rice

verb

riced; ricing; rices

transitive verb

: to finely chop or process (a food) so that it resembles rice

riced cauliflower

Grilled calamari is served over riced potatoes that melt in the mouth

—Mitch Frank

Ricing the spuds with the butter and cream, rather than mashing them, makes them light and airy, and gives you a completely different experience.

—Yotam Ottolenghi

Examples of rice in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Like the grocer's popular Hearts of Palm Pasta, this rice alternative is made with just hearts of palm that's been riced, of course. —Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 29 May 2026

Bangkok’s heat is unkind to rice the cornerstone of Edomae. —Daniel Scheffler, Forbes.com, 27 Feb. 2026

Six Ojibwe nations are located in Wisconsin and tribal members still practice ricing every year. —Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2025

Alternate names for the August full moon include flying up moon to the Cree, harvest moon to the Dakota, ricing moon to the Anishinaabe, the mountain shadows moon to the Tlingit, and the black cherries moon to the Assiniboine. —Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 7 Aug. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1904, in the meaning defined above

Phrases Containing rice

• arborio rice
• basmati rice
• black rice
• brown rice
• converted rice
• dirty rice
• forbidden rice
• fried rice
• glutinous rice
• jasmine rice
• Jollof rice
• parboiled rice
• purple rice
• rice cooker
• rice paper
• rice polishings
• rice pudding
• Spanish rice
• sticky rice
• sushi rice
• white rice
• wild rice

Rhymes for rice

• dice
• feis
• gneiss
• grice
• ice
• lice
• mice
• slice
• spice
• splice
• thrice
• trice

Kids Definition

rice

noun

ˈrīs 

1

: a southeast Asian grass widely grown in warm wet areas especially for its seeds which are used for food

2

: the seeds of rice

Medical Definition

RICE

abbreviation

rest, ice, compression, elevation

—used especially for the initial treatment of many usually minor sports-related injuries (as sprains)