7-letter words containing ra
- ashrams — Plural form of ashram.
- ashtray — An ashtray is a small dish in which smokers can put the ash from their cigarettes and cigars.
- asprawl — in a lolling or sprawling manner
- astraea — a goddess of justice, later also of innocence and purity: she is the last deity to leave the earth after the Golden Age
- astrand — in a stranded manner or from the point of view of being run aground
- ataraxy — a state of freedom from emotional disturbance and anxiety; tranquillity.
- attract — If something attracts people or animals, it has features that cause them to come to it.
- augural — the art or practice of an augur; divination.
- aurally — of or relating to the ear or to the sense of hearing.
- aurated — combined with auric acid
- aurates — Plural form of aurate.
- auratic — Resembling an aura.
- aurorae — the ancient Roman goddess of the dawn. Compare Eos.
- auroral — of or like the dawn.
- auroras — Plural form of aurora.
- austral — of or coming from the south
- average — An average is the result that you get when you add two or more numbers together and divide the total by the number of numbers you added together.
- averral — (nonstandard) The act of averring; an assertion of truth.
- b-grade — A B-grade person or thing is one that you consider to be inferior or of poor quality.
- baccara — a gambling game at cards played by a banker and two or more punters who bet against the banker.
- bad rap — bum rap.
- bahrain — an independent sheikhdom on the Persian Gulf, consisting of several islands: under British protection until the declaration of independence in 1971. It has large oil reserves. Language: Arabic. Religion: Muslim. Currency: dinar. Capital: Manama. Pop: 1 281 332 (2013 est). Area: 678 sq km (262 sq miles)
- bambara — a member of a Negroid people of W Africa living chiefly in Mali and by the headwaters of the River Niger in Guinea
- banaras — a former name of Varanasi.
- bandora — A bass stringed instrument of the cittern family, having a long neck and a scallop-shaped body.
- bandura — a Ukrainian stringed instrument, resembling a lute
- baracoa — a seaport in E Cuba: oldest town in Cuba; settled 1512.
- baranof — island in Alexander Archipelago, Alas.: c. 1,600 sq mi (4,144 sq km): largest city, Sitka
- baranov — Aleksandr Andreyevich [uh-lyi-ksahn-dr uhn-drye-yi-vyich] /ʌ lyɪˈksɑn dr ʌnˈdryɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1747–1819, Russian fur trader in Alaska.
- barbara — a feminine name: dim. Babs, Barb, Barbie; var. Barbra, Babette
- barbera — Joseph
- barrace — a barricade or barrier, particularly one in front of a castle or enclosing the grounds of a tournament
- barrack — A barracks is a building or group of buildings where soldiers or other members of the armed forces live and work. 'Barracks' is the singular and plural form.
- barrage — A barrage is continuous firing on an area with large guns and tanks.
- barrera — the protecting wall enclosing the floor of a bull ring at bullfights
- bartram — John1699-1777; Am. botanist
- bat ray — batfish (def 2).
- becrawl — to crawl all over
- bedrail — a rail or board along the side of a bed that connects the headboard with the footboard
- bedrape — to drape, adorn
- beerage — the beer brewing industry
- begorra — an emphatic exclamation, regarded as a characteristic utterance of Irish people
- beograd — Belgrade
- berakah — berakhah.
- berated — to scold; rebuke: He berated them in public.
- berbera — a port in N Somalia, (in the separatist area called Somaliland), on the Gulf of Aden. Pop: about 200 000 (2000 est)
- bertram — a masculine name: dim. Bertie; var. Bertrand
- bhangra — Bhangra is a form of dance music that comes from India and uses traditional Indian instruments.
- biafran — of or relating to Biafra or its inhabitants
- blu-ray — Blu-Ray is a type of video disk that is used for storing large amounts of high quality digital information.