8-letter words containing s, l, o, g
- goethals — George Washington, 1858–1928, U.S. major general and engineer: chief engineer of the Panama Canal 1907–14; governor of the Canal Zone 1914–16.
- goldbugs — Informal. a person, especially an economist or politician, who supports the gold standard.
- goldfish — a small, usually yellow or orange fish, Carassius auratus, of the carp family, native to China, bred in many varieties and often kept in fishbowls and pools.
- goldless — lacking gold
- goldrush — Alternative spelling of gold rush.
- goldsize — an adhesive used to fix gold leaf to a surface
- goliaths — Plural form of goliath.
- goloshes — a waterproof overshoe, especially a high one.
- gondolas — Plural form of gondola.
- gonzales — Richard Alonzo ("Pancho") 1928–1995, U.S. tennis player.
- googlies — Plural form of googly.
- googlish — Resembling or in the manner of Google.
- gorillas — Plural form of gorilla.
- gormless — lacking in vitality or intelligence; stupid, dull, or clumsy.
- goslings — Plural form of gosling.
- gospeler — a person who reads or sings the Gospel.
- gospelly — Resembling gospel music.
- gossypol — a toxic pigment, C 30 H 30 O 8 , derived from cottonseed oil, made nontoxic by heating, presently under study as a potential male contraceptive and antimicrobial.
- griswold — Erwin Nathaniel, 1904–1994, U.S. lawyer and educator: dean of Harvard University Law School 1950–67.
- grockles — Plural form of grockle.
- growlers — Plural form of growler.
- gulosity — gluttony or greediness.
- gumboils — Plural form of gumboil.
- gunlocks — Plural form of gunlock.
- halogens — Plural form of halogen.
- hidalgos — Plural form of hidalgo.
- holdings — An area of land held by lease.
- homologs — Plural form of homolog.
- housling — the growing of the climbing stem of the hop into a dense mass at the top of the poles which support it
- howlings — Plural form of howling.
- isogloss — (in the study of the geographical distribution of dialects) a line on a map marking the limits of an area within which a feature of speech occurs, as the use of a particular word or pronunciation.
- isogonal — equiangular; isogonic.
- isologue — one of two or more isologous compounds.
- jostling — to bump, push, shove, brush against, or elbow roughly or rudely.
- jugoslav — a native or inhabitant of the former country of Yugoslavia.
- langosta — spiny lobster.
- langston — John Mercer, 1829–97, U.S. public official, diplomat, and educator.
- laoighis — a county in Leinster, in the central Republic of Ireland. 623 sq. mi. (1615 sq. km). County seat: Port Laoighise.
- lassoing — a long rope or line of hide or other material with a running noose at one end, used for roping horses, cattle, etc.
- leghorns — Plural form of leghorn.
- ligneous — of the nature of or resembling wood; woody.
- lipgloss — Alternative spelling of lip gloss.
- loadings — Plural form of loading.
- lockings — Plural form of locking.
- lodgings — accommodation in a house, especially in rooms for rent: to furnish board and lodging.
- log ship — log chip.
- logbooks — Plural form of logbook.
- loggings — the process, work, or business of cutting down trees and transporting the logs to sawmills.
- logicise — to make logical; give logical form to: to logicize a sequence of events.
- logicism — the doctrine, developed chiefly by Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell, that mathematics can be reduced to logic.