Definitions for reducers

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reducers re·duc·er

Spelling: [ri-doo-ser, -dyoo-]

IPA: /rɪˈdu sər, -ˈdyu-/

Reducers is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 188 anagrams from letters in reducers (cdeerrsu).

Definitions for reducers

noun

1. a person or thing that reduces.
2. Photography. an oxidizing solution for lessening the density of an exposed negative. a developing agent.
3. (in plumbing) a coupling decreasing in diameter at one end. Compare increaser (def 2).

Origin of reducers

First recorded in 1520-30; reduce + -er¹

Examples for reducers

He is not to be dreaded by widows and orphans; he is a reducer of surplusage.

Helen's next remark was in the natures of a reducer for the said expansion.

Very many, if not most, slides are all the better for just a touch of a "reducer" such as follows:—The ordinary "hypo."

The alkali sets the reducer in action and is called the accelerator.

Or, is it king Nala the reducer of hostile towns that hath come here?

To prepare this reducer, take one part varnish (the same varnish to be reduced), and two parts of turpentine.

The destroyer of enemies,” “the reducer of the disobedient,” “the exterminator of rebels,” “he whose sword is good.