Index of English words, starting with "ra"

(1) - Rabies (n.) Same as Hydrophobia (b); canine madness.

(1) - Rabious (a.) Fierce.

(1) - Raccoon (n.) A North American nocturnal carnivore (Procyon lotor) allied to the bears, but much smaller, and having a long, full tail, banded with black and gray. Its body is gray, varied with black and white. Called also coon, and mapach.

(1) - Race (n.) Hence: The act or process of running in competition; a contest of speed in any way, as in running, riding, driving, skating, rowing, sailing; in the plural, usually, a meeting for contests in the running of horses; as, he attended the races.
(2) - Race (n.) A root.
(3) - Race (n.) The descendants of a common ancestor; a family, tribe, people, or nation, believed or presumed to belong to the same stock; a lineage; a breed.
(4) - Race (n.) Company; herd; breed.
(5) - Race (n.) A variety of such fixed character that it may be propagated by seed.
(6) - Race (n.) Peculiar flavor, taste, or strength, as of wine; that quality, or assemblage of qualities, which indicates origin or kind, as in wine; hence, characteristic flavor; smack.
(7) - Race (n.) Hence, characteristic quality or disposition.
(8) - Race (v. t.) To raze.
(9) - Race (n.) Esp., swift progress; rapid course; a running.
(10) - Race (v. t.) To run a race with.
(11) - Race (n.) Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life.
(12) - Race (n.) A strong or rapid current of water, or the channel or passage for such a current; a powerful current or heavy sea, sometimes produced by the meeting of two tides; as, the Portland Race; the Race of Alderney.
(13) - Race (n.) The current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel in which it flows; a mill race.
(14) - Race (n.) A channel or guide along which a shuttle is driven back and forth, as in a loom, sewing machine, etc.
(15) - Race (v. i.) To run swiftly; to contend in a race; as, the animals raced over the ground; the ships raced from port to port.
(16) - Race (v. i.) To run too fast at times, as a marine engine or screw, when the screw is lifted out of water by the action of a heavy sea.
(17) - Race (v. t.) To cause to contend in a race; to drive at high speed; as, to race horses.
(18) - Race (n.) A progress; a course; a movement or progression.