Words in english starting with R

• raskolnikov — Noun – English ～ a fictional character in Dostoevsky's novel `Crime and Punishment'; he kills old women because he believes he is beyond the bounds of good or evil
• Rasmus Christian Rask — Noun – English ～ Danish philologist whose work on Old Norse pioneered in the field of comparative linguistics (1787-1832)
• Rasmussen — Noun – English ～ Danish ethnologist and Arctic explorer; led expeditions into the Arctic to find support for his theory that Eskimos and North American Indians originally migrated from Asia (1879-1933)
• rasp — Noun – English ～ a coarse file with sharp pointed projections
• rasp — Noun – English ～ uttering in an irritated tone
• rasp fern — Noun – English ～ any fern of the genus Doodia having pinnate fronds with sharply dentate pinnae
• rasp — Verb – English ～ utter in a grating voice
• rasp — Verb – English ～ scrape with a rasp
• raspberry bush — Noun – English ～ woody brambles bearing usually red but sometimes black or yellow fruits that separate from the receptacle when ripe and are rounder and smaller than blackberries
• raspberry — Noun – English ～ woody brambles bearing usually red but sometimes black or yellow fruits that separate from the receptacle when ripe and are rounder and smaller than blackberries
• raspberry — Noun – English ～ red or black edible aggregate berries usually smaller than the related blackberries
• raspberry — Noun – English ～ a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt
• rasping — Noun – English ～ uttering in an irritated tone
• rasping — Adjective – English ～ unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice"
• raspingly — Adverb – English ～ in a harsh and grating manner; "her voice fell gratingly on our ears"
• rasputin — Noun – English ～ Siberian peasant monk who was religious advisor in the court of Nicholas II; was assassinated by Russian noblemen who feared that his debauchery would weaken the monarchy (1872-1916)
• raspy — Adjective – English ～ unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice"
• rassling — Noun – English ～ the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down
• rasta — Noun – English ～ follower of Rastafarianism
• Rastafari — Noun – English ～ (Jamaica) a Black youth subculture and religious movement that arose in the ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1950s; males grow hair in long dreadlocks and wear woolen caps; use marijuana and listen to reggae music

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