| adulthood | (noun) the state (and responsibilities) of a person who has attained maturity | - |
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| (noun) the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed | Synonyms: maturity |
| allgood | (noun) European plant naturalized in North America; often collected from the wild as a potherb | Synonyms: Chenopodium bonus-henricus, fat hen, good-king-henry, wild spinach |
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| applewood | (noun) wood of any of various apple trees of the genus Malus | - |
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| babyhood | (noun) the earliest state of immaturity | Synonyms: infancy |
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| (noun) the early stage of growth or development | Synonyms: early childhood, infancy |
| bachelorhood | (noun) the state of being an unmarried man | - |
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| (noun) the time of a man's life prior to marriage | - |
| backwoods | (noun) a remote and undeveloped area | Synonyms: back country, boondocks, hinterland |
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| backwoodsman | (noun) a man who lives on the frontier | Synonyms: frontiersman, mountain man |
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| basswood | (noun) any of various deciduous trees of the genus Tilia with heart-shaped leaves and drooping cymose clusters of yellowish often fragrant flowers; several yield valuable timber | Synonyms: lime, lime tree, linden, linden tree |
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| (noun) soft light-colored wood of any of various linden trees; used in making crates and boxes and in carving and millwork | Synonyms: linden |
| bearwood | (noun) shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada | Synonyms: bearberry, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus |
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| beechwood | (noun) wood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and containers and plywood and tool handles | Synonyms: beech |
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| beefwood | (noun) a tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber | Synonyms: balata, balata tree, bully tree, Manilkara bidentata |
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| (noun) any of several Australian trees of the genus Casuarina yielding heavy hard red wood used in cabinetwork | - |
| (noun) tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood | Synonyms: Grevillea striata |
| (noun) tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers; yields hard heavy reddish wood | Synonyms: scrub beefwood, Stenocarpus salignus |
| (noun) any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae; some used for cabinetwork | - |
| bentwood | (noun) wood that is steamed until it becomes pliable and then is shaped for use in making furniture | - |
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| bitterwood | (noun) handsome South American shrub or small tree having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a valuable fine-grained yellowish wood; yields the bitter drug quassia from its wood and bark | Synonyms: quassia, Quassia amara |
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| (noun) West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia | Synonyms: Jamaica quassia, Picrasma excelsa, Picrasma excelsum |
| (noun) medium to large tree of tropical North and South America having odd-pinnate leaves and long panicles of small pale yellow flowers followed by scarlet fruits | Synonyms: paradise tree, Simarouba glauca |
| blackwood | (noun) any of several hardwood trees yielding very dark-colored wood | Synonyms: blackwood tree |
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| (noun) very dark wood of any of several blackwood trees | - |
| blood | (noun) temperament or disposition | - |
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| (noun) the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets | - |
| (noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock |
| (noun) people viewed as members of a group | - |
| (noun) a dissolute man in fashionable society | Synonyms: profligate, rake, rakehell, rip, roue |
| (verb) smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill | - |
| bloodbath | (noun) indiscriminate slaughter | Synonyms: battue, bloodletting, bloodshed |
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| bloodberry | (noun) bushy houseplant having white to pale pink flowers followed by racemes of scarlet berries; tropical Americas | Synonyms: blood berry, Rivina humilis, rouge plant, rougeberry |
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| bloodcurdling | (adjective) extremely alarming | Synonyms: hair-raising, nightmarish |
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| blooded | (adjective) of unmixed ancestry | Synonyms: full-blood, full-blooded |
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| bloodguilt | (noun) the state of being guilty of bloodshed and murder | - |
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| bloodguilty | (adjective) guilty of murder or bloodshed | - |
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| bloodhound | (noun) a breed of large powerful hound of European origin having very acute smell and used in tracking | Synonyms: sleuthhound |
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| bloodily | (adverb) involving a great bloodshed | - |
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| bloodiness | (noun) a disposition to shed blood | Synonyms: bloodthirstiness |
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| (noun) the state of being bloody | - |
| bloodleaf | (noun) any plant of the genus Iresine having colored foliage | - |
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| bloodless | (adjective) free from blood or bloodshed | - |
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| (adjective) anemic looking from illness or emotion | Synonyms: ashen, blanched, livid, white |
| (adjective) destitute of blood or apparently so | Synonyms: exsanguine, exsanguinous |
| (adjective) devoid of human emotion or feeling | - |
| (adjective) without vigor or zest or energy | - |
| bloodlessly | (adverb) without bloodshed; in a bloodless manner; without shedding blood | - |
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| bloodletting | (noun) formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine) | - |
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| (noun) indiscriminate slaughter | Synonyms: battue, bloodbath, bloodshed |
| bloodline | (noun) ancestry of a purebred animal | Synonyms: pedigree |
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| (noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock |
| bloodlust | (noun) a desire for bloodshed | - |
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| bloodmobile | (noun) a motor vehicle equipped to collect blood donations | - |
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| bloodroot | (noun) perennial woodland native of North America having a red root and red sap and bearing a solitary lobed leaf and white flower in early spring and having acrid emetic properties; rootstock used as a stimulant and expectorant | Synonyms: puccoon, redroot, Sanguinaria canadensis, tetterwort |
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| bloodshed | (noun) indiscriminate slaughter | Synonyms: battue, bloodbath, bloodletting |
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| (noun) the shedding of blood resulting in murder | Synonyms: gore |
| bloodshot | (adjective) (of an eye) reddened as a result of locally congested blood vessels; inflamed | - |
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| bloodstain | (noun) a discoloration caused by blood | - |
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| bloodstained | (adjective) covered with blood | Synonyms: gory |
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| bloodstock | (noun) thoroughbred horses (collectively) | - |
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| bloodstone | (noun) green chalcedony with red spots that resemble blood | Synonyms: heliotrope |
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| bloodstream | (noun) the blood flowing through the circulatory system | Synonyms: blood stream |
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| bloodsucker | (noun) carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end | Synonyms: hirudinean, leech |
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| bloodsucking | (adjective) drawing blood from the body of another | - |
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| (adjective) of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another | Synonyms: leechlike, parasitic, parasitical |
| bloodthirstiness | (noun) a disposition to shed blood | Synonyms: bloodiness |
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| bloodthirsty | (adjective) marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed | Synonyms: bloody-minded, sanguinary |
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| bloodworm | (noun) a segmented marine worm with bright red body; often used for bait | - |
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| bloodwort | (noun) any of various plants of the family Haemodoraceae; roots contain a deep red coloring matter | - |
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| bloody | (adjective) having or covered with or accompanied by blood | - |
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| (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: bally, blinking, blooming, crashing, flaming, fucking |
| (adverb) extremely | Synonyms: all-fired, all-firedly, damn |
| (verb) cover with blood | - |
| boodle | (noun) a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card | Synonyms: Chicago, Michigan, Newmarket, stops |
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| (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
| boxwood | (noun) evergreen shrubs or small trees | Synonyms: box |
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| (noun) very hard tough close-grained light yellow wood of the box (particularly the common box); used in delicate woodwork: musical instruments and inlays and engraving blocks | Synonyms: Turkish boxwood |
| boyhood | (noun) the childhood of a boy | - |
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| brazilwood | (noun) tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry | Synonyms: Caesalpinia echinata, peach-wood, peachwood, pernambuco wood |
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| (noun) heavy wood of various brazilwood trees; used for violin bows and as dyewoods | - |
| briarwood | (noun) wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea; used to make tobacco pipes | Synonyms: brier-wood, brierwood |
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| brierwood | (noun) wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea; used to make tobacco pipes | Synonyms: briarwood, brier-wood |
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| brood | (noun) the young of an animal cared for at one time | - |
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| (verb) sit on (eggs) | Synonyms: cover, hatch, incubate |
| (verb) think moodily or anxiously about something | Synonyms: dwell |
| (verb) be in a huff; be silent or sullen | Synonyms: grizzle, stew |
| (verb) be in a huff and display one's displeasure | Synonyms: pout, sulk |
| (verb) hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing | Synonyms: bulk large, hover, loom |
| brooder | (noun) apparatus consisting of a box designed to maintain a constant temperature by the use of a thermostat; used for chicks or premature infants | Synonyms: incubator |
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| brooding | (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative |
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| (noun) persistent morbid meditation on a problem | Synonyms: pensiveness |
| (noun) sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body | Synonyms: incubation |
| broodmare | (noun) a female horse used for breeding | Synonyms: stud mare |
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| broody | (adjective) physiologically ready to incubate eggs | - |
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| (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: brooding, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative |
| (noun) a domestic hen ready to brood | Synonyms: brood hen, broody hen, setting hen, sitter |
| brotherhood | (noun) the feeling that men should treat one another like brothers | - |
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| (noun) people engaged in a particular occupation | Synonyms: fraternity, sodality |
| (noun) an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer | Synonyms: labor union, trade union, trades union, union |
| (noun) the kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings | - |
| brushwood | (noun) a dense growth of bushes | Synonyms: brush, coppice, copse, thicket |
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| (noun) the wood from bushes or small branches | - |
| 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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| caboodle | (noun) any collection in its entirety | Synonyms: bunch, lot |
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| camwood | (noun) small shrubby African tree with hard wood used as a dyewood yielding a red dye | Synonyms: African sandalwood, Baphia nitida |
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| candlewood | (noun) any of several resinous trees or shrubs often burned for light | - |
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| canoodle | (verb) fondle or pet affectionately | - |
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| cedarwood | (noun) durable aromatic wood of any of numerous cedar trees; especially wood of the red cedar often used for cedar chests | Synonyms: cedar |
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| childhood | (noun) the state of a child between infancy and adolescence | Synonyms: puerility |
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| (noun) the time of person's life when they are a child | - |
| chittamwood | (noun) deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa, chittimwood, false buckthorn, shittimwood |
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| (noun) shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada | Synonyms: bearberry, bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus |
| (noun) shrubby tree of southern United States having large plumes of feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke | Synonyms: American smokewood, Cotinus americanus, Cotinus obovatus |
| chittimwood | (noun) deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa, chittamwood, false buckthorn, shittimwood |
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| (noun) shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada | Synonyms: bearberry, bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, Rhamnus purshianus |
| 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 |
| cocoswood | (noun) wood of the granadilla tree used for making musical instruments especially clarinets | Synonyms: cocuswood, granadilla wood |
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| cocuswood | (noun) wood of the granadilla tree used for making musical instruments especially clarinets | Synonyms: cocoswood, granadilla wood |
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| coralwood | (noun) East Indian tree with racemes of yellow-white flowers; cultivated as an ornamental | Synonyms: Adenanthera pavonina, Barbados pride, coral-wood, peacock flower fence, red sandalwood |
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| cordwood | (noun) firewood cut and stacked in cords; wood sold by the cord | - |
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| corkwood | (noun) very small deciduous dioecious tree or shrub of damp habitats in southeastern United States having extremely light wood | Synonyms: corkwood tree, Leitneria floridana |
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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 |
| deadwood | (noun) someone or something that is unwanted and unneeded | Synonyms: fifth wheel |
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| (noun) a branch or a part of a tree that is dead | - |
| devilwood | (noun) small tree of southern United States having panicles of dull white flowers followed by dark purple fruits | Synonyms: American olive, Osmanthus americanus |
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| dogwood | (noun) a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers | Synonyms: cornel, dogwood tree |
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| (noun) hard tough wood of any dogwood of the genus Cornus; resembles boxwood | - |
| doodad | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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| doodia | (noun) any fern of the genus Doodia having pinnate fronds with sharply dentate pinnae | Synonyms: rasp fern |
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| doodle | (noun) an aimless drawing | Synonyms: scrabble, scribble |
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| (verb) make a doodle; draw aimlessly | - |
| doodlebug | (noun) the larva of any of several insects | Synonyms: ant lion, antlion |
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| (noun) a small jet-propelled winged missile that carries a bomb | Synonyms: buzz bomb, flying bomb, robot bomb, V-1 |
| (noun) a small motor vehicle | - |
| driftwood | (noun) wood that is floating or that has been washed ashore | - |
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| drygoods | (noun) textiles or clothing and related merchandise | Synonyms: soft goods |
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| dyewood | (noun) any wood from which dye is obtained | - |
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| elkwood | (noun) small deciduous tree of eastern North America having creamy white flowers and large leaves in formations like umbrellas at the ends of branches | Synonyms: elk-wood, Magnolia tripetala, umbrella magnolia, umbrella tree |
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| elmwood | (noun) hard tough wood of an elm tree; used for e.g. implements and furniture | Synonyms: elm |
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| falsehood | (noun) the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting | Synonyms: falsification |
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| (noun) a false statement | Synonyms: falsity, untruth |
| fatherhood | (noun) the status of a father | - |
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| (noun) the status of a religious leader | - |
| (noun) the kinship relation between an offspring and the father | Synonyms: paternity |
| firewood | (noun) wood used for fuel | - |
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| flashflood | (noun) a sudden local flood of great volume and short duration | Synonyms: flash flood |
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| flood | (noun) the act of flooding; filling to overflowing | Synonyms: flowage |
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| (noun) a large flow | Synonyms: outpouring, overflow |
| (noun) light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography | Synonyms: flood lamp, floodlight, photoflood |
| (noun) the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide) | Synonyms: flood tide, rising tide |
| (noun) the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land | Synonyms: alluvion, deluge, inundation |
| (noun) an overwhelming number or amount | Synonyms: deluge, inundation, torrent |
| (verb) cover with liquid, usually water | - |
| (verb) become filled to overflowing | - |
| (verb) fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid | Synonyms: deluge, inundate, swamp |
| (verb) supply with an excess of | Synonyms: glut, oversupply |
| flooded | (adjective) covered with water | Synonyms: afloat, awash, inundated, overflowing |
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| floodgate | (noun) regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice | Synonyms: head gate, penstock, sluice valve, sluicegate, water gate |
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| (noun) something that restrains a flood or outpouring | - |
| floodhead | (noun) a wall of water rushing ahead of the flood | - |
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| flooding | (noun) a technique used in behavior therapy; client is flooded with experiences of a particular kind until becoming either averse to them or numbed to them | Synonyms: implosion therapy |
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| floodlight | (noun) light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography | Synonyms: flood, flood lamp, photoflood |
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| (verb) illuminate with floodlights | - |
| floodlighted | (adjective) illuminated by means of floodlights | Synonyms: floodlit |
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| floodlit | (adjective) illuminated by means of floodlights | Synonyms: floodlighted |
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| floodplain | (noun) a low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to flooding | Synonyms: flood plain |
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