Retorts is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RETORTS in dictionary:

VERB:
• RETORT, to answer back
• say something in answer to a remark, typically in a sharp, angry, or witty manner
• repay (an insult or injury)
• turn (an insult or accusation) back on the person who has issued it
• heat in a retort in order to separate or purify
• use (an opponent's argument) against them
NOUN:
• a sharp, angry, or witty reply
• a container or furnace for carrying out a chemical process on a large or industrial scale
• a glass container with a long neck, used in distilling liquids and other chemical operations
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to answer back sharply

Words related to RETORTS

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How to use RETORTS in a sentence

• It was marked by elaborate dialogue, by jests, retorts, and endless plays on words, rather than by action.
• He seemed seized with the crazy fancy, that his darling twenty-four-pounders were fragile, and might break, like glass retorts.
• Certain retorts sped through the air like the flight of household utensils, certain charges rang out like accusations of tampering with the groceries.
• No other gas-consumer will suffer, as he is prepared to keep the apparatus inflated from his own retorts.
• There is always more or less of this in gas, arising from a partial combustion in the retorts when charging them with coal or while withdrawing the exhausted charge.
• High heats and short charges in the retorts of the manufactory give a purer gas and a larger production.
• At the time these temperatures were taken, the retorts were each producing 10,000 cubic feet of gas per day.
• Whenever I try to convince him of his delusion, he invariably retorts by asking me for a rational explanation of what happened to him at the masked ball.
• As is shown in the plan, two sets of apparatus are worked side by side at Westminster, the seventy-two retorts shown in the drawings being divided into two systems of thirty-six.
• Experience, however, goes to prove that there is a limit to the diameter of the retorts beyond which the results become less satisfactory.
• The retorts so charged are closed at each end by a gun metal lid riveted on so as to be air tight.
• The retorts are first heated to a temperature of about 600 deg.
• Socrates retorts, that yet harder will be his own case, if he is compelled to stay and listen to them.
• The main pipe, which collects the vapours from the retorts, is nearly a yard in diameter.
• There are altogether 3804 retorts in operation, both vertical and horizontal.
• And Cheirisophus grimly retorts upon Xenophon, that Athenians are said to be great experts in stealing the public money, especially the high officers.
• From the mad gambols of the first figure comes a relief in sparkling calls of the brass and stirring retorts in pure ringing harmonies.
• Here stood a complete electric power plant, for lighting and heating the works, as well as for current to use in the retorts and many powerful machines of the testing works.
• Before them a broad, tiled bench held a strange assortment of test tubes, retorts and complex apparatus of glass and gleaming metal.
• This is peculiarly so at the Sevres pottery-works where I saw them making the moulds for retorts.

Similar words containing TORT without suffix s and without prefix re

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