To dawn together; to contract; to force to contract itself; to constrict; to cause to shrink.

Having the quality of contracting, binding, or compressing.

Formed by, or relating to, construction, interpretation, or inference.

One who, or that which, constructs or frames.

The process or art of constructing; the act of building; erection; the act of devising and forming; fabrication; composition.

Pertaining to, or deduced from, construction or interpretation.

One who puts a certain construction upon some writing or instrument, as the Constitutions of the United States; as, a strict constructionist; a broad constructionist.

Having ability to construct or form; employed in construction; as, to exhibit constructive power.

causing buildup of body tissues or tissue components.

In a constructive manner; by construction or inference.

Tendency or ability to form or construct.

A constructer.

That which is constructed or formed; an edifice; a fabric.

To apply the rules of syntax to (a sentence or clause) so as to exhibit the structure, arrangement, or connection of, or to discover the sense; to explain the construction of; to interpret; to translate.

To ravish; to debauch.

The act of ravishing; violation; defilement.

Of the same kind or nature; having the same substance or essence; coessential.

The doctrine of consubstantiation.

One who believes in consubstantiation.

Participation of the same nature; coexistence in the same substance.

In a consubstantial manner; with identity of substance or nature.

Partaking of the same substance; united; consubstantial.

An identity or union of substance.

Custom, habit; usage.

According to custom; customary; usual.

A manual or ritual of customary devotional exercises.

One of the two chief magistrates of the republic.

A duty or tax paid by merchants for the protection of their commerce by means of a consul in a foreign place.

Of or pertaining to a consul; performing the duties of a consul; as, consular power; consular dignity; consular officers.

Consular.

The office of a consul.

The office of a consul; consulate.

The act of consulting or deliberating; consultation; also, the result of consulation; determination; decision.

an expert who gives advice.

Formed by consultation; resulting from conference.

The act of consulting or conferring; deliberation of two or more persons on some matter, with a view to a decision.

Pertaining to consultation; having the privilege or right of conference.

Formed by, or resulting from, consultation; advisory.

One who consults, or asks counsel or information.

That consults.

Determined by, or pertaining to, consultation; deliberate; consultative.

Capable of being consumed; that may be destroyed, dissipated, wasted, or spent.

To waste away slowly.

completely used up.

Excessively.

One who, or that which, consumes; as, the consumer of food.

An index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer, calculated and published by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics; abbreviated CPI, and usually referred to by that acronym. The Bureau maintains several indices for different groups of consumers, but the most commonly referred to is the index for /All urban consumers/, called the CPI-U. The increase of this value each year is one measure of monetary inflation.

taking up most of one's attention; ardent; as, politics is his consuming passion.

In a consuming manner.

To bring to completion; to raise to the highest point or degree; to complete; to finish; to perfect; to achieve.

In a consummate manner; completely.

The act of consummating, or the state of being consummated; completion; perfection; termination; end (as of the world or of life).

Serving to consummate; completing.

The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction.

One affected with consumption; as, a resort for consumptives.

In a way tending to or indication consumption.

A state of being consumptive, or a tendency to a consumption.

Wasting away gradually.

A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.

the act of touching physically.

an Italian farmer.

The transmission of a disease from one person to another, by direct or indirect contact.

Affected by contagion.

One who believes in the contagious character of certain diseases, as of yellow fever.

Communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching; as, a contagious disease.

In a contagious manner.

Quality of being contagious.

Contagion; contagious matter.

To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.

Capable of being contained or comprised.

A container.

One who, or that which, contains; particularly, an artifactual object that is designed to contain some fluid or solid material, object or objects, especially for convenience in transporting the contained objects.

the quantity that a container will hold.

placed and transported in a container{2}.

a ship designed to hold containerized cargoes.

That which is contained; the extent; the substance.

Capable of being contaminated.

Contaminated; defiled; polluted; tainted.

containing undesired or infective microorganisms.

spreading contamination; especially radioactive contamination.

The act or process of contaminating; pollution; defilement; taint; also, that which contaminates.

Tending or liable to contaminate.

The premium or interest paid by the buyer to the seller, to be allowed to defer paying for the stock purchased until the next fortnightly settlement day.

A short narrative or tale, esp. one dealing with surprising or marvelous events.

A covering.

Quarrel; contention; contest.

To view or treat with contempt, as mean and despicable; to reject with disdain; to despise; to scorn.

One who contemns; a despiser; a scorner.

Contemptuously.

To modify or temper; to allay; to qualify; to moderate; to soften.

To temper; to moderate.

The act of tempering or moderating.

The condition of being tempered; proportionate mixture; temperature.

Contemplation.

Given to contemplation; meditative.

To consider or think studiously; to ponder; to reflect; to muse; to meditate.

The act of the mind in considering with attention; continued attention of the mind to a particular subject; meditation; musing; study.

A contemplator.

A religious or either sex devoted to prayer and meditation, rather than to active works of charity.

With contemplation; in a contemplative manner.

The state of being contemplative; thoughtfulness.

One who contemplates.

The state of being contemporaneous.

Living, existing, or occurring at the same time; contemporary.

At the same time with some other event.

all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age.

Existence at the same time; contemporaneousness.

One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch and Chaucer were contemporaries.

to arrange or represent events so that they co-occur.

The act of contemning or despising; the feeling with which one regards that which is esteemed mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.

The quality of being contemptible; contemptibleness.

Worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean; vile; despicable.

The state or quality of being contemptible, or of being despised.

In a contemptible manner.

Manifesting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful.

In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully.

Disposition to or manifestion of contempt; insolence; haughtiness.

To struggle for; to contest.

An antagonist; a contestant.

One who contends; a contestant.