reaction
reaction is a 8-letter English word with 12 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any action in resisting other action or force; counter tendency; movement in a contrary direction; reverse action. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. Any action in resisting other action or force; counter tendency; movement in a contrary direction; reverse action.
- noun. The mutual or reciprocal action of chemical agents upon each other, or the action upon such chemical agents of some form of energy, as heat, light, or electricity, resulting in a chemical change in one or more of these agents, with the production of new compounds or the manifestation of distinctive characters. See Blowpipe reaction, Flame reaction, under Blowpipe, and Flame.
- noun. An action induced by vital resistance to some other action; depression or exhaustion of vital force consequent on overexertion or overstimulation; heightened activity and overaction succeeding depression or shock.
- noun. The force which a body subjected to the action of a force from another body exerts upon the latter body in the opposite direction.
- noun. Backward tendency or movement after revolution, reform, or great progress in any direction.
- noun. doing something in opposition to another way of doing it that you don't like
"his style of painting was a reaction against cubism"
- noun. a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent
"a bad reaction to the medicine"
"his responses have slowed with age"
- noun. an idea evoked by some experience
"his reaction to the news was to start planning what to do"
- noun. extreme conservatism in political or social matters
"the forces of reaction carried the election"
- noun. a response that reveals a person's feelings or attitude
"he was pleased by the audience's reaction to his performance"
"John feared his mother's reaction when she saw the broken lamp"
- noun. (mechanics) the equal and opposite force that is produced when any force is applied to a body
"every action has an equal and opposite reaction"
- noun. (chemistry) a process in which one or more substances are changed into others
"there was a chemical reaction of the lime with the ground water"
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Other playable words that use exactly the letters in reaction:
actioner, anerotic, anoretic, canotier, ceration, cortinae, creation
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