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racailleux: thuggish, ghetto-like
racasse: Any of a large variety of scorpaeniform fishes, such as certain lionfishes and stonefishes.
raccard: granary
raccommodage: mending, repairing; darning; reconciliation
raccommodement: reconciliation
raccommoder: to fix, fix up (small things); to mend, patch up; to reconcile
raccompagner: to walk back, to take back, to drive back (to escort someone back to where they came from)
raccord: join (in wallpaper, wood etc.); touch-up (of paint); link shot, match cut; joint
raccordable: connectable
raccordement: act of linking, act of joining
raccorder: to join (up)
raccordé: joined up
raccourci: shortcut (a path between two locations that is shorter than more conventional routes); foreshortening; shortcut (a file that points to the location of another file and serves as a quick way to access it); shortcut, keyboard shortcut, hotkey (a combination of keystrokes that provides easier access to a command or operation)
raccourci clavier: keyboard shortcut, hotkey (a combination of keystrokes that provides easier access to a command or operation)
raccourcir: to shorten (to make shorter); to shorten (to get shorter)
raccourcissement: shortening
raccourcisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of raccourcir
raccroc: chance, fluke (random occurrence, luck)
raccrocher: to hang again; to hang back up; to hang up (end a phone call); to cling (to)
raccrocher au nez: to hang up abruptly or rudely
raccrocher les crampons: to hang up one's boots, to hang up one's fiddle
raccrocher les wagons: to put two and two together, to connect the dots
raccrocheur: a person who plays a fluke shot
raccrocheuse: female equivalent of raccrocheur; a prostitute (who solicits customers in the streets)
race: race (classification); kind; breed
racer: racecar; vehicle used for racing, racer
rachat: purchase, buyout, action of buying out; ransom, sum of money demanded for a hostage
racheter: to buy back; to buy out, buy off; to ransom; to redeem (from sin); to make amends
racheteur: purchaser, buyer (commercial)
rachialgie: rachialgia
rachianesthésie: spinal anesthesia
rachidien: spinal
rachis: rachis
rachitique: rachitic; rickety
rachitisme: rickets
rachmaninovien: Rachmaninovian
racial: racial
racialement: racially
racialiser: to racialize
racialisme: racialism
racialiste: racialist
racinaire: root
racine: root (of a plant); root, origin; root
racine carrée: square root
racine cubique: cube root
raciner: to take root
racinette: root beer
racinien: Racinian
raciologie: raciology
racisme: racism
raciste: racist
raciste: racist
racisé: of color, racialized, not white-skinned
racket: racketeering; racket, extortion
racketter: to racketeer
racketteur: racketeer
raclage: curettage, scraping
raclement: scraping (action and sound), scratching
racler: to scrape (off), to scratch
racler les fonds de tiroir: alternative spelling of racler les fonds de tiroirs