9-letter words containing g, a, o
- campagnol — (archaic) A mouse (Arvicala agrestis) that often does great damage in fields and gardens, by feeding on roots and seeds.
- cannoning — Present participle of cannon.
- cannoting — cannot but, have no alternative but to: We cannot but choose otherwise.
- canopying — The activity of going through the canopy of a forest on a zipline.
- cantoning — Present participle of canton.
- canyoning — the sport of travelling down a river situated in a canyon by a variety of means including scrambling, floating, swimming, and abseiling
- carangoid — resembling a fish of the family Carangidae; carangid.
- cargo bay — the large central area of the space shuttle orbiter's fuselage in which payloads and their support equipment are carried. Also called payload bay. Compare bay2 (def 2a).
- carolling — a song, especially of joy.
- carousing — to engage in a drunken revel: They caroused all night.
- carpology — the branch of botany concerned with the study of fruits and seeds
- cartogram — a map showing statistical information in diagrammatic form
- cartology — the theory or science of mapmaking
- cartonage — the material from which many Egyptian mummy masks and coffins were made, consisting of linen or papyrus held together with glue
- cataloged — a list or record, as of items for sale or courses at a university, systematically arranged and often including descriptive material: a stamp catalog.
- cataloger — a person, normally in a library, who catalogues literary materials
- catalogic — of the nature of or relating to a catalogue
- catalogue — A catalogue is a list of things such as the goods you can buy from a particular company, the objects in a museum, or the books in a library.
- catch dog — a dog used to help round up livestock.
- categoric — Categoric means the same as categorical.
- cavorting — to prance or caper about.
- cerograph — an engraving or writing on wax
- ceropegia — any of various, usually climbing or trailing, plants of the genus Ceropegia, native to the Old World tropics and often cultivated as houseplants.
- chalcogen — any of the elements oxygen, sulphur, selenium, tellurium, or polonium, of group 6A of the periodic table
- changchou — Changzhou
- changchow — a city in S Fujian province, in SE China.
- changelog — (computing) A log that records changes between versions, as in source control.
- changzhou — a city in E China, in S Jiangsu province, on the Grand Canal: also known as Wutsin until 1949, when the 7th-century name was officially readopted. Pop: 2 085 500 (2004 est)
- charangos — Plural form of charango.
- chargeoff — Alternative spelling of charge off.
- chargeous — (obsolete) burdensome.
- cheongsam — a straight dress, usually of silk or cotton, with a stand-up collar and a slit in one side of the skirt, worn by Chinese women
- chicagoan — a native or inhabitant of Chicago, Ill.
- chiliagon — a thousand-sided polygon
- chiyogami — a type of highly decorated, colourful craft paper used for origami
- chromagen — (biochemistry) Any compound, such as heme, that forms a biological pigment when attached to a protein.
- cigarillo — a small cigar often only slightly larger than a cigarette
- cladogram — a treelike diagram illustrating the development of a clade
- clamoring — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- clangours — Plural form of clangour.
- clogdance — a folk dance characterized by heavy stamping steps, performed while wearing clogs
- co-manage — to manage (something) jointly
- coach dog — Dalmatian
- coagulant — a substance that aids or produces coagulation
- coagulase — any enzyme that causes coagulation of blood
- coagulate — When a liquid coagulates, it becomes very thick.
- coaxingly — to attempt to influence by gentle persuasion, flattery, etc.; cajole: He coaxed her to sing, but she refused.
- coccygeal — a small triangular bone forming the lower extremity of the spinal column in humans, consisting of four ankylosed rudimentary vertebrae.
- coccygian — of or relating to the coccyx
- cockaigne — an imaginary land of luxury and idleness