5-letter words containing ra
- feral — causing death; fatal.
- flora — the plants of a particular region or period, listed by species and considered as a whole.
- foram — foraminifer.
- foray — a quick raid, usually for the purpose of taking plunder: Vikings made a foray on the port.
- frack — Used as a euphemism for ‘fuck’.
- fracp — Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians
- fracs — Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
- fract — (obsolete) To break; to violate.
- frags — Plural form of frag.
- fraid — Eye dialect of afraid.
- frail — having delicate health; not robust; weak: My grandfather is rather frail now.
- frain — (rare, or, dialectal, chiefly, Scotland) to ask, inquire; demand.
- frame — a border or case for enclosing a picture, mirror, etc.
- franc — an aluminum or nickel coin and monetary unit of France, Belgium, and Luxembourg until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 centimes. Abbreviation: F., f., Fr, fr.
- frank — direct and unreserved in speech; straightforward; sincere: Her criticism of my work was frank but absolutely fair.
- franz — a male given name, German form of Frank.
- frape — (obsolete) A crowd, a rabble.
- fraps — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of frap.
- frass — insect excrement.
- frate — a monk or friar
- frats — Plural form of frat.
- fraud — deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage.
- frayn — Michael. born 1933, British playwright, novelist, and translator; his plays include The Two of Us (1970), Noises Off (1982), Copenhagen (1998), and Democracy (2004); novels include A Landing on the Sun (1991) and Spies (2002)
- frays — Plural form of fray.
- furan — a colorless, liquid, unsaturated, five-membered heterocyclic compound, C 4 H 4 O, obtained from furfural: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- gawra — Tepe Gawra.
- gerah — an ancient Hebrew weight and coin, equal to 1/20 (0.05) of a shekel.
- gerar — an ancient city in Palestine, near the Mediterranean: now an archaeological site in Israel.
- gogra — a river in SW Tibet, Nepal, and N India, flowing S and SE to the Ganges River. 640 miles (1030 km) long.
- goral — a short-horned goat antelope, Naemorhedus goral, of the mountainous regions of southeastern Asia: an endangered species.
- gotra — a Hindu clan tracing its paternal lineage from a common ancestor, usually a saint or sage.
- goura — any of several species of large, crested ground pigeons found in New Guinea
- graal — ("Grail") General Recursive Applicative and Algorithmic Language. FP with polyadic combinators. "Graal: A Functional Programming System with Uncurryfied Combinators and its Reduction Machine", P. Bellot in ESOP 86, G. Goos ed, LNCS 213, Springer 1986.
- grabs — to seize suddenly or quickly; snatch; clutch: He grabbed me by the collar.
- grace — William Russell, 1832–1904, U.S. financier and shipping magnate, born in Ireland: mayor of New York City 1880–88.
- grade — a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity: the best grade of paper.
- grads — Plural form of grad.
- graff — (slang) Graffiti.
- graft — the acquisition of money, gain, or advantage by dishonest, unfair, or illegal means, especially through the abuse of one's position or influence in politics, business, etc.
- grail — (usually initial capital letter). Also called Holy Grail. a cup or chalice that in medieval legend was associated with unusual powers, especially the regeneration of life and, later, Christian purity, and was much sought after by medieval knights: identified with the cup used at the Last Supper and given to Joseph of Arimathea.
- grain — granularity
- graip — a long-handled fork for digging dung
- grama — any grass of the genus Bouteloua, of South America and western North America, as B. gracilis (blue grama)
- grame — (obsolete) Anger; wrath; scorn; bitterness; repugnance.
- gramp — grandfather.
- grams — Plural form of gram.
- grana — (in prescriptions) plural of granum.
- grand — impressive in size, appearance, or general effect: grand mountain scenery.
- grani — (in the Volsunga Saga) the horse of Sigurd.
- grans — Plural form of gran.