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Woochi
Woochi (전우치, Jeon Woochi: The Taoist Wizard) is Choi Dong-hoon's 2009 Korean fantasy action film starring Gang Dong-won, in which a framed Joseon wizard sealed in a scroll fights goblins in 2009 Seoul; it drew 6.13 million admissions.
WooChul Jung
WooChul Jung (정우철) is a South Korean materials scientist who joined Seoul National University in 2024 after a decade at KAIST, working on solid oxide fuel cells and electrolysis.
WooCommerce
WooCommerce is an open-source eCommerce platform built on WordPress and delivered as a plugin, launched in 2011 by WooThemes and owned by Automattic since 2015, with a free core and paid extensions.
Wood
Wood (secondary xylem) is the structural tissue trees form via the vascular cambium; used as fuel, timber, and paper feedstock. Key facts: Kalambo Falls 476,000-year-old structure, 3,905 million m³ roundwood in 2024, orthotropic mechanics.
Wood (golf)
Wood (golf): golf's longest-hitting club class, driver plus numbered fairway woods (3, 5, 7, 9), lofts about 13-27 degrees. Once persimmon and hickory; metal woods since 1979, titanium since the 1990s.
Wood (lunar crater)
Wood is a lunar impact crater, USGS Gazetteer feature ID 6573, 84.15 km across, centered at 43.66°N, −121.83°E on the Moon's far side; named under IAU planetary nomenclature rules.
Wood (song)
Wood (2025) is a Taylor Swift song, track 9 on The Life of a Showgirl, written with Max Martin and Shellback. A disco-tinged double entendre about Travis Kelce and superstitions, it debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Wood ash
Wood ash, the alkaline powdery residue of burned wood, contains abundant calcium and potassium and has served as a liming agent, fertilizer, and source of lye.
Wood bison
Wood bison (Bison bison athabascae), the larger subspecies of American bison and largest North American land mammal; boreal Canada and Alaska, ~8,000–10,000 free-ranging, Threatened under SARA and the US ESA, with contested subspecies status.
Wood Buffalo National Park
Wood Buffalo National Park is Canada's largest national park, straddling Alberta and the Northwest Territories. Established 1922, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1983, it holds the world's largest wood bison herd and the only whooping crane breeding habitat.
Wood carving
Wood carving: subtractive craft of shaping wood with knives, chisels, and gouges into sculpture, relief, ornament, and functional objects; also called Holzschnitzerei. Covers tool profiles, wood selection, chip and relief carving, and cultural traditions.
Wood County, Ohio, United States
Wood County, Ohio, a northwestern Ohio county with county seat Bowling Green, organized 1820 and named for Colonel Eleazer D. Wood; 132,248 residents in 2020, 19 townships, 21 villages, 5 cities.
Wood drying
Wood drying, also called seasoning, is the process of removing water from wood after the tree is felled, to prevent decay, shrinkage, and warp in service.
Wood duck
Wood duck (Aix sponsa), also Carolina duck, a North American cavity-nesting perching duck of wooded swamps; males iridescent chestnut and green, diet mostly plants, recovered from near extinction in the early 1900s.
Wood ferns of East Asia and Malesia
Wood ferns of East Asia and Malesia covers the Dryopteridaceae, the largest fern family with over 2,100 species, whose diversity peaks in temperate East Asia and tropical Southeast Asian mountains.
Wood ferns of Europe
Wood ferns of Europe, the genus Dryopteris, includes 27 species native to the continent. They are known for their complex evolution and thrive in shady boreal-temperate forests.
Wood ferns of North America
Wood ferns of North America, genus Dryopteris, are ferns in the Dryopteridaceae family. They include 13 to 14 sexual species and 29 named sterile hybrids.
Wood fiber insulation
Wood fiber insulation is a bio-based building insulation made from processed wood fibers, sold as rigid boards, flexible batts, rolls, and blow-in material for insulating buildings.
Wood finishing
Wood finishing, also called wood polishing, is the application of coatings such as paint, varnish, stain, oil, wax, or lacquer to protect wood and give it a desired appearance.
Wood flooring
Wood flooring, also called hardwood flooring, is flooring whose top wearable surface is real wood, sold as solid or engineered boards in strip, plank, and parquet formats.
Wood frog
The wood frog (Lithobates sylvaticus, formerly Rana sylvatica) is a North American frog ranging from Georgia to the Arctic Circle that survives winter by freezing, using glucose and urea cryoprotectants.
Wood fuel
Wood fuel is wood or a wood-derived material used as an energy source, most often burned for cooking, heating, or electricity, and supplying about 7% of the world's energy.
Wood Group
Wood Group, also known as Wood or John Wood Group Plc, is a global consulting and engineering company headquartered in Aberdeen, Scotland, serving energy and materials clients.
Wood Harris
Wood Harris (Sherwin David Harris, born 1969, Chicago) is an American actor known as Avon Barksdale on HBO's The Wire, Julius Campbell in Remember the Titans, Ace in Paid in Full, and Tony 'Little Duke' Burton in the Creed films.
Wood House
Wood House, South Tawton, Devon: Arts and Crafts country house (1899-1905) by Dan Gibson for William Lethbridge, with Grade I gardens by Thomas Mawson; also other listed buildings of the same name.
Wood industry
The wood industry, also known as the timber, forest, or lumber industry, harvests, processes, and trades wood, converting roundwood into sawnwood, panels, pulp, paper, engineered timber, furniture, and wood fuel.
Wood Mackenzie
Wood Mackenzie is a global research and data analytics company serving the energy, chemicals, metals and mining, and power and renewables industries, founded in Edinburgh in 1923.
Wood pellets
Wood pellets are a densified biomass fuel made by compressing dried sawdust into small uniform cylinders, burned in automatic heating systems and traded internationally as a commodity.
Wood preservation
Wood preservation, also called timber treatment or pressure treatment, protects wood from decay fungi, insects, and marine borers, greatly extending the service life of wood structures.
Wood River Refinery
The Wood River Refinery is a petroleum refinery in Roxana, Illinois, near St. Louis, that has processed crude oil since 1918 and today is one of Phillips 66's refineries.