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râtelier: hayrack; rack (for tools etc.); false teeth, dentures; dentition (actual),
règle: rule, regulation; rule, period of ruling; ruler (for measuring length); period, menstruation
règle d'engagement: rules of engagement, ROE
règle d'or: golden rule (fundamental rule or principle)
règle de trois: rule of three
règle du jeu: rule of the game (implied or unspoken principle that governs a facet of behavior, especially one involving strategy)
règlement: rules, regulations; payment
règlement de comptes: score settling; reprisal, retaliation
règlementaire: post-1990 spelling of réglementaire
règlementer: post-1990 spelling of réglementer
règlementé: post-1990 spelling of réglementé
règles de l'art: rule book, best practices, standard practices, professional standards
règne: reign, ruling, rule (period of reigning or ruling); kingship, royalty; realm, state, kingdom; control, governance, regulation; ascendancy, ascendance
règne animal: animal kingdom
ré: re, the note 'D'
réa: intensive care
réabonnement: renewal of a subscription
réabonner: resubscribe (subscribe again or renewing a subscription)
réabsorber: to reabsorb
réabsorption: reabsorption
réac: reactionary (person)
réac: reactionary
réaccoutumer: to reaccustom
réaccélérer: to reaccelerate
réactant: reactant
réacteur: reactor (a device which uses atomic energy to produce heat); reaction engine, jet engine
réactif: reagent
réactif: reactive; responsive, quick to respond, who replies fast; reactive (not proactive, not acting preventively, dealing with problems only after the fact, tackling issues only after they've occurred)
réaction: reaction (action in response to an event); reaction (reactionary politics; a period in which reactionary thought or politics is resurgent or dominant)
réaction chimique: chemical reaction
réaction de Maréchal: Marechal's test
réaction en chaîne: chain reaction (nuclear reaction in which particles produced by the fission of one atom trigger fissions of other atoms); chain reaction (series of events, each one causing or influencing the next)
réaction en chaîne par polymérase: polymerase chain reaction
réactionnaire: reactionary
réactionnaire: reactionary
réactionnairement: reactionarily
réactionnel: reaction
réactivation: reactivation (the activation of something previously inactive or inactivated)
réactivement: reactively
réactiver: to reactivate
réactivité: reactivity (all senses)
réactualiser: to revive; to update, bring up to date
réadaptation: rehabilitation; readjustment; readaptation
réadapter: to readjust; to rehabilitate; to readapt
réadmettre: to readmit
réadoubement: reknighting
réaffectation: reallocation, reassignment
réaffecter: to reallocate, reassign
réaffirmation: reaffirmation
réaffirmer: to reaffirm
réagir: to react, respond; to react
réagissable: reactable: capable of, or susceptible to, reacting
réagissant: reacting
réagisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of réagir
réagrégation: reaggregation
réajustement: readjustment (a second, or subsequent adjustment)
réajuster: to adjust, readjust
réal: real (former currency of Spain); real (former currency of Portugal); real (currency of Brazil)
réale: realist typeface
réalgar: realgar