Addle-headed (a.) Alt. of Addle-pated |
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. |
Beetle-headed (a.) Dull |
Bethabara wood () A highly elastic wood, used for fishing rods, etc. The tree is unknown, but it is thought to be East Indian. |
Bluff-headed (a.) Built with the stem nearly straight up and down. |
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 |
Buckler-headed (a.) Having a head like a buckler. |
Buffle-headed (a.) Having a large head, like a buffalo |
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. |
Clear-headed (a.) Having a clear understanding |
Cocus wood () A West Indian wood, used for making flutes and other musical instruments. |
Cool-headed (a.) Having a temper not easily excited |
Crimson (n.) A deep red color tinged with blue |
Crimson (a.) Of a deep red color tinged with blue |
Crimson (v. t.) To dye with crimson or deep red |
Crimson (b. t.) To become crimson |
Dog-headed (a.) Having a head shaped like that of a dog |
Double-headed (a.) Having two heads |
Dunder-headed (a.) Thick-headed |
Feather-headed (a.) Giddy |
Flat-headed (a.) Having a head with a flattened top |
Giddy-headed (a.) Thoughtless |
Gopher wood () A species of wood used in the construction of Noah's ark. |
Gross-headed (a.) Thick-skulled |
Hard-headed (a.) Having sound judgment |
Headed (imp. & p. p.) of Head |
Headed (a.) Furnished with a head (commonly as denoting intellectual faculties) |
Headed (a.) Formed into a head |
Heavy-headed (a.) Dull |
Hot-headed (a.) Fiery |
Idle-headed (a.) Foolish |
Idle-headed (a.) Delirious |
Janus-headed (a.) Double-headed. |
Kiabooca wood () See Kyaboca wood. |
Kyaboca wood () Amboyna wood. |
Kyaboca wood () Sandalwood (Santalum album). |
Light-headed (a.) Disordered in the head |
Light-headed (a.) Thoughtless |
Lingoa wood () Amboyna wood. |
Mad-headed (a.) Wild |
Muddy-headed (a.) Dull |
Mushroom-headed (a.) Having a cylindrical body with a convex head of larger diameter |
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. |
Nail-headed (a.) Having a head like that of a nail |
Nicaragua wood () Brazil wood. |
Nott-headed (a.) Having the hair cut close. |
Omander wood () The wood of Diospyros ebenaster, a kind of ebony found in Ceylon. |
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 |
blue-headed vireo Vireo solitarius solitarius | common vireo of northeastern North America with bluish slaty-grey head |
wood-frog wood frog Rana sylvatica | wideanging light-brown frog of moist North American woodlands especially spruce |
lowland burrowing treefrog northern casque-headed frog Pternohyla fodiens | terrestrial burrowing nocturnal frog of grassy terrain and scrub forests having very hard upper surface of head, of the United States southwest |
bone-headed dinosaur | bipedal herbivorous dinosaurs with bony crowns |
black-headed snake | small secretive ground-living snake, found from central United States to Argentina |
rubber boa tow-headed snake Charina bottae | boa of grasslands and woodlands of western North America, looks and feels like rubber with tail and head of similar shape |
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 |
ruffed grouse partridge Bonasa umbellus | valued as a game bird in eastern United States and Canada |
bobwhite bobwhite quail partridge | a popular North American game bird, named for its call |
partridge | small Old World gallinaceous game birds |
Hungarian partridge grey partridge gray partridge Perdix perdix | common European partridge |
red-legged partridge Alectoris ruffa | common western European partridge with red legs |
Greek partridge rock partridge Alectoris graeca | of mountainous areas of southern Europe |
mountain quail mountain partridge Oreortyx picta palmeri | California partridge, slightly larger than the California quail |
tinamou partridge | heavy-bodied small-winged South American game bird resembling a gallinaceous bird but related to the ratite birds |
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 |
acanthocephalan spiny-headed worm | any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines |
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 |
white-headed stilt Himantopus himantopus leucocephalus | stilt of the southwest Pacific including Australia and New Zealand having mostly white plumage but with black wings and nape of neck |
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 |
driver number one wood | a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee |
gaffsail gaff-headed sail | a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail suspended from a gaff |
metal wood | golf wood with a metal head instead of the traditional wooden head |
rasp wood file | a coarse file with sharp pointed projections |
wood | a golf club with a long shaft used to hit long shots, originally made with a wooden head, metal woods are now standard |
wood chisel | a chisel for working wood, it is either struck with a mallet or pushed by hand |
woodcut wood block wood engraving | engraving consisting of a block of wood with a design cut into it, used to make prints |
woodcut wood engraving | a print made from a woodcut |
wood vise woodworking vise shoulder vise | a vise with jaws that are padded in order to hold lumber without denting it |
woodwind woodwind instrument wood | any wind instrument other than the brass instruments |