9-letter words containing a, g, o
- gazehound — one of any of several breeds of hounds, as the Afghan, borzoi, greyhound, Saluki, or whippet, that hunts by sighting the game rather than by scent.
- gazillion — an extremely large, indeterminate number.
- gear down — Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
- gear knob — a gear lever
- gearboxes — Plural form of gearbox.
- gemmation — reproduction by gemmae.
- genealogy — a record or account of the ancestry and descent of a person, family, group, etc.
- generator — a machine that converts one form of energy into another, especially mechanical energy into electrical energy, as a dynamo, or electrical energy into sound, as an acoustic generator.
- genoa jib — a large triangular jib sail, often with a foot that extends as far aft as the clew of the mainsail
- genocidal — the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.
- geobotany — phytogeography.
- geocacher — A person who hides or seeks objects as part of the sport of geocaching.
- geocarpic — pertaining to geocarpy
- geocorona — a belt of ionized hydrogen surrounding the earth at the outer limit of the exosphere.
- geography — the science dealing with the areal differentiation of the earth's surface, as shown in the character, arrangement, and interrelations over the world of such elements as climate, elevation, soil, vegetation, population, land use, industries, or states, and of the unit areas formed by the complex of these individual elements.
- geomancer — divination by geographic features or by figures or lines.
- geomantic — Of or relating to geomancy.
- geomatics — The discipline of gathering, storing, processing, and delivering geographic information.
- geophagia — Consumption of clay, chalk or dirt.
- georgiana — a female given name.
- georgical — Georgic; relating to rural affairs.
- geostatic — of or relating to pressure exerted by the weight of overlying rock.
- geotactic — Of or pertaining to geotaxis.
- geraldton — a seaport in W Australia.
- gerfalcon — gyrfalcon.
- germanous — containing bivalent germanium.
- gestation — the process, state, or period of gestating.
- get about — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- get along — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- ghost car — an unmarked police car
- ghostball — (baseball) A type of pitch; the knuckleball.
- gianthood — the condition of being a giant
- gigaflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one billion floating-point operations per second.
- gigatonne — Alternative spelling of gigaton.
- girandole — a rotating and radiating firework.
- giraudoux — Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1882–1944, French novelist, playwright, and diplomat.
- gittarone — an acoustic bass guitar
- gladiator — (in ancient Rome) a person, often a slave or captive, who was armed with a sword or other weapon and compelled to fight to the death in a public arena against another person or a wild animal, for the entertainment of the spectators.
- gladiolus — any plant of the genus Gladiolus, of the iris family, native especially to Africa, having erect, sword-shaped leaves and spikes of flowers in a variety of colors.
- gladstone — William Ewart [yoo-ert] /ˈyu ərt/ (Show IPA), 1809–98, British statesman: prime minister four times between 1868 and 1894.
- glam rock — a style of rock music of the early 1970s, characterized by the glittery flamboyance and androgynous image of its performers
- glamorgan — a historic county in SE Wales, now part of Mid, South, and West Glamorgan.
- glamorise — (British spelling, Irish, South African, Australian and NZ) alternative spelling of glamorize.
- glamorize — to make glamorous.
- glamorous — full of glamour; charmingly or fascinatingly attractive, especially in a mysterious or magical way.
- glamoured — Simple past tense and past participle of glamour.
- glamourie — Alternative spelling of glamoury.
- glass pox — alastrim, or mild smallpox.
- glassboro — a borough in SW New Jersey.
- glasswork — the manufacture of glass and glassware.