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Perimeter
Usually, a load bearing wall will be perpendicular to the roof ridge.
All exterior walls in a home are load bearing. The exterior walls on the gable end of your house do not bear much load, but the walls that the hip of the roof bear on carry your roof and ceiling joints. Interior walls are another story. Usually in a smaller one story home there is a wall that runs the midspan of the house that is load bearing for your roof and ceiling joints.
the wall
Gable is the normally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of intersecting roof pitches. The shape of the gable & how it is detailed depends on the structural system used, which reflects climate, material availability, and aesthetic concerns.
The horizontal part of a building is called a "roof."
A roof with two distinct slopes. Usually the upper part of the roof has a shallow pitch (slope) and the part near the wall is steep. A roof with two distinct slopes. Usually the upper part of the roof has a shallow pitch (slope) and the part near the wall is steep.
It may be called a 'parapet' or a 'pony wall'
I guess if its a terrace roof, you call it a parapet.
eaves
It may be called a 'parapet' or a 'pony wall'
A wall on top of a roof that forms an empty space behind it. From the front it will appear to be tall, but from behind the flat part of the roof will be several feet below the top of the wall.
A gable is a roof form where two oppositely sloping roof planes meet at a ridge, and the wall below and at right angles to both these roofs continues up to the ridgeline, forming a triangle of wall between the two roof slopes.
Eaves is the part of a buildings roof that overhangs the exterior wall.
gable end??
Perimeter
Typically, it is the part that extends beyond the building wall, aka tail of the rafter. It creates the area where you can stand under the edge of the roof when it rains.