Words starting with ret

Words and definitions

Ret means: See Aret.

Ret means: To prepare for use, as flax, by separating the fibers from the woody part by process of soaking, macerating, and other treatment.

Retable means: A shelf behind the altar, for display of lights, vases of wlowers, etc.

Retail means: The sale of commodities in small quantities or parcels; -- opposed to wholesale; sometimes, the sale of commodities at second hand.

Retail means: Done at retail; engaged in retailing commodities; as a retail trade; a retail grocer.

Retailed means: of Retail

Retailing means: of Retail

Retail means: To sell in small quantities, as by the single yard, pound, gallon, etc.; to sell directly to the consumer; as, to retail cloth or groceries.

Retail means: To sell at second hand.

Retail means: To distribute in small portions or at second hand; to tell again or to many (what has been told or done); to report; as, to retail slander.

Words and definitions

Zythum means: A kind of ancient malt beverage; a liquor made from malt and wheat.

Zythepsary means: A brewery.

Zythem means: See Zythum.

Zymotic means: Designating, or pertaining to, a certain class of diseases. See Zymotic disease, below.

Zymotic means: Of, pertaining to, or caused by, fermentation.

Zymosis means: A zymotic disease.

Zymosis means: A fermentation; hence, an analogous process by which an infectious disease is believed to be developed.

Zymose means: Invertin.

Zymophyte means: A bacteroid ferment.

Zymosimeter means: An instrument for ascertaining the degree of fermentation occasioned by the mixture of different liquids, and the degree of heat which they acquire in fermentation.