7-letter words starting with ra
- ramekin — a small dish in which food can be baked and served.
- ramenta — a scraping, shaving, or particle.
- rameses — Ramses (def 1).
- ramming — a male sheep.
- rammish — resembling a ram.
- ramp up — intensify effort, work
- rampage — violent or excited behavior that is reckless, uncontrolled, or destructive.
- rampant — violent in action or spirit; raging; furious: a rampant leopard.
- rampart — Fortification. a broad elevation or mound of earth raised as a fortification around a place and usually capped with a stone or earth parapet. such an elevation together with the parapet.
- ramphal — Sir Shridath Surendranath, known as Sunni. born 1928, Guyanese diplomat and Commonwealth Secretary-General (1975–90)
- rampike — a dead tree, especially the bleached skeleton or splintered trunk of a tree killed by fire, lightning, or wind.
- ramping — a sloping surface connecting two levels; incline.
- rampion — a European bellflower, Campanula rapunculus, having an edible white tuberous root used in Europe for salad.
- ramsons — a garlic, Allium ursinum, having broad leaves.
- ramstam — obstinate; headstrong.
- ramtron — (company) The company which holds the patents for FRAM and licenses the technology to other companies. The licensees are currently (Feb 1997) Hitachi, Rohm, Samsung, SGS-Thomson and Toshiba, none of who offer FRAM products of their own yet.
- ramular — relating to a branch or branches
- ramulus — a small branch or branchlet
- rancher — a person who owns or works on a ranch.
- rancour — bitter, rankling resentment or ill will; hatred; malice.
- randall — a male given name.
- randers — a seaport in E Jutland, in Denmark.
- randies — sexually aroused; lustful; lecherous.
- ranging — the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible: the range of steel prices; a wide range of styles.
- rangoli — a traditional Indian art form using coloured sand or powder to decorate a floor, courtyard, or other flat surface
- rangoon — former name of Yangon.
- rangpur — a variety of mandarin orange, bearing a tart fruit.
- rankest — growing with excessive luxuriance; vigorous and tall of growth: tall rank weeds.
- rankine — William John Macquorn [muh-kwawrn] /məˈkwɔrn/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, Scottish engineer and physicist.
- ranking — senior or superior in rank, position, etc.: a ranking diplomat.
- rankish — growing with excessive luxuriance; vigorous and tall of growth: tall rank weeds.
- rankism — discrimination against people on the grounds of rank
- rankist — involving or showing discrimination against people on the grounds of rank
- rankled — (of unpleasant feelings, experiences, etc.) to continue to cause keen irritation or bitter resentment within the mind; fester; be painful.
- rankles — (of unpleasant feelings, experiences, etc.) to continue to cause keen irritation or bitter resentment within the mind; fester; be painful.
- ransack — to search thoroughly or vigorously through (a house, receptacle, etc.): They ransacked the house for the missing letter.
- ransome — Arthur. 1884–1967, English writer, best known for his books for children, including Swallows and Amazons (1930) and Great Northern? (1947)
- ranting — to speak or declaim extravagantly or violently; talk in a wild or vehement way; rave: The demagogue ranted for hours.
- rantoul — a city in E Illinois.
- ranular — of or relating to a ranula
- raoulia — any of various New Zealand flowering plants of the genus Raoulia
- rap out — If you rap out an order or a question, you say it quickly and sharply.
- rapable — unlawful sexual intercourse or any other sexual penetration of the vagina, anus, or mouth of another person, with or without force, by a sex organ, other body part, or foreign object, without the consent of the victim.
- rapacki — Adam (ˈadam). 1909–70, Polish politician: foreign minister (1956–68): proposed (1957) the denuclearization of Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and West Germany (the Rapacki Plan): rejected by the West because of Soviet predominance in conventional weapons
- rapallo — a seaport in NW Italy, on the Gulf of Genoa: treaties 1920, 1922.
- raphael — (Raffaello Santi or Sanzio) 1483–1520, Italian painter.
- raphide — any of numerous needle-shaped crystals, usually of calcium oxalate, that occur in many plant cells as a metabolic product
- rapidan — a river in N Virginia, flowing E from the Blue Ridge Mountains into the Rappahannock River: Civil War battle 1862.
- rapider — occurring within a short time; happening speedily: rapid growth.
- rapidly — occurring within a short time; happening speedily: rapid growth.