| A | B |
| pueblo | Adobe houses built on top of each other into cliffs and caves and on the level ground |
| adobe | Clay formed into sun-dried bricks and used as building material |
| half-timbered house | A style of house built by early English colonists in which the wood frame of the house forms part of the outside wall |
| thatch | Bundles of reeds or straw used as roofing material |
| Cape Cod house | A house witha simple rectangular design, a central chimney, and a pitched roof |
| pitched roof | A two-sided roofwith a steep angle |
| coquina | A soft porous limestone composed of shell and coral |
| gables | Triangular end walls formed by a pitched roof |
| ell | An extension built at right angles to the length of the original house |
| gambrel roof | A roof that has two slopes on each side, the upper slope being flatter than the lower roof |
| saltbox house | A two-story, pitched-roof house in which the rear portion of the roof extends down to cover a first-floor addition |
| garrsion house | A house with a second story that overhangs or projects from the first story |
| dormer | A structure tha projects through a steeply sloping roof |
| gable roof | A pitched roof that forms triangular end walls |