Roofing

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: roof=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

Roofing, n. 

•  The act of covering with a roof.  [1913 Webster]
•  The materials of which a roof is composed; materials for a roof.  Gwilt.  [1913 Webster]
•  Hence, the roof itself; figuratively, shelter.  Southey.  [1913 Webster]
•  The wedging, as of a horse or car, against the top of an underground passage.  Raymond.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Roofing, n.
1 material for constructing a roof.
2 the process of constructing a roof or roofs.

THESAURUS

Roofing

adobe, ashlar, brick, bricks and mortar, ceiling, cement, clinker, concrete, covering materials, eaves, ferroconcrete, firebrick, flag, flagstone, flooring, housetop, lantern, lath and plaster, masonry, mortar, overhead, pavement, paving, paving material, penthouse, plafond, plasters, prestressed concrete, ridgepole, roof, roof garden, roof-deck, roofage, roofpole, rooftop, rooftree, shingles, siding, skylight, slates, stone, tile, tiles, tiling, top, walling