GOVERNOR Synonyms

• someone who maintains and audits business accounts

• a person who directs and restrains

• a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine

• having the function of carrying out plans or orders etc.

• a person responsible for the administration of a business

• persons who administer the law

• someone who manages a government agency or department

• the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains

• a single domestic animal

• that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason

• a person who is in charge

• the front of a military formation or procession

• the pressure exerted by a fluid

• the top of something

• the source of water from which a stream arises

• (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent

• the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates)

• the length or height based on the size of a human or animal head

• a dense cluster of flowers or foliage

• the educator who has executive authority for a school

• an individual person

• a user of (usually soft) drugs

• a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)

• a rounded compact mass

• the foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container

• the part in the front or nearest the viewer

• a difficult juncture

• forward movement

• a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer

• the subject matter at issue

• a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about

• the rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint

• that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves

• (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk

• (usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head

• the striking part of a tool

• (nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship

• a projection out from one end

• a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum

• oral stimulation of the genitals

• to go or travel towards

• be in charge of

• travel in front of; go in advance of others

• be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel

• direct the course; determine the direction of travelling

• take its rise

• be in the front of or on top of

• form a head or come or grow to a head

• remove the head of

• a person who rules or guides or inspires others

• a featured article of merchandise sold at a loss in order to draw customers

• someone who controls resources and expenditures

• (sports) someone in charge of training an athlete or a team

• having official authority or sanction

• of or relating to an office

• a worker who holds or is invested with an office

• someone who administers the rules of a game or sport

• verified officially

• conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline

• (of a church) given official status as a national or state institution

• a person who directs and manages an organization

• one who supervises or has charge and direction of

• a program that controls the execution of other programs

• the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government

• the office of the United States head of state

• an officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc.

• an official in a modern colony who has considerable administrative power

• a provincial governor of consular rank in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire

• an anthropoid ape of the genus Proconsul

• a high-ranking university administrator

• any of various controls or devices for regulating or controlling fluid flow, pressure, temperature, etc.

• an official responsible for control and supervision of a particular activity or area of public interest

• a control that maintains a steady speed in a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel)

• the chief steward or butler of a great household

• governor of a country or province who rules as the representative of his or her king or sovereign

• showy American butterfly resembling the monarch but smaller

• Administrator of an opera house or theater.

• One who has the charge, direction, or management of some public business; a superintendent.

• A governor in various specific contexts, including certain South American countries, and historically in the kingdoms of Spain, Portugal, and France, and in imperial China.

• Attentive.