Reverse Dictionary: CONSTRUCT

ADJECTIVES
► EDIFICATE constructed, built up, formed, instituted, arranged → c1470 obs.

NOUNS
► BODGE a slapdash job, esp. in constructing something → 2007 Aust. & UK sl. (Bk.)
► BODGE-UP a makeshift repair; a ramshackle construction → 2007 UK sl. (Bk.)
► EDIFICE the act or process of construction or building → 1580 obs.
► FABRICATURE construction; the act of fabricating → 1600 obs.
► MEXICAN RIG anything poorly constructed → 1966 Amer. dial., derogatory
► MONKEY in construction: a pile driver → 1965 Amer. sl.
► OPIFICE construction; workmanship; the doing or making of a work → 1616 obs.

NOUNS – PERSON
► CAMP DOG in construction camps: an employee who looks after beds and belongings → 1927 Amer. dial.
► FABRICANT a person who constructs, fabricates, or fashions anything; a maker or manufacturer → 1757 rare
► FABRICKER a person who constructs, fashions, frames or makes → 1698 obs.
► HARDHAT a construction worker; a person who wears protective headgear → 1949 orig. & chiefly US
► HARD-HATTED HANNA a homosexual construction worker → Bk1972 homosexual sl.

VERBS
► BODGE to do a slapdash job, esp. in constructing something → 2007 Aust. & UK sl. (Bk.)
► EDIFY to construct; to build (a dwelling, edifice) of the usual building materials → a1340
► EFFECT to construct; to make → 1791
► FABRIC to construct, fashion, frame, make → 1623 obs.
► FAIT to construct; to arrange; to fit → 1635 obs.
► PERSTRUCT to construct, to put together → 1547 obs.
► SUBSTRUCT to construct beneath; to lay as a foundation → 1847
► TIFF to construct; to make, to prepare; to put in order, to arrange → 1300s obs.
► TIMBER to construct; to build, or to make, as a house, ship, etc.; later, to build or construct of wood → a750 obs.