9-Letter Words Containing: R,A,T,T,O,N,S

• a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law

• (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make

• a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid

• enter into a contractual arrangement

• engage by written agreement

• squeeze or press together

• be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness

• become smaller or draw together

• make smaller

• compress or concentrate

• make or become more narrow or restricted

• reduce in scope while retaining essential elements

• the northeastern region of the United States

• the compass point midway between north and east; at 45 degrees

• the direction corresponding to the northeastward compass point

• a location in the northeastern part of a country, region, or city

• to, toward, or in the northeast

• situated in or oriented toward the northeast

• coming from the northeast

• a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice

• something that serves as a means of transportation

• an exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes

• the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials

• a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion

• a mechanism that transports magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder

• the act of moving something from one location to another

• move something or somebody around; usually over long distances

• move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body

• hold spellbound

• transport commercially

• send from one person or place to another

• free-living or colonial organisms with diverse nutritional and reproductive modes

• 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

• accelerates a continuous beam of electrons to high speeds by means of the electric field produced by changing magnetic flux