9-letter words containing od
- lens hood — an extension piece fixed to a camera lens to shield it from a direct light source
- lifeblood — the blood, considered as essential to maintain life: to spill one's lifeblood in war.
- lightwood — Also called fatwood. kindling.
- lion food — (humour) (IBM) Middle management or HQ staff, or, by extension, administrative drones in general. The term derives from an old joke: Two lions escape from the zoo and split up to increase their chances. When they finally meet after two months, one is skinny and the other overweight. The thin one says, "How did you manage? I ate a human just once and they turned out a small army to chase me with guns and nets, it was terrible. Since then I've been reduced to eating mice, insects, even grass." The fat one replies: "Well, *I* hid near an IBM office and ate a manager every day. Nobody even noticed!"
- lodestars — Plural form of lodestar.
- lodestone — a variety of magnetite that possesses magnetic polarity and attracts iron.
- lodgeable — Capable of being lodged.
- lodgement — the act of lodging.
- lodgepole — A lodgepole pine or its wood.
- lodgments — Plural form of lodgment.
- lodicules — Plural form of lodicule.
- lollywood — the Pakistani film industry, based in Lahore
- lophodont — having molar teeth with crowns in the form of transverse ridges.
- loxodrome — rhumb line.
- lustihood — lustiness; vigor.
- macrocode — a single code that contains a set of instructions.
- macrodome — a dome the faces of which are parallel to the greater lateral axis.
- macrodont — the condition of having abnormally large teeth.
- macropods — Plural form of macropod.
- main body — the hull, as distinguished from the rest of a ship.
- make good — morally excellent; virtuous; righteous; pious: a good man.
- malodours — Plural form of malodour.
- maplewood — a city in SE Minnesota, near St. Paul.
- mastodons — Plural form of mastodon.
- mastodont — Mastodon.
- matchwood — wood suitable for match.
- megalodon — Any of a group of extinct sharks from the Oligocene to Pleistocene epochs.
- megapodes — Plural form of megapode.
- melampode — the black hellebore, Helleborus niger
- melodeons — Plural form of melodeon.
- melodious — of the nature of or characterized by melody; tuneful.
- melodists — Plural form of melodist.
- melodized — Simple past tense and past participle of melodize.
- melodizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of melodize.
- melodrama — a dramatic form that does not observe the laws of cause and effect and that exaggerates emotion and emphasizes plot or action at the expense of characterization.
- mesoderms — Plural form of mesoderm.
- methodism — the doctrines, polity, beliefs, and methods of worship of the Methodists.
- methodist — a member of the largest Christian denomination that grew out of the revival of religion led by John Wesley: stresses both personal and social morality and has an Arminian doctrine and, in the U.S., a modified episcopal polity.
- methodius — Saint (Apostle of the Slavs) a.d. c825–885, Greek missionary in Moravia (brother of Saint Cyril).
- methodize — to reduce (something) to a method.
- microbody — (cytology): A cellular organelle bound by a single membrane and containing enzymes.
- microcode — one or more microinstructions.
- microdata — (statistics) data concerning individuals in a trial, survey etc.
- microdont — abnormally small teeth.
- microdose — (medicine) A very low dose (especially of radiation therapy).
- microdots — Plural form of microdot.
- mimencode — (Originally distributed as "mmencode"). A replacement for uuencode for use in electronic mail and news. Part of MIME. uuencode uses characters that don"t translate well across all mail gateways (particularly those which convert between ASCII and EBCDIC). Also, different variants of uuencode encode data in different and incompatible ways, with no standard. Finally, few uuencode variants work well in a pipe. Mimencode implements the encodings which were defined for MIME as uuencode replacements, and should be considerably more robust for e-mail use. Written by Nathaniel S. Borenstein of Bell Communications Research, Inc. (Bellcore) in 1991.
- mind-body — taking into account the physiological, psychic, and spiritual connections between the state of the body and that of the mind: mind-body medicine.
- modafinil — A stimulant often used in the treatment of various sleep disorders, having the chemical formula C15H15NO2S.
- modelling — model