Phrase Hound found 23 phrases and 35 compound words that contain tiles. The most common are listed below. Open tiles in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 23
- floor tilesplural of floor tile: A tile, made from any material, designed to be laid as flooring.
- out on the tilesOut for a night on the town.
- rep-tilesplural of rep-tile: A shape that can be dissected into a number of smaller copies of the same shape.
- roof tilesplural of roof tile: Any tile designed to be used for the external part of a roof.
- Wang tilesplural of Wang tile: A 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 …
- roofing tilesplural of roofing tile: roof tile
- vinyl composition tilesplural of vinyl composition tile: A type of vinyl tile used as a covering for floors, especially in public areas. Abbreviation: VCT
- encaustic tilesplural of encaustic tile: A decorative glazed and fired tile, having patterns of different coloured clays inlaid in it and burnt with it.
- girih tilesplural of girih tile: Any of a set of five tiles used in the creation of girih patterns.
- Truchet tilesplural of Truchet tile: Any of a set of square tiles decorated with patterns that are not rotationally symmetric, used in information visualization and graphic design.
- crest tilesplural of crest tile: A tile made to cover the ridge of a roof, fitting upon it like a saddle.
- Dutch tilesplural of Dutch tile: A type of glazed and painted ornamental tile, used in the jambs of chimneys etc.
- field tilesplural of field tile: a 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.
- pill tilesplural of pill tile: An implement sometimes graduated with a linear scale and sometimes decorated designed to cut out with it tablets and ointments from an amorphous medicament mass.
- ridge tilesplural of ridge tile: A curved or bent tile specifically designed to cover the apex or ridge of a pitched roof, where two roof planes converge.
- tiles looseplural of tile loose: Synonym of screw loose (“state of insanity or eccentricity”).
- subway tilesplural of subway tile: A style of white glazed ceramic tile, as used on the walls of the New York City subway stations in the early twentieth century, especially the 3" × 6" size then used.
- paving tilesplural of paving tile: A tile, made from any material, designed to be laid as flooring.
- quarry tilesplural of quarry tile: A 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.
- floating wood tilesplural of floating wood tile: Multi-layer synthetic flooring product fused together with a lamination process and simulating wood.
- weeping tilesplural of weeping tile: A porous drainage pipe connected to a sump pit.
- creasing tilesplural of creasing tile: A relatively thin, flat clay tile, laid like a brick to form decorative features (within, or in place of, a brick wall) or for waterproofing e.g. the top of a garden wall.
- reflet tilesplural of reflet tile: A kind of decorative tile present in traditional Middle Eastern architecture, characterized by their reflet.
Compound words 35
- textilesplural of textile: Any material made of interlacing or matted fibres, including carpeting and geotextiles, woven or nonwoven.
- reptilesplural of reptile: A (typically scaly and egg-laying) cold-blooded vertebrate tetrapod animal, of the class Reptilia (excluding birds), such as a lizard, turtle, snake, crocodile, alligator, etc.
- gentilesplural of gentile: Non-Jewish.
- quintilesplural of quintile: Any of the quantiles which divide an ordered sample population into five equally numerous subsets.
- turnstilesplural of turnstile: A rotating mechanical device that controls and counts passage between public areas, especially one that only allows passage after a charge has been paid.
- quartilesplural of quartile: Any of the three points that divide an ordered distribution into four parts, each containing a quarter of the population.
- quantilesplural of quantile: One of the class of values of a variate which divides the members of a batch or sample into equal-sized subgroups of adjacent values or a probability distribution into distributions of equal probability.
- hostilesplural of hostile: Not friendly; appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence or a desire to thwart and injure.
- tilesetsplural of tileset: A collection of rectangular images, or tiles.
- sextilesplural of sextile: Of or denoting the aspect or position of any two celestial bodies separated by 60°.