| caretaker | (noun) a custodian who is hired to take care of something (property or a person) | - |
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| (noun) an official who performs the duties of an office temporarily | - |
| cretaceous | (adjective) abounding in chalk | - |
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| excreta | (noun) waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body | Synonyms: body waste, excrement, excretion, excretory product |
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| foretaste | (noun) an early limited awareness of something yet to occur | - |
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| interpretable | (adjective) capable of being understood | Synonyms: explainable |
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| interpretation | (noun) the act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance | Synonyms: rendering, rendition |
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| (noun) an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious | Synonyms: interpreting, rendering, rendition |
| (noun) a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something | Synonyms: reading, version |
| (noun) an explanation that results from interpreting something | - |
| interpretative | (adjective) that provides interpretation | Synonyms: interpretive |
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| misinterpretation | (noun) putting the wrong interpretation on | Synonyms: mistaking, misunderstanding |
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| overinterpretation | (noun) Excessive interpretation. | - |
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| reinterpretation | (noun) a new or different interpretation | - |
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| (noun) a new or different meaning | - |
| retail | (noun) the selling of goods to consumers; usually in small quantities and not for resale | - |
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| (adverb) at a retail price | - |
| (verb) sell on the retail market | - |
| (verb) be sold at the retail level | - |
| retailer | (noun) a merchant who sells goods at retail | Synonyms: retail merchant |
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| retailing | (noun) the activities involved in selling commodities directly to consumers | - |
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| retain | (verb) keep in one's mind | - |
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| (verb) secure and keep for possible future use or application | Synonyms: hold, hold back, keep back |
| (verb) allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature | Synonyms: continue, keep, keep on |
| (verb) hold back within | - |
| retained | (adjective) continued in your keeping or use or memory | Synonyms: maintained |
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| retainer | (noun) a dental appliance that holds teeth (or a prosthesis) in position after orthodontic treatment | - |
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| (noun) a person working in the service of another (especially in the household) | Synonyms: servant |
| (noun) a fee charged in advance to retain the services of someone | Synonyms: consideration |
| retake | (noun) a shot or scene that is photographed again | - |
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| (verb) photograph again | - |
| (verb) capture again | Synonyms: recapture |
| (verb) take back by force, as after a battle | Synonyms: recapture |
| retaking | (noun) the act of taking something back | Synonyms: recapture |
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| retaliate | (verb) make a counterattack and return like for like, especially evil for evil | Synonyms: strike back |
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| (verb) take revenge for a perceived wrong | Synonyms: avenge, revenge |
| retaliation | (noun) action taken in return for an injury or offense | Synonyms: revenge |
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| retaliative | (adjective) of or relating to or having the nature of retribution | Synonyms: retaliatory, retributive, retributory, vindicatory |
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| retaliator | (noun) someone who takes vengeance | Synonyms: avenger |
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| retaliatory | (adjective) of or relating to or having the nature of retribution | Synonyms: retaliative, retributive, retributory, vindicatory |
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| retard | (noun) a person of subnormal intelligence | Synonyms: changeling, cretin, half-wit, idiot, imbecile, moron |
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| (verb) lose velocity; move more slowly | Synonyms: decelerate, slow, slow down, slow up |
| (verb) cause to move more slowly or operate at a slower rate | - |
| (verb) slow the growth or development of | Synonyms: check, delay |
| (verb) be delayed | - |
| retardant | (noun) any agent that retards or delays or hinders | Synonyms: retardation, retardent |
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| retardation | (noun) the act of slowing down or falling behind | Synonyms: lag, slowdown |
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| (noun) a decrease in rate of change | Synonyms: deceleration, slowing |
| (noun) lack of normal development of intellectual capacities | Synonyms: backwardness, mental retardation, slowness, subnormality |
| (noun) any agent that retards or delays or hinders | Synonyms: retardant, retardent |
| (noun) the extent to which something is delayed or held back | - |
| retarded | (adjective) relatively slow in mental or emotional or physical development | - |
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| (noun) people collectively who are mentally retarded | Synonyms: developmentally challenged, mentally retarded |
| retardent | (noun) any agent that retards or delays or hinders | Synonyms: retardant, retardation |
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| secretaire | (noun) a desk used for writing | Synonyms: escritoire, secretary, writing table |
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| secretarial | (adjective) of or relating to a secretary or to a secretary's work | - |
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| secretariat | (noun) an administrative unit responsible for maintaining records and other secretarial duties; especially for international organizations | Synonyms: secretariate |
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| secretariate | (noun) an administrative unit responsible for maintaining records and other secretarial duties; especially for international organizations | Synonyms: secretariat |
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| secretary | (noun) a desk used for writing | Synonyms: escritoire, secretaire, writing table |
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| (noun) an assistant who handles correspondence and clerical work for a boss or an organization | Synonyms: secretarial assistant |
| (noun) a person who is head of an administrative department of government | - |
| (noun) a person to whom a secret is entrusted | Synonyms: repository |
| secretaryship | (noun) the position of secretary | - |
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| secretase | (noun) a set of enzymes believed to snip pieces off a longer protein producing fragments of amyloid protein that bunch up and create amyloid protein plaques in brain tissue (the pathological hallmark of Alzheimer's) | - |
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| squaretail | (noun) sluggish square-tailed fish armored with tough bony scales; of deep warm waters | - |
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| undersecretary | (noun) a secretary immediately subordinate to the head of a department of government | - |
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| wiretap | (noun) the act of tapping a telephone or telegraph line to get information | Synonyms: tap |
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| (verb) tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information | Synonyms: bug, intercept, tap |
| wiretapper | (noun) someone who wiretaps a telephone or telegraph wire | Synonyms: phone tapper, tapper |
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