Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

-s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
-ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
-ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

whitewood

noun

Forms whitewoods

noun Terminalia buceras (black olive, gregory wood), a Caribbean tree
noun Coccoloba krugii (whitewood seagrape), of the neotropics
noun Petrobium atboreum (Saint Helena whitewood), an endemic tree of the island of St Helena
noun An Australian rainforest tree of species Elaeocarpus kirtonii (brown-heart quandong, mountain beech, Mowbullan whitewood, pigeonberry ash, silver quandong, white quandong, white beech)
noun Elaeocarpus obovatus (blueberry-ash), freckled oliveberry, grey carrobean, hard quandong), an Australian rainforest tree
noun Liriodendron tulipifera (tulip poplar), a large flowering tree of North America.
noun Tabebuia heterophylla (white cedar), of the Caribbean and South America.
noun (uncountable) Wood of these trees or of spruce (Picea spp.)

Synonyms

From white + wood.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “whitewood”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details