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rapt: kidnapping, abduction
raquer: to pay up
raquette: racquet / racket (for tennis, badminton, etc.); ellipsis of raquette à neige (“snowshoe”); an ellipsoid flight feather barbed distally from the rachis; prickly pear (cactus) (Opuntia); cactus (generally)
rare: rare
rarement: rarely, seldom
rarescence: rarefaction
rarescent: rarefying
rareté: rarity
rarissime: extremely rare
rarissimement: Very rarely
raréfaction: act of becoming more rare; rarefaction (reduction in the density of a material)
raréfiable: rarefiable
raréfier: to rarefy, make rarer; become thinner on the ground, become less and further between, become scarce
raréfié: rarefied; thin (of density, atmosphere)
ras: short; close-cropped (of hair etc.)
ras: ras (Ethiopian king or prince)
ras: alternative letter-case form of RAS (“nothing to report”)
ras la touffe: (of women's clothing) very short and revealing
ras-de-cou: choker (necklace)
ras-le-bol: discontent
rasade: a glass full to the brim
rasage: shave; shaving (act of shaving)
rasant: shaving (lightly touching); boring (annoying)
rascasse: scorpionfish
rase campagne: open countryside
rase-mottes: a low flying position, hedge-hopping
raser: to shave; to brush, lightly touch; to raze (level to the ground); to bore someone
raser les murs: to hug the walls
raseteur: participant in a course camarguaise
raseur: boring, dull
raseur: a bore, someone dull
rasibus: cleanly (cut); to the brim; right now, straight away
rasoir: razor
rasoir: boring, tiring
rasoir national: guillotine
rasoir électrique: electric shaver
raspoutitsa: rasputitsa
rassasiement: glut; satiety
rassasier: to satiate; to satisfy; to have enough of something, to get one's fill
rassasié: full, satiated
rassemblement: gathering; assembly
rassembler: to assemble; to gather, summon up (courage); to collect; to gather together, congregate
rassembleur: unifying; rallying
rasseoir: to re-sit, to sit back down (sit once again)
rassir: to go stale
rassis: stale (having lost its freshness)
rassisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of rassir
rassoir: post-1990 spelling of rasseoir
rassortir: to restock; to match
rassortisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of rassortir
rassurant: reassuring
rassurer: to reassure; to calm down
rassérénant: calming, soothing
rasséréner: to reassure; to calm down
rasséréné: serene
rasta: rasta; Rastafarian
rastafarisme: Rastafarianism
rastaquouère: rastaquouère
rasé: shaven; shaved
rat: rat; sweetheart; scrooge