Contributories (pl. ) of Contributory
Contributory (n.) One who contributes, or is liable to be called upon to contribute, as toward the discharge of a common indebtedness.
Contrist (v. t.) To make sad.
Contristate (v. t. & i.) To make sorrowful.
Contrite (a.) Thoroughly bruised or broken.
Contrite (a.) Broken down with grief and penitence; deeply sorrowful for sin because it is displeasing to God; humbly and thoroughly penitent.
Contrite (n.) A contrite person.
Contrite (v.) In a contrite manner.
Contriteness (n.) Deep sorrow and penitence for sin; contrition.
Contrition (n.) The act of grinding or ribbing to powder; attrition; friction; rubbing.
Contrition (n.) The state of being contrite; deep sorrow and repentance for sin, because sin is displeasing to God; humble penitence; through repentance.
Contriturate (v. t.) To triturate; to pulverize.
Contrivble (a.) Capable of being contrived, planned, invented, or devised.
Contrivance (n.) The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning.
Contrivance (n.) The thing contrived, invented, or planned; disposition of parts or causes by design; a scheme; plan; atrifice; arrangement.
Contrived (imp. & p. p.) of Contrive
Contriving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Contrive
Contrive (v. t.) To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan.
Contrive (v. i.) To make devices; to form designs; to plan; to scheme; to plot.
Contrivement (n.) Contrivance; invention; arrangement; design; plan.
Contriver (n.) One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas.
Control (n.) A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.
Control (n.) That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder; restraint.
Control (n.) Power or authority to check or restrain; restraining or regulating influence; superintendence; government; as, children should be under parental control.
Controlled (imp. & p. p.) of Control
Controlling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Control
Control (v. t.) To check by a counter register or duplicate account; to prove by counter statements; to confute.
Control (v. t.) To exercise restraining or governing influence over; to check; to counteract; to restrain; to regulate; to govern; to overpower.
Controllability (n.) Capability of being controlled; controllableness.
Controllable (a.) Capable of being controlled, checked, or restrained; amenable to command.
Controllableness (n.) Capability of being controlled.
Controller (n.) One who, or that which, controls or restraines; one who has power or authority to regulate or control; one who governs.
Controller (n.) An officer appointed to keep a counter register of accounts, or to examine, rectify, or verify accounts.
Controller (n.) An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged.
Controllership (n.) The office of a controller.
Controlment (n.) The power or act of controlling; the state of being restrained; control; restraint; regulation; superintendence.
Controlment (n.) Opposition; resistance; hostility.
Controversal (a.) Turning or looking opposite ways.
Controversal (a.) Controversial.
Controversary (a.) Controversial.
Controverse (n.) Controversy.
Controverse (v. t.) To dispute; to controvert.
Controverser (n.) A disputant.
Controversial (a.) Relating to, or consisting of, controversy; disputatious; polemical; as, controversial divinity.
Controversialist (n.) One who carries on a controversy; a disputant.
Controversially (adv.) In a controversial manner.
Controversion (n.) Act of controverting; controversy.
Controversor (n.) A controverser.
Controversies (pl. ) of Controversy
Controversy (n.) Contention; dispute; debate; discussion; agitation of contrary opinions.
Controversy (n.) Quarrel; strife; cause of variance; difference.
Controversy (n.) A suit in law or equity; a question of right.
Controverted (imp. & p. p.) of Controvert
Controverting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Controvert
Controvert (v. t.) To make matter of controversy; to dispute or oppose by reasoning; to contend against in words or writings; to contest; to debate.
Controverter (n.) One who controverts; a controversial writer; a controversialist.
Controvertible (a.) Capable of being controverted; disputable; admitting of question.
Controvertist (n.) One skilled in or given to controversy; a controversialist.
Contubernal (a.) Alt. of Contubernial
Contubernial (a.) Living or messing together; familiar; in companionship.
Contumacious (a.) Exhibiting contumacy; contemning authority; obstinate; perverse; stubborn; disobedient.
Contumacious (a.) Willfully disobedient to the summous or prders of a court.
Contumacies (pl. ) of Contumacy
Contumacy (n.) Stubborn perverseness; pertinacious resistance to authority.
Contumacy (n.) A willful contempt of, and disobedience to, any lawful summons, or to the rules and orders of court, as a refusal to appear in court when legally summoned.
Contumelious (a.) Exhibiting contumely; rudely contemptuous; insolent; disdainful.
Contumelious (a.) Shameful; disgraceful.
Contumely (n.) Rudeness compounded of haughtiness and contempt; scornful insolence; despiteful treatment; disdain; contemptuousness in act or speech; disgrace.
Contused (imp. & p. p.) of Contuse
Contusing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Contuse
Contuse (v. t.) To beat, pound, or together.
Contuse (v. t.) To bruise; to injure or disorganize a part without breaking the skin.
Contusion (n.) The act or process of beating, bruising, or pounding; the state of being beaten or bruised.
Contusion (n.) A bruise; an injury attended with more or less disorganization of the subcutaneous tissue and effusion of blood beneath the skin, but without apparent wound.
Conundrum (n.) 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.
Conundrum (n.) A question to which only a conjectural answer can be made.
Conure (n.) An American parrakeet of the genus Conurus. Many species are known. See Parrakeet.
Conus (n.) A cone.
Conus (n.) A Linnean genus of mollusks having a conical shell. See Cone, n., 4.
Conusable (a.) Cognizable; liable to be tried or judged.
Conusant (a.) See Cognizant.
Conusor (n.) See Cognizor.
Convalesced (imp. & p. p.) of Convalesce
Convalescing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Convalesce
Convalesce (v. i.) To recover health and strength gradually, after sickness or weakness; as, a patient begins to convalesce.
Convalesced (a.) Convalescent.
Convalescence (n.) Alt. of Convalescency
Convalescency (n.) 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.
Convalescent (a.) Recovering from sickness or debility; partially restored to health or strength.
Convalescent (a.) Of or pertaining to convalescence.
Convalescent (n.) One recovering from sickness.
Convalescently (adv.) In the manner of a convalescent; with increasing strength or vigor.
Convallamarin (n.) 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.
Convallaria (n.) The lily of the valley.
Convallarin (n.) A white, crystalline glucoside, of an irritating taste, extracted from the convallaria or lily of the valley.
Convection (n.) The act or process of conveying or transmitting.
Convection (n.) A process of transfer or transmission, as of heat or electricity, by means of currents in liquids or gases, resulting from changes of temperature and other causes.
Convective (a.) Caused or accomplished by convection; as, a convective discharge of electricity.
Convectively (adv.) In a convective manner.
Convellent (a.) Tending to tear or pull up.