8-letter words containing y, o, g
- fogeydom — the state or disposition of a fogey
- fogeyish — Characteristic of or resembling an old fogey: outdated or out of touch.
- foo yong — a Chinese dish made of eggs mixed with chicken, crab meat, etc, and cooked like an omelette
- foraying — a quick raid, usually for the purpose of taking plunder: Vikings made a foray on the port.
- frogeyed — (of a person) having a bulging eye or bulging eyes
- froggery — a collection of frogs
- galloway — a historic region in SW Scotland.
- game boy — a handheld games console, made by the company Nintendo, which was popular in the 1990s
- gardyloo — (Scotland, obsolete) Used by servants in medieval Scotland to warn passers-by of waste about to be thrown from a window into the street below. The term was still in use as late the 1930s and 1940s, when many people had no indoor toilets.
- gargoyle — a grotesquely carved figure of a human or animal.
- gayomart — the first Aryan and the sixth creation of Ahura Mazda.
- gealousy — Obsolete form of jealousy.
- gemology — the science dealing with natural and artificial gemstones.
- genotype — the genetic makeup of an organism or group of organisms with reference to a single trait, set of traits, or an entire complex of traits.
- geocarpy — the ripening of fruits below ground, as occurs in the peanut
- geoffrey — a male given name: from Germanic, meaning “divine peace.”.
- geoglyph — A large-scale drawing made on the ground by scratching or arranging lines of stones etc.
- geognosy — Archaic. a science dealing with the constituent parts of the earth, its envelope of air and water, its crust, and the condition of its interior.
- geolatry — the worship of the earth
- geomancy — divination by geographic features or by figures or lines.
- 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
- geophagy — the practice of eating earthy matter, especially clay or chalk, as in famine-stricken areas.
- geophyte — a plant propagated by means of underground buds.
- get you! — You can say get you to show that you think someone is acting as if they are more important, rich, or successful than they really are.
- glamoury — (obsolete) magic.
- globally — pertaining to the whole world; worldwide; universal: the dream of global peace.
- gloomily — dark or dim; deeply shaded: gloomy skies.
- glorying — Present participle of glory.
- glossary — a list of terms in a special subject, field, or area of usage, with accompanying definitions.
- glossily — In a glossy manner.
- gluttony — excessive eating and drinking.
- glycerol — a colorless, odorless, syrupy, sweet liquid, C 3 H 8 O 3 , usually obtained by the saponification of natural fats and oils: used for sweetening and preserving food, in the manufacture of cosmetics, perfumes, inks, and certain glues and cements, as a solvent and automobile antifreeze, and in medicine in suppositories and skin emollients.
- glycogen — a white, tasteless polysaccharide, (C 6 H 10 O 5) n , molecularly similar to starch, constituting the principal carbohydrate storage material in animals and occurring chiefly in the liver, in muscle, and in fungi and yeasts.
- glycolic — pertaining to or derived from glycol.
- glyconic — (of a line of verse) consisting of three trochees and one dactyl
- glycosyl — (biochemistry) Any functional group derived from a sugar (especially from a monosaccharide) by removal of the hemiacetal hydroxy group.
- godowsky — Leopold, 1870–1938, U.S. composer and pianist, born in Poland.
- goldenly — In a golden manner.
- gollywog — Alternative form of golliwog.
- gonocyte — an oocyte or spermatocyte
- good day — day spent well
- good guy — decent man
- good-bye — a farewell.
- goodbyes — Plural form of goodbye.
- goodyear — Charles, 1800–60, U.S. inventor: developer of the process of vulcanizing rubber.
- gorbelly — a protruding belly.
- gospelly — Resembling gospel music.
- gossipry — Spiritual relationship or affinity; gossiprede; special intimacy.
- 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.