Reverse Dictionary: BUILD

ADJECTIVES
1380 YBULD built → obs.
1470 EDIFICATE built up, constructed, formed, instituted, arranged → obs.
1658 EDIFICIAL pert. to building, architectural 
1662 EDIFYING that builds → obs.
1678 OECODOMICAL relating to the building of houses; architectural → obs.
1790 GABBARD of a building: large and old, out of repair → Eng. dial.
..L18 PUKKA of a building: solidly built 
1813 BIGGIT built → Sc.
1824 RICKLED loosely built, piled loosely together → Sc.
1824 TAPERED of a building: high and frail → Sc. obs.
1883 JERRY-BUILT built in the worst materials → sl.
1883 — SHAM-BUILT poorly built → Amer. dial.
1905 VOID of a building: empty, untenanted → Sc. & Eng. dial. (Bk.)


NOUNS
..750 TIMBER a building, structure, edifice, or house → obs.
1000 TIMBER the process of building → obs.
1382 FALLING a fragment of a building, a ruin 
1432 EDIFICATION a building → obs.
1432 EDIFYING the act or process of building; also, a building → obs.
1483 FABRIC a building; an edifice 
1541 BASILICA a large oblong building or hall, with double colonnades and a semicircular apse at the end, used for a court of justice and place of public assembly 
1549 EDIFICATION building 
1580 EDIFICE the act or process of building or construction → obs.
1581 HOUSE OF WAR a fortified building or place → obs.
1597 JAMB a projecting ‘wing’ of a building → obs.
1648 FACIATE the facade or front of a building → obs.
1667 BABEL a high building, a lofty structure 
1677 CASE the outer part of a building or house; the shell or carcass 
1679 BASTIMENT a building, a wall → obs.
1687 COB-CASTLE a satirical name for any building which overtops those around it; more usually applied to a prison 
1701 PENDLE any projection from a building → US
1705 LARACH the site of a building or habitation → Sc.
1705 SHELL the skeleton or carcass of a building or a ship
1727 BASILIC a large oblong building or hall, with double colonnades and a semicircular apse at the end, used for a court of justice and place of public assembly → arch.
..19C COB-CASTLE a flimsy building; a child’s toy house; a thing easily pushed over → Eng. dial.
1811 BIGGIN a building, a house, a cottage; a hut covered with mud or turf → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1816 BIGGING the act of building → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1822 BACKSIDE the back premises of a building or house, including the garden or fields adjoining → Sc.
1827 BIKE a building, a habitation → Sc.
1839 CABOOSE any small cramped building or place within a building → Amer. dial.
1848 CRYSTAL PALACE a large building constructed with a high proportion of glass
1862 SHEBANG any building or establishment → Amer. dial.
1866 RABBLE a carelessly erected building, wall, etc; a confused or ruinous mass; anything ruinous or dilapidated; any kind of building falling into decay → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1879 SKY-BLOTCH the dark outline of a building against the evening sky 
1886 CASTLE a large building 
1887 BACKAGE the back part of a building or row of buildings; the line or outlook of buildings or plots of land on the rear side 
1889 BUZZARD ROOST BUZZARD’S ROOST a dilapidated building; a ramshackle building → Amer. sl.
1898 BIGD a building, a house → Sc. (Bk.)
1899 DUMP a building, place, house, etc.; usually as a pejorative or contemptuous term → colloq.
..20C MONKEY-CAGE the steel structure of a modern building → sl., chiefly Cockneys’ usage
1900 PREMS premises, buildings → sl.
1904 TIMPERON any timber or wooden building → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 RAMBLE a rambling building full of strange passages and stairs → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1910GAZEBO a tall building; any tall object → Ireland (Bk.)
1930 KIP a building, any form of place → sl.
1930 MIGHTY DOME the US Congress building, or any similar large, institutional edifice → African-American sl.
1932 GAFF any sort of building; a place of residence; a shop or other place of business → UK sl.
1934 HALE a building, esp. a house → Hawaii
1939 HALLWAY a space between two buildings → Amer. dial.
1939 — STRING SLUM a row of unsightly buildings along the side of a road → US
1940 ROCKPILE any tall building  African-American sl.
1968 DERRY a derelict building → sl.
1970 CIGAR BOX a cheaply constructed building → Amer. dial.
1991 BATOPHOBIA an abnormal fear of passing high buildings (Bk.)


NOUNS – PERSON
1265 GINOUR a builder; a stonemason; → obs.
1307 BIGGAR BIGGARE BIGGER a builder → later chiefly Sc.
1350 BIGGAND a builder → obs.
1400 — HOUSER a person who builds a house; a builder
1460 EDIFIER a builder 
1544 MORTAR-MAN a builder; a person who makes or uses mortar → obs.
1549 HOUSEWRIGHT a builder of houses, especially of timber 
1607 RAISER a builder 
1634 STRUCTOR a builder
1755STRUCTURER an architect, a builder → obs.
1795 BILDER BILDIR a builder → obs. (Bk.)
1824 RICKLER a bad builder or architect → Sc.
1835 CAD a builder’s assistant; an assistant or confederate of a lower grade 
1856 PADDY a builder’s labourer; a bricklayer’s labourer who brings him stones or bricks and mortar 
1873 BEILDER a builder → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1880 UP-PUTTER a builder; an erector → Sc.
1883 JERRY-BUILDER a rascally speculating builder → sl.


VERBS
..750 TIMBER to build, construct, or make, as a house, ship, etc.; later, to build or construct of wood → obs.
1000 — BETIMBER to build → obs.
1340 EDIFY to build; to construct (a dwelling, edifice) of the usual building materials 
1607 UNBUILD to destroy or demolish a building or structure 
1623 — EDIFICATE to build → obs.
1623 — PERFABRICATE to build completely → obs.
1737 BIG BIGG to build; to build a nest → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1860 — BIGGER to build → Eng. dial.
1902 LATHE to build → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1950 WHOMP UP to make; to devise; to build → sl.