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13-letter words containing go

  • going concern — viable business
  • golan heights — a range of hills in the Middle East, possession of which is disputed between Israel and Syria: under Syrian control until 1967 when they were stormed by Israeli forces; Jewish settlements have since been established. Highest peak: 2224 m (7297 ft)
  • gold chloride — a yellow to red, water-soluble compound, AuCl 3 , used chiefly in photography, gilding ceramic ware and glass, and in the manufacture of purple of Cassius.
  • gold standard — a monetary system with gold of specified weight and fineness as the unit of value.
  • golden fleece — a fleece of pure gold, kept at Colchis by King Aeëtes from whom it was stolen by Jason and the Argonauts with the help of Aeëtes's daughter, Medea.
  • golden number — a number between 1 and 19, used to indicate the position of any year in the Metonic cycle, calculated as the remainder when 1 is added to the given year and the sum is divided by 19. If the remainder is zero the number is 19
  • golden oriole — an Old World oriole, Oriolus oriolus, the male of which is bright yellow with black wings.
  • golden plover — either of two plovers of the genus Pluvialis, having the back marked with golden-yellow spots, P. apricaria, of Europe, or P. dominica, of America.
  • golden remedy — a very successful way of dealing with a problem
  • golden shiner — a small, silvery freshwater minnow, Notemigonus crysoleucas, native to eastern North America and introduced into western North America: often used as live bait in sport fishing.
  • golden shower — a tree, Cassia fistula, of the legume family, native to India, having long, drooping clusters of yellow flowers.
  • golden valley — a town in SE Minnesota.
  • golden wattle — a broad-leaved, Australian acacia, Acacia pycnantha, of the legume family, having short clusters of yellow flowers and yielding tanbark and a useful gum.
  • golden yellow — of yellow with a tinge of gold
  • goldfish bowl — round glass container for goldfish
  • goldie's fern — a wood fern, Dryopteris goldiana, of northeastern North America, having large, golden-green, leathery fronds with blades that tilt backward.
  • goldtail moth — European moth with white wings and a soft white furry body with a yellow tail tuft
  • golfe du lion — French name of the Gulf of Lions.
  • golgi complex — an organelle, consisting of layers of flattened sacs, that takes up and processes secretory and synthetic products from the endoplasmic reticulum and then either releases the finished products into various parts of the cell cytoplasm or secretes them to the outside of the cell.
  • golgi-complex — an organelle, consisting of layers of flattened sacs, that takes up and processes secretory and synthetic products from the endoplasmic reticulum and then either releases the finished products into various parts of the cell cytoplasm or secretes them to the outside of the cell.
  • goliath crane — a gantry crane for heavy work, as in steel mills.
  • gombeen (man) — a shopkeeper who engages in usury on the side
  • gomez palacio — a city in Durango state, N central Mexico.
  • gonadotrophic — Of, pertaining to, or stimulating the functions of the gonads.
  • gonadotrophin — a gonadotropic substance.
  • gonadotropins — Plural form of gonadotropin.
  • gone to glory — dead
  • gonochoristic — Of or pertaining to gonochorism.
  • good behavior — satisfactory, proper, or polite conduct.
  • good gracious — Some people say good gracious or goodness gracious in order to express surprise or annoyance.
  • good old days — past times viewed with nostalgia
  • good question — pertinent or insightful enquiry
  • good riddance — the act or fact of clearing away or out, as anything undesirable.
  • good shepherd — Jesus Christ. John 10:11–14.
  • good-humoured — having or showing a pleasant, amiable mood: a good-humored man; a good-humored remark.
  • good-neighbor — characterized by friendly political relations and mutual aid between countries.
  • good-tempered — good-natured; amiable.
  • goodheartedly — In a goodhearted manner.
  • goodhumoredly — In a good-humored manner.
  • goodnaturedly — In a good-natured manner.
  • goods service — a transport service in which goods are sent by train from one location to another
  • goods station — a railway station dealing solely with goods trains
  • goodwin sands — a line of shoals at the N entrance to the Strait of Dover, off the SE coast of England. 10 miles (16 km) long.
  • googlebombing — an effort to move a website to the top of search-engine results for a particular word or phrase, by creating a large number of links that contain this search text.
  • googlewhacker — One who searches for googlewhacks.
  • goose pimples — Goose pimples are the same as goose bumps.
  • gopher client — (networking)   A program which runs on your local computer and provides a user interface to the Gopher protocol and to gopher servers. Web browsers can act as Gopher clients and simple Gopher-only clients are available for ordinary terminals, the X Window System, GNU Emacs, and other systems.
  • gordon setter — one of a Scottish breed of medium-sized setters having a black-and-tan coat.
  • gospel singer — a singer performing gospel music
  • gossip column — newspaper: celebrity news article
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