9-letter words starting with ra
- rasophore — a monk authorized to wear the rason.
- raspatory — a surgical instrument for abrading; surgeon's rasp
- raspberry — the fruit of any of several shrubs belonging to the genus Rubus, of the rose family, consisting of small and juicy red, black, or pale yellow drupelets forming a detachable cap about a convex receptacle.
- raspiness — harsh; grating; rasping.
- raspingly — harsh; grating: a rasping voice.
- rastafari — Rastafarian (def 1).
- rasterize — to convert into pixels for screen output; convert into a raster image
- rat guard — a disk of sheet metal fitted around a hawser to prevent rats from boarding a vessel moored at a dock.
- rat snake — any of several New and Old World colubrid snakes, of the genus Elaphe, that feed chiefly on small mammals and birds.
- rat tamer — a psychologist or psychiatrist
- rat-a-tat — a sound of knocking or rapping: a sharp rat-a-tat on the window.
- rat-arsed — drunk
- ratcheted — a toothed bar with which a pawl engages.
- rate base — a guaranteed minimum amount or number used to compute advertising rates, as the number of subscribers to a publication.
- rate card — a list showing the rates charged by a magazine, newspaper, radio or television station, etc., for various types of advertising.
- rate tart — a credit card holder, bank account holder, etc, who frequently and purposefully changes providers to take advantage of low interest rate offers intended to attract new customers
- ratemeter — a device for counting the rate of a particular event, esp for measuring the intensity of radiation
- ratepayer — a person who pays a regular charge for the use of a public utility, as gas or electricity, usually based on the quantity consumed.
- ratherest — most readily, most willingly
- ratherish — fairly, moderately
- ratifiers — to confirm by expressing consent, approval, or formal sanction: to ratify a constitutional amendment.
- rationale — the fundamental reason or reasons serving to account for something.
- rationing — 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.
- rattailed — having a tail or feature like a rat's tail
- rattle on — talk at length
- rattlebag — a rattle made out of a bag containing small objects
- rattlebox — any of various tropical and subtropical leguminous plants that have inflated pods within which the seeds rattle
- raucously — harsh; strident; grating: raucous voices; raucous laughter.
- rauwolfia — any tropical tree or shrub of the genus Rauwolfia, as R. serpentina, of India.
- rave hook — a hooklike tool for reaming old oakum out of seams in planking.
- ravelling — to disentangle or unravel the threads or fibers of (a woven or knitted fabric, rope, etc.).
- ravelment — entanglement; confusion.
- ravenings — rapacious behaviour and activities
- ravenlike — resembling a raven
- ravigotte — a cold French sauce or dressing for salad containing mixed chopped herbs such as tarragon and chives
- ravishing — extremely beautiful or attractive; enchanting; entrancing.
- raw score — the original score, as of a test, before it is statistically adjusted.
- raw umber — an earth consisting chiefly of a hydrated oxide of iron and some oxide of manganese, used in its natural state as a brown pigment (raw umber) or, after heating, as a reddish-brown pigment (burnt umber)
- raw-boned — having little flesh, especially on a large-boned frame; gaunt.
- rawlinson — George, 1812–1902, English historian.
- raynaud's — a disease, mainly affecting women, in which spasms in the blood vessels of the fingers or toes restrict blood flow to the affected part, which becomes pale, numb, and sometimes painful
- razor cut — a fluffy hairstyle, usually tapering at the neck, trimmed by a razor
- razorable — able to be shaved
- razorback — a finback or rorqual.
- razorbill — a common auk, Alca torda, of the North Atlantic, having a thick laterally compressed bill with white markings
- razorclam — type of mollusc with a long, narrow shell
- razorfish — any of several wrasses of the genus Hemipteronatus having a compressed, sharp-edged head, as H. novacula (pearly razorfish) of the West Indies and the Mediterranean Sea.
- razzberry — raspberry (def 4).