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Definition: RETENE |
RETENENoun1. A white crystalline hydrocarbon, polymeric with benzene. It is extracted from pine tar, and is also found in certain fossil resins. |
Etymology: Retene \Ret"ene\, noun. [from Greek expression pine resin.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: RETENE |
| English words defined with "RETENE": Retistene. (references) |
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). | |
| Words rhyming with "RETENE" (pronounced 'Ret"ene'): Leucoxene, Melene, Proxene. (additional references) |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 45 54 45 4E 45 |
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