RANIER

Name Report For First Name RANIER:

First name RANIER's origin is French. RANIER means "strong counselor". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with RANIER below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of ranier.(Brown names are of the same origin (French) with RANIER and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with RANIER - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming RANIER

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES RAN�ER AS A WHOLE:

NAMES RHYMING WITH RAN�ER (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 5 Letters (anier) - Names That Ends with anier:

Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (nier) - Names That Ends with nier:

rainier

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ier) - Names That Ends with ier:

gauthier xabier ogier codier sofier alexavier chevalier colier collier didier frasier frazier gautier javier portier squier tier xavier zavier bruhier napier olivier

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (er) - Names That Ends with er:

clover hesper iskinder fajer mountakaber nader saber shaker taher abdul-nasser kadeer kyner vortimer yder ager ander iker usk-water fleischaker kusner molner bleecker devisser schuyler vanderveer an-her djoser narmer neb-er-tcher acker archer brewster bridger camber denver gardner jasper miller parker taburer tanner tucker turner wheeler witter symer dexter jesper oliver fearcher keller lawler rainer rutger auster christopher homer kester lysander meleager philander teucer helmer aleksander abeer amber cher claefer easter ember ester esther eszter ginger gwenyver heather hester

NAMES RHYMING WITH RAN�ER (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 5 Letters (ranie) - Names That Begins with ranie:

raniesha

Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (rani) - Names That Begins with rani:

rani ranica ranice ranit ranita raniyah

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (ran) - Names That Begins with ran:

ran rana ranait ranald ranalt rand randal randale randall randel randell randi randkin randolph randon randson randy rane ranell ranen ranfield rang ranger rangey rangford rangley rangy rankin ranon rans ransey ransford ransley ransom ransy

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ra) - Names That Begins with ra:

ra'idah raad raanan raananah rabab rabah rabbani rabhartach rabi rabiah rabican rachael rachel rachele rachelle rachid rad radbert radbou radbourne radburn radburt radbyrne radcliff radcliffe radclyf radeliffe radella radeyah radford radhiya radhwa radi radite radley radmund radnor radolf radolph radu radwa rae raed raedan raedanoran raedbora raedburne raedc raedclyf raedeman raedford raedleah raedmund raedpath raedself raedwald raedwolf raegan

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH RAN�ER:

First Names which starts with 'ra' and ends with 'er':

rainger rayder rayner

First Names which starts with 'r' and ends with 'r':

ragnar rainor raybour raynor redfor regenfr reiner rendor richer ricker rider rigmor ritter rodger rodor roger roper rossiter rover rudiger rybar rydder ryder ryker

English Words Rhyming RANIER

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES RAN�ER AS A WHOLE:

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH RAN�ER (According to last letters):

Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (anier) - English Words That Ends with anier:

accompanier

noun (n.) He who, or that which, accompanies.

douanier

noun (n.) An officer of the French customs.

lanier	noun (n.) A thong of leather; a whip lash.
	noun (n.) A strap used to fasten together parts of armor, to hold the shield by, and the like.

panier

noun (n.) See Pannier, 3.

tanier

noun (n.) An aroid plant (Caladium sagittaefolium), the leaves of which are boiled and eaten in the West Indies.

Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (nier) - English Words That Ends with nier:

cannonier

noun (n.) A man who manages, or fires, cannon.

chiffonier

noun (n.) Alt. of niere

denier	noun (n.) One who denies; as, a denier of a fact, or of the faith, or of Christ.
	noun (n.) A small copper coin of insignificant value.

dernier

adjective (a.) Last; final.

fourdrinier

noun (n.) A machine used in making paper; -- so named from an early inventor of improvements in this class of machinery.

gonfalonier	noun (n.) He who bears the gonfalon; a standard bearer
	noun (n.) An officer at Rome who bears the standard of the Church.
	noun (n.) The chief magistrate of any one of several republics in mediaeveal Italy.
	noun (n.) A Turkish general, and standard keeper.

javelinier

noun (n.) A soldier armed with a javelin.

pannier	noun (n.) A bread basket; also, a wicker basket (used commonly in pairs) for carrying fruit or other things on a horse or an ass
	noun (n.) A shield of basket work formerly used by archers as a shelter from the enemy's missiles.
	noun (n.) A table waiter at the Inns of Court, London.
	noun (n.) A framework of steel or whalebone, worn by women to expand their dresses; a kind of bustle.

tannier

noun (n.) See Tanier.

vernier

noun (n.) A short scale made to slide along the divisions of a graduated instrument, as the limb of a sextant, or the scale of a barometer, for indicating parts of divisions. It is so graduated that a certain convenient number of its divisions are just equal to a certain number, either one less or one more, of the divisions of the instrument, so that parts of a division are determined by observing what line on the vernier coincides with a line on the instrument.

Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ier) - English Words That Ends with ier:

acetifier

noun (n.) An apparatus for hastening acetification.

acidifier

noun (n.) A simple or compound principle, whose presence is necessary to produce acidity, as oxygen, chlorine, bromine, iodine, etc.

amplifier

noun (n.) One who or that which amplifies.

applier

noun (n.) He who, or that which, applies.

arquebusier

noun (n.) A soldier armed with an arquebus.

atelier

noun (n.) A workshop; a studio.

bandolier	noun (n.) A broad leather belt formerly worn by soldiers over the right shoulder and across the breast under the left arm. Originally it was used for supporting the musket and twelve cases for charges, but later only as a cartridge belt.
	noun (n.) One of the leather or wooden cases in which the charges of powder were carried.

barrier	noun (n.) A carpentry obstruction, stockade, or other obstacle made in a passage in order to stop an enemy.
	noun (n.) A fortress or fortified town, on the frontier of a country, commanding an avenue of approach.
	noun (n.) A fence or railing to mark the limits of a place, or to keep back a crowd.
	noun (n.) An any obstruction; anything which hinders approach or attack.
	noun (n.) Any limit or boundary; a line of separation.

basifier

noun (n.) That which converts into a salifiable base.

beautifier

noun (n.) One who, or that which, beautifies or makes beautiful.

benitier

noun (n.) A holy-water stoup.

bier	noun (n.) A handbarrow or portable frame on which a corpse is placed or borne to the grave.
	noun (n.) A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woolen cloth.

bombardier	noun (n.) One who used or managed a bombard; an artilleryman; a gunner.
	noun (n.) A noncommissioned officer in the British artillery.

brasier	noun (n.) Alt. of Brazier
	noun (n.) Alt. of Brazier

brazier	noun (n.) An artificer who works in brass.
	noun (n.) A pan for holding burning coals.
	noun (n.) Same as Brasier.

brevier

noun (n.) A size of type between bourgeois and minion.

brier

noun (n.) Alt. of Briar

burier

noun (n.) One who, or that which, buries.

boulevardier

noun (n.) A frequenter of a city boulevard, esp. in Paris.

cahier	noun (n.) A number of sheets of paper put loosely together; esp. one of the successive portions of a work printed in numbers.
	noun (n.) A memorial of a body; a report of legislative proceedings, etc.

cancelier	noun (n.) Alt. of Canceleer
	verb (v. i.) To turn in flight; -- said of a hawk.

carrier	noun (n.) One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger.
	noun (n.) One who is employed, or makes it his business, to carry goods for others for hire; a porter; a teamster.
	noun (n.) That which drives or carries; as: (a) A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the face plate; a lathe dog. (b) A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine. (c) A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel.

cashier	noun (n.) One who has charge of money; a cash keeper; the officer who has charge of the payments and receipts (moneys, checks, notes), of a bank or a mercantile company.
	verb (v. t.) To dismiss or discard; to discharge; to dismiss with ignominy from military service or from an office or place of trust.
	verb (v. t.) To put away or reject; to disregard.

cavalier	noun (n.) A military man serving on horseback; a knight.
	noun (n.) A gay, sprightly, military man; hence, a gallant.
	noun (n.) One of the court party in the time of king Charles I. as contrasted with a Roundhead or an adherent of Parliament.
	noun (n.) A work of more than ordinary height, rising from the level ground of a bastion, etc., and overlooking surrounding parts.
	adjective (a.) Gay; easy; offhand; frank.
	adjective (a.) High-spirited.
	adjective (a.) Supercilious; haughty; disdainful; curt; brusque.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the party of King Charles I.

certifier

noun (n.) One who certifies or assures.

chandelier	noun (n.) A candlestick, lamp, stand, gas fixture, or the like, having several branches; esp., one hanging from the ceiling.
	noun (n.) A movable parapet, serving to support fascines to cover pioneers.

chevalier	noun (n.) A horseman; a knight; a gallant young man.
	noun (n.) A member of certain orders of knighthood.

clarifier	noun (n.) That which clarifies.
	noun (n.) A vessel in which the process of clarification is conducted; as, the clarifier in sugar works.

classifier

noun (n.) One who classifies.

clavier

noun (n.) The keyboard of an organ, pianoforte, or harmonium.

clothier	noun (n.) One who makes cloths; one who dresses or fulls cloth.
	noun (n.) One who sells cloth or clothes, or who makes and sells clothes.

codifier

noun (n.) One who codifies.

collier	noun (n.) One engaged in the business of digging mineral coal or making charcoal, or in transporting or dealing in coal.
	noun (n.) A vessel employed in the coal trade.

colombier

noun (n.) A large size of paper for drawings. See under Paper.

columbier

noun (n.) See Colombier.

complier

noun (n.) One who complies, yields, or obeys; one of an easy, yielding temper.

confrier

noun (n.) A confr/re.

copier	noun (n.) One who copies; one who writes or transcribes from an original; a transcriber.
	noun (n.) An imitator; one who imitates an example; hence, a plagiarist.

cordelier	noun (n.) A Franciscan; -- so called in France from the girdle of knotted cord worn by all Franciscans.
	noun (n.) A member of a French political club of the time of the first Revolution, of which Danton and Marat were members, and which met in an old Cordelier convent in Paris.

cosier

noun (n.) A tailor who botches his work.

cottier

noun (n.) In Great Britain and Ireland, a person who hires a small cottage, with or without a plot of land. Cottiers commonly aid in the work of the landlord's farm.

courier	noun (n.) A messenger sent with haste to convey letters or dispatches, usually on public business.
	noun (n.) An attendant on travelers, whose business it is to make arrangements for their convenience at hotels and on the way.

courtier	noun (n.) One who is in attendance at the court of a prince; one who has an appointment at court.
	noun (n.) One who courts or solicits favor; one who flatters.

cozier

noun (n.) See Cosier.

crier	noun (n.) One who cries; one who makes proclamation.
	noun (n.) an officer who proclaims the orders or directions of a court, or who gives public notice by loud proclamation; as, a town-crier.

crosier

noun (n.) The pastoral staff of a bishop (also of an archbishop, being the symbol of his office as a shepherd of the flock of God.

croupier	noun (n.) One who presides at a gaming table and collects the stakes.
	noun (n.) One who, at a public dinner party, sits at the lower end of the table as assistant chairman.

crozier

noun (n.) See Crosier.

crucifier

noun (n.) One who crucifies; one who subjects himself or another to a painful trial.

cuirassier	noun (n.) A soldier armed with a cuirass.
	noun (n.) In modern armies, a soldier of the heaviest cavalry, wearing a cuirass only when in full dress.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH RAN�ER (According to first letters):

Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (ranie) - Words That Begins with ranie:

Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (rani) - Words That Begins with rani:

rani

noun (n.) A queen or princess; the wife of a rajah.

ranine	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the frogs and toads.
	adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a swelling under the tongue; also, pertaining to the region where the swelling occurs; -- applied especially to branches of the lingual artery and lingual vein.

Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (ran) - Words That Begins with ran:

ran	noun (n.) Open robbery.
	noun (n.) Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.
	() imp. of Run.
	(imp.) of Run

rana

noun (n.) A genus of anurous batrachians, including the common frogs.

ranal

adjective (a.) Having a general affinity to ranunculaceous plants.

rance	noun (n.) A prop or shore.
	noun (n.) A round between the legs of a chair.

rancescent

adjective (a.) Becoming rancid or sour.

ranch	noun (n.) A tract of land used for grazing and the rearing of horses, cattle, or sheep. See Rancho, 2.
	verb (v. t.) To wrench; to tear; to sprain; to injure by violent straining or contortion.

ranchero	noun (n.) A herdsman; a peasant employed on a ranch or rancho.
	noun (n.) The owner and occupant of a ranch or rancho.

ranchman

noun (n.) An owner or occupant of, or laborer on, a ranch; a herdsman.

rancho	noun (n.) A rude hut, as of posts, covered with branches or thatch, where herdsmen or farm laborers may live or lodge at night.
	noun (n.) A large grazing farm where horses and cattle are raised; -- distinguished from hacienda, a cultivated farm or plantation.

rancid

adjective (a.) Having a rank smell or taste, from chemical change or decomposition; musty; as, rancid oil or butter.

rancidity

noun (n.) The quality or state of being rancid; a rancid scent or flavor, as of old oil.

rancidness

noun (n.) The quality of being rancid.

rancor

noun (n.) The deepest malignity or spite; deep-seated enmity or malice; inveterate hatred.

rancorous

adjective (a.) Full of rancor; evincing, or caused by, rancor; deeply malignant; implacably spiteful or malicious; intensely virulent.

rand	noun (n.) A border; edge; margin.
	noun (n.) A long, fleshy piece, as of beef, cut from the flank or leg; a sort of steak.
	noun (n.) A thin inner sole for a shoe; also, a leveling slip of leather applied to the sole before attaching the heel.
	noun (n.) Rim; egde; border.
	verb (v. i.) To rant; to storm.

randan	noun (n.) The product of a second sifting of meal; the finest part of the bran.
	noun (n.) A boat propelled by three rowers with four oars, the middle rower pulling two.

randing	noun (n.) The act or process of making and applying rands for shoes.
	noun (n.) A kind of basket work used in gabions.

random	noun (n.) Force; violence.
	noun (n.) A roving motion; course without definite direction; want of direction, rule, or method; hazard; chance; -- commonly used in the phrase at random, that is, without a settled point of direction; at hazard.
	noun (n.) Distance to which a missile is cast; range; reach; as, the random of a rifle ball.
	noun (n.) The direction of a rake-vein.
	adjective (a.) Going at random or by chance; done or made at hazard, or without settled direction, aim, or purpose; hazarded without previous calculation; left to chance; haphazard; as, a random guess.

randon	noun (n.) Random.
	verb (v. i.) To go or stray at random.

ranedeer

noun (n.) See Reindeer.

ranee

noun (n.) Same as Rani.

ranforce

noun (n.) See Re/nforce.

ranging

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Range

range	noun (n.) To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line.
	noun (n.) To place (as a single individual) among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; -- usually, reflexively and figuratively, (in the sense) to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.
	noun (n.) To separate into parts; to sift.
	noun (n.) To dispose in a classified or in systematic order; to arrange regularly; as, to range plants and animals in genera and species.
	noun (n.) To rove over or through; as, to range the fields.
	noun (n.) To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near; as, to range the coast.
	noun (n.) To be native to, or to live in; to frequent.
	verb (v. i.) To rove at large; to wander without restraint or direction; to roam.
	verb (v. i.) To have range; to change or differ within limits; to be capable of projecting, or to admit of being projected, especially as to horizontal distance; as, the temperature ranged through seventy degrees Fahrenheit; the gun ranges three miles; the shot ranged four miles.
	verb (v. i.) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
	verb (v. i.) To have a certain direction; to correspond in direction; to be or keep in a corresponding line; to trend or run; -- often followed by with; as, the front of a house ranges with the street; to range along the coast.
	verb (v. i.) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region; as, the peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.
	verb (v.) A series of things in a line; a row; a rank; as, a range of buildings; a range of mountains.
	verb (v.) An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
	verb (v.) The step of a ladder; a rung.
	verb (v.) A kitchen grate.
	verb (v.) An extended cooking apparatus of cast iron, set in brickwork, and affording conveniences for various ways of cooking; also, a kind of cooking stove.
	verb (v.) A bolting sieve to sift meal.
	verb (v.) A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
	verb (v.) That which may be ranged over; place or room for excursion; especially, a region of country in which cattle or sheep may wander and pasture.
	verb (v.) Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope; discursive power; as, the range of one's voice, or authority.
	verb (v.) The region within which a plant or animal naturally lives.
	verb (v.) The horizontal distance to which a shot or other projectile is carried.
	verb (v.) Sometimes, less properly, the trajectory of a shot or projectile.
	verb (v.) A place where shooting, as with cannons or rifles, is practiced.
	verb (v.) In the public land system of the United States, a row or line of townships lying between two successive meridian lines six miles apart.
	verb (v.) See Range of cable, below.

rangement

noun (n.) Arrangement.

ranger	noun (n.) One who ranges; a rover; sometimes, one who ranges for plunder; a roving robber.
	noun (n.) That which separates or arranges; specifically, a sieve.
	noun (n.) A dog that beats the ground in search of game.
	noun (n.) One of a body of mounted troops, formerly armed with short muskets, who range over the country, and often fight on foot.
	noun (n.) The keeper of a public park or forest; formerly, a sworn officer of a forest, appointed by the king's letters patent, whose business was to walk through the forest, recover beasts that had strayed beyond its limits, watch the deer, present trespasses to the next court held for the forest, etc.

rangership

noun (n.) The office of the keeper of a forest or park.

rank	noun (n. & v.) A row or line; a range; an order; a tier; as, a rank of osiers.
	noun (n. & v.) A line of soldiers ranged side by side; -- opposed to file. See 1st File, 1 (a).
	noun (n. & v.) Grade of official standing, as in the army, navy, or nobility; as, the rank of general; the rank of admiral.
	noun (n. & v.) An aggregate of individuals classed together; a permanent social class; an order; a division; as, ranks and orders of men; the highest and the lowest ranks of men, or of other intelligent beings.
	noun (n. & v.) Degree of dignity, eminence, or excellence; position in civil or social life; station; degree; grade; as, a writer of the first rank; a lawyer of high rank.
	noun (n. & v.) Elevated grade or standing; high degree; high social position; distinction; eminence; as, a man of rank.
	superlative (superl.) Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds.
	superlative (superl.) Raised to a high degree; violent; extreme; gross; utter; as, rank heresy.
	superlative (superl.) Causing vigorous growth; producing luxuriantly; very rich and fertile; as, rank land.
	superlative (superl.) Strong-scented; rancid; musty; as, oil of a rank smell; rank-smelling rue.
	superlative (superl.) Strong to the taste.
	superlative (superl.) Inflamed with venereal appetite.
	adverb (adv.) Rankly; stoutly; violently.
	verb (v. t.) To place abreast, or in a line.
	verb (v. t.) To range in a particular class, order, or division; to class; also, to dispose methodically; to place in suitable classes or order; to classify.
	verb (v. t.) To take rank of; to outrank.
	verb (v. i.) To be ranged; to be set or disposed, as in a particular degree, class, order, or division.
	verb (v. i.) To have a certain grade or degree of elevation in the orders of civil or military life; to have a certain degree of esteem or consideration; as, he ranks with the first class of poets; he ranks high in public estimation.

ranking

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rank

ranker

noun (n.) One who ranks, or disposes in ranks; one who arranges.

rankling

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rankle

rankle	adjective (a.) To become, or be, rank; to grow rank or strong; to be inflamed; to fester; -- used literally and figuratively.
	adjective (a.) To produce a festering or inflamed effect; to cause a sore; -- used literally and figuratively; as, a splinter rankles in the flesh; the words rankled in his bosom.
	verb (v. t.) To cause to fester; to make sore; to inflame.

rankness

noun (n.) The condition or quality of being rank.

rannel

noun (n.) A prostitute.

ranny

noun (n.) The erd shrew.

ransacking

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ransack

ransack	noun (n.) The act of ransacking, or state of being ransacked; pillage.
	verb (v. t.) To search thoroughly; to search every place or part of; as, to ransack a house.
	verb (v. t.) To plunder; to pillage completely.
	verb (v. t.) To violate; to ravish; to defiour.
	verb (v. i.) To make a thorough search.

ransom	noun (n.) The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration; redemption; as, prisoners hopeless of ransom.
	noun (n.) The money or price paid for the redemption of a prisoner, or for goods captured by an enemy; payment for freedom from restraint, penalty, or forfeit.
	noun (n.) A sum paid for the pardon of some great offense and the discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment.
	noun (n.) To redeem from captivity, servitude, punishment, or forfeit, by paying a price; to buy out of servitude or penalty; to rescue; to deliver; as, to ransom prisoners from an enemy.
	noun (n.) To exact a ransom for, or a payment on.

ransoming

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ransom

ransomable

adjective (a.) Such as can be ransomed.

ransomer

noun (n.) One who ransoms or redeems.

ransomless

adjective (a.) Incapable of being ransomed; without ransom.

ranting

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rant

rant	noun (n.) High-sounding language, without importance or dignity of thought; boisterous, empty declamation; bombast; as, the rant of fanatics.
	verb (v. i.) To rave in violent, high-sounding, or extravagant language, without dignity of thought; to be noisy, boisterous, and bombastic in talk or declamation; as, a ranting preacher.

ranter	noun (n.) A noisy talker; a raving declaimer.
	noun (n.) One of a religious sect which sprung up in 1645; -- called also Seekers. See Seeker.
	noun (n.) One of the Primitive Methodists, who seceded from the Wesleyan Methodists on the ground of their deficiency in fervor and zeal; -- so called in contempt.

ranterism

noun (n.) The practice or tenets of the Ranters.

rantipole	noun (n.) A wild, romping young person.
	adjective (a.) Wild; roving; rakish.
	verb (v. i.) To act like a rantipole.

rantism

noun (n.) Ranterism.

ranty

adjective (a.) Wild; noisy; boisterous.

ranula

noun (n.) A cyst formed under the tongue by obstruction of the duct of the submaxillary gland.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH RAN�ER:

English Words which starts with 'ra' and ends with 'er':

rabbler

noun (n.) A scraping tool for smoothing metal.

racer	noun (n.) One who, or that which, races, or contends in a race; esp., a race horse.
	noun (n.) The common American black snake.
	noun (n.) One of the circular iron or steel rails on which the chassis of a heavy gun is turned.

racker	noun (n.) One who racks.
	noun (n.) A horse that has a racking gait.

racketer

noun (n.) One who makes, or engages in, a racket.

radiometer	noun (n.) A forestaff.
	noun (n.) An instrument designed for measuring the mechanical effect of radiant energy.

radiomicrometer

noun (n.) A very sensitive modification or application of the thermopile, used for indicating minute changes of radiant heat, or temperature.

raffler

noun (n.) One who raffles.

rafter	noun (n.) A raftsman.
	noun (n.) Originally, any rough and somewhat heavy piece of timber. Now, commonly, one of the timbers of a roof which are put on sloping, according to the inclination of the roof. See Illust. of Queen-post.
	verb (v. t.) To make into rafters, as timber.
	verb (v. t.) To furnish with rafters, as a house.
	verb (v. t.) To plow so as to turn the grass side of each furrow upon an unplowed ridge; to ridge.

ragpicker

noun (n.) One who gets a living by picking up rags and refuse things in the streets.

raider

noun (n.) One who engages in a raid.

railer

noun (n.) One who rails; one who scoffs, insults, censures, or reproaches with opprobrious language.

raindeer

noun (n.) See Reindeer.

raiser

noun (n.) One who, or that which, raises (in various senses of the verb).

raker	noun (n.) One who, or that which, rakes
	noun (n.) A person who uses a rake.
	noun (n.) A machine for raking grain or hay by horse or other power.
	noun (n.) A gun so placed as to rake an enemy's ship.
	noun (n.) See Gill rakers, under 1st Gill.

rallier

noun (n.) One who rallies.

rambler

noun (n.) One who rambles; a rover; a wanderer.

rammer	noun (n.) One who, or that which, rams or drives.
	noun (n.) An instrument for driving anything with force; as, a rammer for driving stones or piles, or for beating the earth to more solidity
	noun (n.) A rod for forcing down the charge of a gun; a ramrod
	noun (n.) An implement for pounding the sand of a mold to render it compact.

rampier

noun (n.) See Rampart.

rampler	noun (n.) A rambler.
	adjective (a.) Roving; rambling.

rapier

noun (n.) A straight sword, with a narrow and finely pointed blade, used only for thrusting.

rapper	noun (n.) One who, or that which, raps or knocks; specifically, the knocker of a door.
	noun (n.) A forcible oath or lie.

rapter

noun (n.) A raptor.

rasher	noun (n.) A thin slice of bacon.
	noun (n.) A California rockfish (Sebastichthys miniatus).

rasper

noun (n.) One who, or that which, rasps; a scraper.

ratepayer

noun (n.) One who pays rates or taxes.

rater	noun (n.) One who rates or estimates.
	noun (n.) One who rates or scolds.

rather	adjective (a.) Prior; earlier; former.
	adjective (a.) Earlier; sooner; before.
	adjective (a.) More readily or willingly; preferably.
	adjective (a.) On the other hand; to the contrary of what was said or suggested; instead.
	adjective (a.) Of two alternatives conceived of, this by preference to, or as more likely than, the other; somewhat.
	adjective (a.) More properly; more correctly speaking.
	adjective (a.) In some degree; somewhat; as, the day is rather warm; the house is rather damp.

ratifier

noun (n.) One who, or that which, ratifies; a confirmer.

ratter	noun (n.) One who, or that which, rats, as one who deserts his party.
	noun (n.) Anything which catches rats; esp., a dog trained to catch rats; a rat terrier. See Terrier.

rattler

noun (n.) One who, or that which, rattles.

ravager

noun (n.) One who, or that which, ravages or lays waste; spoiler.

raveler

noun (n.) One who ravels.

ravener	noun (n.) One who, or that which, ravens or plunders.
	noun (n.) A bird of prey, as the owl or vulture.

raver

noun (n.) One who raves.

ravisher

noun (n.) One who ravishes (in any sense).

rathskeller

noun (n.) Orig., in Germany, the cellar or basement of the city hall, usually rented for use as a restaurant where beer is sold; hence, a beer saloon of the German type below the street level, where, usually, drinks are served only at tables and simple food may also be had; -- sometimes loosely used, in English, of what are essentially basement restaurants where liquors are served.

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