8-letter words starting with ra
- ratisbon — Regensburg.
- ratooner — a plant that grows by ratooning
- ratproof — impenetrable by rats, resistant to rats
- ratsbane — rat poison.
- rattener — a person who rattens
- rattigan — Terence, 1911–77, English playwright.
- rattling — that rattles: a rattling door.
- raurkela — a city in Odisha state, in E India.
- ravaging — to work havoc upon; damage or mar by ravages: a face ravaged by grief.
- rave on! — Sarcastic invitation to continue a rave, often by someone who wishes the raver would get a clue but realises this is unlikely.
- raveling — a tangle or complication.
- ravelled — to disentangle or unravel the threads or fibers of (a woven or knitted fabric, rope, etc.).
- ravening — rapacious; voracious.
- ravenous — extremely hungry; famished; voracious: feeling ravenous after a hard day's work.
- ravigote — a highly seasoned velouté with white wine and vinegar, butter, cream, and mushrooms cooked in liquor, usually served hot with variety meats and poultry.
- ravisher — to fill with strong emotion, especially joy.
- raw data — data
- raw deal — unjust treatment
- raw milk — unpasteurized milk
- raw mode — (operating system) A mode that allows a program to transfer bits directly to or from an I/O device without any processing, abstraction, or interpretation by the operating system. Systems that make this distinction for a disk file are generally regarded as broken. Compare rare mode, cooked mode.
- raw silk — reeled silk that has not had the sericin removed.
- rawboned — having little flesh, especially on a large-boned frame; gaunt.
- rawlbolt — a proprietary anchor bolt for fixing into masonry etc
- rawlings — Marjorie Kinnan [ki-nan] /kɪˈnæn/ (Show IPA), 1896–1953, U.S. novelist and journalist.
- rawlplug — a short fibre or plastic tube used to provide a fixing in a wall for a screw
- rawmaish — foolish or exaggerated talk; nonsense
- rayleigh — John William Strutt [struht] /strʌt/ (Show IPA), 3rd Baron, 1842–1919, English physicist: Nobel prize 1904.