10-letter words containing g, o, i, d
- gladiators — Plural form of gladiator.
- glamorised — Simple past tense and past participle of glamorise.
- glamorized — Simple past tense and past participle of glamorize.
- glandiform — (anatomy) Shaped like, resembling, or characteristic of glands.
- globalised — Simple past tense and past participle of globalise.
- globalized — to extend to other or all parts of the globe; make worldwide: efforts to globalize the auto industry.
- glochidium — glochid.
- glottidean — Of or relating to the glottis; glottal.
- glucosides — Plural form of glucoside.
- glucosidic — Of or pertaining to a glucoside.
- glycolipid — any of a class of lipids, comprising the cerebrosides and gangliosides, that upon hydrolysis yield galactose or a similar sugar, a fatty acid, and sphingosine or dihydrosphingosine.
- glycosides — Plural form of glycoside.
- glycosidic — any of the class of compounds that yield a sugar and an aglycon upon hydrolysis.
- god forbid — If you say God forbid, you are expressing your hope that something will not happen.
- god's gift — If a person thinks they are God's gift to someone or something, they think they are perfect or extremely good.
- godfearing — Acting with obedience to rules established by a deity out of fear of the power of that deity.
- going down — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- gold basis — a gold standard as a basis for prices.
- gold braid — a gold-coloured braid which is used to decorate uniforms
- gold brick — Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
- gold field — an area or district where gold is mined.
- gold point — the point at which it is equally expensive to buy, sell, export, import, or exchange gold in adjustment of foreign claims or counterclaims.
- gold stick — the gilded rod carried on state occasions by certain members of the royal household.
- golda meir — Golda [gohl-duh] /ˈgoʊl də/ (Show IPA), (Goldie Mabovitch; Goldie Myerson) 1898–1978, Israeli political leader, born in Russia: prime minister 1969–74.
- golddigger — Alternative spelling of gold digger.
- goldfields — any of several Californian, composite herbs of the genus Lasthenia, having yellow flowers.
- goldfishes — Plural form of goldfish.
- goldilocks — (used with a singular verb) a person with golden hair.
- goldsmiths — Plural form of goldsmith.
- goldwynism — a phrase or statement involving a humorous and supposedly unintentional misuse of idiom, as “Keep a stiff upper chin,” especially such a statement attributed to Samuel Goldwyn, as “Include me out.”.
- golf widow — a woman whose husband frequently leaves her alone while he plays golf.
- golgi body — an organelle, consisting of layers of flattened sacs, that takes up and processes secretory and synthetic products from the endoplasmic reticulum and then either releases the finished products into various parts of the cell cytoplasm or secretes them to the outside of the cell.
- goliardery — one of a class of wandering scholar-poets in Germany, France, and England, chiefly in the 12th and 13th centuries, noted as the authors of satirical Latin verse written in celebration of conviviality, sensual pleasures, etc.
- gondoliers — Plural form of gondolier.
- gonopodium — the modified anal fin of a male poeciliid fish, serving as an organ of copulation.
- gonozooids — Plural form of gonozooid.
- good faith — accordance with standards of honesty, trust, sincerity, etc. (usually preceded by in): If you act in good faith, he'll have no reason to question your motives.
- good grief — keen mental suffering or distress over affliction or loss; sharp sorrow; painful regret.
- good night — enjoyable evening, night
- good thing — (convention) (From the 1930 Sellar and Yeatman parody "1066 And All That") Often capitalised; always pronounced as if capitalised. 1. Self-evidently wonderful to anyone in a position to notice: "The Trailblazer's 19.2 Kbaud PEP mode with on-the-fly Lempel-Ziv compression is a Good Thing for sites relaying netnews". 2. Something that can't possibly have any ill side-effects and may save considerable grief later: "Removing the self-modifying code from that shared library would be a Good Thing". 3. When said of software tools or libraries, as in "Yacc is a Good Thing", specifically connotes that the thing has drastically reduced a programmer's work load. Opposite: Bad Thing, compare big win.
- good title — a title to real property that is free from encumbrances, litigation, and other defects and that can readily be sold or mortgaged to a reasonable buyer or mortgagee.
- good-night — a farewell or leave-taking: He said his good-nights before leaving the party.
- good-sized — of ample or large size; rather large for its kind: a good-sized pumpkin.
- goodlihead — goodness; good appearance
- goodliness — of good or substantial size, amount, etc.: a goodly sum.
- goodnights — Plural form of goodnight.
- goodwilled — possessing goodwill
- gooneybird — an informal name for the albatross, esp the black-footed albatross (Diomedea nigripes)
- gorbellied — a protruding belly.
- gormandise — Alternative spelling of gourmandise.