Phrase Hound found 60 phrases and 250 compound words that contain woods. The most common are listed below. Open woods in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 60
- out of the woodsOut of peril; likely to recover or prevail over trouble; finished with the worst or most threatening part of a problem or illness.
- neck of the woodsA local neighbourhood or region.
- master of the woodsSynonym of waldmeister (“type of herb”).
- Lake of the WoodsA large lake in Ontario, Manitoba and Minnesota on the Canada-US border.
- Bretton WoodsAn unincorporated community in the town of Carroll, Coos County, New Hampshire, United States.
- North WoodsThe Laurentian Mixed Forest Province, a forested ecoregion in the United States and Canada.
- Woods CountyOne of 77 counties in Oklahoma, United States. County seat: Alva.
- Woods HoleA census-designated place in the town of Falmouth, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States.
- Woods PointA locality in the Shire of Mansfield, north eastern Victoria, Australia.
- old man of the woodsStrobilomyces strobilaceus, a boletaceous fungus of Europe and North America.
- babes in the woodsplural of babe in the woods: A person who is innocent, naive, inexperienced, or helpless, especially with respect to an unfamiliar situation or environment.
- Harper WoodsAn inner suburb of Detroit with a population of roughly 14,000.
- North Maine WoodsThe northern geographic area of the state of Maine in the United States.
- Laguna WoodsA city in Orange County, California, United States.
- Big WoodsA kind of temperate hardwood forest ecoregion found in western Wisconsin and south-central Minnesota.
- babe in the woodsA person who is innocent, naive, inexperienced, or helpless, especially with respect to an unfamiliar situation or environment.
- flame-of-the-woodsThe flowering shrub Ixora coccinea.
- chicken of the woodsAny edible mushroom of the Laetiporus genus.
- Cliffe WoodsA village in Cliffe and Cliffe Woods parish, Medway borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ7373).
- Whittle-le-WoodsA village and civil parish in Chorley borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD5821).
- Cliffe and Cliffe WoodsA civil parish in Medway borough, Kent, England.
- birch woodsplural of birch wood: Alternative form of birchwood (both senses)
- hen of the woodsAn edible polypore mushroom, Grifola frondosa
- Lake of the Woods CountyThe northernmost of the 87 counties in Minnesota, United States. County seat: Baudette. The northernmost part of the county is an exclave (Northwest Angle) on the west side of the lake, accessible by land via Manitoba in Canada.
- fruit-woodsplural of fruit-wood: The wood of any fruit tree, particularly hardwood from species such as pear and cherry, that is valued for furniture, woodcuts and other applications.
Compound words 250
- backwoodsPartly or wholly uncleared forest, especially in North America.
- woodsyOf, relating to, or suggestive of a wooded area.
- woodsmanA man who lives and works in woodland; a forester or woodman.
- WoodsfieldA village, the county seat of Monroe County, Ohio, United States.
- woodsfulAs much as can be found in a woods; forestful.
- woodsballA form of paintball played in a natural outdoor area, contrasted with speedball.
- woodswomanThe female equivalent of a woodsman.
- WoodstockEllipsis of Woodstock Festival, an American rock music festival originally held in 1969 in New York state near Woodstock; (by extension) a large, influential gathering.
- Littlewoodsplural of Littlewood: A surname from Old English.
- hardwoodsplural of hardwood: The wood from any dicotyledonous tree, without regard to its hardness.