8-letter words containing ra
- agraphon — saying of Jesus not in Gospels
- agrarian — Agrarian means relating to the ownership and use of land, especially farmland, or relating to the part of a society or economy that is concerned with agriculture.
- ahankara — the false identification of the purusha, or true inner self, with the body, the mind, or the outside world.
- ahemeral — not constituting a full 24-hour day
- air rage — Air rage is aggressive or violent behaviour by airline passengers.
- air raid — An air raid is an attack by military aircraft in which bombs are dropped. This expression is usually used by the country or group that is suffering the attack.
- air-trap — a contrivance used for catching game or other animals, as a mechanical device that springs shut suddenly.
- airbrake — A brake (slowing device) that is operated pneumatically (by air pressure).
- aircraft — An aircraft is a vehicle which can fly, for example an aeroplane or a helicopter.
- airdrawn — having its outline traced in air
- airframe — the body of an aircraft, excluding its engines
- airgraph — a system devised in the Second World War in which letters were photographed in miniature and sent by airmail
- al sirat — the correct path of religion
- alcatraz — an island in W California, in San Francisco Bay: a federal prison until 1963
- algraphy — (formerly) an offset process employing an aluminum plate instead of a stone.
- alhambra — a citadel and palace in Granada, Spain, built for the Moorish kings during the 13th and 14th centuries: noted for its rich ornamentation
- almirahs — Plural form of almirah.
- also-ran — If you describe someone as an also-ran, you mean that they have been or are likely to be unsuccessful in a contest.
- altamira — a cave in N Spain, SW of Santander, noted for Old Stone Age wall drawings
- altarage — the donations made at an altar
- alterant — that which alters the state of something
- alvarado — ˈPedro de (ˈpɛdroʊ deɪ ) ; peˈdrō dā) 1495-1541; Sp. general with Cortés in the conquest of Mexico
- amaracus — a genus of herbaceous plant with fragrant flowers
- amaranth — an imaginary flower that never fades
- ambigram — A design that may be read as the same word, name or phrase (or sometimes two different words, names or phrases) when oriented in two different ways, usually when reflected along a vertical or horizontal axis or when rotated through 180 degrees.
- ameerate — a country ruled by an ameer; an emirate
- amirates — Plural form of amirate.
- amorally — In an amoral manner; without morals.
- amorance — the state of being in love
- amperage — the magnitude of an electric current measured in amperes, esp the rated current of an electrical component or device
- amphorae — a large two-handled storage jar having an oval body, usually tapering to a point at the base, with a pair of handles extending from immediately below the lip to the shoulder: used chiefly for oil, wine, etc., and, set on a foot, as a commemorative vase awarded the victors in contests such as the Panathenaic games.
- amphoral — relating to or resembling an amphora
- amratian — of, relating to, or belonging to the predynastic Chalcolithic culture that flourished in Upper Egypt about 3800 b.c., characterized by the working of raw gold, the use of copper, and the burial of the dead in shallow graves.
- amravati — a town in central India, in NE Maharashtra: cotton centre. Pop: 549 370 (2001)
- anagrams — a word, phrase, or sentence formed from another by rearranging its letters: “Angel” is an anagram of “glean.”.
- anaphora — the use of a word such as a pronoun that has the same reference as a word previously used in the same discourse. In the sentence John wrote the essay in the library but Peter did it at home, both did and it are examples of anaphora
- andorran — of or relating to Andorra or its inhabitants
- andrassy — Count Gyula (ˈdjulɔ). 1823–90, Hungarian statesman; the first prime minister of Hungary under the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary (1867)
- anhedral — the downward inclination of an aircraft wing in relation to the lateral axis
- anocracy — A political system which is neither fully democratic nor fully autocratic, often being vulnerable to political instability.
- antigram — One of a pair of anagrams with opposite meanings.
- antigrav — (science fiction) antigravity, or a device that counters gravity.
- antirape — opposed to or acting against rape
- antisera — a serum containing antibodies, as antitoxins or agglutinins, obtained by inoculation of animals and used for injection into other animals to provide immunity to a specific disease.
- apograph — a perfect copy or transcript
- apparate — (obsolete) apparatus.
- appraise — If you appraise something or someone, you consider them carefully and form an opinion about them.
- apractic — a disorder of the nervous system, characterized by an inability to perform purposeful movements, but not accompanied by a loss of sensory function or paralysis.
- apyrases — Plural form of apyrase.
- arabella — a feminine name: dim. Bella