<B>re-collected, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> composed; sure of oneself. noun <B>re-collectedness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="recollection">
<B>recollection, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act or power of recalling to mind. <BR> <I>Ex. Recollection of the distant events is difficult.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>memory; remembrance. <BR> <I>Ex. This has been the hottest summer within my recollection.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a thing remembered. <BR> <I>Ex. a vivid recollection of a dream.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="recollective">
<B>recollective, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having recollection; characterized by recollection. adv. <B>recollectively.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="recolonize">
<B>recolonize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-nized,</B> <B>-nizing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to colonize (a place) anew. noun <B>recolonization.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="recolor">
<B>recolor, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to color or dye again. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to flush again. <BR> <I>Ex. The swarthy blush recolors in his cheeks (Byron).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="recomb">
<B>recomb, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to comb again. </DL>
<A NAME="recombinant">
<B>recombinant, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>something that combines again. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Biology.) an organism, cell, or other structure showing characteristics resulting from recombination. <BR> <I>Ex. The recombinants always inherit a larger fraction of their genetic characteristics from their mother than from their father (Scientific American).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> (Biology.) characterized by or showing recombination. </DL>
<A NAME="recombinantdna">
<B>recombinant DNA,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> genetic material produced in the laboratory by combining DNA fragments from different types of cells or by transplanting them from one form of life, such as viruses, to other forms such as bacteria. <BR> <I>Ex. Work with recombinant DNA molecules or organisms containing them would be carried out in a hood that restricts movement of particles to or from the work area ... and all materials would be decontaminated or destroyed before leaving the laboratory (James C. Copeland).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="recombination">
<B>recombination, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act or process of recombining. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Biology.) the formation of new combinations of genes in offspring, especially by the process of crossing over. </DL>
<A NAME="recombinative">
<B>recombinative, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Biology.) of or having to do with recombination. </DL>
<A NAME="recombine">
<B>recombine, </B>transitive verb, intransitive verb, <B>-bined,</B> <B>-bining.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to combine again or anew. </DL>
<B>recommence, </B>verb, <B>-menced,</B> <B>-mencing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i. </I> to begin again to be; begin anew. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to cause to begin again to be; begin again. </DL>
<A NAME="recommencement">
<B>recommencement, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act or fact of beginning anew. </DL>
<A NAME="recommend">
<B>recommend, </B>verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to speak in favor of; suggest favorably. <BR> <I>Ex. The teacher recommended him for the job. Can you recommend a good adventure story? The waiter recommended fried chicken as the best dish on the menu.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to advise; counsel. <BR> <I>Ex. The doctor recommended that she stay in bed.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to make pleasing or attractive. <BR> <I>Ex. The location of the camp recommends it as a summer home.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>to hand over for safekeeping; commit; entrust. <BR> <I>Ex. He recommended his soul to God.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> (Informal.) a recommendation. </DL>
<A NAME="recommendable">
<B>recommendable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> worthy of being recommended. </DL>
<A NAME="recommendation">
<B>recommendation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of recommending. <BR> <I>Ex. We stayed at that hotel on the cabdriver's recommendation.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>anything that recommends a person or thing. <BR> <I>Ex. We couldn't find much in the cooking that was a recommendation for eating at that restaurant again.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>words of advice or praise. <BR> <I>Ex. The recommendation in his letter got me the job.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>a person or thing recommended. </DL>
<A NAME="recommendatory">
<B>recommendatory, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> serving to recommend; recommending. <BR> <I>Ex. I was to take with me letters recommendatory to a number of his friends (Benjamin Franklin).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="recommender">
<B>recommender, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person or thing that recommends. </DL>
<A NAME="recommission">
<B>recommission, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to commission anew. <BR> <I>Ex. The Royal Navy's oldest aircraft carrier, Victorious ... was recommissioned at Portsmouth yesterday (London Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="recommit">
<B>recommit, </B>transitive verb, <B>-mitted,</B> <B>-mitting.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to commit again. <DD><B> 2. </B>to refer again to a committee. </DL>
<A NAME="recommitment">
<B>recommitment, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act or process of recommitting. <DD><B> 2. </B>the state of being recommitted. </DL>
<A NAME="recommittal">
<B>recommittal, </B>noun. =recommitment.</DL>
<A NAME="recompense">
<B>recompense, </B>verb, <B>-pensed,</B> <B>-pensing,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to pay back; reward; pay (a person). <BR> <I>Ex. The travelers recompensed the man who so carefully directed them.</I> (SYN) repay, compensate, remunerate, requite. <DD><B> 2a. </B>to make a fair return for (an action, anything lost, damage done, or hurt received). <BR> <I>Ex. The insurance company recompensed him for the loss of his car. Liberally recompensing their services ... he took leave of his faithful followers (William H. Prescott).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>(Archaic.) to atone for. <BR> <I>Ex. ... the future must recompense the past (Robert Browning).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Obsolete.) to give in return. <BR> <I>Ex. Recompense to no man evil for evil (Romans 12:17).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a payment; reward. <BR> <I>Ex. He received $2,000 in recompense for the loss of his car.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>return; amends. <BR> <I>Ex. Some recompense To comfort those that mourn (Robert Burns).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="recompose">
<B>recompose, </B>transitive verb, <B>-posed,</B> <B>-posing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to compose again. <BR> <I>Ex. Whatever is decomposed may be recomposed by the being who first composed it (Joseph Priestley).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=rearrange.</B> <DD><B> 3. </B>to restore to composure. <BR> <I>Ex. Our spirits, when disordered, are not to be recomposed in a moment (Henry Fielding).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="recomposition">
<B>recomposition, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act or process of recomposing. <BR> <I>Ex. I have taken great pains with the recomposition of this scene (Charles Lamb).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the fact or state of being recomposed. </DL>
<A NAME="recompress">
<B>recompress, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to compress again. </DL>
<A NAME="recompression">
<B>recompression, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of recompressing. <DD><B> 2. </B>the state of being recompressed. </DL>
<B>recon</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Biology.) the smallest molecular unit of genetic material out of which the larger units, the muton and cistron, are built. <BR> <I>Ex. The ultimate unit of molecular structure, the "recon," was found equal to one base pair of nucleic acid. The muton was approximately ten base pairs long (Science News Letter).</I> </DL>
<B>reconcentrate, </B>transitive verb, <B>-trated,</B> <B>-trating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to concentrate again. <DD><B> 2. </B>to bring (forces) together at some point. <BR> <I>Ex. to reconcentrate troops before an offensive.</I> noun <B>reconcentration.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="reconceptualization">
<B>reconceptualization, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the process of conceptualizing again or anew. <BR> <I>Ex. The work involved a reconceptualization of an organization's problems and a redefining of assumptions and expectations (Emory S. Bogardus).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a new conceptualization. </DL>
<A NAME="reconcilability">
<B>reconcilability, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the fact or quality of being reconcilable. </DL>
