9-letter words containing a, n, g, o
- gang hook — a hook with several points, made by joining the shanks of two or three hooks.
- gang plow — a combination of two or more plows in one frame.
- gang show — an amateur theatrical performance with a cast made up of youth members of Scouts and Guides
- gangboard — a raised walk on a sailing ship, crossing the waist and connecting the forecastle directly with the quarterdeck.
- ganglions — Plural form of ganglion.
- gantelope — gauntlet2 .
- garbanzos — Plural form of garbanzo.
- garnishor — (legal) A person who garnishes; one who obtains a garnishment against another.
- garotting — to execute by the garrote.
- garrisons — Plural form of garrison.
- garroting — a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- garryowen — (rugby union) A high short punt onto or behind the defending team.
- gascoigne — George, 1525?–77, English poet.
- gasconade — extravagant boasting; boastful talk.
- gasconism — the quality of being boastful; boastfulness
- gasolines — Plural form of gasoline.
- gaycation — a holiday specifically designed for the gay market
- 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
- 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.
- geocorona — a belt of ionized hydrogen surrounding the earth at the outer limit of the exosphere.
- geomancer — divination by geographic features or by figures or lines.
- geomantic — Of or relating to geomancy.
- georgiana — a female given name.
- geraldton — a seaport in W Australia.
- gerfalcon — gyrfalcon.
- germanous — containing bivalent germanium.
- gestation — the process, state, or period of gestating.
- get along — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- gianthood — the condition of being a giant
- gigatonne — Alternative spelling of gigaton.
- girandole — a rotating and radiating firework.
- gittarone — an acoustic bass guitar
- gladstone — William Ewart [yoo-ert] /ˈyu ərt/ (Show IPA), 1809–98, British statesman: prime minister four times between 1868 and 1894.
- glamorgan — a historic county in SE Wales, now part of Mid, South, and West Glamorgan.
- glissando — performed with a gliding effect by sliding one or more fingers rapidly over the keys of a piano or strings of a harp.
- gloamings — Plural form of gloaming.
- gloxinias — Plural form of gloxinia.
- gluconate — a salt of gluconic acid
- glycation — (biochemistry) non-enzymatic reaction of a sugar and an amine group of a protein to form a glycoprotein.
- gnathonic — sycophantic; fawning.
- gnostical — pertaining to knowledge.
- go and do — If you say that someone has gone and done something, you are expressing your annoyance at the foolish thing they have done.