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Red NoticenounMWEan Interpol notice describing a wanted person and asking that he or she be arrested with a view to extraditionverified
Red OaknounMWEany of numerous American oaks having 4 stamens in each floret, acorns requiring two years to mature and leaf veins usually extending beyond the leaf margin to form points or bristlesverified
Red Osier DogwoodnounMWEcommon North American shrub with reddish purple twigs and white flowersverified
Red PeriwinklenounMWEcommonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowersverified
Red PimpernelnounMWEherb with scarlet or white or purple blossoms that close at approach of rainy weatherverified
Red PinenounMWEpine of eastern North America having long needles in bunches of two and reddish barkverified
Red SandalwoodnounMWEtree of India and East Indies yielding a hard fragrant timber prized for cabinetwork and dark red heartwood used as a dyewoodverified
Red SandersnounMWEtree of India and East Indies yielding a hard fragrant timber prized for cabinetwork and dark red heartwood used as a dyewoodverified
Red SanderswoodnounMWEtree of India and East Indies yielding a hard fragrant timber prized for cabinetwork and dark red heartwood used as a dyewoodverified
Red SaundersnounMWEtree of India and East Indies yielding a hard fragrant timber prized for cabinetwork and dark red heartwood used as a dyewoodverified
Red ShiftnounMWEa shift in the electromagnetic radiation of a distant object toward longer wavelengths, the red end of the spectrumverified
Red Shrubby PenstemonnounMWElow branching dark green shrub with bunches of brick-red flowers at ends of branchesverified
Red SignalnounMWEAny electronic emission (e.g., plain text, key, key stream, subkey stream, initial fill, or control signal) that would divulge national security information if recovered.verified
Red Silver FirnounMWEmedium to tall fir of western North America having a conic crown and branches in tiersverified
Red SnappernounMWEhighly esteemed reddish lean flesh of snapper from Atlantic coast and Gulf of Mexicoverified
Red SorrelnounMWEEast Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiberverified
Red SpritesnounMWEatmospheric electricity (lasting 10 msec) appearing as globular flashes of red (pink to blood-red) light rising to heights of 60 miles (sometimes seen together with elves)verified
Red TeamnounMWEA group of people authorized and organized to emulate a potential adversary’s attack or exploitation capabilities against an enterprise’s security posture. The Red Team’s objective is to improve enterprise Information Assurance by demonstrating the impacts of successful attacks and by demonstrating what works for the defenders (i.e., the Blue Team) in an operational environment.verified
Red Team exercisenounMWEAn exercise, reflecting real-world conditions, that is conducted as a simulated adversarial attempt to compromise organizational missions and/or business processes to provide a comprehensive assessment of the security capability of the information system and organization.verified
Red TidenounMWEseawater that is discolored by large numbers of certain dinoflagellates that produce saxitoxinverified
Red TrilliumnounMWEtrillium of eastern North America having malodorous pink to purple flowers and an astringent root used in folk medicine especially to ease childbirthverified
Red-Backed SandpipernounMWEsmall common sandpiper that breeds in northern or Arctic regions and winters in southern United States or Mediterranean regionsverified
Red-Bellied TerrapinnounMWEfreshwater turtle of Chesapeake Bay tributaries having red markings on the lower shellverified
Red-Bellied TurtlenounMWEfreshwater turtle of Chesapeake Bay tributaries having red markings on the lower shellverified
Red-Eyed VireonounMWEof northern North America having red irises and an olive-grey body with white underpartsverified
Red-Flowered Silky OaknounMWEtall shrub with cylindrical racemes of red flowers and pinnatifid leaves silky and grey beneathverified
Red-Letter DaynounMWEa memorably happy or noteworthy day (from the custom of marking holy days in red on church calendars)verified
Red-Shafted FlickernounMWEwestern United States bird with red undersurface to wings and tailverified
Red-Spotted PurplenounMWEsimilar to the banded purple but with red spots on underwing surfacesverified
Red/Black ConceptnounMWESeparation of electrical and electronic circuits, components, equipment, and systems that handle unencrypted information (Red), in electrical form, from those that handle encrypted information (Black) in the same form.verified
Redbrick UniversitynounMWE(British informal) a provincial British university of relatively recent foundingverified
Redevelopment AuthoritynounMWEa public administrative unit given responsibility for the renovation of blighted urban areasverified
Redeye FlightnounMWEa night flight from which the passengers emerge with eyes red from lack of sleepverified
Redheaded WoodpeckernounMWEblack-and-white North American woodpecker having a red head and neckverified
Redirect ExaminationnounMWE(law) questioning of a witness by the party that called the witness after that witness has been subject to cross-examinationverified
Reduced Instruction Set ComputernounMWE(computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a relatively small set of computer instructions that it can performverified
Reducing AgentnounMWEa substance capable of bringing about the reduction of another substance as it itself is oxidizedverified
Reductio Ad AbsurdumnounMWE(reduction to the absurd) a disproof by showing that the consequences of the proposition are absurdverified