Words containing retro
6 letter words containing retro
- retro- — Retro- is used to form adjectives and nouns which indicate that something goes back or goes backwards.
8 letter words containing retro
- retroact — to act in opposition; react.
- retrofit — to modify equipment (in airplanes, automobiles, a factory, etc.) that is already in service using parts developed or made available after the time of original manufacture.
- retronym — a term coined in modification of an original term that was used alone (as acoustic guitar instead of guitar ) to distinguish it from a term referring to a later development (as electric guitar ). Other examples of retronyms are snail mail and analog watch .
- retrorse — turned backward.
- retrovir — a brand of the drug zidovudine
9 letter words containing retro
- retrocede — to go back; recede; retire.
- retrodict — to make estimates about (the past) using information from the present or other events from the past. Used in fields such as archaeology, climatology, and financial analysis
- retrofire — to ignite (a retrorocket).
- retroflex — bent backward; exhibiting retroflexion.
- retroject — to throw backwards
10 letter words containing retro
- retrochoir — that part of a church behind the choir or the main altar.
- retrograde — moving backward; having a backward motion or direction; retiring or retreating.
- retrogress — to go backward into an earlier and usually worse condition: to retrogress to infantilism.
- retrospect — contemplation of the past; a survey of past time, events, etc.
- retroviral — A retroviral is any one of a group of viruses, many of which produce tumors, that contain RNA and reverse transcriptase (= an enzyme that copies RNA into DNA), including the virus that causes AIDS.
11 letter words containing retro
- 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.
- retroengine — a small rocket on a spacecraft which is fired to alter its course or slow it down
- retrolental — located or occurring behind a lens, as of the eye.
12 letter words containing retro
- retrocession — to cede back: to retrocede a territory.
- retrocognate — being or pertaining to memory or extrasensory perception of past events.
- retrodiction — the act or result of retrodicting
- retrodictive — of or relating to retrodicting or retrodiction
- retroflexion — a bending backward.
13 letter words containing retro
- retroactively — operative with respect to past occurrences, as a statute; retrospective: a retroactive law.
- retrofittable — to modify equipment (in airplanes, automobiles, a factory, etc.) that is already in service using parts developed or made available after the time of original manufacture.
- retrofittings — acts of retrofitting
- retroflection — a bending backward.
- retrogression — the act of retrogressing; movement backward.
14 letter words containing retro
- antiretroviral — inhibiting the process by which a retrovirus replicates
- nonretroactive — not retroactive
- retrocognition — the paranormal ability or occurrence of seeing into the past
- retrocomputing — /ret'-roh-k*m-pyoo'ting/ Refers to emulations of way-behind-the-state-of-the-art hardware or software, or implementations of never-was-state-of-the-art; especially if such implementations are elaborate practical jokes and/or parodies, written mostly for hack value, of more "serious" designs. Perhaps the most widely distributed retrocomputing utility was the "pnch(6)" or "bcd(6)" program on V7 and other early Unix versions, which would accept up to 80 characters of text argument and display the corresponding pattern in punched card code. Other well-known retrocomputing hacks have included the programming language INTERCAL, a JCL-emulating shell for Unix, the card-punch-emulating editor named 029, and various elaborate PDP-11 hardware emulators and RT-11 OS emulators written just to keep an old, sourceless Zork binary running.
- retrodirective — (of a mirror, reflector, etc.) having three reflecting surfaces so oriented that a ray of light is reflected in a direction parallel but opposite to its original direction.
15 letter words containing retro
- antiretrovirals — Plural form of antiretroviral.
- retro-operative — affecting or operating on past events; retroactive
- retroperitoneal — of or relating to the area behind the abdominal lining, where organs such as the kidneys and bladder are located
- retroreflection — of or relating to a surface, material, or device (retroreflector) that reflects light or other radiation back to its source; reflective.
- retroreflective — of or relating to a surface, material, or device (retroreflector) that reflects light or other radiation back to its source; reflective.
16 letter words containing retro
- retrocessionaire — a reinsurance company that accepts or takes a retrocession.
17 letter words containing retro
- non-retroactivity — operative with respect to past occurrences, as a statute; retrospective: a retroactive law.
- retrocessionaires — a reinsurance company that accepts or takes a retrocession.
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