13-letter words containing od
- hypophloeodal — living or growing beneath bark, as insect larvae.
- in cold blood — the fluid that circulates in the principal vascular system of human beings and other vertebrates, in humans consisting of plasma in which the red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets are suspended.
- in god's name — If someone uses such expressions as what in God's name, why in God's name, or how in God's name, they are emphasizing how angry, annoyed, or surprised they are.
- in good faith — accordance with standards of honesty, trust, sincerity, etc. (usually preceded by in): If you act in good faith, he'll have no reason to question your motives.
- in good hands — in protective care
- in good order — If something is in good order, it is in good condition.
- in good shape — person: fit, healthy
- in moderation — not to excess
- incommodities — Plural form of incommodity.
- inner product — Also called dot product, scalar product. the quantity obtained by multiplying the corresponding coordinates of each of two vectors and adding the products, equal to the product of the magnitudes of the vectors and the cosine of the angle between them.
- inodorousness — the quality of being inodorous
- intermodalism — pertaining to or suitable for transportation involving more than one form of carrier, as truck and rail, or truck, ship, and rail.
- introducement — (obsolete) introduction.
- introductions — Plural form of introduction.
- isodimorphism — isomorphism between the forms of two dimorphous substances.
- isodrosotherm — a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having an equal dew point.
- jimmy woodser — a man who drinks by himself
- jodhpuri coat — a coat worn by men in India, similar to but shorter than a sherwani
- joint custody — custody, as of a child whose parents are separated, in which two or more people share responsibility.
- kangaroo code — spaghetti code
- kenwood house — a 17th-century mansion on Hampstead Heath in London: remodelled and decorated by Robert Adam: contains the Iveagh bequest, a noted art collection
- knock on wood — the hard, fibrous substance composing most of the stem and branches of a tree or shrub, and lying beneath the bark; the xylem.
- komodo dragon — the largest monitor lizard, Varanus komodoensis, of Komodo and other East Indian islands: grows to a length of 3 m (about 10 ft) and a weight of 135 kilograms (about 300 lbs.)
- lamaze method — a method by which an expectant mother is prepared for childbirth by education, psychological and physical conditioning, and breathing exercises.
- language code — (human language, standard) A set of standard names and abbreviations maintained by ISO for identifying human languages, natural and invented, past and present. Each language has a list of English and French names and an ISO 639-2 three-letter code. Some also have an ISO 639-1 two-letter code. The list even includes the Klingon language from the Star Trek science fiction series. There are also country codes.
- latent period — Also, latency period. Pathology. the interval between exposure to a carcinogen, toxin, or disease-causing organism and development of a consequent disease.
- leather goods — products made of animal skin
- leucodepleted — of or denoting blood from which the white cells have been removed
- levelling rod — a graduated rod that is used to determine differences in elevation
- lightning rod — a rodlike conductor installed to divert lightning away from a structure by providing a direct path to the ground.
- lines of code — (programming, unit) (LOC) A common measure of the size or progress of a programming project. For example, one can describe a completed project as consisting of 100,000 LOC; or one can characterise a week's progress as 5000 LOC. Using LOC as a metric of progress encourages programmers to reinvent the wheel or split their code into lots of short lines.
- lipodystrophy — A disorder characterized by abnormal or degenerative conditions of the body's adipose tissue.
- lockwood home — a house built of timber planks that lock together without the use of nails
- lodging house — a house in which rooms are rented, especially a house other than an inn or hotel; rooming house.
- macrodiagonal — the longer of two diagonals
- macrodynamics — Large-scale dynamics.
- magnetic wood — wood containing fine particles of nickel-zinc ferrite which absorb microwave radio signals, used to line rooms where mobile phone use is undesirable
- mail exploder — (messaging) Part of an electronic mail delivery system which allows a message to be delivered to a list of addresses. Mail exploders are used to implement mailing lists. Users send messages to a single address and the mail exploder takes care of delivery to the individual mailboxes in the list.
- material mode — the normal use of language that refers to extra-linguistic subjects without explicit mention of the words themselves. Fido is a dog is in the material mode, while "Fido" is a dog's name is in the formal mode
- maxillodental — Relating to the jaw and teeth.
- measuring rod — ruler, gauge, stick for measuring
- meat products — foods that consist of or contain meat
- melodiousness — The property of being melodious.
- melodramatics — Melodramatic behavior, action, or writing.
- melodramatist — A writer of melodramas.
- melodramatize — to make melodramatic.
- method acting — film, theater: acting approach
- methodistical — Methodistic.
- methodization — The act or process of methodizing, or the state of being methodized.
- methodologies — a set or system of methods, principles, and rules for regulating a given discipline, as in the arts or sciences.