8-letter words containing ra
- crafting — an art, trade, or occupation requiring special skill, especially manual skill: the craft of a mason.
- cragfast — stranded or stuck on a crag
- craggily — full of crags.
- cragsman — a rock climber
- cragsmen — Plural form of cragsman.
- cramdown — (legal) A court settlement in bankruptcy in which creditors receive less than they were owed.
- cramming — intensive study, esp in order to pass an exam
- cramoisy — of a crimson colour
- cramping — cramp iron.
- crampons — Plural form of crampon.
- crampoon — Alternative form of crampon (attachment for a shoe).
- crandall — Prudence, 1803–90, U.S. educator and civil-rights activist.
- cranefly — A cranefly is a harmless flying insect with long legs.
- cranford — a township in NE New Jersey.
- craniate — having a skull or cranium
- crank in — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
- crank up — If you crank up a machine or device, you start it.
- crank-up — an act or instance of cranking up.
- crankier — Comparative form of cranky.
- crankily — In a cranky manner.
- cranking — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
- crankish — mildly eccentric
- crankous — fretful; cranky
- crankpin — a short cylindrical bearing surface fitted between two arms of a crank and set parallel to the main shaft of the crankshaft
- crannied — full of crannies or chinks
- crannies — Plural form of cranny.
- crannoge — Alt form crannog.
- crannogs — Plural form of crannog.
- cranston — city in R.I.: suburb of Providence: pop. 79,000
- cranwell — a village in E England, in Lincolnshire: Royal Air Force College (1920)
- crap out — to make a losing throw in craps
- crapfest — (informal, vulgar) Something of incredibly low quality.
- crappier — extremely bad, unpleasant, or inferior; lousy: crappy weather.
- crappies — Plural form of crappie.
- crapping — (in craps) a losing throw, in which the total on the two dice is 2, 3, or 12.
- crapplet — (web, abuse) A badly written or profoundly useless Java applet. "I just wasted 30 minutes downloading this stinkin' crapplet!"
- crashers — Plural form of crasher.
- crashing — (intensifier) (esp in the phrase a crashing bore)
- crashpad — a place to sleep or live temporarily
- crassest — without refinement, delicacy, or sensitivity; gross; obtuse; stupid: crass commercialism; a crass misrepresentation of the facts.
- cratches — a crib for fodder; manger.
- crateful — (informal) As much as a crate would hold.
- cratered — If the surface of something is cratered, it has many craters in it.
- cratonic — Of or pertaining to the craton.
- cravable — (especially of a food) having qualities that engender an intense desire for more: All too often, salt, sugar, fat, and “crunch” make a food craveable.
- cravened — Simple past tense and past participle of craven.
- cravenly — In a craven manner.
- cravings — great or eager desire; yearning.
- crawdads — Plural form of crawdad.
- crawfish — A crawfish is a small shellfish with five pairs of legs which lives in rivers and streams. You can eat some types of crawfish.