8-letter words containing ret
- dosseret — a supplementary capital or thickened abacus, as in Byzantine architecture.
- electret — A permanently polarized piece of dielectric material, analogous to a permanent magnet.
- endureth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of endure.
- entirety — The whole of something.
- enuretic — Pertaining to, or afflicted by, enuresis; tending to wet the bed.
- erethism — Excessive sensitivity or rapid reaction to stimulation of a part of the body, especially the sexual organs.
- excreted — Simple past tense and past participle of excrete.
- excretes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of excrete.
- feretory — a container for the relics of a saint; reliquary.
- ferreted — Simple past tense and past participle of ferret.
- ferreter — A person who hunts with ferrets.
- firetrap — a building that, because of its age, material, structure, or the like, is especially dangerous in case of fire.
- florette — a small flower.
- floweret — a small flower; floret.
- foretake — (transitive) To take, receive, or adopt beforehand; assume.
- foretell — to tell of beforehand; predict; prophesy.
- foretime — former or past time; the past.
- foretold — to tell of beforehand; predict; prophesy.
- foretops — Plural form of foretop.
- fret saw — a long, narrow-bladed saw used to cut ornamental work from thin wood. Compare coping saw.
- fretfull — Archaic form of fretful.
- fretless — Describing a stringed instrument that does not have frets.
- fretsome — Fretful, fidgety, restless.
- fretting — to feel or express worry, annoyance, discontent, or the like: Fretting about the lost ring isn't going to help.
- fretwork — ornamental work consisting of interlacing parts, especially work in which the design is formed by perforation.
- garreted — having a garret or garrets
- gretchen — a female given name, form of Margaret.
- heretick — Obsolete form of heretic.
- heretics — Plural form of heretic.
- heretrix — a female inheritor, heiress
- hundreth — Eye dialect of hundredth.
- incretin — (biochemistry) A gastrointestinal hormone causing an increase in the amount of insulin released from the beta cells of the islets of Langerhans after eating, even before blood glucose levels become elevated.
- intirety — Archaic spelling of entirety.
- keiretsu — (especially in Japan) a loose coalition of business groups.
- lanneret — the male lanner, which is smaller than the female.
- lauretta — a female given name, form of Laura.
- leverets — Plural form of leveret.
- libretti — (music, rare) Plural form of libretto.
- libretto — the text or words of an opera or similar extended musical composition.
- lucretia — Also, Lucrece [loo-krees] /luˈkris/ (Show IPA). Roman Legend. a Roman woman whose suicide led to the expulsion of the Tarquins and the establishment of the Roman republic.
- margaret — a female given name: from a Greek word meaning “pearl.”.
- masorete — one of the writers or compilers of the Masorah.
- minarets — Plural form of minaret.
- nazareth — a town in N Israel: the childhood home of Jesus.
- offereth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of offer.
- operetta — a short opera, usually of a light and amusing character.
- pillaret — a small pillar.
- pretaste — a taste of what may be experienced later
- pretence — pretending or feigning; make-believe: My sleepiness was all pretense.
- pretense — pretending or feigning; make-believe: My sleepiness was all pretense.