drywall

Plural: drywalls

Noun

• A board of plaster compressed between sheets of paper, used for interior walls.
• a wide flat board used to cover walls or partitions; made from plaster or wood pulp or other materials and used primarily to form the interior walls of houses
• A building material comprising a sheet of gypsum sandwiched between two pieces of heavy paper, used mainly for interior walls and ceilings.
• A wall made of this.
• A stone wall constructed without mortar or cement.

Verb

• To install and finish drywall.

Examples

• He hit a DRYWALL in Scrabble, unable to connect any letters to the existing words on the board.

Synonyms

dry wall, wallboard, drywall, gyprock, gypsum board, plasterboard, sheetrock

Related Words

cement board, drystone, gypsum plaster, lath, plaster, plasterboard