10-letter words starting with go
- god-damned — damned.
- godbrother — The son of one's godparent.
- godfathers — Plural form of godfather.
- godfearing — Acting with obedience to rules established by a deity out of fear of the power of that deity.
- godmothers — Plural form of godmother.
- godoy cruz — a city in Mendoza province, W Argentina.
- godparents — Plural form of godparent.
- goggle-box — a television set.
- goggle-eye — rock bass.
- goggleeyed — Alternative spelling of goggle-eyed.
- going down — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- going-over — a review, examination, or investigation: The accounts were given a thorough going-over.
- gold basis — a gold standard as a basis for prices.
- gold braid — a gold-coloured braid which is used to decorate uniforms
- gold brick — Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
- gold coast — a former British territory in W Africa; now a part of Ghana.
- gold fever — greed and excitement caused by a gold rush.
- gold field — an area or district where gold is mined.
- gold medal — a medal, traditionally of gold or gold color, awarded to a person or team finishing first in a competition, meet, or tournament; championship medal.
- gold plate — a thin coating of gold, usually produced by electroplating
- gold point — the point at which it is equally expensive to buy, sell, export, import, or exchange gold in adjustment of foreign claims or counterclaims.
- gold stick — the gilded rod carried on state occasions by certain members of the royal household.
- gold-plate — to coat (base metal) with gold, especially by electroplating.
- golda meir — Golda [gohl-duh] /ˈgoʊl də/ (Show IPA), (Goldie Mabovitch; Goldie Myerson) 1898–1978, Israeli political leader, born in Russia: prime minister 1969–74.
- goldbeater — a person who pounds gold into thin leaves for use in gilding
- goldberger — Joseph, 1874–1929, U.S. physician, born in Austria: discovered the cause of and treatment for pellagra.
- golddigger — Alternative spelling of gold digger.
- golden age — the most flourishing period in the history of a nation, literature, etc.
- golden boy — a man or boy who is especially popular and successful
- goldeneyes — Plural form of goldeneye.
- goldenness — The quality of being golden.
- goldenrods — Plural form of goldenrod.
- goldenseal — a plant, Hydrastis canadensis, of the buttercup family, having a thick yellow rootstock.
- goldfields — any of several Californian, composite herbs of the genus Lasthenia, having yellow flowers.
- goldfishes — Plural form of goldfish.
- goldilocks — (used with a singular verb) a person with golden hair.
- goldplated — to coat (base metal) with gold, especially by electroplating.
- goldsmiths — Plural form of goldsmith.
- goldthread — a white-flowered plant, Coptis trifolia, of the buttercup family, having a slender, yellow root that is sometimes used as a tonic.
- goldwasser — a liqueur flavored with spices, figs, lemons, and herbs, and having minute flakes of gold leaf in suspension.
- goldwynism — a phrase or statement involving a humorous and supposedly unintentional misuse of idiom, as “Keep a stiff upper chin,” especially such a statement attributed to Samuel Goldwyn, as “Include me out.”.
- golf links — the ground or course over which golf is played. A standard full-scale golf course has 125 to 175 acres (51 to 71 hectares), usually with 18 holes varying from 100 to 650 yards (91 to 594 meters) in length from tee to cup.
- golf widow — a woman whose husband frequently leaves her alone while he plays golf.
- golgi body — 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.
- goliardery — one of a class of wandering scholar-poets in Germany, France, and England, chiefly in the 12th and 13th centuries, noted as the authors of satirical Latin verse written in celebration of conviviality, sensual pleasures, etc.
- goliathise — to play Goliath, exaggerate extravagantly
- goliathize — to exaggerate extravagantly
- goloptious — voluptuous
- golschmann — Vladimir [vlad-uh-meer] /ˈvlæd əˌmɪər/ (Show IPA), 1893–1972, French orchestra conductor in the U.S.
- gombeenism — the practice of usury