7-letter words containing i, g, n, o
- golfing — a game in which clubs with wooden or metal heads are used to hit a small, white ball into a number of holes, usually 9 or 18, in succession, situated at various distances over a course having natural or artificial obstacles, the object being to get the ball into each hole in as few strokes as possible.
- goneril — (in Shakespeare's King Lear) the elder of Lear's two faithless daughters.
- gonging — Present participle of gong.
- gonidia — Plural form of gonidium.
- gooding — Present participle of good.
- goodwin — Expression meaning a good-hearted, or good-souled person, especially one who is young at heart.
- goofing — Spend time idly or foolishly; fool around.
- goonies — Slang. stupid, foolish, or awkward: a goony smile on his face.
- goosing — Present participle of goose.
- gordian — pertaining to Gordius, ancient king of Phrygia, who tied a knot (the Gordian knot) that, according to prophecy, was to be undone only by the person who was to rule Asia, and that was cut, rather than untied, by Alexander the Great.
- gorging — a narrow cleft with steep, rocky walls, especially one through which a stream runs.
- gosling — a young goose.
- gouging — a chisel having a partly cylindrical blade with the bevel on either the concave or the convex side.
- gournia — a village in NE Crete, near the site of an excavated Minoan town and palace.
- gowning — a woman's dress or robe, especially one that is full-length.
- gradino — (architecture) A step or raised shelf, as above a sideboard or altar.
- griffon — griffin1 .
- gringos — Plural form of gringo.
- grisons — a weasellike carnivore, Galictis vittata, ranging from southern Mexico to Peru, having a grayish-white upper body, a distinctive white stripe across the forehead and ears, and a dark brown face, chest, and legs.
- groined — (of a vault) formed by the intersection of two barrel vaults, usually with plain groins without ribs.
- gronchi — Giovanni [jaw-vahn-nee] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni/ (Show IPA), 1887–1978, Italian statesman: president 1955–62.
- groning — Present participle of grone.
- groping — moving or going about clumsily or hesitantly; stumbling.
- growing — becoming greater in quantity, size, extent, or intensity: growing discontent among industrial workers.
- grunion — a small, silvery food fish, Leuresthes tenuis, of southern California, that spawns at high tide in wet sand.
- guidons — Plural form of guidon.
- gullion — (obsolete) A worthless wretch.
- gyronic — relating to a gyron
- haloing — Also called nimbus. a geometric shape, usually in the form of a disk, circle, ring, or rayed structure, traditionally representing a radiant light around or above the head of a divine or sacred personage, an ancient or medieval monarch, etc.
- high on — having a great or considerable extent or reach upward or vertically; lofty; tall: a high wall.
- hoaxing — something intended to deceive or defraud: The Piltdown man was a scientific hoax.
- hobbing — a projection or shelf at the back or side of a fireplace, used for keeping food warm.
- hocking — the state of being deposited or held as security; pawn: She was forced to put her good jewelry in hock.
- hodding — Present participle of hod.
- hodgkin — Sir Alan Lloyd, 1914–1998, English biophysicist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1963.
- hogging — a hoofed mammal of the family Suidae, order Artiodactyla, comprising boars and swine.
- hokiang — Older Spelling. Hejiang.
- holding — an act of holding fast by a grasp of the hand or by some other physical means; grasp; grip: Take hold. Do you have a hold on the rope?
- holguin — a city in NE Cuba.
- holking — Present participle of holk.
- honking — the cry of a goose.
- hooding — Present participle of hood.
- hoofing — the horny covering protecting the ends of the digits or encasing the foot in certain animals, as the ox and horse.
- hooking — Present participle of hook.
- hooning — Present participle of hoon.
- hooping — Present participle of hoop.
- hooting — to cry out or shout, especially in disapproval or derision.
- hopping — working energetically; busily engaged: He kept the staff hopping in order to get the report finished.
- hording — a large group, multitude, number, etc.; a mass or crowd: a horde of tourists.
- horning — one of the bony, permanent, hollow paired growths, often curved and pointed, that project from the upper part of the head of certain ungulate mammals, as cattle, sheep, goats, or antelopes.