car n. Motor car built for racing.

- driver n. Driver of a racing car.

n. - belief in the superiority of a particular race; prejudice based on this.

- antagonism towards other races. racist n. & adj.

n. (also racquet) 1 bat with a round or oval frame strung with catgut, nylon, etc., used in tennis, squash, etc.

- (in pl.) Game like squash, played in a court of four plain walls. [french raquette from arabic rahat palm of the hand]

- n. - disturbance, uproar, din.

- slang a scheme for obtaining money etc. By dishonest means. B dodge; sly game.

- colloq. Line of business. [perhaps imitative]

n. (also raccoon) (pl. Same or -s) 1 n. American mammal with a bushy tail and sharp snout.

- its fur. [algonquian]

—n. Red ochre. —v. (-ling) 1 colour with raddle or too much rouge.

- (as raddled adj.) Worn out. [related to *ruddy]

—adj. - of or in rays.

- a arranged like rays or radii. B having spokes or radiating lines. C acting or moving along lines diverging from a centre.

- (in full radial-ply) (of a tyre) having fabric layers arranged radially and the tread strengthened. —n. Radial-ply tyre. radially adv. [medieval latin: related to *radius]

n. Si unit of angle, equal to an angle at the centre of a circle the arc of which is equal in length to the radius (1 radian is approx. 57°).

n. - plant with a fleshy pungent root.

- this root, eaten esp. Raw. [latin *radix]

n. Radioactive metallic element orig. Obtained from pitchblende etc., used esp. In radiotherapy.

n. (pl. Radii or radiuses) 1 a straight line from the centre to the circumference of a circle or sphere. B length of this.

- distance from a centre (within a radius of 20 miles).

- a thicker and shorter of the two bones in the human forearm. B corresponding bone in a vertebrate's foreleg or a bird's wing. [latin]