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RETENE

Definition: RETENE

RETENE

Noun

1. A white crystalline hydrocarbon, polymeric with benzene. It is extracted from pine tar, and is also found in certain fossil resins.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Retene \Ret"ene\, noun. [from Greek expression pine resin.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: RETENE

English words defined with "RETENE": Retistene. (references)

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Derivations: RETENE

Derivations

Words beginning with "RETENE": retenes. (additional references)

Words containing "RETENE": concreteness, concretenesses, discreteness, discretenesses. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "RETENE"

Words rhyming with "RETENE" (pronounced 'Ret"ene'): Leucoxene, Melene, Proxene. (additional references)

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Anagrams: RETENE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: entree, eterne, teener.

Words within the letters "e-e-e-n-r-t"

-1 letter: enter, rente, terne, treen.

-2 letters: erne, rent, rete, teen, tern, tree.

-3 letters: ere, ern, nee, net, ree, ret, tee, ten.

-4 letters: en, er, et, ne, re.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-e-n-r-t"
 

+1 letter: entered, enterer, entrees, externe, preteen, reenter, retenes, teeners, teenier, terpene, terreen, terrene.

 

+2 letters: cementer, centered, cerement, decenter, decentre, deferent, efferent, emergent, enervate, enfetter, enterers, eternise, eternize, extender, externes, generate, greenest, greenlet, internee, lateener, neutered, preteens, pretence, pretense, recenter, reenters, referent, relented, renested, repented, repenter, repetend, resented, retinene, returnee, revehent, reverent, serenate, serenest, teenager, teensier, tendered, tenderer, tenebrae, tentered, terebene, terpenes, terreens, terrenes, venerate, yestreen.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: RETENE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 45 54 45 4E 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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