9-letter words containing g, o
- go to law — If you go to law, you go to court in order to get a legal judgment on a dispute.
- go to pot — a container of earthenware, metal, etc., usually round and deep and having a handle or handles and often a lid, used for cooking, serving, and other purposes.
- go to sea — to become a sailor
- go to war — engage in warfare
- go-around — an act or instance of going around something, as a circle, course, or traffic pattern, and returning to the starting point.
- go-getter — an enterprising, aggressive person.
- goadingly — So as to goad or incite.
- goal area — sport: zone surrounding the goal
- goal kick — a free kick taken by a defensive player after the ball, having last been touched by an offensive player, has gone out of bounds over the goal line.
- goal line — the line that bounds a goal, especially the front line.
- goal post — either of the two vertical posts that support a crossbar and form the opening of a goal in soccer, hockey, etc.
- goalmouth — the area between the goalposts directly in front of the goal in certain games, as soccer, lacrosse, and hockey.
- goalposts — Plural form of goalpost.
- goalwards — toward or in the direction of the opposing team's goal
- goat moth — a large European moth, Cossus cossus, with pale brownish-grey variably marked wings: family Cossidae
- goatherds — Plural form of goatherd.
- goatishly — In a goatish way.
- goatskins — Plural form of goatskin.
- gobble up — to swallow or eat hastily or hungrily in large pieces; gulp.
- gobstruck — (slang, chiefly, UK) gobsmacked; astonished; astounded.
- god knows — If someone says God knows in reply to a question, they mean that they do not know the answer.
- god-awful — extremely dreadful or shocking: What a God-awful thing to say!
- god-given — given by, or coming directly from, God: the God-given laws.
- goddammit — Alternative form of goddamn.
- goddamned — damned.
- goddamnit — Alternative spelling of goddammit.
- goddesses — Plural form of goddess.
- godesberg — a city in W Germany, SE of Bonn.
- godfather — a novel (1969) by Mario Puzo.
- godliness — conforming to the laws and wishes of God; devout; pious.
- godmother — a woman who serves as sponsor for a child at baptism.
- godolphin — Sidney, 1st Earl of, 1645–1712, English statesman and financier.
- godparent — a godfather or godmother.
- godsister — The daughter of one's godparent.
- goffering — an ornamental plaiting used for frills and borders, as on women's caps.
- goffstown — a town in S New Hampshire.
- gogetting — Enterprising.
- gogglebox — a television set.
- goings-on — conduct or behavior, especially when open to criticism: We had never seen such goings-on as at the last dance.
- goitrogen — any goiter-producing substance, as thiouracil.
- gold bond — a bond payable in gold.
- gold card — A gold card is a special type of credit card that gives you extra benefits such as a higher spending limit.
- gold disc — (in Britain) an album certified to have sold 250 000 copies or a single certified to have sold 500 000 copies
- gold dust — gold in fine particles.
- gold foil — sheets of gold slightly thicker than gold leaf.
- gold leaf — gold in the form of very thin foil, as for gilding.
- gold mine — a mine yielding gold.
- gold note — a former U.S. bank note payable in gold coin.
- gold pool — the representatives of the UK, the US, France, Switzerland, West Germany, Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg who, between 1961 and 1968, unsuccessfully attempted to fix the price of gold at $35 per ounce
- gold rush — a large-scale and hasty movement of people to a region where gold has been discovered, as to California in 1849.