Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
afrormosia | a dense tropical hardwood resembling teak, used for furniture and panelling. |
agalwood | the wood of the aloe, aka agila. |
agarwood | a soft, resinous wood of an Asian tree, known for its aromatic qualities, and used in incense. |
agila | (Tamil) the wood of the aloe, aka agalwood. |
aldern | made of alder wood. |
alerce | (Spanish) the wood of the sandarach tree, the Chilean arbor vitae. |
algum | (Hebrew) a wood imported into ancient Palestine, probably red sandalwood. |
almug | (Hebrew) a wood imported into ancient Palestine, probably red sandalwood. |
aloeswood | a soft, resinous wood of an Asian tree, known for its aromatic qualities, and used in incense. |
ambach | (Ethiopian) a spongy wood, often used for rafts. |
ambatch | (Ethiopian) a spongy wood, often used for rafts. |
amboina | a reddish-brown, curly-grained Moluccan wood. |
amboyna | a reddish-brown, curly-grained Moluccan wood. |
barnwood barnboard | a wide wood for building barns. |
barwood | a hard red African wood. |
baywood | a coarse mahogany. |
beechen | (Arch.) made of beech. |
beechwood | the wood of the beech. |
bentwood | wood artifically curved for furniture making etc. |
birchen | made of birch wood. |
birchwood | the wood of the birch. |
birken | made of birch wood. |
bogoak | trunks of oak embedded in bogs and so preserved from decay. |
bogwood | the wood of trees, esp of oaks, dug up from peat bogs. |
boomstick | in logging, one of the logs that surrounds a boom and holds it together. |
boxen | made of boxwood. |
boxwood | the wood of the box, noted for its fine grain. |
brazil | the hard reddish wood of the E. Indian sappan tree. |
brazilwood | a red tropical wood. |
briarwood | the wood of a briar stem. |
brierwood | the wood of a brier stem. |
brushwood | loppings and broken branches; underwood or stunted wood. |
bulletwood | the wood of a tropical American sapotaceous tree, widely used for construction due to its durability and toughness. |
burnettise | to subject (wood, fabrics, etc.) to a process of saturation in a solution of chloride of zinc, to prevent decay. |
burnettize | to subject (wood, fabrics, etc.) to a process of saturation in a solution of chloride of zinc, to prevent decay. |
calamander | (Sinhalese) a hard valuable wood of the ebony genus. |
caliatour | an old term for a tropical dyewood, perhaps red-sanders. |
calliature | an old term for a tropical dyewood, perhaps red-sanders. |
campeachy | as in campeachy wood, a logwood. |
camwood | the wood of a W. African tree, used in making a red dye. |
candlewood | the wood of various resinous tropical trees. |
cedarn | of cedar wood. |
cedarwood | the wood of the cedar. |
cheesewood | the yellow wood of various Australian trees. |
cocobola | (Spanish) a dark wood used in cabinetry. |
cocobolo | (Spanish) a dark wood used in cabinetry. |
cocuswood | the so-called Jamaica ebony, a tradename for the wood of the kokra. |
conky | affected by the timber disease conk. |
copsewood | brushwood; coppice. |
cordwood | wood cut up and stacked in cords. |
corkwood | very light wood eg balsa, or alligator apple. |
coromandel | a kind of timber, aka calamander. |
daddock | the rotten body of a tree. |
doddard | (Obs.) a tree missing its top branches through rot or decay. |
doty | half-rotten; as, doty timber. |
dricksie | having decayed spots covered by healthy wood. |
driftwood | wood drifted or floated by water. |
druxy | having decayed spots covered by healthy wood. |
dyewood | any wood from which coloring matter is extracted for dyeing. |
eaglewood | a kind of fragrant wood, aka agalloch. |
earlywood | the wood formed in the first part of the growth layer during the spring. |
ebon | ebony. |
ebonise | to make or become like ebony. |
ebonize | to make or become like ebony. |
ebony | a dark heavy tropical wood. |
elmen | made of elm wood. |
elmwood | the wood of the elm. |
eughen | (Spenser) made of yew-wood. |
ewghen | (Spenser) made of yew-wood. |
fatwood | wood abounding in pitch. |
fiddlewood | the wood of several West Indian trees, mostly of the genus Citharexylum. |
firewood | wood used for burning. |
firwood | the wood of the fir tree. |
fruitwood | the wood of a fruit tree. |
fuelwood | wood suitable for fuel. |
fustet | (Fr.) the wood of a tree growing in the W. Indies, used in dyeing yellow. |
fustic | (Fr.) the wood of a tree growing in the W. Indies, used in dyeing yellow. |
fustoc | (Fr.) the wood of a tree growing in the W. Indies, used in dyeing yellow. |
gnarl | a lump or knot in a tree (verb) to contort, twist, make knotted and rugged like an old tree |
gnarly | gnarled. |
gopherwood | another name for yellowwood. |
groundwood | wood found lying on the ground. |
gumwood | the wood of a gumtree. |
hardwood | the timber of deciduous trees, whose comparatively slow growth produces compact hard wood. |
hazelwood | the wood of the hazel. |
heartwood | the inner wood of a tree, harder than the sapwood. |
heben | (Obs.) ebony. |
hupiro | (Maori) a New Zealand name for stinkwood. |
ivorywood | the yellowish-white wood of an Australian tree, used for engraving, inlaying, and turnery; the tree itself. |
jarrah | (Aborig.) the mahogany-like wood of an Australian eucalyptus. |
knag | a short projection from the trunk or branch of a tree. |
knagginess | being knaggy. |
knaggy | knotty; figuratively, rough in temper. |
knarl | a knot in wood. |
knarry | knotty; gnarled. |
knaur | a knot on a tree. |
knothole | a hole in a plank. |
knottily | (Adv.) KNOTTY, full of knots. |
knottiness | the state of being knotty. |
knotty | full of knots. |
knur | a knot on a tree. |
knurl | a small excrescence or protuberance (verb) to make knurls on |
knurly | full of knots; hence, capable of enduring or resisting much. |
knurr | a knot on a tree. |
kokra | the wood of an Indian tree, used for making flutes. |
kyanise | to render (wood) proof against decay by saturating with a solution of corrosive sublimate. |
kyanize | to render (wood) proof against decay by saturating with a solution of corrosive sublimate. |
lacewood | the wood of the American plane or a similar wood, suitable for ornamental use. |
lana | the wood of the genipap, a large West Indian tree. |
lancewood | a tough, elastic wood, often used for the shafts of gigs, archery bows, fishing rods, and the like. |
larchen | of or pertaining to the larch. |
larchwood | the wood of the larch. |
latewood | the wood formed in the later part of a growth ring. |
lauan | (Tagalog) a lightweight hardwood timber produced by various Philippine trees. |
lightwood | pine wood abounding in pitch, used for torches in the Southern United States. |
lignaloes | (Bibl.) aloes-wood. |
ligneous | wood-like; containing wood. |
lignum | (Lat.) the fragrant wood of several shrubs and trees. |
logwood | the heavy, red heartwood of a tree native to S. America, used in dyeing. |
marblewood | a Malaysian tree; the distinctively marked wood of this tree, having black bands on a lighter background. |
matchwood | wood suitable for making matches; splinters or fragments. |
meranti | (Malay) wood from any of several Malaysian trees. |
moorlog | a deposit of decayed woody material under a marsh. |
nirled | (Scots) knotty, stunted. |
nirlie | (Scots) knotty, stunted. |
nirlit | (Scots) knotty, stunted. |
nirly | (Scots) knotty, stunted. |
nur | a knot in wood. |
nurr | a knot in wood. |
oaken | made of oak wood. |
oakwood | the wood of the oak. |
olivewood | the wood of the olive tree. |
orangewood | the wood of the orange-tree. |
ovenwood | brushwood. |
palisander | (Fr.) a jacaranda tree or other rosewood. |
pearwood | the wood of the pear tree. |
pecky | marked by decay caused by fungi. |
pinewood | a wood of pine trees; the wood of the pine. |
plywood | boarding made of thin layers of wood glued together, the grain of each at right angles to that of the next. |
porkwood | the coarse-grained brownish yellow wood of a small tree of Florida and the W. Indies. |
pulpwood | wood suitable for papermaking. |
punk | rotten, worthless (noun) decayed wood |
purpleheart | a kind of wood, purple-coloured. |
quassia | the bitter wood of several tropical American trees, used in medicine and sometimes as a substitute for hops in making beer. |
rampick | a dead tree or tree decayed at top. |
rampicked | of a tree, like a rampick, decayed at the top. |
rampike | a dead tree or tree decayed at top. |
rampole | a dead tree or tree decayed at top. |
ranpike | a dead tree or tree decayed at top. |
rosewood | a valuable cabinet wood of a dark red color, streaked and variegated with black, obtained from several tropical leguminous trees. |
roundwood | timber used (as for poles) without any sawing or hewing. |
sanders | sandalwood, esp red sandalwood. |
sanderswood | sandalwood, esp red sandalwood. |
santal | sandalwood. |
sapan | (Malay) the wood of a leguminous tree, formerly used to provide a red dye. |
sapanwood | (Malay) the wood of a leguminous tree, formerly used to provide a red dye. |
sapele | a tropical timber resembling mahogany. |
sappan | (Malay) the wood of a leguminous tree, formerly used to provide a red dye. |
sappanwood | (Malay) the wood of a leguminous tree, formerly used to provide a red dye. |
satinwood | a smooth, satiny ornamental wood from India. |
sawlog | a log large enough to saw into boards. |
sawtimber | timber suitable for sawing into lumber. |
shittim | (Hebrew) the wood of the shittah tree, believed to be a species of acacia. |
shittimwood | the wood of the shittah tree, believed to be a species of acacia. |
snaggy | full of snags. |
softwood | a conifer tree, or its timber. |
splintwood | sapwood. |
springwood | secondary wood formed in spring and early summer. |
stinkwood | a name given to several kinds of wood with an unpleasant smell. |
stovewood | wood split for burning in a stove. |
teakwood | the wood of the teak tree. |
tigerwood | any of several showy black-striped woods used in cabinetmaking. |
timber | wood suitable for building or carpentry (verb) to provide or cover with timber |
timbery | like timber TIMBERIER, TIMBERIEST. |
torchwood | the inflammable wood of certain trees; also, the trees themselves. |
touchwood | wood so decayed as to serve for tinder. |
tulipwood | the beautiful rose-colored striped wood of a Brazilian tree, much used by cabinetmakers for inlaying. |
twiggen | (Shakesp.) made of twigs, wicker. |
vimineous | made of wicker. |
walnutwood | the wood of the walnut tree. |
wattle | material for fences, roofs, etc, in the form of rods and branches, etc.; (verb) to construct with wattle. |
wattlework | wickerwork. |
wicker | a small pliant twig or osier. |
wickered | made of wicker, covered with wickerwork. |
wickerwork | basketwork of any kind. |
woodchip | chipped wood, used eg for mulch. |
wooden | made of wood, stilted (verb) to fell a person or animal |
woodenly | (Adv.) WOODEN, made of wood; stilted. |
woodenness | the state of being wooden. |
woodmeal | sawdust and other wood waste used as industrial filler. |
xylobalsamum | the dried twigs, or the wood, of the balm of Gilead tree. |
yellowwood | the wood of any one of several different kinds of trees. |
yewen | (Arch.) made of yew wood. |
zante | the wood of the European smoke-tree. |
zantewood | the wood of the zante tree. |
zebrawood | a kind of cabinet wood having beautiful black, brown, and whitish stripes, the timber of a tropical American tree. |