Nodus is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.
You can make 58 anagrams from letters in nodus (dnosu).
1350-1400; Middle English: knot in the flesh Latin nōdus knot
nodus: in Odonata; a stout, oblique, short vein at the place where the anterior margin of the wings is sometimes drawn in.
Hence Meninski explains it by nodus fimbriatus ex cauda seu crinibus equi maritimi.
Not yet did it occur to him to place himself at the nodus of discovery and possession.
If a man really understands it, a very few words will avail to explain the nodus.
Now surely were the time for a 'god from the machine;' there is a nodus worthy of one.
But this suggestion can scarcely be taken as more than an elaborate confession of inability to solve the nodus.
We are always for implicating Heaven in our quarrels, and causing the gods to intervene whatever the nodus may be.
The nodus of the action is fully given in chapter i., the final issue in chapter viii.
The nodus is cut; Tom is out of chancery; the Benicia Boy not a bit the worse, nay, better than if he had beaten the little man.
Under all roofs of this distracted City is the nodus of a Drama, not untragical, crowding toward solution.