All articles starting with R
22,461 articles
Razor Group
Razor Group is a Berlin-based e-commerce aggregator founded in 2020 that buys and operates consumer brands selling on Amazon, reaching a $1.2 billion valuation in 2023.
Razor shell
Razor shell (razor clam): elongated marine bivalve of families Solenidae and Pharidae, genera Solen, Ensis, Siliqua, Sinonovacula; burrows fast by fluidizing sand; fished and farmed, notably S. constricta in China.
Razorback Mtn.
Razorback Mtn. (Razorback Mountain) is a descriptive peak name; in British Columbia it denotes a 2,605 m Rockies border summit near Yellowhead Pass and a 3,183 m ultra-prominent Niut Range (Coast Mountains) peak.
Razorlight
Razorlight: English indie rock band formed in London in 2002 by Johnny Borrell (Razorlight, Razorlight band). Anglo-Swedish post-punk revival act; Up All Night (2004) and 5x platinum self-titled 2006 album, UK No.1 single America, reunited classic lineup, Planet Nowhere (2024).
Razorpay
Razorpay is an Indian fintech company founded in 2014 by Harshil Mathur and Shashank Kumar, headquartered in Bengaluru, providing payment gateway and financial services for businesses.
Razqallah Hakem
Razqallah Hakem, also published as Razq Hakem, is a molecular biologist and cancer geneticist at the University of Toronto known for mouse-genetics studies of BRCA1, MUS81, and caspase 9.
Razrez Kharanorskiy
Razrez Kharanorskiy (Разрез «Харанорский») is a large open-pit brown-coal mine in Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia, and the main fuel supplier for power generation in the Trans-Baikal region.
Razrez Tugnuisky
Razrez Tugnuisky is a Russian open-pit coal mining company owned by SUEK that operates the Tugnuisky and Nikolsky mines in Buryatia, exporting low-sulfur coal mainly to Japan and China.
Razryadny Prikaz
The Razryadny Prikaz (Разрядный приказ), or Rank Office, was the central chancellery of Muscovy in charge of service people and the armed forces, surviving until 1711.
Razumov (lunar crater)
Razumov is a 75.08-km-diameter impact crater on the Moon at 38.95°N, 114.63°W, adopted by the IAU in 1970 and named for Vladimir V. Razumov (1890-1967), a Soviet rocket builder; satellite feature Razumov C, LAC-35 quad.
Razz (poker)
Razz (seven-card stud low) is a poker variant where the lowest ace-to-five low hand wins; best hand is 5-4-3-2-A, aces low, straights and flushes ignored, no 8-or-better qualifier; the R in HORSE.
Razzia
Razzia is a 1992 bluffing board game by Stefan Dorra (Ravensburger; also listed under Queen Games) for 3-8 players: gamblers and cops are played simultaneously at six bars, cops arrest gamblers, and the richest player wins; reissued as Hick Hack in Gackelwack.
Razzle (musician)
Razzle (Nicholas Dingley) was the English drummer of Finnish glam rock band Hanoi Rocks, 1982-1984, after punk stints in Demon Preacher and The Dark; killed December 8, 1984 in a drunk-driving crash with Mötley Crüe's Vince Neil, ending the band.
Razzmatazz
Razzmatazz, also known as Sala Razzmatazz, is a five-room nightclub and concert venue in the Poblenou district of Barcelona, Spain, opened in 2000 with a concert by The Flaming Lips.
Razzouk Tattoo
Razzouk Tattoo is a Coptic Christian family workshop in Jerusalem, operating since about 1750. It is the world's longest continuously operating tattoo business, certified by Guinness World Records.
RB FC Holdings, C.V.
RB FC Holdings, C.V. is a private equity fund managed by RedBird Capital Partners of New York, with reported gross assets of $546.8 million in 2025.
RB Leipzig
RB Leipzig (RasenBallsport Leipzig e.V.), German Bundesliga club founded 2009 by Red Bull GmbH via SSV Markranstädt's licence; reached the Bundesliga in 2016, runners-up 2016-17 and 2018-19, DFB-Pokal 2022 and 2023, structured around a 99% Red Bull-owned GmbH that formally satisfies 50+1.
Rb–Sr dating
Rb–Sr dating is a radiometric method that determines geological ages by measuring the decay of radioactive rubidium-87 into strontium-87, dating igneous crystallization, metamorphic events, or a rock's last heating.
RB1
RB1 (RB transcriptional corepressor 1), the first cloned human tumor suppressor gene at 13q14, encodes pRB, which restrains the G1/S cell-cycle transition via E2F; biallelic inactivation causes retinoblastoma and somatic loss occurs in osteosarcoma, lung, and bladder cancers.
RB199
The RB199 is a three-shaft afterburning turbofan developed by the European consortium Turbo-Union to power the Panavia Tornado, entering service in 1979 with 2,504 engines delivered.
RB1CC1
RB1CC1 (FIP200, ATG17) is a human 8q11.23 tumor-suppressor gene encoding the scaffold of the ULK1 autophagy-initiation complex, an activator of RB1 expression, and a regulator of inflammation and antiviral immunity.
RBBP4
RBBP4 (RbAp48, NURF55) is a human WD40 histone chaperone on chromosome 1p35.1, a shared subunit of NuRD, PRC2, Sin3A, CAF-1 and MuvB complexes that regulates chromatin, cell cycle, DNA repair and disease.
RBBP8
RBBP8 (CtIP, CTIP) is a human chromosome 18q11.2 gene encoding a nuclear endonuclease that stimulates MRN-mediated DNA-end resection for homologous recombination, interacts with BRCA1 and retinoblastoma protein, and links to Seckel/Jawad syndromes, breast cancer risk, and bladder cancer methylation.
RBD
RBD: Mexican pop group formed 4 October 2004 within the Televisa telenovela Rebelde by Pedro Damián; members Anahí, Dulce María, Maite Perroni, Alfonso Herrera, Christopher Uckermann, Christian Chávez; 15 million records, 2023 Soy Rebelde Tour grossed $231.7 million.
RBD5044
RBD5044: GalNAc-conjugated siRNA by Suzhou Ribo Life Science targeting ApoC3 for hypertriglyceridemia; second ApoC3 siRNA in clinic; phase 1 cut ApoC3 up to 84% and triglycerides up to 70%; phase 2 trials in Sweden and China.
RBD7022 (QLC7401)
RBD7022, known as QLC7401 in Greater China, is a GalNAc-conjugated siRNA targeting PCSK9 mRNA to lower LDL cholesterol, developed by Suzhou Ribo Life Science and licensed to Qilu Pharmaceutical.
RBG (film)
RBG (2018) is a documentary about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, directed by Betsy West and Julie Cohen, released by Magnolia Pictures, grossing $14.0M, and nominated for two Academy Awards while winning a Primetime Emmy.
Rbh of Dʿmt
Rbḥ was a ruler of the pre-Aksumite kingdom of Dʿmt in the northern Ethiopian highlands, attested by an incense burner inscription from Addi Gelemo in Tigray, Ethiopia.
RBL 7-inch Armstrong gun
The RBL 7-inch Armstrong gun was a British rifled breech-loading gun designed by William Armstrong and built at Elswick, entering service in 1860 as the 100-pounder.
RBL Bank
RBL Bank, formerly Ratnakar Bank, is an Indian private sector bank founded in 1943 at Kolhapur, headquartered in Mumbai, and now a subsidiary of Emirates NBD.