15-letter words containing ont
- pontine marshes — an area of W Italy, southeast of Rome: formerly malarial swamps, drained in 1932–34 after numerous attempts since 160 bc had failed
- pre-contractual — a preexisting contract that legally prevents a person from making another contract of the same nature.
- primary contact — a communication or relationship between people that is characterized by intimacy and personal familiarity.
- process control — a method of controlling and improving a process using statistical analysis
- protein content — amount of protein in a food
- quality control — a system for verifying and maintaining a desired level of quality in an existing product or service by careful planning, use of proper equipment, continued inspection, and corrective action as required.
- quasicontinuous — uninterrupted in time; without cessation: continuous coughing during the concert.
- recontamination — the act of contaminating, or of making something impure or unsuitable by contact with something unclean, bad, etc.
- recontextualize — to contextualize (something) again
- rent-controlled — regulated by law to control the rent a landlord can charge for domestic accommodation and to guarantee a landlord's right to evict tenants
- rhodesian front — the governing party in Zimbabwe (then called Rhodesia) 1962–78
- scsi controller — SCSI adaptor
- self-controlled — Someone who is self-controlled is able to not show their feelings or not do the things that their feelings make them want to do.
- social contract — the voluntary agreement among individuals by which, according to any of various theories, as of Hobbes, Locke, or Rousseau, organized society is brought into being and invested with the right to secure mutual protection and welfare or to regulate the relations among its members.
- spontaneousness — coming or resulting from a natural impulse or tendency; without effort or premeditation; natural and unconstrained; unplanned: a spontaneous burst of applause.
- strontium oxide — a white insoluble solid substance used in making strontium salts and purifying sugar. Formula: SrO
- subcontraoctave — the octave below the contraoctave, which is three octaves below the middle C octave on a standard keyboard
- to lose contact — If you lose contact with someone who you have been friendly with, you no longer see them, speak to them, or write to them.
- to the contrary — opposite in nature or character; diametrically or mutually opposed: contrary to fact; contrary propositions.
- traffic control — management of road use
- uncontrollables — incapable of being controlled or restrained: uncontrollable anger.
- uncontroversial — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
- well-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.