go | (noun) a board game for two players who place counters on a grid; the object is to surround and so capture the opponent's counters | Synonyms: go game |
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(noun) a usually brief attempt | Synonyms: crack, fling, offer, pass, whirl |
(noun) street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine | Synonyms: Adam, cristal, disco biscuit, ecstasy, hug drug, X, XTC |
(noun) a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else) | Synonyms: spell, tour, turn |
goad | (noun) a pointed instrument that is used to prod into a state of motion | Synonyms: prod |
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(noun) a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something | Synonyms: goading, prod, prodding, spur, spurring, urging |
goading | (noun) a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something | Synonyms: goad, prod, prodding, spur, spurring, urging |
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goal | (noun) a successful attempt at scoring | - |
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(noun) game equipment consisting of the place toward which players of a game try to advance a ball or puck in order to score points | - |
(noun) the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it | Synonyms: end |
(noun) the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey) | Synonyms: destination, finish |
goalie | (noun) the defensive position on an ice hockey or soccer or lacrosse team who stands in front of the goal and tries to prevent opposing players from scoring | Synonyms: goalkeeper, goaltender, netkeeper |
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(noun) the soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal | Synonyms: goalkeeper, goaltender, netkeeper, netminder |
goalkeeper | (noun) the defensive position on an ice hockey or soccer or lacrosse team who stands in front of the goal and tries to prevent opposing players from scoring | Synonyms: goalie, goaltender, netkeeper |
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(noun) the soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal | Synonyms: goalie, goaltender, netkeeper, netminder |
goalmouth | (noun) (sports) the area immediately in front of the goal | - |
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goalpost | (noun) one of a pair of posts (usually joined by a crossbar) that are set up as a goal at each end of a playing field | - |
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goaltender | (noun) the defensive position on an ice hockey or soccer or lacrosse team who stands in front of the goal and tries to prevent opposing players from scoring | Synonyms: goalie, goalkeeper, netkeeper |
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(noun) the soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal | Synonyms: goalie, goalkeeper, netkeeper, netminder |
goat | (noun) any of numerous agile ruminants related to sheep but having a beard and straight horns | Synonyms: caprine animal |
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(noun) a victim of ridicule or pranks | Synonyms: butt, laughingstock, stooge |
goatee | (noun) a small chin beard trimmed to a point; named for its resemblance to a goat's beard | - |
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goatfish | (noun) brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels | Synonyms: Mullus surmuletus, red mullet, surmullet |
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goatherd | (noun) a person who tends a flock of goats | Synonyms: goat herder |
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goatsbeard | (noun) weedy European annual with yellow flowers; naturalized in United States | Synonyms: meadow salsify, shepherd's clock, Tragopogon pratensis |
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goatsfoot | (noun) short-stemmed South African plant with bluish flowers | Synonyms: goat's foot, Oxalis caprina |
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goatskin | (noun) the hide of a goat | - |
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goatsucker | (noun) mainly crepuscular or nocturnal nonpasserine birds with mottled greyish-brown plumage and large eyes; feed on insects | Synonyms: caprimulgid, nightjar |
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gob | (noun) informal terms for the mouth | Synonyms: cakehole, hole, maw, trap, yap |
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(noun) a lump of slimy stuff | - |
(noun) a man who serves as a sailor | Synonyms: Jack-tar, Jack, mariner, old salt, sea dog, seafarer, seaman, tar |
gobbet | (noun) a lump or chunk of raw meat | - |
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gobble | (noun) the characteristic sound made by a turkey cock | - |
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gobbledygook | (noun) incomprehensible or pompous jargon of specialists | - |
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gobbler | (noun) male turkey | Synonyms: tom, tom turkey, turkey cock |
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(noun) a hasty eater who swallows large mouthfuls | - |
goblet | (noun) a drinking glass with a base and stem | - |
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(noun) a bowl-shaped drinking vessel; especially the Eucharistic cup | Synonyms: chalice |
goblin | (noun) (folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings | Synonyms: hob, hobgoblin |
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gobs | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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goby | (noun) small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated tapering body having the ventral fins modified as a sucker | Synonyms: gudgeon |
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god | (noun) a material effigy that is worshipped | Synonyms: graven image, idol |
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(noun) any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force | Synonyms: deity, divinity, immortal |
(noun) a man of such superior qualities that he seems like a deity to other people | - |
godchild | (noun) an infant who is sponsored by an adult (the godparent) at baptism | - |
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goddaughter | (noun) a female godchild | - |
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goddess | (noun) a female deity | - |
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godfather | (noun) any man who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism | - |
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(noun) someone having a relation analogous to that of a male sponsor to his godchild | - |
godlessness | (noun) impiety by virtue of not being a godly person | Synonyms: ungodliness |
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godliness | (noun) piety by virtue of being a godly person | - |
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godmother | (noun) any woman who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism | - |
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godown | (noun) (in India and Malaysia) a warehouse | - |
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godparent | (noun) a person who sponsors someone (the godchild) at baptism | - |
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godsend | (noun) a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money) | Synonyms: bonanza, boom, bunce, gold rush, gravy, manna from heaven, windfall |
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godson | (noun) a male godchild | - |
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godwit | (noun) large wading bird that resembles a curlew; has a long slightly upturned bill | - |
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goer | (noun) someone who leaves | Synonyms: departer, leaver |
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goethite | (noun) a red or yellow or brown mineral; an oxide of iron that is a common constituent of rust | Synonyms: gothite |
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gofer | (noun) an employee whose duties include running errands | - |
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goffer | (noun) an ornamental frill made by pressing pleats | Synonyms: gauffer |
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(noun) an iron used to press pleats and ridges | Synonyms: gauffer, gauffering iron, goffering iron |
(noun) a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman) | Synonyms: gopher |
goggles | (noun) (plural) tight-fitting spectacles worn to protect the eyes | - |
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going | (noun) advancing toward a goal | Synonyms: sledding |
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(noun) the act of departing | Synonyms: departure, going away, leaving |
(noun) euphemistic expressions for death | Synonyms: departure, exit, expiration, loss, passing, release |
goiter | (noun) abnormally enlarged thyroid gland; can result from underproduction or overproduction of hormone or from a deficiency of iodine in the diet | Synonyms: goitre, struma, thyromegaly |
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goitre | (noun) abnormally enlarged thyroid gland; can result from underproduction or overproduction of hormone or from a deficiency of iodine in the diet | Synonyms: goiter, struma, thyromegaly |
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goitrogen | (noun) any substance (such as thiouracil) that induces the formation of a goiter | - |
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gold | (noun) a deep yellow color | Synonyms: amber |
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(noun) something likened to the metal in brightness or preciousness or superiority etc. | - |
(noun) coins made of gold | - |
(noun) great wealth | - |
(noun) a soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia | Synonyms: atomic number 79, Au |
goldbeater | (noun) an artisan who beats gold into gold leaf | Synonyms: gold-beater |
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goldbrick | (noun) anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless | - |
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(noun) a brick-shaped block that looks like gold but is not | - |
(noun) an idle worthless person | Synonyms: good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goof-off, ne'er-do-well, no-account |
(noun) a soldier who performs his duties without proper care or effort | - |
goldbricking | (noun) the evasion of work or duty | Synonyms: goofing off, shirking, slacking, soldiering |
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goldcrest | (noun) European kinglet with a black-bordered yellow crown patch | Synonyms: golden-crested kinglet, Regulus regulus |
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goldcup | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus | Synonyms: butter-flower, buttercup, butterflower, crowfoot, kingcup |
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goldenbush | (noun) a plant of the genus Haplopappus | - |
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(noun) any of various much-branched yellow-flowered shrubs of the genus Chrysothamnus; western North America | - |
goldeneye | (noun) large-headed swift-flying diving duck of Arctic regions | Synonyms: Bucephela clangula, whistler |
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(noun) a variety of green lacewing | Synonyms: golden-eyed fly |
goldenrod | (noun) any of numerous chiefly summer-blooming and fall-blooming North American plants especially of the genus Solidago | - |
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goldenseal | (noun) perennial herb of northeastern United States having a thick knotted yellow rootstock and large rounded leaves | Synonyms: golden seal, Hydrastis Canadensis, turmeric root, yellow root |
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goldfield | (noun) a district where gold is mined | - |
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goldfields | (noun) small slender woolly annual with very narrow opposite leaves and branches bearing solitary golden-yellow flower heads; southwestern Oregon to Baja California and Arizona; often cultivated | Synonyms: Lasthenia chrysostoma |
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goldfinch | (noun) small European finch having a crimson face and yellow-and-black wings | Synonyms: Carduelis carduelis |
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(noun) American finch whose male has yellow body plumage in summer | Synonyms: New World goldfinch, Spinus tristis, yellowbird |
goldfish | (noun) small golden or orange-red freshwater fishes of Eurasia used as pond or aquarium fishes | Synonyms: Carassius auratus |
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goldilocks | (noun) early-flowering perennial of southern and southeastern Europe with flower heads resembling those of goldenrod | Synonyms: Aster linosyris, goldilocks aster, Linosyris vulgaris |
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goldmine | (noun) a mine where gold ore is found | Synonyms: gold mine |
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(noun) a good source of something that is desired | Synonyms: gold mine |
goldsmith | (noun) an artisan who makes jewelry and other objects out of gold | Synonyms: gold-worker, goldworker |
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goldsmithery | (noun) the work, art, or trade of a one who makes or deals in articles of gold. | - |
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goldstone | (noun) aventurine spangled densely with fine gold-colored particles | - |
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goldthread | (noun) low-growing perennial of North America woodlands having trifoliate leaves and yellow rootstock and white flowers | Synonyms: Coptis groenlandica, Coptis trifolia groenlandica, golden thread |
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goldworker | (noun) an artisan who makes jewelry and other objects out of gold | Synonyms: gold-worker, goldsmith |
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golem | (noun) a mechanism that can move automatically | Synonyms: automaton, robot |
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(noun) (Jewish folklore) an artificially created human being that is given life by supernatural means | - |
golf | (noun) a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes | Synonyms: golf game |
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golfcart | (noun) a small motor vehicle in which golfers can ride between shots | Synonyms: golf cart |
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golfclub | (noun) golf equipment used by a golfer to hit a golf ball | Synonyms: club, golf-club, golf club |
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golfer | (noun) someone who plays the game of golf | Synonyms: golf player, linksman |
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golfing | (noun) playing golf | - |
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goliard | (noun) a wandering scholar in medieval Europe; famed for intemperance and riotous behavior and the composition of satirical and ribald Latin songs | - |
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goliath | (noun) someone that is abnormally large and powerful | Synonyms: behemoth, colossus, giant, monster |
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golliwog | (noun) a grotesque black doll | Synonyms: golliwogg |
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golliwogg | (noun) a grotesque black doll | Synonyms: golliwog |
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golosh | (noun) a waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow | Synonyms: arctic, galosh, gumshoe, rubber |
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gomphothere | (noun) extinct elephants of Central American and South America; of the Miocene and Pleistocene | - |
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gomuti | (noun) Malaysian feather palm with base densely clothed with fibers; yields a sweet sap used in wine and trunk pith yields sago | Synonyms: Arenga pinnata, gomuti palm, sugar palm |
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gonad | (noun) a gland in which gametes (sex cells) are produced | Synonyms: sex gland |
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gonadotrophin | (noun) hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland and placenta; stimulates the gonads and controls reproductive activity | Synonyms: gonadotrophic hormone, gonadotropic hormone, gonadotropin |
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gonadotropin | (noun) hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland and placenta; stimulates the gonads and controls reproductive activity | Synonyms: gonadotrophic hormone, gonadotrophin, gonadotropic hormone |
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gondola | (noun) long narrow flat-bottomed boat propelled by sculling; traditionally used on canals of Venice | - |
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(noun) a low flat-bottomed freight car with fixed sides but no roof | Synonyms: gondola car |
(noun) the compartment that is suspended from an airship and that carries personnel and the cargo and the power plant | Synonyms: car |
gondolier | (noun) a (Venetian) boatman who propels a gondola | Synonyms: gondoliere |
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gondoliere | (noun) a (Venetian) boatman who propels a gondola | Synonyms: gondolier |
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goner | (noun) a person in desperate straits; someone doomed | Synonyms: toast |
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gong | (noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a metal plate that is struck with a softheaded drumstick | Synonyms: tam-tam |
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(noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument | Synonyms: bell, chime |
gonif | (noun) (Yiddish) a thief or dishonest person or scoundrel (often used as a general term of abuse) | Synonyms: ganef, ganof, goniff |
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goniff | (noun) (Yiddish) a thief or dishonest person or scoundrel (often used as a general term of abuse) | Synonyms: ganef, ganof, gonif |
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goniometer | (noun) direction finder that determines the angular direction of incoming radio signals | - |
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gonion | (noun) the craniometric point on either side at the apex of the lower jaw | - |
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gonioscopy | (noun) an examination of the front part of the eye to check the angle where the iris meets the cornea; it is used to distinguish between open-angle glaucoma and closed-angle glaucoma | - |
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gonococcus | (noun) the pus-producing bacterium that causes gonorrhea | Synonyms: Neisseria gonorrhoeae |
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gonorrhea | (noun) a common venereal disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae; symptoms are painful urination and pain around the urethra | Synonyms: clap, gonorrhoea |
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gonorrhoea | (noun) a common venereal disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae; symptoms are painful urination and pain around the urethra | Synonyms: clap, gonorrhea |
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goo | (noun) any thick, viscous matter | Synonyms: gook, goop, guck, gunk, muck, ooze, slime, sludge |
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goober | (noun) pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms | Synonyms: earthnut, goober pea, groundnut, monkey nut, peanut |
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