Crossword-Solution: RETARDANT 9 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

We have 8 clues for the answer “RETARDANT”

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Any agent that delays or hinders 1 answer
Delaying agent 1 answer
Growth inhibitor 1 answer
Suppressor 1 answer
substance that reduces the rate of a chemical reaction 1 answer
TENDING to delay 3 answers
___ inhibitor 48 answers
Delaying 51 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZEMEAC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with RETARDANT (5)

Shredded cardboard is sold in bulk as insulation but this material has been treated with a fire retardant that is toxic.
Organic Gardener's Composting Steve Solomon 2003
Talbot published his process before he had made a single step in advance of Wedgwood and Davy's discoveries; and that his fixing solution was not a fixer at all, but simply a retardant that delayed the gradual disappearance of the picture only a short time longer.
The Evolution of Photography John Werge 2012
This may in a measure be arrested by providing fly-wheels at intervals on the line shaft, so heavy in their rim as to act as a constant retardant and storer of power, which power is given back upon any reaction on the shaft, and thus the strain is equalized.
Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II Joshua Rose 2012
But, by this as it may, the institution of caste, when once established, certainly appears to have gone on steadily developing; and not even the long period of Buddhist ascendancy, with its uncompromising resistance to the Brahman's claim to being the sole arbiter in matters of faith, seems to have had any very appreciable retardant effect upon the progress of the movement.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 Various 2012
Chez cet oiseau quelques plumes des ailes se developpent extraordinairement pendant l’époque de reproduction, en retardant visiblement son vol.
The Genetic and the operative evidence relating to secondary sexual characters Thomas Hunt Morgan 2018

Quotes with RETARDANT (1)

The older Kit gets, the less confident he feels judging other people as spouses or parents. These days, driving past the home of the Naked Hemp Society, he finds himself more curious than contemptuous about their easily ridiculed New Age ways. Why shouldn't they nurse their babies till age four? Why shouldn't they want to keep their children away from factory-farmed meats, from clothing soaked in fire-retardant chemicals, from dull-witted burned-out public school teachers who…
Julia Glass And the Dark Sacred Night
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Three Across, USA TODAY.

Used 6 times in crossword archives (2004–2015).