Words starting with ratchetef
Maybe these words will be useful:
- ratcheted — a toothed bar with which a pawl engages.
- ratchet — a toothed bar with which a pawl engages.
- ratchet effect — intermittent growth, increase, expansion, or the like: the ratchet effect of defense expenditures.
- ratchet jack — a screw jack rotated by a ratchet mechanism.
- ratchet wheel — a wheel, with teeth on the edge, into which a pawl drops or catches, as to prevent reversal of motion or convert reciprocating motion into rotatory motion.
- ratcheting — a toothed bar with which a pawl engages.
- ratchet down — If something ratchets down or is ratcheted down, it decreases by a fixed amount or degree, and seems unlikely to increase again.
- ratchet up — If something ratchets up or is ratcheted up, it increases by a fixed amount or degree, and seems unlikely to decrease again.
- ratch — a ratchet.