wallboard

/ˌwɔl ˈbɔərd/

Other forms: wallboards

Definitions of wallboard

1. noun

   a wide flat board used to cover walls or partitions; made from plaster or wood pulp or other materials and used primarily to form the interior walls of houses
   synonyms: dry wall, drywall

   types:

   beaver board

   a light wallboard made of compressed wood pulp

   fiberboard, fibreboard, particle board

   wallboard composed of wood chips or shavings bonded together with resin and compressed into rigid sheets

   gypsum board, plasterboard

   wallboard with a gypsum plaster core bonded to layers of paper or fiberboard; used instead of plaster or wallboard to make interior walls

   Masonite

   a type of fiberboard

   Sheetrock

   a kind of plasterboard

   type of:

   board

   a flat piece of material designed for a special purpose