11-letter words containing ret
- nonsecretor — a person of blood group A, B, or AB, whose saliva does not contain the antigens of their blood group
- on retainer — hired, engaged, etc. by a retainer2 (sense 2)
- open secret — something supposedly secret but actually known quite generally.
- overstretch — to stretch excessively.
- pretendedly — in a manner of pretence
- pretensions — the laying of a claim to something.
- pretentious — characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter.
- preterhuman — beyond what is human: preterhuman experience.
- preterition — the act of passing by or over; omission; disregard.
- preteritive — (of verbs) limited to past tenses.
- preterlegal — being beyond the scope or limits of law.
- preterminal — situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
- preticketed — having or furnished with a ticket beforehand: preticketed passengers.
- pretraining — the education, instruction, or discipline of a person or thing that is being trained: He's in training for the Olympics.
- pretty much — mostly
- prettyprint — /prit'ee-print/ (Or "pretty-print") To generate "pretty" human-readable output from a hairy internal representation; especially used for the process of grinding program code.
- pretzel key — feature key
- regrettable — causing or deserving regret; unfortunate; deplorable.
- regrettably — causing or deserving regret; unfortunate; deplorable.
- reinterpret — to give or provide the meaning of; explain; explicate; elucidate: to interpret the hidden meaning of a parable.
- retail park — A retail park is a large specially built area, usually at the edge of a town or city, where there are a lot of large shops and sometimes other facilities such as cinemas and restaurants.
- retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers
- retaliation — the act of retaliating; return of like for like; reprisal.
- retaliative — to return like for like, especially evil for evil: to retaliate for an injury.
- retaliatory — to return like for like, especially evil for evil: to retaliate for an injury.
- retardation — the act of retarding or state of being retarded.
- retentivity — the power to retain; retentiveness.
- reticulated — netted; covered with a network.
- retinaculum — Anatomy, Zoology. any of various small structures that hook, clasp, or bind other structures to move them or hold them in place.
- retinal rod — any of the elongated cylindrical cells in the retina of the eye, containing the visual purple (rhodopsin), which are sensitive to dim light but not to colour
- retinispora — any member of the genus Retinispora, of conifers which grow in the east of Asia and in the east and west of North America
- retinopathy — any diseased condition of the retina, especially one that is noninflammatory.
- retinoscope — an apparatus that determines the refractive power of the eye by observing the lights and shadows on the pupil when a mirror illumines the retina; skiascope.
- retinoscopy — an objective method of determining the refractive error of an eye.
- retired pay — retirement pay; pension
- retiredness — the state or quality of being retired or in retirement
- retraceable — to trace backward; go back over: to retrace one's steps.
- retractable — to withdraw (a statement, opinion, etc.) as inaccurate or unjustified, especially formally or explicitly; take back.
- retractible — to withdraw (a statement, opinion, etc.) as inaccurate or unjustified, especially formally or explicitly; take back.
- retrainable — able to be retrained
- retransform — to transform back, again or differently
- retranslate — to translate (something that has already been translated)
- retreatists — the rejection of culturally prescribed goals and the conventional means for attaining them.
- retribution — requital according to merits or deserts, especially for evil.
- retributive — characterized by or involving retribution: retributive justice.
- retributory — characterized by or involving retribution: retributive justice.
- retrievable — to recover or regain: to retrieve the stray ball.
- retroaction — action that is opposed or contrary to the preceding action.
- retroactive — operative with respect to past occurrences, as a statute; retrospective: a retroactive law.
- retrobulbar — situated behind the eyeball.