woodwork

Universal Words noun [U] 1 things made of wood in a building or room, such as doors and stairs: The woodwork needs painting. * He hit the woodwork (= the wooden frame of the goal) twice before scoring. 2 (BrE) (also woodworking AmE, BrE) the activity or skill of making things from wood IDIOMS blend / fade into the woodwork to behave in a way that does not attract any attention; to disappear or hide come / crawl out of the woodwork (informal, disapproving) if you say that sb comes/crawls out of the woodwork, you mean that they have suddenly appeared in order to express an opinion or to take advantage of a situation: When he won the lottery, all sorts of distant relatives came out of the woodwork.