Agent
(a.) Acting |
Agent
(n.) One who exerts power, or has the power to act |
Agent
(n.) One who acts for, or in the place of, another, by authority from him |
Agent
(n.) An active power or cause |
Aloes wood
() See Agalloch. |
Amboyna wood
() A beautiful mottled and curled wood, used in cabinetwork. It is obtained from the Pterocarpus Indicus of Amboyna, Borneo, etc. |
Anti
() A prefix meaning against, opposite or opposed to, contrary, or in place of |
Anti-American
(a.) Opposed to the Americans, their aims, or interests, or to the genius of American institutions. |
Anti-federalist
(n.) One of party opposed to a federative government |
Anti-Gallican
(a.) Opposed to what is Gallic or French. |
Anti-trade
(n.) A tropical wind blowing steadily in a direction opposite to the trade wind. |
Bethabara wood
() A highly elastic wood, used for fishing rods, etc. The tree is unknown, but it is thought to be East Indian. |
Brazil wood
() The wood of the oriental Caesalpinia Sapan |
Brazil wood
() A very heavy wood of a reddish color, imported from Brazil and other tropical countries, for cabinet-work, and for dyeing. The best is the heartwood of Caesalpinia echinata, a leguminous tree |
Calamander wood
() A valuable furniture wood from India and Ceylon, of a hazel-brown color, with black stripes, very hard in texture. It is a species of ebony, and is obtained from the Diospyros quaesita. Called also Coromandel wood. |
Campeachy Wood
() Logwood. |
Cocus wood
() A West Indian wood, used for making flutes and other musical instruments. |
Gopher wood
() A species of wood used in the construction of Noah's ark. |
High-swelling
(a.) Inflated |
Kiabooca wood
() See Kyaboca wood. |
Kyaboca wood
() Amboyna wood. |
Kyaboca wood
() Sandalwood (Santalum album). |
Lingoa wood
() Amboyna wood. |
Myall wood
() A durable, fragrant, and dark-colored Australian wood, used by the natives for spears. It is obtained from the small tree Acacia homolophylla. |
Nicaragua wood
() Brazil wood. |
Omander wood
() The wood of Diospyros ebenaster, a kind of ebony found in Ceylon. |
Rosetta wood
() An east Indian wood of a reddish orange color, handsomely veined with darker marks. It is occasionally used for cabinetwork. |
Sapan wood
() A dyewood yielded by Caesalpinia Sappan, a thorny leguminous tree of Southern Asia and the neighboring islands. It is the original Brazil wood. |
Sappan wood
() Sapan wood. |
Sea wood louse
() A sea slater. |
Shittim wood
(n.) The wood of the shittah tree. |
Swelling
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swell |
Swelling
(n.) The act of that which swells |
Swelling
(n.) A protuberance |
Swelling
(n.) an unnatural prominence or protuberance |
Thyine wood
() The fragrant and beautiful wood of a North African tree (Callitris quadrivalvis), formerly called Thuja articulata. The tree is of the Cedar family, and furnishes a balsamic resin called sandarach. |
Wood
(a.) Mad |
Wood
(v. i.) To grow mad |
Wood
(n.) A large and thick collection of trees |
Wood
(n.) The substance of trees and the like |
Wood
(n.) The fibrous material which makes up the greater part of the stems and branches of trees and shrubby plants, and is found to a less extent in herbaceous stems. It consists of elongated tubular or needle-shaped cells of various kinds, usually interwoven with the shinning bands called silver grain. |
Wood
(n.) Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses. |
Wood
(v. t.) To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for |
Wood
(v. i.) To take or get a supply of wood. |
Wood-bound
(a.) Incumbered with tall, woody hedgerows. |
Wood-layer
(n.) A young oak, or other timber plant, laid down in a hedge among the whitethorn or other plants used in hedges. |
Wood-note
(n.) A wild or natural note, as of a forest bird. |
Wood-sare
(n.) A kind of froth seen on herbs. |
Wood-sere
(n.) The time when there no sap in the trees |
Wood's metal
() A fusible alloy consisting of one or two parts of cadmium, two parts of tin, four of lead, with seven or eight part of bismuth. It melts at from 66¡ |
causal agent
cause
causal agency | any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results |
| anti-takeover defense | resistance to or defense against a hostile takeover |
| anti-war movement | a campaign against entering or continuing a war |
Battle of the Marne
Belleau Wood
Chateau-Thierry
Marne River | a World War I battle in northwestern France where the Allies defeated the Germans in |
pewee
peewee
peewit pewit wood pewee
Contopus virens | small oliveolored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America |
western wood pewee
Contopus sordidulus | small flycatcher of western North America |
wood thrush
Hylocichla mustelina | large thrush common in eastern American woodlands, noted for its melodious song |
| wood warbler Phylloscopus sibilatrix | European woodland warbler with dull yellow plumage |
New World warbler
wood warbler | small brightolored American songbird with a weak unmusical song |
wood swallow
swallow shrike | Australasian and Asiatic bird related to the shrikes and resembling a swallow |
wood-frog
wood frog
Rana sylvatica | wideanging light-brown frog of moist North American woodlands especially spruce |
wood tick
American dog tick
Dermacentor variabilis | common tick that can transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia |
capercaillie
capercailzie
horse of the wood
Tetrao urogallus | large black Old World grouse |
wood pigeon
ringdove cushat
Columba palumbus | Eurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck |
| wood hoopoe | tropical African bird having metallic blackish plumage but no crest |
wood duck
summer duck
wood widgeon
Aix sponsa | showy North American duck that nests in hollow trees |
| wood drake | male wood duck |
wood ibis wood stork flinthead
Mycteria americana | an American stork that resembles the true ibises in having a downwardurved bill, inhabits wooded swamps of New World tropics |
| wood ibis wood stork Ibis ibis | any of several Old World birds of the genus Ibis |
weka
maori hen
wood hen | flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting |
wood ant
Formica rufa | reddish-brown European ant typically living in anthills in woodlands |
| dry-wood termite | any of various termites that live in and feed on dry wood that is not connected with the soil |
wood rabbit
cottontail
cottontail rabbit | common small rabbit of North America having greyish or brownish fur and a tail with a white underside, a host for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks) |
European wood mouse
Apodemus sylvaticus | nocturnal yellowish-brown mouse inhabiting woods and fields and gardens |
| wood mouse | any of various New World woodland mice |
wood rat
woodat | any of various small short-tailed rodents of the northern hemisphere having soft fur grey above and white below with furred tails and large ears, some are hosts for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks) |
| dusky-footed wood rat | a wood rat with dusky feet |
skunk
polecat wood pussy | American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled, in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae |
| alkylating agent | an antineoplastic drug used to treat some forms of cancer |
alpha blocker
alpha-blocker
alpha-adrenergic blocker
alpha-adrenergic blocking agent | any of various drugs that block alpha-adrenergic receptors, used in treating benign prostatic hyperplasia, relaxes the muscles of the prostate and bladder |
anesthetic
anaesthetic
anesthetic agent
anaesthetic agent | a drug that causes temporary loss of bodily sensations |
antifungal
antifungal agent
fungicide
antimycotic
antimycotic agent | any agent that destroys or prevents the growth of fungi |
anti-G suit
G suit | worn by fliers and astronauts to counteract the forces of gravity and acceleration |
anti-inflammatory
anti-inflammatory drug | a medicine intended to reduce inflammation |
antispasmodic
spasmolytic
antispasmodic agent | a drug used to relieve or prevent spasms (especially of the smooth muscles) |
| anti-submarine rocket | a shipboard system to fire rockets at submarines |
| anti-TNF compound | a class of drugs that block the action of tumor necrosis factor (TNF), used in cases of rheumatoid arthritis because TNF instigates inflammation of the joints |
antiviral
antiviral agent
antiviral drug | any drug that destroys viruses |
beta blocker
beta-blocking agent
beta-adrenergic blocker
beta-adrenergic blocking agent | any of various drugs used in treating hypertension or arrhythmia, decreases force and rate of heart contractions by blocking beta-adrenergic receptors of the autonomic nervous system |
blocker
blocking agent | a class of drugs that inhibit (block) some biological process |
cleansing agent
cleanser
cleaner | a preparation used in cleaning something |
driver
number one wood | a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee |
fragmentation bomb
antipersonnel bomb
anti-personnel bomb
daisy cutter | a bomb with onlytoper cent explosive and the remainder consisting of casings designed to break into many small high-velocity fragments, most effective against troops and vehicles |
immunogen
immunizing agent | any substance or organism that provokes an immune response (produces immunity) when introduced into the body |
major tranquilizer
major tranquillizer
major tranquilliser
antipsychotic drug
antipsychotic agent
antipsychotic
neuroleptic drug
neuroleptic agent
neuroleptic | tranquilizer used to treat psychotic conditions when a calming effect is desired |
| metal wood | golf wood with a metal head instead of the traditional wooden head |
nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory
nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug
NSAID | an anti-inflammatory drug that does not contain steroids, NSAIDs inhibit the activity of both Cox- and Cox- enzymes |
| psychotropic agent | a chemical substance that can influence human consciousness |
rasp
wood file | a coarse file with sharp pointed projections |
stabilizer bar
anti-sway bar | a rigid metal bar between the front suspensions and between the rear suspensions of cars and trucks, serves to stabilize the chassis |