8-letter words containing ra
- crawford — Joan, real name Lucille le Sueur. 1908–77, US film actress, who portrayed ambitious women in such films as Mildred Pierce (1945)
- crawlers — a baby's overalls; rompers
- crawlies — Fear, anxiety.
- crawling — a defect in freshly applied paint or varnish characterized by bare patches and ridging
- crawlway — a low passageway in a cave or mine that can only be negotiated by crawling
- crayfish — A crayfish is a small shellfish with five pairs of legs which lives in rivers and streams. You can eat some types of crayfish.
- crayoned — Simple past tense and past participle of crayon.
- craziest — mentally deranged; demented; insane.
- cultrate — shaped like a knife blade
- cultural — Cultural means relating to a particular society and its ideas, customs, and art.
- cuprates — Plural form of cuprate.
- curacies — Plural form of curacy.
- curarine — an alkaloid extracted from curare, used as a muscle relaxant in surgery. Formula: C19H26ON2
- curarize — to paralyse or treat with curare
- curassow — any gallinaceous ground-nesting bird of the family Cracidae, of S North, Central, and South America. Curassows have long legs and tails and, typically, a distinctive crest of curled feathers
- curating — Chiefly British. a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
- curation — Chiefly British. a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
- curative — Something that has curative properties can cure people's illnesses.
- curators — Plural form of curator.
- curatory — the office of a curator
- curatrix — a woman in charge of a museum, art gallery, or similar institution
- curraghs — Plural form of curragh.
- currants — Plural form of currant.
- curranty — full of currants
- cut rate — a price, fare, or rate below the standard charge.
- cut-rate — Cut-rate goods or services are cheaper than usual.
- cutgrass — the general name for any grass of the genus Leersia, native to the Americas and Eurasia
- darraine — clear of guilt
- dassehra — an annual Hindu festival celebrated on the 10th lunar day of Navaratri; images of the goddess Durga are immersed in water
- datagram — a self-contained unit of data transmitted in a packet-switched network
- deaerate — to take air out of (something)
- decagram — dekagram
- decigram — a unit of measurement that is equivalent to one tenth of a gram
- decorate — If you decorate something, you make it more attractive by adding things to it.
- deferral — Deferral means the same as deferment.
- defrauds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defraud.
- defrayal — payment of some or all charges or expenses.
- defrayed — to bear or pay all or part of (the costs, expenses, etc.): The grant helped defray the expenses of the trip.
- degraded — disgraced, debased, depraved, etc.
- degrader — One who, or that which, degrades.
- degrades — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of degrade.
- deianira — a sister of Meleager and wife of Hercules. She unintentionally killed Hercules by dipping his tunic in the poisonous blood of the Centaur Nessus, thinking it to be a love charm
- dekagram — ten grams, or one tenth of a hectogram (0.3527 ounce): abbrev. dag
- demerara — a former region of what is now Guyana, on the Demerara river
- democrat — A Democrat is a member or supporter of a particular political party which has the word 'democrat' or 'democratic' in its title, for example the Democratic Party in the United States.
- demorage — Obsolete form of demurrage.
- demurral — the act or an instance of demurring
- dentural — of or relating to dentures
- depraved — Depraved actions, things, or people are morally bad or evil.
- depraver — One who depraves or corrupts.