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11-letter words containing gon

  • honey wagon — a wagon or truck for collecting and carrying excrement or manure.
  • hormogonium — a portion of filament in blue-green algae that becomes detached and reproduces by cell division.
  • jargon file — (jargon, publication, humour)   The on-line hacker Jargon File maintained by Eric S. Raymond. A large collection of definitions of computing terms, including much wit, wisdom, and history. See also Yellow Book, Jargon.
  • jargonistic — the language, especially the vocabulary, peculiar to a particular trade, profession, or group: medical jargon.
  • lingonberry — mountain cranberry.
  • mammy wagon — a W African vehicle built on a lorry chassis, capable of carrying both passengers and goods
  • mastigoneme — One of the lateral \"hairs\" found covering the flagella of heterokont and cryptophyte algae, believed to assist in locomotion.
  • mount elgon — an extinct volcano in E Africa, on the Kenya-Uganda border. Height: 4321m (14 178 ft)
  • octagonally — In an octagonal manner.
  • oregon city — a town in NW Oregon, on the Willamette River.
  • oregon pine — Douglas fir.
  • paddy wagon — Informal. patrol wagon.
  • paphlagonia — an ancient country and Roman province in N Asia Minor, on the S coast of the Black Sea.
  • pelargonium — any plant of the genus Pelargonium, the cultivated species of which are usually called geranium. Compare geranium (def 2).
  • pentagonese — a style of language characterized by the use of euphemisms, technical jargon, acronyms, and circumlocutions, used especially by people working in the U.S. military establishment.
  • pentagonoid — like a pentagon in shape.
  • polygonatum — a plant of the genus Polygonatum
  • protagonism — the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
  • protagonist — the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
  • quindecagon — a polygon having 15 angles and 15 sides.
  • rex begonia — a plant, Begonia rex, native to India, having wrinkled, variegated leaves and thick, hairy stems, and cultivated in many varieties.
  • sao goncalo — a city in SE Brazil, NE of Rio de Janeiro.
  • schizogonic — relating to schizogony
  • sporogonium — the sporangium of mosses and liverworts.
  • tetragonous — related to a tetragon
  • tettigoniid — long-horned grasshopper.
  • the argonne — a wooded region of NE France: scene of major battles in both World Wars
  • the wagoner — Auriga
  • theogonical — of or relating to theogony
  • tower wagon — a trailer carrying an extensible ladder for use in firefighting, photography, repairing overhead wires, trimming trees, etc. Compare cherry picker (def 2).
  • trimetrogon — of or relating to a system of aerial photography using three cameras, one pointed directly downward and the others at 60° to it.
  • tritagonist — (in ancient Greece) the third member of an acting troupe, which always consisted of three actors. Compare protagonist (def 4), deuteragonist.
  • unparagoned — having no paragon; peerless
  • wagon train — a train of wagons and horses, as one carrying military supplies or transporting settlers in the westward migration.
  • wagon vault — barrel vault.
  • wagonwright — a person who makes wagons
  • water wagon — a wagon used to transport water, as in military field operations or on a construction site.
  • zoogonidium — a motile plant or fungal structure containing spores
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