Ceramics Vocabulary

2. an oven, furnace, or heated enclosure used for processing a substance by burning, firing, or drying
4. to wind into rings or spirals
6. a mixture of powdered materials that often includes a premelted glass made into a slip and applied to a ceramic body by spraying or dipping and capable of fusing to glassy coating when dried and fired
8. to take away by or as if by deducting
11. a simple form of hand-made pottery produced from ancient times to the present.
12. a mixture of finely divided clay and water used especially by potters (as for casting or decorating wares or in cementing separately formed parts)
14. a substance added to another in relatively small amounts to effect a desired change in properties
15. the process of maturing ceramic products by the application of heat

1. the oldest method of making pots, plates and other items out of clay
3. partly dry and hard enough for tooling
4. is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals.
5. a thick plate or slice (as of stone, wood, or bread)
6. unfired pottery
7. a line (such as a scratch or incision) made with or as if with a sharp instrument
8. to contract or curl up the body or part of it
9. unglazed china that is not to be glazed but is hard-fired and vitreous
10. a place where clayware is made and fired
13. to force or press (something) into a narrow space or to force (one's way) into or through