8-letter words starting with ra
- rapacity — given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
- rape oil — a brownish-yellow oil obtained by expression from rapeseed and used chiefly as a lubricant, an illuminant, and in the manufacture of rubber substitutes.
- rapeable — 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.
- rapeseed — the seed of the rape.
- raphania — a type of ergotism possibly resulting from ingestion of the poison from radish seeds
- rapidcad — (processor) A specially packaged Intel 486DX and a dummy floating point unit (FPU) designed as pin-compatible replacements for an Intel 80386 processor and 80387 FPU. Since the DX variant has a working on-chip FPU, a dummy FPU package is supplied to go in the 387 FPU socket.
- rapidity — a rapid state or quality; quickness; celerity.
- rapiered — wearing or carrying a rapier
- rapparee — an armed Irish freebooter or plunderer, especially of the 17th century.
- rapports — relation; connection, especially harmonious or sympathetic relation: a teacher trying to establish close rapport with students.
- raptness — deeply engrossed or absorbed: a rapt listener.
- raptured — (especially of saints) experiencing religious ecstasy as a result of one's faith.
- raptures — expressions of ecstatic joy
- rarefied — extremely high or elevated; lofty; exalted: the rarefied atmosphere of a scholarly symposium.
- rareripe — ripening early.
- rarities — something rare, unusual, or uncommon: Snowstorms are a rarity in the South.
- rascally — being, characteristic of, or befitting a rascal.
- rascasse — any of several scorpionfishes, as Scorpaena scrofa or S. porcus, of the Mediterranean Sea, used in making bouillabaisse.
- rashness — acting or tending to act too hastily or without due consideration.
- rasmalai — an Indian dessert made from cheese, milk, and almonds
- rasorial — given to scratching the ground for food, as chickens; gallinaceous.
- raspings — harsh; grating: a rasping voice.
- rasputin — Grigori Efimovich [gri-gawr-ee i-fee-muh-vich;; Russian gryi-gaw-ryee yi-fyee-muh-vyich] /grɪˈgɔr i ɪˈfi mə vɪtʃ;; Russian gryɪˈgɔ ryi yɪˈfyi mə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1871–1916, Siberian peasant monk who was very influential at the court of Czar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra.
- rat belt — A cable tie, especially the sawtoothed, self-locking plastic kind that you can remove only by cutting (as opposed to a random twist of wire or a twist tie or one of those humongous metal clip frobs). Small cable ties are "mouse belts".
- rat fink — fink (defs 3, 4).
- rat mite — a widespread tropical mite (Ornithonyssus bacoti) of the same order (Parasitiformes) as ticks: it is carried by rats and can cause skin inflammations or transmit typhus to human beings by its bite
- rat pack — a close-knit group of people with common interests who participate in various professional and recreational activities together.
- rat race — any exhausting, unremitting, and usually competitive activity or routine, especially a pressured urban working life spent trying to get ahead with little time left for leisure, contemplation, etc.
- rat tail — a hair style characterized by a long thin tail of hair growing at the back of the head
- rat trap — a device for catching rats
- rat-hole — a hole made by a rat, as into a room, barn, etc.: The first chore in the old building is to plug up the ratholes.
- rat-pack — a close-knit group of people with common interests who participate in various professional and recreational activities together.
- rat-race — any exhausting, unremitting, and usually competitive activity or routine, especially a pressured urban working life spent trying to get ahead with little time left for leisure, contemplation, etc.
- rat-tail — grenadier (def 4).
- rat-trap — a device for catching rats.
- ratables — property that is liable to rates
- rataplan — a sound of or as of the beating of a drum.
- ratatosk — An SLR parser generator written in Gofer (a Haskell variant) by Torben AEgidius Mogensen <[email protected]>. Ratatosk generates purely functional backtracking LR0 grammar parsers (also in Gofer). Even though the sematic value of a production is a function of the attributes of its right-hand side (and thus apparently purely synthesised), inherited attributes are easily simulated by using higher-order functions.
- rate-cap — In Britain, when a local council was rate-capped, the government prevented it from increasing local taxes called rates, in order to force the council to reduce its spending or make it more efficient.
- rateable — capable of being rated or appraised.
- rateably — capable of being rated or appraised.
- rathbone — Basil, 1892–1967, English actor, born in South Africa.
- rathenau — Walther [vahl-tuh r] /ˈvɑl tər/ (Show IPA), 1867–1922, German industrialist, writer, and statesman.
- rathouse — a psychiatric hospital or asylum
- rathripe — mature or ripe ahead of time
- raticide — a substance or preparation for killing rats.
- ratified — to confirm by expressing consent, approval, or formal sanction: to ratify a constitutional amendment.
- ratingen — a city in North Rhine–Westphalia in W central Germany, N of Dusseldorf.
- rational — agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.
- rationed — a fixed allowance of provisions or food, especially for soldiers or sailors or for civilians during a shortage: a daily ration of meat and bread.