8-letter words containing g, o, n
- anginous — of, noting, or pertaining to angina, especially angina pectoris.
- angiomas — Plural form of angioma.
- anglepod — an American wild flowering plant with angular pods, belonging to the milkweed family
- angleton — a town in S Texas.
- angolese — a member of any of the tribes residing in Angola.
- angrboda — a giantess who was the mother of Loki's children, Fenrir and Hel, and also of the Midgard serpent.
- angstrom — a unit of length equal to 10–10 metre, used principally to express the wavelengths of electromagnetic radiations. It is equivalent to 0.1 nanometre
- angulose — having angles
- angulous — angular or having angles
- angus og — the god of love and beauty
- annigoni — Pietro (ˈpjɛːtro). 1910–88, Italian painter; noted esp for his portraits of President Kennedy (1961) and Queen Elizabeth II (1955 and 1970)
- annoying — Someone or something that is annoying makes you feel fairly angry and impatient.
- antagony — (obsolete) contest; opposition; antagonism.
- antigone — daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, who was condemned to death for cremating the body of her brother Polynices in defiance of an edict of her uncle, King Creon of Thebes
- antilogy — a contradiction in terms
- antismog — acting to reduce smog, aimed at preventing smog
- apposing — Present participle of appose.
- araponga — any of four species of South American birds of the genus Procnias, each having a bell-like call
- argemone — any of various plants of the genus Argemone of the family Papaveraceae, which are native to the Americas, have large white or yellow flowers and are covered in prickles
- argonaut — one of the heroes who sailed with Jason in quest of the Golden Fleece
- arguendo — (legal) for the sake of argument.
- arousing — causing sexual excitement
- arrogant — Someone who is arrogant behaves in a proud, unpleasant way towards other people because they believe that they are more important than others.
- arrowing — Present participle of arrow.
- art song — a song written by a trained composer to convey a specific artistic idea, as in projecting the mood and meaning of a poetic text
- assignor — a person who transfers or assigns property
- avoiding — Present participle of avoid.
- b-boying — a style of acrobatic dancing that combines intricate footwork with spinning and tumbling, usually to funk or hip-hop music.
- badigeon — a composition for patching surface defects in carpentry or masonry.
- bagwoman — a woman who collects, carries, or distributes illegal payoff money.
- ballgown — A ballgown is a long dress that women wear to formal dances.
- bandoeng — Bandung.
- bang out — If a company bangs out a poor quality product, they produce large quantities of it in order to make money.
- bangalow — an Australian palm, Archontophoenix cunninghamiana, native to New South Wales and Queensland
- baronage — barons collectively
- bastogne — a town in SE Belgium: of strategic importance to Allied defences during the Battle of the Bulge; besieged by the Germans during the winter of 1944–45. Pop: 14 070 (2004 est)
- be along — to come or arrive
- be going — to intend or be about to start (to do or be doing something): often used as an alternative future construction
- becoming — A piece of clothing, a colour, or a hairstyle that is becoming makes the person who is wearing it look attractive.
- begotten — Begotten is the past participle of beget.
- belgrano — Manuel [mah-nwel] /mɑˈnwɛl/ (Show IPA), 1770–1820, Argentine general.
- belitong — Billiton.
- belonged — to be in the relation of a member, adherent, inhabitant, etc. (usually followed by to): He belongs to the Knights of Columbus.
- belonger — a native-born Caribbean person
- besognio — a young soldier
- big iron — (jargon) (Or "heavy metal [Cambridge]) Large, expensive, ultra-fast computers. Used generally of number crunching supercomputers such as Crays, but can include more conventional big commercial IBMish mainframes. The term implies approval, in contrast to "dinosaur".
- big-note — to boast about (oneself)
- bignonia — any tropical American bignoniaceous climbing shrub of the genus Bignonia (or Doxantha), cultivated for their trumpet-shaped yellow or reddish flowers
- biogenic — produced or originating from a living organism
- birdsong — Birdsong is the sound of a bird or birds calling in a way which sounds musical.