Phrase Hound found 67 phrases and 38 compound words that contain rods. The most common are listed below. Open rods in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 67
- ride the rodsTo travel illicitly by clinging to the supporting rods under a freight train.
- connecting rodsplural of connecting rod: A rod, inside a reciprocating engine, that connects a piston to the crankshaft.
- control rodsplural of control rod: Any of a number of steel tubes, containing boron or other neutron absorber, that are inserted into the core of a nuclear reactor in order to control its rate of reaction.
- counting rodsplural of counting rod: One of a set of small bars, used by mathematicians in some Asian countries, placed either horizontally or vertically to represent any number and any fraction.
- coupling rodsplural of coupling rod: A rod that couples the driving wheels of a locomotive, a steam locomotive in particular, so that the driving wheels act together as a unit.
- curtain rodsplural of curtain rod: A rod used to hang a curtain, typically by using curtain rings.
- flying rodsplural of flying rod: A linear phenomenon caught on camera but not seen by the eye, suggested to be flying insects, cryptids, or invisible UFOs.
- hot rodsplural of hot rod: Typically a passenger vehicle modified to run and/or accelerate faster. The term may be used generically to apply to any car, truck, or motorcycle (et al.) modified for increased speed and/or performance. It may also be …
- lightning rodsplural of lightning rod: A metallic conductor that is attached to a high point of a building and leads to the ground to protect the building from damage by lightning.
- measuring rodsplural of measuring rod: A graduated staff, typically having alternate black and white sections, used (along with a theodolite) in surveying
- range rodsplural of range rod: A rod or pole, marked with alternating red and white bands, used by surveyors for sighting
- ranging rodsplural of ranging rod: A rod or pole, marked with alternating red and white bands, used by surveyors for sighting
- rat rodsplural of rat rod: A style of hot rod or custom car that imitates or exaggerates the hot rods of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. It is distinct from the "traditional" hot rod, which is an accurate re-creation or period-correct restoration of …
- riding the rodspresent participle and gerund of ride the rods
- rode the rodssimple past of ride the rods
- dowsing rodsplural of dowsing rod: Rod used for dowsing, a technique of divination used to locate subterranean sources of water, metal, other mineral resources or even various other things through magic, or according to many believers a natural …
- Auer rodsplural of Auer rod: clumps of azurophilic granular material that typically form elongated needles seen in the cytoplasm of myeloid leukemic blast cells.
- divining rodsplural of divining rod: Rod used for dowsing, a technique of divination used to locate subterranean sources of water, metal, other mineral resources or even various other things through magic, or according to many believers a natural …
- Cuisenaire rodsplural of Cuisenaire rod: Any of a set of coloured rods of different sizes used to teach elementary-school mathematics.
- Napier's rodsNapier's bones
- Black Rodsplural of Black Rod: Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod.
- carpet rodsplural of carpet rod: Any of a number of metallic rods for holding a stair carpet in place.
- cleaning rodsplural of cleaning rod: A firearm maintenance tool used to clean the inside (bore) of a gun's barrel.
- con rodsplural of con rod: Alternative form of conrod, abbreviation of connecting rod.
- draw rodsplural of draw rod: The horizontal bar along which curtains run, allowing them to be opened and closed.
Compound words 38
- Harrodsplural of Harrod: A male given name.
- pushrodsplural of pushrod: A rigid reciprocating rod that, by its movement, transmits force to actuate a mechanism.
- nanorodsplural of nanorod: A nanosized rod.
- hotrodsplural of hotrod: Typically a passenger vehicle modified to run and/or accelerate faster. The term may be used generically to apply to any car, truck, or motorcycle (et al.) modified for increased speed and/or performance. It may also be …
- Nimrodsplural of Nimrod: A foolish person; an idiot.
- axlerodsplural of axlerod: A bar or beam of wood or iron, connecting the opposite wheels of a carriage, on the ends of which the wheels revolve.
- conrodsplural of conrod: A rod, inside a reciprocating engine, that connects a piston to the crankshaft.
- Coonrodsplural of Coonrod: A Dutch-American surname from Dutch [in turn originating as a patronymic], anglicized from Dutch Coenraad, Koenraadt.
- drawrodsplural of drawrod: The horizontal bar along which curtains run, allowing them to be opened and closed.
- emerodsplural of emerod: A haemorrhoid; an affliction mentioned in the Bible usually interpreted as a haemorrhoid.