7-letter words containing ra
- brandon — a masculine name
- brangle — a squabble, dispute, or wrangle
- brangus — one of an American breed of cattle developed from Brahman and Aberdeen Angus stock, bred to withstand a hot climate.
- branner — a person or machine that cleans metal plates using bran
- branson — Sir Richard. born 1950, British entrepreneur. In 1969 he founded the Virgin record company, adding other interests later, including Virgin Atlantic Airways (1984), Virgin Radio (1993), and the Virgin Rail Group (1996): made the fastest crossing of the Atlantic by boat (1986) and the first of the Pacific by hot-air balloon (1991)
- brantle — a French dance
- branwen — a sister of Bran: her son, by Matholwych, was killed by Evnissyen.
- brasero — a large metal tray for holding burning coals
- brashly — impertinent; impudent; tactless: a brash young man.
- brasier — brazier1
- brassai — real name Gyula Halész. 1899–1984, French photographer, artist, and writer, born in Hungary: noted for his photographs of Paris by night
- brassey — brassie.
- brassie — a former name for a club, a No. 2 wood, originally having a brass-plated sole and with a shallower face than a driver to give more loft
- brattle — a rattling or clattering sound
- braudel — ˈFernand Paul (fɛʀˈnɑ̃ pɔl) ; fernänˈ p^ōl) 1902-85; Fr. historian
- bravado — Bravado is an appearance of courage or confidence that someone shows in order to impress other people.
- bravely — possessing or exhibiting courage or courageous endurance.
- bravery — Bravery is brave behaviour or the quality of being brave.
- bravest — possessing or exhibiting courage or courageous endurance.
- braving — possessing or exhibiting courage or courageous endurance.
- bravura — If you say that someone is doing something with bravura, you mean that they are using unnecessary extra actions that emphasize their skill or importance.
- bravure — Music. a florid passage or piece requiring great skill and spirit in the performer.
- brawler — a noisy quarrel, squabble, or fight.
- brawley — a city in S California.
- brawlie — in a fine or healthy manner
- braying — the loud, harsh cry of a donkey.
- brazers — to unite (metal objects) at high temperatures by applying any of various nonferrous solders.
- brazier — A brazier is a large metal container in which coal or charcoal is burned to keep people warm when they are outside in cold weather, for example because of their work.
- buckram — cotton or linen cloth stiffened with size, etc, used in lining or stiffening clothes, bookbinding, etc
- bukhara — a city in S Uzbekistan. Pop: 299 000 (2005 est)
- bum rap — a trumped-up or false charge
- bunraku — a Japanese form of puppet theatre in which the puppets are usually about four feet high, with moving features as well as limbs and each puppet is manipulated by up to three puppeteers who remain onstage
- bursera — of or relating to the Bursera genus of gum trees
- butyral — a type of resin
- cabrera — Manuel Estrada [Spanish mahn-wel es-trah-th ah] /Spanish mɑnˈwɛl ɛsˈtrɑ ðɑ/ (Show IPA), Estrada Cabrera, Manuel.
- cadrans — an instrument which measures the angles of gems and is used during the cutting process
- caesura — (in modern prosody) a pause, esp for sense, usually near the middle of a verse line
- caldera — a large basin-shaped crater at the top of a volcano, formed by the collapse or explosion of the cone
- caltrap — Archaic form of caltrop.
- cambrai — a town in NE France: textile industry: scene of a battle in which massed tanks were first used and broke through the German line (November, 1917). Pop: 33 738 (1999)
- cameral — of or relating to a judicial or legislative chamber
- cameras — Plural form of camera.
- camorra — a secret society organized in about 1820 in Naples, which thrives on blackmail and extortion
- caporal — a strong coarse dark tobacco
- caprate — a salt of capric acid
- carabao — water buffalo
- carabid — any typically dark-coloured beetle of the family Carabidae, including the bombardier and other ground beetles
- caracal — a lynxlike feline mammal, Lynx caracal, inhabiting deserts of N Africa and S Asia, having long legs, a smooth coat of reddish fur, and black-tufted ears
- caracas — the capital of Venezuela, in the north: founded in 1567; major industrial and commercial centre, notably for oil companies. Pop: 3 276 000 (2005 est)
- caracol — caracole.