raven1 |
a large black crowlike bird with glossy feathers and a croaking call. [2 definitions] |
raven2 |
to eat greedily; devour. [4 definitions] |
ravening |
searching greedily for prey; rapacious. [2 definitions] |
ravenous |
extremely hungry; famished; starved. [3 definitions] |
ravin |
see "raven2." |
ravine |
a deep, steep-sided cut in the land, esp. one carved by the flow of water. |
raving |
wild and unrestrained; frenzied; delirious. [3 definitions] |
ravioli |
(used with a sing. or pl. verb) small pouches of pasta filled with ground meat, cheese, or the like. |
ravish |
to overwhelm with emotion or sensation; enrapture. [3 definitions] |
ravishing |
causing great delight, esp. by beauty. |
raw |
being in an uncooked state. [8 definitions] |
rawboned |
having a bony, thinly fleshed body; gaunt; lean. |
rawhide |
untanned leather, esp. cattle skin. [2 definitions] |
rawin |
the monitoring of upper-air wind currents using a balloon fitted with radar or a radio direction-finding device (acronym for "radio/wind"). |
raw material |
material or a product in its natural or original state, before processing or assembling. |
raw silk |
silk that has been taken directly from the cocoon. |
ray1 |
a thin beam of radiation, esp. light. [3 definitions] |
ray2 |
any of various fishes having cartilaginous skeletons, flattened bodies, large pectoral fins, and long narrow tails. |
rayed |
having, or being in the form of, rays or raylike extensions. |
ray flower |
any of the flowers around the border of the head of a composite plant such as the daisy. |
Rayleigh wave |
a wave on the surface of a solid, such as that caused on the surface of the earth by an earthquake. |