5-letter words containing a, g, o
- gamow — George, 1904–68, U.S. nuclear physicist and writer, born in Russia.
- gaols — Plural form of gaol.
- garbo — Greta (Greta Lovisa Gustaffson) 1905–90, U.S. film actress, born in Sweden.
- gator — Southern U.S. Informal. alligator.
- gavot — an old French dance in moderately quick quadruple meter.
- gazon — a piece of turf used to cover a parapet
- genoa — a seaport in NW Italy, S of Milan.
- gloam — twilight; gloaming.
- gloar — (obsolete, intransitive) To squint; to stare.
- gloat — to look at or think about with great or excessive, often smug or malicious, satisfaction: The opposing team gloated over our bad luck.
- go at — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- goads — Plural form of goad.
- goals — the result or achievement toward which effort is directed; aim; end.
- goats — Plural form of goat.
- goaty — Like a goat, goatlike or redolent of goats.
- goban — a Japanese game played on a go board with players alternating and attempting to be first to place five counters in a row.
- gobar — Dried cow dung used directly as fuel or as a source of gas.
- gobat — Albert [French al-ber] /French alˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), 1843–1914, Swiss lawyer and statesman: Nobel Peace Prize 1902.
- gogga — any small animal that crawls or flies, esp an insect
- gogra — a river in SW Tibet, Nepal, and N India, flowing S and SE to the Ganges River. 640 miles (1030 km) long.
- goias — a state in central Brazil. 247,826 sq. mi. (641,870 sq. km). Capital: Goiânia.
- golda — a female given name.
- gompa — a Tibetan monastery or temple
- gonad — a sex gland in which gametes are produced; an ovary or testis.
- gonia — Craniometry. a point on each side of the lower jaw at the mandibular angle.
- gonna — Going to.
- goona — Lb Australian Aboriginal faeces, excrement, shit.
- gopak — a folk dance of the Ukraine.
- goral — a short-horned goat antelope, Naemorhedus goral, of the mountainous regions of southeastern Asia: an endangered species.
- gosha — (Ireland) hero, champion.
- gotha — a city in S Thuringia, in central Germany.
- gotra — a Hindu clan tracing its paternal lineage from a common ancestor, usually a saint or sage.
- gotta — Have got to (not acceptable in standard use).
- gouda — a city in the W Netherlands, NE of Rotterdam.
- goura — any of several species of large, crested ground pigeons found in New Guinea
- gowan — any of various yellow or white field flowers, especially the English daisy.
- goyal — A ravine or other depression.
- groan — a low, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief: the groans of dying soldiers.
- groat — a silver coin of England, equal to four pennies, issued from 1279 to 1662.
- groma — an instrument having a cruciform wooden frame with a plumb line at the end of each arm, used for laying out lines at right angles to existing lines.
- guaco — a climbing composite plant, Mikania guaco, of tropical America.
- guano — a natural manure composed chiefly of the excrement of sea birds, found especially on islands near the Peruvian coast.
- gyoza — a Japanese dish consisting of dumplings typically filled with ground meat and vegetables and grilled or fried.
- hoagy — a hero sandwich.
- hogan — Ben, 1912–97, U.S. golfer.
- imago — Entomology. an adult insect.
- kango — A Japanese word of Chinese origin, or a Japanese word coined along Chinese lines (a Sino-Japanese word).
- kioga — Lake, a lake in central Uganda. About 1000 sq. mi. (2600 sq. km).
- kogal — (in Japan) a teenage girl or young woman noted for her busy social life and her purchase of designer clothes, accessories, and the latest electronic gadgets
- kyoga — Lake, a lake in central Uganda. About 1000 sq. mi. (2600 sq. km).