| Amazon, Amazonian | one of a race of warrior women, said to be descended from Ares, god of war |
| aunt | old woman, gossip |
| bachelor | unmarried person [man or woman] |
| baggage | good-for-nothing woman, harlot |
| bedlam | mad beggar, madman/woman, lunatic |
| beldam | hag, witch, loathsome old woman |
| beldam | old woman, crone |
| bosom | pocket on the front of a woman's dress |
| boy-queller | child killer |
| butter-woman | [woman who deals in butter, dairy-maid] chatterer, gabbler |
| cap | [men] soft brimless head-dress; [women] loose-fitting decorative head-dress |
| cockney | squeamish woman, pampered lady |
| crone | old hag, withered old woman |
| cuckold-maker | seducer of a married woman |
| dame | woman, girl |
| dame | lady, mistress, woman of rank |
| day-woman | dairy-maid |
| dey-woman, day-woman | dairy-maid |
| distaff-woman | woman occupied in spinning |
| dividual | different, separate [i.e. between man and woman] |
| dowdy | unattractive woman, shabbily dressed girl |
| flirt-gill | fast girl, loose woman |
| Florentius | knight in Gower's 'Confessio Amantis' who married an ugly woman in return for the answer to a riddle on which his life depended |
| fornicatress | woman guilty of fornication |
| Fortune | Roman goddess, shown as a woman at a spinning-wheel, or controlling a rudder, and as blind |
| fustilarian | [unclear meaning] smelly old woman |
| gentlewoman | woman of good breeding, well-born lady |
| gossip | old woman, gossiping woman |
| green-sickness | type of illness supposed to affect lovesick young women |
| harpy | mythical rapacious bird, half woman, half vulture [symbolizing divine retribution] |
| Helen | woman renowned for her beauty, whose abduction from the Greeks by Paris of Troy caused the Trojan War |
| herb-woman | woman who sells herbs |
| in terram | no woman shall succeed in Salic land |
| jay | [bird of bright plumage] showy woman, whore |
| jointress | woman holding a property right from her deceased husband, dowager |
| libel | false statement, damaging attack [on women] |
| maid | virgin, unmarried woman |
| maid | human, mortal [woman] |
| Maid Marian | woman loved by Robin Hood |
| mankind | man-like woman, virago; or: mad, furious, infuriated |
| man-queller | man-killer |
| matron | married woman |
| mouse-hunt | mouse-hunter; prowler, pursuer of women |
| 'oman | Welsh pronunciation of 'woman' |
| orange-wife | woman who sells oranges |
| perfume | perfumed mistress, fragrant woman |
| piece | creature, individual, person, woman |
| piping | shrill-toned, high-pitched [either: of pipes; or: of women and children's voices] |
| Pygmalion | [pron: pig'maylion] sculptor who created and fell in love with his ivory statue of a woman; Aphrodite brought her to life, and he married her |
| queller | destroyer, killer |
| ramp | whore, brazen woman |
| ronyon | [term of abuse for a woman] mangy creature |
| scold | abusive woman, quarreller |
| she | lady, woman, girl |
| she-Mercury | woman messenger |
| shrewishly | like a woman, shrilly, sharply |
| sibyl | prophetess, fortune-teller, wise woman |
| Siren | sea demon of Greek mythology, half bird, half woman, whose music lured sailors to destruction on the rocky shores of her island |
| smock | woman's undergarment, shift, slip, chemise |
| spinster | domestic woman, one who stays at home spinning |
| stomacher | piece of clothing used by women under their bodice to help cover the chest |
| tithe-woman | tenth woman |
| trot | old woman, hag |
| uncoined | unalloyed, genuine; also: not yet in circulation [among women] |
| vestal | woman vowed to chastity, virgin, priestess |
| votaress | woman under vow, votary, devotee [of an order] |
| wenching | someone who hangs around with women |
| wenchless | lacking in women |
| wife | woman |
| wise woman | fortune-teller, witch, sorceress |
| woman | be in the company of a woman |
| woman | make behave like a woman, weep |
| woman-post | female carrier of dispatches |
| woman-queller | woman-killer |
| woman-tired | henpecked, torn apart by a woman |