10-Letter Words Starting with CONTRA

• reduced in size or pulled together

• be in contradiction with

• deny the truth of

• be resistant to

• prove negative; show to be false

• goods whose importation or exportation or possession is prohibited by law

• distributed or sold illicitly

• in a contrary disobedient manner

• contrary to expectations

• go against, as of rules and laws

• deny the truth of

• 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

• (law) a party to a contract

• a bodily organ that contracts

• largest and lowest member of the violin family

• pitched an octave below normal bass instrumental or vocal range

• the opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared

• the act of distinguishing by comparing differences

• a conceptual separation or distinction

• the perceptual effect of the juxtaposition of very different colors

• the range of optical density and tone on a photographic negative or print (or the extent to which adjacent areas on a television screen differ in brightness)

• put in opposition to show or emphasize differences

• to show differences when compared; be different

• an investor who deliberately decides to go against the prevailing wisdom of other investors

• a relation of direct opposition

• exact opposition

• a logical relation such that two propositions are contraries if both cannot be true but both can be false

• very opposed in nature or character or purpose

• of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true but both may be false

• resistant to guidance or discipline

• in an opposing direction