Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations
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Noun
S: (n) talc, talcum (a fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate; used in a variety of products including talcum powder)
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) ballast (any heavy material used to stabilize a ship or airship)
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)