Landscaping Vocabulary

Here is a list of the top 200 English vocabulary items for the landscaping industry. This selection of vocabulary is based on the Occupational Handbook provided by the United States Department of Labor.

 

  1. Accredited
  2. Actual
  3. Additionally
  4. Agencies
  5. Aided
  6. Analyze
  7. Applicators
  8. Approved
  9. Architect
  10. Architects
  11. Architectural
  12. Architecture
  13. Area
  14. Arrangement
  15. Athletic
  16. Base
  17. Basis
  18. Benches
  19. Blowers
  20. Boards
  21. Budgets
  22. Building
  23. Buildings
  24. Businesses
  25. Cad
  26. Called
  27. Campuses
  28. Candidates
  29. Care
  30. Caring
  31. Cemeteries
  32. Centers
  33. Certification
  34. Chances
  35. Chemicals
  36. Classes
  37. Clear
  38. Client
  39. Clients
  40. Climate
  41. Clippers
  42. Commercial
  43. Communication
  44. Completion
  45. Computer
  46. Conditions
  47. Construction
  48. Contractors
  49. Council
  50. Create

51.  Creating

52.  Credentials

53.  Deadlines

54.  Demand

55.  Design

56.  Designed

57.  Designers

58.  Designs

59.  Detailed

60.  Diseases

61.  Drainage

62.  Drawings

63.  Driving

64.  Duties

65.  Educational

66.  Engineers

67.  Entry

68.  Environment

69.  Environmental

70.  Equipment

71.  Essential

72.  Estimates

73.  Exam

74.  Examination

75.  Examinations

76.  Existing

77.  Facilities

78.  Features

79.  Federal

80.  Fences

81.  Fertilizers

82.  Fields

83.  Firm

84.  Firms

85.  Flowers

86.  Focus

87.  Fountains

88.  Freshly

89.  Functional

90.  Fungicides

91.  Gaining

92.  Gardens

93.  Geographic

94.  Golf

95.  Graduate

96.  Graves

97.  Greenskeepers

98.  Grounds

99.  Groundskeepers

100.  Groundskeeping

101.       Handlers

102.       Hands

103.       Handsaws

104.       Healthy

105.       Hedges

106.       Herbicides

107.       Hires

108.       Historic

109.       Hold

110.       Homeowners

111.       Horticulture

112.       Hotels

113.       Ideas

114.       Impact

115.       Insecticides

116.       Institutional

117.       Institutions

118.       Interest

119.       Interns

120.       Internship

121.       Involved

122.       Irrigation

123.       Kinds

124.       Land

125.       Landscape

126.       Landscapes

127.       Landscaping

128.       Lawn

129.       Lawnmowers

130.       Lawns

131.       Leaf

132.       Leaves

133.       Levels

134.       License

135.       Licensed

136.       Licensure

137.       Lots

138.       Maintain

139.       Maintaining

140.       Maintenance

141.       Major

142.       Mow

143.       Natural

144.       Offers

145.       Parking

146.       Parks

147.       Pass

148.       Passing

149.       Pesticide

150.       Pesticides

151.  Planning

152.        Plans

153.        Plant

154.        Planting

155.        Plants

156.        Playgrounds

157.        Power

158.        Prepare

159.        Prevent

160.        Procedures

161.        Professionals

162.        Program

163.        Project

164.        Projects

165.        Pruners

166.        Public

167.        Qualities

168.        Regional

169.        Registration

170.        Restoration

171.        Roads

172.        Safety

173.        Saws

174.        Section

175.        Service

176.        Services

177.        Shopping

178.        Shrubs

179.        Site

180.        Soil

181.        Specialist

182.        Specialize

183.        Studies

184.        Subjects

185.        Supervision

186.        Supervisor

187.        Supervisors

188.        Systems

189.        Training

190.        Tree

191.        Trees

192.        Trim

193.        Trimmers

194.        Trimming

195.        Turf

196.        Variety

197.        Varying

198.        Vegetation

199.        Walkways

200.        Wetlands

By Kenneth Beare, About.com Guide