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Consulter

One who consults, or asks counsel or information.

Consultive

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

Consumable

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

Consumer

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

consumer price index

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.

consuming

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

Consummate

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

Consummation

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

Consumption

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

Consumptive

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

Consumptiveness

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

Contact

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

Contagion

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

Contagionist

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

Contagious

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

Contain

To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.

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.

Containment

That which is contained; the extent; the substance.

contaminated

containing undesired or infective microorganisms.

contaminating

spreading contamination; especially radioactive contamination.

Contamination

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

Contango

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.

Conte

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

Contek

Quarrel; contention; contest.

Contemn

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

Contemner

One who contemns; a despiser; a scorner.

Contemper

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

Contemperature

The condition of being tempered; proportionate mixture; temperature.

Contemplate

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

Contemplation

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

Contemplative

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

Contemporaneous

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

contemporaries

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

Contemporary

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

contemporize

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

Contempt

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

Contemptible

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

Contemptibleness

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

Contemptuous

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

Contemptuously

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

Contemptuousness

Disposition to or manifestion of contempt; insolence; haughtiness.

Contend

To struggle for; to contest.

Contenement

That which is held together with another thing; that which is connected with a tenement, or thing holden, as a certain quantity of land adjacent to a dwelling, and necessary to the reputable enjoyment of the dwelling; appurtenance.

Content

Rest or quietness of the mind in one's present condition; freedom from discontent; satisfaction; contentment; moderate happiness.

Contented

Content; easy in mind; satisfied; quiet; willing.

Contention

A violent effort or struggle to obtain, or to resist, something; contest; strife.

Contentious

Fond of contention; given to angry debate; provoking dispute or contention; quarrelsome.

Contentment

The state of being contented or satisfied; content.

Conterminable

Having the same bounds; terminating at the same time or place; conterminous.

Conterminant

Having the same limits; ending at the same time; conterminous.

Conterminous

Having the same bounds, or limits; bordering upon; contiguous.

Contest

Earnest dispute; strife in argument; controversy; debate; altercation.

Contestant

One who contests; an opponent; a litigant; a disputant; one who claims that which has been awarded to another.

Contestation

The act of contesting; emulation; rivalry; strife; dispute.

Context

To knit or bind together; to unite closely.

Contextural

Pertaining to contexture or arrangement of parts; producing contexture; interwoven.

Contexture

The arrangement and union of the constituent parts of a thing; a weaving together of parts; structural character of a thing; system; constitution; texture.

Contextured

Formed into texture; woven together; arranged; composed.

Contignation

The act or process of framing together, or uniting, as beams in a fabric.

Contiguity

The state of being contiguous; intimate association; nearness; proximity.

Contiguous

In actual contact; touching; also, adjacent; near; neighboring; adjoining.

Continent

That which contains anything; a receptacle.

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