S: (n) material, stuff (the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object) "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread"
S: (n) sorbate (a material that has been or is capable of being taken up by another substance by either absorption or adsorption)
S: (n) sorbent, sorbent material (a material that sorbs another substance; i.e. that has the capacity or tendency to take it up by either absorption or adsorption)
S: (n) mineral (solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition)
S: (n) rock, stone (material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust) "that mountain is solid rock"; "stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries"
S: (n) particulate, particulate matter (a small discrete mass of solid or liquid matter that remains individually dispersed in gas or liquid emissions (usually considered to be an atmospheric pollutant))
S: (n) dust (free microscopic particles of solid material) "astronomers say that the empty space between planets actually contains measurable amounts of dust"
S: (n) elastomer (any of various elastic materials that resemble rubber (resumes its original shape when a deforming force is removed))
S: (n) earth, ground (the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface) "they dug into the earth outside the church"
S: (n) detritus (loose material (stone fragments and silt etc) that is worn away from rocks)
S: (n) waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product (any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted) "they collect the waste once a week"; "much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers"
S: (n) fiber, fibre (a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn)
S: (n) filling, fill (any material that fills a space or container) "there was not enough fill for the trench"
S: (n) foam (a lightweight material in cellular form; made by introducing gas bubbles during manufacture)
S: (n) homogenate (material that has been homogenized (especially tissue that has been ground and mixed)) "liver homogenate"
S: (n) humate (material that is high in humic acids)
S: (n) impregnation (material with which something is impregnated) "the impregnation, whatever it was, had turned the rock blue"
S: (n) paper (a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses)
S: (n) entity (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))
S: (n) part, portion, component part, component, constituent (something determined in relation to something that includes it) "he wanted to feel a part of something bigger than himself"; "I read a portion of the manuscript"; "the smaller component is hard to reach"; "the animal constituent of plankton"
S: (n) relation (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together)
S: (n) poplar (soft light-colored non-durable wood of the poplar)
S: (n) sandalwood (close-grained fragrant yellowish heartwood of the true sandalwood; has insect repelling properties and is used for carving and cabinetwork)
S: (n) boxwood, Turkish boxwood (very hard tough close-grained light yellow wood of the box (particularly the common box); used in delicate woodwork: musical instruments and inlays and engraving blocks)
S: (n) maple (wood of any of various maple trees; especially the hard close-grained wood of the sugar maple; used especially for furniture and flooring)
S: (n) ebony (hard dark-colored heartwood of the ebony tree; used in cabinetwork and for piano keys)
S: (n) sycamore, lacewood (variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree)
S: (n) teak, teakwood (hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees; resistant to insects and to warping; used for furniture and in shipbuilding)
S: (n) dogwood (hard tough wood of any dogwood of the genus Cornus; resembles boxwood)
S: (n) sapwood (newly formed outer wood lying between the cambium and the heartwood of a tree or woody plant; usually light colored; active in water conduction)
S: (n) heartwood, duramen (the older inactive central wood of a tree or woody plant; usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwood)
S: (n) burl (the wood cut from a tree burl or outgrowth; often used decoratively in veneer)