air controller

noun

: a military officer responsible for coordinating and directing close-support attacks of combat aircraft against enemy ground forces and installations

Word History

First Known Use

1951, in the meaning defined above

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Rhymes for air controller

• ambipolar
• areolar
• bronchiolar
• circumpolar
• equimolar
• monopolar
• multipolar
• nucleolar
• unipolar
• vacuolar
• arteriolar
• microcontroller