Phrase Hound found 16 phrases and 154 compound words that contain contra. The most common are listed below. Open contra in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 16
- Contra Costa CountyOne of 58 counties in California, United States. County seat: Martinez.
- Contra CostaEllipsis of Contra Costa County.
- contra danceA type of folk dance style in which couples dance in two facing lines of indefinite length.
- Contra Costa CentreA census-designated place in Contra Costa County, California, United States.
- contra dancesplural of contra dance: A type of folk dance style in which couples dance in two facing lines of indefinite length.
- contra dancingpresent participle and gerund of contra dance
- per contrain contrast, on the contrary
- contra-octaveThe octave directly below the great octave.
- contra proferentemA doctrine of contractual interpretation providing that, where a term is ambiguous, the preferred meaning should be the one that works against the interests of the party who provided the wording.
- contra proferentumMisconstruction of contra proferentem.
- contra-traderOne who engages in contra-trading, a form of tax fraud.
- contra-tradersplural of contra-trader: One who engages in contra-trading, a form of tax fraud.
- contra-tradingA form of carousel fraud that evades detection by using two "carousels" of traded goods, where one carousel is legitimate and the other is not, and thus the input and output VATs neutralize each other to conceal the fraud.
- contra dancedsimple past and past participle of contra dance
- contra-octavesplural of contra-octave: The octave directly below the great octave.
- Contra BourdonA flute stop on an organ, almost always of 32', characterized by a very low, dark tone.
Compound words 154
- contraceptiveThat acts to prevent conception as a result of sexual intercourse.
- contraproductiveCounterproductive.
- contrarotatingRotating in two directions by contrarotation.
- contrabureaucraticSelf-consciously rejecting bureaucracy and pursuing alternative modes of organisation.
- contranaturalOpposed to or against nature; unnatural.
- anticontraOpposed to the Nicaraguan Contras, right-wing paramilitaries fighting the Sandinista regime.
- contradistinctDistinguished by opposite qualities.
- contrafissureA fissure or fracture on the side opposite to that which received the blow, or at some distance from it.
- contrafreeloadingA behaviour, where, when given a choice, an individual animal will choose a food source which requires effort to obtain instead of that which requires little to no effort.
- contraindicantA contraindication.