9-letter words containing g, o
- gammoning — Rope lashings on the bowsprit of a boat.
- gang hook — a hook with several points, made by joining the shanks of two or three hooks.
- gang plow — a combination of two or more plows in one frame.
- gang show — an amateur theatrical performance with a cast made up of youth members of Scouts and Guides
- gangboard — a raised walk on a sailing ship, crossing the waist and connecting the forecastle directly with the quarterdeck.
- ganglions — Plural form of ganglion.
- gantelope — gauntlet2 .
- gaolbreak — Alternative form of jailbreak.
- gaoleress — a female gaoler
- garbanzos — Plural form of garbanzo.
- garbology — the study of the material discarded by a society to learn what it reveals about social or cultural patterns.
- garderobe — a wardrobe or its contents.
- gargoyled — (of a building) Having gargoyles carved into it.
- gargoyles — Plural form of gargoyle.
- garnishor — (legal) A person who garnishes; one who obtains a garnishment against another.
- garotting — to execute by the garrote.
- garrisons — Plural form of garrison.
- garroting — a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- garrotted — to execute by the garrote.
- garrulous — excessively talkative in a rambling, roundabout manner, especially about trivial matters.
- garryowen — (rugby union) A high short punt onto or behind the defending team.
- gas poker — a long tubular gas burner used to kindle a fire
- gas stove — a stove that uses natural gas as a fuel source
- gascoigne — George, 1525?–77, English poet.
- gasconade — extravagant boasting; boastful talk.
- gasconism — the quality of being boastful; boastfulness
- gasholder — gasometer (def 2).
- gasolines — Plural form of gasoline.
- gasometer — an apparatus for measuring and storing gas in a laboratory.
- gasometre — (nonstandard, and, now, largely obsolete) Alternative form of gasometer.
- gasometry — the measurement of gases.
- gaspergou — freshwater drum.
- gastrobot — a robot that is able to supply itself with sugar, which it uses as a source of fuel
- gastropod — any mollusk of the class Gastropoda, comprising the snails, whelks, slugs, etc.
- gastropub — a bar that serves good food and high-quality alcoholic beverages.
- gatefolds — Plural form of gatefold.
- gatehouse — a house at or over a gate, used as a gatekeeper's quarters, fortification, etc.
- gateposts — Plural form of gatepost.
- gauchesco — of or relating to gauchos
- gavialoid — of or resembling gavials
- gawkihood — the state of being gawky
- gay power — the organized political influence exerted by homosexuals as a group, especially to ensure equal rights in employment, housing, etc.
- gaycation — a holiday specifically designed for the gay market
- gazehound — one of any of several breeds of hounds, as the Afghan, borzoi, greyhound, Saluki, or whippet, that hunts by sighting the game rather than by scent.
- gazillion — an extremely large, indeterminate number.
- gear down — Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
- gear knob — a gear lever
- gearboxes — Plural form of gearbox.
- gemmation — reproduction by gemmae.
- gemmiform — shaped like a bud.