5-Letter Words Containing: RET

• an involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting

• eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth

• make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit

• hear or try a court case anew

• agitation resulting from active worry

• a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion

• an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief)

• a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch

• worry unnecessarily or excessively

• be agitated or irritated

• provide (a musical instrument) with frets

• become or make sore by or as if by rubbing

• cause annoyance in

• gnaw into; make resentful or angry

• carve a pattern into

• decorate with an interlaced design

• be too tight; rub or press

• cause friction

• remove soil or rock

• wear away or erode

• a cap with no brim or bill; made of soft cloth

• measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube with a tap at the bottom; used for titration

• desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers; constitutes the juniper of the Old Testament; sometimes placed in genus Genista

• a surgical instrument shaped like a scoop to remove tissue from a bodily cavity

• a mark used by an author or editor to indicate where something is to be inserted into a text

• any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season