fract

Usage

• refractory

  Refractory people deliberately don't obey someone in authority and so are difficult to deal with or control.

• fractious

  If someone is fractious, they are easily upset or annoyed over unimportant things.

• fracture

  A fracture is a break or crack, such as of or in a bone.

• fraction

  a small part or item forming a piece of a whole

• fractional

  constituting or comprising a part or fraction of a possible whole or entirety

• fractiousness

  the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline

• infraction

  a crime less serious than a felony

• refract

  subject to refraction

• refraction

  the change in direction of a propagating wave (light or sound) when passing from one medium to another