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 | - |
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 | - |
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 |
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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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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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 | - |
driftwood | (noun) wood that is floating or that has been washed ashore | - |
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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 |
food | (noun) any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue | Synonyms: nutrient |
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(noun) anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking | Synonyms: food for thought, intellectual nourishment |
(noun) any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment | Synonyms: solid food |
fruitwood | (noun) wood of various fruit trees (as apple or cherry or pear) used especially in cabinetwork | - |
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geezerhood | (noun) a late time of life | Synonyms: age, eld, old age, years |
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girlhood | (noun) the childhood of a girl | Synonyms: maidenhood, maidhood |
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good | (adjective) having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified | - |
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(adjective) morally admirable | - |
(adjective) promoting or enhancing well-being | Synonyms: beneficial |
(adjective) having the normally expected amount | Synonyms: full |
(adjective) with or in a close or intimate relationship | Synonyms: dear, near |
(adjective) thorough | - |
(adjective) generally admired | - |
(adjective) resulting favorably | Synonyms: well |
(adjective) not left to spoil | Synonyms: unspoiled, unspoilt |
(adjective) not forged | Synonyms: honest |
(adjective) tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health | Synonyms: salutary |
(adjective) in excellent physical condition | Synonyms: sound |
(adjective) appealing to the mind | Synonyms: serious |
(adjective) agreeable or pleasing | - |
(adjective) exerting force or influence | Synonyms: effective, in effect, in force |
(adjective) most suitable or right for a particular purpose | Synonyms: right, ripe |
(adjective) capable of pleasing | - |
(adjective) deserving of esteem and respect | Synonyms: admirable, estimable, honorable, respectable |
(adjective) of moral excellence | Synonyms: just, upright |
(adjective) having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude | Synonyms: adept, expert, practiced, proficient, skilful, skillful |
(adjective) financially safe | Synonyms: dependable, safe, secure |
(noun) a raw material that is sold in large quantities, usually to other businesses for manufacturing or production purposes | Synonyms: commodity, trade good |
(noun) benefit | - |
(noun) moral excellence or admirableness | Synonyms: goodness |
(noun) that which is pleasing or valuable or useful | Synonyms: goodness |
(adverb) (often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (`good' is a nonstandard dialectal variant for `well') | Synonyms: well |
(adverb) completely and absolutely (`good' is sometimes used informally for `thoroughly') | Synonyms: soundly, thoroughly |
gopherwood | (noun) small handsome roundheaded deciduous tree having showy white flowers in terminal clusters and heavy hardwood yielding yellow dye | Synonyms: Cladrastis kentukea, Cladrastis lutea, Kentucky yellowwood |
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greasewood | (noun) low hardy much-branched spiny shrub common in alkaline soils of western America | Synonyms: black greasewood, Sarcobatus vermiculatus |
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greenhood | (noun) any of numerous orchids of the genus Pterostylis having leaves in a basal rosette and green flowers often striped purple or brown or red with the dorsal sepal incurved to form a hood | Synonyms: helmet orchid |
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greenwood | (noun) woodlands in full leaf | - |
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gumwood | (noun) wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum | Synonyms: gum |
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hardihood | (noun) the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger | Synonyms: boldness, daring, hardiness |
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hardwood | (noun) the wood of broad-leaved dicotyledonous trees (as distinguished from the wood of conifers) | - |
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hazelwood | (noun) reddish-brown wood and lumber from heartwood of the sweet gum tree used to make furniture | Synonyms: red gum, satin walnut, sweet gum |
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heartwood | (noun) the older inactive central wood of a tree or woody plant; usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwood | Synonyms: duramen |
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hood | (noun) (zoology) an expandable part or marking that resembles a hood on the head or neck of an animal | - |
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(noun) protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine | Synonyms: bonnet, cowl, cowling |
(noun) a headdress that protects the head and face | - |
(noun) the folding roof of a carriage | - |
(noun) metal covering leading to a vent that exhausts smoke or fumes | Synonyms: exhaust hood |
(noun) (falconry) a leather covering for a hawk's head | - |
(noun) a tubular attachment used to keep stray light out of the lens of a camera | Synonyms: lens hood |
(noun) (slang) a neighborhood or community | Synonyms: 'hood |
(noun) a protective covering that is part of a plant | Synonyms: cap |
(noun) an aggressive and violent young criminal | Synonyms: goon, hoodlum, punk, strong-armer, thug, tough, toughie |
(verb) cover with a hood | - |
hudood | (noun) Islamic laws stating the limits ordained by Allah and including the deterrent punishments for serious crimes | Synonyms: hudud |
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instagood | (adjective) likely to get many upvotes on Instagram | - |
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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 | - |
joewood | (noun) West Indian shrub or small tree having leathery saponaceous leaves and extremely hard wood | Synonyms: barbasco, Jacquinia keyensis |
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kingwood | (noun) Brazilian tree yielding a handsome cabinet wood | Synonyms: Dalbergia cearensis, kingwood tree |
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(noun) handsome violet-streaked wood of the kingwood tree; used especially in cabinetwork | - |
knighthood | (noun) aristocrats holding the rank of knight | - |
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lacewood | (noun) variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree | Synonyms: sycamore |
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lancewood | (noun) source of most of the lancewood of commerce | Synonyms: lancewood tree, Oxandra lanceolata |
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(noun) durable straight-grained wood of the lacewood tree; used for building and cabinetwork and tools | - |
laurelwood | (noun) tropical American tree; valued for its hard durable wood | Synonyms: Calophyllum candidissimum, lancewood tree |
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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 |
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 | - |
lifeblood | (noun) an essential or life-giving force | - |
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(noun) the blood considered as the seat of vitality | - |
lightwood | (noun) tall Australian acacia yielding highly valued black timber | Synonyms: Acacia melanoxylon |
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likelihood | (noun) the probability of a specified outcome | Synonyms: likeliness |
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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 | - |
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 |
misunderstood | (adjective) wrongly understood | - |
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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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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 |
orangewood | (noun) fine-grained wood of an orange tree; used in fine woodwork | - |
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orphanhood | (noun) the condition of being a child without living parents | Synonyms: orphanage |
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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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