rasp¹ /räsp/

1. A coarse file
2. Anything with a similar surface
3. A mollusc's tongue
4. An insect's stridulating apparatus
5. A risp at a door
6. A grating sound or feeling

1. To grate as if with a rasp
2. To grate upon
3. To risp
4. To utter gratingly

1. To have a grating effect
2. To scrape, as on a fiddle

raspˈatory noun

A surgeon's rasp

raspˈer noun

1. Someone or something that rasps
2. In hunting, a difficult fence (informal)

raspˈing noun

1. A filing
2. (in pl) fine breadcrumbs used as a coating for food before frying, etc

Grating, harsh

raspˈingly adverb

• contradistinctive
• contradistinguish
• contradistinguished
• contradistinguishes
• contradistinguishing
• contrafagotto
• contrafagottos
• contraflow
• contraflows
• contragestion
• contragestions
• contragestive
• contrahent
• cypress
• cypresses
• cypress knee
• cypress knees
• cypress swamp
• cypress swamps
• cypress vine
• cypress vines
• despond
• desponded
• despondence
• despondences