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9-letter words containing g, o, a, t

  • regulator — a person or thing that regulates.
  • reportage — the act or technique of reporting news.
  • riot gear — Riot gear is the special clothing and equipment worn by police officers or soldiers when they have to deal with a riot.
  • rogations — solemn supplications, esp in a form of ceremony prescribed by the Church
  • rotograph — a photograph, esp of a manuscript or book, which is printed white on black
  • roughcast — Also called spatter dash. an exterior wall finish composed of mortar and fine pebbles mixed together and dashed against the wall. Compare pebble dash.
  • salty dog — a cocktail of gin or vodka and grapefruit juice, traditionally served in a salt-rimmed glass.
  • sao tiago — the largest of the Cape Verde Islands, S of Cape Verde. About 383 sq. mi. (992 sq. km).
  • scapegoat — a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place.
  • scatology — the study of or preoccupation with excrement or obscenity.
  • segholate — a noun in Hebrew that has a long vowel in the first syllable and a short seghol in the second syllable
  • sgraffito — a technique of ornamentation in which a surface layer of paint, plaster, slip, etc., is incised to reveal a ground of contrasting color.
  • shogunate — the office or rule of a shogun.
  • sigmatron — a machine for generating X-rays
  • signatory — having signed, or joined in signing, a document: the signatory powers to a treaty.
  • slow gait — (of a horse) a slow rack.
  • songcraft — the art of songwriting
  • southgate — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
  • staghound — a hound trained to hunt stags and other large animals.
  • stegosaur — a plant-eating dinosaur of the genus Stegosaurus, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a heavy, bony armor and a row of bony plates along its back, and growing to a length of 20 to 40 feet (6–12 meters).
  • stone age — the period in the history of humankind, preceding the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, and marked by the use of stone implements and weapons: subdivided into the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic periods.
  • strongarm — (processor)   A collaborative project between Digital Equipment Corporation and Advanced RISC Machines Ltd. (ARM) announced on 1995-02-06 licensing the ARM RISC architecture to Digital Semiconductor for the development of high-performance, low power microprocessors. The StrongARM family of 32-bit RISC products developed under the agreement are faster versions of the existing ARM processors with a somewhat different instruction set. They are targetted at applications such as next-generation personal digital assistants with improved user interfaces and communications; interactive television and set-top products; video games and multimedia edutainment systems with realistic imaging, motion and sound; and digital imaging, including low cost digital image capture and photo-quality scanning and printing. The StrongARM family has limited software compatibility with the ARM6, ARM7 and ARM8 families due to its separate caches for data and instructions which causes self-modifying code to fail. The SA-110 is the first member of the family.
  • strongman — a person who performs remarkable feats of strength, as in a circus.
  • subrogate — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
  • sugarcoat — to cover with sugar: to sugarcoat a pill.
  • surrogate — a person appointed to act for another; deputy.
  • swingboat — a piece of fairground equipment consisting of a boat-shaped carriage for swinging in
  • tachogram — the record produced by the action of a tachometer.
  • tag along — If someone goes somewhere and you tag along, you go with them, especially when they have not asked you to.
  • tag cloud — a visual representation of user-generated electronic tags or keywords that classify and describe online content, typically an alphabetical list or a grouping of words in different font sizes, as to show relative frequency or provide links to further information: a tag cloud of the words used in the president's speech. See also tag1 (def 9b).
  • tailoring — a person whose occupation is the making, mending, or altering of clothes, especially suits, coats, and other outer garments.
  • tangolike — resembling or characteristic of tango music or dance
  • targa top — a removable hard roof on a motor car
  • tarragona — a city in Catalonia, NE Spain, on the Mediterranean Sea.
  • tautology — needless repetition of an idea, especially in words other than those of the immediate context, without imparting additional force or clearness, as in “widow woman.”.
  • tax dodge — a way of avoiding having to pay the full amount of tax owed; it may be legal or illegal
  • tea wagon — a small table on wheels for carrying articles for use in serving tea.
  • teratogen — a drug or other substance capable of interfering with the development of a fetus, causing birth defects.
  • tetralogy — a series of four related dramas, operas, novels, etc.
  • thank god — to express gratitude, appreciation, or acknowledgment to: She thanked them for their hospitality.
  • the wagon — Charles's Wain
  • theophagy — the sacramental eating of a god
  • togavirus — a virus belonging to the Togaviridae family and which usually affects birds and mammals rather than humans
  • togliatti — Palmiro [pahl-mee-raw] /pɑlˈmi rɔ/ (Show IPA), 1893–1964, Italian Communist Party leader.
  • tomograph — a machine for making an x-ray of a selected plane of the body.
  • topmaking — the art or science of blending wool to meet certain specifications
  • topograph — a type of x-ray photograph of land surfaces
  • totalling — constituting or comprising the whole; entire; whole: the total expenditure.
  • trialogue — a discussion or conversation in which three persons or groups participate.
  • trigamous — of or relating to trigamy or a trigamist.
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