12-letter words containing ont
- control loop — A control loop is a series of control operations, including measuring an output, establishing what the output should be, and taking action to correct it.
- control room — a room from which a system, network, or piece of equipment is controlled
- control unit — the part of the computer that processes hardware, software, and user inputs and directs their implementation
- controllable — If something is controllable you are able to control or influence it.
- controllably — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
- controversal — (obsolete, rare) Facing opposite directions.
- controverted — to argue against; dispute; deny; oppose.
- controverter — One who controverts; a controversial writer; a controversialist.
- contumacious — stubbornly resistant to authority; wilfully obstinate
- contumelious — rude in a contemptuous way; insulting and humiliating
- cost control — the limiting of expenditure
- cyprinodonts — Plural form of cyprinodont.
- decontrolled — Simple past tense and past participle of decontrol.
- deontologist — ethics, especially that branch dealing with duty, moral obligation, and right action.
- discontented — not content; dissatisfied; discontented.
- discontinued — to put an end to; stop; terminate: to discontinue nuclear testing.
- discontinues — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discontinue.
- dual-control — having dual controls
- ectosymbiont — (biology) A partner in a symbiotic relationship that remains on the surface of its host or occupies a body cavity.
- effronteries — Plural form of effrontery.
- endosymbiont — (ecology) An organism that lives within the body or cells of another organism.
- 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.
- front bottom — the female genitals
- front burner — Informal. a condition or position of top priority: Put the project on the front burner and finish it as soon as possible.
- front loader — a washing machine with a door at the front which opens one side of the drum into which washing is placed
- front matter — all material in a book that precedes the text proper, as the title page, copyright page, table of contents, dedication, and preface.
- front office — the executive or administrative office of a company, organization, etc.
- front runner — a person who leads in any competition.
- front-loaded — Also, front-loaded. front-loading (def 1).
- front-loader — a machine or appliance, as a washing machine, loaded and unloaded through an opening in the front (as distinguished from a top loader).
- front-runner — In a competition or contest, the front-runner is the person who seems most likely to win it.
- frontal bone — a broad membrane bone of the skull, forming the forehead and the upper portion of each orbit.
- frontal lobe — the anterior part of each cerebral hemisphere, in front of the central sulcus.
- frontbencher — (politics) one who sits on the front bench in a parliament. Typically the spokesmen for those who sit further back.
- frontiersman — a person, especially a man, who lives on the frontier, especially in sparsely settled regions.
- frontiersmen — a person, especially a man, who lives on the frontier, especially in sparsely settled regions.
- frontispiece — an illustrated leaf preceding the title page of a book.
- frontrunners — Plural form of frontrunner.
- frontrunning — the practice by market makers of using advance information provided by their own investment analysts before it has been given to clients
- full frontal — showing the entire front: full-frontal nudity.
- full-frontal — showing the entire front: full-frontal nudity.
- gerontocracy — government by a council of elders.
- gerontogeous — belonging to the Old World.
- gerontologic — relating to gerontology
- gerontophile — someone who is sexually attracted to old people
- gerontophobe — a person who fears or hates old people or the idea of growing old
- half-monthly — pertaining to a month, or to each month.
- hellespontus — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars.
- heterokontan — of or relating to a heterokont