wood·work  (wŏŏd'wûrk')  n. Objects made of or work done in wood, especially wooden interior fittings in a house, as moldings, doors, staircases, or windowsills. |
out of the woodwork
Emerging from obscurity or a place of seclusion. It often is put as come (or crawl) out of the woodwork, as in The candidates for this job were coming out of the woodwork. The expression alludes to insects crawling out of the interior wooden fittings of a house, such as baseboards and moldings. [Colloquial; mid-1900s]