| 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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| 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 | - |
| scattergood | (noun) someone who spends money prodigally | Synonyms: spend-all, spender, spendthrift |
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| seafood | (noun) edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc | - |
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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 |
| 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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| 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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| 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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| superfood | (noun) a food with health benefits | - |
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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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| touchwood | (noun) material for starting a fire | Synonyms: kindling, punk, spunk, tinder |
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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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| tulipwood | (noun) light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer | Synonyms: true tulipwood, white poplar, whitewood, yellow poplar |
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| (noun) the variegated or showily striped ornamental wood of various tulipwood trees | - |
| twistwood | (noun) vigorous deciduous European treelike shrub common along waysides; red berries turn black | Synonyms: twist wood, Viburnum lantana, wayfaring tree |
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| unbloody | (adjective) achieved without bloodshed | Synonyms: nonviolent |
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| understood | (adjective) fully apprehended as to purport or meaning or explanation | - |
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| (adjective) implied by or inferred from actions or statements | Synonyms: silent, tacit |
| underwood | (noun) the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest | Synonyms: underbrush, undergrowth |
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| unlikelihood | (noun) the improbability of a specified outcome | Synonyms: unlikeliness |
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| ununderstood | (adjective) not understood | - |
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| unwooded | (adjective) not wooded | Synonyms: treeless |
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| voodoo | (noun) a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers | Synonyms: fetich, fetish, hoodoo, juju |
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| (noun) a religious cult practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (especially Haiti); involves witchcraft and animistic deities | Synonyms: hoodooism, vodoun, voodooism |
| (noun) (Haiti) followers of a religion that involves witchcraft and animistic deities | - |
| (verb) bewitch by or as if by a voodoo | - |
| voodooism | (noun) a religious cult practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (especially Haiti); involves witchcraft and animistic deities | Synonyms: hoodooism, vodoun, voodoo |
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| whitewood | (noun) light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer | Synonyms: true tulipwood, tulipwood, white poplar, yellow poplar |
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| widowhood | (noun) the state of being a widow who has not remarried | - |
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| (noun) the time of a woman's life when she is a widow | - |
| womanhood | (noun) the status of a woman | - |
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| (noun) women as a class | Synonyms: fair sex, woman |
| (noun) the state of being an adult woman | Synonyms: muliebrity |
| wood | (noun) any wind instrument other than the brass instruments | Synonyms: woodwind, woodwind instrument |
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| (noun) a golf club with a long shaft used to hit long shots; originally made with a wooden head | - |
| (noun) the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area | Synonyms: forest, woods |
| (noun) the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees | - |
| woodbine | (noun) European twining honeysuckle with fragrant red and yellow-white flowers | Synonyms: Lonicera periclymenum |
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| (noun) common North American vine with compound leaves and bluish-black berrylike fruit | Synonyms: American ivy, Parthenocissus quinquefolia, Virginia creeper |
| woodborer | (noun) any of various insects or larvae or mollusks that bore into wood | Synonyms: borer |
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| woodcarver | (noun) makes decorative wooden panels | Synonyms: carver |
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| woodcarving | (noun) a carving created by carving wood | - |
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| woodchuck | (noun) reddish brown North American marmot | Synonyms: groundhog, Marmota monax |
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| woodcock | (noun) game bird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe | - |
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| woodcraft | (noun) skill in carving or fashioning objects from wood | - |
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| (noun) skill and experience in matters relating to the woods (as hunting or fishing or camping) | - |
| woodcreeper | (noun) any of numerous South American and Central American birds with a curved bill and stiffened tail feathers that climb and feed like woodpeckers | Synonyms: tree creeper, wood-creeper, woodhewer |
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| woodcut | (noun) engraving consisting of a block of wood with a design cut into it; used to make prints | Synonyms: wood block, wood engraving |
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| (noun) a print made from a woodcut | Synonyms: wood engraving |
| woodcutter | (noun) cuts down trees and chops wood as a job | - |
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| wooded | (adjective) covered with growing trees and bushes etc | - |
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| wooden | (adjective) lacking ease or grace | - |
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| (adjective) made or consisting of (entirely or in part) or employing wood | - |
| woodenly | (adverb) without grace; rigidly | Synonyms: gracelessly, ungracefully, ungraciously |
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| woodenness | (noun) the quality of being wooden and awkward | - |
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| woodenware | (noun) ware for domestic use made of wood | - |
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| woodfern | (noun) any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris | Synonyms: wood-fern, wood fern |
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| woodgrain | (noun) texture produced by the fibers in wood | Synonyms: wood grain, woodiness |
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| woodgraining | (noun) a texture like that of wood | Synonyms: graining |
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| woodhewer | (noun) any of numerous South American and Central American birds with a curved bill and stiffened tail feathers that climb and feed like woodpeckers | Synonyms: tree creeper, wood-creeper, woodcreeper |
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| woodiness | (noun) the quality of abounding in trees | Synonyms: woodsiness |
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| (noun) texture produced by the fibers in wood | Synonyms: wood grain, woodgrain |
| woodland | (noun) land that is covered with trees and shrubs | Synonyms: forest, timber, timberland |
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| woodlet | (noun) garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth | Synonyms: grove, orchard, plantation |
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| woodlouse | (noun) any of various small terrestrial isopods having a flat elliptical segmented body; found in damp habitats | Synonyms: slater, wood louse |
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| woodman | (noun) someone who lives in the woods | Synonyms: woodsman |
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| (noun) makes things out of wood | Synonyms: woodsman, woodworker |
| woodpecker | (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, peckerwood |
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| woodpile | (noun) a pile or stack of wood to be used for fuel | - |
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| woodruff | (noun) any plant of the genus Asperula | - |
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| (noun) Old World fragrant stoloniferous perennial having small white flowers and narrow leaves used as flavoring and in sachets; widely cultivated as a ground cover; in some classifications placed in genus Asperula | Synonyms: Asperula odorata, fragrant bedstraw, Galium odoratum, sweet woodruff, waldmeister |
| woods | (noun) the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area | Synonyms: forest, wood |
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| woodscrew | (noun) a metal screw that tapers to a point so that it can be driven into wood with a screwdriver | - |
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| woodshed | (noun) a shed for storing firewood or garden tools | - |
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| woodsia | (noun) any fern of the genus Woodsia | - |
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| woodsiness | (noun) the quality of abounding in trees | Synonyms: woodiness |
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| woodsman | (noun) someone who lives in the woods | Synonyms: woodman |
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| (noun) makes things out of wood | Synonyms: woodman, woodworker |
| woodsy | (adjective) characteristic or suggestive of woods | - |
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| (adjective) abounding in trees | Synonyms: arboraceous, arboreous, woody |
| woodwaxen | (noun) small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental | Synonyms: dyer's-broom, dyer's greenweed, dyeweed, Genista tinctoria, greenweed, whin, woadwaxen |
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| woodwind | (noun) any wind instrument other than the brass instruments | Synonyms: wood, woodwind instrument |
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| woodwork | (noun) the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood | Synonyms: carpentry, woodworking |
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| (noun) work made of wood; especially moldings or stairways or furniture | - |
| woodworker | (noun) makes things out of wood | Synonyms: woodman, woodsman |
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| woodworking | (noun) the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood | Synonyms: carpentry, woodwork |
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| woodworm | (noun) a larva of a woodborer | - |
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| woody | (adjective) made of or containing or resembling wood | - |
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| (adjective) made hard like wood as the result of the deposition of lignin in the cell walls | - |
| (adjective) abounding in trees | Synonyms: arboraceous, arboreous, woodsy |
| wormwood | (noun) any of several low composite herbs of the genera Artemisia or Seriphidium | - |
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| yellowwood | (noun) any of various trees having yellowish wood or yielding a yellow extract | Synonyms: yellowwood tree |
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| (noun) the yellow wood of any of various yellowwood trees | - |
| zebrawood | (noun) any of various trees or shrubs having mottled or striped wood | Synonyms: zebrawood tree |
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| (noun) handsomely striped or mottled wood of the zebrawood tree; used especially for cabinetwork | - |