8-letter words containing c, o, g
- escargot — A snail, especially as an item on a menu.
- exoergic — (physics, chemistry) Occurring with the release of energy.
- exogenic — Formed or occurring on the surface of the earth.
- floccing — Also, flock. a tuftlike mass, as in a chemical precipitate.
- flocking — a lock or tuft of wool, hair, cotton, etc.
- focusing — a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the focus of all diplomatic efforts.
- forcings — Plural form of forcing.
- frocking — a gown or dress worn by a girl or woman.
- gabbroic — Of, pertaining to, or containing gabbro.
- galacto- — milk or milky
- gambogic — of or derived from gamboge
- gamecock — a rooster of a fighting breed, or one bred and trained for fighting.
- gas coal — a soft coal suitable for the production of gas.
- gascogne — Gascony
- gavelock — a spear or javelin
- gazpacho — a soup made of chopped tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, garlic, oil, and vinegar, and served cold.
- genocide — the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.
- genomics — the study of genomes.
- geocache — A container hidden in a specific location during geocaching.
- geocarpy — the ripening of fruits below ground, as occurs in the peanut
- geocoded — Simple past tense and past participle of geocode.
- geodesic — Also, geodesical. pertaining to the geometry of curved surfaces, in which geodesic lines take the place of the straight lines of plane geometry.
- geodetic — pertaining to geodesy.
- geoducks — Plural form of geoduck.
- geogonic — relating to geogony
- geologic — of, relating to, or based on geology.
- geomancy — divination by geographic features or by figures or lines.
- geoponic — of or relating to tillage or agriculture; agricultural.
- georgics — Plural form of georgic.
- gerontic — geriatric.
- gioconda — Mona Lisa.
- glacious — Characteristic, composed, or of the nature of icy; icy.“Gla
- glaucoma — Ophthalmology. abnormally high fluid pressure in the eye, most commonly caused either by blockage of the channel through which aqueous humor drains (open-angle glaucoma or chronic glaucoma) or by pressure of the iris against the lens, which traps the aqueous humor (angle-closure glaucoma or acute glaucoma)
- glaucous — light bluish-green or greenish-blue.
- glooscap — (among the Micmac and other Native North American peoples) a traditional trickster hero
- glucagon — a hormone secreted by the pancreas that acts in opposition to insulin in the regulation of blood glucose levels.
- glucogen — Alternative form of glycogen.
- glucosan — any of a number of polysaccharides that yield glucose upon hydrolysis.
- glucosin — any of a class of compounds, some of which are highly toxic, derived from reactions of glucose with ammonia.
- glycerol — a colorless, odorless, syrupy, sweet liquid, C 3 H 8 O 3 , usually obtained by the saponification of natural fats and oils: used for sweetening and preserving food, in the manufacture of cosmetics, perfumes, inks, and certain glues and cements, as a solvent and automobile antifreeze, and in medicine in suppositories and skin emollients.
- glycogen — a white, tasteless polysaccharide, (C 6 H 10 O 5) n , molecularly similar to starch, constituting the principal carbohydrate storage material in animals and occurring chiefly in the liver, in muscle, and in fungi and yeasts.
- glycolic — pertaining to or derived from glycol.
- glyconic — (of a line of verse) consisting of three trochees and one dactyl
- glycosyl — (biochemistry) Any functional group derived from a sugar (especially from a monosaccharide) by removal of the hemiacetal hydroxy group.
- gnomical — Gnomic.
- gnomonic — of or relating to a gnomon or to a sundial.
- gnostics — Plural form of gnostic.
- go crook — to lose one's temper
- go dutch — of, relating to, or characteristic of the natives or inhabitants of the Netherlands or their country or language.
- go voice — (communications) When two or more parties stop communicating digitally and resuming the conversation via voice communication over the telephone. Prototypically this is used (e.g., "Wanna go voice?") between two modem users to denote the action of picking up the phone while shutting off the modem, in order to use the same line for voice communication as had was being used for data transmission. Compare: Voice-Net.