| lingcod | (noun) food fish of the northern Pacific related to greenlings | Synonyms: Ophiodon elongatus |
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| (noun) the lean flesh of a fish caught off the Pacific coast of the United States | - |
| livelihood | (noun) the financial means whereby one lives | Synonyms: bread and butter, keep, living, support, sustenance |
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| logwood | (noun) spiny shrub or small tree of Central America and West Indies having bipinnate leaves and racemes of small bright yellow flowers and yielding a hard brown or brownish-red heartwood used in preparing a black dye | Synonyms: bloodwood tree, campeachy, Haematoxylum campechianum, logwood tree |
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| (noun) very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree; used in preparing a purplish red dye | - |
| lycopod | (noun) primitive evergreen moss-like plant with spores in club-shaped strobiles | Synonyms: club-moss, club moss |
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| maidenhood | (noun) the childhood of a girl | Synonyms: girlhood, maidhood |
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| maidhood | (noun) the childhood of a girl | Synonyms: girlhood, maidenhood |
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| manhood | (noun) the status of being a man | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being human | Synonyms: humanity, humanness |
| (noun) the state of being a man; manly qualities | - |
| marblewood | (noun) large Asiatic tree having hard marbled zebrawood | Synonyms: Andaman marble, Diospyros kurzii, marble-wood |
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| (noun) hard marbled wood | Synonyms: marble-wood |
| matchwood | (noun) fragments of wood | - |
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| (noun) wood suitable for making matchsticks | - |
| (noun) wood in small pieces or splinters | Synonyms: splinters |
| method | (noun) an acting technique introduced by Stanislavsky in which the actor recalls emotions or reactions from his or her own life and uses them to identify with the character being portrayed | Synonyms: method acting |
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| (noun) a way of doing something, especially a systematic way; implies an orderly logical arrangement (usually in steps) | - |
| mod | (noun) a British teenager or young adult in the 1960s; noted for their clothes consciousness and opposition to the rockers | - |
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| monkeypod | (noun) large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and seed pods that are eaten by cattle | Synonyms: Albizia saman, monkey pod, rain tree, saman, zaman, zamang |
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| monkhood | (noun) monks collectively, considered as a group. | - |
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| monkshood | (noun) a poisonous herb native to northern Europe having hooded blue-purple flowers; the dried leaves and roots yield aconite | Synonyms: Aconitum napellus, helmet flower, helmetflower |
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| mood | (noun) a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling | Synonyms: humor, humour, temper |
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| (noun) verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker | Synonyms: modality, mode |
| (noun) the prevailing psychological state | Synonyms: climate |
| moosewood | (noun) deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Dirca palustris, leatherwood, moose-wood, ropebark, wicopy |
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| (noun) maple of eastern North America with striped bark and large two-lobed leaves clear yellow in autumn | Synonyms: Acer pennsylvanicum, goosefoot maple, moose-wood, striped dogwood, striped maple |
| motherhood | (noun) the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother | Synonyms: maternity |
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| muskwood | (noun) musk-scented shrub or tree of southern and southeastern Australia having creamy-yellow flower heads | Synonyms: Olearia argophylla |
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| myriapod | (noun) general term for any terrestrial arthropod having an elongated body composed of many similar segments: e.g. centipedes and millipedes | - |
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| nailrod | (noun) tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down; its long flat leaves are used for making mats and chair seats; of North America, Europe, Asia and North Africa | Synonyms: bullrush, bulrush, cat's-tail, reed mace, reedmace, Typha latifolia |
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| nakedwood | (noun) tree of extreme southern Florida and West Indies having thin scaly bark and aromatic fruits and seeds and yielding hard heavy close-grained zebrawood | Synonyms: Eugenia dicrana |
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| (noun) any of several small to medium-sized trees of Florida and West Indies with thin scaly bark and heavy dark heartwood | - |
| nationhood | (noun) the state of being a nation | - |
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| needlewood | (noun) large bushy shrub with pungent pointed leaves and creamy white flowers; central and eastern Australia | Synonyms: Hakea leucoptera, needle-wood, needle wood |
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| neighborhood | (noun) people living near one another | Synonyms: neighbourhood |
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| (noun) a surrounding or nearby region | Synonyms: locality, neck of the woods, neighbourhood, vicinity |
| (noun) an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community) | - |
| (noun) the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of') | Synonyms: region |
| neighbourhood | (noun) people living near one another | Synonyms: neighborhood |
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| (noun) a surrounding or nearby region | Synonyms: locality, neck of the woods, neighborhood, vicinity |
| nod | (noun) the act of nodding the head | - |
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| (noun) a sign of assent or salutation or command | - |
| octopod | (noun) a cephalopod with eight arms but lacking an internal shell | - |
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| orangewood | (noun) fine-grained wood of an orange tree; used in fine woodwork | - |
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| ornithopod | (noun) bipedal herbivorous dinosaur | Synonyms: ornithopod dinosaur |
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| orphanhood | (noun) the condition of being a child without living parents | Synonyms: orphanage |
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| ostracod | (noun) tiny marine and freshwater crustaceans with a shrimp-like body enclosed in a bivalve shell | Synonyms: mussel shrimp, seed shrimp |
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| parenthood | (noun) the state of being a parent | Synonyms: parentage |
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| peachwood | (noun) tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry | Synonyms: brazilwood, Caesalpinia echinata, peach-wood, pernambuco wood |
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| peasanthood | (noun) the state of being a peasant | - |
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| peasecod | (noun) husk of a pea; edible in some garden peas | Synonyms: pea pod |
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| peckerwood | (noun) bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects | Synonyms: pecker, woodpecker |
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| pedwood | (noun) European deciduous shrub turning red in autumn having dull white flowers | Synonyms: blood-twig, common European dogwood, Cornus sanguinea, red dogwood |
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| pelecypod | (noun) marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together | Synonyms: bivalve, lamellibranch |
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| pepperwood | (noun) Pacific coast tree having aromatic foliage and small umbellate flowers followed by olivelike fruit; yields a hard tough wood | Synonyms: California bay tree, California laurel, California olive, mountain laurel, Oregon myrtle, sassafras laurel, spice tree, Umbellularia californica |
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| period | (noun) a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations | Synonyms: full point, full stop, point, stop |
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| (noun) the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause | Synonyms: catamenia, flow, menses, menstruation, menstruum |
| (noun) an amount of time | Synonyms: period of time, time period |
| (noun) the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon | - |
| (noun) a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed | Synonyms: geological period |
| (noun) the end or completion of something | - |
| (noun) (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games | - |
| personhood | (noun) being a person | - |
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| petfood | (noun) food prepared for animal pets | Synonyms: pet-food, pet food |
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| photoflood | (noun) light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography | Synonyms: flood, flood lamp, floodlight |
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| pleopod | (noun) one of the paired abdominal appendages of certain aquatic crustaceans that function primarily for carrying the eggs in females and are usually adapted for swimming | Synonyms: swimmeret |
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| plod | (noun) the act of walking with a slow heavy gait | Synonyms: plodding |
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| plywood | (noun) a laminate made of thin layers of wood | Synonyms: plyboard |
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| pod | (noun) a detachable container of fuel on an airplane | Synonyms: fuel pod |
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| (noun) a group of aquatic mammals | - |
| (noun) a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant | Synonyms: seedpod |
| (noun) the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves) | Synonyms: cod, seedcase |
| pood | (noun) a Russian unit of weight equal to approximately 36 pounds | - |
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| possumwood | (noun) medium-sized tree of dry woodlands in the southern and eastern United States bearing yellow or orange very astringent fruit that is edible when fully ripe | Synonyms: American persimmon, Diospyros virginiana |
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| priesthood | (noun) the body of ordained religious practitioners | - |
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| princewood | (noun) tropical American timber tree | Synonyms: Cordia gerascanthus, Spanish elm |
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| (noun) large tropical American tree of the genus Cordia grown for its abundant creamy white flowers and valuable wood | Synonyms: Cordia alliodora, cypre, Equador laurel, salmwood, Spanish elm |
| prod | (noun) a pointed instrument that is used to prod into a state of motion | Synonyms: goad |
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| (noun) a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something | Synonyms: goad, goading, prodding, spur, spurring, urging |
| pseudopod | (noun) temporary outgrowth used by some microorganisms as an organ of feeding or locomotion | Synonyms: pseudopodium |
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| pulpwood | (noun) softwood used to make paper | - |
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| pureblood | (noun) a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses | Synonyms: purebred, thoroughbred |
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| rabbitwood | (noun) shrub of southeastern United States parasitic on roots of hemlocks having sparse spikes of greenish flowers and pulpy drupes | Synonyms: buffalo nut, Pyrularia pubera |
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| ramrod | (noun) a rod used to ram the charge into a muzzle-loading firearm | - |
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| (noun) a rod used to clean the barrel of a firearm | - |
| (noun) a harshly demanding overseer | - |
| redwood | (noun) the soft reddish wood of either of two species of sequoia trees | - |
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| (noun) either of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a height of 300 feet; sometimes placed in the Taxodiaceae | Synonyms: sequoia |
| (noun) wood of either of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a height of 300 feet; sometimes placed in the Taxodiaceae | Synonyms: sequoia |
| rhizopod | (noun) protozoa characterized by a pseudopod | Synonyms: rhizopodan |
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| ribbonwood | (noun) small tree or shrub of New Zealand having a profusion of axillary clusters of honey-scented paper-white flowers and whose bark is used for cordage | Synonyms: Hoheria populnea, houhere, lacebark |
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| (noun) deciduous New Zealand tree whose inner bark yields a strong fiber that resembles flax and is called New Zealand cotton | Synonyms: Plagianthus betulinus, Plagianthus regius, ribbon tree |
| rod | (noun) any rod-shaped bacterium | - |
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| (noun) a long thin implement made of metal or wood | - |
| (noun) a gangster's pistol | Synonyms: gat |
| (noun) a visual receptor cell that is sensitive to dim light | Synonyms: retinal rod, rod cell |
| (noun) a linear measure of 16.5 feet | Synonyms: perch, pole |
| (noun) a square rod of land | Synonyms: perch, pole |
| rood | (noun) representation of the cross on which Jesus died | Synonyms: crucifix, rood-tree |
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| rosewood | (noun) any of those hardwood trees of the genus Dalbergia that yield rosewood--valuable cabinet woods of a dark red or purplish color streaked and variegated with black | Synonyms: rosewood tree |
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| (noun) hard dark reddish wood of a rosewood tree having a strongly marked grain; used in cabinetwork | - |
| sainthood | (noun) the status and dignity of a saint | - |
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| (noun) saints collectively | - |
| salmwood | (noun) large tropical American tree of the genus Cordia grown for its abundant creamy white flowers and valuable wood | Synonyms: Cordia alliodora, cypre, Equador laurel, princewood, Spanish elm |
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| sandalwood | (noun) close-grained fragrant yellowish heartwood of the true sandalwood; has insect repelling properties and is used for carving and cabinetwork | - |
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| sapwood | (noun) newly formed outer wood lying between the cambium and the heartwood of a tree or woody plant; usually light colored; active in water conduction | - |
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| satinpod | (noun) southeastern European plant cultivated for its fragrant purplish flowers and round flat papery silver-white seedpods that are used for indoor decoration | Synonyms: honesty, Lunaria annua, money plant, satin flower, silver dollar |
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| satinwood | (noun) East Indian tree with valuable hard lustrous yellowish wood | Synonyms: Chloroxylon swietenia, satinwood tree |
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| (noun) West Indian tree with smooth lustrous and slightly oily wood | Synonyms: West Indian satinwood, Zanthoxylum flavum |
| (noun) hard yellowish wood of a satinwood tree having a satiny luster; used for fine cabinetwork and tools | - |
| sauropod | (noun) very large herbivorous dinosaur of the Jurassic and Cretaceous having a small head on a long neck and tail and five-toed limbs; largest known land animal | Synonyms: sauropod dinosaur |
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| scaphopod | (noun) burrowing marine mollusk | - |
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| scattergood | (noun) someone who spends money prodigally | Synonyms: spend-all, spender, spendthrift |
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| schrod | (noun) young Atlantic cod or haddock especially one split and boned for cooking | Synonyms: scrod |
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| (noun) flesh of young Atlantic cod weighing up to 2 pounds; also young haddock and pollock; often broiled | Synonyms: scrod |
| scrod | (noun) young Atlantic cod or haddock especially one split and boned for cooking | Synonyms: schrod |
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| (noun) flesh of young Atlantic cod weighing up to 2 pounds; also young haddock and pollock; often broiled | Synonyms: schrod |
| seafood | (noun) edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc | - |
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| seedpod | (noun) a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant | Synonyms: pod |
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| serfhood | (noun) the state of a serf | Synonyms: serfdom, vassalage |
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| shittimwood | (noun) wood of the shittah tree used to make the ark of the Hebrew Tabernacle | - |
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| (noun) deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa, chittamwood, chittimwood, false buckthorn |
| (noun) shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit | Synonyms: Bumelia lycioides, mock orange, shittim, southern buckthorn |
| sicklepod | (noun) North American rock cress having very long curved pods | Synonyms: Arabis Canadensis |
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| (noun) cosmopolitan tropical herb or subshrub with yellow flowers and slender curved pods; a weed; sometimes placed in genus Cassia | Synonyms: Cassia tora, Senna obtusifolia |
| silkwood | (noun) a fast-growing tropical American evergreen having white flowers and fleshy edible fruit; a bark yields a silky fiber used in cordage and wood is valuable for staves | Synonyms: calabur tree, calabura, Jamaican cherry, Muntingia calabura, silk wood |
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| silverrod | (noun) plant of eastern North America having creamy white flowers | Synonyms: Solidago bicolor |
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| sisterhood | (noun) a religious society of women who live together as sisters (especially an order of nuns) | - |
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| (noun) an association or society of women who are linked together by a common religion or trade or interest | Synonyms: sistership |
| (noun) the kinship relation between a female offspring and the siblings | Synonyms: sistership |
| snakewood | (noun) East Indian climbing shrub with twisted limbs and roots resembling serpents | Synonyms: Rauwolfia serpentina |
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| snood | (noun) an ornamental net in the shape of a bag that confines a woman's hair; pins or ties at the back of the head | - |
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| sod | (noun) surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots | Synonyms: greensward, sward, turf |
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| (noun) someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male) | Synonyms: bugger, sodomist, sodomite |
| (noun) an informal term for a youth or man | Synonyms: bozo, cat, guy, hombre |
| softwood | (noun) wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir) | Synonyms: deal |
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| sourwood | (noun) deciduous shrubby tree of eastern North America having deeply fissured bark and sprays of small fragrant white flowers and sour-tasting leaves | Synonyms: Oxydendrum arboreum, sorrel tree, titi |
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| southernwood | (noun) shrubby European wormwood naturalized in North America; sometimes used in brewing beer | Synonyms: Artemisia abrotanum |
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| spinsterhood | (noun) the state of being a spinster (usually an elderly unmarried woman) | - |
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| stomatopod | (noun) a kind of crustacean | Synonyms: stomatopod crustacean |
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| superfood | (noun) a food with health benefits | - |
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| synod | (noun) a council convened to discuss ecclesiastical business | - |
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| tarwood | (noun) New Zealand shrub | Synonyms: Dacrydium bidwilli, Halocarpus bidwilli, New Zealand mountain pine, tar-wood |
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| (noun) New Zealand silver pine of conical habit with long slender flexuous branches; adapted to cold wet summers and high altitudes | Synonyms: Dacrydium colensoi, tar-wood |
| teakwood | (noun) hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees; resistant to insects and to warping; used for furniture and in shipbuilding | Synonyms: teak |
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| tetrapod | (noun) a vertebrate animal having four feet or legs or leglike appendages | - |
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| theropod | (noun) any of numerous carnivorous dinosaurs of the Triassic to Cretaceous with short forelimbs that walked or ran on strong hind legs | Synonyms: bird-footed dinosaur, theropod dinosaur |
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| tod | (noun) a unit of weight for wool equal to about 28 pounds | - |
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| touchwood | (noun) material for starting a fire | Synonyms: kindling, punk, spunk, tinder |
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| tripod | (noun) a three-legged rack used for support | - |
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| trumpetwood | (noun) tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems | Synonyms: Cecropia peltata, imbauba, snake wood, trumpet-wood, trumpet tree |
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