8-letter words containing o, g, m
- genogram — a graphic representation of the personalities and interplay of generations within a family, used to identify repetitive patterns of behavior; a psychological family tree.
- genomics — the study of genomes.
- geomancy — divination by geographic features or by figures or lines.
- geometer — geometrician.
- geometry — the branch of mathematics that deals with the deduction of the properties, measurement, and relationships of points, lines, angles, and figures in space from their defining conditions by means of certain assumed properties of space.
- geomyoid — relating to burrowing rodents of the genus Geomys
- geotherm — a line or surface within or on the earth connecting points of equal temperature
- germano- — German, German and
- geronimo — (Goyathlay) 1829–1909, American Apache Indian chief.
- gladsome — giving or causing joy; delightful.
- glamazon — A glamorous, powerfully assertive woman.
- glamours — Plural form of glamour.
- glamoury — (obsolete) magic.
- glaucoma — Ophthalmology. abnormally high fluid pressure in the eye, most commonly caused either by blockage of the channel through which aqueous humor drains (open-angle glaucoma or chronic glaucoma) or by pressure of the iris against the lens, which traps the aqueous humor (angle-closure glaucoma or acute glaucoma)
- gleesome — gleeful; merry.
- gloaming — twilight; dusk.
- glomming — to steal.
- glomping — Present participle of glomp.
- gloomier — Comparative form of gloomy.
- gloomily — dark or dim; deeply shaded: gloomy skies.
- glooming — total or partial darkness; dimness.
- glosseme — (in glossematics) an irreducible, invariant form, as a morpheme or tagmeme, that functions as the smallest meaningful unit of linguistic signaling.
- gloveman — fielder.
- glowlamp — An aphlogistic lamp.
- glowworm — the wingless female or larva of the European beetle, Lampyris noctiluca, which emits a sustained greenish light.
- gluonium — glueball.
- gnomical — Gnomic.
- gnomonic — of or relating to a gnomon or to a sundial.
- goadsman — a person who uses a goad
- gobsmack — (transitive, slang) To astonish.
- god game — a computer roleplaying game in which the player controls the destiny of one or more avatars within a large virtual environment
- god-damn — the utterance of “goddamn” in swearing or for emphasis.
- goddamit — Alternative spelling of goddammit.
- goldmark — Karl [kahrl] /kɑrl/ (Show IPA), 1830–1915, Hungarian composer.
- goldmine — Alternative spelling of gold mine.
- gomashta — (India,now,historical) A native Indian clerk or steward.
- gombroon — a type of Persian pottery ware.
- gomorrah — Also, Douay Bible, Gomorrha. an ancient city destroyed, with Sodom, because of its wickedness. Gen. 19:24, 25.
- gondomar — Diego Sarmiento de Acuña [dye-gaw sahr-myen-taw th e ah-koo-nyah] /ˈdyɛ gɔ sɑrˈmyɛn tɔ ðɛ ɑˈku nyɑ/ (Show IPA), Count of, 1567–1626, Spanish diplomat.
- gonidium — (in algae) any one-celled asexual reproductive body, as a tetraspore or zoospore.
- gonosome — the individuals, collectively, in a colonial animal that are involved with reproduction
- goombahs — Plural form of goombah.
- gopurams — Plural form of gopuram.
- gordimer — Nadine, 1923–2014, South African short-story writer and novelist: Nobel Prize 1991.
- gormless — lacking in vitality or intelligence; stupid, dull, or clumsy.
- gossamer — a fine, filmy cobweb seen on grass or bushes or floating in the air in calm weather, especially in autumn.
- gourmand — a person who is fond of good eating, often indiscriminatingly and to excess.
- gourmets — Plural form of gourmet.
- gourmont — Remy de [ruh-mee duh] /rəˈmi də/ (Show IPA), 1858–1915, French critic and novelist.
- gownsman — a person who wears a gown indicating office, profession, or status.