Word Meanings - ADVANCINGSURFACE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The first of two or more surfaces arranged in tandem; -- contr. with following surface, which is the rear surface.

• Contratenor
  Counter tenor; contralto.
• Contribution
  The act of contributing.
• Controversial
  Relating to, or consisting of, controversy; disputatious; polemical; as, controversial divinity.
• Contractedness
  The state of being contracted; narrowness; meanness; selfishness.
• First-hand
  Obtained directly from the first or original source; hence, without the intervention of an agent.
• Contradiction
  An assertion of the contrary to what has been said or affirmed; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; contrary declaration; gainsaying.
• CONTRAPLEX
  Pertaining to the sending of two messages in opposite directions at the same time.
• Contrafissure
  A fissure or fracture on the side opposite to that which received the blow, or at some distance from it.
• Contraries
  Propositions which directly and destructively contradict each other, but of which the falsehood of one does not establish the truth of the other.
• Contravallation
  A trench guarded with a parapet, constructed by besiegers, to secure themselves and check sallies of the besieged.
• Contributional
  Pertaining to, or furnishing, a contribution.
• Contrivement
  Contrivance; invention; arrangement; design; plan.
• Controversialist
  One who carries on a controversy; a disputant.
• Contractibility
  Capability of being contracted; quality of being contractible; as, the contractibility and dilatability of air.
• Firstling
  The first produce or offspring; -- said of animals, especially domestic animals; as, the firstlings of his flock.
• Contradictional
  Contradictory; inconsistent; opposing.
• CONTRAPTION
  A contrivance; a new-fangled device; -- used scornfully. [Colloq. or Dial.] -- Con*trap"tious (#), a. We all remember some of the extraordinary contraptions which have been thus evolved and put upon the market. F. M. Ware.
• Contrahent
  Entering into covenant; contracting; as, contrahent parties.
• Contrarieties
  of Contrariety

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