Usually means: Resistant to process, heat, treatment.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. refractory: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. refractory: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. refractory: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. refractory: Collins English Dictionary
  5. refractory: Vocabulary.com
  6. Refractory, refractory: Wordnik
  7. refractory: Wiktionary
  8. refractory: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. refractory: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. refractory: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. refractory: Dictionary.com
  12. Refractory (disambiguation), Refractory (planetary science), Refractory: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Refractory: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. refractory: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. refractory: Rhymezone
  16. Refractory: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. refractory: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. refractory: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  19. refractory: Free Dictionary
  20. refractory: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. refractory: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. refractory: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. refractory: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. refractory: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. refractory: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. refractory: Encyclopedia

Medicine (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Refractory: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. AIDSinfo Glossary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Lay Terms for Consent Forms (No longer online)
  6. GASTROLAB Digestive Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  8. refractory: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  9. GI Disorders (No longer online)
  10. Refractory: Glossary of Lymphoma Terms
  11. AIDS Medical Glossary and Drug Chart (No longer online)
  12. refractory: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  13. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  14. refractory: Medical dictionary
  15. WeMove Glossary of Terms (No longer online)
  16. Refractory: Drug Medical Dictionary
  17. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. refractory: Archaeology Wordsmith
  2. Refractory: Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. refractory: Urban Dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Metal Terminology (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Common Hearth and Heating Terms (No longer online)
  3. Explosives (No longer online)
  4. "https://digitalfire.com/4sight/glossary/r.html">Refractory: Ceramic Terminology Glossary
  5. Refractory: Pottery Studio

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Obstinate and unruly; strongly opposed to something.
adjective:  Not affected by great heat.
adjective:  (medicine) Resistant to treatment; not responding adequately to therapy.
adjective:  (biology) Incapable of registering a reaction or stimulus.
noun:  A material or piece of material, such as a brick, that has a very high melting point.
noun:  A plant or factory that produces such material.

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