15-letter words containing go
- grimes (golden) — a yellow autumn eating apple
- gulf of argolis — an inlet of the Aegean Sea, in the E Peloponnese
- hapax legomenon — a word or phrase that appears only once in a manuscript, document, or particular area of literature.
- have a go at sb — If someone has a go at you, they criticize you, often in a way that you feel is unfair.
- have a good day — pleasantry
- have got it bad — to be infatuated
- have it so good — to have so many benefits, esp material benefits
- household goods — kitchenware and other utensils for use in the home
- in a good light — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
- in good spirits — cheerful
- it's a good job — If you say it's a good thing, or in British English it's a good job, that something is the case, you mean that it is fortunate.
- kissing gourami — a whitish labyrinth fish, Helostoma temmincki, found in southeastern Asia, noted for the habit of pressing its fleshy, protrusible lips against those of another: often kept in aquariums.
- laryngotracheal — of, relating to, or involving the larynx and trachea.
- let yourself go — If you let yourself go, you relax and behave much more freely than usual.
- low archipelago — a group of French islands in the S Pacific. 332 sq. mi. (860 sq. km).
- lowland gorilla — the eastern lowland gorilla or western lowland gorilla. See under gorilla.
- marigold window — wheel window.
- mbogo, dr. fred — /*m-boh'goh, dok'tr fred/ [Stanford] The archetypal man you don't want to see about a problem, especially an incompetent professional; a shyster. "Do you know a good eye doctor?" "Sure, try Mbogo Eye Care and Professional Dry Cleaning." The name comes from synergy between "bogus" and the original Dr. Mbogo, a witch doctor who was Gomez Addams' physician on the old "Addams Family" TV show. Compare Bloggs Family, the, see also fred.
- microhomologous — (genetics) Exhibiting microhomology.
- mind how you go — Some people say 'Mind how you go' when they are saying goodbye to someone who is leaving.
- mis-categorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- mongolian idiot — a person affected with Down syndrome
- montgomeryshire — a historic county in Powys, in central Wales.
- moo goo gai pan — a dish of sliced chicken stir-fried with button mushrooms and, often, assorted vegetables.
- nizhni novgorod — a city in the Russian Federation in Europe, E of Moscow, on the Volga River.
- nizhny novgorod — city in central European Russia, at the Volga & Oka rivers: pop. 1,438,000
- nodding pogonia — a rare orchid, Triphora trianthophora, of the eastern U.S., bearing three pink flowers.
- non-egotistical — pertaining to or characterized by egotism.
- non-negotiation — mutual discussion and arrangement of the terms of a transaction or agreement: the negotiation of a treaty.
- nonantagonistic — acting in opposition; opposing, especially mutually.
- nongovernmental — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
- oligodendrocyte — A glial cell similar to an astrocyte but with fewer protuberances, concerned with the production of myelin in the central nervous system.
- oligodendroglia — Oligodendrocytes collectively.
- oligohydramnios — (medicine) A deficit of amniotic fluid in the amniotic sac, causing distinctive deformations of the foetus.
- oligomerisation — Alternative spelling of oligomerization.
- oligomerization — (chemistry) The formation of an oligomer from a monomer.
- oligonucleotide — a chain of a few nucleotides.
- oligosaccharide — any carbohydrate yielding few monosaccharides on hydrolysis, as two, three, or four.
- open government — the doctrine that all government business should be open to regulation and scrutiny by the public
- paphian goddess — Aphrodite, worshiped in Cyprus as the goddess of sexual love.
- patagonian hare — a burrowing, gray, long-eared and long-legged cavy of the genus Dolichotis, native to South America.
- pedagoguishness — the quality of being pedagoguish
- pelargonic acid — a colorless, oily, water-immiscible liquid, C 9 H 1 8 O 2 , occurring as an ester in a volatile oil in species of pelargonium: used chiefly in organic synthesis and in the manufacture of lacquers and plastics.
- philip the good — 1396–1467, duke of Burgundy 1419–67.
- pre-negotiation — mutual discussion and arrangement of the terms of a transaction or agreement: the negotiation of a treaty.
- prison governor — the senior administrator or head of a prison
- pseudohexagonal — of, relating to, or having the form of a hexagon.
- radiogoniometer — a device used to detect the direction of radio waves, consisting of a coil that is free to rotate within two fixed coils at right angles to each other
- radiogoniometry — the science of detecting the direction of radio waves
- saigon cinnamon — the aromatic inner bark of any of several East Indian trees belonging to the genus Cinnamonum, of the laurel family, especially the bark of C. zeylanicum (Ceylon cinnamon) used as a spice, or that of C. loureirii (Saigon cinnamon) used in medicine as a cordial and carminative.