If the door is smooth on both sides, it is called a slab door.
You can get slab doors as either solid or hollow core. Sold core
doors can be made from particle board with wood stiles around the
perimeter and veneer skins on both faces. The stiles can be pine
or hardwood to match the veneer. Solid doors can also be stave
core doors. Instead of the particle board, the inner filler is
random sticks of mixed woods. Fire doors are filled with a gypsum
or cementitious core. Hollow core doors are filled with a lattice
of cardboard or very thin wood slats.

Solid core doors are certainly not sold chunks of oak or birch.

Raised panel doors, on the other hand, can be solid real wood.
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"ibsys" wrote in message
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can somebody explain please what "solid core wood door" is?
is it a door made of wood?

Sorry for such a novice question.