Yod or YOD may refer to: Language Yod (sound), the /j/ glide—as in the English word you'''s initial phoneme Yodh, the tenth letter of many Semitic alphabets People Father Yod (1922–1975), American esoteric spiritual leader and restaurateur Leslie Daiken (1912–1964; nicknamed Yod), Irish writer, editor and activist Other uses Yod (astrology), an aspect formation CFB Cold Lake, a Royal Canadian Air Force base in Alberta (IATA code: YOD) Year of the Dolphin, a 2007 United Nations Environment Programme observance Yods, characters in the 1999 Outcast'' video game See also Yad, the Jewish religious pointing device Ecstatic yod, a record label run by music critic Byron Coley Yod-dropping and yod-coalescence, sound changes in English