Retractile is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 445 anagrams from letters in retractile (aceeilrrtt).
First recorded in 1770-80; retract1 + -ile
And the reason for this is that a cat's claws are sharper than a dog's, and they are what are called "retractile."
Tentacular -um: retractile processes on the larvae of Lepidoptera.
In Stenus this organ is retractile, and consists of two joints.
The brownish fins were rigid as metal, the retractile claws unsheathed and cruelly curved.
The claws are not retractile, or at most semi-retractile as in the Panda.
It will be noted that Fulgur has a comparatively long and stout proboscis, or snout, which is not retractile.
These are not retractile, as in the land-snails, and their office appears to be that of sensory organs.
The vermiform and retractile tongue is also a most singular organ.
The tongue of some Hymenoptera also is retractile within the mouth.
So the retractile wings were as good as eleven years ago—you hoped.
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