12-letter words containing contr
- cost control — the limiting of expenditure
- decontrolled — Simple past tense and past participle of decontrol.
- dual-control — having dual controls
- fire control — technical and sometimes automatic supervision of artillery or naval gunfire on a target, as for range, elevation, etc.
- flow control — (communications, protocol) The collection of techniques used in serial communications to stop the sender sending data until the receiver can accept it. This may be either software flow control or hardware flow control. The receiver typically has a fixed size buffer into which received data is written as soon as it is received. When the amount of buffered data exceeds a "high water mark", the receiver will signal to the transmitter to stop transmitting until the process reading the data has read sufficient data from the buffer that it has reached its "low water mark", at which point the receiver signals to the transmitter to resume transmission.
- irda control — (standard) (IrDA-C, formerly IrBUS) Infrared standard from IrDA. IrDA Control is a low speed communication standard that allows cordless peripherals such as keyboards, mice, game pads, and joysticks to interact with intelligent host devices. Host devices include PCs, home appliances, game machines, and television and web set-top boxes. IrDA Control supports data rates of 75 Kbps at up to 8 metres, and is designed to integrate with devices that use USB HID. Parts and products featuring IrDA Control are expected in 1998. See also IrDA Data, AIR.
- non-contract — an agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of something specified.
- pain control — methods for the relief and management of pain
- pest control — rats, insects: extermination
- pre-contract — a preexisting contract that legally prevents a person from making another contract of the same nature.
- puck control — an offensive strategy to maintain control of the puck to prevent the other team from having scoring opportunities.
- rent control — government control over the amount of rent charged, as for housing.
- riot control — the activity of quelling or containing a riot
- self-control — control or restraint of oneself or one's actions, feelings, etc.
- servocontrol — control by means of a servomechanism.
- spin control — Slang. an attempt to give a bias to news coverage, especially of a political candidate or event.
- tone control — a manual control used to adjust the relative responses of an amplifier to high, low, and intermediate audio frequencies.
- uncontracted — drawn together; reduced in compass or size; made smaller; shrunken.
- uncontrolled — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.