Index of English words, starting with "ra"

(1) - Rapacity (n.) The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain.
(2) - Rapacity (n.) The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves.

(1) - Rape (n.) A name given to a variety or to varieties of a plant of the turnip kind, grown for seeds and herbage. The seeds are used for the production of rape oil, and to a limited extent for the food of cage birds.
(2) - Rape (n.) One of six divisions of the county of Sussex, England, intermediate between a hundred and a shire.
(3) - Rape (v. i.) To rob; to pillage.
(4) - Rape (v. t.) To commit rape upon; to ravish.
(5) - Rape (n.) Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.
(6) - Rape (n.) That which is snatched away.
(7) - Rape (n.) Sexual connection with a woman without her consent. See Age of consent, under Consent, n.
(8) - Rape (n.) The act of seizing and carrying away by force; violent seizure; robbery.
(9) - Rape (n.) A filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying and perfecting malt, vinegar, etc.
(10) - Rape (n.) The refuse stems and skins of grapes or raisins from which the must has been expressed in wine making.
(11) - Rape (n.) Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster.