11-letter words containing rai
- grain coast — a historic region on the Gulf of Guinea, in W Africa, in present-day Liberia.
- gravy train — a position in which a person or group receives excessive and unjustified money or advantages with little or no effort: The top executives were on the gravy train with their huge bonuses.
- hair-raiser — a story, experience, etc., that is terrifying or thrilling.
- hairbrained — giddy; reckless.
- handrailing — Handrail.
- harebrained — giddy; reckless.
- hell-raiser — a person who behaves in a rowdy, riotous manner, especially habitually.
- house-train — to housebreak.
- in training — If you are in training, you are preparing yourself for a physical activity such as a race, by taking a lot of exercise and eating special food.
- interbrains — Plural form of interbrain.
- interrailer — a person who interrails
- interstrain — existing or occurring between two strains
- lamebrained — a dunce; booby; fool.
- misappraise — to estimate the monetary value of; determine the worth of; assess: We had an expert appraise the house before we bought it.
- mitrailleur — (UK, military, obsolete) rapid-fire team-served musket or rifle.
- multi-grain — a small, hard seed, especially the seed of a food plant such as wheat, corn, rye, oats, rice, or millet.
- neo-hebraic — Hebrew as spoken and written since the Diaspora
- nonrailroad — not using or involving a railroad
- overgrainer — someone who overgrains
- palk strait — a strait in the Bay of Bengal between SE India and N Sri Lanka, to the N of Adam's Bridge. 40–85 miles (64–137 km) wide.
- paper trail — a written or printed record, as of transactions or judicial opinions, especially when used to incriminate someone.
- paper-train — to train (a pet) to defecate or urinate on sheets of disposable paper.
- pilot raise — a small raise intended to be enlarged later.
- portraitist — a person who makes portraits.
- portraiture — the art or an instance of making portraits.
- potty-train — to teach a small child to use a potty or toilet
- power train — a train of gears and shafting transmitting power from an engine, motor, etc., to a mechanism being driven.
- prairie dog — any of several burrowing rodents of the genus Cynomys, of North American prairies, having a barklike cry: some are endangered.
- prairie owl — burrowing owl.
- pretraining — the education, instruction, or discipline of a person or thing that is being trained: He's in training for the Olympics.
- rail anchor — a fastening device for attaching the base of a rail to a crosstie.
- rail strike — a strike by railway workers
- railroading — a permanent road laid with rails, commonly in one or more pairs of continuous lines forming a track or tracks, on which locomotives and cars are run for the transportation of passengers, freight, and mail.
- rain forest — a tropical forest, usually of tall, densely growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall.
- rain shadow — a region in the lee of mountains that receives less rainfall than the region windward of the mountains.
- rain shower — a brief rainfall, usually of variable intensity.
- rainbowlike — resembling a rainbow
- rainier iii — Rainier Louis Henri Maxence Bertrand de Grimaldi [lwee ahn-ree mak-sahns ber-trahn duh gree-mal dee] /lwi ɑ̃ˈri makˈsɑ̃s bɛrˈtrɑ̃ də gri mal ˈdi/ (Show IPA), Prince of Monaco, 1923–2005, reigning prince of Monaco 1949–2005.
- rattlebrain — a giddy, empty-headed, talkative person.
- reappraisal — the act of estimating or judging the nature or value of something or someone.
- reappraiser — a person who appraises someone or something again
- refrainment — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
- retrainable — able to be retrained
- right brain — the right cerebral hemisphere of the human brain, which includes areas associated with abstraction, artistic ability, and emotional response
- rion strait — Lepanto (def 3).
- role strain — the stress or strain experienced by an individual when incompatible behavior, expectations, or obligations are associated with a single social role.
- self-praise — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- semitrailer — Also called semi. a detachable trailer for hauling freight, with wheels at the rear end, the forward end being supported by the rear of a truck tractor when attached. Compare full trailer.
- snow grains — precipitation consisting of white, opaque ice particles usually less than one millimeter in diameter.
- split brain — having, involving, or pertaining to a severed corpus callosum.