9-Letter Words Containing: RAST_

• small genus of perennial herbs having rhizomes and palmate leaves and small solitary flowers; of northeastern United States and Japan

• sexual relations between a man and a boy (usually anal intercourse with the boy as a passive partner)

• having sharp differences between black and white

• a man who has sex (usually sodomy) with a boy as the passive partner

• the opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared

• the act of distinguishing by comparing differences

• a conceptual separation or distinction

• the perceptual effect of the juxtaposition of very different colors

• the range of optical density and tone on a photographic negative or print (or the extent to which adjacent areas on a television screen differ in brightness)

• put in opposition to show or emphasize differences

• to show differences when compared; be different