7-letter words starting with r
- ravages — to work havoc upon; damage or mar by ravages: a face ravaged by grief.
- rave-up — a party, especially a wild one.
- raveled — to disentangle or unravel the threads or fibers of (a woven or knitted fabric, rope, etc.).
- raveler — to disentangle or unravel the threads or fibers of (a woven or knitted fabric, rope, etc.).
- ravelin — a V -shaped outwork outside the main ditch and covering the works between two bastions.
- ravenna — a former province of the Papal States, in NE Italy. Capital: Ravenna.
- ravined — marked or furrowed with ravines.
- ravings — If you describe what someone says or writes as their ravings, you mean that it makes no sense because they are mad or very ill.
- ravioli — small cases of pasta, often square, stuffed with a filling, usually of meat or cheese, and often served with a tomato sauce.
- raw bar — a restaurant or counter serving raw shellfish and sometimes sushi.
- rawhead — a bogeyman, esp one with a skull as its head
- rawhide — untanned skin of cattle or other animals.
- rawlins — a town in S Wyoming.
- rawness — uncooked, as articles of food: a raw carrot.
- ray gun — a gun that can fire bursts of usually destructive or lethal rays: a science fiction novel whose hero has a ray gun made of gold.
- raybans — a brand of sunglasses
- rayburn — Sam, 1882–1961, U.S. lawyer and political leader: Speaker of the House 1940–47, 1949–53, 1955–61.
- rayless — lacking rays or raylike parts.
- raylike — resembling a ray
- raymond — Henry Jarvis [jahr-vis] /ˈdʒɑr vɪs/ (Show IPA), 1820–69, U.S. publicist: founder of The New York Times.
- rayonny — radiant (def 4).
- raytown — a city in W Missouri, near Kansas City.
- razored — a sharp-edged instrument used especially for shaving the face or trimming the hair.
- razzing — to deride; make fun of; tease.
- rc file — /R C fi:l/ [Unix: from the startup script "/etc/rc", but this is commonly believed to have been named after older scripts to "run commands"] Script file containing startup instructions for an application program (or an entire operating system), usually a text file containing commands of the sort that might have been invoked manually once the system was running but are to be executed automatically each time the system starts up. See also dot file, profile (sense 1).
- re-boil — to boil again
- re-cede — to go or move away; retreat; go to or toward a more distant point; withdraw.
- re-cock — to cock (a gun) again
- re-coil — to coil anew or again
- re-cork — the outer bark of an oak, Quercus suber, of Mediterranean countries, used for making stoppers for bottles, floats, etc.
- re-drew — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- re-earn — to earn again
- re-echo — to echo back, as a sound.
- re-edit — to edit (books, newspapers, films, etc) again
- re-emit — to send forth (liquid, light, heat, sound, particles, etc.); discharge.
- re-form — When an organization, group, or shape re-forms, or when someone re-forms it, it is created again after a period during which it did not exist or existed in a different form.
- re-fund — to fund anew.
- re-gift — an unwanted gift that is given away.
- re-hear — to perceive by the ear: Didn't you hear the doorbell?
- re-home — to give (an animal, such as one that has been abandoned or is a stray,) a new home and owners
- re-laid — simple past tense and past participle of re-lay.
- re-mark — to say casually, as in making a comment: Someone remarked that tomorrow would be a warm day.
- re-read — to read (something) again.
- re-roof — the external upper covering of a house or other building.
- re-side — to replace the siding on (a building).
- re-sign — to sign (a document, etc) again
- re-sort — to sort or arrange (cards, papers, etc.) again.
- re-view — a form of theatrical entertainment in which recent events, popular fads, etc., are parodied.
- re-word — to put into other words: to reword a contract.
- reaches — The upper, middle, or lower reaches of a river are parts of a river. The upper reaches are nearer to the river's source and the lower reaches are nearer to the sea into which it flows.