This is a list of pottery and ceramic terms.

A

Absorbency: Alumina: Ark: Atmosphere:

B

Backstamp: Ball clay: Ball mill: Band: Batt: Batt wash: Bentonite: Biscuit: Biscuit porcelain: Biscuit firing: Bloating: Blunging: Body: Bone ash: (W) Bone china: (W) Bone-dry: Brongniart's formula: Bullers ring:

C

Calcine: Candling: Carbonizing: Casting: Celadon: Ceramic: Chamotte: Chemical porcelain: China Clay: China stone: Clay: Clay body: Coiling: Cone: Crackle glaze: Crawling: Crazing: Crock: Crocker: Crockery: Crystalline glaze:

D

Deairing: Deflocculate: Delftware: Devitrify: Dipping: Dribbler: Dunt:

E

Earthenware: Electrical porcelain: Enamel: Eutectic: Engobe:

F

Faience: Fat clay: feldpsar: Fettling: Filler: Filter press: Fine Fireclay: Fire clay: firing: Flambé: Flatware: Flint: Flocculate: Fluidity: Flux: Frit: Fusion:

G

Potter's gauge: Glaze: Glaze fit: Glost firing: Greenware: Grog: Gum arabic:

H

Hard-paste porcelain: Hollowware:

I

Iron oxide:

J

Jigger: Jolley:

K

Kaolin: Kidney: Kiln: Kiln furniture: Kiln spurs: Kneading:

L

Lawn: Leather-hard: Loss of Ignition: Lustre: Luting:

M

Magnesia porcelain: Maiolica: Majolica: Matte glaze: Maturing temperature: Maturity: Metal release: Modulus of Rupture: Muffle kiln: Mullite:

O

Once-fired, green-fired: Opacifier: Orton cones: Overfired: Overglaze: Oxidation: Oxidising firing:

P

Paper Clay: Penetrometer: Pinholes: Plasticity: Porcelain: Potsherd: Potter: Potter's clay: (Potter's) Wheel: Pottery: Production pottery: Pug: Pyrometer: Pyrometric cones:

Q

Quartz: Quartz inversion:

R

Recipe: Roller-head machine: Raw: Raw glazing: Reduction porcelain: Reduction: Refractory: Rib tool:

S

Saggar: Seconds: Short: Single-fired: Sintering: Slip: Slip casting: Slipware: Slop: Soaking: Soda ash: Soda sil.: Soft-paste porcelain: Sprigging: Spraying: Stilt: Stoneware: Seger cone: Slumping: Slurry: Spangling:

T

Terracotta: Tin-glazed: Tow: Coarse fibre used to fettle unfired ware. Traditionally natural materials, such as flax or hemp. Thermal shock: Throwing: Tile crank:

U

Underfired: Underglaze:

V

Viscometer: Vitreous: Vitreous China: Vitrification:

W

Wad box: Water Absorption: Wax resist: Wedging: Whiteware: