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Contentious
- adjective - inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits; "a style described as abrasive and contentious"; "a disputatious lawyer"; "a litigious and acrimonious spirit"
- involving or likely to cause controversy; "a central and contentious element of the book"- Tim W.Ferfuson
Contortions
- noun - a tortuous and twisted shape or position; "they built a tree house in the tortuosities of its boughs"; "the acrobat performed incredible contortions"
- the act of twisting or deforming the shape of something (e.g., yourself)
Contractors
- noun - (law) a party to a contract
- a bodily organ that contracts
- someone (a person or firm) who contracts to build things
- the bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps
Contrarious
- adjective - difficult to deal with
Contritions
- noun - sorrow
- sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation
Convections
- noun - (meteorology) the vertical movement of heat or other properties by massive motion within the atmosphere
- the transfer of heat through a fluid (liquid or gas) caused by molecular motion
Conventions
- noun - (diplomacy) an international agreement
- a large formal assembly; "political convention"
- orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional
- something regarded as a normative example; "the convention of not naming the main character"; "violence is the rule not the exception"; "his formula for impressing visitors"
- the act of convening
Conversions
- noun - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism represses emotional conflicts which are then converted into physical symptoms that have no organic basis
- a change in the units or form of an expression: "conversion from Fahrenheit to Centigrade"
- a change of religion; "his conversion to the Catholic faith"
- a spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life
- a successful free throw or try for point after a touchdown
- act of exchanging one type of money or security for another
- an event that results in a transformation
- interchange of subject and predicate of a proposition
- the act of changing from one use or function or purpose to another
Convictions
- noun - (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed; "the conviction came as no surprise"
- an unshakable belief in something without need for proof or evidence
Convulsions
- noun - a physical disturbance such as an earthquake or upheaval
- a sudden uncontrollable attack; "a paroxysm of giggling"; "a fit of coughing"; "convulsions of laughter"
- a violent disturbance; "the convulsions of the stock market"
- violent uncontrollable contractions of muscles