10-letter words starting with go
- gomphiasis — looseness of the teeth.
- gondoletta — a small Venetian gondola.
- gondoliers — Plural form of gondolier.
- gongoozler — Someone who gongoozles (who watches boats go by, or stands by and watches things without participating.).
- goniometer — an instrument for measuring solid angles, as of crystals.
- goniometry — an instrument for measuring solid angles, as of crystals.
- gonioscope — an optical instrument used for measuring the angle of the anterior chamber of the eye.
- gonioscopy — an optical instrument used for measuring the angle of the anterior chamber of the eye.
- gonkulator — /gon'kyoo-lay-tr/ (From "Hogan's Heroes", the TV series) A pretentious piece of equipment that actually serves no useful purpose. Usually used to describe one's least favourite piece of computer hardware. See gonk.
- gonnegtion — (nonce) eye dialect of connection.
- gonococcal — Of, or pertaining to, the gonococcus.
- gonococcic — the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae, causing gonorrhea.
- gonococcus — the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae, causing gonorrhea.
- gonopodium — the modified anal fin of a male poeciliid fish, serving as an organ of copulation.
- gonorrheal — Of, pertaining to, or afflicted with gonorrhoea.
- gonorrhoea — a contagious, purulent inflammation of the urethra or the vagina, caused by the gonococcus.
- gonozooids — Plural form of gonozooid.
- good buddy — Citizens Band Radio Slang. the operator of a CB radio; fellow operator (often used as a form of direct address while broadcasting).
- good cheer — cheerful spirits; courage: to be of good cheer.
- good faith — accordance with standards of honesty, trust, sincerity, etc. (usually preceded by in): If you act in good faith, he'll have no reason to question your motives.
- good grief — keen mental suffering or distress over affliction or loss; sharp sorrow; painful regret.
- good humor — a cheerful or amiable mood.
- good looks — personal attractiveness or beauty
- good night — enjoyable evening, night
- good show! — an exclamation of appreciation and congratulations on another's accomplishment
- good speed — good luck; success: to wish someone good speed.
- good sport — sb good-humoured
- good thing — (convention) (From the 1930 Sellar and Yeatman parody "1066 And All That") Often capitalised; always pronounced as if capitalised. 1. Self-evidently wonderful to anyone in a position to notice: "The Trailblazer's 19.2 Kbaud PEP mode with on-the-fly Lempel-Ziv compression is a Good Thing for sites relaying netnews". 2. Something that can't possibly have any ill side-effects and may save considerable grief later: "Removing the self-modifying code from that shared library would be a Good Thing". 3. When said of software tools or libraries, as in "Yacc is a Good Thing", specifically connotes that the thing has drastically reduced a programmer's work load. Opposite: Bad Thing, compare big win.
- good title — a title to real property that is free from encumbrances, litigation, and other defects and that can readily be sold or mortgaged to a reasonable buyer or mortgagee.
- good usage — (in a language) standard, prescribed, or acceptable usage of words or phrases: Your sentence violates the rules of good usage.
- good-night — a farewell or leave-taking: He said his good-nights before leaving the party.
- good-sized — of ample or large size; rather large for its kind: a good-sized pumpkin.
- goodfellow — a cheerful companion
- goodlihead — goodness; good appearance
- goodliness — of good or substantial size, amount, etc.: a goodly sum.
- goodnights — Plural form of goodnight.
- goods yard — a railway freight yard.
- goodwilled — possessing goodwill
- googillion — (informal, hyperbole) An indefinitely large number.
- googlebomb — 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.
- googleplex — Misspelling of googolplex.
- googolplex — a number that is equal to 1 followed by a googol of zeros and expressed as .
- goon squad — a group of hired thugs used to perform ruthless or violent acts.
- gooneybird — an informal name for the albatross, esp the black-footed albatross (Diomedea nigripes)
- goosanders — Plural form of goosander.
- goose skin — goose bumps.
- goose-step — to march in a goose step: Troops goose-stepped past the reviewing stand.
- gooseberry — the edible, acid, globular, sometimes spiny fruit of certain prickly shrubs belonging to the genus Ribes, of the saxifrage family, especially R. uva-crispa (or R. grossularia).
- goosebumps — Plural form of goosebump.
- gooseflesh — goose bumps.