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Wood veneer
Wood veneer is a thin sheet of wood rotary cut, sliced, or sawn from a log, then glued in layers to make plywood and decorative panels for furniture.
Wood waste
Wood waste, also called waste wood, is residual lignocellulosic material from forestry, wood processing, construction and demolition, and discarded wood products. It is reused as particleboard, mulch, biochar, and fuel, with treated wood classed as hazardous.
Wood-burning stove
A wood-burning stove, also called a woodstove or woodburner, is an enclosed heating appliance that burns wood in a controlled metal firebox, unlike an open fireplace.
Wood-decay fungus
Wood-decay fungi (white rot, brown rot, soft rot) are fungi that depolymerize wood, causing rot. White rot degrades lignin, brown rot uses Fenton radicals, soft rot is ascomycete; classification is now seen as a continuum.
Wood–Ljungdahl pathway
Wood–Ljungdahl pathway (reductive acetyl-CoA pathway): anaerobic carbon fixation route fixing two CO2 into acetyl-CoA via CODH/ACS; used by acetogens and methanogens, lowest ATP cost, LUCA-era origin.
Wood's Despatch
Wood's Despatch (वुड का पत्र) is the East India Company despatch of 1854, associated with Sir Charles Wood, that directed universities, provincial education departments, and grants-in-aid in India.
Woodbine Mile
Woodbine Mile: Grade 1 one-mile turf stakes at Woodbine Racetrack, Toronto, first run 1988 as the Molson Export Challenge; Breeders' Cup Mile Win and You're In race with a $1,000,000 purse.
Woodblock printing
Woodblock printing, also called block printing, is a relief printing technique in which a design carved into a wooden block transfers ink to paper or cloth.
Woodblock printing in Japan
Woodblock printing in Japan (mokuhanga, ukiyo-e woodblock prints): a relief printing technique arriving in the 8th century, maturing into Edo-period multicolor nishiki-e after Harunobu's 1765 breakthrough, produced by publisher, designer, carver, and printer.
Woodbury Common Premium Outlets
Woodbury Common Premium Outlets, also called Woodbury Commons, is an upscale outlet center in Central Valley, New York, about 50 miles north of New York City.
Woodbury matrix identity
The Woodbury matrix identity, also known as the Sherman–Morrison–Woodbury formula or matrix inversion lemma, expresses the inverse of a matrix after a low-rank update in terms of the original inverse.
Woodchester
Woodchester Roman villa, Gloucestershire: a major Romano-British courtyard villa near Stroud with at least 64 rooms and the Orpheus mosaic, Britain's largest, buried and opened about seven times since 1880.
Woodcock
Woodcock (genus Scolopax, also called timberdoodle): woodland shorebirds, eight species including Eurasian Scolopax rusticola and American Scolopax minor, probing soil for earthworms, with crepuscular sky-dance displays and long-term population declines.
Woodcock Hall
Woodcock Hall: name of a Grade II listed c.1800 house at Nether Wyresdale, Lancashire (list entry 1164013) and of an Iron Age and Romano-British settlement at Saham Toney, Norfolk; a 17th-century Bamber Bridge farmhouse of the name was demolished in 1956.
Woodcut
Woodcut (xylography) is a relief printmaking technique carving a design into a plank of wood, inked and printed from the raised surface; oldest print method, from China, with chiaroscuro, ukiyo-e, and linocut relatives.
Woodcutters
Woodcutters (Holzfällen) is a 1984 novel by Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard, recounting an artistic dinner in Vienna that sparked one of Austria's largest literary scandals.
Woodeaton
Woodeaton is a Romano-Celtic temple site on Middle Hill, about four miles north of Oxford, with occupation from the mid-first millennium BC to the Roman period.
Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska
Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska (Drewniane kościoły południowej Małopolski): UNESCO serial site, inscribed 2003, of six 15th–16th century wooden Gothic Catholic churches at Blizne, Binarowa, Dębno Podhalańskie, Haczów, Lipnica Murowana, and Sękowa, built in horizontal log technique.
Wooden horse (device)
Wooden horse, also called Spanish Donkey or chevalet: a military punishment device, a sharp wooden ridge on legs on which offenders sat astride with weighted limbs, used in European and American armies into the Civil War era.
Wooden Horse and Lady
"Wooden Horse and Lady" (목마와 숙녀, Mokma wa suknyeo) is a 1955 poem by Korean modernist poet Park In-hwan and his best-known work, expressing urban postwar sorrow through lyrical imagery.
Wooden Hypostyle Mosques of Medieval Anatolia
A serial UNESCO World Heritage property in Türkiye comprising five 13th- and 14th-century mosques known for their wooden columns, ceilings, and woodcarving, inscribed in 2023.
Wooden spoon (award)
Wooden spoon (award): mock or metaphorical prize for last place, originating at Cambridge's Mathematical Tripos (term from 1793, last spoon 1909). Used in Six Nations rugby, AFL, NRL, and MLS, which has a fan-made physical trophy since 2016.
Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine
Serial UNESCO World Heritage Site (2013) of 16 wooden Eastern Christian churches, tserkvas, in the Polish and Ukrainian Carpathians, built of horizontal logs in the 16th-19th centuries by Orthodox and Greek Catholic communities in Hutsul, Halych, Boyko, and Lemko types.
Woodes Rogers
Woodes Rogers (1679–1732), English privateer and first royal governor of the Bahamas, led the 1708–1711 Duke and Dutchess circumnavigation, captured the Manila galleon Disengaño, rescued Alexander Selkirk, and suppressed piracy at Nassau from 1718.
Woodfibre LNG
Woodfibre LNG is a liquefied natural gas export facility under construction at a former pulp mill site near Squamish, British Columbia, expected to begin service in 2027.
Woodford Reserve
Woodford Reserve: Brown-Forman's Kentucky straight bourbon, launched 1996 at the historic Labrot & Graham distillery in Versailles; 72/18/10 mash bill, triple pot distillation, 90.4 proof, Official Bourbon of the Kentucky Derby since 1999.
Woodford Shale
The Woodford Shale is an Upper Devonian organic-rich marine shale across Oklahoma and west Texas, serving as both a major petroleum source rock and an unconventional reservoir.
Woodhead Tunnel
The Woodhead Tunnels are three railway tunnels under the Pennine moors between Woodhead and Dunford Bridge, on the Manchester to Sheffield route from 1845 until the line closed in 1981.
Woodhenge
Woodhenge: Neolithic timber monument at Durrington, Wiltshire, near Stonehenge; six concentric ovals of posts within a bank and ditch, built about 2500 BC, solstice-aligned, found by aerial photography in 1925 and excavated by the Cunningtons.
Woodhouse-Sakati syndrome
Woodhouse-Sakati syndrome (WSS, OMIM 241080), a rare autosomal recessive neuroendocrine disorder caused by DCAF17 loss-of-function variants, marked by hypogonadism, alopecia, diabetes, hearing loss, and dystonia, commonest in the Middle East.