12-letter words containing go
- disgorgement — The act of disgorging, particularly in the legal sense.
- dragon light — a herbal remedy for impotence
- dragonslayer — One who slays a dragon.
- e-government — the provision of government information and services by means of the internet and other computer resources
- east chicago — a port in NW Indiana, on Lake Michigan, near Chicago.
- egoistically — In an egoistic manner.
- envigorating — Present participle of envigorate.
- ergonometric — Ergonomic.
- esophagotomy — (surgery) The operation of making an incision into the esophagus for the purpose of removing an obstruction.
- evening gown — a special dress, usually a long one, that a woman wears to a formal occasion in the evening
- false indigo — any of several North American shrubs belonging to the genus Amorpha, of the legume family, especially A. fruticosa, having compound leaves with pinnate leaflets and long, dense clusters of purplish flowers.
- festivalgoer — A person attending a festival.
- fig marigold — any of various plants of the genus Mesembryanthemum, having showy flowers of white, yellow, or pink.
- firmer gouge — a narrow-bladed gouge similar in manner of use to a firmer chisel.
- french congo — former name of the People's Republic of the Congo.
- galactagogue — A food or drug that promotes or increases the flow of a mother’s milk.
- go ballistic — of or relating to ballistics.
- go down with — If you go down with an illness or a disease, you catch it.
- go for broke — a simple past tense of break.
- go hard with — to cause pain or difficulty to (someone)
- go on record — to set down in writing or the like, as for the purpose of preserving evidence.
- go overboard — over the side of a ship or boat, especially into or in the water: to fall overboard.
- go the round — to be circulated among a number of people: said of a story, rumor, etc.
- go the route — If you go the route, you do something fully or continue with a task until you have completely finished.
- go to ground — hide, be reclusive
- go to pieces — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
- go walkabout — to wander through the bush
- go whole hog — Nautical. (of a hull) to have less than the proper amount of sheer because of structural weakness; arch. Compare sag (def 6a).
- go-away bird — a common name for a grey-plumaged lourie of the genus Corythaixoides
- go-go dancer — an entertainer who performs popular dances on a stage or platform for the patrons of a discotheque or nightclub.
- goal average — the number of goals scored by a team divided by the number of goals it has conceded
- gobbledegook — language characterized by circumlocution and jargon, usually hard to understand: the gobbledegook of government reports.
- gobbledygook — language characterized by circumlocution and jargon, usually hard to understand: the gobbledegook of government reports.
- gobind singh — 1666–1708, tenth and last guru of the Sikhs (1675–1708): assassinated
- god's plenty — an abundant or overabundant quantity.
- god-botherer — an over-zealous Christian
- goddaughters — Plural form of goddaughter.
- godwin's law — (humour) "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups. However there is also a widely recognised codicil that any intentional triggering of Godwin's Law in order to invoke its thread-ending effects will be unsuccessful.
- godzillagram — (networking) /god-zil'*-gram/ (From Japan's national hero and datagram) 1. A network packet that in theory is a broadcast to every machine in the universe. The typical case is an IP datagram whose destination IP address is [255.255.255.255]. Fortunately, few gateways are foolish enough to attempt to implement this case! 2. A network packet of maximum size. An IP Godzillagram has 65,536 octets. Compare super source quench.
- going strong — If someone or something is still going strong, they are still alive, in good condition, or popular after a long time.
- gold digging — the work of digging for gold.
- gold farming — the practice of selling virtual assets gained in a computer game for real money
- gold filling — a small amount of gold that a dentist puts in a hole in a tooth to prevent further decay
- gold reserve — the stock of gold held by a government or central bank to back its promissory notes or currency or to settle its international debts.
- gold therapy — administration of gold salts as a treatment for disease, especially rheumatoid arthritis.
- gold-beating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
- gold-plating — the incorporation of costly and unnecessary features or refinements into a product or structure.
- goldbricking — Present participle of goldbrick.
- golden aster — any North American, asterlike, composite plant of the genus Chrysopsis, having bright, golden-yellow flower heads, as C. mariana, of the eastern U.S.
- golden bough — a branch of mistletoe, sacred to Proserpina, that served Aeneas as a pass to the underworld.