| ANORETIC | • anoretic adj. Alternative form of anorexic. • anoretic n. Alternative form of anorexic. • ANORETIC adj. pertaining to anorexia, also ANORECTAL. |
| ANURETIC | • anuretic adj. (Medicine) Of, pertaining to or characterised by anuresis. • anuretic adj. (Medicine) Who has anuresis; unable to urinate. • ANURETIC adj. pertaining to inability to urinate. |
| APORETIC | • aporetic adj. Tending to doubt. • APORETIC adj. relating to aporia, a professed doubt of what to say or to choose. |
| APYRETIC | • apyretic adj. (Medicine) Without fever, free from fever. • APYRETIC adj. without fever. |
| DIERETIC | • dieretic adj. (Linguistics) Featuring diæresis. • dieretic adj. Written with a diæresis. • DIERETIC adj. of or like dieresis, the separation of two vowels into two syllables, also DIAERETIC. |
| DIURETIC | • diuretic adj. (Medicine, pharmacology) Increasing the amount or frequency of urination. • diuretic n. (Medicine, pharmacology) A drug or a substance that increases the rate of urine excretion. • DIURETIC adj. increasing the flow of urine. |
| ENURETIC | • enuretic adj. Pertaining to, or afflicted by, enuresis; tending to wet the bed. • enuretic n. A person who has enuresis. • ENURETIC n. one who is affected with enuresis. |
| HERETICS | • heretics n. Plural of heretic. • HERETIC n. one that upholds heresy. |
| HEURETIC | • heuretic n. Of or relating to discovery or invention. • heuretic n. (Logic) The branch of logic concerned with discovery or invention. • HEURETIC adj. of or relating to exploratory problem-solving methods that utilize self-educating techniques to improve performance, also HEURISTIC. |
| PARETICS | • paretics n. Plural of paretic. • PARETIC n. one affected with paresis. |
| PHORETIC | • phoretic adj. Of or pertaining to phoresis or to phoronts. • PHORETIC adj. relating to phoresy, an association in which one animal clings to another to ensure movement from place to place, as some mites use insects. |
| RETICENT | • reticent adj. Keeping one’s thoughts and opinions to oneself; reserved or restrained. • reticent adj. (Proscribed) Hesitant or not wanting to take some action; reluctant (usually followed by a verb in the infinitive). • RETICENT adj. tending to be silent. |
| RETICLES | • reticles n. Plural of reticle. • RETICLE n. a network of lines in the eyepiece of an optical instrument. |
| RETICULA | • reticula n. Plural of reticulum. • reticula n. (Anatomy) The reticular formation. • RETICULUM n. (Latin) a network. |
| RETICULE | • reticule n. A reticle; a grid in the eyepiece of an instrument. • reticule n. A small women’s bag made of a woven net-like material. • RETICULE n. a woman's workbag, or a little bag to be carried in the hand, originally of network. |