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.

A female contestant.

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.

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

Content; satisfaction.

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

acceptance of one's situation in life.

Full of content.

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

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

Discontented; dissatisfied.

In a contented manner.

The state of being contented or satisfied; content.

See Content, n.

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

Conterminous.

Having the same bounds; conterminous.

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

Of or belonging to the same country.

An assemblage; a collection; harmonious union.

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

Capable of being contested; debatable.

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

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

In a contending manner.

To context.

To knit or bind together; to unite closely.

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

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

Formed into texture; woven together; arranged; composed.

Silent.

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

Contiguous; touching.

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

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

Self-restraint; self-command.

That which contains anything; a receptacle.

involving the entire continent.

A soldier in the Continental army. See Continental, a., 3.

In a continent manner; chastely; moderately; temperately.

See Contingency.

Union or connection; the state of touching or contact.

An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something future; a contingency.

In a contingent manner; without design or foresight; accidentally.

The state of being contingent; fortuitousness.

Capable of being continued

Proceeding without interruption or cesstaion; continuous; unceasing; lasting; abiding.

Without cessation; unceasingly; continuously; as, the current flows continually.

A holding on, or remaining in a particular state; permanence, as of condition, habits, abode, etc.; perseverance; constancy; duration; stay.

Continuing; prolonged; sustained; as, a continuant sound. A continuant sound; a letter whose sound may be prolonged.

Immediately united together; intimately connected.

That act or state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation.

A term or expression denoting continuance.

One who, or that which, continues; esp., one who continues a series or a work; a continuer.

To unite; to connect.

Having extension of time, space, order of events, exertion of energy, etc.; extended; protracted; uninterrupted; also, resumed after interruption; extending through a succession of issues, session, etc.; as, a continued story.

Continuously.

One who continues; one who has the power of perseverance or persistence.

the state of being continuous; uninterrupted connection or succession; close union of parts; cohesion; as, the continuity of fibers.

Basso continuo, or continued bass.

Without break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening space or time; uninterrupted; unbroken; continual; unceasing; constant; continued; protracted; extended; as, a continuous line of railroad; a continuous current of electricity.

In a continuous maner; without interruption.

The space between the strands on the outside of a rope.

a genus of birds comprised of pewees, and including the wood pewees Contopus sordidulus and Contopus virens.

A species of medal or medallion of bronze, having a deep furrow on the contour or edge; -- supposed to have been struck in the days of Constantine and his successors.

See Contortion.

To twist, or twist together; to turn awry; to bend; to distort; to wrest.

Twisted, or twisted together.

A twisting; a writhing; wry motion; a twist; as, the contortion of the muscles of the face.

One who makes or practices contortions; a gymnast who is able to twist the limbs into positions impossible for normal people to achieve.

Expressing contortion.

Plaited lengthwise and twisted in addition, as the bud of the morning-glory.

The outline of a figure or body, or the line or lines representing such an outline; the line that bounds; periphery.

Turned in a direction which is not the usual one; -- said of an animal turned to the sinister which is usually turned to the dexter, or the like.

Having furrowed edges, as if turned in a lathe.

A Latin adverb and preposition, signifying against, contrary, in opposition, etc., entering as a prefix into the composition of many English words. Cf. Counter, adv. pref.