15-letter words containing ret
- (one's) regrets — a polite expression of regret, as at declining an invitation
- andrew of crete — a.d. c650–730, Greek poet and Orthodox archbishop of Crete.
- antiretrovirals — Plural form of antiretroviral.
- antitheoretical — opposed to or contradicting a theory
- at full stretch — If you are at full stretch, your arm is straight and extended as far as possible, usually because you are trying to reach something that is almost too far away.
- carriage return — a mechanism on a typewriter that causes the carriage to return to the left side of the paper
- cauliflowerette — a single floret from the head of a cauliflower.
- chief secretary — (in Britain) the second most senior Treasury post, after the Chancellor of the Exchequer
- chorioretinitis — (medicine) An inflammation of the choroid and retina of the eye.
- cigarette paper — a piece of thin paper rolled around tobacco to form a cigarette
- cigarette smoke — the acrid smoke produced by cigarettes being smoked
- cinder concrete — concrete having small coal clinkers as an aggregate.
- concrete jungle — If you refer to a city or area as a concrete jungle, you mean that it has a lot of modern buildings and you think it is ugly or unpleasant to live in.
- concrete number — a number referring to a particular object or objects, as in three dogs, ten men
- concrete poetry — poetry in which the visual form of the poem is used to convey meaning
- concrete syntax — (language, data) The syntax of a language including all the features visible in the source code such as parentheses and delimiters. The concrete syntax is used when parsing the program or other input, during which it is usually converted into some kind of abstract syntax tree (conforming to an abstract syntax). In communications, concrete syntax is called transfer syntax.
- detached retina — a retina that is separated from the choroid layer of the eyeball to which it is normally attached, resulting in loss of vision in the affected part
- discretionarily — subject or left to one's own discretion.
- duty to retreat — a legal principle that requires a person as a first response to back away or flee from a threatening situation rather than attempt self-defense by deadly force: Duty to retreat has always been a debatable doctrine.
- electrophoretic — Of, pertaining to, or produced by electrophoresis.
- false decretals — the Pseudo-Isidorian documents.
- false pretences — fraud, deception
- false pretenses — If you do something under false pretenses, you do it when people do not know the truth about you and your intentions.
- first secretary — The First Secretary of the Welsh Assembly is the leader of the ruling party.
- flame retardant — a compound used in cloth and plastic material to raise the ignition point of the material, thus making it resistant to fire.
- flame-retardant — Flame-retardant is the same as fire-retardant.
- in its entirety — completely, wholly
- indiscretionary — lack of discretion; imprudence.
- interpretations — Plural form of interpretation.
- knight banneret — banneret1 (def 2).
- mechlorethamine — a nitrogen mustard, C 5 H 1 1 Cl 2 N, used in combination with other drugs in the treatment of Hodgkin's disease and certain other cancers.
- medieval breton — the Breton language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 12th to the mid-17th centuries.
- misinterpreting — Present participle of misinterpret.
- moreton bay ash — an Australian eucalyptus tree, E. tessellaris, having drooping branches and grey bark
- moreton bay bug — a flattish edible shellfish, Thenus orientalis, of Northern Australian waters
- moreton bay fig — a large Australian fig tree, Ficus macrophylla, having glossy leaves and smooth bark
- non-retaliation — the act of retaliating; return of like for like; reprisal.
- norethandrolone — An anabolic steroid.
- pandorae fretum — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars.
- post-retirement — the act of retiring, withdrawing, or leaving; the state of being retired.
- press secretary — a person officially responsible for press and public relations for a prominent figure or organization and who often holds press conferences to answer journalists' questions.
- pretentiousness — characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter.
- preternaturally — out of the ordinary course of nature; exceptional or abnormal: preternatural powers.
- pretty pictures — (scientific computation) The next step up from numbers. Interesting graphical output from a program that may not have any sensible relationship to the system the program is intended to model, but good for showing to management.
- retail business — a firm which sells goods to individual customers
- retail politics — a political strategy or campaign style of meeting and speaking directly to as many voters as possible: New Hampshire is a state where retail politics are decisive. Not every candidate is good at retail politics.
- retained income — retained earnings.
- retained object — an object in a passive construction identical with the direct or indirect object in the active construction from which it is derived, as the picture in I was shown the picture, which is also the direct object in the active construction (They) showed me the picture.
- retirement fund — A retirement fund is a special fund which people pay money into so that, when they retire from their job, they will receive money regularly as a pension.
- retirement home — care facility for elderly people
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