8-letter words containing t, o, g, a
- gadabout — a person who moves about restlessly or aimlessly, especially from one social activity to another.
- galacto- — milk or milky
- galliots — Plural form of galliot.
- gallipot — a type of turpentine exuded on the stems of certain species of pine.
- galloots — Plural form of galloot.
- galtonia — any plant of the bulbous genus Galtonia, esp G. candicans, with lanceolate leaves, drooping racemes of waxy white flowers, and a fragrant scent: family Liliaceae
- gantlope — gauntlet2 .
- garoting — to execute by the garrote.
- garotted — to execute by the garrote.
- garotter — garrote.
- garroted — a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- garroter — a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- garrotes — Plural form of garrote.
- garrotte — to execute by the garrote.
- gastero- — gastro-
- gastonia — a city in S North Carolina, W of Charlotte.
- gatefold — foldout (def 1).
- gatepost — the vertical post on which a gate is suspended by hinges, or the post against which the gate is closed.
- gatorade — A fruit-flavored drink especially for athletes, designed to supply the body with carbohydrates and to replace fluids and sodium lost during exercise.
- gavotted — Simple past tense and past participle of gavotte.
- gavottes — Plural form of gavotte.
- gayomart — the first Aryan and the sixth creation of Ahura Mazda.
- gelation — the process of gelling.
- geolatry — the worship of the earth
- geotaxis — oriented movement of a motile organism toward or away from a gravitational force.
- gigatons — Plural form of gigaton.
- gigavolt — One thousand million ( 109 ) volts. Symbol: GV.
- glasnost — the declared public policy within the Soviet Union of openly and frankly discussing economic and political realities: initiated under Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985.
- gloating — to look at or think about with great or excessive, often smug or malicious, satisfaction: The opposing team gloated over our bad luck.
- glottals — Plural form of glottal.
- gnathion — Craniometry. the lowest point on the anterior margin of the lower jaw in the midsaggital plane.
- go about — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- go after — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- go-train — a lightweight passenger train providing rapid surface transport between a city center and the suburbs and from suburb to suburb.
- goadster — a goadsman
- goalpost — a post supporting a crossbar and, with it, forming the goal on a playing field in certain sports, as football.
- goat god — a deity with the legs and feet of a goat, as Pan or a satyr.
- goatfish — any tropical and subtropical marine fish of the family Mullidae, having a pair of long barbels below the mouth.
- goatherd — a person who tends goats.
- goatlike — any of numerous agile, hollow-horned ruminants of the genus Capra, of the family Bovidae, closely related to the sheep, found native in rocky and mountainous regions of the Old World, and widely distributed in domesticated varieties.
- goatling — a young goat
- goatskin — the skin or hide of a goat.
- goatweed — a plant of the genus Capraria
- goddamit — Alternative spelling of goddammit.
- 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.
- golgotha — a hill near Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified; Calvary.
- goliaths — Plural form of goliath.
- gomashta — (India,now,historical) A native Indian clerk or steward.
- gossaert — Jan [yahn] /yɑn/ (Show IPA), Mabuse, Jan.
- gottwald — Klement [kle-ment] /ˈklɛ mɛnt/ (Show IPA), 1896–1953, Czech Communist leader: prime minister 1946–48; president 1948–53.