8-letter words containing g, e, o
- outargue — to outdo or defeat in arguing: That man could outargue the devil himself.
- outbulge — to bulge outwards
- outdodge — to surpass in dodging
- outglare — (transitive) To surpass or outdo in glaring.
- outgleam — to gleam more than
- outguess — to anticipate correctly the actions or intentions of; outwit.
- outguide — a folder in a filing system
- outraged — Simple past tense and past participle of outrage.
- outrages — Plural form of outrage.
- outrange — to have a longer or greater range than.
- outreign — to reign for longer than
- outweigh — to exceed in value, importance, influence, etc.: The advantages of the plan outweighed its defects.
- over-age — If you are over-age, you are officially too old to do something.
- over-egg — to do too much of; elaborate on excessively; overdo: used mainly in the phrase over-egg the (or one's) pudding, to mar an undertaking by doing more than is necessary or desirable
- overaged — Aged too much.
- overages — Plural form of overage.
- overdogs — Plural form of overdog.
- overedge — (sewing) To overlock.
- overgall — to make sore all over
- overgang — to dominate
- overgear — to cause (a company) to have too high a proportion of loan stock and preference shares in comparison to its ordinary share capital
- overgild — to cover with gilding.
- overgird — to gird too tightly
- overgive — to give up
- overglad — too glad
- overgoad — to goad excessively
- overgrow — to grow over; cover with a growth of something.
- overhang — to hang or be suspended over: A great chandelier overhung the ballroom.
- overhigh — too high
- overhung — simple past tense and past participle of overhang.
- overking — a supreme king
- overlong — too or excessively long
- overurge — to urge too strongly
- overwing — to fly above
- owen gun — a type of simple recoil-operated 9 mm sub-machine-gun first used by Australian forces in World War II
- oxbridge — Oxford or Cambridge University, or both, especially in contrast with the redbrick universities of England.
- oxtongue — any of various Eurasian plants of the genus Picris, having oblong bristly leaves and clusters of dandelion-like flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)
- 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.
- pagehood — the office of, or state of being, a page
- paragoge — the addition of a sound or group of sounds at the end of a word, as in the nonstandard pronunciation of height as height-th or once as once-t.
- parergon — something that is an accessory to a main work or subject; embellishment.
- pathogen — any disease-producing agent, especially a virus, bacterium, or other microorganism.
- peat bog — a swamp in which peat has accumulated.
- pedagogy — the function or work of a teacher; teaching.
- pedology — the scientific study of the nature and development of children.
- peg down — to make (a person) committed to a course of action or bound to follow rules
- pegboard — a board having holes into which pegs are placed in specific patterns, used for playing or scoring certain games.
- peignoir — a woman's dressing gown.
- pelology — the study of the therapeutic uses of mud
- penology — the study of the punishment of crime, in both its deterrent and its reformatory aspects.