9-letter words containing g, o
- diosgenin — a crystalline compound, C 27 H 42 O 3 , the aglycone of dioscin: used in the synthesis of steroidal hormones, as of progesterone.
- diphthong — Phonetics. an unsegmentable, gliding speech sound varying continuously in phonetic quality but held to be a single sound or phoneme and identified by its apparent beginning and ending sound, as the oi- sound of toy or boil.
- dirty dog — a despicable person
- discology — the study of gramophone records
- disgodded — deprived of divinity
- disgorged — Simple past tense and past participle of disgorge.
- disgorger — to eject or throw out from the throat, mouth, or stomach; vomit forth.
- disgorges — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disgorge.
- dislodged — Simple past tense and past participle of dislodge.
- dislodges — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dislodge.
- disoblige — to refuse or neglect to oblige; act contrary to the desire or convenience of; fail to accommodate.
- disowning — to refuse to acknowledge as belonging or pertaining to oneself; deny the ownership of or responsibility for; repudiate; renounce: to disown one's heirs; to disown a published statement.
- disposing — Present participle of dispose.
- disrobing — Present participle of disrobe.
- dissogeny — the condition in ctenophores in which an individual has two periods of sexual maturity, one in the larval and one in the adult stage.
- disyoking — Present participle of disyoke.
- dittology — A double reading or interpretation of a text.
- divorcing — Present participle of divorce.
- dizygotic — developed from two fertilized ova, as fraternal twins.
- do-gooder — a well-intentioned but naive and often ineffectual social or political reformer.
- docketing — Also called trial docket. a list of cases in court for trial, or the names of the parties who have cases pending.
- doctoring — Present participle of doctor.
- doddering — shaky or trembling, as from old age; tottering: a doddering old man.
- dodecagon — a polygon having 12 angles and 12 sides.
- dodgeball — a circle game in which players throw an inflated ball at opponents within the circle who try to avoid being hit, and therefore eliminated, the winner being the one who remains unhit.
- dodginess — (uncountable) The condition of being dodgy.
- dog guard — a metal frame used in a car to contain pet dogs
- dog latin — mongrel or spurious Latin.
- dog shift — graveyard shift.
- dog track — racing circuit for dogs
- dog train — a sleigh drawn by a team of dogs
- dog whelk — any of several carnivorous, marine gastropods of the family Nassidae.
- dog's age — quite a long time: I haven't seen you in a dog's age!
- dog's-ear — dog-ear.
- dog-cheap — very inexpensive.
- dog-eared — having dog-ears: a dog-eared book.
- dog-tired — utterly exhausted; worn out.
- dogaressa — the wife of a doge
- dogberrys — a foolish constable in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
- dogfights — Plural form of dogfight.
- dogfishes — Plural form of dogfish.
- doggerman — a sailor on a dogger
- dogginess — the quality or characteristic of being doggy
- doggishly — In a doggish manner.
- doggy bag — a small bag provided on request by a restaurant for a customer to carry home leftovers of a meal, ostensibly to feed a dog or other pet.
- doghanged — hangdog.
- doghouses — Plural form of doghouse.
- doglegged — Simple past tense and past participle of dogleg.
- dogmatics — the study of the arrangement and statement of religious doctrines, especially of the doctrines received in and taught by the Christian church.
- dogmatise — to make dogmatic assertions; speak or write dogmatically.