Reverse Dictionary: RAIN – RAJ

RAIN, RAINING, RAINY – ADJECTIVES (also see SHOWER)
– AINISH unpleasant, used esp. of the weather; showery, rainy …1814 Eng. dial.
– ALTERY of the weather: looking like rain …B1900 Eng. dial.
– BASHY wet, rainy, muddy …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BLASHY rainy, wet, gusty …Bk1911 Sc.
– BLATELY adj. of rain: soft, gentle …Bk1911 Sc.
– BLIRTIE of the weather: changeable, uncertain, cheerless; characterized by ‘blirts’ or gusts of wind and rain …1807 Sc.
– BLOBBY very rainy …Bk1911 Sc.
– BLUSTERSOME of weather: rainy and stormy in fits and starts …19C Eng. dial.
– DABBLY of the weather: wet, rainy, showery, damp …1879 Eng. dial.
– DAGGING of the weather: wet, drizzly, misty, rainy …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– DAGGLY of the weather: wet, drizzly, misty, rainy …1869 Eng. dial.
– DAGGY of the weather: wet, drizzly, misty, rainy …1808 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– DANK wet, watery, wetting: said of dew, rain, clouds, water, etc. …? a1400 obs.
– DINGY misty, rainy …1879 Eng. dial.
– DRIPPLETY wet, rainy …19C Eng. dial.
– DRIPPY wet, rainy …1818
– EIDENT of rain, snow, etc.: steady, continuous, unceasing …1794 Sc.
– EVEN-DOWN perpendicular, straight down, downright; esp. used of a heavy continuous rain …1794 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– FLISKY minute, small; of rain: fine, drizzling …19C Eng. dial.
– GROUTY of the sky, weather: thundery, threatening rain …1744-50 Eng. dial.
– HAINISH unpleasant, used esp. of the weather; showery, rainy …1814 Eng. dial.
– HASTY of rain: heavy, violent …1882 Eng. dial.
– HURRY-DURRY of the weather: rough, boisterous, windy, rainy; hence, impatient, irritable …1672 nautical usage, obs.
– HYETAL belonging to rain …1864 rare
– IMBRID wet, rainy …1623 obs.
– IMBRIFEROUS rain-bringing; showery …1813 rare
– IMPLUVIOUS wet with rain …1656 obs. rare
– LABBERLY wet; rainy …1842 Eng. dial.
– LABBERY wet; rainy …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– MISTY-MOISTY of the weather: misty, foggy; threatening rain …1856 Amer. dial.
– PASHY wet, dirty, rainy …1867 Eng. dial.
– PLUVIATILE of rain, of rain water …1599 obs. rare
– PLUVIOUS pertaining to rain, rainy …c1420
– RAGGY misty, stormy and cold, with drizzling rain …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– RAINBREED producing rain …1582 nonce word obs.
– RAINFUL rainy …1484
– RAINIFIED likely to rain …1918 Amer. dial.
– RAINISH somewhat rainy …1530 obs. rare
– ROTTEN of weather or climate: damp, wet, rainy …1567
– SAFT wet, rainy, damp …1812 Sc.
– SAP wet, rainy …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SAPPIE wet, dripping, sodden; rainy …1821 Sc.
– SAPPY full of moisture; moist; wet; sodden; rainy …c1470 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– SCAFFY of a shower of rain: heavy, but soon over …Bk1904 Sc.
– SCARLY of the weather: boisterous, windy, threatening rain …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SCOWTHERED spoilt by rain …1894 Sc.
– SCOWTHERIE;  SCOWTHERY beginning or threatening to rain or snow …1825 Sc. 
– TENDER of the weather: inclined to rain, threatening …1900 Eng. dial.
– THONKY dank, misty, rainy …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– VATSGAARI rainy …1897 Sc.
– WACK moist, watery, damp, wet, rainy …1513 Sc. obs.
 
RAIN etc. – ADVERBS
– HEAVENS-HARD of falling rain: heavily, very hard …Bk1902 Eng. dial.  
– HEAVENS-HIGH of falling rain: heavily, very hard …1889 Bk1902 Eng. dial.  
– TIFFLING TOITY raining in a drizzling, slopping manner …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
 
RAIN etc. – NOUNS
– ABEL AND CAIN rain …Brit. rhyming sl.
– ACHE AND PAIN rain …Brit. rhyming sl.
– ALACOMPAIN rain …M19 rhyming sl.
– ALLACOMPAIN rain …M19 rhyming sl.
– ALL COMPLAIN rain …Brit. rhyming sl.
– ANDY CAIN rain …19C Brit. rhyming sl.
– ANGEL JUICE rainwater; water …1944 Amer. jocular
– ARKANSAS DEW a sudden heavy rain …1969 Amer. dial.
– BAFFIN a severe drenching; usually applied to the drenching and buffeting one gets by being exposed to a storm of wind and rain …1929 Sc.
– BANGE light, fine rain; drizzle …1839 Eng. dial.
– BAPTIST DAM-BUSTER a sudden heavy rain …1966 Amer. dial.
– BASKING a drenching in a heavy shower …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BELLY WASHER a very heavy rain …1967 Amer. dial.
– BITCH a very heavy rain …1965 Amer. dial.
– BLACK WEATHER rainy weather …Bk1911 Sc. 
– BLAD a heavy fall of rain …Bk1911 Sc. 
– BLANDIGO a shower of rain …1691 Eng. dial. obs.
– BLASH a heavy shower of rain …Bk1911 Sc.
– BLINGER a very hard rain …1968 Amer. dial.
– BLIRT a storm of wind and rain; a cold drift of snow …Bk1911 Sc.
– BLOUT the bursting of a storm; a sudden fall of rain, snow, or hail, with wind …Bk1911 Sc.
– BOYS the resounding raindrops after they hit the surface …1952 Amer. dial., chiefly a child’s word
– BRACK a sudden fall of earth or snow on a slope; a flood from a thaw; a sudden and heavy fall of rain …Bk1911 Sc.
– BREAK a heavy fall of rain or snow …Bk1911 Sc.
– BRIDGE LIFTER a heavy rain …1940 Amer. dial.
– BRUSH MOVER a heavy rainfall …1932 Amer. dial.
– BUSTER a sudden, very heavy rain …1965 Amer. dial.
– CALIFORNIA DEW a light rain …1968 Amer. dial.
– CALIFORNIA MIST a light rain …1968 Amer. dial.
– CATARACT a violent downpour or rush of water …1634
– CAT-MIRER a very heavy rain …1970 Amer. dial.
– CHICKEN-DROWNDER a very heavy rain, a downpour …1965 Amer. dial.
– CHICKEN RAIN a light rain that doesn’t last …1969 Amer. dial.
– COW-STORM a drizzling rain unaccompanied by wind …1914 Amer. dial.
– DAB a fine rain, a drizzle …1929 Sc.
– DAG a thin or gentle rain …1808 Eng. dial.
– DAG OF RAIN a slight, misty shower; thick, small rain …1878 Eng. dial.
– DAG OF WET a slight, misty shower; thick, small rain …1878 Eng. dial.
– DAM-BUSTER a sudden heavy rain …1962 Amer. dial.
– DAMP fine rain …1911 Sc.
– A DASH O’ WET a sudden fall of rain …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– DAWCH a very heavy dew or drizzling rain …Bk1900 Sc.
– DAWK a drizzling rain …Bk1900 Sc.
– A DEAL OF WEATHER heavy rain or snow …1874 Eng. dial.  
– DEATH RAIN a heavy rain, a downpour …1949 Amer. dial., chiefly Black usage
– DEATH SHOWER a heavy rain, a downpour …c1970 Amer. dial., chiefly Black usage
– DELUGE a heavy rain …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– DEW-MIST a drizzle or small rain resembling dew …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– DIRT rain, snow, or sleet; ‘dirty’ or stormy weather …1887 Eng. dial.
– DITCH WASHER a very heavy rain or the runoff it occasions …1965 Amer. dial.
– DUCK-DRENCHER a very heavy rain, a downpour …1962 Amer. dial.
– DUCK-DROWNDER a very heavy rain, a downpour …1965 Amer. dial.
– EARTH MOVER a very heavy rain …1969 Amer. jocular
– EASTICK soft, cold, drizzling rain …1908 Sc.
– EESK a slight rain or drizzle …Bk1900 Sc.
– ELEPHANTER a heavy rain …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– ESK a slight rain or drizzle …Bk1900 Sc.
– FAIRIES’ BAKIN’ DAY a day of alternate rain and sunshine …1894 Sc.
– FAIRY BOWER a shower (of rain) …20C Aust. rhyming sl.
– FALL a fall of rain or snow; a shower of rain, a snowstorm …1891 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– FALLING a downfall of snow, rain, or hail; a snowstorm; generally in plural …1892 Eng. dial.
– FENCE BREAKER a severe rainstorm …1966 Amer. dial.
– FENCE-LIFTER a very heavy rain …1933 Amer. dial.
– FISH-DROWNDER a very heavy rain …1968 Amer. dial.
– FROG STRANGLER a heavy rain …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– GANDIEGOW a squall of wind and rain; a heavy shower …1908 Sc.
– GOOSE-DRENCHER a very heavy rain, a downpour …1965 Amer. dial.
– GOOSE-DROWNDER a very heavy rain, a downpour …1929 Amer. dial.
– GOOSE DROWNER a heavy rain …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– GOOSE-STRANGLER a very heavy rain, a downpour …1965 Amer. dial.
– GOSLING-DROWNDER a very heavy rain, a downpour …1965 Amer. dial.
– GRASS RAIN a light rain that doesn’t last …1965 Amer. dial.
– GRASS SHOWER a sudden, very heavy rain …1965 Amer. dial.
– GROWING SHOWER a light rain that doesn’t last, but is enough to make gardens grow …1968 Amer. dial.
– GULLY CUTTER a very heavy rain or the runoff it occasions …1965 Amer. dial.
– GULLY MAKER a very heavy rain or the runoff it occasions …1965 Amer. dial.
– GULLY POUR a very heavy rain or the runoff it occasions …1965 Amer. dial.
– GULLY-WASHER a heavy rain that washes gullies in the ground; a heavy downpour …1903 Amer. dial.
– GULLY WHOPPER a very heavy rain or the runoff it occasions …1965 Amer. dial.
– GUNDABLUEY a heavy downpour; a rainstorm …Bk1999 Aust. sl.
– GUSHER a heavy rain …1961 Amer. dial.
– GUST a thunderstorm; heavy rain …1772 Amer. dial.
– GUTTER WASHER a very heavy rain …1969 Amer. dial.
– GUZZLE a rain …1954 Amer. dial.
– HADDER a fine rain or drizzle …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– HAGGER a fine small rain …Bk1905 Sc.
– HALE-WATER a heavy fall of rain …1820 Sc.
– HASH a heavy fall of rain …1898 Sc.
– HASTER a violent storm of rain …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– HAY ROTTER a very heavy rain …1968 Amer. dial.
– HEAT-DROPS raindrops …1651
– HEN-DROWNDER a very heavy rain, a downpour …1960 Amer. dial.
– HUGGER a drizzle, a gentle rain …1929 Sc.
– HYETOMETER a rain gauge …1730
– HYOMETER a rain gauge …1886
– ISTICK a slight, temporary frost; cold weather with rain …Bk1902 Sc.
– JUPITER PLUVIUS rain …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– KAAVIE a heavy, driving rain …1908 Sc.
– LADY RAIN a gentle rain …1993 Amer. dial.
– LAMB-BLASTS passing showers of snow, rain, or hail accompanied by high wind, occurring about the time of young lambs …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– LAMB-SHOWERS passing showers of snow, rain, or hail accompanied by high wind, occurring about the time of young lambs …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– LAMB-STORMS passing showers of snow, rain, or hail accompanied by high wind, occurring about the time of young lambs …1790 Eng. dial.
– LAND-LASH a heavy fall of rain accompanied by high wind …1820 Sc.
– LAND RAIN rainfall …1950 Amer. dial.
– LEAF MOVER a sudden heavy rain …1986 Amer. dial.
– LEAK FINDER a very heavy rain …1969 Amer. dial.
– LIGHTWOOD-KNOT FLOATER a heavy rain …1944 Amer. dial.
– LIQUID SUNSHINE California rain …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– LOG-FLOATER a very heavy rain …1968 Amer. dial.
– LOG-ROLLER a very heavy rain …1985 Amer. dial.
– MEXICAN CARWASH a rainstorm …1950 US sl.
– MIDDLESPLITTER a heavy fall of rain …1991 Amer. dial.
– MILLDEW wet, rain, fog; cold raw weather …1900 Sc.
– MIST RAIN a very light rain; a drizzle …1986 Amer. dial.
– MIZZLE a very fine or misty rain; drizzle …1899 Amer. dial.
– MIZZLING a very fine rain, drizzle, mist …1899 Amer. dial.
– MUD-HEN CLEANER a very heavy rain …1968 Amer. dial.
– MUD-SENDER a heavy rain …1968 Amer. dial.
– MUG a mist, a fog; a light rain or drizzle; a dull, damp, or gloomy atmosphere …a1728 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– NAIR rain …L19 back-slang
– NISK a slight or passing shower …1908 Sc. 
– OMBRIFUGE a refuge or shelter against rain …1868 rare
– OMBROLOGY the branch of meteorology that deals with rain …1845
– ONCOME a heavy fall of snow or rain …Bk1905 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– ONDAG a shower, a heavy fall of rain …1924 Sc.
– ON-DING a persistent heavy fall of rain or snow …1776 Sc.
– ONDINGING a heavy fall of rain or snow …Bk1905 Sc.
– ONFALL a heavy fall of rain or snow …1808 Sc.
– ONLAY a heavy fall of snow or rain …1881 Sc.
– ONSET a heavy fall or rain or snow …1808 Sc.
– ORANGE JUICE California rain …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– OREGON DEW a light rain or mist; used ironically, a prolonged rain …1967  Amer. dial.
– OREGON MIST a light rain or mist; used ironically, a prolonged rain …1965 Amer. dial.
– PANEE water in the form of rain …1923 Sc.
– PANI water in the form of rain …1923 Sc.
– PARISH-WAITER rain …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– PARNEE;  PARNEY;  PARNIE;  PARNY rain …1851UK sl., orig. Anglo-Indian
– PARNY a shower of rain …1859 sl. Anglo-Indian
– PASH a sudden or heavy fall of rain or snow …1796 Eng. dial.
– PAYLING a driving, beating shower …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– RACK rain …Bk19C Eng, dial.
– PALMETTO POUNDER a heavy rain …1980 Amer. dial.
– PATTERMENTS the splashing of raindrops …Bk1903 Eng. dial.  
– POUR-DOWN a torrential rain, a downpour …1939 Amer. dial.
– POURING-DOWN a torrential rain, a downpour …1966 Amer. dial.
– POUR-OUT a torrential rain …1966 Amer. dial.
– RAFF a short sharp shower of rain or snow, accompanied by gusts of wind; a driving shower …1790 Sc.
– RAG fog, mist, accompanied by drizzling rain …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– RAIN-KING rain personified as a king …1880
– RAIN-PIT an indentation made in the ground by a raindrop …1841
– RAINPOUR a downpour;  a sudden, very heavy rain …1970 Amer. dial.
– RAIN SMIRR fine misty rain …1925 Sc.
– RASH a splashing shower of rain; a sudden fall of rain …1513 Sc.
– RAYMOND rain personified …2000 Amer. dial.
– REGULAR PELTER a cat-and-dog rain …Bk1903 colloq.
– ROOT SEARCHER a heavy rain …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– RUG drizzling rain; wet mist; also, wet weather …c1540 Sc.
– SAB a soaking, saturating, esp. of a heavy downpour of rain, a thunder shower …1768 Sc.
– SAFT a thaw; rain, moisture …1895 Sc.
– SCAD a sudden and brief shower of rain …1825 Eng. dial.
– SCADDER a brief shower of rain …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SCAFF a heavy but brief shower of rain …1824 Sc. obs.
– SCAT a sudden passing shower of rain …1790 Eng. dial.
– SCAUR a shower, a short flying scurry of rain …1893 Eng. dial.
– SCOORIE a shower; a sudden gust of wind accompanied by rain …1895 Sc.
– SCOTCH MIST a drizzling rain or heavy fog …1844 Amer. dial.
– SCOUR a shower of rain, esp. of a passing or intermittent fall, and usually one driven by gusts of wind …c1780 Sc. 
– SCOUTHER, SCOWTHER a slight shower of rain …1794 Sc. 
– SCOUTHRY a slight shower of rain …1794 Sc. 
– SCOW a squally shower of rain; a wind and rain storm …1895 Sc. 
– SCOWTHERUM a slight shower of rain …1866 Sc. 
– SET RAIN a steady rain or drizzle …1966 Amer. dial.
– SHIRT WETTER a very light rain …1971 Amer. dial.
– SILVER THAW the phenomenon of rain freezing as it falls and forming a glassy coating on the ground, trees, etc. …1891
– SIZZLE a gentle rain, drizzle …1968 Amer. dial.
– SIZZLE-SAZZLE a gentle rain, drizzle …1979 Amer. dial.
– SIZZLE-SOZZLE a gentle rain, drizzle …1931 Amer. dial.
– SIZZLY SOD-SOAKER a steady rain …1991 Amer. dial.
– SIZZLY-SOZZLY a gentle rain, drizzle …1946 Amer. dial.
– SKELP heavy rain 
– SKEW a drizzling rain; a driving mist …1839 Eng. dial.
– SKID a light fall of snow or rain …1977 Amer. dial.
– SKIFF a light gust of wind or shower of rain, etc. …1819 Sc.
– SKIFT a light fall of snow or rain; a thin layer of snow or frost on the ground, or of ice on water …1808 Amer. dial.
– SKIT a slight shower of rain or snow …1847
– SKOUR a shower; a sudden gust of wind accompanied by rain …1895 Sc.
– SKY JUICE rain; water …1941 Amer. dial.
– SOAK a heavy rainfall …Brit. colloq.
– SOAKER a heavy rain …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– TARANAKI SUNSHINE rain or drizzle …1990s NZ sl.
– TEEM a heavy downpour or long-continued fall of rain …1793 Sc. & Ireland
– TEXAS DEW a heavy rain …1965 Amer. dial.
– THRESH a beating, dashing noise, as of rain …1899 Sc.
– THUNDER-BERRIES the large heavy drops of rain that fall from a thunder-cloud…B1900 Eng. dial.
– THUNDERBLUST a heavy rain which doesn’t last long …2000 Amer. dial.
– THUNDERBOOMER a thunder-cloud; a thunderstorm; a very heavy rain …1984 Amer. dial.
– THUNDERBUSTER a thunder-cloud, a thunderstorm, a very heavy rain …1950 Amer. dial.
– THUNDERGUSH a violent thunderstorm; rain accompanied by thunder and lightning …1825 Amer. dial.
– THUNDERGUST a violent thunderstorm; rain accompanied by thunder and lightning …1734 Amer. dial.
– THUNDER-SPLATS the large, heavy drops that fall from a thunder-cloud …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TOAD-CHOKER a very heavy rain …1985 Amer. dial.
– TOAD-FLOATER a very heavy rain …1950 Amer. dial.
– TOAD-FROG STRANGLER a very heavy rain …1965 Amer. dial.
– TOAD-STRANGLER a very heavy rain …1906 Amer. dial.
– TOAD-STRINGER a very heavy rain …1986 Amer. dial.
– TOAD-WASHER  a very heavy rain …1965 Amer. dial.
– TRASH-BREAKER a sudden heavy rain …1952 Amer. dial.
– TRASH-FLOATER a sudden heavy rain …1941 Amer. dial.
– TRASH-LIFTER a sudden heavy rain …1905 Amer. dial.
– TRASH MOVER a sudden heavy rain …1879 Amer. dial.
– TRASH MOVER AND GULLY WASHER a very heavy rain or the runoff it occasions …1965 Amer. dial.
– TRASH-TOTER a sudden heavy rain …1971 Amer. dial.
– TRASH-WASHER a sudden heavy rain …1952 Amer. dial.
– TREE BENDER a sudden heavy rain …1969 Amer. dial.
– TREE MOVER a sudden heavy rain …1969 Amer. dial.
– TURD-FLOATER a heavy rain …1962 Amer. dial.
– UDOMETER a rain-gauge …1825
– UMBRELLA-RAIN rain which comes straight down …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– UMPLIST a sudden outburst of wind and rain …1892 Sc.
– VANDILUP a downpour of rain …1897 Sc.
– VANDLOB. a downpour of rain …1897 Sc.
– VANLUP a downpour of rain …1897 Sc.
– VEGA in fisher taboo usage: rain …1814 Sc. obs.
– VERGLA freezing rain …2002 Can. sl.
– WATERSPOUT a terrestrial tornado, esp. one accompanied by torrential rain; broadly, a violent downpour of rain …1822 Amer. dial.
– WEATHER FALL a period of rain, snow, hail, or heavy fog …1965 Amer. dial.
– WET, THE the rainy season …L19 Aust. sl.
– YASK fine rain, drizzle …1974 Sc.
 
RAIN etc. – PHRASES
– THE AIR WEEPS it rains …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– THE ANGELS ARE CRYING said when the first drops of rain begin to fall …1950 Amer. dial.
– THE BOTTOM FELL OUT describing a very heavy rain …1966 Amer. dial.
– THE DEVIL IS BEATING HIS WIFE it’s raining or snowing, used esp. when the sun is also shining …1930 Amer. dial.
– THE DEVIL IS FIGHTING WITH HIS WIFE it’s raining or snowing, used esp. when the sun is also shining …1899 Amer. dial.
– THE DEVIL IS WHIPPING HIS WIFE it’s raining or snowing, used esp. when the sun is also shining …1899 Amer. dial.
– IT’S COMING DOWN IN BUCKETS it’s raining heavily …1950 Amer. dial.
– IT’S FALLING BY THE BUCKETS it’s raining heavily …1950 Amer. dial.
– IT’S POURING BUCKETS it’s raining heavily …1950 Amer. dial.
– IT’S RAINING BUCKETS it’s raining heavily …1950 Amer. dial.
– IT’S RAINING POISON what people say when sunshine and rain come together …1950 Amer. dial.
 
RAIN etc. – VERBS
– ASK to rain slightly; to drizzle …Bk1898 Sc.
– BATTER of rain: to beat against anything; to drive …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BERAIN to rain upon …a1225 obs.
– BLAD of wind and rain: to beat against, to drive in gusts …Bk1911 Sc. 
– BLASH to rain heavily and noisily …Bk1911 Sc.
– BLIRT to rain or snow …Bk1911 Sc.
– BREAK OFF to become less cloudy; to clear up; to stop raining …1966 Amer. dial.
– DAG to rain gently, to drizzle …1808 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– DAGGLE to drizzle; to rain continuously; to pour in torrents …1825 Sc.
– DAMP to drizzle, to rain slightly …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– DEG(G) to drizzle with rain …B1900 Eng. dial.  
– DEW to rain slightly, to drizzle …Bk1900 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– DING of rain: to fall heavily or continuously …1766 Sc.
– DINGE to rain mistily, to drizzle …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– DINGLE to drizzle, to rain lightly …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– DOZZLE to drizzle, to rain finely …1866 Eng. dial.
– EESK to rain slightly, to drizzle; to sleet …1845 Sc.
– EITHER to rain slightly, to drizzle …1929 Sc.
– ENT DOWN to rain heavily, to pour in torrents …1895 Eng. dial.
– ESK to rain slightly, to drizzle; to sleet …1845 Sc.
– FINE of rain: to fall in tiny drops; to drizzle …1950 Amer. dial.
– HADDER to drizzle, rain finely …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– HAGGER to drizzle, to rain gently …1808 Sc.
– HAIN of rain: to leave off, to cease …1892 Sc.
– HEAL UP to leave off raining …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– HEALD of rain: to pour, to come down in torrents …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– LAMBASTE of rain: to beat down …1892 Ireland
– LAVISH of rain: to pour along in torrents …1830 rare
– LEAK to rain …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– LET DOWN to rain heavily …1972 Amer. dial.
– LET DOWN RAIN to rain heavily …1986 Amer. dial.
– LODGE of wind or rain: to beat down or flatten …1828 Amer. dial.
– MIESLI to rain …E18
– MISLAIN to rain …E18
– MISLE to rain …E18
– MISLI to rain …E18
– MISTER to rain very finely …1970 Amer. dial.
– MIST RAIN to rain lightly with very small drops; to drizzle …1909 Amer. dial.
– MIZZLE to rain in very fine drops; to drizzle …1838 Amer. dial.
– MUG to rain lightly; to drizzle …c1400 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– NATTER to rain slightly while there is a high wind …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– ONDING to rain or snow heavily …1825 Sc.
– PAIL of rain: to come pelting down …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– PARNEE to rain …1859 UK sl.
– PASH of rain or water: to come down suddenly and heavily; to gush out …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– PIDDLE to rain …1887 sl.
– PISS to rain heavily, to pour …1948 sl.
– PISS DOWN to rain heavily, to pour …1950 sl.
– PISS WITH RAIN to rain heavily, to pour …1948 sl.
– POUR OUT to rain heavily …1945 Amer. dial.
– RAG to be foggy; to rain slightly …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– RAIN BLACK CATS to rain very heavily …1969 Amer. dial.
– RAIN BLUE BLAZES to rain hard …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– RAIN BLUE THUNDERBOLTS to rain hard …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– RAIN BULL FROGS to rain hard …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– RAIN BULL FROGS AND HEIFER YEARLINGS to rain hard …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– RAIN BULLFROGS AND PITCHFORKS to rain very hard …1954 Amer. dial.
– RAIN BULLOCK STERKS to rain very hard …20C sl.
– RAIN BULL YEARLINGS to rain very hard …1967 Amer. dial.
– RAIN CATS AND DOGS to rain very heavily …1738
– RAIN CATS AND DOGS AND LITTLE NIGGER BABIES to rain heavily …1965 Amer. dial.
– RAIN CATS AND DOGS AND NIGGER BABIES to rain heavily …1965 Amer. dial.
– RAIN CURTAIN-RODS to rain hard …20C sl.
– RAIN DOWN BULL YEARLINGS to rain very hard …1967 Amer. dial.
– RAIN DOWN MONKEYS to rain heavily …1967 Amer. dial.
– RAIN DOWN NIGGER BABIES to rain heavily …1965 Amer. dial.
– RAIN DOWN TOAD-FROGS to rain heavily …1965 Amer. dial.
– RAIN DUKE GEORGES to rain heavily …1930s sl.
– RAIN FROGS AND HAPPY TOADS to rain heavily …1965 Amer. dial.
– RAIN GO-DEVILS to rain very hard …1932 Amer. dial.
– RAIN HAMMER HANDLES to rain very heavily …1968 Amer. dial.
– RAIN HAMMER HANDLES AND PITCHFORKS to rain very heavily …1968 Amer. dial.
– RAIN HATCHETS AND DUCKETS to rain very heavily (ducket = bill-hook) …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– RAIN HOPPY TOADS to rain heavily …1965 Amer. dial.
– RAIN HOP-TOADS to rain heavily …1965 Amer. dial.
– RAIN HUMP-TOADS to rain heavily …1965 Amer. dial.
– RAIN LIKE A BULL PISSING ON A FLAT ROCK to rain heavily …1950s sl.
– RAIN LIKE A COW PISSING ON A FLAT ROCK to rain heavily …1950s sl.
– RAIN LIKE A DUNKEN DOG to rain heavily …1930s sl.
– RAIN LIKE THE OLD HARRY to rain very hard …1991 Amer. dial.
– RAIN METHER to pour with rain …1888 Ireland
– RAIN NIGGER-BABIES to rain hard …Bk1942 Amer. sl., offensive
– RAIN PITCHFORKS  to rain very hard …1965 Amer. dial.
– RAIN PITCHFORKS AND BULL YEARLINGS to rain very hard …1967 Amer. dial.
– RAIN PITCHFORKS AND CHICKEN COOPS to rain in torrents …Bk1913 Amer. dial.
– RAIN PITCHFORKS AND DARNING NEEDLES to rain in torrents …Bk1913 Amer. dial.
– RAIN PITCHFORKS AND LITTLE NIGGER BABIES to rain heavily …1965 Amer. dial.
– RAIN PITCHFORKS AND NIGGER-BABIES to rain hard …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– RAIN PITCHFORKS AND SHOVELS to rain hard …19C sl.
– RAIN PITCHFORKS WITH THE TINES DOWNWARD to rain very heavily …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– RAIN PITCHFORKS WITH THE TINES ON BOTH ENDS to rain hard …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– RAIN PUPPY DOGS AND NIGGER BABIES to rain heavily …1965 Amer. dial.
– RAIN PUPS AND PUSSIES to rain very hard …1990 US sl.
– RAIN STAIR-RODS to rain hard …20C sl.
– RAIN TADPOLES to rain hard …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– RAIN THE DEVIL AND PITCHFORKS to rain very heavily …1966 Amer. dial.
– RAIN TOAD-FROGS to rain heavily …1965 Amer. dial.
– RAIN TOADS to rain heavily …1927 Amer. dial.
– RAIN TOADS AND FROGS to rain heavily …1965 Amer. dial.
– RAIN TOADS AND PITCHFORKS to rain heavily …1908 Amer. dial.
– RAIN TOMCATS AND NIGGER BABIES to rain heavily …1965 Amer. dial.
– RAIN TRAMS AND OMNIBUSES to rain hard …E20 sl.
– RASH to descend heavily; to dash down, as rain .,..1824 Sc.
– REEK AGAIN of rain: to come on very heavily …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SCAT to rain hard …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SCOUTHER to rain or snow slightly, to drizzle …Bk1904 Sc.
– SCOWDER to rain or snow slightly; to drizzle …1866 Sc. 
– SILE of rain: to pour down …1703 Eng. dial.
– TAKE OFF of the weather: to clear up; to cease raining or blowing …1878
– TIRL of rain: to sound on a roof …1886 rare
– WEATHER to rain, to storm …1896 Amer. dial.
 
RAINBOW – NOUNS
– BOW a rainbow …1930 Amer. dial.
– GAD a small rainbow in the horizon portending bad weather …Bk1900 Sc.
– HEAVEN-BOW a rainbow …c1320 obs.
– RAINY BOW the rainbow …a1649 obs.
– RAWN a fragment of a rainbow …B1900 Sc.
– WATER DOG a halo around the sun; a short strip of rainbow …1954 Amer. dial.
– WIND-GALL fragments of rainbows seen on detached clouds …1823 Amer. dial.
 
RAIN GAUGE – NOUNS
– RAIN-MACHINE a rain-gauge …1767 obs.
 
RAISE, RAISED, RAISING – ADJECTIVES
– ADDRESSED erected, raised …1595 obs.
– ADVANCED raised, elevated (physically) …1576 obs.
– ELATE lifted, raised …a1730 obs. rare
– ELATIVE that raises, elevates …1595 obs.
– SUBLEVATE raised, exalted …1523 obs.
– SUBLIMATE raised, elevated, exalted …1460 obs.
– UPPISH raised up …1891 Eng. dial.
– UPSEATED raised; exalted …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
 
RAISE etc. – NOUNS
– HANCING raising, elevation …1382 obs.
– RAISE the act of raising; uplifting, elevation …1538 obs.
– RAISEMENT the act of raising …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– SUBLEVATION the act of raising or lifting; elevation; also, a particular point of elevation or height …1556 obs.
 
RAISE etc. – VERBS
– ADDRESS to straighten up, to erect; to raise, to set up; to raise oneself, to stand erect; to assume an upright position …c1375 obs.
– ALLEVATE to raise up, to lift …1613 obs. rare
– ARRECT to raise, to lift up, to direct upwards …a1529 obs.
– BEYURN to raise …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– ELATE to lift on high, to raise, to elevate …1578 obs.
– EXTOL to lift up, to raise, to elevate …1549 obs.
– GROW OUT to raise, to bring up …1966 Amer. dial.
– HAIN to raise, to heighten, to set up …c1440 Eng. dial.
– HALSE to raise, to exalt, to hoist …c1500 obs.
– HANCE to raise, to lift, to elevate, to exalt …1303 obs.
– HANG UP to raise up, to lift …1942 Amer. dial.
– HAUSE to raise, to exalt, to hoist …c1500 obs.
– HAUT to raise, to elevate, to exalt …a1400 obs.
– HAWSE to raise, to exalt, to hoist …c1500 obs.
– HAWSE UP to raise, to lift …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– HEAVE to raise, to exalt, to elevate in feeling, dignity, etc.; to extol …c825 obs.
– HEAVE to lift, to raise, to bear up …971 now arch. or Eng. dial.
– HEIGN to raise; to heighten; to raise in price …1787 Eng. dial.
– HEYNE to raise; to heighten; to raise in price …1787 Eng. dial.
– HIGHEN to raise; to heighten; to raise in price …1787 Eng. dial.
– KECK to raise up one end of anything, esp. to tip up a cart in order to unload it …1884 Eng. dial.
– NANTLE to raise; to elevate gently …1820 Eng. dial.
– NAUNTLE to raise, to rear; to elevate; to rise up …1820 Eng. dial.
– NONTLE to raise; to elevate gently …1820 Eng. dial.
– ONHEAVE;  ONHEVE to lift up, to raise …971 obs.
– PAISE to raise with a lever; to force open; to lift …1783 Eng. dial.
– PAZE to raise with a lever; to force open; to lift …1783 Eng. dial.
– REAR to raise up, to prop up in a perpendicular or semi-perpendicular position …1849 Eng. dial.
– REAST to raise with a lever …1881 Eng. dial.
– RELEVATE to raise, to elevate …1623 obs.
– SUBLEVATE to raise, to lift up, to elevate …1597 obs.
– SUBLIMATE to raise to a high place, dignity, or honour …c1566 obs.
– SUBRIGE to raise up; to lift up by little and little …1623 obs.
– TAIT to lift up, to raise; to get into a high position …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– UPCAST to raise up …1873 Eng. dial.
– UPHOLD to raise …1899 Sc.
– VERE to raise up; to uplift …a1300 obs.
– WAIVE UP to raise up …Bk1905 Sc.
 
​RAISIN – NOUNS
– LENTEN FIG a raisin …Bk1908 Eng. dial.
 
RAKE (tool) – NOUNS
– FORK TAIL a rake or fork handle …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– RATELL a rake (tool) …1489 obs. rare
– TAIL a rake …1914 Amer. dial.