Refractory is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for REFRACTORY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a stubborn person
• a substance that is resistant to heat.
• A refractory person.
• Refractoriness.
• OPottery) A piece of ware covered with a vaporable flux and placed in a kiln, to communicate a glaze to the other articles.
• lining consisting of material with a high melting point; used to line the inside walls of a furnace
ADJECTIVE:
• unruly, stubborn
• stubborn or unmanageable
• resistant to a process or stimulus
• (of a person, illness, or diseased tissue) not yielding to treatment
• (of a person or animal) resistant to infection
• (of a substance) resistant to heat; hard to melt or fuse
• Obstinate in disobedience; contumacious; stubborn; unmanageable; as, a refractory child; a refractory beast.
• Resisting ordinary treatment; difficult of fusion, reduction, or the like; -- said especially of metals and the like, which do not readily yield to heat, or to the hammer; as, a refractory ore.
• not responding to treatment
• temporarily unresponsive or not fully responsive to nervous or sexual stimuli
• stubbornly resistant to authority or control
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• resisting control or authority; stubborn, unmanageable

Words related to REFRACTORY

refractary18 refractories17 refractorily20 refractoriness19

How to use REFRACTORY in a sentence

• Most of the refractory states admitted to Roman citizenship.
• A few drops of its milk, put into the mouth of a refractory slave, or again into the food of a cruel master, could cause swelling, choking, and burning agony for many hours.
• However base and treacherous and low her reason told her Frederic Hoff must be, her refractory heart persisted in beating faster at the prospect of his coming.
• Those measures having proved unsuccessful, it became necessary to convince the refractory of the power of the United States to punish their depredations.
• The hot air stove should be well lined with refractory clay, in order to prevent the iron from getting red hot, and the grate should be of relatively wide surface.
• But Clearchus wanted the entire army to give its mind to no one else, and that refractory people should be put out of the way.
• Often he dispensed with forceps and extracted a refractory tooth with his thumb and finger.
• So far from manifesting a refractory disposition, her face was covered with her hands, and tears of shame and mortification were stealing through the fingers.
• I am convinced when a prison is properly managed it is unnecessary, because, by firm and gentle management, the most refractory may be controlled by their own sex.
• Narind escaped and joined a refractory tallookdar, and Seoruttun and Hunooman did the same.
• This ignited coal appeared to very advantageously replace the refractory bricks, the role of which it exactly fulfilled.
• Unfortunately this scheme is frustrated by the arrival of the guard, who arrest the refractory hero and carry him off to gaol.
• Clement refused to deal with them, because their commonwealth was still refractory.
• She understood literature and the beauties of poetry, but it was too late to cultivate her refractory memory.
• I am really at a loss to conjecture what our refractory sister will say on this occasion.
• There was a considerable movement in the city yesterday consequent on desperate attempts to enlist refractory citizens in marching battalions.
• One refractory inmate in ours would have been especially calamitous.
• The garrison alone of the Castle of Edinburgh continued refractory.
• And being determined that the sword should carry conviction to all refractory minds, they prepared themselves, with great vigilance and activity, for their military enterprises.
• His majesty now tried whether the refractory lord could not be brought to a proper sense of his duty.
• That the obstinate and refractory might not escape further persecution, a new device was fallen upon.
• Like Henry Martyn he was made by strong and even merciless self-discipline over a strong and for a long time refractory nature.
• When he was not smoking he was whistling, and when he was doing neither, and the needle proved refractory in his cold fingers, he was swearing to himself.
• One refractory fellow, while working in a numerous gang at Toongabbie, threw down his hoe, advanced before the rest, and gave three cheers for liberty.
• As Wood struggled with his refractory bullet it started for him.
• For example, he was one day driven from his study at Oberlin by a refractory stovepipe which persisted in tumbling down.
• She was small and demure, but her attitude towards him was that of a nurse towards a refractory child.
• But, whether such a statistical record exists or not, there can be little doubt that cases of refractory conduct prevail most largely in the warm season.

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