11-letter words starting with r
- raffia palm — any of various palms of the genus Raphia, as R. farinifera of tropical Africa, having pinnate leaves that yield a strong, flexible fiber.
- rag-rolling — a decorating technique in which paint is applied with a roughly folded cloth in order to create a marbled effect
- ragged edge — the brink, as of a cliff.
- ragman roll — Usually, ragman rolls. a series of documents in which the Scottish nobles acknowledged their allegiance to Edward I of England, 1291–92 and 1296.
- 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.
- rajahmundry — a city in Andhra Pradesh state, SE India, on the Godavari River.
- rajya sabha — the upper house of parliament in India.
- raking bond — a brickwork bond in which concealed courses of diagonally laid bricks are used to bond exposed brickwork to the wall structure.
- ralik chain — a chain of islands in the W Pacific Ocean, forming the W part of the Marshall Islands.
- rallentando — slackening; becoming slower (used as a musical direction).
- rally round — show solidarity
- rallymaster — an organizer and director of an automobile rally.
- ralph izard — Ralph, 1742–1804, U.S. diplomat and politician.
- ralph nader — Ralph, born 1934, U.S. lawyer, author, political reformer, and consumer advocate.
- ramachandra — the hero of the Ramayana, and a character in the Mahabharata.
- ramakrishna — Sri [sree,, shree] /sri,, ʃri/ (Show IPA), 1836–86, Hindu religious reformer and mystic.
- rambouillet — one of a breed of hardy sheep, developed from the Merino, yielding good mutton and a fine grade of wool.
- rambus dram — (storage) (RDRAM) A high bandwidth DRAM, designed by Rambus, Inc. of Mountain View, CA. RDRAM is used mainly for video accelerators, and also in the Ultra 64 from Nintendo. It offers sustained transfer rates of around 1000 Mbps, compared to 200 Mbps for ordinary DRAM. Although it cannot be used as a direct replacement for existing memory, it is likely that it will replace DRAM and SDRAM as the main memory system in personal computers as the bus speeds required by these machines increase. SDRAM can operate up to around 100MHz, but RDRAM has been demonstrated by the manufacturers running at 600MHz. The memory is also only 8 or 9 bits wide, so the bandwidth would increase enormously if it were used in parallel to give 32 or 64-bit memory.
- ramgunshoch — surly; bad-tempered; rude
- ramos-horta — José, born 1949, East Timorese resistance leader, political activist (1975–99) during Indonesian occupation, and foreign minister from independence in 2000 to 2006; president since 2007: Nobel prize 1996.
- ranch house — the house of the owner of a ranch, usually of one story and with a low-pitched roof.
- random line — a trial survey line run from a station toward a predetermined point that cannot be seen from the station.
- random walk — Statistics. the path taken by a point or quantity that moves in steps, where the direction of each step is determined randomly.
- range light — one of a pattern of navigation lights, usually fixed ashore, used by vessels for manoeuvring in narrow channels at night
- range table — one of a number of identical small tables that can be used together to form a single table.
- rangefinder — any of various instruments for determining the distance from the observer to a particular object, as for sighting a gun or adjusting the focus of a camera.
- rangemaster — a person in charge of a firing range.
- rankshifted — that has been shifted from one linguistic rank to another
- rap jumping — the sport of descending high buildings, attached to ropes and a pulley
- rap session — a usually informal or unstructured group discussion, attended especially by people with shared interests, concerns, or problems.
- rapid chess — a game of chess played within a fixed amount of time, usually 30 minutes per player for all moves.
- rapscallion — a rascal; rogue; scamp.
- raptureless — without rapture
- rapturously — full of, feeling, or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight.
- rarefaction — the act or process of rarefying.
- raspberries — the fruit of any of several shrubs belonging to the genus Rubus, of the rose family, consisting of small and juicy red, black, or pale yellow drupelets forming a detachable cap about a convex receptacle.
- rastafarian — a follower of Rastafarianism.
- raster burn — 1. (Or terminal illness) Eyestrain brought on by too many hours of looking at low-resolution, poorly tuned, or glare-ridden monitors, especially graphics monitors. 2. The "burn-in" condition your CRT tends to get if you don't use a screen saver.
- raster font — bitmap font
- rasterising — (algorithm) A transformation that can be applied to an image to prepare it for printing. Rasterising reduces resolution by a factor of typically four to eight. It also reduces sensitivity to paper properties. Rasterising can be combined with dithering.
- rasterizing — rasterising
- rat islands — a group of islands in SW Alaska, in the W Aleutian Islands.
- rat terrier — a terrier of any of several breeds developed especially for catching rats, as the Manchester terrier.