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Rhye
Rhye is the musical project of Canadian singer-producer Mike Milosh, begun in 2010 with Danish instrumentalist Robin Hannibal; debut Woman (2013) reached No. 55 in the US, followed by Blood, Spirit, Home, and the Joy-era EPs, marked by Milosh's androgynous countertenor often compared to Sade.
Rhygaze
RhyGaze AG is a Swiss gene-therapy biotechnology company based in Basel and Philadelphia, developing a cone optogenetics therapy intended to restore vision in blinding retinal diseases.
Rhyl
Rhyl, a North Wales coastal town, is known for its football clubs: Rhyl FC (founded 1879, Welsh Cup winners 1952, 1953, 2004, 2006, folded 2020) and phoenix club CPD Y Rhyl 1879, which owns Belle Vue.
Rhyme
Rhyme: correspondence of sounds in words or verse lines, typically matching all sounds after the last stressed syllable. Covers perfect, slant, end, internal, eye, feminine, and identical rhyme, its history, and cross-linguistic variation.
Rhyme royal
Rhyme royal, also called rime royal or the Chaucerian stanza, is a seven-line iambic pentameter stanza rhyming ababbcc, introduced into English by Geoffrey Chaucer in the fourteenth century.
Rhyme scheme
Rhyme scheme: the pattern of end rhymes in a poem or stanza, notated with letters (ABAB, AABB, ABBA). Distinguished from rhyme types (perfect, slant, internal) and central to fixed forms like the sonnet, limerick, and villanelle.
Rhyming slang
Rhyming slang, best known as Cockney rhyming slang, replaces a word with a rhyming phrase, often dropping the rhyme (butcher's = look). It emerged in early 19th-century East End London among market traders and spread across the English-speaking world.
Rhynchobdellida
Rhynchobdellida (Blanchard, 1894), the proboscis leeches, a traditional order of jawless leeches with Glossiphoniidae and Piscicolidae; molecular work shows it is paraphyletic, dissolved into Oceanobdelliformes and Glossiphoniiformes.
Rhynchocephalia
Rhynchocephalia, also known as Sphenodonta, is an order of lizard-like reptiles whose sole living representative is New Zealand's tuatara, with a fossil record spanning about 240 million years.
Rhynchonella
Rhynchonella is an extinct rhynchonellide brachiopod genus erected by Fischer de Waldheim in 1809, type genus of Rhynchonellidae; many formerly included species have been reassigned to other genera.
Rhynchonkos
Rhynchonkos stovalli, formerly Goniorhynchus, is an Early Permian recumbirostran microsaur from Oklahoma, once proposed as a caecilian ancestor; a 2015 micro-CT study showed the genus was chimeric and split off Aletrimyti and Dvellecanus.
Rhynchophorus ferrugineus
Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, the red palm weevil (Asiatic palm weevil), a dryophthorid beetle whose larvae kill date, coconut, and ornamental palms; native to South and Southeast Asia, invasive across the Mediterranean, Middle East, and recently Argentina.
Rhynchophorus palmarum
Rhynchophorus palmarum, the American, black, or South American palm weevil, is a large black Neotropical weevil pest of oil palm, coconut, and ornamental palms; its larvae kill palms via the apical meristem and adults vector the red ring nematode Bursaphelenchus cocophilus, and it has invaded southern California.
Rhynchospora
Rhynchospora (beaksedge) is a cosmopolitan genus of about 392 sedge species in Cyperaceae, tribe Rhynchosporeae, defined by a persistent beak-like style base on the nutlet, richest in tropical America, with holocentric chromosomes.
Rhyno
Rhyno (Terrance Guido Gerin, born 1975), also Rhino, American wrestler from Detroit; final ECW World Heavyweight Champion, WWE US and Hardcore Champion, SmackDown Tag Team Champion with Heath Slater, 2016 Michigan House candidate, AEW appearances 2025-2026.
RHYNS syndrome
RHYNS syndrome (Retinitis pigmentosa, HYpopituitarism, Nephronophthisis, Skeletal dysplasia; OMIM 602152) is an autosomal recessive ciliopathy caused by TMEM67 variants, described in four males, with no approved treatment or trials.
Rhyolite
Rhyolite is a fine-grained, silica-rich extrusive igneous rock, the volcanic equivalent of granite, usually pink, buff, or light gray and typically formed in rare, often violent eruptions.
Rhyolite Ridge
Rhyolite Ridge is a proposed open-pit lithium-boron mine in Esmeralda County, Nevada, developed by Australia-based Ioneer, producing lithium carbonate for EV batteries and boric acid.
Rhyolite, Nevada
Rhyolite, Nevada, a Bullfrog Mining District gold-rush ghost town near Beatty, boomed from 1904 discovery by Shorty Harris and Ed Cross, peaked near 10,000 people, and collapsed after the 1907 panic.
Rhyparochromidae
Rhyparochromidae, dirt-colored seed bugs, is the largest family of Lygaeoidea true bugs, with two subfamilies, 372 genera, and over 1,850 seed-feeding species; 2025 phylogenomics found it non-monophyletic.
Rhys ap Gruffudd
Rhys ap Gruffudd, Yr Arglwydd Rhys (the Lord Rhys), 1132–1197, ruler of Deheubarth in south Wales; submitted to Henry II in 1158, became justice of South Wales, patron of Strata Florida, and holder of the 1176 Cardigan eisteddfod.
Rhys Coiro
Rhys Coiro, full name John Rhys Coiro, is an American actor known for playing director Billy Walsh on Entourage and FBI analyst Sean Hillinger on 24.
Rhys Darby
Rhys Darby (born 1974, Auckland) is a New Zealand stand-up comedian and actor, known as Murray in Flight of the Conchords, Stede Bonnet in Our Flag Means Death, Nigel in the Jumanji films, and for physical, sound-effect-driven comedy.
Rhys Hoskins
Rhys Hoskins is an American professional baseball first baseman born in 1993 in Sacramento, California, who debuted in MLB in 2017 and helped the Phillies reach the 2022 World Series.
Rhys Ifans
Rhys Ifans (born Rhys Owain Evans, 1967) is a Welsh actor and musician, briefly lead vocalist of Super Furry Animals. Known for Spike in Notting Hill, BAFTA-winning Peter Cook in Not Only But Always, The Lizard in The Amazing Spider-Man, and Otto Hightower in House of the Dragon.
Rhys Mcclenaghan
Rhys McClenaghan (born 1999, Antrim, Northern Ireland) is an Irish pommel horse gymnast: 2024 Olympic champion, 2022 and 2023 world champion, three-time European champion, and Ireland's first Olympic gymnastics medalist.
Rhys Wakefield
Rhys Wakefield (born 1988, Cairns, Queensland) is an Australian actor and director known for Lucas Holden in Home and Away, The Black Balloon, The Purge's Polite Leader, True Detective season 3, and directing Berserk (2019).
Rhys Williams (footballer, born 2001)
Rhys Williams (born 2001, Preston) is an English centre-back, a Liverpool academy product from U10 level who made 19 senior appearances in 2020-21, won the 2019 FA Youth Cup, had six loan spells, and left Liverpool in June 2026.
Rhysida (hacker group)
Rhysida is a ransomware group first observed around May 2023 that operates a double-extortion model, stealing data before encrypting files and threatening publication unless payment is made.
Rhythm
Rhythm in music: organization of sound events in time through pulse, meter, syncopation, polyrhythm, and free rhythm; 2024 cross-cultural study of 39 groups in 15 countries found universal small-integer-ratio categories shaped by local traditions.