一、基本術語
木材防腐：wood preservation                   木材防腐劑：wood preservative
木材防腐處理：wood preservative treatment     木材保管：wood protection in storage
原木保管：log protection in storage           鋸材保管：sawntimber protection in storage
木材防火：wood fire prevention               木材敗壞：wood deterioration 
生物敗壞：biodeterioration             物理和化學損害：physical and chemical degradation 真菌：fungus                                    細菌：bacterium
昆蟲：insect                                海生鉆孔動物：marine borer
腐朽：decay/rot                             變色：stain
蛀孔：bore hole                             天然耐久性：natural durability 
天然耐腐性：natural decay resistance           含水率：moisture content 
自由水：free moisture /free water              結合水：bound moisture/bound water
纖維飽和點：fibre  saturation point           平衡含水率：equilibrium moisture content
木材吸濕性：hydroscopicity of wood          木材吸水性：water-absorbing capacity of wood 
木材透水性：water permeability of wood       細胞壁：cell wall
紋孔：pit                                 木材密度：density of wood 
木材硬度：hardness of wood                 木材強度：strength of wood 
生材：green wood                          濕材：wet timber 
氣干材：air-dried timber                     裂紋：check
干裂：seasoning check                       環裂：shake 
輪裂：ringe shake                           弧裂：cup shake
劈裂：split                                生長輪：growth ring
年輪：annual ring                           早材：early wood 
晚材：late wood                            邊材：sap wood
心材：heart wood                           熟材：ripe wood
針葉樹材：coniferous wood/soft wood         闊葉樹材：broadleaves wood/hard wood
健康材：sound wood                       腐朽材：decayed wood/rotted wood
變色材：stained wood                      素材：untreated wood

二、木材敗壞
菌害：attack by fungi and bacteria            木材腐朽菌：wood destroying fungi
擔子菌綱：basidiomycetes                  子囊菌綱：ascomycetes
半知菌類：fungi-imperfecti/deuteromyetes     結合菌類：Zygomycetes
多孔菌目：polyprales/polyporaceae          變色菌：stain fungi
霉菌：mould                             菌絲：hyphae
菌絲體：mycelium                        子實體：fruit body 
孢子：spore                               酶：enzyme
藍變blue stain                             邊材變色：sap stain
邊材腐朽： sap rot                        心材腐朽：heart rot
干基腐朽：butt rot                         白腐：white rot
褐腐：brown rot                          干腐：dry rot 
濕腐：wet rot                             軟腐：soft rot 
帶線：zone line                          蟲害：attack by insects 
木材鉆孔蟲：wood-boring insects           蟲孔：insects hole 
小蟲眼：shothole/small insect-hole          大蟲眼：grub hole
針孔蟲眼：pin hole                      表面蟲眼和蟲溝：surface insect holes and galleries
蛀屑：frass/bore dust                      蛸翅目：Coleoptera
天�？疲篊erambycidae                  小蠹科：Scolytidae
長小蠹科：Platypodidae                   竊蠹科：Anobiidae
長蠹科：Bostrychidae                     粉蠹科：Lyctidae
粉蠹甲蟲：powder-post beetles             食菌小蠹：ambrosia beetles
象鼻蟲科：Curculionidae                  吉丁蟲科：Buprestidae
等翅目：Isoptera                        家白蟻：Coptotermes formosanus
散白蟻：Reticulitermes spp                堆沙白蟻：Cryptotermes spp
膜翅目：Hymenoptera                    木蟻：carpenter ant
木蜂：carpenter bee                      樹蜂：wood wasp 
海生鉆孔動物的危害：attack by Marine borers   軟體鉆孔動物：Molluscan borers
甲殼鉆孔動物：Crustacean borers          船蛆：Teredo navalis
木材耐火性：fire resistance of wood        風化：weathering
機械磨損：mechanical wear               化學損壞（降解）：chemical degradation

三、木材防腐劑
焦油類防腐劑：tar-oil type preservative     
木材防腐油：c