Contractibility.

tending to contract; having the power or property of contracting, or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions; as, the contractile tissues.

The quality or property by which bodies shrink or contract.

the act or process of acquiring an infectious disease; contraction; as, the contracting of a serious illness can be financially catastrophic.

The act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil of the eye, or of a tendon; the contraction produced by cold.

Tending to contract; having the property or power or power of contracting.

One who contracts; one of the parties to a bargain; one who covenants to do anything for another; specifically, one who contracts to perform work on a rather large scale, at a certain price or rate, as in building houses or making a railroad.

A state of permanent rigidity or contraction of the muscles, generally of the flexor muscles.

A dance in which the partners are arranged face to face, or in opposite lines.

To oppose in words; to gainsay; to deny, or assert the contrary of, something.

Capable of being contradicted.

one who contradicts.

An assertion of the contrary to what has been said or affirmed; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; contrary declaration; gainsaying.

Contradictory; inconsistent; opposing.

Filled with contradictions; inconsistent.

Contradictory; inconsistent.

A contradicter.

In a contradictory manner.

The quality of being contradictory; opposition; inconsistency.

A proposition or thing which denies or opposes another; contrariety.

Distinguished by opposite qualities.

Distinction by contrast.

having the quality of contradistinction; distinguishing by contrast.

To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities.

The double bassoon, an octave deeper than the bassoon.

A fissure or fracture on the side opposite to that which received the blow, or at some distance from it.

Entering into covenant; contracting; as, contrahent parties.

Something, as a symptom, indicating that the usual mode of treatment is not to be followed.

To indicate, as by a symptom, some method of treatment contrary to that which the general tenor of the case would seem to require; especially, to indicate that a particular method of treatment should not be used; as, penicilin is contraindicated in patients who have shown hypersensitivity.

An indication or symptom which forbids the method of treatment usual in such cases.

Of or pertaining to a contralto, or to the part in music called contralto; as, a contralto voice.

An outer wall.

Opposed to or against nature; unnatural.

Pertaining to the sending of two messages in opposite directions at the same time.

A placing over against; opposite position.

A contrivance; a new-fangled device; -- used scornfully.

Pertaining to, or according to the rules of, counterpoint.

One skilled in counterpoint.

One who remonstrates in opposition or answer to a remonstrant.

a person who habitually takes a view opposite to that held by the majority; as, the contrarians in the stock market prefer to sell when most analysts advise us to buy.

Contrary; opposed; antagonistic; inconsistent; contradictory.

Contrarily.

Propositions which directly and destructively contradict each other, but of which the falsehood of one does not establish the truth of the other.

The state or quality of being contrary; opposition; repugnance; disagreement; antagonism.

In a contrary manner; in opposition; on the other side; in opposite ways.

state or quality of being contrary; opposition; inconsistency; contrariety; perverseness; obstinacy.

Showing contrariety; repugnant; perverse.

Contrarily; oppositely.

On the contrary; oppositely; on the other hand.

Circular motion in a direction contrary to some other circular motion.

To contradict or oppose; to thwart.

The act of contrasting, or the state of being contrasted; comparison by contrariety of qualities.

Counteracting the effects of stimulants; relating to a course of medical treatment based on a theory of contrastimulants. An agent which counteracts the effect of a stimulant.

Having cogs or teeth projecting parallel to the axis, instead of radiating from it.

Counter tenor; contralto.

A trench guarded with a parapet, constructed by besiegers, to secure themselves and check sallies of the besieged.

To meet in the way of opposition; to come into conflict with; to oppose; to contradict; to obstruct the operation of; to defeat.

One who contravenes.

The act of contravening; opposition; obstruction; transgression; violation.

A turning to the opposite side; antistrophe.

A concussion or shock produced by a blow or other injury, in a part or region opposite to that at which the blow is received, often causing rupture or disorganisation of the parts affected.

A dance in which the partners are arranged face to face, or in opposite lines. The quadrille.

An unexpected and untoward accident; something inopportune or embarrassing; a hitch.

Capable of being contributed.

Contributory.

To give a part to a common stock; to lend assistance or aid, or give something, to a common purpose; to have a share in any act or effect.

The act of contributing.

Pertaining to, or furnishing, a contribution.

Contributing, or tending to contribute.

One who, or that which, contributes; one who writes articles for a newspaper, magazine, or book.

One who contributes, or is liable to be called upon to contribute, as toward the discharge of a common indebtedness.

To make sad.

To make sorrowful.

In a contrite manner.

Deep sorrow and penitence for sin; contrition.

The act of grinding or ribbing to powder; attrition; friction; rubbing.

To triturate; to pulverize.

Capable of being contrived, planned, invented, or devised.

The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning.

To make devices; to form designs; to plan; to scheme; to plot.

Contrivance; invention; arrangement; design; plan.

One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas.

To check by a counter register or duplicate account; to prove by counter statements; to confute.

That branch of Mathematics and Engineering which deals with the design, identification and analysis of systems with a view towards controlling them, i. e., to make them perform specific tasks or make them behave in a desired way.

Capability of being controlled; controllableness.

Capable of being controlled, checked, or restrained; amenable to command.

Capability of being controlled.

One who, or that which, controls or restraines; one who has power or authority to regulate or control; one who governs.

The office of a controller.

The power or act of controlling; the state of being restrained; control; restraint; regulation; superintendence.

Turning or looking opposite ways.

Controversial.

To dispute; to controvert.

A disputant.

Relating to, or consisting of, controversy; disputatious; polemical; as, controversial divinity.

One who carries on a controversy; a disputant.

In a controversial manner.

Act of controverting; controversy.

A controverser.

Contention; dispute; debate; discussion; agitation of contrary opinions.

To make matter of controversy; to dispute or oppose by reasoning; to contend against in words or writings; to contest; to debate.

One who controverts; a controversial writer; a controversialist.

Capable of being controverted; disputable; admitting of question.

One skilled in or given to controversy; a controversialist.

Living or messing together; familiar; in companionship.

Exhibiting contumacy; contemning authority; obstinate; perverse; stubborn; disobedient.

Stubborn perverseness; pertinacious resistance to authority.

Exhibiting contumely; rudely contemptuous; insolent; disdainful.

Rudeness compounded of haughtiness and contempt; scornful insolence; despiteful treatment; disdain; contemptuousness in act or speech; disgrace.

To beat, pound, or bray together.

The act or process of beating, bruising, or pounding; the state of being beaten or bruised.

injured without breaking the skin; as, a cut arm and contused cheek.

A kind of riddle based upon some fanciful or fantastic resemblance between things quite unlike; a puzzling question, of which the answer is or involves a pun.

An American parrakeet of the genus Conurus. Many species are known. See Parrakeet.

A cone.

Cognizable; liable to be tried or judged.

See Cognizant.

See Cognizor.

To recover health and strength gradually, after sickness or weakness; as, a patient begins to convalesce.

Convalescent.