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Princeton University - WordNet - a lexical database for the English language Category: General Date & country: 27/01/2008, USA Words: 85192

wood warbler
noun European woodland warbler with dull yellow plumage

Wood`s metal
Wood`s alloy noun a fusible alloy that is half bismuth plus lead, tin, and cadmium; melts at about 160 degrees Fahrenheit

wood-frog
wood frog noun wide-ranging light-brown frog of moist North American woodlands especially spruce

woodbine
noun European twining honeysuckle with fragrant red and yellow-white flowers

woodborer
borer noun any of various insects or larvae or mollusks that bore into wood

Woodbury
Helen Laura Sumner Woodbury noun United States social economist (1876-1933)

woodcarver
noun makes decorative wooden panels

woodcarving
noun a carving created by carving wood

woodcock
noun game bird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe

woodcraft
noun skill in carving or fashioning objects from wood

woodcut
wood block noun engraving consisting of a block of wood with a design cut into it; used to make prints

woodcutter
noun cuts down trees and chops wood as a job

wooded
adjective covered with growing trees and bushes etc; `wooded land`; `a heavily wooded tract`

wooden
adjective made or consisting of (entirely or in part) or employing wood; `a wooden box`; `an ancient cart with wooden wheels`

wooden leg
leg 2 pegleg noun a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg

wooden shoe
noun a shoe carved from a single block of wood

wooden spoon
noun a spoon made of wood

woodenness
noun the quality of being wooden and awkward; `he criticized the woodenness of the acting`; `there was a certain woodenness in his replies`

woodenware
noun ware for domestic use made of wood

woodhewer
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

Woodhull
Victoria Clafin Woodhull noun United States advocate of women`s suffrage; in 1872 she was the first woman to run for the United States presidency (1838-1927)

woodiness
woodsiness noun the quality of abounding in trees

woodland caribou
Rangifer caribou noun any of several large caribou living in coniferous forests of southern Canada; in some classifications included in the species Rangifer tarandus

woodland oxeye
Buphthalmum salicifolium noun hairy Eurasian perennial having deep yellow daisies on lax willowy stems; found in the wild in open woodland and on rocky slopes

woodland star
Lithophragma affine noun California perennial herb cultivated for its racemose white flowers with widely spreading petals; sometimes placed in genus Tellima

woodpecker
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

woodpile
noun a pile or stack of wood to be used for fuel

woodscrew
noun a metal screw that tapers to a point so that it can be driven into wood with a screwdriver

woodshed
noun a shed for storing firewood or garden tools

woodsia
noun any fern of the genus Woodsia

woodsman
woodman noun someone who lives in the woods

woodsy
adjective characteristic or suggestive of woods; `a fresh woodsy fragrance`

Woodward
Bob Woodward noun United States chemist honored for synthesizing complex organic compounds (1917-1979)

Woodward
Comer Vann Woodward noun United States historian (1908-1999)

Woodwardia
genus Woodwardia noun in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae: chain ferns

woodwaxen
dyer`s greenweed noun small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as weed in England and United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental

woodwind
woodwind instrument noun any wind instrument other than the brass instruments

woodwind family
noun (music) the family of woodwind instruments

woodwork
noun work made of wood; especially moldings or stairways or furniture

woodworker
noun makes things out of wood

woodworm
noun a larva of a woodborer

woody
adjective made of or containing or resembling wood; `woody plants`; `perennial herbs with woody stems`; `a woody taste`

Woody Allen
Allen Stewart Konigsberg noun United States filmmaker and comic actor (1935-)

woody plant
ligneous plant noun a plant having hard lignified tissues or woody parts especially stems

woody-stemmed
adjective having a woody stem

woof
weft noun the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving

woofer
noun a loudspeaker that reproduces lower audio frequency sounds

wool
woolen noun a fabric made from the hair of sheep

wool grass
noun sedge of eastern North America having numerous clustered woolly spikelets

wool oil
noun any oil used to oil wool before spinning

wool stapler
woolsorter noun a person who sorts wool into different grades

woolen
woollen adjective of or related to or made of wool; `a woolen sweater`

Woolf
Virginia Woolf noun English author whose work used such techniques as stream of consciousness and the interior monologue; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1882-1941)

woolgathering
noun an idle indulgence in fantasy

Woollcott
Alexander Woollcott noun United States drama critic and journalist (1887-1943)

Woolley
Sir Leonard Woolley noun English archaeologist who supervised the excavations at Ur (1880-1960)

woolly adelgid
noun an insect that feeds on hemlocks; its egg sacs are small fuzzy white balls like artificial snow on a Christmas tree

woolly alder aphid
Prociphilus tessellatus noun attacks alders

woolly aphid
woolly plant louse noun secretes a waxy substance like a mass of fine curly white cotton or woolly threads

woolly apple aphid
American blight noun primarily a bark feeder on aerial parts and roots of apple and other trees

woolly bear
woolly bear caterpillar noun caterpillar of numerous moths characterized by a dense coat of woolly hairs; feed on plants and some are destructive pests

woolly bear moth
noun larva of moth of the family Arctiidae

woolly daisy
dwarf daisy noun tiny grey woolly tufted annual with small golden-yellow flower heads; southeastern California to northwestern Arizona and southwestern Utah; sometimes placed in genus Eriophyllum

woolly indris
Avahi laniger noun nocturnal indris with thick grey-brown fur and a long tail

woolly mammoth
northern mammoth noun very hairy mammoth common in colder portions of the northern hemisphere

woolly monkey
noun large monkeys with dark skin and woolly fur of the Amazon and Orinoco basins

woolly rhinoceros
Rhinoceros antiquitatis noun extinct thick-haired species of arctic regions

woolly sunflower
noun any plant of the genus Eriophyllum

woolly thistle
noun thistle of western North America having white woolly leaves

woolly-stemmed
adjective having a woolly stem

Woolworth
Frank Winfield Woolworth noun United States businessman who opened a shop in 1879 selling low-priced goods and built it into a national chain of stores (1852-1919)

wooly
woolly adjective covered with dense often matted or curly hairs; `woolly lambs`

wooly lip fern
hairy lip fern noun small North American evergreen fern whose stipes and lower frond surfaces are densely wooly

wop
dago noun offensive terms for a person of Italian descent

Worcester
Joseph Emerson Worcester noun United States lexicographer who was accused of plagiarism by Noah Webster (1784-1865)

Worcester sauce
Worcestershire noun a savory sauce of vinegar and soy sauce and spices

word
noun a unit of language that native speakers can identify; `words are the blocks from which sentences are made`; `he hardly said ten words all morning`

Word
Logos noun the divine word of God; the second person in the Trinity (incarnate in Jesus)

word division
noun division of a word especially at the end of a line on a page

word finder
wordfinder noun a thesaurus organized to help you find the word you want but cannot think of

word game
noun any game involving the formation or alteration or discovery of words

word meaning
word sense noun the accepted meaning of a word

word of advice
noun cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger)

Word of God
noun a manifestation of the mind and will of God

word order
noun the order of words in a text

word picture
word-painting noun a graphic or vivid verbal description; `too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures`; `the author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland`; `the pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters`

word play
noun playing on words or speech sounds

word processing
noun rapid and efficient processing (storage and printing) of linguistic data for composition and editing

word processor
word processing system noun an application that provides the user with tools needed to write and edit and format text and to send it to a printer

word salad
noun jumble of incoherent speech as sometimes heard in schizophrenia

word square
acrostic noun a puzzle where you fill a square grid with words reading the same down as across

word stress
word accent noun the distribution of stresses within a polysyllabic word

word-painter
noun a writer of vivid or graphic descriptive power

wordbook
noun a reference book containing words (usually with their meanings)

wording
diction noun the manner in which something is expressed in words; `use concise military verbiage`- G.S.Patton

wordmonger
noun a writer who uses language carelessly or pretentiously with little regard for meaning

WordNet
Princeton WordNet noun a machine-readable lexical database organized by meanings; developed at Princeton University

words per minute
wpm noun the rate at which words are produced (as in speaking or typing)

wordsmith
noun a fluent and prolific writer

Wordsworth
William Wordsworth noun a romantic English poet whose work was inspired by the Lake District where he spent most of his life (1770-1850)