- 監督【かんとく】 - supervision, control, superintendence, direction, director, superintendent, supervisor, coach, foreman, manager, overseer, controller, boss 
- 提督【ていとく】 - admiral, commodore 
- 総督【そうとく】 - governor-general, governor, viceroy 
- 督促【とくそく】 - urge, demand, importunity 
- 舞台監督【ぶたいかんとく】 - stage director 
- 現場監督【げんばかんとく】 - field overseer, site foreman 
- 家督【かとく】 - heir, successor, family estate, family fortune, inheritance, headship of a family