English words containing detractor:

noun

A dry single-seeded fruit formed from a double ovary of which only one develops into a seed, as in the daisy family.

Usage examples:

Viable cypselae of any aster or goldenrod from anywhere in the world is most welcomed by the lab.

noun

The action of deliberately falling or stumbling in order to give the appearance of having been fouled by an opponent.

Usage examples:

The league introduced a system to penalize flopping

verb

Fall, move, or hang in a loose and ungainly way.

Usage examples:

His blond hair flopped over his eyes

Present participle of flop

noun

An effect whereby the sound produced by an amplifier or an amplified musical instrument is made to reverberate slightly.

Usage examples:

The best available barios recording, despite reverb

verb

Coat (an item of food) with sugar.

Usage examples:

While the oven is preheating, sugar-coat the cookies

noun

A thin hard layer of sugar used to cover something

Usage examples:

She nibbles the sugar coating off the nuts., they found a way to encase the pills in a sugar coatin…

adjective

Having no precedent or parallel.

Usage examples:

A regime which brought such unexampled disaster on its people