Index of English words, starting with "ra"

(1) - Rantingly (adv.) In a ranting manner.

(1) - Ranula (n.) A cyst formed under the tongue by obstruction of the duct of the submaxillary gland.

(1) - Ranunculus (n.) A genus of herbs, mostly with yellow flowers, including crowfoot, buttercups, and the cultivated ranunculi (R. Asiaticus, R. aconitifolius, etc.) in which the flowers are double and of various colors.

(1) - Rap (n.) A popular name for any of the tokens that passed current for a half-penny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.
(2) - Rap (v.) To exchange; to truck.
(3) - Rap (v.) To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture; as, rapt into admiration.
(4) - Rap (v.) To hasten.
(5) - Rap (v.) To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.
(6) - Rap (n.) A quick, smart blow; a knock.
(7) - Rap (v. t.) To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
(8) - Rap (v. t.) To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
(9) - Rap (v. i.) To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.
(10) - Rap (n.) A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.

(1) - Rapacious (a.) Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite.
(2) - Rapacious (a.) Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence; as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a rapacious bird.
(3) - Rapacious (a.) Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force.