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Words starting with retr

5 letter words starting with retr

  • retro — retroactive: retro pay.
  • retry — to attempt to do or accomplish: Try it before you say it's simple.

6 letter words starting with retr

  • retral — at or toward the back; posterior.
  • retree — imperfectly made paper, or paper that is available because of overproduction
  • retrim — to trim again
  • retro- — Retro- is used to form adjectives and nouns which indicate that something goes back or goes backwards.

7 letter words starting with retr

  • retrace — to trace again, as lines in writing or drawing.
  • retrack — to track again
  • retract — to withdraw (a statement, opinion, etc.) as inaccurate or unjustified, especially formally or explicitly; take back.
  • retrade — the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.
  • retrain — to train again, especially for a different vocation or different tasks.

8 letter words starting with retr

  • retracer — someone or something which retraces
  • retraitt — a portrait
  • retrench — to cut down, reduce, or diminish; curtail (expenses).
  • retrieve — to recover or regain: to retrieve the stray ball.
  • retroact — to act in opposition; react.

9 letter words starting with retr

  • retractor — a person or thing that retracts.
  • retrained — to train again, especially for a different vocation or different tasks.
  • retrainee — a person who is being retrained.
  • retreaded — to put a new tread on (a worn pneumatic tire casing) either by recapping or by cutting fresh treads in the smooth surface.
  • retreated — the forced or strategic withdrawal of an army or an armed force before an enemy, or the withdrawing of a naval force from action.

10 letter words starting with retr

  • retracking — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
  • retractile — capable of being drawn back or in, as the head of a tortoise; exhibiting the power of retraction.
  • retraction — the act of retracting or the state of being retracted.
  • retractive — tending or serving to retract.
  • retraining — the process of teaching people, esp workers, new skills

11 letter words starting with retr

  • 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

12 letter words starting with retr

  • retractively — in a retractive manner
  • retranscribe — to make a written copy, especially a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material).
  • retrenchment — the act of retrenching; a cutting down or off, as by the reduction of expenses.
  • retrievement — a retrieval
  • retrocession — to cede back: to retrocede a territory.

13 letter words starting with retr

  • retranslation — the rendering of something into another language or into one's own from another language.
  • retransmitted — to send or forward, as to a recipient or destination; dispatch; convey.
  • retributivism — a policy or theory of criminal justice that advocates the punishment of criminals in retribution for the harm they have inflicted.
  • retributivist — a policy or theory of criminal justice that advocates the punishment of criminals in retribution for the harm they have inflicted.
  • retroactively — operative with respect to past occurrences, as a statute; retrospective: a retroactive law.

14 letter words starting with retr

  • retractability — to withdraw (a statement, opinion, etc.) as inaccurate or unjustified, especially formally or explicitly; take back.
  • retransmission — the act or process of transmitting.
  • retrievability — to recover or regain: to retrieve the stray ball.
  • 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.

15 letter words starting with retr

  • retrievableness — the state or quality of being retrievable
  • 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 starting with retr

  • retrocessionaire — a reinsurance company that accepts or takes a retrocession.

17 letter words starting with retr

On this page, we collect all words starting with RETR. To make easier to find the right word we have divided all 137 words to groups according to their length. So you should go to appropriate page if can’t find the word that beginning with RETR. that you are searching. Also you can use this page in Scrabble.

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