Anagrams of: CONTRACTIONARY

• (physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber)

• the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together

• a word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds

• the act of decreasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope

• tight or narrow compression

• (biology) a narrowing or constriction of a vessel or canal; especially a congenital narrowing of the aorta

• 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

• of or relating to cryonics

• 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

• the region around the south pole: Antarctica and surrounding waters

• at or near the south pole