| affray | (noun) a noisy fight | Synonyms: disturbance, fray, ruffle |
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| (noun) noisy quarrel | Synonyms: altercation, fracas |
| array | (noun) an arrangement of aerials spaced to give desired directional characteristics | - |
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| (noun) especially fine or decorative clothing | Synonyms: raiment, regalia |
| (noun) an impressive display | - |
| (noun) an orderly arrangement | - |
| ashtray | (noun) a receptacle for the ash from smokers' cigars or cigarettes | - |
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| betrayal | (noun) an act of deliberate betrayal | Synonyms: perfidy, treachery, treason |
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| (noun) the quality of aiding an enemy | - |
| betrayer | (noun) a person who says one thing and does another | Synonyms: double-crosser, double-dealer, traitor, two-timer |
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| (noun) one who reveals confidential information to the police or other authority | Synonyms: blabber, informer, rat, squealer |
| bray | (noun) the cry of an ass | - |
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| chambray | (noun) a lightweight fabric woven with white threads across a colored warp | - |
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| crayer | (noun) a two- or three-masted sailing vessel formerly used for transporting cargo in the Baltic Sea. | - |
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| crayfish | (noun) large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters | Synonyms: crawfish, langouste, rock lobster, sea crawfish, spiny lobster |
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| (noun) small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster | Synonyms: crawdad, crawdaddy, crawfish |
| (noun) tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | Synonyms: crawdad, crawfish, ecrevisse |
| (noun) warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California | Synonyms: langouste, rock lobster, spiny lobster |
| crayon | (noun) writing implement consisting of a colored stick of composition wax used for writing and drawing | Synonyms: wax crayon |
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| defrayal | (noun) the act of paying money | Synonyms: defrayment, payment |
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| defrayment | (noun) the act of paying money | Synonyms: defrayal, payment |
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| disarray | (noun) untidiness (especially of clothing and appearance) | Synonyms: disorderliness |
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| (noun) a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior | Synonyms: confusedness, confusion, mental confusion, muddiness |
| dray | (noun) a low heavy horse cart without sides; used for haulage | Synonyms: camion |
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| drayhorse | (noun) draft horse kept for pulling carts | Synonyms: cart horse, carthorse |
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| foray | (noun) a sudden short attack | Synonyms: maraud, raid |
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| (noun) an initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence) | - |
| fray | (noun) a noisy fight | Synonyms: affray, disturbance, ruffle |
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| gray | (noun) horse of a light gray or whitish color | Synonyms: grey |
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| (noun) clothing that is a grey color | Synonyms: grey |
| (noun) a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black | Synonyms: grayness, grey, greyness |
| (noun) any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey | Synonyms: grey |
| (noun) the SI unit of energy absorbed from ionizing radiation; equal to the absorption of one joule of radiation energy by one kilogram of matter; one gray equals 100 rad | Synonyms: Gy |
| grayback | (noun) a dowitcher with a grey back | Synonyms: greyback, Limnodromus griseus |
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| (noun) a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the Southern Hemisphere | Synonyms: Calidris canutus, greyback, knot |
| graybeard | (noun) a man who is very old | Synonyms: greybeard, Methuselah, old man |
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| grayhen | (noun) female black grouse | Synonyms: gray hen, grey hen, greyhen, heath hen |
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| graylag | (noun) common grey wild goose of Europe; ancestor of many domestic breeds | Synonyms: Anser anser, graylag goose, greylag, greylag goose |
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| grayness | (noun) a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black | Synonyms: gray, grey, greyness |
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| hooray | (noun) a victory cheer | Synonyms: hurrah |
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| icetray | (noun) a tray for making cubes of ice in a refrigerator | - |
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| moray | (noun) family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters; generally nonaggressive to humans but larger species are dangerous if provoked | Synonyms: moray eel |
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| portrayal | (noun) representation by drawing or painting etc | Synonyms: delineation, depiction |
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| (noun) acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture | Synonyms: characterization, enactment, personation |
| (noun) any likeness of a person, in any medium | Synonyms: portrait |
| (noun) a representation by picture or portraiture | Synonyms: depicting, depiction, portraying |
| (noun) a word picture of a person's appearance and character | Synonyms: portrait, portraiture |
| portrayer | (noun) a painter or drawer of portraits | Synonyms: limner, portrait painter, portraitist |
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| portraying | (noun) a representation by picture or portraiture | Synonyms: depicting, depiction, portrayal |
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| praya | (noun) colonial siphonophore of up to 130 ft long | - |
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| prayer | (noun) the act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving) | Synonyms: supplication |
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| (noun) earnest or urgent request | Synonyms: appeal, entreaty |
| (noun) a fixed text used in praying | - |
| (noun) reverent petition to a deity | Synonyms: orison, petition |
| (noun) someone who prays to God | Synonyms: supplicant |
| prayerbook | (noun) a book containing prayers | Synonyms: prayer book |
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| ray | (noun) cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins | - |
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| (noun) any of the stiff bony spines in the fin of a fish | - |
| (noun) the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization | Synonyms: re |
| (noun) a column of light (as from a beacon) | Synonyms: beam, beam of light, irradiation, light beam, ray of light, shaft, shaft of light |
| (noun) a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation | Synonyms: beam, electron beam |
| (noun) a branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence | - |
| (noun) (mathematics) a straight line extending from a point | - |
| rayon | (noun) a synthetic silklike fabric | - |
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| rayons | (noun) women's stockings made from a sheer material (nylon or rayon or silk) | Synonyms: nylon stocking, nylons, rayon stocking, silk stocking |
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| spray | (noun) a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist | Synonyms: atomiser, atomizer, nebuliser, nebulizer, sprayer |
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| (noun) flower arrangement consisting of a single branch or shoot bearing flowers and foliage | - |
| (noun) a jet of vapor | - |
| (noun) a quantity of small objects flying through the air | Synonyms: spraying |
| (noun) water in small drops in the atmosphere; blown from waves or thrown up by a waterfall | - |
| (noun) a pesticide in suspension or solution; intended for spraying | - |
| sprayer | (noun) a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist | Synonyms: atomiser, atomizer, nebuliser, nebulizer, spray |
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| (noun) a worker who applies spray to a surface | - |
| spraying | (noun) the application of a liquid in the form of small particles ejected from a sprayer | - |
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| (noun) the dispersion of fungicides or insecticides or fertilizer on growing crops (often from a low-flying aircraft) | Synonyms: crop-dusting |
| (noun) a quantity of small objects flying through the air | Synonyms: spray |
| stingray | (noun) large venomous ray with large barbed spines near the base of a thin whiplike tail capable of inflicting severe wounds | - |
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| stray | (noun) an animal that has strayed (especially a domestic animal) | - |
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| strayer | (noun) someone who strays or falls behind | Synonyms: straggler |
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| sunray | (noun) a ray of sunlight | Synonyms: sunbeam |
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| (noun) a ray of artificial ultraviolet light from a sunray lamp | Synonyms: sun-ray |
| (noun) herb having a basal cluster of grey-green leaves and leafless stalks each with a solitary broad yellow flower head; desert areas Idaho to Arizona | Synonyms: Enceliopsis nudicaulis |
| tray | (noun) an open receptacle for holding or displaying or serving articles or food | - |
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| trayful | (noun) as much as a tray will hold; enough to fill a tray. | - |
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