stricture (n.)

• abbreviation
• anathema
• animadversion
• arraignment
• arrest
• aspersion
• astringency
• blame
• blockage
• blocking
• bottleneck
• carping
• castigation
• cavil
• censure
• cervix
• check
• circumscription
• closure
• coarctation
• compaction
• compression
• concentration
• condemnation
• condensation
• consolidation
• constraint
• constriction
• contraction
• contracture
• cramp
• criticism
• curtailment
• damnation
• decrease
• delay
• denouncement
• denunciation
• detainment
• detention
• deterrent
• diminuendo
• exception
• excoriation
• faultfinding
• fixation
• flak
• fulmination
• hairsplitting
• hindrance
• hit
• holdup
• hourglass
• impeachment
• impediment
• imputation
• indictment
• inhibition
• interdiction
• interference
• interruption
• isthmus
• knitting
• knock
• let
• narrowing
• neck
• negativism
• nit
• obloquy
• obstruction
• obstructionism
• occlusion
• opposition
• priggishness
• quibble
• rap
• reduction
• reflection
• reprehension
• repression
• reprobation
• resistance
• restraint
• restriction
• retardation
• setback
• shortening
• slam
• solidification
• squeeze
• stranglehold
• strangulation
• striction
• suppression
• swipe
• systole
• taper
• tapering