Refracts is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 347 anagrams from letters in refracts (acefrrst).
1605-15; Latin refrāctus, past participle of refringere to break, force back, equivalent to re- re- + frac- (variant stem of frangere to Examples for refracts
In small things and in great consciousness transforms or refracts. Either a body absorbs light, or it reflects or refracts it, or does all these things. Usually it appears structureless and refracts the light strongly. It disperses and refracts their various tints to beautify the approach and the retreat of the orb of day. How is it that a lens bends (refracts is the big word for it) the rays of light? Because, like a large rain drop, it refracts the rays of light, and shows the elementary rays. This projecting part is transparent, but refracts the light which strikes it obliquely, so as to turn it into the eye. If it neither reflects nor refracts nor absorbs light, it cannot of itself be visible. It has neither an acid nor alkaline reaction; is a non-conductor of electricity, and refracts light strongly.