All English words - page 4722

Meanings of Raptor:

noun

A bird of prey, e.g. an eagle or hawk.

Usage examples:

They have also been known to steal prey from other raptors and to eat fresh carrion.

Meanings of Raptores:

noun

Originally: (in form raptores, with singular agreement) an order of birds comprising the birds of prey (now disused). now: (with plural agreement, usually in form raptores) members of the former order raptores; birds of prey, raptors.

Meanings of Raptorial:

adjective

(of a bird or other animal) predatory.

Usage examples:

Raptorial birds

Meanings of Raptorious:

adjective

Raptorial.

Meanings of Raptors:

noun

A bird of prey, e.g. an eagle or hawk.

Usage examples:

They have also been known to steal prey from other raptors and to eat fresh carrion.

Meanings of Rapture:

noun

A feeling of intense pleasure or joy.

Usage examples:

Leonora listened with rapture

verb

(according to some millenarian teaching) transport (a believer) from earth to heaven at the second coming of christ.

Usage examples:

People will be raptured out of automobiles as they are driving along

Meanings of Raptured:

verb

(according to some millenarian teaching) transport (a believer) from earth to heaven at the second coming of christ.

Usage examples:

People will be raptured out of automobiles as they are driving along

noun

A feeling of intense pleasure or joy.

Usage examples:

Leonora listened with rapture

Meanings of Raptures:

noun

A feeling of intense pleasure or joy.

Usage examples:

Leonora listened with rapture

verb

(according to some millenarian teaching) transport (a believer) from earth to heaven at the second coming of christ.

Usage examples:

People will be raptured out of automobiles as they are driving along

phrase

An expression of extreme pleasure and happiness or excitement

Usage examples:

In raptures she was in raptures about/over her first visit to paris., go into raptures she went int…

Meanings of Rapturing:

verb

(according to some millenarian teaching) transport (a believer) from earth to heaven at the second coming of christ.

Usage examples:

People will be raptured out of automobiles as they are driving along

noun

A feeling of intense pleasure or joy.

Usage examples:

Leonora listened with rapture

Meanings of Rapturist:

noun

A person who has or goes into raptures; an enthusiast.

Meanings of Rapturize:

verb

To praise rapturously; (with direct speech as object) to say in an ecstatic way.

Meanings of Rapturous:

adjective

Characterized by, feeling, or expressing great pleasure or enthusiasm.

Usage examples:

He was greeted with rapturous applause

Meanings of Rapturously:

adverb

In a way that shows extreme pleasure and happiness or excitement

Usage examples:

She was rapturously received at the royal festival hall in london., he spoke rapturously about her …

Meanings of Raptus:

noun

A seizure; a sudden or acute attack, especially of mental illness. also with distinguishing scientific latin word, as "raptus melancholicus", "raptus nervorum", etc.

Meanings of Rare:

adjective

(of an event, situation, or condition) not occurring very often.

Usage examples:

A rare genetic disorder

Meanings of Rare-bird:

noun

A breed of farm animal or bird that is kept mainly in order to stop the breed from disappearing, rather than to produce the maximum number of animals and make the maximum possible profit

Usage examples:

A wide collection of farm animals has been built up over the years including a number of rare breed…

Meanings of Rarebit:

noun

A dish of melted and seasoned cheese on toast, sometimes with other ingredients.

Usage examples:

Make sure you try the smoked haddock rarebit with creamed leeks and smoked bacon.

Meanings of Rarebits:

noun

A dish of melted and seasoned cheese on toast, sometimes with other ingredients.

Usage examples:

Make sure you try the smoked haddock rarebit with creamed leeks and smoked bacon.

Meanings of Rarefaction:

noun

Reduction in the density of something, especially air or a gas.

Usage examples:

Opposed processes such as rarefaction and condensation

Meanings of Rarefactional:

adjective

Of, relating to, or characterized by rarefaction.

Meanings of Rarefiable:

adjective

Capable of being rarefied.

Meanings of Rarefied:

adjective

(of air, especially that at high altitudes) of lower pressure than usual; thin.

Usage examples:

Every ounce carried counts triple when you're trudging uphill in rarefied air

verb

Make or become less dense or solid.

Usage examples:

Air rarefies and degrounds the physical body

Meanings of Rarefier:

noun

Something that rarefies, especially an apparatus for pumping air out of a vessel.

Meanings of Rarefiers:

noun

Something that rarefies, especially an apparatus for pumping air out of a vessel.

Meanings of Rarefies:

verb

Make or become less dense or solid.

Usage examples:

Air rarefies and degrounds the physical body