English words: woodly to woolshearing

300 English words, part 48 of 56 of the words starting with W, A to Z. 24 have a page of their own.

English words woodly to woolshearing

woodly adjective, adverb: Covered in trees; Wooded; woodsy.
woodmaker noun: Synonym of woodcrafter.
woodman noun /ˈwʊdmən/: Someone who cuts down trees or cuts up, splits, and sells wood.
woodmancraft noun: Synonym of woodcraft (“skills related to a woodland habitat”).
woodmanlike adjective: Befitting a woodman.
woodmanship noun: Alternative form of woodsmanship.
woodmarch noun: An umbelliferous plant, a species of sanicle (Sanicula europaea).
woodmaster noun: A king's officer who looked after woods and the game in them, arranged woodmotes, arrested trespassers, etc.
woodmeal noun: Ground-up wood.
woodmeil noun: Alternative form of wadmal
Woodmere proper noun: A neighborhood in eastern Montgomery, Alabama.
woodmonger noun: A seller of wood.
Woodmont proper noun: A borough in the city of Milford, New Haven County, Connecticut.
woodmote noun: A court, presided over by verderers and the warden, that dealt with those who had broken the laws of the forest.
woodmouse noun: Alternative spelling of wood mouse.
woodness noun: Madness, fury.
woodnote noun: A natural musical sound, like birdsong in a forest.
woodnymph noun /ˈwʊdnɪmf/: A nymph residing in a forest, a dryad.
woodoats noun: A North American grass of genus Chasmanthium.
woodpecker noun /ˈwʊdˌpɛkə/: Any bird of the species-rich family Picidae, with a strong pointed beak suitable for pecking holes in wood.
woodpeckerlike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a woodpecker.
woodpigeon noun: Alternative spelling of wood pigeon.
woodpile noun /ˈwʊdpaɪl/: A pile of cut wood to be used as fuel.
woodprint noun: Synonym of woodcut (“print produced from engraved block of wood”).
woodpulp noun: Alternative form of wood pulp.
woodranger noun: A forestkeeper.
woodrat noun: A packrat (kind of rodent).
woodreed noun: Any of the grasses of the genus Cinna.
woodreeve noun: A forest steward.
woodrick noun: A rick, or stack, of wood.
Woodring proper noun: A surname.
woodroach noun: Alternative form of wood roach.
woodrock noun: A compact wood-like variety of asbestos.
woodroof noun: A small, sweet-smelling herb, Galium odoratum, once used for flavouring wine
woodrot noun: The decayed portions of wooden structure, usually caused by a fungal infection.
Woodrow proper noun /ˈwʊd.roʊ/: A topographic surname from Middle English for a dweller in a row of houses near a wood.
woodruff noun /ˈwʊdɹʌf/: Galium odoratum, an aromatic herb.
Woodruff key noun: A semicircular key that fits partly into a circular segment keyseat, with the remainder fitting into a longitudinal slot keyway in the mating part.
woodruffite noun: A tetragonal mineral containing hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, and zinc.
Woodrum proper noun: A surname.
woodrush noun: Any of several perennial flowering plants, of the genus Luzula, that have grass-like leaves.
woods noun, verb /wʊdz/: A dense collection of trees, usually one covering a relatively small area; usually smaller than a forest.
woods colt noun: A child born out of wedlock.
woods oyster noun: Synonym of oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus)
woodsawyer noun: A sawyer; one who saws timber.
woodsball noun: A form of paintball played in a natural outdoor area, contrasted with speedball.
woodscape noun: A wooded landscape.
woodscolt noun: Alternative form of woods colt.
woodscrew noun: Alternative spelling of wood screw.
woodsere noun: Alternative form of wood-sere.
Woodsfield proper noun: A village, the county seat of Monroe County, Ohio, United States.
woodsful noun: As much as can be found in a woods; forestful.
woodshaving noun: A shaving from wood.
woodshed noun, verb /ˈwʊdˌʃɛd/: An enclosed, roofed structure, often an outbuilding, used primarily to store firewood.
woodship noun: A wooden ship.
woodshock noun: The marten, or its pelt.
woodshop noun: A woodworking workshop.
woodshrike noun: Any bird of the genus Tephrodornis.
woodsia noun: Any of the genus Woodsia of ferns.
woodside noun: The side of a wood; the land that borders a wood.
woodsilver noun: A form of rent paid to exempt oneself from the work of carrying wood.
woodsily adverb: In a woodsy manner.
woodsiness noun: The state of being woodsy
woodskin noun: Bark used for making canoes.
woodsman noun: A man who lives and works in woodland; a forester or woodman.
woodsmanship noun: The skills of a woodsman.
woodsmoke noun: Smoke from burning wood.
woodsmoked adjective: Alternative form of wood-smoked.
Woodson proper noun: A surname.
woodsorrel noun: Certain species of genus Oxalis or of family Oxalidaceae.
woodspite noun: A woodpecker.
woodspurge noun: Alternative form of wood spurge.
woodstar noun: Any one of about fifteen species of hummingbird found in the Americas.
Woodstock proper noun /ˈwʊd.stɒk/: Ellipsis of Woodstock Festival, an American rock music festival originally held in 1969 in New York state near Woodstock; (by extension) a large,...
Woodstockian adjective: Relating to, or suggestive of, the hugely popular Woodstock music festival associated with 1960s counterculture.
woodstone noun: A striped variety of hornfels, resembling wood in appearance.
woodstore noun: A building for the storage of wood.
woodstove noun: A stove designed to burn wood.
Woodstown proper noun: A settlement west of the city of Waterford, County Waterford, Ireland (Irish grid ref S 5511).
Woodsville proper noun: A census-designated place in the town of Haverhill, Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States.
woodswallow noun: Any of the genus Artamus, soft-plumaged, somber-coloured passerine birds.
woodswoman noun: The female equivalent of a woodsman.
woodsy adjective /ˈwʊdzi/: Of, relating to, or suggestive of a wooded area.
Woodthorpe proper noun: A settlement in Staveley parish, Chesterfield district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK4574).
woodthrush noun: Alternative form of wood thrush.
woodtick noun: Alternative form of wood tick.
woodturner noun: A person skilled at woodturning.
woodturning noun: The craft of turning wood on a lathe to make useful or decorative objects.
Woodvale proper noun: A southern suburb of Southport, Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SD3011).
woodvamp noun: A large deciduous vine or ground-cover related to the hydrangeas, with fragrant white flowers, native to the southeastern US, Decumaria barbara.
Woodview proper noun: A locality in the Richmond Valley council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
Woodville proper noun /ˈwʊd.vɪl/: A suburb of Newcastle in the Maitland council area and the Port Stephens council area, New South Wales, Australia.
woodwall noun: The yaffle bird; the European green woodpecker.
woodward noun: A warden of a wood.
Woodward-Hoffmann rules noun: A set of three rules that invoke the conservation of orbital symmetry to predict the stereochemistry of pericyclic reactions.
woodwardia noun: Any of the genus Woodwardia of chain ferns.
Woodwardian adjective: Of or relating to John Woodward (naturalist) (1665–1728), English naturalist, antiquarian and geologist.
woodwardite noun: A hexagonal mineral containing aluminum, copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur.
woodwardship noun: The state or business of a woodward.
woodware noun: Articles made from wood.
woodwart noun: A sac fungus of genus Hypoxylon or related genera.
woodwasp noun: Any of various not closely related insects of the suborder Symphyta (the sawflies, not true wasps), whose larvae are found in wood.
woodwax noun: Alternative form of woad-waxen.
woodwaxen noun: Alternative form of woad-waxen.
woodway noun: A road or path through the forest.
woodwind noun /ˈwʊdwɪnd/: Any (typically wooden) musical instrument that produces sound by the player blowing into it, through a reed, or across an opening. Woodwind instruments...
woodwind instrument noun: A musical instrument in which sound is produced by blowing against an edge or by vibrating a thin piece of wood or metal known as the reed, and in which the...
woodwinder noun: Synonym of woodwindist.
woodwindist noun: Someone who plays a woodwind instrument, such as the clarinet.
woodwinds noun: plural of woodwind
woodwise adjective: Having the skills and attitudes that allow one to survive in a woodland environment.
woodwoman noun: Alternative form of woodswoman.
woodwool noun: Alternative spelling of wood wool.
woodwork noun, verb /ˈwʊdˌwɜːk/: Something made from wood, especially cabinets and trim (e.g., baseboards, doorframes) made from millwork.
woodworker noun: A person skilled at woodworking.
woodworker's lung noun: A lung disease caused by the inhalation of wood dust, such as saw dust and sanding dust.
woodworking noun, verb: The crafts of carpentry, cabinet making and related skills of making things from wood.
woodworks noun, verb: A factory or workshop engaged in woodworking.
woodworm noun: Any of many beetle larvae that bore into wood.
woodwormed adjective: Damaged by woodworm.
woodwormy adjective: Full of woodworm.
Woodworth proper noun: A surname.
woodwose noun /ˈwʊdwəʊz/: A wild man of the woods; a faun or satyr, or a representation of such a being in heraldry or other decoration.
woodwright noun: A woodworker.
woody adjective, noun /ˈwʊdi/: Covered in woods; wooded.
woody breast noun: A condition of farmed chickens causing their breast meat to become tough and chewy.
woody nightshade noun: A shrubby plant, Solanum dulcamara.
woody pear noun: The inedible, woody, pear-shaped fruit of several Australian proteaceous trees of the genus Xylomelum.
woody wagon noun: Alternative form of woodie wagon.
woodyard noun: A yard where wood is stored and processed.
wooer noun /ˈwuːə/: Someone who woos or courts.
woof interjection, noun, verb /wuːf/: The set of yarns carried by the shuttle of a loom which are placed crosswise at right angles to and interlaced with the warp; the weft.
woof one's cookies verb: To vomit.
woof ticket noun: Alternative form of wolf ticket.
woof-woof interjection, noun: Representing the sound of a large dog barking.
woofell noun: The Eurasian blackbird (Turdus merula)
woofer noun /ˈwʊfɚ/: A loudspeaker that produces low-frequency sound.
wooferless adjective: Without a woofer (bass speaker).
woofing noun, verb /ˈwʊfɪŋ/: Act of one who woofs; barking.
woofle dust noun: An imaginary powder sprinkled by a stage magician as part of making an object disappear.
wooftah noun: Alternative form of woofter.
woofter noun: A male homosexual.
woofy adjective: Having a close texture; dense
wooh interjection: Alternative spelling of whoo, expressing joy or excitement.
woohay interjection /wʊˈheɪ/: Synonym of whoo, expressing excitement or joy.
woohoo interjection, noun, verb /wuːˈhuː/: Used to express sudden or exuberant joy, happiness, excitement, approval or delight.
wooing noun, verb: A courting; the process by which somebody is wooed.
wooingly adverb: In a wooing manner; enticingly; with persuasiveness or seduction.
wook noun: An unwashed, unemployed moocher who enjoys traveling to festivals and crashes at other people's houses.
Wookey proper noun /ˈwʊki/: A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in Mendip district (OS grid ref ST5145).
wookie noun: Wookiee, Wookie (a tall hairy humanoid fictional race from Star Wars)
Wookiee noun /ˈwʊki/: A member of a fictional race of tall, hairy bipeds in the universe of the Star Wars motion pictures.
wool noun /wʊl/: The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.
wool classer noun: A person who sorts and assigns grades to wool according to its quality.
wool classing noun: The work of a wool classer, sorting and assigning grades to wool according to its quality.
wool clip noun: The total amount of wool produced in a particular year at a particular place.
wool comber noun: Alternative form of woolcomber.
wool-dyed adjective: Dyed before being made into cloth, in distinction from piece-dyed.
wool fat noun: Lanolin.
wool-gather verb: To daydream.
wool-gathering noun: Alternative spelling of woolgathering.
wool grease noun: Lanolin.
wool-headed adjective: Alternative form of woolly-headed.
wool-hole noun: The workhouse.
wool moth noun: The Australian moth Monopis icterogastra, which has a woolly appearance.
wool oil noun: Lanolin.
wool pated adjective: Synonym of woolly-pated.
wool picker noun: A machine for cleaning wool.
wool sorter noun: Alternative form of woolsorter.
wool stapler noun: A woolsorter
wool wax noun: Lanolin.
woola noun: Pronunciation spelling of wooler (“a marijuana cigarette or joint laced with crack cocaine”), representing African-American Vernacular English.
Woolacombe proper noun: A village and seaside resort in North Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS4543).
woolah noun: Pronunciation spelling of wooler (“a marijuana cigarette or joint laced with crack cocaine”), representing African-American Vernacular English.
Woolard proper noun: A surname.
woolbroker noun: A mediator between buyers and sellers of wool.
woolbuyer noun: A person who buys and evaluates the quality of wool before selling it to a third party.
woolclasser noun: A person employed to sort wool into various grades of quality.
woolclassing noun: The sorting of wool into various grades of quality.
woolcomb noun: A comb used for wool.
woolcomber noun: A person employed to comb wool in order to disentangle and straighten out the fibres.
woolcombing noun: The work of a woolcomber, combing wool to disentangle it and straighten out the fibres.
Woolcott proper noun: A surname.
woold verb /ˈwuːld/: To wind a chain or rope around in order to strengthen (especially a mast or yard).
woolder noun: A stick used to tighten the rope in woolding.
woolding noun, verb: The act of winding or wrapping anything with a rope, or rope-like material.
Wooldridge proper noun: A surname.
wooldridgeite noun: An orthorhombic-pyramidal greenish blue mineral containing calcium, copper, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sodium.
wooldriver noun: A person who buys up wool to sell it at a market.
wooled adjective: Having wool of a specified kind.
woolen adjective, noun /ˈwʊlən/: Made of wool.
woolenet noun: A thin, light woollen fabric.
woolenette noun: Alternative form of woolenet.
woolens noun: woolen clothes collectively
woolenwear noun: Clothing made out of wool.
wooler noun: An animal raised for its wool, especially an angora rabbit.
Woolery proper noun: A surname.
wooley adjective: Alternative spelling of wooly.
wooley back noun: Alternative form of woollyback (“pejorative: an inhabitant of a rural area”).
Woolf proper noun /wʊlf/: A surname.
Woolf syndrome noun: Synonym of albinism-deafness syndrome.
woolfat noun: Alternative spelling of wool fat.
woolfel noun: Alternative form of woolfell.
woolfell noun: A skin of an animal with the wool attached.
Woolfenden proper noun: A surname.
Woolfesque adjective: In the style of Virginia Woolf.
Woolfian adjective, noun /ˈwʊlfi.ən/: Of or pertaining to Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), English modernist writer.
Woolfish adjective /ˈwʊlfiʃ/: Reminiscent of Virginia Woolf or her writing.
woolflower noun: A flower of genus Celosia.
Woolfolk proper noun: A surname.
Woolford proper noun: A surname.
woolgather verb /ˈwʊl(ˌ)ɡæðəɹ/: To daydream.
woolgatherer noun: One who engages in woolgathering.
woolgathering noun: The gathering of fragments of wool torn from sheep by bushes, etc.
Woolgoolga proper noun: A town in the Coffs Harbour council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia
woolgrader noun: A person employed to examine the characteristics of raw wool so as to classify it for further processing.
woolgrass noun: Scirpus cyperinus, a herbaceous emergent that is native to the eastern United States and eastern Canada.
woolgrass bulrush noun: A plant of the species Scirpus cyperinus, native to eastern North America.
woolgrower noun: One who raises sheep for the production of wool.
woolgrowing noun: The raising of sheep for the production of wool.
woolhall noun: A trade market in the wool districts.
woolhat noun: A yokel or redneck.
woolhead noun: A species of duck, the bufflehead (Bucephala albeola)
woolhouse noun: A wool warehouse.
woolie noun: A marijuana cigarette or cigar laced with crack cocaine.
woolies noun: A type of chaps.
woolily adverb /ˈwʊlɪli/: In a wooly manner; with a wooly appearance.
wooliness noun: Alternative spelling of woolliness.
woolish adjective: Resembling or characteristic of wool.
Woollacott proper noun: A surname.
Woollahra proper noun: An eastern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Woollard proper noun: A village in Compton Dando parish and Publow parish, Bath and North East Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST6364).
Woollcott proper noun: A surname.
woollen adjective, noun: Alternative spelling of woolen.
woollenet noun: Alternative form of woolenet.
woollenette noun: Alternative form of woolenet.
woollenly adverb: As through wool.
woollens noun: Fabrics or clothing made from wool
woolleny adjective: Resembling wool.
Wooller proper noun: A surname.
woolless adjective: Without wool.
woollessness noun: Absence of wool.
Woolley proper noun: A hamlet in Barham and Woolley parish, Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL1574).
woollike adjective: Resembling wool or some aspect of it.
woollily adverb: Alternative spelling of woolily.
woolliness noun: The state of being woolly.
woollish adjective: Alternative spelling of woolish.
Woolloomooloo proper noun: An inner-city eastern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
woolly adjective, noun /ˈwʊli/: Made of wool.
woolly adelgid noun: Any of various insects of either species Adelges piceae or Adelges tsugae.
woolly aphid noun: An aphid in the subfamily Eriosomatinae, which produces waxy filaments that give the appearance of cotton or wool.
woolly back noun: A non-Liverpudlian person who travels to Liverpool, especially to work at the docks.
woolly bear noun: A hairy caterpillar.
woolly bear caterpillar noun: Synonym of woolly bear.
woolly bluecurls noun: A fragrant and drought-tolerant shrub in the mint family native to southern California and neighboring Mexico (Trichostema lanatum), which is grown for its...
woolly fringe moss noun: moss of species Racomitrium lanuginosum (family Grimmiaceae).
woolly hat noun: an item of knitted headwear, without a brim or peak, made from wool or other fabrics.
woolly-head noun: A woolly-headed person, particularly (potentially offensive) a black or Arab person with Afro-textured hair.
woolly-headed adjective /ˌwʊliˈhɛdɪd/: Synonym of nappy: having tightly curled and frizzy hair.
woolly-headedness noun: The quality of being woolly-headed: illogicalness, irrationality.
woolly hippopotamus noun: A hypothesized extinct relative to the hippopotamus that supposedly lived in northern or western Europe during the Ice Age.
woolly lemur noun /ˈwʊli ˈliːmə(ɹ)/: Any member of nine species of strepsirrhine primates in the genus Avahi.
woolly mammoth noun: A very hairy mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius, widespread in colder regions of the Northern Hemisphere during the Pleistocene period.
woolly marbles noun: A small herbaceous plant of genus Psilocarphus.
woolly monkey noun: A New World monkey in the genus Lagothrix.
woolly mouse noun: A genetically modified variety of laboratory mouse with the characteristics of a woolly mammoth – such as a woolly coat, elongated hair, golden-brown fur,...
woolly mouse opossum noun: Any opossum in the subgenus Marmosa (Micoureus).
woolly nightshade noun: Solanum mauritianum, a pest plant native to South America.
woolly opossum noun: Any of three opossums of the genus Caluromys.
woolly pate noun: Alternative form of woolly pate.
woolly pated adjective: Synonym of woolly-headed.
woolly poison noun: The plant Gastrolobium tomentosum.
woolly rhino noun: A woolly rhinoceros.
woolly rhinoceros noun: An extinct rhinoceros (†Coelodonta antiquitatis), common throughout Europe and northern Asia during the Pleistocene epoch.
woolly woofter noun: A male homosexual; poofter.
woolly worm noun: The larva of a moth of the family Arctiidae.
woollyback noun: Alternative form of woolly back.
woollybutt noun: Any of several types of eucalyptus that have a woolly or stringy bark
woollyish adjective: Somewhat woolly.
woollyneck noun: Any of the genus Ciconia of storks.
woollypate noun: Alternative form of woolly pate.
woollypated adjective: Alternative form of woolly-pated.
woollystar noun: Any of the flowering plants of genus Eriastrum.
woolman noun: A man who deals in wool.
Woolmer proper noun: A place in Whitehill parish, in the Woolmer Forest area of East Hampshire district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU7832).
woolmonger noun: A retailer of wool.
Woolner proper noun: A surname from Old English.
Woolnough proper noun: A surname from Old English.
woolock noun: Alternative form of oolak.
woolpack noun: A bag of wool, traditionally weighing 240 pounds.
woolpacker noun: A person employed to pack wool.
woolpated adjective: Alternative form of wool-pated.
Woolrich proper noun: A surname.
Woolridge proper noun: A surname.
woolsack noun: A bag or bale of wool.
woolsedge noun: Any of several species of Scirpus related to Scirpus cyperinus with perianth bristles giving a wooly appearance.
woolsey noun: A material made of cotton and wool.
Woolseyism noun: In video game texts, a translation or substituted phrase characteristic of Ted Woolsey, American game translator and producer.
woolshearer noun: A person employed to shear animals to obtain wool.
woolshearing noun: The shearing of animals to obtain wool.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under W: 16,520 words, in 56 parts.