| CONTRACTILE | • contractile adj. Capable of contracting, or of being contracted. • CONTRACTILE adj. having the power or property of contracting. |
| CONTRACTING | • contracting v. Present participle of contract. • contracting adj. Getting smaller; drawing itself together into a smaller area. • contracting n. The act of something that contracts or shrinks; contraction. |
| CONTRACTION | • contraction n. A reversible reduction in size. • contraction n. (Economics) A period of economic decline or negative growth. • contraction n. (Biology, medicine) A shortening of a muscle during its use. |
| CONTRACTIVE | • contractive adj. Able to contract; contractile. • CONTRACTIVE adj. tending to contract. |
| CONTRACTORS | • contractors n. Plural of contractor. • Contractors prop.n. Plural of Contractor. • CONTRACTOR n. one that contracts to perform work or provide supplies. |
| CONTRACTUAL | • contractual adj. Of, relating to, or enforced by a contract. • contractual n. A contractualized employee; One who is hired as a temporary worker, especially one who is hired for a single project. • contractual n. (Accounting) A charge for a service that is applied through a contract with another provider. |
| CONTRACTURE | • contracture n. (Medicine) An abnormal, sometimes permanent, contraction of a muscle; a deformity so caused. • CONTRACTURE n. a permanent shortening (as of muscle, tendon, or scar tissue) producing deformity or distortion. |
| INTRACTABLE | • intractable adj. Not tractable; not able to be managed, controlled, governed or directed. • intractable adj. (Mathematics) (of a mathematical problem) Not able to be solved. • intractable adj. (Of a problem) Difficult to deal with, solve, or manage. |
| INTRACTABLY | • intractably adv. In an intractable manner; uncontrollably; unmanageably. • INTRACTABLE adv. unmanageable, also UNTRACTABLE. |
| NONCONTRACT | • noncontract adj. Not of, pertaining to, or operating under a contract. • NONCONTRACT adj. not employed by contract. |
| PRECONTRACT | • precontract n. (Law) A contract preceding another, especially a contract of marriage which, according to the ancient… • precontract v. To contract prior to another process. • precontract v. To make a previous contract. |
| SUBCONTRACT | • subcontract v. (Transitive, intransitive) To contract out portions of a larger contracted project. • subcontract n. A portion of a contracted project that is contracted out in turn. • SUBCONTRACT n. a contract between a party to an original contract and a third party. |
| UNTRACEABLE | • untraceable adj. Not able to be traced or tracked down. • UNTRACEABLE adj. not traceable. |
| UNTRACTABLE | • untractable adj. Intractable. • UNTRACTABLE adj. unmanageable, also INTRACTABLE. |