9-letter words containing g, o
- agnathous — (esp of lampreys and hagfishes) lacking jaws
- agnolotti — a dish of small pasta shaped like half moons and usually filled with tortellini stuffing: boiled and served in broth or with a sauce.
- agnostics — Plural form of agnostic.
- agonising — to suffer extreme pain or anguish; be in agony.
- agonistes — a person enduring an inner struggle
- agonistic — striving for effect; strained
- agonizing — Something that is agonizing causes you to feel great physical or mental pain.
- agreation — the procedure followed by a government for determining the acceptability to a foreign government of a proposed envoy.
- agrigento — a town in Italy, in SW Sicily: site of six Greek temples. Pop: 54 619 (2001)
- agriology — the study of primitive peoples
- agrodolce — an Italian sweet-and-sour sauce, made with onions, garlic, red wine vinegar, sugar, and raisins
- agrologic — of or relating to agrology
- agromania — an abnormal desire to live alone, especially in an isolated area.
- agronomic — the science of soil management and the production of field crops.
- agterskot — the final payment to a farmer for crops
- aguinaldo — Emilio [e-mee-lyaw] /ɛˈmi lyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1869–1964, Filipino leader during the Spanish-American war: opposed to U.S. occupation.
- air cargo — cargo transported or to be transported by an air carrier.
- aitiology — Alternative form of aetiology.
- alalagmos — a war-cry used by the ancient Greeks, said to have been invented by Pan
- albondiga — A Spanish or Latin American variety of meatball.
- aldington — Richard. 1892–1962, English poet, novelist, and biographer. His novels include Death of a Hero (1929) and The Colonel's Daughter (1931), which reflect postwar disillusion following World War I
- algarroba — the edible pod of these trees
- algarrobo — a carob tree native to the Mediterranean region
- algol 68c — (language) A variant of ALGOL 68 developed by S. Bourne and Mike Guy of Cambridge University in 1975 and used as the implementation language for the CHAOS OS for the CAP capability computer. ALGOL 68C was ported to the IBM 360, VAX/VMS and several other platforms.
- algol 68s — (language) A subset of ALGOL 68 allowing simpler compilation, intended mainly for numerical computation. It was rewritten in BLISS for the PDP-11, and later in Pascal. It is available as shareware from Charles Lindsey <[email protected]>. Version 2.3 runs on Sun-3 under SunOS 4.x and Atari under GEMDOS (or potentially other computers supported by the Amsterdam Compiler Kit).
- algometer — an instrument for measuring sensitivity to pressure (pressure algometer) or to pain
- algometry — a device for determining sensitiveness to pain caused by pressure.
- algonkian — Algonquian
- algonquin — a member of a North American Indian people formerly living along the St Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers in Canada
- algorithm — An algorithm is a series of mathematical steps, especially in a computer program, which will give you the answer to a particular kind of problem or question.
- all along — If something has been true or been present all along, it has been true or been present throughout a period of time.
- allegator — (obsolete) A person who alleges.
- allegoric — consisting of or pertaining to allegory; of the nature of or containing allgegory; figurative: an allegorical poem; an allegorical meaning.
- alligator — An alligator is a large reptile with short legs, a long tail and very powerful jaws.
- allogenic — Immunology. allogeneic.
- allograft — a tissue graft from a donor genetically unrelated to the recipient
- allograph — a document written by a person who is not a party to it
- allotting — to divide or distribute by share or portion; distribute or parcel out; apportion: to allot the available farmland among the settlers.
- allthough — Obsolete form of although.
- alongside — If one thing is alongside another thing, the first thing is next to the second.
- alpenglow — a reddish light on the summits of snow-covered mountain peaks at sunset or sunrise
- alter ego — Your alter ego is the other side of your personality from the one which people normally see.
- ambagious — ambiguous
- ambiguous — If you describe something as ambiguous, you mean that it is unclear or confusing because it can be understood in more than one way.
- amornings — of a morning
- amounting — the sum total of two or more quantities or sums; aggregate.
- amphigory — a piece of nonsensical writing in verse or, less commonly, prose
- analagous — Misspelling of analogous, common other spelling.
- analogies — A comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification.
- analogion — a lectern.