Words in english starting with R

• retrograde — Adjective – English ～ going from better to worse
• retrogress — Verb – English ～ go back to bad behavior; "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals"
• retrogress — Verb – English ～ get worse or fall back to a previous condition
• retrogression — Noun – English ～ returning to a former state
• retrogression — Noun – English ～ passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form
• retrogressive — Adjective – English ～ going from better to worse
• retronym — Noun – English ～ a word introduced because an existing term has become inadequate; "Nobody ever heard of analog clocks until digital clocks became common, so `analog clock' is a retronym"
• Retrophyllum — Noun – English ～ small genus of tropical evergreen dioecious shrubs or trees of Oceania and tropical South America
• retrorocket — Noun – English ～ a small rocket engine on a larger rocket or spacecraft that is fired to slow or alter its course
• retrorse — Adjective – English ～ bent or curved backward or downward; "leaves with retrorse barbs"
• retrospect — Noun – English ～ contemplation of things past; "in retrospect"
• retrospect — Verb – English ～ look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember; "she reviewed her achievements with pride"
• retrospection — Noun – English ～ memory for experiences that are past; "some psychologists tried to contrast retrospection and introspection"
• retrospection — Noun – English ～ reference to things past; "the story begins with no introductory retrospections"
• retrospective — Noun – English ～ an exhibition of a representative selection of an artist's life work
• retrospective — Adjective – English ～ concerned with or related to the past; "retrospective self-justification"
• retrospectively — Adverb – English ～ in a manner contemplative of past events; "retrospectively, he seems like a great artist"
• retrousse — Adjective – English ～ (used of noses) turned up at the end; "a retrousse nose"; "a small upturned nose"
• retroversion — Noun – English ～ returning to a former state
• retroversion — Noun – English ～ translation back into the original language; "the teacher translated Latin texts into English which he gave to his students for retroversion"

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