8-letter words containing rai
- handrail — a rail serving as a support or guard at the side of a stairway, platform, etc.
- headrail — a railing on a sailing vessel, extending forward from abaft the bow to the back of the figurehead.
- hebraism — an expression or construction distinctive of the Hebrew language.
- hebraist — a person versed in the Hebrew language.
- hebraize — to use expressions or constructions distinctive of the Hebrew language.
- hetairai — hetaera.
- ice rain — freezing rain.
- in train — If a process or event is in train or has been set in train, it is happening or starting to happen.
- in-grain — to implant or fix deeply and firmly, as in the nature or mind.
- indurain — Miguel [mee-gel] /miˈgɛl/ (Show IPA), born 1964, Spanish cyclist: first with five consecutive victories (1991–95) in the Tour de France.
- ingrains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ingrain.
- landrail — The corncrake, Crex crex.
- libraire — a bookseller
- lorraine — Also, Lorrain. Claude (Claude Gelée) 1600–82, French painter.
- madbrain — (archaic) A rash or hotheaded person.
- membrain — Misspelling of membrane.
- mesaraic — (anatomy) mesenteric.
- midbrain — the middle of the three primary divisions of the brain in the embryo of a vertebrate or the part of the adult brain derived from this tissue; mesencephalon.
- migraine — an extremely severe paroxysmal headache, usually confined to one side of the head and often associated with nausea; hemicrania.
- misraise — to raise or nurture (a child, pet, etc) in an unsuitable manner
- mistrain — to train or guide incorrectly
- mithraic — of Mithras or Mithraism
- monorail — a single rail functioning as a track for wheeled vehicles, as railroad or other cars, balanced upon or suspended from it.
- morainal — a ridge, mound, or irregular mass of unstratified glacial drift, chiefly boulders, gravel, sand, and clay.
- moraines — Plural form of moraine.
- morainic — Pertaining to a moraine.
- motorail — a rail service carrying cars and their drivers as well as ordinary passengers
- murrains — Plural form of murrain.
- outraise — To raise more of something than someone else; often used specifically in reference to fundraising.
- paraison — parison.
- pin rail — Theater. a rail on a fly gallery, wall, etc., holding two rows of pins or cleats for securing lines attached to scenery.
- portrait — a likeness of a person, especially of the face, as a painting, drawing, or photograph: a gallery of family portraits.
- prairial — the month of meadows: the ninth month of the French Revolutionary calendar, extending from May 21 to June 19
- praising — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- pretrain — Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
- quatrain — a stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes.
- rail gun — a weapon consisting of a pair of parallel conductive rails, using a magnetic field and electric current to launch projectiles at very high velocity.
- railbird — a horse-racing fan who watches races or workouts from the railing along the track.
- railcard — pre-paid pass for train travel
- railhead — the farthest point to which the rails of a railroad have been laid.
- railings — a fence, balustrade, or barrier that consists of rails supported by posts
- raillery — good-humored ridicule; banter.
- railroad — 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.
- raimondi — Marcantonio [mahr-kan-toh-nee-oh;; Italian mahr-kahn-taw-nyaw] /ˌmɑr kænˈtoʊ niˌoʊ;; Italian ˌmɑr kɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), c1480–c1534, Italian engraver.
- rain off — If a sports game is rained off, it has to stop, or it is not able to start, because of rain.
- rain out — water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 inch (0.5 mm) in diameter. Compare drizzle (def 6).
- rain-out — water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 inch (0.5 mm) in diameter. Compare drizzle (def 6).
- rainband — a dark band in the solar spectrum caused by water vapor in the atmosphere.
- rainbird — any of several birds, especially the black-billed cuckoo (Coccyzus erythropthalmus) and the yellow-billed cuckoo (C. americanus), that are said to call frequently before a rainstorm.
- rainbows — the Rainbow Guides, the youngest group of girls (aged 5-7 years) in The Guide Association