Words starting with reto

Words and definitions

Retold means: imp. & p. p. of Retell.

Retorsion means: Same as Retortion.

Retorted means: of Retort

Retorting means: of Retort

Retort means: To bend or curve back; as, a retorted line.

Retort means: To throw back; to reverberate; to reflect.

Retort means: To return, as an argument, accusation, censure, or incivility; as, to retort the charge of vanity.

Retort means: To return an argument or a charge; to make a severe reply.

Retort means: The return of, or reply to, an argument, charge, censure, incivility, taunt, or witticism; a quick and witty or severe response.

Retort means: A vessel in which substances are subjected to distillation or decomposition by heat. It is made of different forms and materials for different uses, as a bulb of glass with a curved beak to enter a receiver for general chemical operations, or a cylinder or semicylinder of cast iron for the manufacture of gas in gas works.

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.