10-letter words containing g, t
- go out for — To go out for something means to try to do it or be chosen for it.
- go over to — switch to
- go private — to restore private ownership of a corporation by buying back publicly held stock
- go quietly — If someone does not go quietly, they do not leave a particular job or a place without complaining or resisting.
- go through — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- go to hell — strong dismissal
- go to seed — decline, deteriorate
- go to town — a thickly populated area, usually smaller than a city and larger than a village, having fixed boundaries and certain local powers of government.
- go too far — take sth past acceptable limits
- go towards — If an amount of money goes towards something, it is used to pay part of the cost of that thing.
- go without — be deprived of, not have
- go-between — a person who acts as an agent or intermediary between persons or groups; emissary.
- go-carting — Go-carting is the sport of racing or riding on go-carts.
- go-getting — an enterprising, aggressive person.
- go-karting — racing in small vehicle
- goalmouths — Plural form of goalmouth.
- goaltender — a goalkeeper.
- goat's-rue — Also called catgut. a hairy American plant, Tephrosia virginiana, of the legume family, having yellow and pink flowers.
- goatfishes — Plural form of goatfish.
- goatsbeard — any of several composite plants of the genus Tragopogon, especially T. pratensis, having yellow flower heads.
- goatsucker — nightjar (def 2).
- gobstopper — a large piece of hard candy.
- god's gift — If a person thinks they are God's gift to someone or something, they think they are perfect or extremely good.
- godbrother — The son of one's godparent.
- godfathers — Plural form of godfather.
- godmothers — Plural form of godmother.
- godparents — Plural form of godparent.
- gold coast — a former British territory in W Africa; now a part of Ghana.
- gold plate — a thin coating of gold, usually produced by electroplating
- gold point — the point at which it is equally expensive to buy, sell, export, import, or exchange gold in adjustment of foreign claims or counterclaims.
- gold stick — the gilded rod carried on state occasions by certain members of the royal household.
- gold-plate — to coat (base metal) with gold, especially by electroplating.
- goldbeater — a person who pounds gold into thin leaves for use in gilding
- goldplated — to coat (base metal) with gold, especially by electroplating.
- goldsmiths — Plural form of goldsmith.
- goldthread — a white-flowered plant, Coptis trifolia, of the buttercup family, having a slender, yellow root that is sometimes used as a tonic.
- goliathise — to play Goliath, exaggerate extravagantly
- goliathize — to exaggerate extravagantly
- goloptious — voluptuous
- gondoletta — a small Venetian gondola.
- goniometer — an instrument for measuring solid angles, as of crystals.
- goniometry — an instrument for measuring solid angles, as of crystals.
- gonkulator — /gon'kyoo-lay-tr/ (From "Hogan's Heroes", the TV series) A pretentious piece of equipment that actually serves no useful purpose. Usually used to describe one's least favourite piece of computer hardware. See gonk.
- gonnegtion — (nonce) eye dialect of connection.
- good faith — accordance with standards of honesty, trust, sincerity, etc. (usually preceded by in): If you act in good faith, he'll have no reason to question your motives.
- good night — enjoyable evening, night
- good sport — sb good-humoured
- good thing — (convention) (From the 1930 Sellar and Yeatman parody "1066 And All That") Often capitalised; always pronounced as if capitalised. 1. Self-evidently wonderful to anyone in a position to notice: "The Trailblazer's 19.2 Kbaud PEP mode with on-the-fly Lempel-Ziv compression is a Good Thing for sites relaying netnews". 2. Something that can't possibly have any ill side-effects and may save considerable grief later: "Removing the self-modifying code from that shared library would be a Good Thing". 3. When said of software tools or libraries, as in "Yacc is a Good Thing", specifically connotes that the thing has drastically reduced a programmer's work load. Opposite: Bad Thing, compare big win.
- good title — a title to real property that is free from encumbrances, litigation, and other defects and that can readily be sold or mortgaged to a reasonable buyer or mortgagee.
- good-night — a farewell or leave-taking: He said his good-nights before leaving the party.