5-letter words starting with ra
- ratel — a badgerlike carnivore, Mellivora capensis, of Africa and India.
- rater — a person who makes rates or ratings.
- rates — the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation: a high rate of interest on loans.
- ratha — (in India) a four-wheeled carriage drawn by horses or bullocks; chariot
- rathe — Archaic. growing, blooming, or ripening early in the year or season.
- ratio — the relation between two similar magnitudes with respect to the number of times the first contains the second: the ratio of 5 to 2, written 5:2 or 5/2.
- ratty — full of rats.
- raupo — a New Zealand bulrush, Typha orientalis, with sword-shaped leaves, traditionally used for construction and decoration
- ravel — to disentangle or unravel the threads or fibers of (a woven or knitted fabric, rope, etc.).
- raven — a lyric poem (1845) by Edgar Allan Poe.
- raver — to talk wildly, as in delirium.
- ravin — a violent preying or plundering; rapine
- rawer — uncooked, as articles of food: a raw carrot.
- rawin — a method of observation of upper-air winds conducted by means of a weather balloon tracked by radar or a radio direction finder.
- rawls — John, 1921–2002, U.S. political philosopher.
- rawly — uncooked, as articles of food: a raw carrot.
- raxed — to stretch oneself, as after sleeping.
- raxes — to stretch oneself, as after sleeping.
- rayah — a Christian subject of an Ottoman ruler.
- rayed — having or represented as having emanating rays; radiate: The saint was painted with a rayed, beatific face.
- rayon — a regenerated, semisynthetic textile filament made from cellulose, cotton linters, or wood chips by treating these with caustic soda and carbon disulfide and passing the resultant solution, viscose, through spinnerets.
- razee — a ship, especially a warship, reduced in height by the removal of the upper deck.
- razer — to tear down; demolish; level to the ground: to raze a row of old buildings.
- razoo — an imaginary coin
- razor — a sharp-edged instrument used especially for shaving the face or trimming the hair.