Words that rhyme with sherwood

• basswood 0
  n 1: soft light-colored wood of any of various linden trees; used in making crates and boxes and in carving and millwork [syn: basswood, linden] 2: any of various deciduous trees of the genus Tilia with heart- shaped leaves and drooping cymose clusters of yellowish often fragrant flowers; several yield valuable timber [syn: linden, linden tree, basswood, lime, lime tree]
• beefwood 0
  n 1: a tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber [syn: balata, balata tree, beefwood, bully tree, Manilkara bidentata] 2: any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae; some used for cabinetwork 3: any of several Australian trees of the genus Casuarina yielding heavy hard red wood used in cabinetwork 4: tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers; yields hard heavy reddish wood [syn: scrub beefwood, beefwood, Stenocarpus salignus] 5: tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood [syn: beefwood, Grevillea striata]
• bentwood 0
  n 1: wood that is steamed until it becomes pliable and then is shaped for use in making furniture; "bentwood chairs"
• boxwood 0
  n 1: very hard tough close-grained light yellow wood of the box (particularly the common box); used in delicate woodwork: musical instruments and inlays and engraving blocks [syn: boxwood, Turkish boxwood] 2: evergreen shrubs or small trees [syn: box, boxwood]
• brushwood 0
  n 1: the wood from bushes or small branches; "they built a fire of brushwood" 2: a dense growth of bushes [syn: brush, brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket]
• buttonwood 0
  n 1: very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico [syn: American sycamore, American plane, buttonwood, Platanus occidentalis]
• cordwood 0
  n 1: firewood cut and stacked in cords; wood sold by the cord
• corkwood 0
  n 1: very small deciduous dioecious tree or shrub of damp habitats in southeastern United States having extremely light wood [syn: corkwood, corkwood tree, Leitneria floridana]
• cottonwood 0
  n 1: any of several North American trees of the genus Populus having a tuft of cottony hairs on the seed 2: American basswood of the Allegheny region [syn: white basswood, cottonwood, Tilia heterophylla]
• dogwood 0
  n 1: a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers [syn: dogwood, dogwood tree, cornel] 2: hard tough wood of any dogwood of the genus Cornus; resembles boxwood
• driftwood 0
  n 1: wood that is floating or that has been washed ashore
• firewood 0
  n 1: wood used for fuel; "they collected and cut their own firewood"
• greenwood 0
  n 1: woodlands in full leaf; "the greenwood was Robin Hood's home"
• hardwood 0
  n 1: the wood of broad-leaved dicotyledonous trees (as distinguished from the wood of conifers)
• heartwood 0
  n 1: the older inactive central wood of a tree or woody plant; usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwood [syn: heartwood, duramen]
• ironwood 0
  n 1: handsome East Indian evergreen tree often planted as an ornamental for its fragrant white flowers that yield a perfume; source of very heavy hardwood used for railroad ties [syn: rose chestnut, ironwood, ironwood tree, Mesua ferrea] 2: exceptionally tough or hard wood of any of a number of ironwood trees 3: a small slow-growing deciduous tree of northern Iran having a low domed shape [syn: iron tree, iron-tree, ironwood, ironwood tree] 4: medium-sized hop hornbeam of eastern North America [syn: Eastern hop hornbeam, ironwood, ironwood tree, Ostrya virginiana]
• lancewood 0
  n 1: durable straight-grained wood of the lacewood tree; used for building and cabinetwork and tools 2: source of most of the lancewood of commerce [syn: lancewood, lancewood tree, Oxandra lanceolata]
• logwood 0
  n 1: very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree; used in preparing a purplish red dye 2: spiny shrub or small tree of Central America and West Indies having bipinnate leaves and racemes of small bright yellow flowers and yielding a hard brown or brownish-red heartwood used in preparing a black dye [syn: logwood, logwood tree, campeachy, bloodwood tree, Haematoxylum campechianum]
• matchwood 0
  n 1: wood in small pieces or splinters; "the vessel was beaten to matchwood on the rocks" [syn: matchwood, splinters] 2: wood suitable for making matchsticks 3: fragments of wood; "it was smashed into matchwood"
• plywood 0
  n 1: a laminate made of thin layers of wood [syn: plywood, plyboard]
• pulpwood 0
  n 1: softwood used to make paper
• redwood 0
  n 1: the soft reddish wood of either of two species of sequoia trees 2: either of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a height of 300 feet; sometimes placed in the Taxodiaceae [syn: sequoia, redwood]
• rosewood 0
  n 1: hard dark reddish wood of a rosewood tree having a strongly marked grain; used in cabinetwork 2: any of those hardwood trees of the genus Dalbergia that yield rosewood--valuable cabinet woods of a dark red or purplish color streaked and variegated with black [syn: rosewood, rosewood tree]
• sapwood 0
  n 1: newly formed outer wood lying between the cambium and the heartwood of a tree or woody plant; usually light colored; active in water conduction
• satinwood 0
  n 1: West Indian tree with smooth lustrous and slightly oily wood [syn: satinwood, West Indian satinwood, Zanthoxylum flavum] 2: hard yellowish wood of a satinwood tree having a satiny luster; used for fine cabinetwork and tools 3: East Indian tree with valuable hard lustrous yellowish wood; [syn: satinwood, satinwood tree, Chloroxylon swietenia]
• softwood 0
  n 1: wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir) [syn: softwood, deal]
• touchwood 0
  n 1: material for starting a fire [syn: kindling, tinder, touchwood, spunk, punk]
• tulipwood 0
  n 1: the variegated or showily striped ornamental wood of various tulipwood trees 2: light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer [syn: tulipwood, true tulipwood, whitewood, white poplar, yellow poplar]
• whitewood 0
  n 1: light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer [syn: tulipwood, true tulipwood, whitewood, white poplar, yellow poplar]
• wormwood 0
  n 1: any of several low composite herbs of the genera Artemisia or Seriphidium
• beechwood 0
  n 1: wood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and containers and plywood and tool handles [syn: beech, beechwood]
• blackwood 0
  n 1: very dark wood of any of several blackwood trees 2: any of several hardwood trees yielding very dark-colored wood [syn: blackwood, blackwood tree]
• elmwood 0
  n 1: hard tough wood of an elm tree; used for e.g. implements and furniture [syn: elm, elmwood]
• fruitwood 0
  n 1: wood of various fruit trees (as apple or cherry or pear) used especially in cabinetwork
• lacewood 0
  n 1: variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree [syn: sycamore, lacewood]
• lightwood 0
  n 1: tall Australian acacia yielding highly valued black timber [syn: lightwood, Acacia melanoxylon]
• wedgwood 0
  n 1: English potter (1730-1795) [syn: Wedgwood, Josiah Wedgwood] 2: a type of pottery made by Josiah Wedgwood and his successors; typically has a classical decoration in white on a blue background
• briarwood 0
  n 1: wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea; used to make tobacco pipes [syn: briarwood, brierwood, brier-wood]
• brierwood 0
  n 1: wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea; used to make tobacco pipes [syn: briarwood, brierwood, brier-wood]
• hollywood 0
  adj 1: of or relating to the film industry in the United States; "a Hollywood actor" 2: flashy and vulgar; "young white women dressed Hollywood style"; "Hollywood philandering" n 1: the film industry of the United States 2: a flashy vulgar tone or atmosphere believed to be characteristic of the American film industry; "some people in publishing think of theirs as a glamorous medium so they copy the glitter of Hollywood" 3: a district of Los Angeles long associated with the American film industry
• isherwood 0
  n 1: United States writer (born in England) whose best known novels portray Berlin in the 1930's and who collaborated with W. H. Auden in writing plays in verse (1904-1986) [syn: Isherwood, Christopher Isherwood, Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood]
• underwood 0
  n 1: the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest [syn: underbrush, undergrowth, underwood]
• cheesewood 0
• pinewood 0
• stinkwood 0
• wildwood 0
• fulwood 0
• ashwood 0
• brentwood 0
• dagwood 0
• eastwood 0
• fleetwood 0
• harewood 0
• harwood 0
• hopwood 0
• kirkwood 0
• linwood 0
• lockwood 0
• ringwood 0
• smallwood 0
• westwood 0
• yarwood 0
• collingwood 0
• sapanwood 0
• sappanwood 0
• norwood 0

See also sherwood definition