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Definitions: RETORTION |
RETORTIONTransitive verb1. Retaliation. 2. Act of retorting or throwing back; reflection or turning back. |
Crosswords: RETORTION |
| English words defined with "RETORTION": Retorsion. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "RETORTION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | إفحام الخصم, رد بالمثل. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | репресивна мярка (reprisal, retaliation, retort), обръщане назад, прегъване назад, извиване назад. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | odveta (backlash, reprisal, retaliation, retort, retribution, return, revenge, vengeance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | rétorsion (retaliation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | behajtás (exaction, getting back, housing, sag, tuck). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | etortionray retorção, represália (comeback, reprisal, requital, retaliation, retort, revenge, vengeance, victimization). (various references) ripostã (rejoinder, repartee, retort, riposte), replicã (catchword, counterpart, cue, imitation, rejoinder, remark, repartee, replication, reply, respond, response, retort, tag). (various references) реторсия, загибание назад. (various references) vraćanje istom merom, posuvraćenje. (various references) misilleme (answer, quittance, recompense, reprisal, requital, retaliation, retaliatory, retribution), geriye eğme, geriye doğru bükme, aynen karşılık verme (reprisal). (various references) sự uốn ngược trở lại sự đàn áp trả thù kiều dân nước ngoài, sự bẻ ngược trở lại. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "RETORTION" (pronounced 'Re*tor"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-n-o-o-r-r-t-t" | |
-2 letters: rootier, torrent, tortoni, tritone. | |
-3 letters: enroot, intort, ironer, norite, orient, retint, retorn, retort, rioter, ritter, rooter, rotten, rotter, territ, tinter, tonier, tooter, torero, torten, triter, triton. | |
-4 letters: inert, inter, intro, irone, niter, nitre, nitro, noter, oorie, otter, retro, rotor, rotte, tenor, titer, titre, toner, torot, torte, toter, trier, trine, trite, trone. | |
-5 letters: inro, into. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-n-o-o-r-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: intertroop. | |
+2 letters: extortioner, ornithopter, restoration, retroaction, trimetrogon. | |
+3 letters: extortionary, extortioners, interlocutor, interoceptor, interpolator, interrogator, ornithopters, restorations, retroactions, retrodiction, trigonometry, trimetrogons. | |
+4 letters: anticorporate, containerport, controverting, deterioration, gerontocratic, interlocutors, interlocutory, interoceptors, interpolators, interrogation, interrogators, interrogatory, orchestration, overnutrition, proportionate, protonotaries, reexportation, reforestation, reimportation, remonstration, reorientation, retrodictions, retroflection, retrospection, terrorization, trigonometric. | |
+5 letters: anthropometric, containerports, controvertible, corticosterone, deteriorations, erythropoietin, intercorporate, interrogations, nonretroactive, orchestrations, overextraction, overnutritions, overprotecting, overprotection, oversaturation, proportionated, proportionates, prothonotaries, reconstruction, reexportations, reforestations, reimportations, reintroduction, remonstrations, reorientations, retroflections, retrogradation, retrospections, terrorizations, trigonometries, trisoctahedron. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 45 54 4F 52 54 49 4F 4E |
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| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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