Building Terms

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	abacus	acanthus	accolade	acropodium	acroterion	addorsed
	affronted	agraffe	animals	apex	applique	apse
	arabesque	arcade	arch	architrave	Art Deco	awning
	balcony	baluster	balustrade	band	banding	bargeboard
	Baroque	barrel vault	base	battlement	bay window	beam
	belvedere	blind arch	boss	bracket	broken pediment	buttress
	campanile	canopy	cantilever	capital	caprice	Carpenter's Gothic
	cartouche	caryatid	castellation	ceiling	chateau	chimney
	cincture	clerestory	clock	clocktower	coffer	colonette
	colonnade	column	composite	corbel	corbiestep	corner
	cornice	cornice bracket	cornice return	courtyard	crenelation	crest
	cupola	dentil	dichromatic	dichromatic brick	dome	door
	doorknocker	door surround	doorway	Doric Order	dormer	drip mold
	echinus	egg-and-dart	engaged column	entablature	entrance	exedra
	exterior	extrados	façade	fanlight	fenestration	finial
	fireplace	fish scale shingles	flute	flying buttress	fortress	fountain
	fractable	French door	fresco	fret	frieze	frontispiece
	gable	gallery	garden	gargoyle	garland	gatehouse
	gateway	gazebo	Georgian	gingerbread	Gothic	Gothic arch
	Gothic cottage	Greek	grille	groin	grotesque	guilloche
	guttae	half-timbered	hinge	hood mold	impost	intrados
	Ionic Order	iron cresting	jamb	keystone	kneestone	label stop
	lancet arch	lantern	lintel	lunette	machicolation	Mansard roof
	mantel	metope	minaret	modillion	molding	mosaic
	mullion	muntin	nave	niche	ogee arch	oriel window
	overhang	palazzo	Palladian window	parapet	pediment	pendentive
	pilaster	pillar	portal	portico	Post Modern	quatrefoil
	quoin	railing	rampart	relief	Renaissance	reveal
	rib	Roman architecture	Romanesque	roof	rose window	rotunda
	roundel	rowhouse	rustication	sash	scalloping	scotia
	shaft	shingle	shutter	signage	sill	soffit
	spandrel	spire	spring	stained glass	stair	tower
	tracery	transom	trefoil	triglyph	trompe l'oiel	Tudor
	turret	tympanum	vault	Venetian Gothic	veranda	vergeboard
	vernacular	volute	voussoir	window	window frame	window surround
	ziggurat		over room