| buttonwood | (noun) very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico | Synonyms: American plane, American sycamore, Platanus occidentalis |
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| citronwood | (noun) wood of a citron tree | - |
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| (noun) durable fragrant wood; used in building (as in the roof of the cathedral at Cordova, Spain) | Synonyms: sandarac |
| commonweal | (noun) the good of a community | Synonyms: common good |
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| commonwealth | (noun) a politically organized body of people under a single government | Synonyms: body politic, country, land, nation, res publica, state |
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| (noun) a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them | Synonyms: democracy, republic |
| (noun) a world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another | - |
| (noun) the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico) | - |
| companionway | (noun) a stairway or ladder that leads from one deck to another on a ship | - |
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| cottonweed | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Froelichia found in sandy soils and on rocky slopes in warmer regions of America; grown for their spikes of woolly white flowers | - |
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| (noun) an American everlasting having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly white bracts | Synonyms: Anaphalis margaritacea, pearly everlasting |
| cottonwick | (noun) of warm Atlantic waters | Synonyms: Haemulon malanurum |
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| cottonwood | (noun) any of several North American trees of the genus Populus having a tuft of cottony hairs on the seed | - |
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| (noun) American basswood of the Allegheny region | Synonyms: Tilia heterophylla, white basswood |
| ironware | (noun) instrumentalities (tools or implements) made of metal | Synonyms: hardware |
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| ironweed | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Vernonia of tropical and warm regions of especially North America that take their name from their loose heads of purple to rose flowers that quickly take on a rusty hue | Synonyms: vernonia |
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| ironwood | (noun) a small slow-growing deciduous tree of northern Iran having a low domed shape | Synonyms: iron-tree, iron tree, ironwood tree |
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| (noun) medium-sized hop hornbeam of eastern North America | Synonyms: Eastern hop hornbeam, ironwood tree, Ostrya virginiana |
| (noun) handsome East Indian evergreen tree often planted as an ornamental for its fragrant white flowers that yield a perfume; source of very heavy hardwood used for railroad ties | Synonyms: ironwood tree, Mesua ferrea, rose chestnut |
| (noun) exceptionally tough or hard wood of any of a number of ironwood trees | - |
| ironwork | (noun) work made of iron (gratings or rails or railings etc) | - |
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| ironworker | (noun) a person who makes articles of iron | - |
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| ironworks | (noun) the workplace where iron is smelted or where iron goods are made | - |
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| jimsonweed | (noun) intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits | Synonyms: apple of Peru, common thorn apple, Datura stramonium, Jamestown weed, jimson weed |
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| lemonwood | (noun) South African evergreen having hard tough wood | Synonyms: lemon-wood, lemon-wood tree, lemonwood tree, Psychotria capensis |
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| (noun) hard tough elastic wood of the lemonwood tree; used for making bows and fishing rods | - |
| moonwalk | (noun) an exploratory walk by an astronaut on the surface of the moon | - |
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| (noun) a kind of dance step in which the dancer seems to be sliding on the spot | - |
| moonwort | (noun) of America and Eurasia and Australia | Synonyms: Botrychium lunaria, common moonwort |
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| nationwide | (adjective) occurring or extending throughout a country or nation | Synonyms: countrywide |
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| (adverb) extending throughout an entire nation | Synonyms: across the country, across the nation, nationally |
| nonwashable | (adjective) not washable | - |
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| nonwoody | (adjective) not woody; not consisting of or resembling wood | - |
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| nonworker | (noun) a person who does nothing | - |
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| onward | (adverb) forward in time or order or degree | Synonyms: forth, forward |
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| (adverb) in a forward direction | Synonyms: ahead, forrader, forward, forwards, onwards |
| onwards | (adverb) in a forward direction | Synonyms: ahead, forrader, forward, forwards, onward |
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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 |
| scorpionweed | (noun) any plant of the genus Phacelia | Synonyms: phacelia, scorpion weed |
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| waggonwright | (noun) a wagon maker | Synonyms: wagonwright, wainwright |
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| wagonwright | (noun) a wagon maker | Synonyms: waggonwright, wainwright |
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