Vocabulary : Contractile to Contradictable
Contractile : tending to contract; having the power or property of contracting, or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions; as, the contractile tissues.Contractility : The quality or property by which bodies shrink or contract. ;; The power possessed by the fibers of living muscle of contracting or shortening.
Contracting : of Contract
Contraction : 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 tendion; the contraction produced by cold. ;; The process of shortening an operation. ;; The act of incurring or becoming subject to, as liabilities, obligation, debts, etc.; the process of becoming subject to; as, the contraction of a disease. ;; Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word or phrase; -- as, plenipo for plenipotentiary; crim. con. for criminal conversation, etc. ;; The shortening of a word, or of two words, by the omission of a letter or letters, or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one; as, ne'er for never; can't for can not; don't for do not; it's for it is. ;; A marriage contract.
Contractive : Tending to contract; having the property or power or power of contracting.
