A technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later paper.

woodblockedadj

Printed with a woodcut.

woodblockistnoun

Someone who plays a wood block.

woodborernoun

Any woodboring insect.

Woodboroughname

A village and civil parish in Gedling district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK6347).

woodboxnoun

A box used for the storage of wood, particularly firewood.

woodburningadj

Designed to, or otherwise capable of, burning wood.

Woodburyname

A placename:

Woodbury Countyname

One of 99 counties in Iowa, United States. County seat: Sioux City.

Woodburytypenoun

A photomechanical printing process in which a relief pattern in gelatin is hardened and pressed against a metal plate, producing an intaglio.

woodcarenoun

The care and treatment of wood.

woodcarvernoun

a person who is skilled at woodcarving

woodchipnoun

A small mechanically produced piece (chip) of wood, generally from 0.5 to 10 cm in diameter, used primarily as raw material for pulp, paper and construction boards, as well as fuel and mulch.

woodchippedadj

Covered with woodchip.

woodchippernoun

A machine for reducing wood to woodchips.

woodchippingnoun

The mechanized conversion of wood (especially trunks and branches of felled trees) to woodchips.

woodchopverb

To chop wood, especially as a sport.

woodchoppernoun

A person who chops wood; a lumberjack

woodchucknoun

A rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots, Marmota monax.

woodcocknoun

Any of several wading birds in the genus Scolopax, characterised by a long slender bill and cryptic brown and blackish plumage.

woodcraftnoun

Any of the skills related to a woodland habitat, especially those relating to outdoor survival; these skills collectively.

woodcrafternoun

One who engages in woodcraft.

woodcraftmannoun

A man who makes wood carvings.

woodcraftsmannoun

Alternative form of woodcraftman.

woodcraftyadj

Skilled in woodcraft.

woodcreepernoun

Any of many neotropical passerine birds of the subfamily Dendrocolaptinae.

woodcretenoun

A building material made from sawdust and lime, typically used to make nestboxes

woodcutnoun

An engraved block of wood, especially one used as a printing form.

woodcutlikeadj

Resembling or characteristic of a woodcut.

woodcutternoun

A person who cuts down trees, especially as an occupation; a lumberjack.

woodcuttingnoun

The felling of trees, or the cutting of wood.

woodenoun

Obsolete form of wood.

woodedadj

Covered with trees.

woodedlyadv

In a wooded manner.

woodednessnoun

The state or degree of being wooded.

woodelfnoun

Alternative form of wood-elf.

woodenadj

Made of wood.

wooden anniversarynoun

The 5th anniversary of some event, particularly a wedding.

wooden coatnoun

Synonym of coffin.

wooden fishnoun

A wooden percussion instrument played by monks and lay people in the Mahayana Buddhist tradition in China, Japan, Korea and other East Asian countries.

wooden kimononoun

Synonym of coffin.

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