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parallelepiped
noun
[ ˌparəlɛləˈpʌɪpɛd ]
• a solid body of which each face is a parallelogram.
Origin:
late 16th century: from Greek parallēlepipedon, from parallēlos ‘beside another’ + epipedon ‘plane surface’.