contraction (n.)

• abatement
• abbreviation
• abridgment
• alleviation
• apocope
• aposiopesis
• attenuation
• clipping
• coarctation
• constriction
• cutting
• dampening
• decrease
• decrement
• deduction
• deflation
• depreciation
• depression
• diminution
• dying
• elision
• ellipsis
• extenuation
• lessening
• letup
• lowering
• miniaturization
• mitigation
• narrowing
• pruning
• reduction
• relaxation
• shortening
• shorthand
• simplicity
• stenography
• stricture
• subtraction
• syncope
• syneresis
• tachygraphy
• taper
• tapering
• truncation
• weakening