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Contract In
  1. verb - consent in writing to pay money to a trade union for political use
Contractile
  1. adjective - capable of contracting or being contracted; "the contractile wings of an insect"
Contracting
  1. verb - be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness; "He got AIDS"; "She came down with pneumonia"; "She took a chill"
  2. become smaller or draw together; "The fabric shrank"; "The balloon shrank"
  3. becoming infected; "catching cold is sometimes unavoidable"; "the contracting of a serious illness can be financially catastrophic"
  4. compress or concentrate; "Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan"
  5. engage by written agreement; "They signed two new pitchers for the next season"
  6. enter into a contractual arrangement
  7. make or become more narrow or restricted; "The selection was narrowed"; "The road narrowed"
  8. make smaller; "The heat contracted the woollen garment"
  9. reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"
  10. squeeze or press together; "she compressed her lips"; "the spasm contracted the muscle"
Contraction
  1. noun - (physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber)
  2. a word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds; "`won't' is a contraction of `will not'"; "`o'clock' is a contraction of `of the clock'"
  3. the act of decreasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope
  4. the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together; "the contraction of a gas on cooling"
Contractive
  1. - Tending to contract; having the property or power or power of contracting.
Contractors
  1. noun - (law) a party to a contract
  2. a bodily organ that contracts
  3. someone (a person or firm) who contracts to build things
  4. the bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps
Contractual
  1. adjective - relating to or part of a binding legal agreement; "contractual obligations"
Contracture
  1. noun - an abnormal and usually permanent contraction of a muscle
Contradance
  1. noun - a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line
  2. perform a contradance
Contradicts
  1. verb - be in contradiction with
  2. be resistant to; "The board opposed his motion"
  3. deny the truth of
  4. prove negative; show to be false