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4/4 Knotty Pine	6/4 thickness	8/4
Air Drying	Annual Ring	Appearance Lumber
Ballast	Band Joist	Base Shoe
Batt Insulation	beadboard	beaded board
Beam Pocket	Bearing Wall	bf
Bird Stop	Biscuit	Blind Nailing
board foot	Bole	bottom chord
Bow	Bowstring Truss	brad nail
Burl	Buttress	Camber
Cantilever	CDX	chair rail
Checks	chlorotic	conifer
Coniferous Forests	Core	Cripple Rafter
cripples	Crosscutting	Crowning
Dead Load	deciduous	Deflection
Design Span	Dimension Lumber	dimensional lumber
Dressed Lumber	drying in	Drywall
Earlywood	eight quarters	End Grain
Engineered Wood	fascia	Fascia
Fiber & Cement Shingle	Finger Joint	Finger-Jointed
Fire Blocking	Fire Wall	Flitch
flitch beam	Floor truss	Floor Truss
Fly Rafter	Footing	Framing Lumber
Frieze Board	furring strip	Gable End Truss
Gambrel Roof	Girder	Glue Lam Beam
Glulam	hard board	Hardboard
Header	Heartwood	Heel
Industrial Lumber	Jamb	Joist
Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL)	Latewood	Lumber Grade
Machine Stress	Medium Density Fiberboard (MDF)	Micro-Lam
MSR	Oriented Strand Board (OSB)	OSB
paralam	Particleboard	plain sawn
plumb	plywood	quarter sawn
rafter	rip cut	rotary cut
Running Foot	S4S	soffit
SPF Stud	steam bending	Truss
Waferboard	Wane	woodwright

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