Vocabulary : Rabious to Racemate

Rabious : Fierce.
Rabot : A rubber of hard wood used in smoothing marble to be polished.
Raca : A term of reproach used by the Jews of our Savior's time, meaning "worthless."
Racahout : A preparation from acorns used by the Arabs as a substitute for chocolate, and also as a beverage for invalids.
Raccoon : A North American nocturnal carnivore (Procyon lotor) allied to the bears, but much smaller, and having a long, full tail, banded with black and gray. Its body is gray, varied with black and white. Called also coon, and mapach.

Race : A game, match, etc., open only to losers in early stages of contests. ;; To raze. ;; A root. ;; The descendants of a common ancestor; a family, tribe, people, or nation, believed or presumed to belong to the same stock; a lineage; a breed. ;; Company; herd; breed. ;; A variety of such fixed character that it may be propagated by seed. ;; Peculiar flavor, taste, or strength, as of wine; that quality, or assemblage of qualities, which indicates origin or kind, as in wine; hence, characteristic flavor; smack. ;; Hence, characteristic quality or disposition. ;; A progress; a course; a movement or progression. ;; Esp., swift progress; rapid course; a running. ;; Hence: The act or process of running in competition; a contest of speed in any way, as in running, riding, driving, skating, rowing, sailing; in the plural, usually, a meeting for contests in the running of horses; as, he attended the races. ;; Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life. ;; A strong or rapid cu
Race suicide : The voluntary failure of the members of a race or people to have a number of children sufficient to keep the birth rate equal to the death rate.
Raceabout : A small sloop-rigged racing yacht carrying about six hundred square feet of sail, distinguished from a knockabout by having a short bowsprit.
Raced : of Race
Racemate : A salt of racemic acid.

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