| Decorated Tile | Usually applied to glazed tiles and can refer to hand painting, slip outline or screen printing.... | |
| Diamond Drilling | Mechanical process increasingly used to form holes in fully vitrified tiles.... | |
| Dispersion Adhesives | Pre-mixed product, also referred to as 'ready-mix' containing polymer, organic binders and additives... | |
| Dust Pressed Tile | A tile whose body has been formed in a mould or die under heavy hydraulic pressure from refined clay... | |
| Encaustic Tiles | Porous ceramic tiles decorated with in-laid coloured clays before firing but also used to describe s... | |
| Engobe Surface | Ceramic tile face given colour, opacity or other characteristics by the application of a slip coatin... | |
| Epoxides | A reaction resin associated with acid resisting tiling and grouts.... | |
| Ettringite | A natural mineral found in hydrated Portland cement as a result of reaction between calcium aluminat... | |
| Expanded Metal lathing | A material formed from thin metal sheeting expanded in size by stretching after a lattice pattern ha... | |
| Expansion Joint | A designed void incorporated into render, screed and tiling to reflect a joint in the structure or t... | |
| Extruded Tile | Manufacture of tiles by the extrusion of specially prepared plastic clays through a die that incorpo... | |
| Faience | A twice fired glazed material widely used in 19th and 20th centuries for external cladding, now only... | |
| Floating Screed | 65mm - 75mm screed laid over but not bonded to a sub-floor and separated from it by thermal or acous... | |
| Floor Tile | Material either glazed or unglazed and measuring up to 600 x 600 mm. Characteristics are described i... | |
| Frost Resistance | The ability of a ceramic tile to resist frost which is dependent on porosity and water absorption le... | |
| Fully Vitrified | Term used to describe ceramic material with minimal water absorption where porosity has been signifi... | |
| Gauge Stick | Timber batten marked with tile measurements to help establish the most acceptable setting out on eac... | |
| Gauging Trowel | Standard trowel for the application of bedding mortar or adhesive to tile backs.... | |
| Geometric Tiling | Tile shapes of more than one colour and several sizes laid to form a pattern. See also Tessellated.... | |
