Rice Rice is the seed of the grass species ''Oryza sativa'' (Asian rice) or less commonly ''Oryza glaberrima ''Oryza glaberrima'', commonly known as African rice, is one of the two domesticated rice species. It was first domesticated and grown i ...

is a cereal grain. Rice, Rice's or Rices may also refer to:

People

Rice (surname) Rice is a surname that is frequently of Welsh origin, but also can be Irish, English, or even German. In Wales it is a patronymic surname, an Anglicized transliteration of Rhys, as are Reese and Reece. The German name Reiss has also been translitera ...

, including a list of people with the surname * Rice (given name), a list of people

Geography

Rice, California Rice, formerly named Blythe Junction, is a former town in the Rice Valley and the southern tip of the Mojave Desert, and within unincorporated San Bernardino County, southern California. Although it is still on many maps, the only things remain ...

, a vacant town site *

Rice, Kansas Rice is an unincorporated community in Cloud County, Kansas, United States. History In the 19th century, Rice was a station on the Central Branch Union Pacific Railroad, and the town's proximity to the larger trading center of Concordia inhib ...

, an unincorporated community *

Rice, Minnesota Rice is a city in Benton County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,275 at the 2010 census. Its zip code also encompasses Graham, Langola, and Watab townships. Rice is part of the St. Cloud Metropolitan Statistical Area. Geogra ...

, a city *

Rice, Ohio Rice is an unincorporated community in Putnam County, in the U.S. state of Ohio Ohio () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Of the List of states and territories of the United States ...

, an unincorporated community * Rice, Oregon, an unincorporated community *

Rice, Texas Rice is a city in Navarro County, Texas, United States. The population was 923 at the 2010 census. Geography Rice is located at (32.234563, –96.494670). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which, ...

, a city *

Rice, Virginia Rice is an unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Prince Edward County, Virginia, Prince Edward County, Virginia, United States. Rice has a U.S. Post Office with the ZIP code 23966. The nearest town to Rice is Farmville, Virginia, Farmvi ...

, an unincorporated community * Rice, Washington, an unincorporated community * Rice County (disambiguation) * Rice Township (disambiguation) * Rice Lake (disambiguation) *

Rice Fork The Rice Fork is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed March 9, 2011 tributary of the Eel River in Lake County, California. The Rice Fork begins on the upper northwest side ...

, a tributary of the Eel River, California * Rice Creek (disambiguation) *

Fort Rice Fort Rice (Lakota: ''Psíŋ Otȟúŋwahe''; "Wild Rice Village") was a frontier military fort in the 19th century named for American Civil War General James Clay Rice in what was then Dakota Territory and what is now North Dakota. The 50th Wisconsi ...

, a 19th-century frontier military fort in what is now North Dakota *

Rice Strait Rice Strait is a narrow waterway between Ellesmere Island's eastern coast and Pim Island in northern Canada's territory of Nunavut. It connects Rosse Bay on the south with Buchanan Bay to the north. The strait is named after Sergeant George W ...

, Canada *

Rice Bastion Rice Bastion () is a substantial mountain mass surmounted by a small crown of exposed rock which appears slightly higher than the plateau behind it, projecting from the edge of Detroit Plateau, Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land. Situated between ...

, a mountain mass in Antarctica *

Rice Ridge Rice Ridge () is a low ridge with rocky exposures, 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) long, which extends from the north side of Anderson Dome in the Jones Mountains. Mapped by the university of Minnesota-Jones Mountains Party, 1960–61. Named by Ad ...

, Antarctica * Rices Spring, a spring in Georgia *

Rice Valley The Rice Valley is a valley of the southeastern Mojave Desert, located within Riverside County, California, Riverside County, California. Geography Rice Valley is a mostly endorheic valley filled with bajada (geography), bajadas from neighboring ...

, California

Schools

Rice University William Marsh Rice University (Rice University) is a Private university, private research university in Houston, Houston, Texas. It is on a 300-acre campus near the Houston Museum District and adjacent to the Texas Medical Center. Rice is ranke ...

, Houston, Texas **

Rice Owls Rice University athletic teams are known as the Rice Owls. The name comes from the owls in Rice's crest. Rice participates in NCAA Division I athletics. A member of Conference USA, Rice sponsors teams in seven men's and seven women's NCAA sanctio ...

, the athletic program of Rice University **

The Rice School The Rice School ( es, La Escuela Rice) is a K-8 school (the school serves grades kindergarten through 8) in Houston, Texas. Rice is a part of the Houston Independent School District (HISD). The Rice School is an HISD magnet school for a Science, ...

, a public combined elementary and secondary school associated with Rice University *

Rice High School (disambiguation) Rice High School may refer to: *Rice High School (Manhattan, New York), New York City *Rice High School (Altair, Texas), Altair, Texas *Rice High School (Rice, Texas), Rice, Texas *Rice Memorial High School, South Burlington, Vermont *Brother Rice H ...

Rice Middle School Plano Independent School District (PISD or Plano ISD) is an independent school district in southwestern Collin County, Texas, based in Plano. Plano ISD serves about of land, with of it within the City of Plano. The district also takes student ...

, Plano, Texas *

Rice College Rice College (Coláiste an Rísigh in Irish) is a secondary school in Ennis, County Clare, Ireland founded in 1826. It is also a Congregation of Christian Brothers, C.B.S with a house on the property where "Brothers" still reside. No Brothers ...

, a secondary school in Ireland

Music

Rice (band) Rice (styled as rice) are a Japanese visual kei rock band formed by ex-Raphael members Yuki and Hiro. Like Raphael, a lot of rice's music is in the rock genre although instead of guitar the cello is a much more prominent instrument in their work. ...

, a Japanese duo *

Rice Music is a Japanese holding company for various entertainment companies. Its subsidiaries include the talent agency Up-Front Promotion and Up-Front Works, a music production and sales company that manages such record labels as Zetima, Piccolo Town, ...

, a Japanese record label

Buildings

The Rice (Houston) The Rice, formerly the Rice Hotel, is an historic building at 909 Texas Avenue in Downtown Houston, Texas, United States. The current building is the third to occupy the site. It was completed in 1913 on the site of the former Capitol buildi ...

, formerly Rice Hotel, a historic building in Houston, Texas * Rice Apartments, Eugene Oregon, on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) * Rice Covered Bridge, Pennsylvania, on the NRHP * Rice House (disambiguation), various buildings on the NRHP * Rice Stadium (disambiguation)

Other uses

* Rice (cooking), a food–processing technique *

RICE (medicine) RICE is a mnemonic acronym for the four elements of a treatment regimen that was once recommended for soft tissue injuries: rest, ice, compression, and elevation. It was considered a first-aid treatment rather than a cure and aimed to control ...

, a mnemonic acronym relating to treatment for soft-tissue injuries * RICE (chemotherapy), a chemotherapy regimen containing Rituximab, Ifosfamide, Carboplatin and Etoposide * ''Rice'' (novel), a Chinese novel by Su Tong * ''Rice'' (film), a 1963 South Korean film *

Radio Ice Cerenkov Experiment Radio Ice Cherenkov Experiment (RICE) was an experiment designed to detect the Cherenkov emission in the radio regime of the electromagnetic spectrum from the interaction of high energy neutrinos (greater than 1 P eV, so-called ultra-high e ...

, a Cherenkov emission detection project *

Rice Army Airfield Rice Army Air Field (also known as Rice Air Base or Rice AAF) is an abandoned World War II airfield in Rice Valley of the southern Mojave Desert, located east-southeast of the community of Rice. The airfield is located in Riverside County just ...

, near Rice, California *

RICE chart An ICE table or RICE box or RICE chart is a tabular system of keeping track of changing concentrations in an equilibrium reaction. ICE stands for ''initial, change, equilibrium''. It is used in chemistry to keep track of the changes in amount of su ...

, a table for tracking chemical reactions * Rice (journal), published by