8-letter words containing g, e, o, t, a
- go after — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- goadster — a goadsman
- goatherd — a person who tends goats.
- goatlike — any of numerous agile, hollow-horned ruminants of the genus Capra, of the family Bovidae, closely related to the sheep, found native in rocky and mountainous regions of the Old World, and widely distributed in domesticated varieties.
- goatweed — a plant of the genus Capraria
- goethals — George Washington, 1858–1928, U.S. major general and engineer: chief engineer of the Panama Canal 1907–14; governor of the Canal Zone 1914–16.
- gossaert — Jan [yahn] /yɑn/ (Show IPA), Mabuse, Jan.
- great go — great (def 20).
- great on — enthusiastic about
- groaneth — Archaic third-person singular form of groan.
- hagueton — acton.
- have got — have, possess
- helotage — a member of the lowest class in ancient Laconia, constituting a body of serfs who were bound to the land and were owned by the state. Compare Perioeci, Spartiate.
- heptagon — a polygon having seven angles and seven sides.
- hexaglot — a book written in six languages
- hostaged — a person given or held as security for the fulfillment of certain conditions or terms, promises, etc., by another.
- hostages — Plural form of hostage.
- joktaleg — a large clasp knife or pocketknife; jackknife.
- lactogen — (biochemistry) A polypeptide placental hormone, part of the somatotropin family, with structure and function similar to those of growth hormone. It modifies the metabolic state of the mother during pregnancy to facilitate the energy supply of the fetus.
- legation — a diplomatic minister and staff in a foreign mission.
- lekgotla — a meeting place for village assemblies, court cases, and meetings of village leaders
- magneto- — indicating magnetism or magnetic properties
- magneton — a unit of magnetic moment, used in measuring the magnetic moment of atomic and subatomic particles.
- magnetos — Plural form of magneto.
- megadont — macrodont.
- megatons — Plural form of megaton.
- megavolt — a unit of electromotive force, equal to one million volts. Abbreviation: MV.
- metablog — (neologism, Internet) a blog about blogs.
- montaged — Simple past tense and past participle of montage.
- montages — Plural form of montage.
- montague — (in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet) the family name of Romeo. Compare Capulet.
- mortgage — the rights conferred by it, or the state of the property conveyed.
- negation — the act of denying: He shook his head in negation of the charge.
- negators — Plural form of negator.
- negatory — marked by negation; denying; negative.
- negatron — Also called negatron. Physics, Chemistry. an elementary particle that is a fundamental constituent of matter, having a negative charge of 1.602 × 10 −19 coulombs, a mass of 9.108 × 10 −31 kilograms, and spin of ½, and existing independently or as the component outside the nucleus of an atom.
- nor gate — Computers. NOR circuit.
- not gate — Computers. NOT circuit.
- notogaea — a biogeographical division comprising the Australian region.
- obligate — to bind or oblige morally or legally: to obligate oneself to purchase a building.
- octangle — octangular.
- offstage — off the stage or in the wings; away from the view of the audience (opposed to onstage).
- oogamete — one of a pair of structurally dissimilar gametes, the female gamete being large and nonmotile and the male gamete being small and motile.
- outargue — to outdo or defeat in arguing: That man could outargue the devil himself.
- outglare — (transitive) To surpass or outdo in glaring.
- outgleam — to gleam more than
- outraged — Simple past tense and past participle of outrage.
- outrages — Plural form of outrage.
- outrange — to have a longer or greater range than.
- page out — (storage, architecture) What a paging system does when it copies part of a task's working memory from RAM to swap space on disk.