1. Guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory
   "a hard-nosed labour leader"
   - hardheaded, practical, pragmatic

See also: realistic

• reconstructed
• reconstruction
• Reconstruction Period
• reconstructive
• reconstructive memory
• reconstructive surgery
• reconvene
• reconversion
• reconvert
• reconvey
• reconveyance
• reconvict
• recopy
• perturbable
• perturbate
• perturbation
• perturbed
• perturbing
• Pertusaria
• Pertusariaceae
• pertussis
• Peru
• peruke
• peruked
• perusal