc.
- red chalk — a clayey ochre containing iron, used by painters
- red china — China, People's Republic of.
- red cloud — 1822-1909; Dakota Indian chief
- red coral — any of several alcyonarian corals of the genus Corallium, as C. nobile, of the Mediterranean Sea, having a red or pink skeleton, used for jewelry.
- red count — a count of the red cells in a person's blood.
- red cross — an international philanthropic organization (Red Cross Society) formed in consequence of the Geneva Convention of 1864, to care for the sick and wounded in war, secure neutrality of nurses, hospitals, etc., and help relieve suffering caused by pestilence, floods, fires, and other calamities.
- red devil — red1 (def 6).
- red dwarf — any of the faint reddish stars having diameters about half that of the sun and low surface temperatures, about 2000–3000 K; a main sequence star of spectral type M.
- red earth — a clayey zonal soil of tropical savanna lands, formed by extensive chemical weathering, coloured by iron compounds, and less strongly leached than laterite
- red flash — a red coloration of the lower portion of the sun, occasionally seen as the sun rises above or sinks to the horizon.
- red giant — a star in an intermediate stage of evolution, characterized by a large volume, low surface temperature, and reddish hue.
- red guard — a member of a Chinese Communist youth movement in the late 1960s, committed to the militant support of Mao Zedong.
- red heart — a treelike Californian shrub, Ceanothus spinosus, of the buckthorn family, having pale blue or white flowers.
- red label — the phrase warning against fire hazards required by the Interstate Commerce Commission to be shown on the containers and shipping documents of inflammable materials while in transit.
- red light — traffic light indicating stop
- red maids — a fleshy plant, Calandrinia ciliata menziesi, of the purslane family, native to the western U.S., having rose-colored or crimson flowers.
- red maple — a tree, Acer rubrum, of eastern North America, growing in moist soil and usually having red flowers and leaves that turn bright red in autumn.
- red no. 2 — an artificial red dye used in foods, drugs, and cosmetics: banned by the FDA in 1976 as a possible carcinogen.
- red ocher — any of the red natural earths, mixtures of hematite, that are used as pigments.
- red ochre — any of various natural red earths containing ferric oxide: used as pigments
- red osier — Also called red-osier dogwood. a North American dogwood, Cornus sericea (or C. stolonifera), having red twigs and branches and white fruits.
- red panda — firefox: racoon-like animal native to China
- red river — a river flowing E from NW Texas along the S boundary of Oklahoma into the Mississippi River in Louisiana. About 1300 miles (2095 km) long.
- red roman — a marine food fish, Chrisoblephus laticeps
- red route — an urban through route where the penalties for illegal parking are severe and are immediately enforced
- red rover — a children's game in which two teams, some distance apart, face each other and take turns designating an opposing player to run toward their line. Any player who fails to break through their clasped hands becomes a member of that team.
- red shank — an Old World sandpiper, Tringa totanus, having red legs and feet.
- red shift — a shift toward longer wavelengths of the spectral lines emitted by a celestial object that is caused by the object moving away from the earth.
- red state — a state of the U.S. that usually votes Republican.
- red stuff — a compound of oil and sesquioxide of iron used for polishing brass, steel, silver, etc.; crocus or rouge.
- red water — Texas fever
- red-faced — having a red face.
- red-light — Informal. to stop or deter by means of or as if with a red light.
- red-lined — to treat by redlining (an area or neighborhood).
- red-short — brittle when at red heat, as iron or steel containing too much sulfur.
- redaction — to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
- redbaiter — a person who deliberately antagonizes communists or people with left-wing beliefs
- redbreast — the European robin, Erithacus rubecula.
- redbridge — a borough of Greater London, England.
- reddendum — a legal clause specifying what shall be given in return for the granting of a lease
- reddleman — ruddleman.
- redeclare — to make known or state clearly, especially in explicit or formal terms: to declare one's position in a controversy.
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