Phrase Hound found 54 phrases and 44 compound words that contain rays. The most common are listed below. Open rays in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 54
- cosmic raysplural of cosmic ray: Any of a range of subatomic particles, and thus also electromagnetic waves, that permeate the universe owing to their various origins within stars or from collisions outside stars. (Life on Earth is mostly shielded …
- gamma raysplural of gamma ray: Very high frequency (and therefore very high energy) electromagnetic radiation emitted as a consequence of radioactivity.
- rays of hopeplural of ray of hope: A good omen; a small but undependable chance of something positive to come.
- rays of lightplural of ray of light: A path that a photon or a group of photons takes through space, visible as a column of light.
- rays of sunshineplural of ray of sunshine: sunbeam, sunray
- alpha raysplural of alpha ray: A stream of alpha particles: a single ray of alpha radiation.
- bat raysplural of bat ray: Myliobatis californica, a kind of eagle ray.
- beta raysplural of beta ray: A stream of beta particles (fast-moving electrons propagating through a gas or vacuum), such as emitted by a radioactive substance.
- death raysplural of death ray: A beam of radiation that can kill.
- delta raysplural of delta ray: An electron ejected by recoil when a rapidly moving alpha particle or other charged particle passes through matter.
- devil raysplural of devil ray: Any of the rays of the genus Mobula, especially Mobula birostris, the manta ray.
- eagle raysplural of eagle ray: Any of a group of cartilaginous fishes in the family Myliobatidae, consisting mostly of large species living in the open ocean rather than on the sea bottom.
- electric raysplural of electric ray: Any of the group of rays of the order Torpedodiniformes, which can produce an electric discharge.
- god raysplural of god ray: A visible shaft of light.
- heat-raysplural of heat-ray: A weapon that fires a beam of extremely high temperature.
- light raysplural of light ray: A ray of light.
- N-raysplural of N-ray: A discredited hypothetical form of radiation described in 1903.
- T-raysplural of T-ray: An electromagnetic wave with a frequency intermediate between, and sharing the properties of, short radio waves and long infrared waves, generally in the 0.1 to 10 terahertz (THz) band of frequencies.
- X-raysplural of X-ray: A ray of short-wavelength electromagnetic radiation usually produced by bombarding a metal target in a vacuum. Used to create images of the internal structure of objects; this is possible because X-rays pass through most …
- Blu-raysplural of Blu-ray: The Blu-ray Disc format.
- hard X-raysplural of hard X-ray: An X-ray with high photon energies above 5–10 keV.
- soft X-raysplural of soft X-ray: The lowest energy, lowest frequency, longest wavelength end of the X-ray EM band, overlapping with EUV (extreme ultraviolet).
- cathode raysplural of cathode ray: A ray consisting of a stream of electrons in a vacuum tube that are emitted by the cathode and accelerated towards the anode by an electric field.
- spotted eagle raysplural of spotted eagle ray: A large ray, Aetobatus narinari, that inhabits benthic waters of the Atlantic and Pacific.
- manta raysplural of manta ray: Any of several very large pelagic rays formerly of the genus Manta, now placed in genus Mobula, with winglike pectoral fins, a long tail, and two fins resembling horns that project from the head.
Compound words 44
- portraysthird-person singular simple present indicative of portray: To paint or draw the likeness of.
- betraysthird-person singular simple present indicative of betray: To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly.
- stingraysplural of stingray: Any of various large, venomous rays, of the orders Rajiformes and Myliobatiformes, having a barbed, whiplike tail.
- sunraysplural of sunray: A beam of sunlight; a sunbeam.
- affraysplural of affray: To startle from quiet; to alarm.
- Cambraysplural of Cambray: A community in Kawartha Lakes, central Ontario, Canada, named for the literary works of the Archbishop of Cambrai.
- Cordraysplural of Cordray: A surname.
- deathraysplural of deathray: A beam of radiation that can kill.
- defraysthird-person singular simple present indicative of defray: To pay or discharge (a debt, expense etc.); to meet (the cost of something).
- Degraysplural of Degray: A surname from Dutch.