8-letter words containing ran
- proturan — a proturan insect; telsontail.
- pyranoid — relating to the structure of a pyranose
- pyranose — any monosaccharide having a pyran ring structure.
- quadrans — a bronze coin of ancient Rome, the fourth part of an as.
- quadrant — a quarter of a circle; an arc of 90°.
- quiktran — Fortran-like, interactive with debugging facilities. Sammet 1969, p.226.
- ranarian — resembling, relating to, or characteristic of frogs
- ranarium — a place for keeping or rearing frogs
- rancagua — a city in central Chile.
- ranchero — a rancher.
- ranching — an establishment maintained for raising livestock under range conditions.
- ranchman — a rancher.
- rancidly — in a rancid manner
- randlord — a mining magnate during the 19th-century gold boom in Johannesburg
- randolph — A(sa) Philip, 1889–1979, U.S. labor leader: president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1925–68.
- randomer — an unspecified person of no importance
- randomly — proceeding, made, or occurring without definite aim, reason, or pattern: the random selection of numbers.
- randwick — a city in E New South Wales, SE Australia, on Botany Bay and the Pacific Ocean: a suburb of Sydney.
- rangiora — an evergreen shrub or small tree, Brachyglottis repanda, of New Zealand, having large ovate leaves and small greenish-white flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)
- raniform — resembling a frog, froglike
- rankings — the official list of the best players in a particular sport
- rankless — a number of persons forming a separate class in a social hierarchy or in any graded body.
- rankling — (of unpleasant feelings, experiences, etc.) to continue to cause keen irritation or bitter resentment within the mind; fester; be painful.
- rankness — growing with excessive luxuriance; vigorous and tall of growth: tall rank weeds.
- ransomed — the redemption of a prisoner, slave, or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
- ransomer — the redemption of a prisoner, slave, or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
- rebranch — (of a branch, tree, evolutionary tree, etc) to branch again
- retirant — retiree.
- roborant — strengthening.
- safranin — any of a class of chiefly red organic dyes, phenazine derivatives, used for dyeing wool, silk, etc.
- samarang — a seaport on N Java, in S Indonesia.
- sarandon — Susan Abigail. born 1946, US film actress: her films include Thelma and Louise (1991), Lorenzo's Oil (1992), The Client (1994), Dead Man Walking (1996), and Moonlight Mile (2002)
- saturant — something that causes saturation.
- scrannel — thin or slight.
- scranton — William Warren, 1917–2011, U.S. politician.
- semarang — a seaport on N Java, in S Indonesia.
- serranid — any of numerous percoid fishes of the family Serranidae, living chiefly in warm seas, including the sea basses and groupers.
- sobranje — the national assembly of Bulgaria, consisting of a single chamber of elected deputies.
- sonorant — a voiced sound that is less sonorous than a vowel but more sonorous than a stop or fricative and that may occur as either a sonant or a consonant, as (l, r, m, n, y, w).
- sprangle — to struggle or sprawl with limbs spread out wide
- strand88 — A commercial implementation of Strand from Strand Software Technologies Ltd., UK and Strand Software, Beaverton, OR, USA. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- stranded — composed of a specified number or kind of strands (usually used in combination): a five-stranded rope.
- strander — a person who strands
- stranger — French L'Étranger. a novel (1942) by Albert Camus.
- strangle — to kill by squeezing the throat in order to compress the windpipe and prevent the intake of air, as with the hands or a tightly drawn cord.
- subrange — the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible: the range of steel prices; a wide range of styles.
- sumatran — a large island in the W part of Indonesia. 164,147 sq. mi. (425,141 sq. km).
- tarantas — a large, four-wheeled Russian carriage mounted without springs on two parallel longitudinal wooden bars.
- tauranga — a city on the N coast of North Island, in N New Zealand.
- tolerant — inclined or disposed to tolerate; showing tolerance; forbearing: tolerant of errors.