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13-letter words containing rai

  • house-trained — housebroken.
  • housetraining — Present participle of housetrain.
  • hudson strait — a strait connecting Hudson Bay and the Atlantic. 450 miles (725 km) long; 100 miles (160 km) wide.
  • johore strait — a narrow strait between Malaya and Singapore Island
  • light railway — a transport system using small trains or trams, often serving parts of a large metropolitan area
  • lunar rainbow — moonbow.
  • mental strain — a state of worry and tension caused by a situation
  • misappraisals — Plural form of misappraisal.
  • model railway — a model of a small-scale railway system, often with toy moving trains
  • monsoon rains — the heavy rains that accompany the seasonal wind of S Asia that blows from the southwest in summer
  • mount rainier — Mount, a volcanic peak in W Washington, in the Cascade Range. 14,408 feet (4392 meters).
  • no-knock raid — a search warrant that allows police officers to enter a property without knocking
  • off the rails — into or in a state of dysfunction or disorder
  • overappraisal — An appraisal that overvalues something.
  • parainfluenza — an influenzalike respiratory infection of animals and humans, caused by any of several paramyxoviruses.
  • pontchartrain — Lake, a shallow extension of the Gulf of Mexico in SE Louisiana, N of New Orleans. 41 miles (66 km) long; 25 miles (40 km) wide.
  • portrait lens — a lens of moderately long focal length that is used, especially in portrait photography, to produce soft-focus images.
  • portrait mode — an orientation that is vertical rather than horizontal
  • potty trained — Potty trained means the same as toilet trained.
  • prairie skirt — a full, dirndl-style skirt with a flounce on the bottom edge that is sometimes trimmed or lined to suggest a petticoat underneath.
  • prairie state — Illinois (used as a nickname).
  • prairie style — the style of the architects of the Prairie School.
  • quarter grain — the grain appearing in quartersawed wood.
  • raiding party — a group of people who together carry out a raid
  • rail-splitter — a person or thing that splits logs into rails, especially for fences.
  • railroad flat — an apartment whose series of narrow rooms forms a more or less straight line.
  • railroad line — railway route
  • railroad worm — the larva of a fruit fly, Rhagoletis pomonella, that burrows through apples, forming tunnels that sometimes appear on the skin as faint depressions or darkened trails: a serious pest of apples in colder regions of North America.
  • railway guide — a publication containing routes and timetables for train journeys
  • rain or shine — regardless of the weather or circumstances; in any event: The concert will be held, rain or shine. He's always a reliable friend, rain or shine.
  • rainbow snake — a burrowing snake, Farancia erytrogramma, of the southeastern U.S., having red and black stripes along the body, a red and yellow underside, and a sharp-tipped tail used in maneuvering prey.
  • rainbow trout — a trout, Salmo gairdnerii, native in the coastal waters and streams from Baja California to Alaska, used as a food and game fish.
  • raising agent — in baking, a substance added to dough to make it rise
  • raising plate — wall plate (def 1).
  • raison d'etat — a purely political reason for governmental action, based on the national interest and often violating principles of justice.
  • raison d'etre — reason or justification for being or existence: Art is the artist's raison d'être.
  • rattlebrained — foolish; flighty; scatterbrained.
  • right as rain — perfectly healthy
  • right-brained — having the right brain dominant, therefore being more adept at spatial and nonverbal concepts and being more creative and emotional than logical and analytical.
  • sawdust trail — the road to conversion or rehabilitation, as for a sinner or criminal.
  • self-portrait — a portrait of oneself done by oneself.
  • self-training — the education, instruction, or discipline of a person or thing that is being trained: He's in training for the Olympics.
  • slip trailing — the act of decorating an object with a poured stream of slip.
  • still trailer — any dog that follows the trail of its quarry silently.
  • stock raising — the breeding and raising of livestock.
  • straight away — immediately
  • straight face — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
  • straight time — the time or number of hours established as standard for a specific work period in a particular industry, usually computed on the basis of a workweek and fixed variously from 35 to 40 hours.
  • straight-edge — advocating abstinence from alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, and sex and sometimes advocating vegetarianism.
  • straight-line — (of a machine) having components that are arranged in a row or that move in a straight line when in operation
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