Phrase Hound found 36 phrases and 82 compound words that contain tile. The most common are listed below. Open tile in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 36
- Ceramic tile
- floor tileA tile, made from any material, designed to be laid as flooring.
- Tile HillA suburb of Coventry, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP2878).
- rep-tileA shape that can be dissected into a number of smaller copies of the same shape.
- quarry tileA very hard ceramic tile used e.g. as flooring, usually 1/2 to 3/4 inches (13 to 19 mm) in thickness, made by the extrusion process from natural clays or shales.
- tile stoveA type of indoor combustion heater with an outer covering of tiles and a firebrick maze inside.
- roof tileAny tile designed to be used for the external part of a roof.
- tile trackingThe act of keeping track of which letters have been played, usually by crossing them off a printed list.
- pill tileAn implement sometimes graduated with a linear scale and sometimes decorated designed to cut out with it tablets and ointments from an amorphous medicament mass.
- Wang tileA square tile with a colour on each side. Possible sets of such tiles are studied to determine whether they can tile the plane (arranged with like colours touching, and without rotations or reflections) and whether this can be done in a …
- tile-matching gameA type of puzzle game in which tiles arranged in columns and rows are shifted or eliminated by the player in order to align a set number (usually three or four) of the same type.
- tile-matching gamesplural of tile-matching game: A type of puzzle game in which tiles arranged in columns and rows are shifted or eliminated by the player in order to align a set number (usually three or four) of the same type.
- vinyl composition tileA type of vinyl tile used as a covering for floors, especially in public areas. Abbreviation: VCT
- weeping tileA porous drainage pipe connected to a sump pit.
- encaustic tileA decorative glazed and fired tile, having patterns of different coloured clays inlaid in it and burnt with it.
- girih tileAny of a set of five tiles used in the creation of girih patterns.
- Truchet tileAny of a set of square tiles decorated with patterns that are not rotationally symmetric, used in information visualization and graphic design.
- tile redThe brownish-red the colour of baked tiles.
- Dutch tileA type of glazed and painted ornamental tile, used in the jambs of chimneys etc.
- field tilea type of hollow clay drainage pipe laid end to end mainly in agricultural fields, with a small gap between each one so water can seep into the pipe.
- ridge tileA curved or bent tile specifically designed to cover the apex or ridge of a pitched roof, where two roof planes converge.
- tile looseSynonym of screw loose (“state of insanity or eccentricity”).
- tile sawA power saw designed to cut ceramic tiles.
- crest tileA tile made to cover the ridge of a roof, fitting upon it like a saddle.
- roofing tileroof tile
Compound words 82
- tilerA person who sets tiles.
- tilesetA collection of rectangular images, or tiles.
- tilefishAny of the mostly small, perciform marine fish in the family Malacanthidae; an important food fish.
- pantileA type of interlocking roof tile with a rounded under and over, giving it an elongated S-shaped (ogee) cross section.
- tileryA place where tiles are manufactured.
- tileableThat is able to tile the plane
- tilemakingThe manufacture of tiles.
- tileworkThe arrangement of tiles on a surface.
- monotileA prototile tiling monohedrally; any shape able to completely tile some space on its own (allowing for translation, rotation, and reflection).
- supertileA group of connected tiles that can be placed, like a single tile, in a generated landscape.