Glossary
Glazier Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential glazier terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key glazier vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in glazier training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Apprenticeship
- Paid structured training.
- Blueprint
- Construction drawing.
- Curtain wall
- Non-structural glass facade.
- Glazing tape
- Seals glass.
- IGU
- Insulated glass unit.
- Journeyman
- Fully trained worker.
- Laminated glass
- Glass with interlayer.
- Low-E
- Energy-saving coating.
- Mullion
- Vertical frame.
- OSHA
- Workplace safety agency.
- Punch list
- Final fix list.
- Sealant
- Waterproof joint filler.
- Setting block
- Supports glass.
- Storefront
- Ground-floor glass system.
- Tempered glass
- Safety glass.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Glazier practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Glazier training.
Browse terms from every career in our career glossary.