| blotting paper |
a soft thick absorbent paper used to blot excess ink from a piece of writing; blotter. |
| bond paper |
a high-grade paper with some proportion of rag content, used for stationery and documents; bond. |
| carbon paper |
very thin paper coated on one side with carbon or a dark waxy pigment, that is placed between two sheets of paper and produces a copy on the lower sheet of text that is written or typed on the upper. |
| commercial paper |
any of various negotiable papers, such as bills of exchange, used in business transactions. |
| construction paper |
heavy colored paper, used esp. by school children for drawing, crafts, and the like. |
| crepe paper |
thin paper with wrinkles. Crepe paper is used for decoration. |
| fanfold paper |
paper that is perforated to allow folding in alternating directions, designed esp. to lie in flat stacks or bulks for continuous feeding, as into computer printers. |
| filter paper |
porous paper used to filter liquids, commonly used in certain coffee makers. |
| graph paper |
paper printed with a uniform pattern of small squares on which to draw diagrams or plot graphs. |
| India paper |
a thin opaque paper made in Asia and used for books and engravings. [2 definitions] |
| laid paper |
paper that is watermarked with evenly spaced parallel lines. |
| litmus paper |
a small strip of treated paper used in chemistry. Litmus paper turns red in an acid and blue in a base. |
| Manila paper |
a sturdy brownish paper, used for envelopes or wrapping, originally made from Manila hemp. |
| paper birch |
a North American birch with tough white paperlike bark that curls and peels easily from the tree. |
| paper clip |
a piece of wire bent back on itself that holds papers together. |
| paper cutter |
a power-driven machine or hand-operated device used to cut or trim a quantity of paper. |
| paper knife |
a knife with a long dull blade that is used to open mail or separate the uncut pages of a book. |
| paper money |
currency in paper form, such as a dollar bill or bank note, that is issued by a government or its banks as legal tender. |
| paper nautilus |
an octopuslike mollusk, the female of which has a thin spiral shell in which she can dwell and lay eggs. |
| paper tiger |
a person, group, or nation that seems strong or powerful enough to pose a threat, but is actually weak or ineffectual; empty threat. |