| railway station |
A place where trains stop for passengers to embark and disembark. |
| railway track |
A pair of parallel tracks along which a railway train runs. |
| railway train |
A locomotive plus the carriages that it pulls along a railway track. |
| railways |
Plural of railway. |
| raiment |
clothing, garments |
| rain |
reign |
| rain buckets |
To rain heavily |
| rain cats and dogs |
To rain very heavily. |
| rain check |
any voucher or note issued by a store to allow a customer to get a special or sale price later if an item is out of stock |
| rain cheque |
any voucher or note issued by a store to allow a customer to get a special or sale price later if an item is out of stock |
| rain cloud |
A cloud from which rain is falling. |
| rain clouds |
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| rain delay |
Term used to describe the interruption of an outdoor game or event because of rain, with the hopes it will continue later in the day. |
| rain dogs and cats |
To rain very heavily. |
| rain man |
An autistic, or mentally and/or socially impaired person. |
| rain men |
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| rain on somebody's parade |
to disappoint or discourage somebody |
| rain pitchforks |
to rain heavily. |
| rain shadow |
an area of diminished precipitation on the lee side of mountains |
| rain tree |
an ornamental tropical American tree (of uncertain taxonomy) having bipinnate leaves, globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens, and sweet-pulp pods eaten by cattle |
| rainbird |
(South Africa) Any of the coucal species Centropus supercilliosus, C. cupreicadus or C. senegalensis. |
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| rainbow |
Multicoloured arch in the sky produced by refraction of light within droplets of rain in the air. |
| Rainbow Brite |
Greeting card character created by Hallmark Cards in the mid-1980s. She also had a television series and Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer produced by DiC Entertainment. |
| rainbow coalition |
(Britain / Ireland) A government consisting of a coalition of three or more parties. |
| rainbow kiss |
A sexual act when a man preforms oral sex on a woman during her time of the month, and holds her fluids in his mouth. The girl simultaneously preforms oral sex on the man, and holds his fluid in her mouth. They then kiss open mouthed, mixing the fluids together. |
| rainbow table |
A table of surjective functions used to decrypt a text that was coded using a hash table. |
| rainbow trout |
A species of trout, Salmo gairdneri, that has black spots and a pink streak running along the body. |
| raincoat |
A waterproof coat worn in the rain. |
| raincoater |
A fan of pornography who prefers movies with as much sex and as little plot or character development as possible. |
| raincoaters |
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| raincoats |
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| raindrop |
A single droplet of rainwater that has just fallen or is falling from the sky. |
| raindrops |
Rain, considered as a countable plural. |
| rained |
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| rainfall |
the amount of rain that has fallen |
| rainforest |
a forest in a climate with high annual rainfall and no dry season |
| rainforests |
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| raining |
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| rainmaker |
An employee of a company who creates a large amount of unexpected business, consistently brings in money at critical times, or brings in markedly more money than his or her co-workers, thereby "floating their salaries". |
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| rainout |
Something which has been cancelled due to interfering rain. |
| rains |
reigns |
| rainshadow |
An area which is unusually dry due to nearby geographic features |
| rainshadows |
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| rainstorm |
A storm characterized by substantial, heavy rainfall |
| rainwater |
Water sourced from rain. |
| rainy |
Abounding with rain; wet; showery; as, rainy weather; a rainy day or season. |
| Raipur |
The state capital of Chhattisgarh (India). |
| raise |
To cause to rise. |
