Word Meanings - CONFRONTMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of confronting; the state of being face to face.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONFRONTMENT)

• Contraposition
• Oppositeness
• confrontment
• facing

Related words: (words related to CONFRONTMENT)

• FACETIAE
  Witty or humorous writings or saying; witticisms; merry conceits.
• FACIES
  The general aspect or habit of a species, or group of species, esp. with reference to its adaptation to its environment. (more info) 1. The anterior part of the head; the face.
• FACILITATION
  The act of facilitating or making easy.
• FACIEND
  The multiplicand. See Facient,
• FACUND
  Eloquent.
• FACTIOUS
  1. Given to faction; addicted to form parties and raise dissensions, in opposition to government or the common good; turbulent; seditious; prone to clamor against public measures or men; -- said of persons. Factious for the house of Lancaster.
• FACTION
  One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus. 2. A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority,
• FACT
  1. A doing, making, or preparing. A project for the fact and vending Of a new kind of fucus, paint for ladies. B. Jonson. 2. An effect produced or achieved; anything done or that comes to pass; an act; an event; a circumstance. What might instigate
• FACINOROUS
  Atrociously wicked. Jer. Taylor. -- Fa*cin"o*rous*ness, n.
• FACTITIVE
  Pertaining to that relation which is proper when the act, as of a transitive verb, is not merely received by an object, but produces some change in the object, as when we say, He made the water wine. Sometimes the idea of activity in a
• FACTORIZE
  To give warning to; -- said of a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, the warning being to the effect that he shall not pay the money or deliver the property of the defendant in his hands to him, but appear and answer the
• FACE
  Ten degrees in extent of a sign of the zodiac. Chaucer. 9. Maintenance of the countenance free from abashment or confusion; confidence; boldness; shamelessness; effrontery. This is the man that has the face to charge others with false citations.
• CONFRONTMENT
  The act of confronting; the state of being face to face.
• FACUNDIOUS
  Eloquement; full of words.
• FACTIVE
  Making; having power to make. "You are . . . factive, not destructive." Bacon.
• FACETED
  Having facets.
• FACINGLY
  In a facing manner or position.
• FACTOTUM
  A person employed to do all kinds of work or business. B. Jonson.
• FACEWORK
  The material of the outside or front side, as of a wall or building; facing.
• FACTIONARY
  Belonging to a faction; being a partisan; taking sides. Always factionary on the party of your general. Shak.
• CREAM-FACED
  White or pale, as the effect of fear, or as the natural complexion. Thou cream-faced loon. Shak.
• BAREFACEDNESS
  The quality of being barefaced; shamelessness; assurance; audaciousness.
• CHYLIFACTIVE
  Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.
• CRABFACED
  Having a sour, disagreeable countenance. Beau & Fl.
• TEMPOROFACIAL
  Of or pertaining to both the temple and the face.
• OLFACTOR
  A smelling organ; a nose.
• MULTIFACED
  Having many faces.
• CALEFACTOR
  A heater; one who, or that which, makes hot, as a stove, etc.
• SURFACE LOADING
  The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface.
• ABORTIFACIENT
  Producing miscarriage. -- n.
• FIBER-FACED; FIBRE-FACED
  Having a visible fiber embodied in the surface of; -- applied esp. to a kind of paper for checks, drafts, etc.
• PALEFACE
  A white person; -- an appellation supposed to have been applied to the whites by the American Indians. J. F. Cooper.
• MADEFACTION; MADEFICATION
  The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. Bacon.
• TUMEFACIENT
  Producing swelling; tumefying.
• CHYLIFACTION
  The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.