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Rice noodles (米粉)
Rice noodles (米粉, mifen, mixian) are gluten-free noodles made from indica rice flour via gelatinization, molding, and retrogradation. Originating in China, documented from the 6th-century Qi Min Yao Shu, they are a staple of southern China and Southeast Asia.
Rice production in India
Rice production in India: the world's largest rice producer (26.52% of global output, FAO 2024) and largest exporter since 2012. Record 150.18 Mt in 2024-25; kharif 83%, rabi 10%; leading states Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, West Bengal, Punjab.
Rice production in the United States
Rice production in the United States is concentrated in six states led by Arkansas, which grows about half the crop, mostly long grain on irrigated, flooded fields.
Rice Production Increase Plan
The Rice Production Increase Plan (산미증식계획; 産米增殖計畵) was a Japanese colonial economic policy, pursued from 1920 in three rounds, to raise rice output in Korea and supply Japan.
Rice protein
Rice protein is protein extracted from whole-grain brown rice and sold as concentrates, isolates, and hydrolysates for foods, infant formula, and sports supplements, as a gluten-free alternative to soy and whey.
Rice pudding
Rice pudding, also kheer, fereni, or muhallebi, is a sweet dessert of rice cooked in milk and sugar, with Roman-era medicinal pottage origins, medieval Lenten forms, and modern baked, boiled, and vegan variants.
Rice ragged stunt virus
Rice ragged stunt virus (RRSV, rice ragged stunt oryzavirus), a dsRNA reovirus and type species of Oryzavirus, causes ragged stunt disease of rice across Asia, transmitted persistently by the brown planthopper Nilaparvata lugens.
Rice Riots of 1918
The Rice Riots of 1918 (米騒動, kome sōdō) were nationwide popular disturbances in Japan, begun in Toyama in July 1918 and suppressed by over 100,000 troops.
Rice Stadium (Rice University)
Rice Stadium, also First Community Stadium since October 2026, is Rice University's 1950 football stadium in Houston, built in nine months with 70,000 seats, site of Kennedy's 1962 moon speech, now being renovated to about 30,000 seats.
Rice straw
Rice straw is the stalk and leaf residue left in fields after rice harvest, one of the world's largest agricultural residue streams, often burned or incorporated into soil.
Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
The Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras are living, hand-built rice terraces in the Cordillera mountains of Luzon, Philippines, worked by the Ifugao people and inscribed by UNESCO in 1995.
Rice tungro disease
Rice tungro disease is a viral disease of rice caused by the joint infection of two viruses transmitted by green leafhoppers, the most important viral disease of rice.
Rice University
Rice University, formally William Marsh Rice University, is a private research university in Houston, Texas. Founded in 1912 from the estate of William Marsh Rice, it enrolls about 5,000 undergraduates.
Rice vermicelli
Rice vermicelli (mifen, bún, bee hoon, sen mee): thin round noodles extruded from gelatinized rice flour, a staple of Chinese and Southeast Asian cuisine; GI 35-62, 341-377 kcal/100 g dry, distinct from Italian wheat vermicelli and glass noodles.
Rice vinegar
Rice vinegar (komezu, 米酢) is vinegar brewed from rice via koji saccharification, alcohol fermentation, and Acetobacter fermentation; milder and sweeter than white vinegar, it seasons sushi rice and arrived in Japan from China around AD 300.
Rice weevil
Rice weevil (Sitophilus oryzae, formerly Calandra oryzae), a 3 mm snout beetle and major internal-feeding pest of stored grain worldwide; flies, lays 300-400 eggs, completes egg-to-adult in 26 days in hot weather; distinct from the flightless granary weevil and the rice water weevil.
Rice–Ramsperger–Kassel–Marcus theory
Rice–Ramsperger–Kassel–Marcus (RRKM) theory is a statistical theory giving the rate at which an energized molecule breaks down, widely used in gas-phase kinetics, photochemistry, and mass spectrometry.
Rice–Shapiro theorem
The Rice–Shapiro theorem characterizes the semi-decidable index sets of partial computable functions: a property is semi-decidable exactly when it is upward closed and witnessed by finite subfunctions.
Rice's theorem
Rice's theorem, also called the Rice–Myhill–Shapiro theorem, states in computability theory that every nontrivial semantic property of programs is undecidable, proved by Henry Gordon Rice in 1953.
RiceGum
RiceGum (Bryan Quang Le, born 1996), American YouTuber and rapper from Las Vegas; diss-track creator whose "It's Every Night Sis" hit Billboard Hot 100 number 80 and went RIAA platinum.
Rich Amiri
Rich Amiri (Elijah Policard or Amiri Chase, b. Feb. 6, 2004) is an American rapper from Randolph, Massachusetts, signed to Internet Money/10K Projects, whose 2023 single "One Call" went viral on TikTok and hit the Billboard Hot 100.
Rich and Famous (江湖情)
Rich and Famous (江湖情, Gong woo ching, Black Vengeance) is a 1987 Hong Kong triad film directed by Taylor Wong, starring Chow Yun-Fat, Andy Lau, and Alex Man; a prequel to Tragic Hero that earned HK$21,014,608 in Hong Kong.
Rich and Strange
Rich and Strange (aka East of Shanghai) is Alfred Hitchcock's 1931 British International Pictures romantic comedy about a London couple whose inheritance-funded world cruise nearly wrecks their marriage; a box-office failure he later defended.
Rich Bisaccia
Rich Bisaccia (born 1960, Yonkers, NY) is an American football coach, NFL special teams coordinator 2002-2025 and Las Vegas Raiders interim head coach in 2021 (7-5, playoff berth), now Clemson's special teams coordinator.
Rich Brian
Rich Brian (Brian Imanuel, born 1999, Jakarta), formerly Rich Chigga, is an Indonesian rapper on 88rising. Viral 2016 hit "Dat $tick"; albums Amen (2018), The Sailor (2019), WHERE IS MY HEAD? (2025).
Rich Communication Services
Rich Communication Services, or RCS, is a GSMA protocol standard that upgrades SMS text messaging with group chats, typing indicators, and read receipts, using no separate app.
Rich Cronin
Rich Cronin (Richard Burton Cronin, 1974-2010) was the American lead singer and chief songwriter of pop trio LFO (Lyte Funkie Ones), whose 1999 hit "Summer Girls" reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100; he died of leukemia complications at 36.
Rich Dad Poor Dad
Rich Dad Poor Dad is a 1997 personal-finance book by Robert Kiyosaki, self-published with coauthor Sharon Lechter, that has sold more than 44 million copies in 43 languages.
Rich Duwelius
Rich Duwelius (Richard Lloyd Duwelius, born 1954, Benton, Kentucky) is an American volleyball player who won gold with the US men's team at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, played at Ohio State and professionally in Italy, and later coached in Connecticut.
Rich Eisen
Rich Eisen (born 1969) is an American sports broadcaster, NFL Network's first on-air hire (2003) and host of NFL GameDay Morning and The Rich Eisen Show on Disney+/ESPN+, known for the Run Rich Run charity 40-yard dash.