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Contact Lens
- noun - a thin curved glass or plastic lens designed to fit over the cornea in order to correct vision or to deliver medication
Containments
- noun - (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor
- a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully; "containment of communist expansion was a central principle of United States' foreign policy from 1947 to the 1975"
- the act of containing; keeping something from spreading; "the containment of the AIDS epidemic"; "the containment of the rebellion"
Contaminants
- noun - a substance that contaminates
Contaminates
- verb - make impure; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake"
- make radioactive by adding radioactive material; "Don't drink the water--it's contaminated"
Contemplates
- verb - consider as a possibility; "I contemplated leaving school and taking a full-time job"
- look at thoughtfully; observe deep in thought; "contemplate one's navel"
- reflect deeply on a subject;
- think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes; "
Contemptuous
- adjective - expressing extreme contempt
Contentments
- noun - happiness with one's situation in life
Conterminous
- adjective - being of equal extent or scope or duration
- connecting without a break; within a common boundary; "the 48 conterminous states"; "the contiguous 48 states"
- having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching; "Rhode Island has two bordering states; Massachusetts and Conncecticut"; "the side of Germany conterminous with France"; "Utah and the contiguous state of Idaho"; "neighboring cities"
Contiguities
- noun - the attribute of being so near as to be touching
Continencies
- noun - the exercise of self constraint in sexual matters