8-letter words starting with ra
- rainwash — material eroded or swept away by rain.
- rainwear — waterproof or water-repellent clothing.
- raisonne — carefully thought out, logical
- rake off — a share or amount taken or received illicitly, as in connection with a public enterprise.
- rake-off — a share or amount taken or received illicitly, as in connection with a public enterprise.
- rakehell — a licentious or dissolute man; rake.
- rakshasa — a demon in Hindu mythology
- rallying — the sport of driving in automobile rallies.
- rallyist — a person who participates in automobile rallies.
- ram disk — (operating system, storage) A memory-resident program which mimics a hard disk drive. It uses part of computer's RAM to store data which can be accessed as files. Unlike a real disk drive, this drive forgets all stored data when the computer is turned off.
- ram-raid — A ram-raid is the crime of using a car to drive into and break a shop window in order to steal things from the shop.
- ramallah — a town in the West Bank, serving as headquarters of the Palestinian National Authority. Pop: 51 000 (2005 est)
- ramanuja — 1017–1134, Indian leader of the Shri-Vaishnavite sect.
- ramayana — an epic of India, one of the Puranas attributed to Valmiki and concerned with the life and adventures of Ramachandra and his wife Sita.
- rambling — aimlessly wandering.
- rambutan — the bright-red oval fruit of a Malayan, sapindaceous tree, Nephelium lappaceum, covered with soft spines, or hairs, and having a subacid taste.
- ramentum — a scraping, shaving, or particle.
- ramequin — a small dish in which food can be baked and served.
- ramiform — having the form of a branch; branchlike.
- ramillie — a wig with a long plait at the back, fashionable in the 18th century
- ramis ii — Rapid Access Management Information System. A database from On-Line Software International.
- rampancy — a rampant condition or position.
- ramparts — Fortification. a broad elevation or mound of earth raised as a fortification around a place and usually capped with a stone or earth parapet. such an elevation together with the parapet.
- ramphele — Mamphela. born 1947, Black South African political activist: partner of Steve Biko; a director of the World Bank (2000–04); founded the political party Agang (2013)
- rampsman — a mugger; violent robber
- ramses i — 1324?–1258 b.c, king of ancient Egypt.
- ramsgate — a seaport in NE Kent, in SE England: resort.
- ramulose — having many small branches.
- 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.
- rap full — (of a sail or sails) filled with wind; clean full.
- rapa nui — Easter Island.