8-letter words containing od
- jodhpurs — Also called Marwar. a former state in NW India, now in Rajasthan.
- joe code — /joh' kohd"/ 1. Code that is overly tense and unmaintainable. "Perl may be a handy program, but if you look at the source, it's complete joe code." 2. Badly written, possibly buggy code. Correspondents wishing to remain anonymous have fingered a particular Joe at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and observed that usage has drifted slightly; the original sobriquet "Joe code" was intended in sense 1.
- kaboodle — Alternative spelling of caboodle.
- kentwood — a city in W Michigan.
- keratode — the horny, fibrous substance forming the skeleton of certain sponges.
- kinghood — the state of being king; kingship.
- kingwood — a Brazilian wood streaked with violet tints, used especially in cabinetwork.
- kirkwood — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- kiyoodle — a worthless dog; mongrel.
- lacewood — the quartersawed wood of the sycamore tree.
- ladyhood — The quality or state of being a lady or ladylike.
- lakewood — a city in central Colorado, near Denver.
- lancepod — any tropical, leguminous tree or shrub of the genus Lonchocarpus, the roots of which yield rotenone.
- laodamas — a son of Eteocles who defended Thebes against the Epigoni, killed Aegialeus, and was killed by Alcmaeon.
- laodamia — a daughter of Acastus who committed suicide so that she could join her husband, Protesilaus, in the underworld.
- laodicea — ancient name of Latakia.
- latewood — Wood formed in a tree relatively late in the season.
- levodopa — a synthetic substance, C 9 H 11 NO 4 , that is converted in the brain to dopamine: used chiefly in the treatment of parkinsonism.
- liaodong — a peninsula in NE China, extending S into the Yellow Sea.
- likehood — (obsolete) likelihood.
- limewood — the wood of a linden.
- lipiodol — A poppyseed oil used by injection as a radiopaque contrast agent.
- lobopods — Plural form of lobopod.
- lockwood — Belva Ann Bennett [bel-vuh] /ˈbɛl və/ (Show IPA), 1830–1917, U.S. lawyer and women's-rights activist.
- lodesman — a person who steers a ship
- lodestar — a star that shows the way.
- lodgeing — Obsolete form of lodging.
- lodgings — accommodation in a house, especially in rooms for rent: to furnish board and lodging.
- lodgment — the act of lodging.
- lodicule — one of the specialized scales at the base of the ovary of certain grass flowers.
- log-wood — a portion or length of the trunk or of a large limb of a felled tree.
- logwoods — Plural form of logwood.
- longwood — a city in central Florida.
- loxodont — having molar teeth with shallow depressions between the ridges.
- lygodium — (botany) Any of the genus Lygodium of climbing ferns.
- lynnwood — a city in NW Washington.
- macropod — A plant-eating marsupial mammal of an Australasian family that comprises the kangaroos and wallabies.
- maidhood — maidenhood.
- malodour — Alternative spelling of malodor.
- manucode — any of various birds of paradise of the New Guinea region, having dark, metallic plumage.
- mastodon — a massive, elephantlike mammal of the genus Mammut (Mastodon), that flourished worldwide from the Miocene through the Pleistocene epochs and, in North America, into recent times, having long, curved upper tusks and, in the male, short lower tusks.
- megapode — any of several large-footed, short-winged gallinaceous Australasian birds of the family Megapodiidae, typically building a compostlike mound of decaying vegetation as an incubator for their eggs.
- melodeon — a small reed organ.
- melodica — A wind instrument with a small keyboard controlling a row of reeds, and a mouthpiece at one end.
- melodics — the branch of musical science concerned with the pitch and succession of tones.
- melodies — a female given name.
- melodion — a small reed organ.
- melodise — to make melodious.
- melodist — a composer or a singer of melodies.
- melodize — to make melodious.