| ATTRACTING | • attracting v. Present participle of attract. • ATTRACT v. to cause to approach or adhere. |
| ATTRACTION | • attraction n. The tendency to attract. • attraction n. The feeling of being attracted. • attraction n. (Countable) An event, location, or business that has a tendency to draw interest from visitors, and… |
| ATTRACTIVE | • attractive adj. Causing attraction; having the quality of attracting by inherent force. • attractive adj. Having the power of charming or alluring by agreeable qualities; enticing. • attractive adj. Pleasing or appealing to the senses, especially of a potential romantic partner. |
| 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. |
| EXTRACTING | • extracting v. Present participle of extract. • EXTRACT v. to draw out by force. |
| EXTRACTION | • extraction n. An act of extracting or the condition of being extracted. • extraction n. A person’s origin or ancestry. • extraction n. Something extracted, an extract, as from a plant or an organ of an animal etc. |
| EXTRACTIVE | • extractive adj. That serves to extract something. • extractive adj. That withdraws natural resources by extraction. • extractive adj. Able to be extracted. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| TRACTILITY | • tractility n. The quality of being tractile (capable of being drawn or stretched out at length). • TRACTILITY n. the state of being tractile. |
| TRACTIONAL | • tractional adj. Of, pertaining to, or caused by traction. • TRACTIONAL adj. relating to traction. |