9-letter words containing ra
- barraging — Military. a heavy barrier of artillery fire to protect one's own advancing or retreating troops or to stop the advance of enemy troops.
- barrancas — Plural form of barranca.
- barrators — a person who commits barratry.
- base rate — In Britain, the base rate is the rate of interest that banks use as a basis when they are calculating the rates that they charge on loans.
- batrachia — amphibians, including frogs and toads, which have gills and a tail in their larval state, which are discarded later in life
- baud rate — a rate of data transmission measured in baud
- bear raid — an attempt to force down the price of a security or commodity by sustained selling
- bear trap — snare to catch bears
- beargrass — a North-West American plant, Xerophyllum tenax, belonging to the lily family but resembling tall grass
- bedrabble — to drench or muddy.
- bedraggle — to make (hair, clothing, etc) limp, untidy, or dirty, as with rain or mud
- bedstraws — Plural form of bedstraw.
- belgravia — a fashionable residential district of W central London, around Belgrave Square
- bentgrass — any perennial grass of the genus Agrostis, esp A. tenuis, which has a spreading panicle of tiny flowers. Some species are planted for hay or in lawns
- bharatiya — of or relating to India
- bicameral — (of a legislature) consisting of two chambers
- bike rack — stand for parking cycles
- bilateral — Bilateral negotiations, meetings, or agreements, involve only the two groups or countries that are directly concerned.
- biliteral — consisting of two letters
- biography — A biography of someone is an account of their life, written by someone else.
- biopiracy — the use of wild plants by international companies to develop medicines, without recompensing the countries from which they are taken
- biopirate — a person who is responsible for biopiracy
- bipyramid — a geometrical form consisting of two pyramids with a common polygonal base
- biradical — a molecule with two centres
- birdbrain — a foolish or unintelligent person
- birthrate — the number of births per year per thousand of population in a given community, area, or group: sometimes other units of time or population are used
- biserrate — (of leaf margins, etc) having serrations that are themselves serrate
- black rat — a common rat, Rattus rattus: a household pest that has spread from its native Asia to all countries
- blue crab — any of a genus (Callinectes) of crabs, esp. a blue-legged, edible swimming species (C. sapidus) of the Atlantic coast of North America
- bluegrass — Bluegrass is a style of fast folk music that began in the Southern United States.
- body wrap — a beauty treatment in which the body is covered in lotion and wrapped tightly in strips of cloth in order to promote weight loss or improve skin tone
- bolograph — a record made by a bolometer
- bomb rack — a device for carrying bombs in or under the fuselage of an aircraft.
- bookcraft — literary skill; authorship.
- boomerang — A boomerang is a curved piece of wood which comes back to you if you throw it in the correct way. Boomerangs were first used by the people who were living in Australia when Europeans arrived there.
- bootstrap — If you bootstrap an organization or an activity, you set it up or achieve it alone, using very few resources.
- bora bora — an island in the S Pacific, in French Polynesia, in the Society Islands: one of the Leeward Islands. Area: 39 sq km (15 sq miles)
- bosberaad — a meeting in an isolated venue to break a political deadlock
- bourasque — a tempest
- box frame — Architecture. a monolithic reinforced-concrete structure having walls and floors in the form of slabs.
- boy racer — British journalists sometimes refer to young men who drive very fast, especially in expensive and powerful cars, as boy racers.
- bra strap — a strap for fastening a bra
- brabancon — one of a variety of the Brussels griffon having a short, smooth coat.
- brabbling — to argue stubbornly about trifles; wrangle.
- bracelets — a slang name for handcuffs
- brachiate — having widely divergent paired branches
- bracingly — strengthening; invigorating: This mountain air is bracing.
- bracketed — a support, as of metal or wood, projecting from a wall or the like to hold or bear the weight of a shelf, part of a cornice, etc.
- bracknell — a town in SE England, in Bracknell Forest unitary authority, Berkshire, designated a new town in 1949. Pop: 70 795 (2001)
- bracteate — (of a plant) having bracts