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15-letter words containing ont

  • controllability — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
  • controlled drug — a drug whose sale is illegal except through prescribed medical channels
  • controller bias — In a control loop, the controller bias is a constant amount added to or subtracted from the action that a controller would normally take with a particular gain.
  • controller gain — In a control loop, the controller gain is the strength of action a controller will take at a particular point below or above the setpoint.
  • controversially — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
  • corday d'armont — (Marie Anne) Charlotte [muh-ree an shahr-luh t;; French ma-ree an shar-lawt] /məˈri æn ˈʃɑr lət;; French maˈri an ʃarˈlɔt/ (Show IPA), 1768–93, French Revolutionary heroine who assassinated Marat.
  • decontaminating — Present participle of decontaminate.
  • decontamination — to make (an object or area) safe for unprotected personnel by removing, neutralizing, or destroying any harmful substance, as radioactive material or poisonous gas.
  • decontextualise — Alternative spelling of decontextualize.
  • decontextualize — to consider (something) in isolation from its usual context
  • discontinuation — a breach or interruption of continuity or unity: Progress was delayed by repeated discontinuations of work.
  • discontinuities — Plural form of discontinuity.
  • discontinuously — In a discontinuous manner; not continuously.
  • disk controller — (hardware, storage)   (Or "hard disk controller", HDC) The circuit which allows the CPU to communicate with a hard disk, floppy disk or other kind of disk drive. The most common disk controllers in use are IDE and SCSI controllers. Most home personal computers use IDE controllers. High end PCs, workstations and network file servers mostly have SCSI adaptors.
  • flow of control — control flow
  • front-page news — a story printed on the first page of a newspaper
  • frontal cyclone — any extratropical cyclone associated with a front: the most common cyclonic storm.
  • gas oil contact — In a reservoir, gas oil contact is the area containing a mix of gas and oil, below which there is mainly oil and above which there is mainly gas.
  • heart's content — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
  • horizontal well — A horizontal well is a well which has sections that have been drilled at more than 80 degrees from the vertical in order to penetrate a greater length of the reservoir.
  • labyrinthodonts — Plural form of labyrinthodont.
  • levi-montalcini — Rita, 1909–2012, U.S. neurologist, born in Italy: Nobel Prize 1986.
  • microcontinents — Plural form of microcontinent.
  • microcontroller — A microcomputer on a single chip, used to control some device such as an automobile engine or a toy.
  • mission control — a command center for the control, monitoring, and support of activities connected with manned space flight.
  • montes riphaeus — a mountain range in the third quadrant of the visible face of the moon.
  • montgomeryshire — a historic county in Powys, in central Wales.
  • monthly meeting — (often initial capital letters) a district unit of local congregations of the Society of Friends.
  • montmorillonite — any of a group of clay minerals characterized by the ability to expand when they absorb large quantities of water.
  • no-cut contract — a professional athlete's contract guaranteeing that he or she will remain on the team's roster for a specified time.
  • nolo contendere — (in a criminal case) a defendant's pleading that does not admit guilt but subjects him or her to punishment as though a guilty plea had been entered, the determination of guilt remaining open in other proceedings.
  • non-contractual — of, relating to, or secured by a contract.
  • non-contrastive — not contrastive.
  • non-contributor — a person who contributes money, assistance, etc.
  • non-spontaneous — coming or resulting from a natural impulse or tendency; without effort or premeditation; natural and unconstrained; unplanned: a spontaneous burst of applause.
  • noncontemporary — not contemporary
  • noncontributory — pertaining to or of the nature of contribution; contributing.
  • noncontrollable — not able to be controlled
  • nontotalitarian — not totalitarian
  • nontransferable — Not transferable; not able to be transferred.
  • odontorhynchous — (of birds) having toothlike ridges inside the beak
  • odontostomatous — having jaws that resemble teeth
  • on the contrary — opposite in nature or character; diametrically or mutually opposed: contrary to fact; contrary propositions.
  • orthodontically — from an orthodontic point of view
  • over-controlled — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
  • overcontrolling — excessively controlling
  • palaeontography — the branch of palaeontology concerned with the description of fossils
  • past continuous — past progressive.
  • pissing contest — Slang: Vulgar. a contentious argument; confrontation.
  • pontifical mass — (sometimes lowercase) Roman Catholic Church. a High Mass celebrated by a bishop or other prelate.
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