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earth mixed with straw, used for making bricks to build houses

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sand or small stones used for making concrete (=material used for building)

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a substance that does not burn easily that was used in building materials in the past. It is now known to cause cancer and is no longer used.

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a black sticky substance made from petroleum, used for making roads and covering roofs

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a long thin flat piece of wood, used especially for making floors and other parts of buildings

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boards joined together to make something such as a floor or a fence

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a large light brick made from cement and cinders that is used in building

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a block used for building walls and other structures

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bricks used as a building material

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a type of reddish-brown stone, often used for building

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a substance that you use for caulking something

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a substance that is put into a cavity wall to keep heat inside a building

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a grey powder used in building that becomes very hard when you mix it with sand and water

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a breeze block

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a hard substance such as wood, stone, or metal that is put on the outside of a structure, especially a building, to protect it or make it look more attractive

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wooden boards used for covering the outside of a building

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one of these wooden boards

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a hard substance used in building made by mixing cement, sand, small stones, and water

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a layer of plastic material that is built into the bottom of the walls of a building to stop damp from rising up into the walls from the ground

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a mixture of wet clay and straw (=dried plant stems), used for making walls, especially in the past

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wood used for making this floor

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strong and very sticky cloth that is often used for covering cracks or holes in pipes

the American spelling of fibreboard

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a hard light substance made from wood fibres pressed together, used in building

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fibrocement: a building material that is made from asbestos and cement and can cause lung disease

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a substance used for repairing holes in walls and in wood

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a long wooden board that is part of a wooden floor

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pieces of galvanized tin (=a soft white metal) that are used for making roofs or fences

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a very large metal bar used for making the frame of a building, bridge, or other large structure

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a type of very hard stone, used especially for building

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thin light board made by pressing very small pieces of wood together

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pieces of broken stone and brick used to make the surface that something is built on

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sticky material that you wrap around electrical wires in order to insulate them

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material used for preventing heat, cold, noise, or electricity from passing through something

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a substance that reduces the amount of heat, cold, noise, or electricity that can pass through something

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a hard heavy metal that is a common element. It is used for making steel and is also used in many types of machine and building structures.

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a substance that consists of several thin layers of wood, plastic, glass etc

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a long thin piece of wood used in building

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flat pieces of lead used for covering roofs

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a white substance used for making cement and for helping plants to grow

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a type of white or grey stone containing calcium, used for building and making cement

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timber

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a hard smooth stone used for building and making statues. Marble is usually white with dark lines that are not regular in shape

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the bricks or stones that make a building, wall, or other structure

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medium-density fibreboard: a building material made of small pieces of wood pressed together to form boards, used for making furniture, doors etc

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a substance used in building for joining bricks or stones, made by mixing together sand, water, and lime

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earth used as a building material

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a floor made of blocks of wood that form a pattern

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bricks, blocks of stone, or concrete used for covering an area of ground

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a substance that consists of cement mixed with a lot of small pebbles and is spread over the outside walls of a house

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a long tube that can be cut into smaller tubes to make pipes

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a thick black sticky substance used on roofs and ships to stop water getting through

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a long narrow piece of wood used for making structures such as floors

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planks used for making a floor

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a substance that is spread onto walls and ceilings to form a hard smooth surface

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plaster that is put between layers of strong paper, and is used for covering walls

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a type of board used for building houses, furniture etc, made from thin layers of wood that are fixed together using glue

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the cement or mortar between the stones or bricks in a wall

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already made into the correct shape to use for building a structure

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a soft grey substance used for fixing glass into windows

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a thick tile for floors that has a slightly rough surface

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concrete with metal bars inside it to make it stronger

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plaster or cement used for covering a wall

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material used for making or repairing the roofs of buildings

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a type of pale yellow stone used for building, made from sand that has become hard over many years

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poles and boards used for making a scaffold on the outside of a building

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one of many small flat pieces of wood that form the outer surface of a wall or roof

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a large flat piece of a hard material such as stone or wood

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a single flat piece of slate that is used with others for covering a roof

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the hard substance that rocks are made of, often used for building

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a substance used for covering walls, usually on the outside of a building, to give them a rough surface

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a flat piece of baked clay or stone that is used for covering a roof

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a flat square piece of baked clay or another substance used for covering a wall or a floor

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wood used for building houses or making furniture

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a piece of wood used for building

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a substance used for making walls, consisting of large sticks with small branches between them

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one of a set of wooden boards used for protecting the outside of some buildings, arranged so that the base of one board covers the top of the next

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a square piece of wood that forms part of a floor

a substance used in the past for building walls, consisting of wattle covered with clay