8-letter words containing go
- ongoings — Plural form of ongoing.
- oogonial — Of or pertaining to an oogonium.
- oogonium — one of the undifferentiated germ cells giving rise to oocytes.
- outgoing — going out; departing: outgoing trains.
- overgoad — to goad excessively
- own goal — In sport, if someone scores an own goal, they accidentally score a goal for the team they are playing against.
- pangolin — any mammal of the order Pholidota, of Africa and tropical Asia, having a covering of broad, overlapping, horny scales and feeding on ants and termites.
- paragoge — the addition of a sound or group of sounds at the end of a word, as in the nonstandard pronunciation of height as height-th or once as once-t.
- parergon — something that is an accessory to a main work or subject; embellishment.
- pedagogy — the function or work of a teacher; teaching.
- pentagon — a polygon having five angles and five sides.
- perigord — a division of the former province of Guienne, in SW France.
- petdingo — (tool) An Estelle to C++ translator.
- play god — make life-and-death decisions
- playgoer — a person who attends the theater often or habitually.
- plumbago — graphite.
- podgorny — Nikolai Viktorovich [nyi-kuh-lahy vyeek-tuh-ruh-vyich] /nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ ˈvyik tə rə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1903–83, Russian government official: president of the Soviet Union 1965–77.
- polygoth — (language) A distributed language integrating classes with a parallel block structure, including multiprocedures and fragments.
- ps-algol — Persistent ALGOL. ca 1981, released 1985. A derivative of S-ALGOL. Database capability derived from the longevity of data. "The PS- Algol Reference Manual", TR PPR-12-85, CS Dept, U Glasgow 1985. IBM PC version available from CS Dept, U Strathclyde, Glasgow.
- racegoer — One who attends horse races.
- ravigote — a highly seasoned velouté with white wine and vinegar, butter, cream, and mushrooms cooked in liquor, usually served hot with variety meats and poultry.
- regolith — mantle rock.
- rigorism — extreme strictness.
- rigorous — characterized by rigor; rigidly severe or harsh, as people, rules, or discipline: rigorous laws.
- rugosity — having wrinkles; wrinkled; ridged.
- santiago — a republic in SW South America, on the Pacific Coast. 286,396 sq. mi. (741,765 sq. km). Capital: Santiago.
- saramago — José [zhoo-ze] /ʒʊˈzɛ/ (Show IPA), 1922–2010, Portuguese journalist, playwright, and novelist: Nobel prize 1998.
- sargodha — a city in NE Pakistan.
- seagoing — designed or fit for going to sea, as a vessel.
- selangor — a state in Malaysia, on the SW Malay Peninsula. 3160 sq. mi. (8184 sq. km). Capital: Shah Alam.
- semi-god — the one Supreme Being, the creator and ruler of the universe.
- she-goat — a female goat
- solidago — any plant of the chiefly American genus Solidago, which includes the goldenrods: family Asteraceae (composites)
- spongoid — resembling a sponge
- squiggol — Bird-Meertens Formalism
- stegodon — any extinct elephantlike mammal of the genus Stegodon, from the late Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs, usually considered to be directly ancestral to the modern elephant.
- strigose — Botany. set with stiff bristles of hairs; hispid.
- subgoals — the result or achievement toward which effort is directed; aim; end.
- subimago — the first winged stage of the mayfly, with dull opaque wings, known to anglers as a dun, before it metamorphoses into the shiny gauzy imago or spinner
- superego — the part of the personality representing the conscience, formed in early life by internalization of the standards of parents and other models of behavior.
- tarragon — an Old World plant, Artemisia dracunculus, having aromatic leaves used for seasoning.
- tea gown — a semiformal gown of fine material, especially one styled with soft, flowing lines, worn for afternoon social occasions.
- telegony — a former belief that a sire can influence the characteristics of the progeny of the female parent and subsequent mates.
- tetragon — a polygon having four angles or sides; a quadrangle or quadrilateral.
- the goat — the constellation Capricorn, the tenth sign of the zodiac
- the good — those who are good
- theogony — the origin of the gods.
- togoland — a former German protectorate in W Africa, on the Gulf of Guinea: E part is now the Republic of Togo; W part, a British mandate 1922–46 and trusteeship 1946–57, is now part of Ghana.
- togolese — a native or inhabitant of the Republic of Togo.
- tragopan — any of several Asian pheasants of the genus Tragopan, having two fleshy, erectile horns on the head and wattles on the throat.