Attractor :: Attractor (n.) One who, or that which, attracts..
Batrachia :: Batrachia (n. pl.) The order of amphibians which includes the frogs and toads; the Anura. Sometimes the word is used in a wider sense as equivalent to Amphibia.
Batrachian :: Batrachian (a.) Pertaining to the Batrachia.
Batrachoid :: Batrachoid (a.) Froglike. Specifically: Of or pertaining to the Batrachidae, a family of marine fishes, including the toadfish. Some have poisonous dorsal spines..
Batrachomyomachy :: Batrachomyomachy (n.) The battle between the frogs and mice; -- a Greek parody on the Iliad, of uncertain authorship..
Cestraciont :: Cestraciont (n.) A shark of the genus Cestracion, and of related genera. The posterior teeth form a pavement of bony plates for crushing shellfish. Most of the species are extinct. The Port Jackson shark and a similar one found in California are living examples..
Cestraciont :: Cestraciont (a.) Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the genus Cestracion..
Citraconic :: Citraconic (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or having certain characteristics of, citric and aconitic acids..
Contract :: Contract (n.) To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action..
Contract :: Contract (n.) To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
Contract :: Contract (n.) To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease..
Contract :: Contract (n.) To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for..
Contract :: Contract (n.) To betroth; to affiance.
Contract :: Contract (n.) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
Contract :: Contract (v. i.) To be drawn together so as to be diminished in size or extent; to shrink; to be reduced in compass or in duration; as, iron contracts in cooling; a rope contracts when wet..
Contract :: Contract (v. i.) To make an agreement; to covenant; to agree; to bargain; as, to contract for carrying the mail..
Contract :: Contract (a.) Contracted; as, a contract verb..
Contract :: Contract (n.) The agreement of two or more persons, upon a sufficient consideration or cause, to do, or to abstain from doing, some act; an agreement in which a party undertakes to do, or not to do, a particular thing; a formal bargain; a compact; an interchange of legal rights..
Contract :: Contract (n.) A formal writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation..
Contract :: Contract (n.) The act of formally betrothing a man and woman.
Contractedness :: Contractedness (n.) The state of being contracted; narrowness; meanness; selfishness.
Contractibility :: Contractibility (n.) Capability of being contracted; quality of being contractible; as, the contractibility and dilatability of air..