Raw

Definition: Raw

Raw

Adjective

1. (used especially of commodities) in the natural unprocessed condition; "natural yogurt"; "natural produce"; "raw wool"; "raw sugar"; "bales of rude cotton".

2. Having the surface exposed and painful; "a raw wound".

3. Not treated with heat to prepare it for eating.

4. Not processed or refined; "raw sewage".

5. Devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure; "naked ambition"; "raw fury"; "you may kill someone someday with your raw power".

6. Brutally unfair or harsh; "received raw treatment from his friends"; "a raw deal".

7. Not processed or subjected to analysis; "raw data"; "the raw cost of production"; "only the crude vital statistics".

8. Untempered and unrefined; "raw talent"; "raw beauty".

9. Unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North Atlantic".

10. : inflamed and painful; "his throat was raw"; "had a sore throat".

11. : used of wood and furniture; "raw wood".

12. : lacking training or experience; "the new men were eager to fight"; "raw recruits"; "he was still wet behind the ears when he shipped as a hand on a merchant vessel".

13. : (used informally) completely unclothed.

Noun

1. Informal terms for nakedness; "in the raw"; "in the altogether"; "in his birthday suit".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "raw" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Literature

Medicine

Mining

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Raw

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Raw

Cold

Adjective: cold, cool; chill, chilly; icy; gelid, frigid, algid; fresh, keen, bleak, raw, inclement, bitter, biting, niveous, cutting, nipping, piercing, pinching; clay-cold; starved. (made cold); chilled to the bone, shivering. Verb: aguish, transi de froid; frostbitten, frost-bound, frost-nipped.

Combatant

Levy, draught; Landwehr, Landsturm; conscript, recruit, cadet, raw levies.

Fear

Bug bear, bugaboo; scarecrow; hobgoblin; (demon); nightmare, Gorgon, mormo, ogre, Hurlothrumbo, raw head and bloody bones, fee-faw-fum, bete noire, enfant terrible.

Learner

Recruit, raw recruit, novice, neophyte, inceptor, catechumen, probationer; seminarian, chela, fellow-commoner; debutant.

Materials

Noun: material, raw material, stuff, stock, staple; adobe, brown stone; chinking; clapboard; daubing; puncheon; shake; shingle, bricks and mortar; metal; stone; clay, brick crockery; compo, composition; concrete; reinforced concrete, cement; wood, ore, timber.

Adjective: raw; (unprepared); wooden; Noun: adobe.

Newness

Adjective: new, novel, recent, fresh, green; young; evergreen; raw, immature, unsettled, yeasty; virgin; untried, unhandseled, untrodden, untrod, unbeaten; fire-new, span-new.

Nonpreparation

Rough copy; (plan); germ; raw material.

Adjective: unprepared; without preparation; incomplete; rudimental, embryonic, abortive; immature, unripe, kachcha, raw, green, crude; coarse; rough cast, rough hewn; in the rough; unhewn, unformed, unfashioned, unwrought, unlabored, unblown, uncooked, unboiled, unconcocted, unpolished.

Physical Pain

Painful; aching. Verb: sore, raw.

Resentment

Cause anger, raise anger; affront, offend; give offense, give umbrage; anger; hurt the feelings; insult, discompose, fret, ruffle, nettle, huff, pique; excite; irritate, stir the blood, stir up bile; sting, sting to the quick; rile, provoke, chafe, wound, incense, inflame, enrage, aggravate, add fuel to the flame, fan into a flame, widen the breach, envenom, embitter, exasperate, infuriate, kindle wrath; stick in one's gizzard; rankle &e.; hit on the raw, rub on the raw, sting on the raw, strike on the raw.

Sensibility

Die of a rose in aromatic pain; touch to the quick; touch on the raw, touch a raw nerve.

Unskillfulness

Inapt, unapt; inhabile; untractable, unteachable; giddy; (inattentive); inconsiderate; (neglectful); stupid; inactive; incompetent; unqualified, disqualified, ill-qualified; unfit; quackish; raw, green, inexperienced, rusty, out of practice.

Crosswords: Raw

Spoilin' nice fish. Give it to us raw and wigglin' (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

Brilliant gold taps, virginal white marble, a seat carved from ebony, a cistern full of chanel number five, and a flunky handing me pieces of raw silk toilet roll (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge)

Brilliant gold taps, virginal white marble, a seat carved from ebony, a cistern full of Chanel No. 5, and a flunky handing me pieces of raw silk toilet roll (Trainspotting; writing credit: John Hodge. Based on the novel by Irvine Welsh.)

I thought only I could repel women with that kind of raw efficiency (Patch Adams; writing credit: Patch Adams; Maureen Mylander)

I have a remedy for what ails you. One raw sardine swallowed whole with goat's milk (Raw Wind in Eden; writing credit: Dan Lundberg; Elizabeth Wilson)

You moves are so raw (Need You Tonight; performing artist: INXS)

I'll skin your ass raw (Break Stuff; performing artist: Limp Bizkit)

Ran up my card for carrying raw loads (Got Your Money; performing artist: Ol' Dirty Bastard)

The crow flew over the river with a lump of raw liver. (references; author: unknown)

Raw Love (1965)

The Raw Ones (1965)

Raw Weekend (1964)

London in the Raw (1964)

Europe in the Raw (1963)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The 2001 Report on Wholesale Farm-Product Raw Materials: World Market Segmentation by City (reference)

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Raw, Solid Beet and Cane Sugars in Austria (reference)

• Shanghai Municipal Raw Water Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Raw Hides and Skins Excluding Furskins in Latin America (reference)

• The 2002 World Forecasts of Raw Hides, Skins, and Furskins Export Supplies (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Raw (reference)

• Raw Family : A true Story of Awakening (reference)

• Raw Silk (reference)

• Sunfood Cuisine: A Practical Guide to Raw Vegetarian Cuisine (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Market News Service For Pharmaceutical Raw Materials (reference)

• Raw (reference)

• Raw Vision (reference)

• Steelmaking Raw Materials Monthly (reference)

• World Commodity Forecasts : Industrial Raw Materials (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• WWE - Best of Raw 1-2 (reference)

• Eddie Murphy - Raw (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Raw (reference)

• Raw Collection (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• WWE Raw (reference)

• ATOM FUSION RAW DRIVE KIT (reference)

• Hewlett Packard Surestore Netstorage 6000 4X36Gb 144Gb Raw Capacity (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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(1) color slide shows a group of four or five raw string beans. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer).

(3) color slides show a single piece of raw corn with husk stripped away to see the yellow corn. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer).

Trichinosis, or trichinellosis, is caused by eating raw or undercooked pork infected with the larvae of a species of worm called Trichinella. Initial symptoms include nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, fatigue, fever, and abdominal discomfort. Credit: CDC.

Raw image of Cydonia Mensae. Credit: NASA.

Initial arrival of the "raw fish habitat". Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

From seed planting to yarnmaking, cotton textile production in the United States benefits from many labor-saving devices. One such invention developed by the Agricultural Research Service speeds accurate assessment of fiber quality in raw cotton. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Sweet, juicy strawberries not only taste good, they're also full of nutrition. Low in calories and carbohydrates, the raw fruit is a good source of fiber potassium, iron, and vitamin C. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller..

The Raw Meat System, or Gentlemen in training for Pedestrian Exercises. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

A warrior eating raw flesh, Adowa. Credit: Library of Congress.

What every husband knows. Now children, not another word! It's raw and chilly and you ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

They are dislodged by new industries, whose introduction becomes a life and death question for all civilised nations, by industries that no longer work up indigenous raw material, but raw material drawn from the remotest zones; industries whose products are consumed, not only at home, but in every quarter of the globe. (reference)

There shall be specially applied towards the amortisation of these bonds the payments which Germany is pledged to make in conformity with Article 235, after deduction of the sums used for the reimbursement of expenses of the armies of occupation and for payment of foodstuffs and raw materials. (reference)

No one in any country has slept less well in their beds because this knowledge and the method and the raw materials to apply it, are at present largely retained in American hands. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

This raw infantry showed enthusiasm

It was a raw spring morning and his eyes were still smarting and weak

The air and the sky darkened and through them the sun shone redly, and there was a raw sting in the air.

I found some shellfish on the shore, and ate them raw, not daring to kindle a fire, for fear of being discovered by the natives

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Wash raw vegetables thoroughly before eating. (references)

Do not eat raw oysters or other raw shellfish. (references)

Keep raw meat separate from ready-to-eat foods. (references)

Business

About two thirds of Italy’s plastic raw materials are imported. (references)

This includes substitution of raw materials, recycling and reuse. (references)

Local companies dominate because of availability of local raw materials. (references)

Civil Liberties

Guinea-Bissau

The national printing press, the only facility for publishing newspapers in the country, often lacked the raw materials to publish them. (references)

Economic History

Burundi

Other principal exports include tea and raw cotton. (references)

Latvia

Both raw materials and labor are available at low cost. (references)

Political Economy

SWEDEN

Most raw materials are imported duty free. (references)

MALAYSIA

Like import duties, however, this sales tax is not applied to raw material and machinery used in export production. (references)

NIGERIA

There continues to be pressure from Nigerian manufacturers on the government to lower tariffs on raw material inputs and machinery. (references)

Trade

Philippines

All raw materials are exempted from registration. (references)

Bangladesh

An inspection certificate is required for exports of raw jute. (references)

Sri Lanka

GST is not due on raw material imports to businesses located within free trade zones. (references)

Travel

Nigeria

Untreated water, ice and peeled fruits and raw vegetables should be avoided. (references)

Costa Rica

Seafood is perfectly safe when properly cooked but it should never be eaten raw. (references)

Mexico

Raw salads should not be consumed, all fruits should be peeled, only pasteurized dairy products should be consumed, and meat should be ordered well done. (references)

Worker Rights

Belarus

Reportedly factories often required workers to take unpaid furloughs caused by shortages of raw materials and energy and a lack of demand for factory output. (references)

Pakistan

The BLLF states that it freed 820 bonded brick kiln workers (including 351 children) in 1999. Bonded labor, including bonded child labor, reportedly is used in the production of carpets for export under the peshgi system, by which a worker is advanced money and raw materials for a carpet he promises to complete. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "raw": a raw deal ♦ be on the raw ♦ coniferous raw wood category ♦ create from raw material ♦ create from raw stuff ♦ creating from raw materials ♦ get a raw deal ♦ grated raw ♦ hit on the raw ♦ in the raw ♦ it's a raw deal ♦ life in the raw ♦ make raw ♦ on the raw ♦ pickle raw ♦ raw alcohol ♦ raw and chilly ♦ raw asbestos ♦ raw beauty ♦ raw boned ♦ raw brandy ♦ raw coke oven gas ♦ raw cotton ♦ raw count ♦ raw data ♦ raw deal ♦ raw edge ♦ raw edges ♦ raw flax ♦ raw fuel ♦ raw fuel output ♦ raw gas ♦ raw ham ♦ raw hand ♦ raw head and bloody bones ♦ raw hide ♦ raw humus ♦ raw ils ♦ raw image ♦ raw juice ♦ Raw juice therapy ♦ raw levies ♦ raw material ♦ raw materials ♦ raw materials and supplies ♦ raw materials for further manufacturing ♦ raw meal ♦ raw meat ♦ raw milk ♦ raw mix ♦ raw mixture ♦ raw mode ♦ raw numbers ♦ raw pig ♦ raw produce ♦ raw product ♦ raw recruit ♦ raw score ♦ raw sienna ♦ raw silk ♦ raw silk thread ♦ raw sludge ♦ raw spiced salmon ♦ raw spirits ♦ raw steel ♦ raw stuff ♦ raw sugar ♦ raw talent ♦ raw throat ♦ raw umber ♦ raw vegetable ♦ raw water ♦ raw weather ♦ raw wood ♦ raw wool ♦ raw wound ♦ rub on the raw ♦ sting on the raw ♦ strike on the raw ♦ touch a raw nerve ♦ touch on the raw ♦ touch smb. on the raw. Additional references.

Beginning with "raw": raw-arsed, raw-boned, raw-edged, raw-flesh-eating, raw-handedly, raw-knuckled, raw-limbed, raw-looking, raw-material, raw-material source, raw-nerved, raw-onion.

Ending with "raw": red-raw.

Containing "raw": red-raw-with-feeling.

Afrikaans

rou (crude, rough, unrefined, unwrought). (various references)

Albanian

rrok (catch, grasp, grip, gripe, snatch), i papërvojë (callow, greener, half-baked, inexperienced, sucking, unexperienced, unpractical, unpractised, unschooled, unskilled, unsophisticated, unversed), fshikulloj lëkurë me kamzhik, gjë e papunuar, i gjallë (above ground, alive, animate, animated, breathing, brisk, buckish, buoyant, busy, canty, colorful, colourful, crude, dapper, dashing, dynamic, elastic, erect, fresh, frisky, glowing, graphic, graphical, green, humming, intense, jocund, keen, larky, live, lively, living, mercurial, nimble, noisy, perky, pert, picturesque, playful, poignant, quick, red blooded, saucy, skittish, smart, snappy, spirited, sprightly, spry, uncooked, vital, vivacious, vivid), i lagët (damp, humid, moist, outlying, poachy, wet), i paargasur (unexperienced), i pagatuar, aguridh (green, uncooked, unripe), i pandershëm (base, conscienceless, dark, devious, dirty, dishonest, disreputable, ill gotten, knavish, mean, rascally, roguish, unfaithful, unscrupulous, unsportsmanlike), zhvoshkje (decoration, excoriation, husking, rawness), i papasuruar, i papjekur (childish, half-baked, immature, slack-baked, unbacked, unbaked, uncooked, underripe, unripe, unseasoned), i papunuar (uncultivated, undeveloped), i pazier (unboiled, uncooked, underdone), i zhvoshkur (flaked), zhvoshk (bark, cut off, excoriate, excorticate, rind, shell, shuck), i pamësuar (artless, inexpert, unaccustomed, uncustomary, undisciplined, unfamiliar, unlearned, unlettered, unused). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مسلوخ عنه الجلد, ‏قليل الخبرة (amateurish, callow, green), ‏غر (artless, calf's, callow, child, decoy, half-witted, inexperienced, naive, rude, stranger, unskilled, young), ‏صاف (bright, clear, fair, fine, lucid, net, pellucid, perspicuous, placid, pure, puristic, round, serene, sincere, stark, unclouded), ‏صريح (bare, bluff, candid, categorical, communicative, crude, direct, downright, expansive, explicit, flat, forthcoming, forthright, frank, genuine, guileless, honest, ingenuous, open, open-hearted, outright, outspoken, overt, palpable, plain, plain spoken, plump, point blank, pronounced, round, simple-hearted, steady, straight, straightforward, transparent, unreserved, unvarnished), ‏جاهل (artless, benighted, blockhead, ignorant, illiterate, innocent, nescient, primitive, rude, simple, unaware, unlettered, untaught), ‏بارد جدا (bleak, frosty, gelid, icy, perishing cold), ‏بارد (bleak, boring, chilly, cold, coldish, cool, coolly, dank, distant, flat, glacial, meaningless, phlegmatic, phlegmatical, silly, unfriendly, wintry). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ожулено място (abrasion, chafe, graze, scrape), недопечен (doughy, half-baked, half-done, rare, samel, slack-baked, sodden, underdone), недообработен (rough-wrought, unfinished), недоварен (half-done, sodden, underdone), неопитен (callow, coltish, fresh, green, inexpert, maiden, sucking, unexperienced, unpractised, unschooled, unseasoned, unsophisticated, untutored, unversed, unworldly, verdant, young), неопечен (unbaked), необогатен, необработен (crude, rough, rude, uncultivated, uncultured, undressed, waste), нецензурен (dirty, fie-fie, hot, lewd, obscene, raunchy, ribald, rich, ripe, smoking room, unquotable), несправедлив (inequitable, iniquitous, one-legged, partial, unfair, unjust, unrighteous, wrong, wrongful), несварен, пронизващ (cutting, harsh, keen, searching, strident, thrilling), ожулен (chafed), суров (austere, coarse, crude, dour, draconian, flinty, green, grim, hard, harsh, iron, iron-bound, rigorous, rough, rude, rugged, severe, smart, stiff, uncharitable, uncooked, uncouth, unpitying, unseasoned), ожулвам (abrade, gall, rase, raze, rub sore, scrape, sting), отворен (abroach, exposed, flat, open, patent, slack, unclosed, wide), отворена рана, влажен (damp, dank, humid, juicy, madid, moist, plashy, soft, soggy, sticky, watery, wet), вулгарен (caddish, coarse, common, doggish, gross, gutter, loud, low, low-minded, raffish, scurrilous, underbred, unedifying, vulgar), гол (bald, bare, callow, goal, harsh, naked, nude, unfledged, ungloved), груб (abrupt, bearish, boeotian, brusque, callous, churlish, clownish, clumsy, coarse, coarse grained, common, crude, cubbish, curt, earthy, feral, glaring, graceless, gross, gruff, hard boiled, harsh, heavy, hoggish, homespun, horny, loutish, low, material, outlandish, raspy, raucous, rough, rough-shod, rowdy, rude, rugged, russet, rusty, short, surly, tough, uncivil, uncouth, wild and woolly), кървящ (bleeding), рана (cut, hurt, incision, slash, wound), силно възпален, студен (algid, asepsis, bleak, bloodless, cold, cool, dead, frigid, frosted, frosty, gelid, iced, icy, impassive, inhuman, repulsive, stony, unapproachable, undersexed, unloving, unresponsive, winterly, wintry), одирам (abrade, excoriate, flay, flench, flense, skin, soak, tear off). (various references)

Catalan

cru. (various references)

Chinese 

原 (cause, clay sheep buried with the dead, former, level, original, primary, source), 未加工 (unprocessed). (various references)

Czech

syrový (green, uncooked, unseasoned), prvotní (original, prime, primeval, primitive), otevřený (above board, avowed, barefaced, blunt, direct, Frank, free-spoken, honest, open, open-hearted, outspoken, overt, plainspoken, straightforward, unclosed, undone, unreserved), odřenina (abrasion, scrape), odřený (bare, chafed, scratched, sore), nezpracovaný, nezkušený (green, inexperienced, unseasoned, unskillful, unworldly), hrubý (abusive, blue, boorish, brut, brutish, coarse, coarsened, crass, crude, foul-mouthed, grating, gross, gruff, harsh, howling, knockabout, leathery, low, outrageous, rough, rough and ready, ruddy, rude, rustic, scabrous, sylvan, uncouth, uneven, unmannerly, unprintable, vulgar), drsný (abrasive, broad, coarse, crude, grating, gruff, harsh, heavy, inclement, intemperate, leathery, offhand, ragged, raucous, rigorous, rough, ruddy, scabrous, severe, stark, unkind). (various references)

Danish

rå (uncooked). (various references)

Dutch

onbewerkt (crude, rough, unrefined, unwrought), onbehouwen (crude, rough, uneducated, unrefined, unwrought), grof (abusive, coarse, common, crude, everyday, harsh, rough, unrefined, unwrought, vulgar), cru (crude, rough, unrefined, unwrought), bot (abrupt, addled, blunt, bone, crude, foolish, rough, stupid, unrefined, unwrought). (various references)

Esperanto

nekuirita (uncooked), kruda (crude, rough). (various references)

Faeroese

ráur (crude, rough, unrefined, unwrought). (various references)

Farsi 

نپخته , نارس (Green, Immature, Jejune, Premature, Unripe), کال (Unripe), سرد (Arctic, Cool, Distant, Fresh), خام (Crude, Halfbaked, Impolite, Rude, Simple), جریحه دارکردن (Harrow, Hurt), جریحه دار, بی تجربه (Green, Gunshy, Halfbaked, Immature, Inexpert, Unskilled(Lful), Verdant). (various references)

Finnish

raaka (brutal, coarse, crude, green, not ripe, rough, rude, unrefined, unripe, unwrought, yard). (various references)

French

cru (raw meal, raw mix, raw mixture), brut. (various references)

German

roh (barbarous, brute, crude, earthy, low-bred, ordinary, rare, rough, roughly, ruffianly, uncooked, undressed, unhewn, unrefined, untreated, unwrought), rauh (abrasive, bleak, bleakly, coarse, crude, gnarled, grating, gravelly, gruff, harsh, harshly, hoarse, husky, inclement, inclemently, raucous, raucously, rough, roughly, rugged, scraggly, severe, sore, stark, throatily, throaty, tough, unrefined, unwrought, wild). (various references)

Greek 

ωμός (crude, uncooked). (various references)

Hawaiian

aguridh (green, uncooked, unripe). (various references)

Hebrew 

חסר נסיון (inexperienced), גלמי (crude, inchoate, pupal, rude), גלום (amorphous, concealed, crude, hidden, inchoate, latent, mantle, robe, wrapped in), טרי (fresh). (various references)

Hungarian

nyirkos (clammy, damp, dank, humid, moist, muggy, oozy, soggy), nyers (assertive, blunt, brusque, burly, coarse, concrete, crude, ecru, feral, gruff, harsh, pure, ramage, rough cast, rough spoken, rude, rugged, surly, undressed). (various references)

Icelandic

hrár (uncooked). (various references)

Indonesian

mentah (unripe), kasar (abrupt, abusive, artless, blunt, boorish, broad, brutal, brutish, crass, crude, curt, disrespectful, gruff, menial, rude, unkind, vulgar). (various references)

Italian

crudo (crude, piping, rough, unrefined, unwrought), greggio (crude, unrefined). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

生生しい (fresh, green, lively), 生々しい (fresh, green, lively), 生 (crude, draft, pure, undiluted, unprocessed), 原 (field, fundamental, moor, original, plain, prairie, primary, primitive, tundra, wilderness), レ点 (LAN, law, local, local area network, local color, local content, local minima, local news, local observer, low, low absorber, low angle, mark showing character order in Chinese texts, row, tick mark), 未熟 (immature, inexperience, inexperienced, unripeness, unskilled). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ロー (law, low, row), なまなましい (fresh, green, lively), なま (draft, unprocessed), げん (bow string, chord, fundamental, handle, not to be touched, original, primary, primitive, remark, serious, statement, string, word), みじゅく (immature, inexperience, inexperienced, unripeness, unskilled), き (10th in rank, 6th in rank, chest, chronicle, coffer, crude, deed, lean on, mood, period, plan, pure, rest against, rice tub, rule, season, season word or phrase, sixth sign of the Chinese calendar, skill, spirit, table, tenth sign of the Chinese calendar, that, timber, time, tree, undiluted, wood, yellow). (various references)

Korean 

익지않는 (Rawer, Rawest). (various references)

Manx

glass (ashen, ashen colour, bond, callow of youth; trigger, callow; trigger, green, green of nature, grey, grey of animal, iron; lock, pale, pasty, sappy, soft, stream, unfledged, verdant), garroo (boisterous, coarse, coarse-fibred, crude, dirty, dirty of weather, hairy, harsh, husky, ill-mannered, jagged, low, naughty, pockmarked, rough, rough-and-tumble, rough-spoken, rude, rugged, scraggy, stormy, stormy as sea, stubbly, uncouth, undressed, uneven, uneven as ground, vulgar), aw (crude, uncooked, undressed), anoayllagh (coltish, ignorant, infrequent, unacquainted, uninformed). (various references)

Papiamen

kurú (uncooked), krudo (crude, rough, unrefined, unwrought). (various references)

Pig Latin

awray.(various references)

Portuguese

cru (crude, indigested, rare, rawhide, rough, unbaked, unbleached, unboiled, uncooked). (various references)

Romanian

crud (brutal, brutally, callous, callow, crude, cruel, cruelly, cut throat, dire, foully, gory, green, hard, harsh, immature, merciless, ruthless, sanguinary, savage, savagely, sodden, sour, truculent, unfeeling, violent, violently, wolfish, young). (various references)

Russian 

ссадить кожу (gall), ссадина (abrasion, chap, erosion, excoriation, gall, galling, scratch), сырье (crude, primaries, raw material, raw materials, raw stuff, stock), сырой;грубый;необработанный (crude), сырой (crude, dabby, damp, dank, green, humid, madid, moist, muggy, poachy, sodden, soggy, unboiled, uncooked, wet), сдирать кожу (flay), кровоточащий, грубый (bad, barbaric, barbarous, bearish, beastly, bestial, blunt, boeotian, boor, boorish, brusque, brutal, brute, brute-force, brutish, churlish, clownish, coarse, common, crass, crude, curmudgeonly, currish, fresh, fulsome, gross, gross ear, gruff, hard bitten, hardhanded, harsh, heathenish, homespun, horny, ill-bred, ill-mannered, ill-natured, jazz, larrikin, loutish, low down, low-lived, rank, raucous, rawhide, ribald, robust, rough, rough and ready, rude, scratchy, scurrilous, uncivil, uncultivated, unfinished, unhewn, unmannerly, vulgar, woolly), невареный, неочищенный (impure, unrefined), необученный (undisciplined, uninstructed, unschooled, unskilled, untaught, untrained), необработанный (coarse, crude, green, rude, undeveloped, undressed, unimproved, unrefined, untilled), незрелый (crude, embryonic, green, half-baked, immature, puerile, unbaked, unripe, verdant). (various references)

Scottish

amh (crude, dull, lifeless, unsodden). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ranjavo mesto (gall, sore), ranjav (sore), sirov (coarse, crude, gothic, rude, underdone), presan (uncooked), ojesti, neizvežban (rusty), izranjaviti (wound), hladan (algid, chill, chilled, cold, cool, passionless). (various references)

Spanish

crudo (crude, green, rough, uncooked, unrefined, unwrought), bruto (a b c, a.b.c., abc, beast, brute, brutish, coarse, crude, currish, gross, sod, stupid). (various references)

Sranan

lala (uncooked), kruwa (uncooked). (various references)

Swedish

rå (advise, bestial, boundary, brute, churlish, coarse, counsel, crude, damp and chilly, fairy, foul-mouthed, fresh, gross, primitive, rough, sprite, tough, uncooked, vulgar, yard), kulen (bleak). (various references)

Thai

เจ็บแสบ (แผล), ไม่มีประสบการณ์ (rookie, rooky), สภาพเปลือยเปล่า, หนาวเหน็บ, หยาบ (broad, hackly, indelicate, roughen, scabrous, tatty), ดิบ. (various references)

Turkish

hassas (brittle, climacteric, critical, delicate, emotional, exquisite, fair, feeling, fine, impressible, impressionable, nice, passibile, precision, queasy, quick, responsive, rose water, sensible, sensitive, slippery, sore, spoony, squeamish, susceptible, susceptive, tender, thin-skinned, ticklish, tickly, touchy), açık (aboveground, apparent, articulate, avowed, bare, blank, broad, candid, categorical, clean-cut, clear, clear-cut, cloudless, confessed, decided, declared, decollete, deficiency, deficient, deficient amount, deficit, definite, definitive, direct, distinct, downright, evident, expansive, explicit, exposed, express, expressly, fair, forthright, free, gaping, hospitable, in blank, light, loose, lucent, lucid, luminous, obvious, open, open air, open ended, outdoor, outright, overt, pale, patent, perspicuous, plain, point blank, precise, revealing, round, serene, shadowless, shirt-sleeve, shortage, shortfall, spread, Square, straightforward, swinging, translucent, unambiguous, unashamed, unclouded, uncomplicated, unconcealed, uncovered, uncrossed, undisguised, unequivocal, unlocked, unmistakable, unobstructed, unprotected, unsealed, upfront, vacant, visible, well-marked, wide open, wishywashy), açık saçık (bawdy, blue, dirty, disorderly, feelthy, filthy, foul, girlie, hard core, immodest, immodestly dressed, improper, indecent, lewd, obscene, off color, off colour, pornographic, racy, ripe, risky, risque, rough, salacious, salty, scabrous, shocking, smutty, spicy), açık yara (an open sore), acemi (apprentice, beginner, bungler, callow, catechumen, clumsy, colt, cub, dabster, green, greenhorn, guiltless, half-baked, inept, inexperienced, inexperienced hand, inexpert, jackaroo, johnny-come-lately, learner, neophyte, new, novice, Prentice, punk, recruit, runnynose, simple, stooge, strange, stranger, sucking, tenderfoot, tiro, trainee, tyro, unbaked, unfledged, unseasoned, unskilled, untrained, unversed, young, young in one's job), bamteli (lowest note string, sore spot, tender spot), deneyimsiz (half-baked, illiterate, inexperienced, inexpert, unpracticed, unpractised, unskilled, unsophisticated), derisi soyulmuş (skinned), derisi soyulmuş yer, haksız (false, gratuitous, ill gotten, inequitable, iniquitous, insupportable, invidious, tortious, uncalled for, undeserved, unearned, unequal, unfair, unjust, unjustified, unmerited, unrighteous, unwarranted, wrong, wrongful), çiğ (half-baked, unbaked, uncooked), hammadde (basic materials, commodity, producer goods, production goods, raw material, raw materials, staple, stock, stuff), yara (bruise, canker, cut, hurt, injury, lesion, scotch, sore, trauma, ulcer, wound), hassas nokta (sensitive spot, tender spot), işlenmemiş (crude, rough, rude, unbroken, uncommitted, uncultivated, uncut, undeveloped, undressed, unfinished, unlaboured, unreclaimed, untilled, unworked), kavrulmamış, müstehcen (bawdy, blue, dirty, filthy, gross, hard core, kinky, loathsome, nasty, obscene, off color, off colour, pornographic, racy, ribald, ripe, risky, risque, rough, salacious, shocking, smutty, suggestive, unprintable), olmamış (ragged, unripe), pişmemiş (unbaked, uncooked), saf (absolute, all, artless, candid, clean, clear, country bumpkin, credulous, deceivable, dewy-eyed, distilled, dupe, elemental, elementary, entire, facile, fine, genuine, greenhorn, gudgeon, guileless, gull, gullible, harmless, homespun, honest, immaculate, ingenuous, innocent, juggins, mere, naïve, pigeon, pristine, pure, pure-minded, rank, real, refined, simple, simple minded, simple simon, simple-hearted, sterling, unadulterated, unalloyed, unblended, uncontaminated, undiluted, unmixed, unsophisticated, unsuspicious, untutored, unworldly, witless), soğuk ve rutubetli, taze (crisp, dewy, fresh, freshly, green, hot, new, tender, warm), toy (beardless, callow, chicken, colt, dewy-eyed, green, greenhorn, inapt, inexperienced, naïve, punk, runnynose, tenderfoot, unworldly, verdant), ham (crude, green, immature, rude, uncut, unrefined, unripe). (various references)

Turkmen 

зygly (moist, wet). (various references)

Ukrainian

садно (abrasion, chafe, chap, galling, rawness), сировина (raw stuff), сирий (crude, dabby, damp, dank, moist, moisty, nebulous, poachy, splashy, wet), вогкий (dabby, damp, humid), неочищений, необроблений (coarse, crude, natural, nontreated, rough, uncultivated, undeveloped, undressed, unfinished, waste, wild), здирати шкіру (bark, excoriate). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vết thương đau buốt, sống non nớt, nói chuyện nhảm ông ba bị, mới vào nghề trầy da chảy máu, chưa tinh chế, chưa có kinh nghiệm (unexperienced), còn nguyên chất, cái chưa được gọt giũa, cái còn để nguyên chất chỗ trầy da chảy máu, ông ngáo ộp. (various references)

Welsh

noeth (bare, bleak, exposed, naked), llymrig (crude, slipshod), ir (fresh, green), cri (clamor, cry, fresh, new, unleavened), crai (fresh, new), amrwd (crude, uncooked). (various references)

crudo, crudum, crudus, rudis. (various references)

grene, hreaw. (various references)

ecru. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "raw": rawboned, rawer, rawest, rawhide, rawhided, rawhides, rawhiding, rawin, rawins, rawinsonde, rawinsondes, rawish, rawly, rawness, rawnesses, raws. (additional references)

Words ending with "raw": bedstraw, braw, craw, draw, foofaraw, jackstraw, misdraw, outdraw, overdraw, redraw, semiraw, straw, thraw, undraw, windlestraw, wiredraw, withdraw. (additional references)

Words containing "raw": becrawl, becrawled, becrawling, becrawls, bedstraws, brawer, brawest, brawl, brawled, brawler, brawlers, brawlie, brawlier, brawliest, brawling, brawls, brawly, brawn, brawnier, brawniest, brawnily, brawniness, brawninesses, brawns, brawny, braws, camerawoman, camerawomen, caraway, caraways, crawdad, crawdads, crawfish, crawfished, crawfishes, crawfishing, crawl, crawled, crawler, crawlers, crawlier, crawliest, crawling, crawls, crawlspace, crawlspaces, crawlway, crawlways, crawly, craws, drawable. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Raw" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arwe, eaw, fraw, oraw, raa, rad, raq, rau, Rauws, Rav, rawa, rawd, rawe, Rawl, rawp, raws, rawt, rawy, rax, razw, reaw, renw, req, Rew, rewb, rewk, rewl, rewn, rewo, rewp, riw, Rka, rowf, rowm, ruw, rw, rwa, ryw, uaw. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: war.

-1 letter: ar, aw.

+1 letter: awry, braw, craw, draw, raws, wair, ward, ware, wark, warm, warn, warp, wars, wart, wary, waur, wear, wrap.

+2 letters: arrow, award, aware, brawl, brawn, braws, crawl, craws, dewar, drawl, drawn, draws, dwarf, jowar, pawer, prawn, rawer, rawin, rawly, resaw, rewan, rewax, rowan, sawer, sewar, sowar, straw, sward, sware, swarf, swarm, swart, swear, tawer, thraw, trawl, wader, wafer, wager, wairs, waker, waler, wards, wared, wares, warez, warks, warms, warns, warps, warts, warty, water, waver, waxer, wears, weary, wharf, wirra, wrack, wrang, wraps, wrapt, wrath, wreak.