Consumptive (a.) Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting.
Consumptive (a.) Affected with, or inclined to, consumption.
Consumptive (n.) One affected with consumption; as, a resort for consumptives.
Consumptively (adv.) In a way tending to or indication consumption.
Consumptiveness (n.) A state of being consumptive, or a tendency to a consumption.
Contabescent (a.) Wasting away gradually.
Contact (n.) A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.
Contact (n.) The property of two curves, or surfaces, which meet, and at the point of meeting have a common direction.
Contact (n.) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.
Contaction (n.) Act of touching.
Contagion (n.) The transmission of a disease from one person to another, by direct or indirect contact.
Contagion (n.) That which serves as a medium or agency to transmit disease; a virus produced by, or exhalation proceeding from, a diseased person, and capable of reproducing the disease.
Contagion (n.) The act or means of communicating any influence to the mind or heart; as, the contagion of enthusiasm.
Contagion (n.) Venom; poison.
Contagioned (a.) Affected by contagion.
Contagionist (n.) One who believes in the contagious character of certain diseases, as of yellow fever.
Contagious (a.) Communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching; as, a contagious disease.
Contagious (a.) Conveying or generating disease; pestilential; poisonous; as, contagious air.
Contagious (a.) Spreading or communicable from one to another; exciting similar emotions or conduct in others.
Contagiously (adv.) In a contagious manner.
Contagiousness (n.) Quality of being contagious.
Contagium (n.) Contagion; contagious matter.
Contained (imp. & p. p.) of Contain
Containing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Contain
Contain (v. t.) To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold.
Contain (v. t.) To have capacity for; to be able to hold; to hold; to be equivalent to; as, a bushel contains four pecks.
Contain (v. t.) To put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.
Contain (v. i.) To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.
Containable (a.) Capable of being contained or comprised.
Containant (n.) A container.
Container (n.) One who, or that which, contains.
Containment (n.) That which is contained; the extent; the substance.
Contaminable (a.) Capable of being contaminated.
Contaminated (imp. & p. p.) of Contaminate
Contaminating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Contaminate
Contaminate (v. t.) To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile.
Contaminate (a.) Contaminated; defiled; polluted; tainted.
Contamination (n.) The act or process of contaminating; pollution; defilement; taint; also, that which contaminates.
Contamitive (a.) Tending or liable to contaminate.
Contangoes (pl. ) of Contango
Contango (n.) 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.
Contango (n.) The postponement of payment by the buyer of stock on the payment of a premium to the seller. See Backwardation.
Contection (n.) A covering.
Contek (n.) Quarrel; contention; contest.
Contek (n.) Contumely; reproach.
Contemned (imp. & p. p.) of Contemn
Contemning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Contemn
Contemn (v. t.) To view or treat with contempt, as mean and despicable; to reject with disdain; to despise; to scorn.
Contemner (n.) One who contemns; a despiser; a scorner.
Contemningly (adv.) Contemptuously.
Contemper (v. t.) To modify or temper; to allay; to qualify; to moderate; to soften.
Contemperate (v. t.) To temper; to moderate.
Contemperation (n.) The act of tempering or moderating.
Contemperation (n.) Proportionate mixture or combination.
Contemperature (n.) The condition of being tempered; proportionate mixture; temperature.
Contemplance (n.) Contemplation.
Contemplant (a.) Given to contemplation; meditative.
Contemplated (imp. & p. p.) of Contemplate
Contemplating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Contemplate
Contemplate (v. t.) To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study.
Contemplate (v. t.) To consider or have in view, as contingent or probable; to look forward to; to purpose; to intend.
Contemplate (v. i.) To consider or think studiously; to ponder; to reflect; to muse; to meditate.
Contemplation (n.) The act of the mind in considering with attention; continued attention of the mind to a particular subject; meditation; musing; study.
Contemplation (n.) Holy meditation.
Contemplation (n.) The act of looking forward to an event as about to happen; expectation; the act of intending or purposing.
Contemplatist (n.) A contemplator.
Contemplative (a.) Pertaining to contemplation; addicted to, or employed in, contemplation; meditative.
Contemplative (a.) Having the power of contemplation; as, contemplative faculties.
Contemplative (n.) A religious or either sex devoted to prayer and meditation, rather than to active works of charity.
Contemplatively (adv.) With contemplation; in a contemplative manner.
Contemplativeness (n.) The state of being contemplative; thoughtfulness.
Contemplator (n.) One who contemplates.
Contemporaneity (n.) The state of being contemporaneous.
Contemporaneous (a.) Living, existing, or occurring at the same time; contemporary.
Contemporaneously (adv.) At the same time with some other event.
Contemporariness (n.) Existence at the same time; contemporaneousness.
Contemporary (a.) Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous.
Contemporary (a.) Of the same age; coeval.
Contemporaries (pl. ) of Contemporary
Contemporary (n.) One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch and Chaucer were contemporaries.
Contempt (n.) The act of contemning or despising; the feeling with which one regards that which is esteemed mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.
Contempt (n.) The state of being despised; disgrace; shame.
Contempt (n.) An act or expression denoting contempt.
Contempt (n.) Disobedience of the rules, orders, or process of a court of justice, or of rules or orders of a legislative body; disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent language or behavior in presence of a court, tending to disturb its proceedings, or impair the respect due to its authority.
Contemptibility (n.) The quality of being contemptible; contemptibleness.
Contemptible (a.) Worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean; vile; despicable.
Contemptible (a.) Despised; scorned; neglected; abject.
Contemptible (a.) Insolent; scornful; contemptuous.
Contemptibleness (n.) The state or quality of being contemptible, or of being despised.
Contemptibly (adv.) In a contemptible manner.
Contemptuous (a.) Manifesting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful.
Contemptuously (adv.) In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully.
Contemptuousness (n.) Disposition to or manifestion of contempt; insolence; haughtiness.
Contended (imp. & p. p.) of Contend
Contending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Contend
Contend (v. i.) To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
Contend (v. i.) To struggle or exert one's self to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.
Contend (v. i.) To strive in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.
Contend (v. t.) To struggle for; to contest.
Contendent (n.) An antagonist; a contestant.