11-letter words starting with go
- godforsaken — desolate; remote; deserted: They live in some godforsaken place 40 miles from the nearest town.
- godlessness — The state of being godless.
- godlikeness — The quality of being godlike.
- goes around — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- goggle-eyed — having bulging, wide-open, or rolling eyes, especially in astonishment or wonderment.
- going train — the gear train for moving the hands of a timepiece or giving some other visual indication of the time.
- goitrogenic — tending to produce goiter.
- gold beetle — any of several beetles having a golden luster, as a chrysomelid, Metriona bicolor, that feeds on morning glories and roses.
- gold bronze — an alloy of about 90 percent copper, 5 percent zinc, 3 percent lead, and 2 percent tin.
- gold digger — a person who seeks or digs for gold in a gold field.
- gold fixing — the procedure by which the price of gold is established.
- gold mining — the act or process of mining gold.
- gold orange — an orange-yellow, slightly water-soluble powder, C 1 4 H 1 4 N 3 NaO 3 S, used chiefly as an acid-base indicator.
- gold-digger — a person who seeks or digs for gold in a gold field.
- gold-filled — composed of a layer of gold backed with a base metal.
- gold-plated — secure, valuable
- gold-rimmed — Gold-rimmed glasses have gold-coloured frames.
- goldbeating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
- goldbergian — Rube Goldberg.
- goldbricked — Simple past tense and past participle of goldbrick.
- goldbricker — Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
- golden ager — an elderly person, especially one who has retired.
- golden buck — a dish consisting of Welsh rabbit topped with a poached egg.
- golden bull — an edict of Charles IV, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, issued in 1356 and in force until the extinction of the empire in 1806, in which the selection of the emperor was entrusted to seven Electors.
- golden calf — a golden idol set up by Aaron and worshiped by the Israelites. Ex. 32.
- golden club — an aquatic plant, Orontium aquaticum, of the arum family, native to the eastern U.S., having blue-green leaves and a clublike spadix covered with tiny yellow flowers.
- golden deed — a noble deed or act
- golden fizz — a drink containing egg yolk, gin or vodka, lemon juice, sugar, and soda water.
- golden gate — a strait in W California, between San Francisco Bay and the Pacific. 2 miles (3.2 km) wide.
- golden girl — successful or celebrated woman
- golden glow — a tall garden black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia laciniata) with numerous globular, yellow ray flower heads
- golden goal — In some football matches, a golden goal is the first goal scored in extra time, which wins the match for the team that scores it.
- golden gram — (in the East Indies) the chickpea used as a food for people and cattle.
- golden horn — an inlet of the Bosporus, in European Turkey: forms the inner part of Istanbul.
- golden hour — the first hour after a serious accident, when it is crucial that the victim receives medical treatment in order to have a chance of surviving
- golden mean — the perfect moderate course or position that avoids extremes; the happy medium.
- golden mole — any of several burrowing insectivores of the family Chrysochloridae, of southern Africa, the fur of which has an iridescent, often golden luster.
- golden orfe — one of the two varieties of orfe, an aquarium fish
- golden rose — a gold, bejeweled ornament in the form of a rose or spray of roses, blessed and presented by the pope in recognition of service to the Holy See.
- golden rule — a rule of ethical conduct, usually phrased “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” or, as in the Sermon on the Mount, “Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so unto them.” Matt. 7:12; Luke 6:31.
- golden-ager — an elderly person, especially one who has retired.
- goldenberry — the Cape gooseberry
- goldfinches — Plural form of goldfinch.
- goldschmidt — Richard Benedikt. 1878–1958, US geneticist, born in Germany. He advanced the theory that heredity is determined by the chemical configuration of the chromosome molecule rather than by the qualities of the individual genes
- goldthreads — Plural form of goldthread.
- golf course — 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.
- gombeen-man — a usurer or moneylender.
- gomme syrup — simple syrup.
- gomphothere — Any of the extinct proboscideans of the family Gomphotheriidae, that lived in North America and Eurasia during the Miocene and Pliocene (12\u20141.6 million years ago), and latterly also in South America (around 3 million to 9100 years ago).
- gonadectomy — (surgery) The procedure to remove an ovary or testis.