9-letter words starting with r
- rajputana — a former region in NW India, now making up the principal part of Rajasthan.
- rake over — If you say that someone is raking over something that has been said, done, or written in the past, you mean that they are examining and discussing it in detail, in a way that you do not think is very pleasant.
- rakehelly — of, resembling, or characteristic of a rakehell; profligate
- rakeshame — a shamefully dissolute person; rogue
- ralliform — raillike in shape, anatomy, etc.
- rally car — a car that has been specially designed or modified to be used in motor rallies
- ram drive — RAM disk
- ram singh — 1816–85, Indian leader of a puritanical Sikh sect, the Kukas, who tried to remove the British from India through a policy of noncooperation
- ramamorph — any of a group of extinct Miocene apes of Europe, Asia, and Africa, characterized by large molars and small incisors and typified by the genera Ramapithecus and Sivapithecus.
- ramanujan — Srinivasa [shree-ni-vah-suh,, sree-] /ˈʃri nɪˈvɑ sə,, ˈsri-/ (Show IPA), 1887–1920, Indian mathematician.
- ramaphosa — (Matamela) Cyril. born 1952, South African statesman and trade unionist; secretary general of the ANC (1991–97); deputy president of South Africa from 2014
- ramat gan — a city in central Israel, near Tel Aviv.
- ramble on — to wander around in a leisurely, aimless manner: They rambled through the shops until closing time.
- ramblings — If you describe a speech or piece of writing as someone's ramblings, you are saying that it is meaningless because the person who said or wrote it was very confused or insane.
- ramillies — a village in central Belgium: Marlborough's defeat of the French 1706.
- ramp down — decrease effort, work
- ramrodded — a rod for ramming down the charge of a muzzleloading firearm.
- ramses ii — 1292–1225 b.c, king of ancient Egypt.
- rancheria — a family household unit or settlement.
- rancherie — an Indian village or settlement, especially one located on a reserve.
- ranchette — a small-scale ranch, typically of only a few acres.
- ranchless — having no ranch or ranches
- ranchlike — resembling or characteristic of a ranch
- rancidity — having a rank, unpleasant, stale smell or taste, as through decomposition, especially of fats or oils: rancid butter.
- rancorous — full of or showing rancor.
- randiness — sexually aroused; lustful; lecherous.
- randomize — to order or select in a random manner, as in a sample or experiment, especially in order to reduce bias and interference caused by irrelevant variables; make random.
- rangatira — a Māori chief of either sex
- range oil — oil suitable for burning as the fuel of a kitchen stove.
- rangeland — range (def 17).
- rankshift — (in systemic linguistics) to use a unit as a constituent of another unit of the same or lower rank on the rank scale, as in using the phrase next door within the phrase the boy next door or the clause that you met yesterday within the phrase the girl that you met yesterday.
- ransacker — to search thoroughly or vigorously through (a house, receptacle, etc.): They ransacked the house for the missing letter.
- ranterism — a radical 17th-century Christian doctrine based on a personal relationship with the Holy Spirit and disregard of formal worship
- rantipole — wild, reckless, boisterous
- ranzelman — a type of police officer responsible for investigating minor crimes
- rap group — an informal discussion group, often supervised by a trained leader, that meets to discuss shared concerns or interests.
- rap music — a style of popular music, developed by disc jockeys and urban blacks in the late 1970s, in which an insistent, recurring beat pattern provides the background and counterpoint for rapid, slangy, and often boastful rhyming patter glibly intoned by a vocalist or vocalists.
- rap sheet — a record kept by law-enforcement authorities of a person's arrests and convictions.
- rapacious — given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
- rappe pie — a pie containing grated potatoes and chicken, duck, or rabbit meat.
- raptorial — preying upon other animals; predatory.
- rapturist — a person who goes into raptures, an enthusiast
- rapturize — to go into ecstasies or raptures
- rapturous — full of, feeling, or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight.
- rara avis — a rare person or thing; rarity.
- rare bird — If you say that someone or something is a rare bird, you mean that they are very unusual.
- rare book — a book that is distinguished by its early printing date, its limited issue, the special character of the edition or binding, or its historical interest.
- rare mode — (operating system) Unix CBREAK mode (character-by-character with keyboard interrupts enabled). Distinguished from raw mode and cooked mode; the phrase "a sort of half-cooked (rare?) mode" is used in the V7/BSD manuals to describe the mode. Usage: rare.
- rarotonga — one of the Cook Islands, in the S Pacific, 26 sq. mi. (67 sq. km).
- ras addar — Bon, Cape.