Alabaster

Noun

 * 1) A fine-grained white or lightly-tinted variety of gypsum, used ornamentally.
 * 2)  A variety of calcite, translucent and sometimes banded.

Adjective

 * 1) Made of alabaster
 * 2) Resembling alabaster: white, pale, translucent.

Thesaurus
amphibole; antimony; apatite; aplite; arsenic; asbestos; asphalt; azurite; bauxite; billiard table; bitumen; boron; bowling alley; bowling green; brimstone; bromine; brucite; calcite; carbon; celestite; chalcedony; chalk; chlorite; chromite; clay; coal; coke; corundum; cryolite; diatomite; driven snow; emery; epidote; epsomite; feldspar; flat; fleece; flour; foam; garnet; glass; glauconite; graphite; gypsum; hatchettine; holosiderite; ice; iron pyrites; ivory; jet; kyanite; level; lignite; lily; lime; maggot; magnesite; mahogany; malachite; maltha; marble; marcasite; marl; meerschaum; mica; milk; mineral coal; mineral oil; mineral salt; mineral tallow; mineral tar; mineral wax; molybdenite; monazite; obsidian; olivine; ozokerite; paper; pearl; peat; perlite; phosphate rock; phosphorus; plane; pumice; pyrite; pyrites; pyroxene; quartz; realgar; red clay; rhodonite; rock crystal; rocks; salt; satin; selenite; selenium; sheet; siderite; silica; silicate; silicon; silk; silver; slide; smooth; snow; spar; spinel; spodumene; sulfur; swan; talc; talcum; tellurium; tennis court; velvet; wollastonite; wulfenite; zeolite