Reverse Dictionary: CONTENTION

ADJECTIVES
1131 ► contentious, ill-tempered, cross, disagreeable, obnoxious, hostile → EVIL 
1387 ► contentious, quarrelsome; pertaining to strife or disagreement → BRIGOUS → obs.
1430 ► contentious, disputatious, wrangling, argumentative → TOILOUS → obs. rare
1430 ► contentious, quarrelsome → BARRATOUS → obs.
1449 ► contentious, full of strife or conflict → BATTLEFUL → obs. rare
1483 ► contentious, quarrelsome → DEBATOUS → obs. rare
1491 ► contentious, full of strife, quarrelsome → DEBATEFUL → obs.
1500 ► contending, fighting, at strife → AT BATE → obs.
1526 ► contentious, aggressive, short-tempered, peevish, tetchy → TESTIF → obs.
1556 ► contentious, quarrelsome; fault-finding → QUARRELLOUS → obs.
1560 ► contentious, quarrelsome, discordant; given to strife or dissension → DISSENTIOUS → rare
1580 ► pertaining to contention or strife → DEBATEFUL → obs.
1589 ► turbulent, contentious, quarrelsome → MUTINOUS → obs.
1582 ► causing contention or strife → MAKEBATE → obs.
1588 ► contentious, full of strife, quarrelsome → BATEFUL → obs.
1596 ► contentious, full of discord; quarrelsome → DISCORDFUL → rare
1614 ► given to dispute or controversy; contentious, disputatious, combative → POLEMIC
1615 ► given to dispute or controversy; contentious, disputatious; combative → POLEMICAL
1642 ► contentious, disposed to fight; quarrelsome → PUGNACIOUS 
1642 ► contentious, wrangling, scolding → CAMPING → obs.
1730 ► contentious, quarrelsome → CONCERTATIVE → obs.
19C ► contentious, quarrelsome → RIXABUND 
19C ► contentious; boastful → GLASTRIOUS → Sc.
1807 ► contentious, wrangling → BICKERING 
1808 ► contentious → CAMPRULY → Sc. obs.
1822 ► contentious about trifles, quarrelsome → ARGOL-BARGOLOUS → Sc.
1865 ► contentious, inclined to opposition → OPPOSITIVE → rare
1877 ► contentious, argumentative, quarrelsome, contradictory → THREAPING → Eng. dial.
1897 ► contentious → ARGLE-BARGLIN → Sc.
1898 ► contentious, inclined to argue or dispute → ARGISOME → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1924 ► contentious, unpleasant; conceited, snobbish, stuck-up, pretentious → HINCTY → HINKTY → US sl.

ADVERBS
1611 ► contentiously, with much wrangling → DEBATEFULLY → obs.

NOUNS
1300 ► contention, strife, discord, argument → BATE → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1300 ► contention, strife, dissension, quarrelling, wrangling; a quarrel → DEBATE → arch.
1300 ► contention, strife, quarrel, fighting → BARRAT → obs.
1300 ► verbal contention, dispute, controversy, argument → TOIL → obs.
1330 ► contention, quarrel; angry altercation → BICKER 
1350 ► contention, contradiction, opposition → AGAIN-SAYING → obs.
1375 ► contention or contest for the mastery → BARGAIN → obs. exc. Sc.
1450 ► contention, contradiction, opposition → AGAINST-SAYING → obs.
1470 ► contention, hostility, strife (as per NED: perhaps confused with ‘barrat’) → BARRACE → obs.
1509 ► contention, strife, dispute, controversy, argument → CONCERTATION → obs.
1535 ► contention → TANGLING → obs.
1546 ► discord manifested in contention or strife; variance, dissension, quarrelling → JAR 
1549 ► contending, fighting → CAMPING → obs.
1567 ► discord, contention, tumult; a dispute, a quarrel → MUTINY → obs.
1572 ► contention, strife → CERTATION → obs.
1590 ► contention, strife, quarrelling → DEBATEMENT → obs. rare
E17 ► contention, the condition or character of being pugnacious; inclination to fight; quarrelsomeness → PUGNACITY 
1612 ► petty, frivolous contention; squabbling → BANGLING → obs.
1623 ► contention, strife; the act of fighting; a fight, battle, contest → DIMICATION → rare
1635 ► contention, strife, contest; dispute → DECERTATION → obs.
1637 ► a contention or quarrel → SIMULTY → obs. rare
1638 ► a cause of discomfort, contention, or irritation; something that pricks the mind or feelings; chiefly used in plural → PRICKLE
1641 ► contention, altercation, bickering → JANGLE 
1670 ► contention, a falling out; a quarrel → OUTFALLING → Sc. obs.
1682 ► contention, strife, conflict, quarrelling, wrangling, altercation BICKERMENT 
1719 ► contention, wrangling; strife → YED → Sc.
1740 ► contention or strife → PALAVER → W. Afr.
1816 ► contention, struggle → KEMPING → Sc.
1818 ► a contention; a pother, disturbance, commotion, turmoil → CRINKIE-WINKIE → Sc.
1824 ► contention, a quarrel; a fault-finding → THROUGH-THE-WUD-LADDIE → Sc.
1825 ► contention; a scolding; a debate; the act of reproaching → RAGGIN → Sc.
1830 ► contention, a struggle, bustle, quarrel → STROUT → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
M19 ► the moment of contention or decision; a decision, a pledge → LICKING POST → US sl.
1871 ► contention, a quarrel; a fault-finding → THROUGH-THE-MUIR → Sc.
1874 ► a contention, retort, reply → BACK-WORD → Eng. dial.
1886 ► contention, a dispute → SPUTE → Eng. dial.
1887 ► a point of contention or decision; a decision, a pledge → LICK-LOG → Amer. dial.
1898 ► a contention, a quarrel → ARGIE-BARGIE → Sc. (Bk.)
1898 ► contention, an argument, a dispute → ARGUFICATION → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 ► contention, dispute, quarrel, argument, assertion → ARGUE → Sc. & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1899 ► a contention, quarrel, dispute → THREAPING-DO → Eng. dial.
1904 ► contention; eager strife to obtain anything → SCRAMPING → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► contending, scolding, tormenting → TARVIZZEEN → Eng. dial. obs. (Bk.)
1911 ► contention, a wrangling → ARGIE-BARGIEMENT → Sc. (Bk.)
1940 ► a contention or quarrel → KAS-KAS → KASS KASS → W. Indies Rasta usage
1969 ► a point of contention or disagreement → BIRD → Amer. dial.

NOUNS, PERSON
1388 ► a contentious or quarrelsome person → DEBATER → obs.
1529 ► a person who creates contention or discord; a breeder of strife; a mischief-maker; a quarrelsome person → MAKEBATE → arch.
1564 ► a causer of contention or strife → BATE-MAKER → obs.
1593 ► a person who breeds contention or strife; a quarrelsome person; one who incites to mischief → BREED-BATE → obs.
1599 ► a contentious, hot-headed fellow → SQUARER → obs.
1611 ► a person who causes contention and quarrels → QUARREL-BREEDER → obs.
1617 ► a person who creates contention or discord; a breeder of strife → MAKE-STRIFE → obs.
1721 ► a person who contends or strives; a fighter; a keen and vigorous worker, esp. one who strives to outdo his fellows → KEMPER → Sc.
1741 ► a person who creates contention or discord; a breeder of strife → MAKE-DEBATE → obs.
1803 ► a person who contends or fights → DIGLADIATOR → obs. or arch., literary usage
1811 ► a causer of contention or strife; a person waging regular war → BELLIGERENT 
1820 ► a contentious person; a caviller → ARGLE-BARGLER → Sc.
1888 ► a contentious, irritable, scolding woman → BANGREE → Sc. (Bk.)
1898 ► a contentious or quarrelsome person → THREAP → Eng. dial.
1899 ► a contentious, argumentative person → THREAPER → Eng. dial.
1905 ► a contentious person; a defamer → RAIL → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1923 ► a person who contends, strives, or works vigorously → CAMPIE → CAMPY → Sc.
1944 ► a contentious, demanding, harassing, annoying, or otherwise vexatious person → BALLBUSTER → US sl.
1961 ► a contentious, demanding, harassing, or otherwise vexatious individual → ASS-BREAKER → Amer. sl.

PHRASES
1957 ► in contention → IN THE HUNT → Aust. sl.

VERBS
971 ► to contend, to struggle, to fight → I-WIN → obs.
993 ► to contend, to engage with in conflict → DEAL → obs.
1000 ► to contend, to strive; to wrestle → WRAXLE → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1205 ► ​to contend or fight about → DEAL → obs.
1225 ► to contend, to contend in disputation → SPUTE → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1300 ► to contend, to dispute, to wrangle, to squabble → JANGLE → arch.
1300 ► to contend, to quarrel, to fight, to strive with blows or arguments → BATE → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1330 ► to contend in a lawsuit or an argument; to dispute, to argue; also, to contend in battle → TOIL → obs.
1340 ► to contend, to fight, to strive, to quarrel, to wrangle → DEBATE → obs.
1375 ► to contend, to strive, to struggle, to fight → BARGAIN → Sc. obs.
1400 ► to contend or fight in battle with another → KEMP → Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
1496 ► to contend against another, to be at strife with → VARY → obs.
1513 ► to contend against, to set oneself in opposition, to act in opposition or offer resistance to → OPPONE → obs.
1530 ► to contend, struggle; to writhe with more or less force → SCRUGGLE → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1535 ► to become involved in contention; to argue → TANGLE → obs.
1539 ► to contend in strife; to engage in a fight or scuffle; to fight and scratch each other → FALL TOGETHER BY THE EARS → obs.
1555 ► to contend or fight for; to defend, vindicate (an opinion, doctrine or the like) → PROPUGN → obs.
1588 ► to contend, to strive, to fight → BANDY 
1588 ► to contend with; to engage in a contest; to combat → TILT 
1597 ► to contend or strive with; to quarrel → MUTINY → obs.
1605 ► to contend against, to struggle; to struggle through difficulties, to contend in rivalry → WAGE → obs.
1619 ► to contend in argument; to dispute acrimoniously; to quarrel, to wrangle → CANGLE → Sc.
1621 ► to contend or argue saucily; to retort, answer pertly; to wrangle or quarrel → CAMPLE → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1656 ► to contend, to ‘cross swords’; to fight, to quarrel; to dispute violently → DIGLADIATE → obs.
1656 ► to contend, to fight, to skirmish → DIMICATE → obs.
1727 ► to contend, to argue, to quarrel, to cavil, to dispute; to haggle, to bandy words → ARGLE-BARGLE → chiefly Eng. dial. and Sc.
1762 ► to contend brazenly or defiantly that something false or improbable is the case → DOWNFACE → orig. & chiefly Irish
1785 ► to contend, to quarrel, to argue, to dispute; to wrangle → THREAP → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1791 ► to contend; to wrestle → REEL → Sc. obs.
1812 ► to contend, to wrangle, to argue → ARGUFY → Amer. dial.
1825 ► to contend, to argue, to quarrel → FAUCHENTULIE → Sc. obs.
1825 ► to contend, to quarrel → CATRIBAT → Sc.
1850 ► to cause contention; to stir up trouble, strife, or war → SOW DRAGONS’ TEETH 
1866 ► to contend, to strive; to toil, to labour; to work hard; to pull, to struggle → TEW → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1868 ► to contend, to argue; to struggle, fight → FRAB → Eng. dial.
1885 ► to contend, to argue, to bandy words, to dispute → ARGIE-BARGIE → Sc.
1886 ► to contend, to argue, to dispute, esp. in making a bargain → ARGLE → Eng. dial.
1898 ► to contend violent; to dispute → CATTIE-WURRIE → Sc. (Bk.)
1899 ► to strive or contend; to oppose → COPE → Amer. dial.
1904 ► to contend, to scramble, to strive → SCRANNY → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► to contend → YADDLE → Sc. obs. (Bk.)
1905 ► to contend or argue persistently → THREAT → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► to contend, to dispute → TERSE → Sc. obs. (Bk.)
1909 ► to argue, to contend, to bicker → PULL-HAUL → Amer. dial.
1921 ► to contend, to struggle, to strive, to expend effort and energy → PAUCHLE → Sc.
1963 ► to contend with someone to test someone → PULL ON → Aust. sl.