| 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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