Sod is grass and the part of the soil beneath it held together by the roots.

Sod or SOD may also refer to:

Language

• English colloquial word "sod" originally derived from Sodomite

• Arabic letter ṣād

Science

• Superoxide dismutase (SOD), a group of antioxidant enzymes

• Small Outline Diode (SOD), an integrated circuit packaging type

• Septo-optic dysplasia (SOD), a congenital malformation syndrome of the optic nerve

• Sphincter of Oddi dysfunction (SOD), a digestive condition pertaining to the sphincter muscle of Oddi

• Sudden oak death (SOD), caused by Phytophthora ramorum

Entertainment

• Soft On Demand (SOD), a Japanese porn company

Spear of Destiny (SOD), episode of video game Wolfenstein 3D

• SOD, a video game art mod by Jodi (art collective)

• Stormtroopers of Death (S.O.D.), a New York crossover thrash band

• S.O.D. - The Epic Years, a 1987 compilation album by Spear of Destiny (band)

• S.O.D., mixtape by Tony Yayo (2008)

• Season of Discovery in the game World of Warcraft

Other abbreviations

• Separation of duties, or segregation of duties, for fraud and error prevention

• Scream Or Dance, an Indonesian Halloween-themed electronic dance music festival

• Shannon-One-Design, a class of sailing dinghy

• Special Operations Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration

• Systems-oriented design

• Screen of death, informal term for a critical operating system error (e.g. blue screen of death – BSOD)

Other uses

• Sod Ryan (1905–1964), American football player

• Sod, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in northeastern Lincoln County, West Virginia, United States

• Sod, a type of Pardes (Jewish exegesis)

See also

• Sods (disambiguation)

• Sod's law, UK: if something can go wrong, it will

• How to Be a Little Sod, book by Simon Brett