| ablactate | (verb) gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk | Synonyms: wean |
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| ablactation | (noun) the act of substituting other food for the mother's milk in the diet of a child or young mammal | Synonyms: weaning |
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| (noun) the cessation of lactation | - |
| actable | (adjective) capable of being acted; suitable for the stage | - |
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| attractable | (adjective) capable of being magnetized or attracted by a magnet | - |
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| chemoattractant | (noun) a substance inducing positive chemotaxis in motile cells. | - |
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| contractable | (adjective) (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection | Synonyms: catching, communicable, contagious, transmissible, transmittable |
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| exacta | (noun) a bet that you can pick the first and second finishers in the right order | Synonyms: perfecta |
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| extractable | (adjective) capable of being extracted | Synonyms: extractible |
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| extractant | (noun) an immiscible liquid used to extract a substance from another liquid. | - |
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| fractal | (noun) (mathematics) a geometric pattern that is repeated at every scale and so cannot be represented by classical geometry | - |
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| galactagogue | (noun) agent that induces milk secretion | - |
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| intractability | (noun) the trait of being hard to influence or control | Synonyms: intractableness |
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| intractable | (adjective) not tractable; difficult to manage or mold | - |
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| intractableness | (noun) the trait of being hard to influence or control | Synonyms: intractability |
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| intractably | (adverb) in an intractable manner | - |
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| jactation | (noun) (pathology) extremely restless tossing and twitching usually by a person with a severe illness | Synonyms: jactitation |
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| lactalbumin | (noun) albumin occurring in milk | - |
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| lactase | (noun) any of a group of enzymes (trade name Lactaid) that hydrolyze lactose to glucose and galactose | Synonyms: Lactaid |
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| lactate | (noun) a salt or ester of lactic acid | - |
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| (verb) give suck to | Synonyms: breastfeed, give suck, nurse, suck, suckle, wet-nurse |
| lactating | (adjective) producing or secreting milk | Synonyms: wet |
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| lactation | (noun) feeding an infant by giving suck at the breast | Synonyms: suckling |
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| (noun) the production and secretion of milk by the mammary glands | - |
| (noun) the period following birth during which milk is secreted | - |
| nonretractable | (adjective) not capable of being retracted | Synonyms: nonretractile |
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| reactance | (noun) opposition to the flow of electric current resulting from inductance and capacitance (rather than resistance) | - |
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| reactant | (noun) a chemical substance that is present at the start of a chemical reaction | - |
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| retractable | (adjective) capable of being retracted | - |
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| surfactant | (noun) a chemical agent capable of reducing the surface tension of a liquid in which it is dissolved | Synonyms: surface-active agent, wetter, wetting agent |
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| tractability | (noun) the trait of being easily persuaded | Synonyms: flexibility, tractableness |
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| tractable | (adjective) easily managed (controlled or taught or molded) | Synonyms: manipulable |
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| (adjective) responsive to suggestions and influences | Synonyms: amenable |
| tractableness | (noun) the trait of being easily persuaded | Synonyms: flexibility, tractability |
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| unactable | (adjective) not actable | - |
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