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9-letter words containing g, o

  • guardpost — Alternative spelling of guard post.
  • guardroom — a room used by military guards during the period they are on duty.
  • guarulhos — a city in SE Brazil, NE of São Paulo.
  • guesswork — work or procedure based on or consisting of the making of guesses or conjectures.
  • guestbook — A book in which visitors to a particular place may write their names, addresses, and remarks.
  • guestroom — a room for the lodging of guests.
  • guide dog — Seeing Eye dog.
  • guidebook — a book of directions, advice, and information, especially for travelers or tourists.
  • guidepost — a post, usually mounted on the roadside or at the intersection of two or more roads, bearing a sign for the guidance of travelers.
  • guideword — A watchword; a word or phrase that serves as one's guide.
  • guildford — a city in S England, in Surrey: cathedral (1936–68); seat of the University of Surrey (1966). Pop: 69 400 (2001)
  • guillemot — a black or brown-speckled seabird of the genus Cepphus, of northern seas, having a sharply pointed black bill, red legs, and white wing patches, as C. grylle (black guillemot) of the North Atlantic and the similar C. columba (pigeon guillemot) of the North Pacific.
  • guilloche — an ornamental pattern or border, as in architecture, consisting of paired ribbons or lines flowing in interlaced curves around a series of circular voids.
  • gulp down — food, drink: swallow quickly
  • gummatous — a rubbery, tumorlike lesion associated with tertiary syphilis.
  • gummosity — the quality of being gummous
  • gumptious — initiative; aggressiveness; resourcefulness: With his gumption he'll make a success of himself.
  • gun lobby — a group of people who argue for the right of members of the public to be able to own guns
  • guncotton — a highly explosive cellulose nitrate, made by digesting clean cotton in a mixture of one part nitric acid and three parts sulfuric acid: used in making smokeless powder.
  • gunk hole — a quiet anchorage, as in a cove, used by small yachts.
  • gunnbjorn — Mount, the highest peak in Greenland, in the SE part. 12,139 feet (3702 meters).
  • gunperson — (rare) A gunman or gunwoman.
  • gunpowder — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
  • gunstocks — Plural form of gunstock.
  • guo moruo — 1892–1978, Chinese intellectual, writer, poet, scholar, and government official.
  • gustation — the act of tasting.
  • gustatory — of or relating to taste or tasting.
  • gütersloh — a town in NW Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia. Pop: 95 928 (2003 est)
  • guttation — a process in which water in liquid form is given off by plants.
  • guttiform — shaped like a drop.
  • gwendolyn — a female given name: from a Welsh word meaning “white.”.
  • gynaecoid — Characteristic of a woman.
  • gynobasic — an elevation of the receptacle of a flower, bearing the gynoecium.
  • gynocracy — gynarchy.
  • gynoecium — the pistil or pistils of a flower; the female parts.
  • gynophobe — a person who hates or fears women
  • gynophore — the elongated stalk of a pistil.
  • gyp joint — any business establishment that charges excessively for poor-quality service or goods.
  • gypsywort — a plant, Lycopus europaeus, that is indigenous to Europe and Asia and has white flowers
  • gyrations — Plural form of gyration.
  • gyrectomy — excision of a cerebral gyrus.
  • gyrfalcon — a large falcon, Falco rusticolus, of arctic and subarctic regions, having white, gray, or blackish color phases: now greatly reduced in number.
  • gyromancy — a method of prediction or prophecy in which a person moves round and round in a circle and the place at which they fall to the ground is said to be highly significant
  • gyropilot — automatic pilot.
  • gyroplane — autogiro.
  • gyroscope — an apparatus consisting of a rotating wheel so mounted that its axis can turn freely in certain or all directions, and capable of maintaining the same absolute direction in space in spite of movements of the mountings and surrounding parts: used to maintain equilibrium, determine direction, etc.
  • gyrovague — a vagrant monk who wandered from one monastery to another.
  • habergeon — a short, sleeveless coat of mail.
  • hagiology — the branch of literature dealing with the lives and legends of the saints.
  • half-long — (of a speech sound) of intermediate length; neither short nor fully long.
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