Clay

Noun

 * 1) A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.
 * 2) An earth material with ductile qualities.
 * 3) A tennis court surface.
 * 4)  The material of the human body.

Verb

 * 1)  To add clay to, to spread clay onto.

Adjectives for Clay
clammy; cradling; humble; barren; encumbering; painted; sun-baked; impure; rebellious; uncofiined; tenacious; senseless; fruitful; unconsecrated; well-trodden; unconscious; breathless; human; eventful; sodden; reddish; brittle; damp.

Verbs for Clay
cart—; cast—; chisel—; cleave—; color—; compound—: daub with—; dry—; fashion of—; fire—; form of—; line with—; mix—; moisten—; mould—; paint—; plaster with—; prepare—; refine—; -; rise from—; seal soil with—; temper—; tread into—; —cements; —hardens; —moulders; —resists; —sinks; with—; shape with—; —pastes; —succumbs; —wears.

Hyponyms

 * kaolin, kaoline
 * ball clay
 * fire clay
 * potter's clay

Derived terms

 * ball clay
 * clayey
 * claymation
 * fire clay
 * potter’s clay

Thesaurus
alluvium, anatomy, arable land, ashes, blubber, body, bones, breeze, briar, briar pipe, butter, cadaver, calean, calumet, carcass, carrion, china, china clay, china stone, churchwarden, clod, corncob, corncob pipe, corpse, corpus, corpus delicti, crowbait, crust, cushion, dead body, dead man, dead person, decedent, dirt, dough, down, dry bones, dry land, dust, earth, eiderdown, embalmed corpse, enamel, fallen humanity, feather bed, feathers, figure, fireclay, fleece, flesh, floss, flue, fluff, flux, foam, food for worms, form, frame, freehold, generation of man, genus Homo, glaze, glebe, grassland, ground, gumbo, hominid, homo, hookah, hubble-bubble, hulk, human family, human nature, human race, human species, humanity, humankind, kaolin, kapok, land, landholdings, late lamented, le genre humain, lithosphere, man, mankind, marginal land, marl, material body, meerschaum, mire, mold, mortal flesh, mortal remains, mortality, mortals, muck, mud, mummification, mummy, nargileh, ooze, organic remains, peace pipe, person, petuntse, physical body, physique, pillow, pipe, pipe cleaner, pipe rack, plush, porcelain, porcelain clay, pudding, puff, putty, race of man, real estate, real property, refractory, refractory clay, region, regolith, relics, reliquiae, remains, rubber, satin, silk, skeleton, slime, slip, slob, slop, slosh, sludge, slush, sod, soil, soma, squash, stiff, subaerial deposit, subsoil, swansdown, swill, tenement of clay, terra, terra firma, terrain, territory, the country, the dead, the deceased, the defunct, the departed, the loved one, thistledown, tobacco pipe, tobacco pouch, topsoil, torso, trunk, velvet, water pipe, wax, woodland, wool, zephyr

Etymology
From clæg:, from, from *kli- “to stick, cleave”, from. Cognate with Dutch klei:, German Klei:; compare Ancient Greek γλία:, Latin glus:.

Noun

 * Albanian: argjilë, deltinë
 * Arabic:  ,
 * Armenian: կավ (kav)
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Crimean Tatar: balçıq
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe: anyi
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: თიხა (t‘ixa)
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hawaiian: pālolo, lepo kāwili, lepo mānoanoa, lepo ʻūlikalika
 * Hebrew: חומר, (ש״ע:)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 粘土 (ねんど, néndo)


 * Kannada:, , , , ,
 * Korean: 찰흙 (chalheuk)
 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian: māls, māli, zeme
 * Lithuanian: dumblas, kūnas, molinis, molis, molžemis, palaikai, purvas
 * Mongolian: шавар, лаг, шороо
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: crèadh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tatar: балчык
 * Thai: (din nĭeow),  (din nuan)
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese: đất sét, sét
 * Yiddish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * French: terre battue
 * German:


 * Greek:
 * Spanish:

Anagrams

 * acyl, lacy, Lacy