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Retroact
  1. To act backward, or in return; to act in opposition; to be retrospective.
  2. Intransitive verb 1. To act in opposition, to react 2. To have reference to or influence on past occurrences
Retroaction
  1. Action returned, or action backward.
Retrocede
  1. To cede or grant back; as, to retrocede a territory to a former proprietor.
  2. vb. To give back, of e.g. territory
Retrocedent
  1. Disposed or likely to retrocede; -- said of diseases which go from one part of the body to another, as the gout.
Retrocession
  1. The act of retroceding.
Retrochoir
  1. Any extension of a church behind the high altar, as a chapel; also, in an apsidal church, all the space beyond the line of the back or eastern face of the altar.
Retrocopulant
  1. Copulating backward, or from behind.
Retrocopulation
  1. Copulation from behind.
Retroduction
  1. A leading or bringing back.
Retrofracted
  1. Refracted; as, a retrofract stem.