| raiseable | (adjective) capable of being raised | Synonyms: raisable |
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| raised | (adjective) located or moved above the surround or above the normal position | - |
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| (adjective) increased in amount or degree | Synonyms: elevated |
| (adjective) embellished with a raised pattern created by pressure or embroidery | Synonyms: brocaded, embossed |
| raiser | (noun) someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil | Synonyms: agriculturalist, agriculturist, cultivator, grower |
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| (noun) a bridge partner who increases the partner's bid | - |
| raisin | (noun) dried grape | - |
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| raising | (adjective) increasing in quantity or value | - |
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| (noun) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community | Synonyms: breeding, bringing up, fosterage, fostering, nurture, rearing, upbringing |
| (noun) the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child | Synonyms: nurture, rearing |
| (noun) the event of something being raised upward | Synonyms: elevation, lift |
| raita | (noun) an Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices | - |
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| raj | (noun) British dominion over India (1757-1947) | - |
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| raja | (noun) a prince or king in India | Synonyms: rajah |
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| rajah | (noun) a prince or king in India | Synonyms: raja |
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| rajanya | (noun) the second highest of the four varnas: the noble or warrior category | - |
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| rake | (noun) a long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head; used to move leaves or loosen soil | - |
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| (noun) degree of deviation from a horizontal plane | Synonyms: pitch, slant |
| (noun) a dissolute man in fashionable society | Synonyms: blood, profligate, rakehell, rip, roue |
| (verb) gather with a rake | - |
| (verb) level or smooth with a rake | - |
| (verb) scrape gently | Synonyms: crease, graze |
| (verb) move through with or as if with a rake | - |
| (verb) examine hastily | Synonyms: glance over, run down, scan, skim |
| (verb) sweep the length of | - |
| rakehell | (noun) a dissolute man in fashionable society | Synonyms: blood, profligate, rake, rip, roue |
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| rakish | (adjective) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners | Synonyms: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, snappy, spiffy, spruce |
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| (adjective) marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness | Synonyms: devil-may-care, raffish |
| rakishly | (adverb) in a rakish manner | Synonyms: carelessly, raffishly |
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| rakishness | (noun) stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance | Synonyms: dapperness, jauntiness, nattiness |
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| (noun) the quality of a rake | - |
| rale | (noun) a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders) | Synonyms: rattle, rattling |
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| rallentando | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in tempo | Synonyms: rit., ritardando, ritenuto |
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| (adverb) slowing down | - |
| rally | (noun) (sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes | Synonyms: exchange |
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| (noun) the feat of mustering strength for a renewed effort | Synonyms: rallying |
| (noun) an automobile race run over public roads | - |
| (noun) a large gathering of people intended to arouse enthusiasm | Synonyms: mass meeting |
| (noun) a marked recovery of strength or spirits during an illness | - |
| (verb) return to a former condition | Synonyms: rebound |
| (verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping | Synonyms: bait, cod, rag, razz, ride, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease, twit |
| (verb) call to arms; of military personnel | Synonyms: call up, mobilise, mobilize |
| (verb) gather | Synonyms: beat up, drum up |
| (verb) gather or bring together | Synonyms: come up, muster, muster up, summon |
| rallying | (adjective) rousing or recalling to unity and renewed effort | - |
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| (noun) the act of mobilizing for a common purpose | - |
| (noun) the feat of mustering strength for a renewed effort | Synonyms: rally |
| ram | (noun) uncastrated adult male sheep | Synonyms: tup |
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| (noun) a tool for driving or forcing something by impact | - |
| (verb) force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically | Synonyms: drive, force |
| (verb) undergo damage or destruction on impact | Synonyms: crash |
| (verb) strike or drive against with a heavy impact | Synonyms: pound, ram down |
| (verb) crowd or pack to capacity | Synonyms: chock up, cram, jam, jampack, wad |
| ramate | (adjective) having branches | Synonyms: branched, branching, ramose, ramous |
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| ramble | (noun) an aimless amble on a winding course | Synonyms: meander |
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| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
| (verb) continue talking or writing in a desultory manner | Synonyms: jog, ramble on |
| rambler | (noun) a person who takes long walks in the country | - |
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| (noun) a person whose speech or writing is not well organized | - |
| rambling | (adjective) of a path e.g. | Synonyms: meandering, wandering, winding |
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| (adjective) (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects | Synonyms: digressive, discursive, excursive |
| (adjective) spreading out in different directions or distributed irregularly | Synonyms: sprawling, straggling, straggly |
| ramblingly | (adverb) in a rambling manner | Synonyms: discursively |
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| rambotan | (noun) pleasantly acid bright red oval Malayan fruit covered with soft spines | Synonyms: rambutan |
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| (noun) Malayan tree bearing spiny red fruit | Synonyms: Nephelium lappaceum, rambutan, rambutan tree |
| rambunctious | (adjective) noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline | Synonyms: boisterous, robustious, rumbustious, unruly |
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| rambutan | (noun) pleasantly acid bright red oval Malayan fruit covered with soft spines | Synonyms: rambotan |
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| (noun) Malayan tree bearing spiny red fruit | Synonyms: Nephelium lappaceum, rambotan, rambutan tree |
| ramee | (noun) tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves; cultivated for the fiber from its woody stems that resembles flax | Synonyms: Boehmeria nivea, China grass, Chinese silk plant, ramie |
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| ramekin | (noun) a small fireproof dish used for baking and serving individual portions | Synonyms: ramequin |
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| (noun) a cheese dish made with egg and bread crumbs that is baked and served in individual fireproof dishes | Synonyms: ramequin |
| ramequin | (noun) a small fireproof dish used for baking and serving individual portions | Synonyms: ramekin |
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| (noun) a cheese dish made with egg and bread crumbs that is baked and served in individual fireproof dishes | Synonyms: ramekin |
| ramie | (noun) tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves; cultivated for the fiber from its woody stems that resembles flax | Synonyms: Boehmeria nivea, China grass, Chinese silk plant, ramee |
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| ramification | (noun) the act of branching out or dividing into branches | Synonyms: branching, fork, forking |
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| (noun) an arrangement of branching parts | - |
| (noun) a development that complicates a situation | Synonyms: complication |
| (noun) a part of a forked or branching shape | Synonyms: branch, leg |
| ramify | (verb) divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork | Synonyms: branch, fork, furcate, separate |
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| (verb) grow and send out branches or branch-like structures | Synonyms: branch |
| (verb) have or develop complicating consequences | Synonyms: complexify |
| ramipril | (noun) an ACE inhibitor (trade name Altace) used to treat high blood pressure or in some patients who have had a heart attack | Synonyms: Altace |
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| ramjet | (noun) a simple type of jet engine; must be launched at high speed | Synonyms: atherodyde, athodyd, flying drainpipe, ramjet engine |
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| rammer | (noun) a tool for driving something with force | - |
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| ramona | (noun) shrubby plant with aromatic greyish-green leaves used as a cooking herb | Synonyms: common sage, Salvia officinalis |
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| ramontchi | (noun) small shrubby tree of Madagascar cultivated in tropical regions as a hedge plant and for its deep red acid fruits resembling small plums | Synonyms: batoko palm, Flacourtia indica, governor's plum, governor plum, Madagascar plum |
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| ramose | (adjective) having branches | Synonyms: branched, branching, ramate, ramous |
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| ramous | (adjective) having branches | Synonyms: branched, branching, ramate, ramose |
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| ramp | (noun) an inclined surface connecting two levels | Synonyms: incline |
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| (noun) a movable staircase that passengers use to board or leave an aircraft | - |
| (noun) North American perennial having a slender bulb and whitish flowers | Synonyms: Allium tricoccum, wild leek |
| (verb) stand with arms or forelegs raised, as if menacing | - |
| (verb) creep up -- used especially of plants | - |
| (verb) be rampant | - |
| (verb) furnish with a ramp | - |
| (verb) behave violently, as if in state of a great anger | Synonyms: rage, storm |
| rampage | (noun) violently angry and destructive behavior | Synonyms: violent disorder |
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| (verb) act violently, recklessly, or destructively | - |
| rampageous | (adjective) displaying raging violence; often destructive | - |
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| rampant | (adjective) (of a plant) having a lush and unchecked growth | - |
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| (adjective) rearing on left hind leg with forelegs elevated and head usually in profile | Synonyms: rearing |
| (adjective) unrestrained and violent | - |
| rampantly | (adverb) in an uncontrolled and rampant manner | Synonyms: wild |
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| rampart | (noun) an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes | Synonyms: bulwark, wall |
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| rampion | (noun) bellflower of Europe and Asia and North Africa having bluish flowers and an edible tuberous root used with the leaves in salad | Synonyms: Campanula rapunculus, rampion bellflower |
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| ramrod | (noun) a rod used to ram the charge into a muzzle-loading firearm | - |
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| (noun) a rod used to clean the barrel of a firearm | - |
| (noun) a harshly demanding overseer | - |
| ramshackle | (adjective) in deplorable condition | Synonyms: bedraggled, broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, tatterdemalion, tumble-down |
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| ramus | (noun) the posterior part of the mandible that is more or less vertical | - |
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| ranch | (noun) farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle) | Synonyms: cattle farm, cattle ranch, spread |
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| (verb) manage or run a ranch | - |
| rancher | (noun) a person who owns or operates a ranch | - |
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| ranching | (noun) farming for the raising of livestock (particularly cattle) | - |
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| rancid | (adjective) smelling of fermentation or staleness | Synonyms: sour |
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| (adjective) (used of decomposing oils or fats) having a rank smell or taste usually due to a chemical change or decomposition | - |
| rancidity | (noun) the state of being rancid; having a rancid scent or flavor (as of old cooking oil) | - |
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| rancidness | (noun) the property of being rancid | - |
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| rancor | (noun) a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will | Synonyms: bitterness, gall, rancour, resentment |
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| rancorous | (adjective) showing deep-seated resentment | - |
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| rancour | (noun) a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will | Synonyms: bitterness, gall, rancor, resentment |
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| rand | (noun) the basic unit of money in South Africa; equal to 100 cents | - |
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| random | (adjective) lacking any definite plan or order or purpose; governed by or depending on chance | - |
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| randomisation | (noun) a deliberately haphazard arrangement of observations so as to simulate chance | Synonyms: randomization |
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| randomise | (verb) arrange in random order | Synonyms: randomize |
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| randomised | (adjective) set up or distributed in a deliberately random way | Synonyms: randomized |
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| randomization | (noun) a deliberately haphazard arrangement of observations so as to simulate chance | Synonyms: randomisation |
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| randomize | (verb) arrange in random order | Synonyms: randomise |
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| randomized | (adjective) set up or distributed in a deliberately random way | Synonyms: randomised |
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| randomly | (adverb) in a random manner | Synonyms: arbitrarily, at random, every which way, haphazardly, indiscriminately, willy-nilly |
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| randomness | (noun) the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan | Synonyms: haphazardness, noise, stochasticity |
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| (noun) (thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity representing the amount of energy in a system that is no longer available for doing mechanical work | Synonyms: entropy, S |
| randy | (adjective) feeling great sexual desire | Synonyms: aroused, horny, ruttish, steamy, turned on |
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| ranee | (noun) (the feminine of raja) a Hindu princess or the wife of a raja | Synonyms: rani |
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| range | (noun) a place for shooting (firing or driving) projectiles of various kinds | - |
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| (noun) a kitchen appliance used for cooking food | Synonyms: cooking stove, kitchen range, kitchen stove, stove |
| (noun) an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: | Synonyms: ambit, compass, orbit, reach, scope |
| (noun) the limit of capability | Synonyms: compass, grasp, reach |
| (noun) a variety of different things or activities | - |
| (noun) (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined | Synonyms: image, range of a function |
| (noun) the limits within which something can be effective | Synonyms: reach |
| (noun) a large tract of grassy open land on which livestock can graze | - |
| (noun) a series of hills or mountains | Synonyms: chain, chain of mountains, mountain chain, mountain range, range of mountains |
| (verb) assign a rank or rating to | Synonyms: grade, order, place, rank, rate |
| (verb) let eat | - |
| (verb) lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line | Synonyms: array, lay out, set out |
| (verb) feed as in a meadow or pasture | Synonyms: browse, crop, graze, pasture |
| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
| (verb) range or extend over; occupy a certain area | Synonyms: straddle |
| (verb) change or be different within limits | Synonyms: run |
| (verb) have a range; be capable of projecting over a certain distance, as of a gun | - |
| rangefinder | (noun) a measuring instrument (acoustic or optical or electronic) for finding the distance of an object | Synonyms: range finder |
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| rangeland | (noun) land suitable for grazing livestock | - |
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| ranger | (noun) an official who is responsible for managing and protecting an area of forest | Synonyms: fire warden, forest fire fighter |
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| (noun) a member of a military unit trained as shock troops for hit-and-run raids | Synonyms: commando |
| ranginess | (noun) The state of being slender and long of limb, lanky. | - |
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| ranging | (adjective) wandering freely | - |
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| rangpur | (noun) hybrid between mandarin orange and lemon having very acid fruit with orange peel | Synonyms: Citrus limonia, lemanderin, rangpur lime |
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| rangy | (adjective) allowing ample room for ranging | - |
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| (adjective) adapted to wandering or roaming | - |
| (adjective) tall and thin and having long slender limbs | Synonyms: gangling, gangly, lanky |
| rani | (noun) (the feminine of raja) a Hindu princess or the wife of a raja | Synonyms: ranee |
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| ranid | (noun) insectivorous usually semiaquatic web-footed amphibian with smooth moist skin and long hind legs | Synonyms: true frog |
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| ranitidine | (noun) a histamine blocker and antacid (trade name Zantac) used to treat peptic ulcers and gastritis and esophageal reflux | Synonyms: Zantac |
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| rank | (adjective) growing profusely | - |
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| (adjective) complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: absolute, downright, out-and-out, right-down, sheer |
| (adjective) conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible | Synonyms: crying, egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross |
| (adjective) very fertile; producing profuse growth | - |
| (adjective) very offensive in smell or taste | - |
| (noun) a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another | - |
| (noun) the ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army) | Synonyms: rank and file |
| (noun) the body of members of an organization or group | Synonyms: membership |
| (noun) relative status | - |
| (noun) position in a social hierarchy | Synonyms: social rank, social station, social status |
| (verb) assign a rank or rating to | Synonyms: grade, order, place, range, rate |
| (verb) take or have a position relative to others | - |
| (verb) take precedence or surpass others in rank | Synonyms: outrank |
| ranked | (adjective) arranged in a sequence of grades or ranks | Synonyms: graded, stratified |
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| ranker | (noun) an enlisted soldier who serves in the ranks of the armed forces | - |
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| (noun) a commissioned officer who has been promoted from enlisted status | - |
| ranking | (adjective) having a higher rank | Synonyms: higher-ranking, superior |
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| (noun) position on a scale in relation to others in status or rank or achievement | - |
| rankle | (verb) gnaw into; make resentful or angry | Synonyms: eat into, fret, grate |
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| rankness | (noun) the attribute of having a strong offensive smell | Synonyms: fetidness, foulness, malodorousness, stinkiness |
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| (noun) the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth | Synonyms: fertility, prolificacy, richness |
| ransack | (verb) search thoroughly | Synonyms: comb |
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| (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, plunder, reave, rifle, strip |
| ransacked | (adjective) wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value | Synonyms: looted, pillaged, plundered |
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| ransacking | (noun) a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion) | Synonyms: rummage |
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| ransom | (noun) the act of freeing from captivity or punishment | - |
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| (noun) payment for the release of someone | - |
| (noun) money demanded for the return of a captured person | Synonyms: ransom money |
| (verb) exchange or buy back for money; under threat | Synonyms: redeem |
| ransomed | (adjective) reclaimed by payment of a ransom | - |
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| (adjective) saved from the bondage of sin | Synonyms: redeemed |
| ransomware | (noun) malicious software that makes a computer unusable unless a payment is made to the attacker | - |
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| rant | (noun) pompous or pretentious talk or writing | Synonyms: blah, bombast, claptrap, fustian |
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| (noun) a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion | Synonyms: harangue, ranting |
| (verb) talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner | Synonyms: jabber, mouth off, rabbit on, rave, spout |
| ranter | (noun) someone who rants and raves; speaks in a violent or loud manner | Synonyms: raver |
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| ranting | (noun) a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion | Synonyms: harangue, rant |
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| ranula | (noun) a cyst on the underside of the tongue | - |
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| rap | (noun) the act of hitting vigorously | Synonyms: belt, knock, whack, whang |
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| (noun) a reproach for some lapse or misdeed | Synonyms: blame |
| (noun) voluble conversation | - |
| (noun) genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged | Synonyms: hip-hop, rap music |
| (noun) the sound made by a gentle blow | Synonyms: pat, tap |
| (noun) a gentle blow | Synonyms: strike, tap |
| (verb) talk volubly | - |
| (verb) strike sharply | Synonyms: knap |
| (verb) perform rap music | - |
| (verb) make light, repeated taps on a surface | Synonyms: knock, pink, tap |