A member of any of various rightist guerrilla groups violently opposing the socialist Sandinista government of Nicaragua and secretly funded by the United States government in the 1980s.

(law) The authority that a higher court has to issue an order specifically ordering a lower court to perform (or stop performing) a certain action

(medicine) To make inadvisable; to warn against a specific medicine or treatment.

The ability to control one's desires and impulses; willpower.

To control oneself or itself.

simple past tense and past participle of contrive

Created in a deliberate, rather than natural or spontaneous, way. / Unnatural, forced; artificial, or unrealistic.

Of or in counterpoint. / (music) Of or relating to counterpoint. / (music, of a piece of music) With two or more independent melodic lines.

A person who operates an air traffic control system, to expedite the safe flow of aircraft.

An unforeseen, inopportune, or embarrassing event. / (fencing) An ill-timed pass.