ceramics

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ce=ram=ics

CIDE DICTIONARY

ceramics, n. [See Ceramic.].

•  The art of making things of baked clay; as pottery, tiles, etc.  [1913 Webster]
•  Work formed of clay in whole or in part, and baked; as, vases, urns, etc.  Knight.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

ceramics, n.pl.
1 ceramic products collectively (exhibition of ceramics).
2 (usu. treated as sing.) the art of making ceramic articles.

THESAURUS

ceramics

abstract art, adobe, art, art form, artist, arts and crafts, arts of design, biscuit, bisque, bowl, brick, calligraphy, cave art, cement, ceramic ware, china, crock, crockery, decoration, design, designing, enamelware, engraving, etching, fine arts, firebrick, folk art, glass, graphic arts, jug, photography, plastic art, porcelain, pot, pottery, primitive art, refractory, sculpture, the arts, tile, tiling, urn, vase

ROGET THESAURUS

ceramics

Calefaction

N calefaction, increase of temperature, heating, calefaction, tepefaction, torrefaction, melting, fusion, liquefaction, burning, ambustion, combustion, incension, accension, concremation, cremation, scorification, cautery, cauterization, ustulation, calcination, cracking, refining, incineration, cineration, carbonization, cupellation, ignition, inflammation, adustion, flagration, deflagration, conflagration, empyrosis, incendiarism, arson, auto dafe, boiling, coction, ebullition, estuation, elixation, decoction, ebullioscope, geyser, distillation (vaporization), furnace, blanket, flannel, fur, wadding, clothing, still, refinery, fractionating column, fractionating tower, cracking tower, match, incendiary, petroleuse, cauterizer, caustic, lunar caustic, alkali, apozem, moxa, acid, aqua fortis, aqua regia, catheretic, nitric acid, nitrochloro-hydric acid, nitromuriatic acid, radioactivity, gamma rays, alpha particles, beta rays, X-rays, radiation, cosmic radiation, background radiation, radioactive isotopes, tritium, uranium, plutonium, radon, radium, sunstroke, coup de soleil, insolation, pottery, ceramics, crockery, porcelain, china, earthenware, stoneware, pot, mug, terra cotta, brick, clinker, cinder, ash, scoriae, embers, soot, slag, coke, carbon, charcoal, wood alcohol, turpentine, tea tree oil, gasoline, kerosene, naptha, fuel oil (fuel), wax, paraffin, residue, tar, inflammability, combustibility, diathermancy, transcalency, conduction, convection, radiation, radiant heat, heat conductivity, conductivity, thermal expansion, coefficient of expansion, heated, molten, sodden, r_echauff_e, heating, adust, inflammable, combustible, diathermal, diathermanous, burnt, volcanic, radioactive.