8-letter words containing g, o, h
- geocache — A container hidden in a specific location during geocaching.
- geoglyph — A large-scale drawing made on the ground by scratching or arranging lines of stones etc.
- geophagy — the practice of eating earthy matter, especially clay or chalk, as in famine-stricken areas.
- geophone — a device that is placed on or in the ground and used to detect seismic waves.
- geophyte — a plant propagated by means of underground buds.
- geotherm — a line or surface within or on the earth connecting points of equal temperature
- gheraoed — Simple past tense and past participle of gherao.
- gheraoes — Plural form of gherao.
- ghettoed — Simple past tense and past participle of ghetto.
- ghettoes — Plural form of ghetto.
- ghiordes — a Turkish rug characterized by an uneven pile produced by the Ghiordes knot.
- ghosting — the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.
- ghoulish — strangely diabolical or cruel; monstrous: a ghoulish and questionable sense of humor.
- giftshop — a shop that sells items that are suitable for giving as presents
- ginhouse — a building in which cotton is ginned
- girlhood — the state or time of being a girl.
- gnathion — Craniometry. the lowest point on the anterior margin of the lower jaw in the midsaggital plane.
- go ahead — permission or a signal to proceed: They got the go-ahead on the construction work.
- go dutch — of, relating to, or characteristic of the natives or inhabitants of the Netherlands or their country or language.
- go forth — military: set out
- go short — If you go short of something, especially food, you do not have as much of it as you want or need.
- go south — fail, go bad
- go-ahead — permission or a signal to proceed: They got the go-ahead on the construction work.
- goatfish — any tropical and subtropical marine fish of the family Mullidae, having a pair of long barbels below the mouth.
- goatherd — a person who tends goats.
- gobshite — a mean and contemptible person, especially a braggart.
- god help — You use God help you to warn someone that something unpleasant will happen to them if they do a particular thing.
- godchild — a child for whom a godparent serves as sponsor at baptism.
- goderich — Viscount, title of Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon. 1782–1859, British statesman; prime minister (1827–28)
- godheads — Plural form of godhead.
- 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.
- goethite — a very common mineral, iron hydroxide, HFeO 2 , occurring in crystals, but more commonly in yellow or brown earthy masses: an ore of iron.
- gohonzon — (in Nichiren Buddhism) the paper scroll to which devotional chanting is directed
- goldfish — a small, usually yellow or orange fish, Carassius auratus, of the carp family, native to China, bred in many varieties and often kept in fishbowls and pools.
- goldrush — Alternative spelling of gold rush.
- golgotha — a hill near Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified; Calvary.
- goliaths — Plural form of goliath.
- goloshes — a waterproof overshoe, especially a high one.
- gomashta — (India,now,historical) A native Indian clerk or steward.
- gomorrah — Also, Douay Bible, Gomorrha. an ancient city destroyed, with Sodom, because of its wickedness. Gen. 19:24, 25.
- goodrich — Samuel Griswold [griz-wuh ld,, -wohld,, -wawld] /ˈgrɪz wəld,, -woʊld,, -wɔld/ (Show IPA), ("Peter Parley") 1793–1860, U.S. author and publisher.
- googlish — Resembling or in the manner of Google.
- goombahs — Plural form of goombah.
- goshawks — Plural form of goshawk.
- gouaches — Plural form of gouache.
- gralloch — the entrails of a deer
- groaneth — Archaic third-person singular form of groan.
- grogshop — a saloon or barroom, especially a cheap one.
- groschen — a zinc or aluminum coin of Austria until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a schilling.
- grouched — Simple past tense and past participle of grouch.