You can call them ditransitive verbs, which are transitive verbs that accept two objects.
We gave George a puppy.
Alice gave Charles the rubbit.
In these examples, George and Charles are the indirect objects.
The same page makes a distinction between ditransitive verbs, and complex transitive verbs, which are verbs using two complements.
She considered George a friend.
Alice called Charlie amusing.
In the latter example, George is the direct object, and a friend is an object complement.
As far as I know, in English verbs don't take more than two objects.
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