1. An awkward clash
   "he tried to smooth over his contretemps with the policeman"

Type of: brush, clash, encounter, skirmish

• scantily clad
• scantiness
• scantling
• scantly
• scantness
• scanty
• scape
• scapegoat
• scapegrace
• Scaphiopus
• Scaphiopus bombifrons
• Scaphiopus hammondii
• Scaphiopus multiplicatus
• scaphocephaly
• scaphoid
• scaphoid bone
• scaphopod
• Scaphopoda
• Scaphosepalum
• scapolite
• scapose
• scapula
• scapular
• scapulary
• scapulohumeral