rebarbative (en)

(adjective) repellent irritating

rebound effect (en)

in conservation or energy economics: the reduction in expected gains from new technologies that increase the efficiency of resource use, because of behavioral or other systemic responses (aka the Jevons Paradox; named after William Stanley Jevons, who studied the consumption of coal after steam engines were made more efficient in 1865)

recondite (en)

(adjective) hidden from sight; concealed / (adjective) difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend; deep / (adjective) of, relating to, or dealing with something little known or obscure

rectory (en)

(noun) a benefice held by a rector / (noun) a residence of a rector or a parish priest

redolent (en)

strongly reminiscent or suggestive of

referents (en)

(noun, linguistics) the thing that a word or phrase denotes or stands for

refulgent (en)

(noun) a radiant or resplendent quality or state; brilliance

Regulation Q (en)

Federal Reserve regulation. from 1933 until 2011: imposed various restrictions on the payment of interest on deposit accounts; after 2013: slightly different version setting capital requirements for US banks

reifying (en)

make (something abstract) more concrete or real

reliquary (en)

(noun) a container or shrine in which sacred relics are kept

remanded (en)

(verb) ; to order back; as / (verb) to send back (a case) to another court or agency for further action / (verb) to return to custody pending trial or for further detention

remora (en)

(noun) marine bony fishes that have the anterior dorsal fin modified into a suctorial disk on the head by means of which they adhere especially to other fishes / (noun) hindrance, drag

renascence (en)

(noun) the revival of something that has been dormant; another term for Renaissance

Rentenmark (en)

a currency issued on 15 October 1923 to stop the hyperinflation of 1922 and 1923 in Weimar Germany; at the time, there was no gold available, so it was backed by the land used for agriculture and business; introduced at a rate of one Rentenmark to equal one million million old marks

rentiers (en)

a Marxist term (though never actually used by Karl Marx himself) refering to those who receive income - usually interest, rent, dividends, capital gains, or profits - from their assets and investments

repetend (en)

(noun) a repeated sound, word, or phrase / (noun) refrain

res nullius (la)

(lit: nobody's thing) derived from private Roman law whereby res (an object in the legal sense, anything that can be owned, even a slave, but not a subject in law such as a citizen nor land) is not yet the object of rights of any specific subject

reservation profit (en)

the lowest rate of profit that an investor will tolerate in order to put his or her money to work; introduced by Wolfgang Streeck in Buying Time in analogy with reservation wage

resiling (en)

(verb) recoil retract / (verb) to return to a prior position

retiary (en)

using a net or any entangling device

reticular (en)

(adjective) intricate / (noun) a mass of nerve cells and fibers situated primarily in the brain stem and functioning upon stimulation especially in arousal of the organism

revanchism (en)

(noun) revenge / (noun) a usually political policy designed to recover lost territory or status

rheometer (en)

(noun) an instrument for measuring flow (as of viscous substances)

rhizomatic (en)

referring to a type of subterranean plant stem; as a metaphor, means interconnected

ribald (en)

referring to sexual matters in an amusingly rude or irreverent way