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abutment	masonry on a wall that supports an arch.
acroter acroterion acroterium	a pedestal or ornament at the angle of a pediment.
acroterial	pertaining to an ACROTERIUM; as, acroterial ornaments.
adobe	an unburnt brick dried in the sun.
adobelike	like ADOBE.
aedicule	an opening such as a door or window framed by columns on either side and pediments above.
agrafe agraffe	a hooked clasp used by masons to hold blocks together.
aisle	a passageway separating seating areas in a theatre, church, etc.; gangway.
aisled	having aisles.
amphiprostyle	with columns at each end but not at sides.
annulet	a small ring around a classical column.
anta	1. (Lat.) a square pilaster at either side of a doorway > ANTAE. 2. an Indonesian animal > ANTAS.
antefix	an ornament at the end of a classical building, hiding the ends of roof tiles > ANTEFIXA or ANTEFIXAE.
antefixa	an ornament at the end of a classical building, hiding the ends of roof tiles > ANTEFIXAE.
antefixal	relating to an ANTEFIX, an ornament at the end of a classical building.
anthemion	a flat cluster of leaves or flowers as an ornament in classical art; in architecture, a honeysuckle ornament > ANTHEMIA.
apophyge	the curve where a column merges in its base or capital. [Gk. apophyge, escape].
apteral	wingless; (Arch.) without columns along the sides.
arcade	a set of arches and their supporting columns; a covered and sometimes arched passageway, usually with shops on one or both sides; (verb) to furnish with an arcade.
arcading	arcades collectively.
arcature	a small or blind arcade.
arching	(noun) an arched structure.
architect	one engaged in architecture; (verb) to construct.
architectonic	of or pertaining to architecture or architects.
architrave	parts surrounding a door or window, especially the top.
archivolt	a curved moulding on the face of an arch.
archlet	a small arch.
archstone	one of the wedge-shaped pieces forming an arch or vault, aka VOUSSOIR.
archway	a passageway or entrance under an arch or arches.
arcology	the fusion of architecture with ecology.
areaway	a sunken area leading to a basement entrance.
areostyle araeostyle	having columns four diameters or more apart; (noun) a building or colonnade so built.
areosystile araeosystyle	alternately ARAEOSTYLE and SYSTYLE.
arris	a sharp edge on stone; a meeting of two surfaces.
ashlar ashler	a squared or dressed stone used in building or facing a wall; (verb) to face with ashlar.
astelic	without a central column or stele.
astely	the absence of a central cylinder or stele.
astylar	lacking columns.
atlas	1. a book of maps > ATLASES. 2. a figure of a man serving as a column in a building > ATLANTES.
bailey	the outer wall or courtyard of a castle.
balconet	a miniature balcony.
balconied	having a balcony.
balcony	a platform projecting from the wall of a building with a balustrade or railing along its outer edge, often with access from a door or window.
balection	a moulding around a panel.
ballium	the outer wall and first line of defence of a castle. [LL. form of BAILEY].
baluster	a small pillar supporting a stair-rail.
balustered	having balusters.
balustrade	a row of columns supporting a stair rail.
bandelet	a small flat moulding around a column.
banister bannister	any of the upright pillars supporting the handrail of a staircase; the whole structure of rail and uprights.
barbican	an outer defensive work; esp a tower at a gate or bridge.
bargeboard	a board projecting from a roof gable.
barmkin	a battlement or turret on the outer wall of a castle.
bartisan bartizan	a small overhanging turret projecting from an angle on the top of a tower.
bartizaned	having a BARTIZAN.
baseboard	a board, or other woodwork, carried round the walls of a room and touching the floor, to form a base and protect the plastering; aka MOPBOARD, skirting board.
bastile bastille	a tower or an elevated work, used for the defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place.
bastion	a tower at the corner of a fortification. [OF bastir, to build].
bastioned	having bastions.
beading	(noun) decoration in the form of or resembling beads, esp. lacelike looped edging.
bellcote	an ornamental structure to hold one or two large bells.
belvedere	a structure (such as a cupola or a summerhouse) designed to command a view. [Ital. bel, beautiful + vedere, view].
berm berme	a narrow shelf or path between the bottom of a parapet and the ditch.
beton	the French name for concrete; hence, concrete made after the French fashion.
bilection	see BOLECTION.
blockwork	hollow blocks of precast concrete used for building.
bolection bilection	a decorative moulding above or around a panel etc.
bondstone	a stone running through a wall from one face to another, to bind it together; a binding stone.
bowfront	having a convex front.
bracing	(noun) a brace or reinforcement.
brandreth	a stand of wood for a cask or hayrick; a rail round a well.
breastsummer bressummer	a beam supporting the front of a building.
breezeway	a roofed often open passage connecting two buildings or two halves of a building.
brick	a rectangular block of clay mixed with sand and fired in a kiln or baked by the sun, used in building construction.
bricking	brickwork.
brickwork	a structure, such as a wall, built of bricks; construction using bricks.
bricky	of or like a brick > BRICKIER, BRICKIEST.
bridgeboard	a board on both sides of a staircase that is cut to support the treads and risers.
briquet briquette	a brick-shaped block made of compressed coal-dust; (verb) to form into briquettes.
butment	a buttress of an arch; the supporter, or that part which joins it to the upright pier.
buttress	an external structure built to support a wall or a building; something or someone that supports; (verb) to support.
came	(noun) a lead rod for framing a pane in a leaded or stained glass window.
cameral	chambered, vaulted.
camerated	chambered, vaulted. N.B. there is no verb CAMERATE*.
cameration	a vaulting or arching over.
casement	a vertically-hinged frame with glass forming (part of) a window.
cauliculus	one of the slender stems springing from the CAULES or main stalks supporting the volutes in the Corinthian capital > CAULICULI.
cavetto	a concave molding; -- used chiefly in classical architecture > CAVETTOS or CAVETTI.
ceil ciel	to provide with a ceiling.
ceiling cieling	the inner upper surface of a room.
ceilinged	having a ceiling.
chambranle	decoration around a door frame or fireplace.
chapiter	the capital of a column. [Fr. chapitre].
chaptrel	the capital of a pillar which supports an arch.
chimbley chimbly chimla chimley chumley	a chimney.
cill	a sill.
clapboard	a narrow board, thicker at one edge than at the other, used for weatherboarding the outside of houses; (verb) to cover with clapboard.
clearstory clerestory	upper storey of a church; windows near the roof of a building.
cleithral clithral	completely roofed over.
clinker klinker	a very hard paving brick.
coign coigne quoin	a wedge; a cornerstone; (verb) to secure or raise by wedging.
colonnade	a row of evenly spaced column or trees.
columnal columnar	pertaining to columns; like a column; formed or arranged in columns.
columnated	having columns; as, columnated temples.
columned	having columns.
compluvium	a space left unroofed over the court of a Roman dwelling, through which the rain fell into the IMPLUVIUM or cistern > COMPLUVIUMS or COMPLUVIA.
compo	a mortar of cement; a mixture of whiting, resin and glue for ornamenting walls and cornices > COMPOS.
concha	the plain semidome of an APSE; sometimes used for the entire apse > CONCHAE.
contignation	joining together of timber.
coomceiled	said of an attic room with the inside ceiling sloping from the wall.
copestone	a stone for coping.
coping	(noun) the covering course of the masonry of a wall.
corbe	a CORBEL, a projection of stone or wood from the face of a wall, used for supporting pillars or other weights.
corbel	a projection of stone or wood from the face of a wall, used for supporting pillars or other weights.
corbeled corbelled	having CORBELS.
corbeling corbelling	corbels taken collectively.
cornice	a moulding at the junction of ceiling and walls; (verb) to provide with a cornice.
corniced	having a CORNICE.
cortile	an enclosed, usu. roofless courtyard > CORTILI.
coulisse	a piece of timber having a groove in which something glides.
coved	formed with an arch.
coving	the projection of upper storeys over lower; a quadrant moulding covering the join between wall and ceiling.
crenel	a crenellation; (verb) to crenellate > CRENELED/CRENELLED.
crenelate crenellate	to provide with battlements.
crenelle	a crenellation.
crenulate	minutely crenate.
cresting	an ornamental ridging to a wall or roof.
cribwork	a timber framework for e.g. a pier or mine.
crocket	a curling leaf along the outer angles of pinnacles and gables.
crocketed	having CROCKETS, curling leaves along the outer angles of pinnacles and gables.
crossbeam	a beam joining other beams.
crossette	a small projecting part of an impost-stone at the extremity of an arch.
crosstie	a supporting tie placed transversely.
crosstied	tied with a CROSSTIE, supporting tie placed transversely.
crowstep	a step-like figure on a gable.
cruck	one of a pair of curved timbers supporting a roof.
crypt	a cellar, vault, or underground chamber, esp. beneath a church, where it is often used as a chapel, burial place, etc.
cupola	a spherical vault or concave ceiling; (verb) to furnish with a cupola.
cupolar	of or like a CUPOLA.
cupolated	furnished with a CUPOLA. N.B. there is no verb CUPOLATE.
cyclopean cyclopian	relating to a prehistoric Greek style of masonry with immense stones of irregular form.
cyma	an ogee moulding of the cornice > CYMAE or CYMAS.
cymatium	the topmost molding of a cornice > CYMATIA.
dado	a skirting-board > DADOS or DADOES; (verb) to fit with a dado > DADOES, DADOED, DADOING.
dalle	a slab or tile, often decorative.
deadlight	a strong shutter, made to fit open ports and keep out water in a storm.
decastyle	a portico with ten columns in front.
demilune	a half-moon-shaped object, body, or structure. Also SEMILUNE.
dentel dentil	a DENTICLE, a small square block in a moulding.
dentiled	with DENTILS or rectangular blocks.
diagrid	a structure of interlocking diagonal beams used for support.
diastyle	with columns about three diameters apart.
diglyph	a projecting face like the TRIGLYPH, but having only two channels or grooves sunk in it.
dipteros	a building with a double peristyle or colonnade > DIPTEROI or DIPTEROSES.
distyle	a portico with two columns.
ditriglyph	a space for two triglyphs in the entablature between columns.
dobie doby	an adobe, a sun-dried brick.
domal	of or relating to a house or dome.
domic domical	like a dome.
domically	in a domical manner.
domy	dome-like; having domes > DOMIER, DOMIEST.
donjon	a strong central tower in ancient castles.
door	a hinged or sliding panel for closing the entrance to a room, cupboard, etc.
doorcase	the frame of a door. Also DOORFRAME.
doorframe	the frame of a door.
doorjamb doorpost	one of the two vertical members forming the sides of a doorframe.
doorsill	the sill or threshold of a door.
doorstone	the stone forming a threshold.
doorway	an opening into a building, room, etc., esp. one that has a door.
dormant	(noun) a crossbeam, a joist.
dormer	a gabled window.
dormered	having DORMER windows.
dosseret	a block resting on the capital of a column.
doucine	an ogee moulding of the cornice.
downpipe	a drainpipe which takes rainwater from the gutter of a roof.
dreamhole	a hole in the wall of a tower, steeple etc. admitting light.
droplight	an apparatus for bringing artificial light down from a chandelier nearer to a table or desk; a pendant.
drystone	constructed of stone without mortar.
drywall	a wall constructed of stones without mortar.
dutchman	something used to hide structural defects.
dwang	a piece of timber used to reinforce joists, a strut. [Du. dwang, force, constraint].
eave	the lower edge of a roof.
eaved	having EAVES.
echinus	a carved molding just below the abacus of a Doric capital; a sea-urchin > ECHINUSES or ECHINI. [L. from Gk. ekhinos, hedgehog].
ecoceture	a type of architecture based on concern for ecological principles such as sustainability and environmental impact.
embrasure embrazure	a loophole in fortifications; a window-opening with slanted sides.
emplecton emplectum	ashlar masonry filled up with rubble.
encarpus	an ornament on a frieze or capital, consisting of festoons of fruit, flowers, leaves, etc > ENCARPUSES.
encastre	of a beam, fixed at the ends.
entablature	that part of a design in classical architecture which surmounts the columns and rests upon the capitals.
entasis	a swelling on vertical columns to counteract an optical illusion of concavity > ENTASES.
entresol	a low story between two higher ones, usually between the ground floor and the first story; a MEZZANINE.
epaule	the shoulder of a bastion.
epaulement	a side work, made of gabions, fascines, or bags, filled with earth, or of earth heaped up, to afford cover from the flanking fire of an enemy.
epinaos	a rear vestibule > EPINAOI.
epistyle	an architrave.
escalier	a staircase.
espagnolette	the fastening of a French window.
etage	a floor storey.
eustyle	with columns spaced at about two diameters and a quarter.
extrados	the exterior curve of an arch; esp. the upper curved face of the whole body of VOUSSOIRS > EXTRADOSES. Cf. INTRADOS.
falsework	a temporary framework used to support a building during construction.
fanlight	a half-circle window with crossbars arranged like ribs of fan.
fastigium	the apex of a building; a gable-end; a pediment > FASTIGIUMS.
femerall	an outlet for smoke in a roof. [OF fumeraille, from L. fumus, smoke].
fenestral	of or pertaining to windows.
fiberfill fibrefill	synthetic fibres used as a filling material.
fibro fibrocement	a wallboard of compressed asbestos and cement. Th pl. of FIBRO is FIBROS.
fieldstone	stone for building, taken from a field.
filister	a groove on a window frame.
finial	a decoration on the top of a gable or spire; on furniture, a decorative turned knob.
finialed	having a FINIAL, a decoration on the top of a gable or spire.
firemark	a metal plate formerly placed by insurance companies to mark an insured building.
fireplace	an open recess in a wall of a room, at the base of a chimney, etc., for a fire; a hearth.
firring furring	strips of wood to provide a level surface or air space.
flagstone	a large paving stone.
flaunching	a sloping piece of cement, e.g. round the base of a chimney-pot.
fleche	a slender spire, usu. of wood and rising from a roof.
fletton	a type of brick made near Fletton in Cambridgeshire, of a mottled yellow and pink colour.
fluate	a fluosilicate applied as a solution to building stone to make it harder and more durable.
flue	a shaft, tube, or pipe, esp. as used in a chimney, to carry off smoke, gas, etc.
flued	having a FLUE.
footstall	a pedestal or plinth.
forestair	an outside stair at the front of a house.
formwork	shuttering to contain concrete.
fortalice	a fortress; a small outwork of a fortification.
freestone	a type of building stone that can be cut and sawn with little risk of fracturing.
frieze frise	a decorated strip between ARCHITRAVE and CORNICE; a rough heavy woollen cloth; (verb) to put a frieze on.
fronton frontoon	a pediment.
furring	see FIRRING.
fusarol fusarole	an astragal moulding, a semicircular moulding round a column, etc.
gable	to form a triangular section of a wall.
gablelike	like a GABLE.
gablet	a small gable, or gable-shaped canopy, formed over a tabernacle, niche, etc.
gadroon godroon	an ornament produced by notching or carving a rounded molding; (verb) to ornament with gadroons.
galleried	having a gallery.
gallery	a long and narrow corridor, or place for walking; a connecting passageway, as between one room and another; (verb) to provide with a gallery.
gallet	a small pebble; (verb) to fill in mortar joints with small pebbles. [Fr. galet, pebble].
gantry gauntree gauntry	a frame for supporting barrels in a cellar or elsewhere.
gargoyled	fitted with gargoyles.
gault	a heavy clay used for bricks.
gazebo	a summer-house > GAZEBOES or GAZEBOS.
girder	a large beam, esp. one made of steel, used in the construction of bridges, buildings, etc.
glyph	a sunken channel or groove, usually vertical.
godroon	see GADROON.
gorgerin	in some columns, that part of the capital between the termination of the shaft and the annulet of the echinus, or the space between two neck moldings. Aka NECKING.
gothicise gothicize	to make Gothic.
gradin gradine gradino	a step or raised shelf, as above a sideboard or altar. The pl. of GRADINO is GRADINI.
grece grecian greece grees greese greesing grese gressing grice griece gris grize	a flight of steps.
grecque	a fret pattern in architecture.
grieced	having steps.
griff griffe	a claw-shaped decoration at the base of a column.
grillage	a framework of timber.
groining	a groin or an arrangement of groins; groined work.
groundplot	the plot of ground on which a building stands.
groundsel groundsell groundsill	the lowest timber of a structure.
guerite	a projecting turret for a sentry, as at the salient angles of works, or the acute angles of bastions.
guichet	a ticket window or similar small opening.
gunite	a finely graded cement concrete sprayed into position under air pressure.
gutta	a small, drop-like ornament on a Doric entablature > GUTTAE or GUTTAS.
haha	a sunken fence.
halfpace	a dais; a small landing on staircase. [OF. haut pas].
headstone	the principal stone in a foundation; the chief or corner stone.
heck	the lower part of a door, an inner door, a grating.
heroon	a temple to a hero; a temple-shaped tomb > HEROONS.
hexastyle	having six columns in front.
hoggin hogging	sifted gravel as used in building.
hoodmold	a moulding over a door or window.
housetop	the top or roof of a house.
hupaithric upaithric	= HYPAETHRAL, roofless; open to the sky.
hypaethral hypethral	roofless; open to the sky (usu. intentionally, so as to see the stars.
hypaethron	an open court.
hypocaust	an ancient air chamber or series of chambers for heating rooms.
hypogaeum hypogeum	the underground part of building > HYPOGAEA, HYPOGEA.
hypophyge	the curve where a column merges in its base or capital. Also APOPHYGE.
hypostyle	having a roof supported by columns.
imbrex	in Roman buildings, one of a series of usu. curved tiles fitting over flat tiles > IMBRICES.
impave	to pave.
impluvium	in Roman dwellings, a cistern or tank, set in the atrium or peristyle to receive the water from the roof > IMPLUVIA.
ingle	a fire in a room; a fireplace.
ingleneuk inglenook	an alcove by a large open fire.
intertie	a short timber binding together upright posts.
intrados	the undersurface of an arch or vault > INTRADOSES.
isodomon isodomum	masonry of uniform blocks in course of equal heights, the vertical joints placed in the middle of the blocks below > ISODOMA.
isodomous	in the form of an ISODOMON, masonry of uniform blocks in course of equal heights.
jerkinhead	a truncated gable with a lipped roof.
joist	a beam supporting boards of a floor or laths of a ceiling; (verb) to fit with joists.
judas	a Judas hole, a peep-hole in a door.
jutty	a pier, a projecting part of a wall; (verb) to stick out.
killogie logie	the space in front of the fireplace of a kiln.
kingpost	a perpendicular beam in frame of roof.
klinker	see CLINKER.
knosp	an architectural ornament in the form of a bud. [Ger. Knospe, bud].
lancet	a type of window.
lanceted	having lancet windows.
laquearia	a ceiling consisting of panelled recessed compartments, with bands between the panels. No —S.
larmier	a corona or other course serving as a drip-stone.
lathwork	lathing.
latilla	a stick making up part of a ceiling.
lattice	an open framework of metal or wooden strips; (verb) to provide (as) with a lattice or lattice-work.
leep	to plaster with cow-dung.
lierne	in Gothic vaulting, any rib which does not spring from the impost and is not a ridge rib, but passes from one boss or intersection of the principal ribs to another.
ligger	a horizontal timber of a scaffolding; a lower millstone.
lintel lintol	a horizontal beam supporting the load above a door.
lintelled	having a LINTEL.
listel	a narrow border or molding.
loftless	without a loft.
loftlike	resembling a loft.
loggia	a covered open arcade > LOGGIE or LOGGIAS.
logie	see KILLOGIE.
loophole	to cut loopholes in the walls of, provide with loopholes.
louver louvre	a sloping slat placed across an opening.
louvered	having LOUVERS.
louvred	having LOUVRES.
lovered	louvred.
lozen	a window-pane.
lucarne	a dormer window.
lum	a chimney.
lunette	a crescent-shaped space where a vault meets a wall.
luthern	a dormer window.
lychnoscope	a low side window.
machicolation	an opening between the corbels which support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal for shooting or dropping missiles upon assailants attacking the base of the walls.
maindoor	a door giving independent access to a house, rather than opening on a common passage.
mansard	a hipped curb roof; that is, a roof having on all sides two slopes, the lower one being steeper than the upper one. [From Francois Mansart, a French architect].
mansarded	having a MANSARD, a hipped curb roof.
mantel	the finish around a fireplace, covering the chimney-breast in front and sometimes on both sides; especially, a shelf above the fireplace, and its supports.
manteltree	the lintel of a fireplace when of wood, as frequently in early houses.
masonried	constructed of MASONRY.
masonry	the craft of a mason; work that is built by a mason; stonework or brickwork.
merlon	a narrow wall in a battlement between embrasures.
metope	a square space between triglyphs in a Doric frieze > METOPES or METOPAE.
mezzanine	an ENTRESOL; also, a small low window in an attic.
modillion	an ornamental bracket under a Corinthian or other column. [Ital. modiglione, from L. modulus, from modus, a measure].
moellon	rubble in mason-work.
moineau	a small flat bastion to protect a fortress under construction.
monial	a mullion.
monopitch	of a roof, forming a single uniform slope.
monopteral	round and without a cella; consisting of a single ring of columns supporting a roof; -- said esp. of a temple.
monopteros	a building with single ring of columns supporting a roof > MONOPTERA.
monostylar monostyle	consisting of a single shaft.
mopboard	a narrow board nailed against the wall of a room next to the floor; aka skirting board.
mortar	(verb) to join or plaster with mortar.
mortary	containing or resembling mortar.
motte	an artificial mound upon which a castle is built.
moucharaby	in N. Africa, an external balcony enclosed with latticework.
mudsill	the lowest sill of a structure, usually embedded in the soil.
mullion munnion	an upright division between window panes; (verb) to divide a window with mullions.
multipaned	having many panes.
multistory	of a building, having many stories; (noun) such a building.
munnion	see MULLION.
muntin munting	the vertical framing piece between door panels.
mutular	relating to a MUTULE, a kind of square, flat bracket, in Doric architecture.
mutule	a kind of square, flat bracket, in Doric architecture, above each triglyph and each metope, with guttae. [L. mutulus]. Cf. MODILLION.
nebule	wavy moulding.
necking	a molding between a column and entablature.
neogothic	a style of architecture popular in Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries.
newel	an upright column in middle of circular staircase; a post at the end of stairs.
newelled	having a NEWEL, an upright column in middle of circular staircase.
nogging	masonry or brickwork between wooden frame.
nosing	the projecting round edge of a stair, sill etc.
octastyle octostyle	having eight columns in the front. The Parthenon is octostyle, but most large Greek temples are HEXASTYLE.
oculus	any eye-like feature, especially a large circular window at the west end of a church > OCULI.
ogee	an arch of two curves meeting at a point.
ogeed	having an OGEE.
ogival	of or like an OGIVE.
ogive	a diagonal rib of a Gothic arch; a pointed arch.
opisthodomos	a portico or apartment at the back of an ancient Greek or Roman temple, a posticum > OPISTHODOMOI.
oriel	a projecting bay window supported with corbel or bracket.
orielled	having an ORIEL, a projecting bay window supported with corbel or bracket.
outshot	a projection in a building or a recess made in the wall of a room.
oversail	to project.
ovolo	a moulding with the rounded part comprised of a quarter circle > OVOLI or OVOLOS.
pane	to insert panes into.
panopticon	a building, as a prison, hospital, library, or the like, so arranged that all parts of the interior are visible from a single point.
pantile	an overlapping, S-shaped roofing tile.
pantiled	roofed with PANTILES.
pantiling	PANTILES collectively.
parapet	a bank built to provide protection from the enemy's observation and fire; esp. one on top of a wall or rampart, or in front of a trench.
parapeted	having a parapet.
parge parget	to plaster. PARGET gives PARGETED or PARGETTED; PARGETING or PARGETTING.
parpane parpen parpend parpent parpoint PERPENT	a stone passing through a wall from face to face.
parquet	a floor-covering of fitted wooden blocks; (verb) to cover a floor with parquet.
parqueted	covered with PARQUET, a floor-covering of fitted wooden blocks.
parquetry	the art of making PARQUET, a floor-covering of fitted wooden blocks.
pediment	a triangular structure crowning front of a Greek building.
pendentive	the portion of a vault by means of which the square space in the middle of a building is brought to an octagon or circle to receive a cupola.
pent	a penthouse; a sloping or overhanging roof.
pentastyle	having five columns in front; -- said of a temple or portico in classical architecture.
pentice pentise	a penthouse; (verb) to provide or cover with a penthouse.
pentroof	a roof that slopes one way only.
pergola	an arbor formed of columns supporting trelliswork on which climbing plants are often trained.
peribolos peribolus	a precinct; an enclosing wall of a precinct > PERIBOLOI, PERIBOLI.
peridrome	a gallery or balcony that ran round all four sides of a classical building.
peripter	a structure with a row of columns around all sides.
periptery	a PERIPTERAL building; the turbulent air around a flying object.
peristylar	relating to a PERISTYLE, a range of columns around a building or courtyard.
peristyle	a range of columns around a building or courtyard.
perpent	see PARPANE.
perron	a raised platform or terrace at an entrance door.
pilaster	a square column partially embedded in a wall.
pilework	work or foundation made of piles.
pillar	to provide with a pillar for support or ornamentation.
pilotis	a series of columns or piles, used to raise the base of a building above ground level > PILOTIS.
pinnacle	a slender spire; (verb) to equip with a pinnacle.
pinnet	a pinnacle.
pise	a species of wall made of stiff earth or clay rammed in between molds which are carried up as the wall rises. The e has an accent.
plafond	a decorated ceiling.
planch planche	a plank, a board; (verb) to floor, board.
plaster	a mixture of lime, sand, and water, sometimes stiffened with hair or other fibres, that is applied to the surface of a wall or ceiling as a soft paste that hardens when dry; (verb) to cover with plaster.
plasterboard	a thin rigid board, in the form of a layer of plaster compressed between two layers of fibreboard, used to form or cover walls.
plateglass	designating a kind of glass used for windows.
plinth	the rectangular base of a column or pedestal.
podial	relating to a PODIUM, a low wall, serving as a foundation, a substructure, or a terrace wall.
podium	a low wall, serving as a foundation, a substructure, or a terrace wall > PODIA or PODIUMS.
polystyle	having many columns.
porch	a low structure projecting from the doorway of a house and forming a covered entrance.
portal	an entrance, gateway, or doorway, esp. one that is large and impressive.
portaled	equipped with portals.
portico	a formal entrance to a classical temple, church, or other building, consisting of columns at regular intervals supporting a roof often in the form of a pediment > PORTICOS or PORTICOES.
porticoed	having a PORTICO.
postern	a back door; a door or gate distinct from the main entrance; a side way or entrance.
propylaeum	any court or vestibule before a building or leading into any inclosure > PROPYLAEA.
propylon	the porch, vestibule, or entrance of an edifice > PROPYLA.
prostyle	in Greek architecture, a front portico without ANTAE, a building with such a portico and no other.
prytaneum	a public building in certain Greek cities; especially, a public hall in Athens regarded as the home of the community, in which official hospitality was extended to distinguished citizens and strangers > PRYTANEA.
purlin purline	a supporting timber stretching across rafters.
putlock putlog	a cross-piece in a scaffolding.
quadratura	a wall or ceiling painted with arches and columns in strong perspective > QUADRATURE (which is also a singular in its own right, meaning the act of squaring).
quarterlight	a small triangular ventilation window in a car.
quoin	see COIGN.
rafter	to build or provide with rafters.
rag ragg ragstone	a rough hard stone.
raggle	a groove in masonry; (verb) to make a raggle in.
ragwork	a kind of rubblework, esp. of thin and small stones.
rainspout	a gutter, a downspout.
ravelin	a projecting out-work in fortification, having two embankments forming salient angle.
rebar	a reinforcing bar used in concrete.
reeding	parallel grooves cut into the edge of a coin at right angles to the faces.
reglet	a flat, narrow moulding.
regula	in architecture, a fillet below a TRIPTYCH > REGULAE.
repave	to pave again.
revet	to face with masonry etc. Pp. REVETTING, pt. REVETTED.
revetment	a masonry etc. facing of an embankment or trench.
rhone roan rone ronepipe	a roof-gutter.
ribwork	a rib vaulting.
rickstand	a flooring or framework on which a rick is made.
ridgepole ridgetree	the timber forming the ridge of a roof, into which the rafters are secured.
rigol	a groove in wood or stone; a slot.
riprap	a protective foundation, embankment, etc. made of loose chunks of stones placed together; (verb) to construct a breakwater or other work with a foundation of loose stone.
roan	see RHONE.
rockwork	stonework in which the surface is left broken and rough.
rococo	a style of architecture marked by much ornamentation esp. scrollwork.
rondel rondelle	a small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion.
rone	see RHONE.
ronepipe	see RONE.
rooflike	like a roof.
roofline	the outline of a roof.
roofscape	a view of roofs.
rooftop	the top of a roof.
rooftree	the beam in the angle of a roof; hence, the roof itself.
roofy	having roofs > ROOFIER, ROOFIEST.
rosace	a rosette; a rose-window.
rotunda	a rounded, domed building or hall.
roundarch	having semicircular arches.
ruelle	the space between the bed and the wall. [Fr. ruelle, little street].
rybat	a dressed stone at the side of a door, window etc.
sacellum	an unroofed space consecrated to a divinity > SACELLA.
sagitta	a keystone; a versed sign of an arc > SAGITTAS.
samel	of a brick or tile > imperfectly burnt.
sarking	thin boards for sheathing, as above the rafters, and under the shingles or slates, and for similar purposes.
scabble scapple	to work stone smoothly, without smoothing to a finish.
scagliola	stone-like plasterwork for interior decoration, made of powdered marble made into a past, applied to a gesso ground and polished.
scalpins	small stones used for drainage in excavation and as hardcore. N.B. there is no singular SCALPIN.
scapple	see SCABBLE.
scoinson sconcheon scontion scuncheon	the inner part of a door jamb or window frame.
scotia	a concave molding used especially in classical architecture > SCOTIAS.
screeding	(noun) the material of a screed, as used to finish a floor.
seeling	a ceiling. In OSPD SEELING is valid, but only as a participle of SEEL, hence SEELINGS is #.
semidome	half a dome, especially as formed by a vertical section.
semidomed	having a half dome.
semilune	a half-moon-shaped object, body, or structure. Also DEMILUNE.
severy	a compartment of a vaulted ceiling.
sexfoil	a window, design etc. with six lobes or leaves.
sharawadgi sharawaggi	in design, architecture etc., the use of irregularity for deliberate, artful, contrastive effect.
sidepiece	the jamb, or cheek, of an opening in a wall, as of door or window.
sield	= CEILED, provided with a ceiling.
skewback	either of two inset abutments sloped to support a segmental arch.
skybridge	a covered elevated bridge connecting two buildings.
skylight	a window placed in a roof or ceiling to admit daylight. Aka FANLIGHT.
skywalk	an elevated walkway between two buildings.
slipform	a form that can be moved slowly as work progresses; (verb) to work using a slipform.
soaker	a small piece of lead used to form a watertight joint with a chimney where it projects from a roof.
socle	a plain face or plinth at the foot of a wall, column etc.
soffit	the ornamented underside of a stair or archway.
solidum	a large moulding along the base of a pedestal > SOLIDUMS.
solive	a joist or beam of secondary importance.
spandrel spandril	the triangular space between the curve of arch and the right angle enclosing it.
spire+	a tall slender architectural structure tapering to a point.
spirelet	a slender spire, aka FLECHE.
staircase	a flight of stairs, its supporting framework, and, usually, a handrail or banisters.
staircased	having a STAIRCASE.
staircasing	a staircase or staircases collectively.
staired	having, or arranged like, stairs.
stairfoot	the level place at the foot of the stairs.
stairhead	the level place at the top of the stairs.
stairway	a means of access consisting of stairs; staircase or flight of steps.
stairwell	a vertical shaft or opening that contains a staircase.
stanchel	an upright beam, bar or support; (verb) to support by a STANCHEL > STANCHELLED.
stanchion	an upright beam, bar or support; (verb) to support by a stanchion.
stayre	stair.
stoep	a platform along the front, and sometimes the side, of a house.
stonework	any work in stone.
storey	a floor or level of a building.
storeyed	having STOREYS.
storiated	decorated with elaborate ornamental designs. N.B. there is no verb STORIATE.
stretcher	a brick placed lengthwise in masonry.
striga	the flute of a column > STRIGAE.
stringcourse	a horizontal band or molding set in the front of a building.
stucco	a kind of plaster for exteriors of buildings, especially highly ornamented > STUCCOES. (Verb) to coat with stucco > STUCCOS.
studding	the woodwork of a lath and plaster wall or partition; a piece of wood for this.
studwork	brickwork walls between studs; studded leather.
stylobate	a continuous pedestal supporting a row of columns.
subarcuate	somewhat arched; with two or more arches under a main arch.
subbase	the lowest part of a base.
subceiling	an under-ceiling.
subfloor	a rough floor underlying a finished floor.
sunblind	a blind to keep out the sun.
sunporch	a screened porch with sunny exposure.
surbase	a cornice, or series of moldings, on the top of the base of a pedestal, podium, etc.
surbased	having a SURBASE, a cornice, or series of moldings, on the top of the base of a pedestal, podium, etc.
surbed	to set edgewise, as a stone; that is, to set it in a position different from that which it had in the quarry.
systyle	having an intercolumniation of two diameters; (noun) such an arrangement.
tanalised tanalized	of timber, treated with Tanalith, a proprietary preservative.
tarpaper	paper coated with tar, for covering roofs etc.
teer	to daub, plaster.
tegula	a tile > TEGULAE.
telamon	a draped male figure used like a caryatid as a supporting column or pilaster, aka ATLAS > TELAMONES.
terrace	a horizontal flat area of ground, often one of a series in a slope; a row of houses, usually identical and having common dividing walls, or the street onto which they face; (verb) to equip with a terrace.
terrazzo	a flooring of marble chips set in mortar and then polished > TERRAZZOS.
tetrastyle	a building with four columns.
thack theek	to thatch.
tholobate	the substructure of a dome or cupola.
tholos tholus	a round building, dome, cupola > THOLOI, THOLI.
tierceron	a subordinate rib springing from the intersection of two other ribs.
tige	the shaft of a column. [Fr. tige, stalk].
timberwork	work made of timbers.
timpanum tympanum	the space between an arch and the lintel of a portal > TIMPANA or TIMPANUMS; TYMPANA or TYMPANUMS.
topstone	a stone that is placed on the top, or which forms the top.
toric	having the form of a TORUS, a rounded swelling.
torsel	a plate in a brick wall to support the end of a beam.
torus	a rounded swelling; the lowest moulding of a column > TORI.
trabeate	built of horizontal beams rather than arches.
trabeated	constructed of horizontal beams, as Greek architecture.
trabeation	a construct of horizontal beams.
trabecula	a rod-like structure running across a cavity and giving it internal support > TRABECULAE or TRABECULAS.
traceried	with TRACERY.
tracery	a pattern of interlacing ribs, esp. as used in the upper part of a Gothic window, etc.
transom	a structure dividing a window horizontally.
transomed	having a TRANSOM, a structure dividing a window horizontally.
trave	a crossbeam or space between crossbeams.
treille	a trellis.
trellis	a structure of cross-barred or lattice-work; (verb) to fit with a trellis.
triapsal triapsidal	having three apses.
triclinium	a couch for reclining at meals, extending round three sides of a table, and usually in three parts > TRICLINIA.
triforial	relating to a TRIFORIUM.
triforium	a gallery or arcade over an aisle; a gallery over nave and choir > TRIFORIA.
triglyph	an architectural ornament of a tablet bearing two V-shaped channels.
trumeau	a piece of wall or pillar between two openings > TRUMEAUX.
turret	a small tower that projects from the wall of a building, esp. a medieval castle.
turreted	having turrets.
turrical	like a turret.
unroof	to remove the roof from.
upaithric	see HUPAITHRIC.
vaultage	vaulted work; also, a vaulted place; an arched cellar.
ventana	a window.
veranda verandah viranda virando	a roofed gallery, terrace, or open portico along the front or side of a building.
verandaed	having a VERANDA.
verandahed	having a VERANDAH.
viga	a ceiling beam.
vomitorium vomitory	an opening in a large building by which a crowd is let out. The pl. of VOMITORIUM is VOMITORIA.
voussoir	one of the wedge-shaped pieces forming an arch or vault; (verb) to construct with a voussoir.
wainscot	to line with boards or panels; (noun) fine oak panelling.
wainscoting wainscotting	(noun) oak panelling.
walkup	(something) reached by means of stairs.
wallboard	building board, board for lining walls.
weephole	a hole in a wall to allow water to escape from behind.
wellhole	the open space in a floor, to accommodate a staircase.
windock winnock	a window.
windore	a window.
window	(verb) to provide with windows.
windowpane	the glass in a window.
windowy	like a WINDOW.
windway	a passage for air.
woodblock	a type of flooring.
xyst xystos xystus	a long covered portico or court used by ancient Greek athletes for exercises > XYSTS, XYSTOI, XYSTI.
yate yett	a gate, door.
zocco zoccolo	a plain face or plinth at the foot of a wall, column etc > ZOCCOS, ZOCCOLOS. Cf. SOCLE.

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