| leadwort | (noun) a plant of the genus Plumbago with blue flowers | Synonyms: Plumbago europaea |
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| leatherwood | (noun) deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Dirca palustris, moose-wood, moosewood, ropebark, wicopy |
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| (noun) shrub or small tree of southeastern United States to West Indies and Brazil; grown for the slender racemes of white flowers and orange and crimson foliage | Synonyms: cyrilla, Cyrilla racemiflora, white titi |
| leatherwork | (noun) work made of leather | - |
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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 | - |
| lifework | (noun) the principal work of your career | - |
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| lightwood | (noun) tall Australian acacia yielding highly valued black timber | Synonyms: Acacia melanoxylon |
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| liverwort | (noun) any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses | Synonyms: hepatic |
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| loanword | (noun) a word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English | Synonyms: loan |
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| lobworm | (noun) marine worms having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back; often used for fishing bait | Synonyms: lug, lugworm |
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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 | - |
| longwool | (noun) a domestic long-wool sheep | - |
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| lugworm | (noun) marine worms having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back; often used for fishing bait | Synonyms: lobworm, lug |
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| madderwort | (noun) any of numerous trees or shrubs or vines of the family Rubiaceae | Synonyms: rubiaceous plant |
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| madwoman | (noun) a woman lunatic | - |
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| madwort | (noun) any garden plant of the genus Alyssum having clusters of small yellow or white flowers | Synonyms: alyssum |
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| 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 |
| masterwort | (noun) any plant of the genus Astrantia | Synonyms: astrantia |
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| matchwood | (noun) fragments of wood | - |
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| (noun) wood suitable for making matchsticks | - |
| (noun) wood in small pieces or splinters | Synonyms: splinters |
| mealworm | (noun) the larva of beetles of the family Tenebrionidae | - |
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| meshwork | (noun) an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals | Synonyms: mesh, meshing, net, network |
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| metalwork | (noun) the activity of making things out of metal in a skillful manner | Synonyms: metalworking |
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| (noun) the metal parts of something | - |
| metalworker | (noun) someone who works metal (especially by hammering it when it is hot and malleable) | Synonyms: smith |
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| metalworking | (noun) the activity of making things out of metal in a skillful manner | Synonyms: metalwork |
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| metalworks | (noun) factory where metal castings are produced | Synonyms: foundry |
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| milkwort | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Polygala | - |
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| millwork | (noun) woodwork that has been machined at a mill | - |
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| mineworker | (noun) laborer who works in a mine | Synonyms: miner |
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| miterwort | (noun) any of various rhizomatous perennial herbs of the genus Mitella having a capsule resembling a bishop's miter | Synonyms: bishop's cap, mitrewort |
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| mitrewort | (noun) any of various rhizomatous perennial herbs of the genus Mitella having a capsule resembling a bishop's miter | Synonyms: bishop's cap, miterwort |
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| moneywort | (noun) a loosestrife vine | Synonyms: creeping Charlie, creeping Jenny, Lysimachia nummularia |
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| moonwort | (noun) of America and Eurasia and Australia | Synonyms: Botrychium lunaria, common moonwort |
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| moorwort | (noun) wiry evergreen shrub having pendent clusters of white or pink flowers; of wet acidic areas in Arctic and Canada to northeastern United States | Synonyms: Andromeda glaucophylla, bog rosemary |
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| 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 |
| motherwort | (noun) bitter Old World herb of hedgerows and woodland margins having toothed leaves and white or pale pink flowers | Synonyms: Leonurus cardiaca |
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| mugwort | (noun) any of several weedy composite plants of the genus Artemisia | - |
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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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| 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 | - |
| needlewoman | (noun) a woman who makes or mends dresses | Synonyms: modiste, seamstress, sempstress |
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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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| needlework | (noun) work (such as sewing or embroidery) that is done with a needle | Synonyms: needlecraft |
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| (noun) a creation created or assembled by needle and thread | Synonyms: needlecraft |
| needleworker | (noun) someone who does work (as sewing or embroidery) with a needle | - |
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| netherworld | (noun) (religion) the world of the dead | Synonyms: Hades, Hell, infernal region, Scheol, underworld |
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| network | (noun) an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals | Synonyms: mesh, meshing, meshwork, net |
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| (noun) (broadcasting) a communication system consisting of a group of broadcasting stations that all transmit the same programs | - |
| (noun) (electronics) a system of interconnected electronic components or circuits | Synonyms: electronic network |
| (noun) a system of intersecting lines or channels | - |
| (noun) an interconnected system of things or people | Synonyms: web |
| (verb) communicate with and within a group | - |
| networklike | (adjective) having a network of veins or ribs | - |
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| newspaperwoman | (noun) a female journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media | - |
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| newswoman | (noun) a female newsperson | - |
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| newsworthiness | (noun) the quality of being sufficiently interesting to be reported in news bulletins | Synonyms: news |
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| newsworthy | (adjective) sufficiently interesting to be reported in a newspaper | - |
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| nightwork | (noun) work to be done at night | - |
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| noblewoman | (noun) a woman of the peerage in Britain | Synonyms: Lady, peeress |
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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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| noteworthy | (adjective) worthy of attention | Synonyms: notable, remarkable |
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| oarswoman | (noun) a woman oarsman | - |
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| openwork | (noun) ornamental work (such as embroidery or latticework) having a pattern of openings | - |
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| orangewood | (noun) fine-grained wood of an orange tree; used in fine woodwork | - |
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| otherworld | (noun) an abstract spiritual world beyond earthly reality | - |
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| otherworldliness | (noun) concern with things of the spirit | Synonyms: spiritism, spiritualism, spirituality |
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| otherworldly | (adjective) existing outside of or not in accordance with nature | Synonyms: nonnatural, preternatural, transcendental |
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| outdoorswoman | (noun) a woman who spends time outdoors (e.g., hunting and fishing) | - |
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| outwork | (noun) subsidiary defensive structure lying outside the main fortified area | - |
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| overwork | (noun) the act of working too much or too long | Synonyms: overworking |
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| (verb) use too much | - |
| (verb) work excessively hard | Synonyms: exploit |
| overworking | (noun) the act of working too much or too long | Synonyms: overwork |
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| paperwork | (noun) work that involves handling papers: forms or letters or reports etc. | - |
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| password | (noun) a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group | Synonyms: countersign, parole, watchword, word |
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| patchwork | (noun) sewing consisting of pieces of different materials sewn together in a pattern | - |
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| (noun) a quilt made by sewing patches of different materials together | Synonyms: patchwork quilt |
| (noun) a theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas | Synonyms: hodgepodge, jumble |
| 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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| pearlwort | (noun) any of various low-growing plants of the genus Sagina having small spherical flowers resembling pearls | Synonyms: pearl-weed, pearlweed |
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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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| pennyworth | (noun) the amount that can be bought for a penny | Synonyms: penn'orth |
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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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| pepperwort | (noun) annual herb used as salad green and garnish | Synonyms: common garden cress, garden pepper cress, Lepidium sativum, pepper grass |
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| (noun) any of several water ferns of the genus Marsilea having four leaflets | Synonyms: clover fern |
| piecework | (noun) work paid for according to the quantity produced | - |
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| pilewort | (noun) perennial herb native to Europe but naturalized elsewhere having heart-shaped leaves and yellow flowers resembling buttercups; its tuberous roots have been used as a poultice to relieve piles | Synonyms: lesser celandine, Ranunculus ficaria |
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| pillwort | (noun) European water fern found around margins of bodies of water or in wet acid soil having small globose sporocarps | Synonyms: Pilularia globulifera |
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| pinworm | (noun) small threadlike worm infesting human intestines and rectum especially in children | Synonyms: Enterobius vermicularis, threadworm |
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| pipework | (noun) the flues and stops on a pipe organ | Synonyms: organ pipe, pipe |
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| pipewort | (noun) aquatic perennial of North America and Ireland and Hebrides having translucent green leaves in a basal spiral and dense buttonlike racemes of minute white flowers | Synonyms: Eriocaulon aquaticum |
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| plasterwork | (noun) a surface of hardened plaster (as on a wall or ceiling) | Synonyms: plaster |
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| plywood | (noun) a laminate made of thin layers of wood | Synonyms: plyboard |
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| policewoman | (noun) a woman policeman | Synonyms: police matron |
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| polliwog | (noun) a larval frog or toad | Synonyms: pollywog, tadpole |
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| pollywog | (noun) a larval frog or toad | Synonyms: polliwog, tadpole |
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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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| powwow | (noun) (informal) a quick private conference | Synonyms: huddle |
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| (noun) a council of or with Native Americans | - |
| (verb) hold a powwow, talk, conference or meeting | - |
| praiseworthily | (adverb) in an admirable manner | Synonyms: admirably, commendable, laudably |
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| praiseworthiness | (noun) the quality of being worthy of praise | Synonyms: laudability, laudableness |
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| praiseworthy | (adjective) worthy of high praise | Synonyms: applaudable, commendable, laudable |
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| praisworthiness | (noun) the property of deserving praise | - |
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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 |
| pulpwood | (noun) softwood used to make paper | - |
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| quillwort | (noun) any of several spore-bearing aquatic or marsh plants having short rhizomes and leaves resembling quills; worldwide except Polynesia | - |
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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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| ragwort | (noun) widespread European weed having yellow daisylike flowers; sometimes an obnoxious weed and toxic to cattle if consumed in quantity | Synonyms: benweed, ragweed, Senecio jacobaea, tansy ragwort |
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| (noun) American ragwort with yellow flowers | Synonyms: butterweed, Senecio glabellus |
| rauwolfia | (noun) any shrub or small tree of the genus Rauwolfia having leaves in whorls and cymose flowers; yield substances used medicinally especially as emetics or purgatives or antihypertensives | Synonyms: rauvolfia |
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| (noun) any of several alkaloids extracted from the shrub Rauwolfia serpentina | - |
| 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 |
| reword | (verb) express the same message in different words | Synonyms: paraphrase, rephrase |
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| rewording | (noun) changing a particular word or phrase | Synonyms: recasting, rephrasing |
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| rework | (verb) use again in altered form | Synonyms: make over, retread |
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