BUILDING MATERIAL Synonyms

• rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material

• a good fellow; helpful and trustworthy

• To stop working (of an electronic device)

• masonry done with bricks and mortar

• concrete pavement is sometimes referred to as cement

• a building material that is a powder made of a mixture of calcined limestone and clay; used with water and sand or gravel to make concrete and mortar

• something that hardens to act as adhesive material

• any of various materials used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth

• a specialized bony substance covering the root of a tooth

• make fast as if with cement

• cover or coat with cement

• bind or join with or as if with cement

• a protective covering that protects the outside of a building

• United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who oversaw the Berlin airlift (1898-1978)

• a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired

• United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852)

• water soaked soil; soft wet earth

• the dead body of a human being

• capable of being perceived by the senses; not abstract or imaginary

• a strong hard building material composed of sand and gravel and cement and water

• formed by the coalescence of particles

• cover with cement

• form into a solid mass; coalesce

• a wide flat board used to cover walls or partitions; made from plaster or wood pulp or other materials and used primarily to form the interior walls of houses

• a covering material made of glass fibers in resins

• a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid

• a lightweight material in cellular form; made by introducing gas bubbles during manufacture

• become bubbly or frothy or foaming

• a brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure

• a container made of glass for holding liquids while drinking

• the quantity a glass will hold

• a small refracting telescope

• an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant

• a mirror; usually a ladies' dressing mirror

• glassware collectively

• furnish with glass

• scan (game in the forest) with binoculars

• enclose with glass

• put in a glass container

• become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance

• plutonic igneous rock having visibly crystalline texture; generally composed of feldspar and mica and quartz

• something having the quality of granite (unyielding firmness)

• a common white or colorless mineral (hydrated calcium sulphate) used to make cements and plasters (especially plaster of Paris)

• the state of being isolated or detached

• insulating material that reduces or prevents the transmission of heat or sound or electricity

• the act of protecting something by surrounding it with material that reduces or prevents the transmission of sound or heat or electricity

• a sedimentary rock consisting mainly of calcium that was deposited by the remains of marine animals

• a hard crystalline metamorphic rock that takes a high polish; used for sculpture and as building material

• a small ball of glass that is used in various games

• a sculpture carved from marble

• paint or stain like marble

• structure built of stone or brick by a mason

• Freemasons collectively

• the craft of a mason

• containing or made of or resembling or characteristic of a metal

• any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc.

• a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten

• cover with metal

• a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range

• used as a bond in masonry or for covering a wall

• a bowl-shaped vessel in which substances can be ground and mixed with a pestle

• plaster with mortar

• a mixture of lime or gypsum with sand and water; hardens into a smooth solid; used to cover walls and ceilings

• any of several gypsum cements; a white powder (a form of calcium sulphate) that forms a paste when mixed with water and hardens into a solid; used in making molds and sculptures and casts for broken limbs

• a medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc.

• a surface of hardened plaster (as on a wall or ceiling)

• adhesive tape used in dressing wounds

• apply a heavy coat to

• cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on

• affix conspicuously

• apply a plaster cast to

• coat with plaster

• dress by covering with a therapeutic substance