8-letter words containing g, o, d
- edgerton — Harold Eugene ("Doc") 1903–90, U.S. electrical engineer and photographer.
- edgewood — a city in NE Maryland, near Baltimore.
- encoding — (computing) The way in which symbols are mapped onto bytes, e.g. in the rendering of a particular font, or in the mapping from keyboard input into visual text.
- endogamy — The custom of marrying only within the limits of a local community, clan, or tribe.
- endogeny — Growth from within.
- endowing — Present participle of endow.
- engorged — Simple past tense and past participle of engorge.
- engouled — (of a cross, bend, etc) disappearing into the mouth of an animal
- ergatoid — a wingless, worker-like ant with sexual capability
- fandango — a lively Spanish or Spanish-American dance in triple time, performed by a man and woman playing castanets.
- feelgood — Informal. intended to make one happy or satisfied: a feel-good movie; feel-good politics.
- firedogs — Plural form of firedog.
- flooding — a great flowing or overflowing of water, especially over land not usually submerged.
- fog drip — water falling to the ground from trees, especially conifers, that have collected the moisture from fog.
- fogbound — unable to sail or navigate because of heavy fog.
- fogeydom — the state or disposition of a fogey
- foldings — Plural form of folding.
- foliaged — Having foliage.
- fondling — to handle or touch lovingly, affectionately, or tenderly; caress: to fondle a precious object; to fondle a child.
- for good — morally excellent; virtuous; righteous; pious: a good man.
- forjudge — to exclude, expel, dispossess, or deprive by a judgment.
- founding — simple past tense and past participle of find.
- frog pad — a rubber or leather cushion fixed to a leather sole and fitted under a horseshoe to reduce shock to a horse's foot
- frogeyed — (of a person) having a bulging eye or bulging eyes
- frondage — (collectively) the fronds (of a plant)
- fungoids — Plural form of fungoid.
- gabbroid — gabbro-like, esp of a rock in the petrographic clan which contains the gabbro family
- gadabout — a person who moves about restlessly or aimlessly, especially from one social activity to another.
- gadroons — Plural form of gadroon.
- gadzooks — An exclamation of surprise or annoyance.
- galenoid — relating to or resembling galena
- galloped — Simple past tense and past participle of gallop.
- galopade — a lively round dance in duple time.
- galoshed — Wearing galoshes.
- gamboled — to skip about, as in dancing or playing; frolic.
- gammoned — Simple past tense and past participle of gammon.
- gamodeme — an isolated breeding population
- ganglord — The leader of a gang, especially a criminal organization.
- gaolbird — Alternative spelling of jailbird.
- garamond — a printing type designed in 1540 by Claude Garamond (c1480–1561), French type founder.
- garboard — The first range of planks or plates laid on a ship’s bottom next to the keel.
- gardyloo — (Scotland, obsolete) Used by servants in medieval Scotland to warn passers-by of waste about to be thrown from a window into the street below. The term was still in use as late the 1930s and 1940s, when many people had no indoor toilets.
- garotted — to execute by the garrote.
- garroted — a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- gatefold — foldout (def 1).
- gatorade — A fruit-flavored drink especially for athletes, designed to supply the body with carbohydrates and to replace fluids and sodium lost during exercise.
- gavotted — Simple past tense and past participle of gavotte.
- geekhood — The quality of being a geek; geekiness.
- genocide — the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.
- geocoded — Simple past tense and past participle of geocode.