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All clay synonyms

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noun clay

  • mud — wet, soft earth or earthy matter, as on the ground after rain, at the bottom of a pond, or along the banks of a river; mire.
  • brick — Bricks are rectangular blocks of baked clay used for building walls, which are usually red or brown. Brick is the material made up of these blocks.
  • earth — (often initial capital letter) the planet third in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,755 km) and a polar diameter of 7900 miles (12,714 km), a mean distance from the sun of 92.9 million miles (149.6 million km), and a period of revolution of 365.26 days, and having one satellite.
  • loam — a rich, friable soil containing a relatively equal mixture of sand and silt and a somewhat smaller proportion of clay.
  • loess — a loamy deposit formed by wind, usually yellowish and calcareous, common in the Mississippi Valley and in Europe and Asia.
  • kaolin — a fine white clay used in the manufacture of porcelain.
  • argil — clay, esp potters' clay
  • pottery — ceramic ware, especially earthenware and stoneware.
  • slip — to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
  • till — up to the time of; until: to fight till death.
  • adobe — Adobe is a mixture of mud and straw that is dried into bricks in the sun and used for building, especially in hot countries.
  • bole — the trunk of a tree
  • marl — Geology. a friable earthy deposit consisting of clay and calcium carbonate, used especially as a fertilizer for soils deficient in lime.
  • wacke — a poorly sorted sandstone containing fragments of rock and minerals in a clayey matrix.
  • soil — the act or fact of soiling.
  • dirt — Design In Real Time

adjective clay

  • earthen — composed of earth.
  • stone — the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
  • sandGeorge [jawrj;; French zhawrzh] /dʒɔrdʒ;; French ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), (Lucile Aurore Dupin Dudevant) 1804–76, French novelist.
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