Word Meanings - CONTRACTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Tending to contract; having the property or power or power of contracting.

• CONTRACTTABLET
  A clay tablet on which was inscribed a contract, for safe keeping. Such tablets were inclosed in an outer case (often called the envelope), on which was inscribed a duplicate of the inscription on the inclosed tablet.
• Havanese
  Of or pertaining to Havana, in Cuba.
• Powerable
  Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible.
• Tender-hefted
  Having great tenderness; easily moved.
• Tenderling
  One made tender by too much kindness; a fondling.
• Powerful
  Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any kind; potent; mighty; efficacious; intense; as, a powerful man or beast; a powerful engine; a powerful argument; a powerful light; a powerful vessel.
• Tenderloin
  A strip of tender flesh on either side of the vertebral column under the short ribs, in the hind quarter of beef and pork. It consists of the psoas muscles.
• TENDERHEARTED
  Having great sensibility; susceptible of impressions or influence; affectionate; pitying; sensitive. -- Ten"der-heart`ed*ly, adv. -- Ten"der-heart`ed*ness, n. Rehoboam was young and tender-hearted, and could not withstand them. 2 Chron. xiii. 7. Be y
• Contracted
  of Contract
• Powerless
  Destitute of power, force, or energy; weak; impotent; not able to produce any effect.
• Tenderly
  In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly.
• TENDERHEFTED
  Having great tenderness; easily moved. [Obs.] Shak.
• Contracting
  of Contract
• Haveless
  Having little or nothing.
• Property
  That which is proper to anything; a peculiar quality of a thing; that which is inherent in a subject, or naturally essential to it; an attribute; as, sweetness is a property of sugar.
• Tenderness
  The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective).
• TENDRE
  Tender feeling or fondness; affection. You poor friendless creatures are always having some foolish tendre. Thackeray.

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