governor

governor has 6 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 8.

Definitions

• n.. One who governs; especially, one who is invested with the supreme executive authority in a State; a chief ruler or magistrate; as, the governor of Pennsylvania.
• n.. One who has the care or guardianship of a young man; a tutor; a guardian.
• n.. A pilot; a steersman.
• n.. A contrivance applied to steam engines, water wheels, and other machinery, to maintain nearly uniform speed when the resistances and motive force are variable.
• n.. a control that maintains a steady speed in a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel)
• n.. the head of a state government