abbreviation, adverse criticism, anathema, animadversion, arraignment, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, aspersion, astriction, astringency, bad notices, bad press, blame, blockage, blocking, bottleneck, captiousness, carping, castigation, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, censure, cervix, check, circumscription, clogging, closing up, closure, coarctation, compactedness, compaction, compression, compressure, concentration, condemnation, condensation, consolidation, constraint, constriction, constringency, contraction, contracture, cramp, criticism, curtailment, damnation, decrease, decrial, delay, denouncement, denunciation, detainment, detention, deterrent, diminuendo, exception, excoriation, faultfinding, fixation, flak, flaying, foot-dragging, fulmination, fustigation, hairsplitting, hampering, hindering, hindrance, hit, holdback, holdup, home thrust, hostile criticism, hourglass, hourglass figure, hypercriticalness, hypercriticism, impeachment, impediment, imputation, indictment, inhibition, interdiction, interference, interruption, isthmus, knitting, knock, let, nagging, narrow place, narrowing, neck, negativism, niggle, niggling, nit, nit-picking, nuisance value, obloquy, obstruction, obstructionism, occlusion, opposition, overcriticalness, pestering, pettifogging, pillorying, priggishness, puckering, pursing, quibble, quibbling, rap, reduction, reflection, reprehension, repression, reproachfulness, reprobation, resistance, restraint, restriction, retardation, retardment, setback, shortening, skinning alive, slam, solidification, squeeze, stranglehold, stranglement, strangulation, striction, suppression, swipe, systole, taking exception, taper, tapering, trichoschistism, wasp waist, wrinkling