a Marxist and Maoist terrorist organization in Germany; a network of underground guerillas who committed acts of violence in the service of the class struggle; a successor to the Baader-Meinhof Gang; became one of Europe's most feared terrorist groups; disbanded in 1998
<noun.group>

RAF

Red Army Faction

a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization that arose out of a student protest movement in the late 1960s; wants to separate Italy from NATO and advocates violence in the service of class warfare and revolution; mostly inactive since 1989
<noun.group>

BR

Brigate Rosse

Red Brigades

a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world
<noun.location>

Cathay

China

Communist China

PRC

People's Republic of China

Red China

mainland China

leader of the Oglala who resisted the development of a trail through Wyoming and Montana by the United States government (1822-1909)
<noun.person>

Red Cloud

an international organization that cares for the sick or wounded or homeless in wartime
<noun.group>

Red Cross

a sweet eating apple with bright red skin; most widely grown apple worldwide
<noun.food>

Red Delicious

a radical political movement by Chinese youths who espoused Maoist principles
<noun.group>

Red Guard

a paramilitary group of Protestants in Northern Ireland that tries to prevent any political settlement with the Irish Republic; attacks interests of Catholic civilians in Northern Ireland; responsible for arson and bombing and murder
<noun.group>

RHD

Red Hand Defenders

an Interpol notice describing a wanted person and asking that he or she be arrested with a view to extradition; a wanted notice that is issued by Interpol at the request of an Interpol member country and distributed to all member countries
<noun.communication>

International Wanted Notice

Red Notice

sample sentences

"an Interpol Red Notice is the closest instrument to an international arrest warrant in use today"

a small reddish planet that is the 4th from the sun and is periodically visible to the naked eye; minerals rich in iron cover its surface and are responsible for its characteristic color
<noun.object>

Mars

Red Planet

sample sentences

"Mars has two satellites"

a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana
<noun.object>

Red

Red River

a long arm of the Indian Ocean between northeast Africa and Arabia; linked to the Mediterranean at the north end by the Suez Canal
<noun.object>

Red Sea

a small but violent terrorist organization formed in Ecuador in the early 1990s; responsible for bombing several government buildings
<noun.group>

Puka Inti

Red Sun

Sol Rojo

a branch of the Tai languages
<noun.communication>

Red Tai

a town in north central California on the Sacramento River
<noun.location>

Redding

a teacher and prophet born in Bethlehem and active in Nazareth; his life and sermons form the basis for Christianity (circa 4 BC - AD 29)
<noun.person>

Christ

Deliverer

Good Shepherd

Jesus

Jesus Christ

Jesus of Nazareth

Redeemer

Savior

Saviour

the Nazarene

United States actor and filmmaker who starred with Paul Newman in several films (born in 1936)
<noun.person>

Charles Robert Redford

Redford

Robert Redford

a system for distributing radio or tv programs
<noun.communication>

Rediffusion

an island in Antigua and Barbuda
<noun.location>

Redonda

(slang) offensive term for Native Americans
<noun.person>

Injun

Redskin

red man

assassin bugs
<noun.animal>

Reduviidae

family Reduviidae

a national park in California featuring a redwood forest and Pacific Ocean coastline
<noun.location>

Redwood National Park

United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902)
<noun.person>

Reed

Walter Reed

United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the Communist Labor Party in America in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920)
<noun.person>

John Reed

Reed

a rocky region in the southern Transvaal in northeastern South Africa; contains rich gold deposits and coal and manganese
<noun.location>

Rand

Reef

Witwatersrand

liberal Jew who tries to adapt all aspects of Judaism to modern circumstances
<noun.person>

Reform Jew

beliefs and practices of Reform Jews
<noun.cognition>

Reform Judaism

the most liberal Jews; Jews who do not follow the Talmud strictly but try to adapt all of the historical forms of Judaism to the modern world
<noun.group>

Reform Judaism

a religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches
<noun.group>

Protestant Reformation

Reformation

of or relating to the body of Protestant Christianity arising during the Reformation; used of some Protestant churches especially Calvinist as distinct from Lutheran
<adj.all>

Reformed

sample sentences

"Dutch Reformed theology"

ribbonfishes
<noun.animal>

Regalecidae

family Regalecidae

thin deep-water tropical fish 20 to 30 feet long having a red dorsal fin
<noun.animal>

Regalecus glesne

king of the herring

oarfish

ribbonfish