S: (v) regulate, regularize, regularise, order, govern (bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations) "We cannot regulate the way people dress"; "This town likes to regulate"
W: (n) regulation [Related to: regulate] (a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior) "it was his rule to take a walk before breakfast"; "short haircuts were the regulation"
W: (n) order [Related to: order] (established customary state (especially of society)) "order ruled in the streets"; "law and order"
W: (n) government [Related to: govern] ((government) the system or form by which a community or other political unit is governed) "tyrannical government"
W: (n) governor [Related to: govern] (a control that maintains a steady speed in a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel))