Building

Noun

 * 1)  The act or process of building.
 * 2) A closed structure with walls and a roof.

Adjectives for Building
ancient; antiquated; attractive; barnlike; beachfront; beautiful; brick-built; brownstone; burnt-out; capacious; carbuncle; carpeted; cavernous; century-old; clustered; cluttered; colonial; combustible; comfortable; comfortable; commercial; commodious; condemned; conservative; consistorial; contemporaneous; conventual; Corinthian; covered; curtained-off; dank; darkened; decayed; derelict; deserted; detached; detached; dilapidated; dilapidated; dingy; dirty-looking; dismal; Doric; drab.; eccentric; ecclesiastical; elegant; en suite; extensive; false-fronted; fine; firetrap; flanking; flat; flimsy; forlorn; furnished; gabled; gargantuan; gaunt; gawky; ghostlike; giant; gilt-domed; gloomy; great; grim; grimy; half-timbered; handsome; handsome; heterogeneous; high-rise; ill-looking; immense; impertinent; imposing; incomparable; Ionic; irregular; ivy-grown; labyrinthine; lean-to; lofty; long-stay; long; low-rise; low; magnificent; mammoth; massive; moated; modest; modular; monster; monumental; moss-covered; multicolored; murky; non-residential; not enough room to swing a cat; notable; obsolescent; old-fashioned; open-plan; oppressive; opulent; pagan; palatial; palatial; peculiar; Perpendicular; prefab; prefabricated; pretentious; profane; proposed; proud; rabbit warren; rambling; rambling; ramshackle; red-bricked; red-roofed; redbrick; rich; rickety; Romanesque; rooftop; ruined; ruinous; secular; secure; self-contained; semi-detached; service; severe; shabby; shuttered; silent; sinister; sleepy; smoke-stained; snug; solid; somber; sour; spacious; spacious; spaciously; speculative; split-level; sprawl; sprawling; squatting; stark; stone; straggling; stuccoed; substantial; sun-flooded; tame; timbered; towering; tumble-down; tumbledown; ugly; unfurnished; uninteresting; unique; unoccupied; unoccupied; unpretentious; useful; vaulted; vestigial; warm; weathered. well-appointed; well-constructed; white-walled; wonderful; worthy; wretched; admonitory; adorned; aggressive; appointed; arsenal-like; baronial; barrack-like; beggarly; bleak;

Verbs for Building
clutter up—; demolish—; design—; dominate—; enlarge—; erect —s; evacuate—; extend—; inhabit—; lodge in—; modernize —; raze—; renovate—; restore—; revolutionize—; segregate into—; separate—; throng through—; —looms; —pierces; — straddles; —towers.

Synonyms

 * construction
 * edifice
 * See also Thesaurus:building

Derived terms
apartment building; bldg.; building blocks; building permit; building society; building trade; office building; outbuilding; shipbuilding; bodybuilding; main building;

Thesaurus
edifice, elaboration, embassy, embodiment, erection, establishment, extraction, fabric, fabrication, farm, farmhouse, fashion, fashioning, forging, form, format, formation, forming, formulation, frame, framing, getup, growing, hall, handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, house, houseboat, hut, incorporation, junction, lake dwelling, living machine, lodge, machining, make, makeup, making, manor house, manse, manufacture, manufacturing, milling, mining, mixture, mold, molding, organic structure, organism, organization, packaged house, parsonage, pattern, patterning, penthouse, physique, piecing together, pile, plan, prefab, prefabricated house, prefabrication, preparation, presidential palace, processing, producing, production, putting together, pyramid, raising, ranch house, rectory, refining, roof, setup, shape, shaping, skyscraper, smelting, sod house, split-level, structure, structuring, superstructure, syneresis, synthesis, tectonics, texture, tissue, tower, town house, vicarage, warp and woof, weave, web, workmanship, Dymaxion house, White House, adobe house, anatomy, architectonics, architecture, arrangement, assemblage, assembly, build, buildup, casa, casting, cliff dwelling, combination, composition, compound, conformation, constitution, construct, construction, consulate, conversion, country house, country seat, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, cultivation, dacha, deanery, devising, dwelling house,