14-letter words containing ont
- contrabassoons — Plural form of contrabassoon.
- contraceptives — A device or drug serving to prevent pregnancy.
- contract labor — labor coercible by the enforceable provisions of a contract.
- contract price — a price for goods or services named in a contract
- contractedness — the state of being shortened
- contractionary — involving or constituting economic contraction
- contractualism — any of various theories that justify moral principles and political choices because they depend on a social contract involving certain ideal conditions, as lack of ignorance or uncertainty.
- contracyclical — (of a policy) stabilizing the economy through countering major fluctuations, such as recessions or booms
- contradictable — Capable of being contradicted.
- contradictions — the act of contradicting; gainsaying or opposition.
- contradictious — inclined to contradict; contentious
- contradistinct — Distinguished by opposite qualities.
- contraindicate — to advise against or indicate the possible danger of (a drug, treatment, etc)
- contraposition — the act of placing opposite or against, esp in contrast or antithesis
- contrapositive — placed opposite or against
- contrapuntally — of or relating to counterpoint.
- contrapuntists — Plural form of contrapuntist.
- contravariance — (computer science) The reversal of the order of data types acted upon by an operator.
- contraventions — Plural form of contravention.
- contributional — the act of contributing.
- contributorily — In a contributory manner.
- control center — an administrative or operational center for a group of related activities: the control center for the new military offensive.
- control column — a lever or pillar, usually fitted with a handwheel, used to control the movements of an aircraft
- control rocket — a small rocket engine used to make corrections in the flight path of spacecraft or missiles.
- control survey — an accurate survey of a region forming a basis for more detailed surveys.
- control system — a system that senses, switches, or regulates another system
- controlledness — The degree to which something is controlled.
- controllership — an employee, often an officer, of a business firm who checks expenditures, finances, etc.; comptroller.
- controvertible — to argue against; dispute; deny; oppose.
- controvertibly — In a controvertible manner.
- contumaciously — stubbornly perverse or rebellious; willfully and obstinately disobedient.
- contumeliously — insulting display of contempt in words or actions; contemptuous or humiliating treatment.
- credit control — (in a business) the practice of maximizing revenue by making sure that customers are a good credit risk
- cruise control — In a car or other vehicle, cruise control is a system that automatically keeps the vehicle's speed at the same level.
- cylinder front — a front cover for a desk or the like, consisting either of a solid piece or of a tambour sliding up and back in quadrantal grooves.
- damage control — Damage control is action that is taken to make the bad results of something as small as possible, when it is impossible to avoid bad results completely.
- dandie dinmont — a breed of small terrier with a long coat and drooping ears
- dark continent — Africa, especially before the late 19th cent. when little was known of it
- decontaminated — Simple past tense and past participle of decontaminate.
- decontaminates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decontaminate.
- decontaminator — A device that decontaminates.
- device control — (character) One of the four ASCII characters, DC1, DC2, DC3, and DC4, once used to remotely control equipment (e.g. a paper tape reader) via electromagnetic switches. The characters were usually paired, DC1/DC3 turning one device on/off, and DC2/DC4 another.
- dicamptodontid — (zoology) Any member of the Dicamptodontidae.
- discontentedly — not content or satisfied; dissatisfied; restlessly unhappy: For all their wealth, or perhaps because of it, they were discontented.
- discontentment — not content; dissatisfied; discontented.
- discontinuance — the act or state of discontinuing or the state of being discontinued; cessation: the discontinuance of a business.
- draconic month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- endodontically — according to the practice of endodontics
- epicontinental — Denoting those areas of sea or ocean overlying the continental shelf.
- flight control — the direction of airplane movements, especially takeoffs and landings, by messages from the ground.