| DETRACTING | • detracting v. Present participle of detract. • detracting n. Detraction; slander. • DETRACTING adj. taking away. |
| DETRACTION | • detraction n. The act of detracting something, or something detracted; taking away; diminution. • detraction n. A derogatory or malicious statement; a disparagement, misrepresentation or slander. • detraction n. (Roman Catholicism) The act of revealing previously unknown faults of another person to a third person. |
| DETRACTIVE | • detractive adj. Tending to detract or draw. • detractive adj. Tending to lower in estimation; depreciative. • DETRACTIVE adj. tending to detract, also DETRACTORY. |
| DETRACTORS | • detractors n. Plural of detractor. • DETRACTOR n. a belittler or disparager. |
| DETRACTORY | • detractory adj. (Now rare) That detracts from something; disparaging, depreciatory. • DETRACTORY adj. tending to detract, also DETRACTIVE. |
| RACETRACKS | • racetracks n. Plural of racetrack. • race␣tracks n. Plural of race track. • RACETRACK n. a track on which races take place. |
| RETRACKING | • retracking v. Present participle of retrack. • RETRACK v. to retrace one's steps. |
| RETRACTILE | • retractile adj. That can be retracted (as a cat’s claws). • RETRACTILE adj. capable of retraction, like the claws of a cat. |
| RETRACTING | • retracting v. Present participle of retract. • RETRACT v. to take back. |
| RETRACTION | • retraction n. An act or instance of retracting. • retraction n. A statement printed or broadcast in a public forum which effects the withdrawal of an earlier assertion… • retraction n. (Mathematics) A continuous function from a topological space onto a subspace which is the identity on that subspace. |
| RETRACTIVE | • retractive n. That which retracts or withdraws. • retractive adj. Serving to retract; of the nature of a retraction. • RETRACTIVE adj. serving to retract. |
| RETRACTORS | • retractors n. Plural of retractor. • RETRACTOR n. something that retracts. |
| SIDETRACKS | • sidetracks v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sidetrack. • side␣tracks n. Plural of side track. • SIDETRACK v. to divert or turn aside. |
| TETRACAINE | • tetracaine n. (Pharmacology) A crystalline basic ester C15H24N2O2 that is closely related chemically to procaine and… • TETRACAINE n. a crystalline basic ester. |
| TETRACHORD | • tetrachord n. (Music) Any set of four different pitch classes. • tetrachord n. (Music) A series of four sounds, forming a scale of two-and-a-half tones. • TETRACHORD n. a series of four sounds, forming a scale of two tones and a half. |
| TETRACTINE | • tetractine adj. Tetractinal; having four rays. • tetractine n. A spicule (of a sponge) that has four branches. • TETRACTINE n. a sponge spicule having four rays, also TETRACTINAL. |