7-letter words starting with r
- radicel — a minute root; a rootlet.
- radices — a plural of radix.
- radicle — Botany. the lower part of the axis of an embryo; the primary root. a rudimentary root; radicel or rootlet.
- radioed — wireless telegraphy or telephony: speeches broadcast by radio.
- raeburn — Sir Henry, 1756–1823, Scottish painter.
- raffiné — refined; cultivated
- raffish — mildly or sometimes engagingly disreputable or nonconformist; rakish: a matinee idol whose raffish offstage behavior amused millions.
- raffled — a form of lottery in which a number of persons buy one or more chances to win a prize.
- raffles — rubbish.
- rafting — a more or less rigid floating platform made of buoyant material or materials: an inflatable rubber raft.
- rag bag — a bag in which small pieces of cloth are kept for use in mending.
- rag rug — a rug, often multicolored, made of rags or strips of fabric woven or stitched together.
- rag-bag — a bag in which small pieces of cloth are kept for use in mending.
- ragbolt — barb bolt.
- ragdoll — a stuffed doll, especially of cloth.
- rageful — angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination): a speech full of rage; incidents of road rage.
- ragfish — a deep-sea fish of the family Icosteidae, inhabiting the North Pacific, having a very flexible body owing to its soft, highly cartilaginous skeleton.
- raggedy — ragged.
- raggery — rags
- ragging — a musical composition in ragtime: a piano rag.
- raghead — an offensive term for a person who wears a turban, keffiyeh, etc
- ragment — a statute, roll, or list
- ragtime — a novel (1975) by E. L. Doctorow.
- ragweed — any of the composite plants of the genus Ambrosia, the airborne pollen of which is the most prevalent cause of autumnal hay fever, as the common North American species, A. trifida (great ragweed or giant ragweed) and A. artemisiifolia.
- ragwork — masonry of thin, undressed rubble.
- ragworm — any polychaete worm of the genus Nereis, living chiefly in burrows in sand or mud and having a flattened body with a row of fleshy parapodia along each side
- ragwort — any of various composite plants of the genus Senecio, as S. jacobaea, of the Old World, having yellow flowers and irregularly lobed leaves, or S. aureus (golden ragwort) of North America, also having yellow flowers.
- rah-rah — marked by or expressive of ardently enthusiastic spirit: a group of rah-rah undergraduates; a rah-rah attitude.
- raiatea — a volcanic island in the Leeward Island group of the Society Islands, French Polynesia, in the South Pacific. 92 sq. mi. (238 sq. km).
- raiding — a sudden assault or attack, as upon something to be seized or suppressed: a police raid on a gambling ring.
- railage — an amount charged for transporting goods by rail.
- railbed — the ballast layer supporting the sleepers of a railway track
- railbus — a bus-like vehicle for use on railway lines
- railcar — a passenger-carrying railway vehicle consisting of a single coach with its own power unit
- railers — to utter bitter complaint or vehement denunciation (often followed by at or against): to rail at fate.
- railing — a bar of wood or metal fixed horizontally for any of various purposes, as for a support, barrier, fence, or railing.
- railman — a male worker on a railway
- railway — a rail line with lighter-weight equipment and roadbed than a main-line railroad.
- raiment — clothing; apparel; attire.
- rainbow — a bow or arc of prismatic colors appearing in the heavens opposite the sun and caused by the refraction and reflection of the sun's rays in drops of rain. Compare primary rainbow, secondary rainbow.
- rainier — Rainier Louis Henri Maxence Bertrand de Grimaldi [lwee ahn-ree mak-sahns ber-trahn duh gree-mal dee] /lwi ɑ̃ˈri makˈsɑ̃s bɛrˈtrɑ̃ də gri mal ˈdi/ (Show IPA), Prince of Monaco, 1923–2005, reigning prince of Monaco 1949–2005.
- raining — water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 inch (0.5 mm) in diameter. Compare drizzle (def 6).
- rainout — a contest, performance, or the like, that has been rained out.
- raising — an increase in amount, as of wages: a raise in pay.
- rajasic — See under guna.
- rake in — an agricultural implement with teeth or tines for gathering cut grass, hay, or the like or for smoothing the surface of the ground.
- rake up — an agricultural implement with teeth or tines for gathering cut grass, hay, or the like or for smoothing the surface of the ground.
- raleigh — a state in the SE United States, on the Atlantic coast. 52,586 sq. mi. (136,198 sq. km). Capital: Raleigh. Abbreviation: NC (for use with zip code), N.C.
- rallied — to ridicule in a good-natured way; banter.
- rallier — to bring into order again; gather and organize or inspire anew: The general rallied his scattered army.