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9-letter words containing wood

  • matchwood — wood suitable for match.
  • moosewood — striped maple.
  • olivewood — the wood of the olive tree
  • prickwood — the dense wood of the spindle tree, used for making skewers
  • ridgewood — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • roundwood — small pieces of timber (about 5–15 cm, or 2–6 in.) in diameter; small logs
  • sapanwood — a dyewood yielding a red color, produced by a small, East Indian tree, Caesalpinia sappan, of the legume family.
  • sassywood — (in Liberia) a trial by ordeal, such as being forced to drink poison
  • satinwood — the satiny wood of an East Indian tree, Chloroxylon swietenia, of the rue family, used especially for making furniture.
  • shorewood — a city in SE Wisconsin, near Milwaukee.
  • snakewood — the heavy, dark-red wood of a South American tree, Piratinera guianensis, used for decorative veneers, musical instrument bows, etc.
  • spicewood — spicebush (def 1).
  • stinkwood — any of several trees yielding fetid wood.
  • stockwood — (Arthur) Mervyn. 1913–95, British Anglican prelate; bishop of Southwark (1959–80)
  • sweetwood — any of numerous tropical tree and shrub species of the family Lauraceae
  • tigerwood — a heavily striped wood used in cabinetmaking
  • tollywood — the Telugu-language film industry, based in the state of Andhra Pradesh in SE India
  • torchwood — any of various resinous woods suitable for making torches, as the wood of the tree Amyris balsamifera, of the rue family, native to Florida and the West Indies.
  • touchwood — wood converted into an easily ignitible substance by the action of certain fungi, and used as tinder; punk.
  • tulipwood — the wood of the tulip tree.
  • underwood — woody shrubs or small trees growing among taller trees.
  • wellywood — the film production business located in Wellington, New Zealand
  • whitewood — any of numerous trees, as the tulip tree or the linden, yielding a white or light-colored wood.
  • wildwoods — Plural form of wildwood.
  • wood coal — brown coal; lignite.
  • wood dale — a town in NE Illinois.
  • wood duck — a North American duck, Aix sponsa, that nests in trees, the male of which has a long crest and black, chestnut, green, purple, and white plumage.
  • wood fern — any of several shield ferns of the genus Dryopteris.
  • wood frog — a typically light-brown frog, Rana sylvatica, inhabiting moist woodlands of eastern North America, having a dark, masklike marking on the head.
  • wood ibis — any of several storks of the subfamily Mycteriinae, especially Mycteria americana, of the warm parts of America, and Ibis ibis, of Africa, having chiefly white plumage and a featherless head and resembling the true ibises in having curved bills: M. Americana is endangered.
  • wood lily — a lily, Lilium philadelphicum, of eastern North America, having orange-red flowers.
  • wood opal — a form of petrified wood impregnated by common opal
  • wood pulp — wood reduced to pulp through mechanical and chemical treatment for use in the manufacture of certain kinds of paper.
  • wood rose — the dried seed pod of the Ceylon morning glory.
  • wood sage — a downy labiate perennial, Teucrium scorodonia, having spikes of green-yellow flowers: common on acid heath and scree in Europe and naturalized in North America
  • wood shot — (in tennis, badminton, and other racket games) a shot hit off the neck or frame of the racket instead of the strings.
  • wood tick — American dog tick.
  • wood trim — decorative woodwork
  • wood wool — a packaging material made of slivers of wool
  • wood-wool — fine wood shavings, usually of pine, or chemically treated wood fibers: used for surgical dressings, as an insulating material, as a binder in plaster, for packing breakable objects, etc.
  • woodbines — Plural form of woodbine.
  • woodblock — a block of wood engraved in relief, for printing from; woodcut.
  • woodborer — a tool, operated by compressed air, for boring wood.
  • woodchats — Plural form of woodchat.
  • woodchips — Plural form of woodchip.
  • woodchops — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of woodchop.
  • woodchuck — a stocky North American burrowing rodent, Marmota monax, that hibernates in the winter.
  • woodcocks — Plural form of woodcock.
  • woodcraft — skill in anything that pertains to the woods or forest, especially in making one's way through the woods or in hunting, trapping, etc.
  • woodenman — HOLWG, DoD, 1975. Second of the series of DoD requirements that led to Ada. "Woodenman Set of Criteria and Needed Characteristics for a Common DoD High Order Programming Language", David A. Fisher, Inst for Def Anal Working Paper, Aug 1975. (See Strawman, Tinman, Ironman, Steelman).
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