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Contributor

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

Contributory

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

Contrition

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

Contrivable

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

Contrivance

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

Contrive

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

Contrivement

Contrivance; invention; arrangement; design; plan.

Contriver

One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas.

Control

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

Control theory

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.

Controllable

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

Controller

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

Controlment

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

Controversial

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

Controversy

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

Controvert

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

Controverter

One who controverts; a controversial writer; a controversialist.

Controvertible

Capable of being controverted; disputable; admitting of question.

Controvertist

One skilled in or given to controversy; a controversialist.

Contumacious

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

Contumacy

Stubborn perverseness; pertinacious resistance to authority.

Contumelious

Exhibiting contumely; rudely contemptuous; insolent; disdainful.

Contumely

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

Contuse

To beat, pound, or bray together.

Contusion

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

Conundrum

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.

Conure

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

Conusable

Cognizable; liable to be tried or judged.

Convalesce

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

Convalescency Convalescence

The recovery of heath and strength after disease; the state of a body renewing its vigor after sickness or weakness; the time between the subsidence of a disease and complete restoration to health.

Convalescently

In the manner of a convalescent; with increasing strength or vigor.

Convallamarin

A white, crystalline, poisonous substance, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from the lily of the valley (Convallaria Majalis). Its taste is first bitter, then sweet.

Convallariaceae

One of many subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae but not widely accepted.

Convallarin

A white, crystalline glucoside, of an irritating taste, extracted from the convallaria or lily of the valley.

convect

to circulate hot air by convection, as of certain ovens.

Convection

The act or process of conveying or transmitting.

Convective

Caused or accomplished by convection; as, a convective discharge of electricity.

Convenable

Consistent; accordant; suitable; proper; as, convenable remedies.

Convenance

That which is suitable, agreeable, or convenient.

Convene

To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke.

Convener

One who convenes or meets with others.

Conveniency Convenience

The state or quality of being convenient; fitness or suitableness, as of place, time, etc.; propriety.

Convenient

Fit or adapted; suitable; proper; becoming; appropriate.

Conveniently

In a convenient manner, form, or situation; without difficulty.

Convent

To call before a judge or judicature; to summon; to convene.

Conventicle

A small assembly or gathering; esp., a secret assembly.

Conventicling

Belonging or going to, or resembling, a conventicle.

Convention

The act of coming together; the state of being together; union; coalition.

Conventionalism

That which is received or established by convention or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage.

Conventionality

The state of being conventional; adherence to social formalities or usages; that which is established by conventional use; one of the customary usages of social life.

Conventionalize

To make designs in art, according to conventional principles. Cf. Conventionalize, v. t., 2.

Conventionary

Acting under contract; settled by express agreement; as, conventionary tenants.

Conventionist

One who enters into a convention, covenant, or contract.

Conventual

One who lives in a convent; a monk or nun; a recluse.

Converge

To cause to tend to one point; to cause to incline and approach nearer together.

Convergency Convergence

The condition or quality of converging; tendency to one point; the occurrence of two or more things coming together.

Convergent

tending to one point of focus; tending to approach each other; converging.

Converging

Tending to one point; approaching each other; convergent; as, converging lines.

Conversable

Qualified for conversation; disposed to converse; sociable; free in discourse.

Conversableness

The quality of being conversable; disposition to converse; sociability.

Conversance

The state or quality of being conversant; habit of familiarity; familiar acquaintance; intimacy.

Conversant

One who converses with another; a convenser.

Conversational

Pertaining to conversation; in the manner of one conversing; as, a conversational style.

Conversative

Relating to intercourse with men; social; -- opposed to contemplative.

Conversazione

A meeting or assembly for conversation, particularly on literary or scientific subjects.

Converse

A proposition which arises from interchanging the terms of another, as by putting the predicate for the subject, and the subject for the predicate; as, no virtue is vice, no vice is virtue.

Conversely

In a converse manner; with change of order or relation; reciprocally.

Conversion

The act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change.

Convert

A person who is converted from one opinion or practice to another; a person who is won over to, or heartily embraces, a creed, religious system, or party, in which he has not previously believed; especially, one who turns from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness, or from unbelief to Christianity.

converted

spiritually reborn or converted; as, a converted sinner.

Convertend

Any proposition which is subject to the process of conversion; -- so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the converse. See Converse, n. (Logic).

Converter

One who converts; one who makes converts.

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