| busty | | |
| adj. | 1. bosomy, busty, buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed | (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves.; "Hollywood seems full of curvaceous blondes"; "a curvy young woman in a tight dress" |
| ~ shapely | having a well-proportioned and pleasing shape.; "a slim waist and shapely legs" |
| boil | | |
| n. (state) | 1. boil, furuncle | a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus. |
| ~ gumboil | a boil or abscess on the gums. |
| ~ staphylococcal infection | an infection with staphylococcus bacteria; usually marked by abscess formation. |
| n. (attribute) | 2. boil, boiling point | the temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level.; "they brought the water to a boil" |
| ~ temperature | the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity). |
| v. (change) | 3. boil | come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor.; "Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius" |
| ~ change state, turn | undergo a transformation or a change of position or action.; "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"; "The people turned against the President when he stole the election" |
| ~ boil over, overboil | overflow or cause to overflow while boiling.; "The milk is boiling over" |
| v. (change) | 4. boil | immerse or be immersed in a boiling liquid, often for cooking purposes.; "boil potatoes"; "boil wool" |
| ~ change | undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" |
| ~ overboil | boil excessively.; "The peas are overboiled" |
| ~ simmer | boil slowly at low temperature.; "simmer the sauce"; "simmering water" |
| v. (change) | 5. boil | bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point.; "boil this liquid until it evaporates" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| ~ decoct | extract the essence of something by boiling it. |
| ~ boil | come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor.; "Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius" |
| v. (motion) | 6. boil, churn, moil, roil | be agitated.; "the sea was churning in the storm" |
| ~ seethe, roll | boil vigorously.; "The liquid was seething"; "The water rolled" |
| ~ move | move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" |
| v. (emotion) | 7. boil, seethe | be in an agitated emotional state.; "The customer was seething with anger" |
| ~ bubble over, spill over, overflow | overflow with a certain feeling.; "The children bubbled over with joy"; "My boss was bubbling over with anger" |
| ~ ferment | be in an agitated or excited state.; "The Middle East is fermenting"; "Her mind ferments" |
| ~ sizzle | seethe with deep anger or resentment.; "She was sizzling with anger" |
| ~ be | have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun).; "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
| lump | | |
| n. (group) | 1. ball, chunk, clod, clump, glob, lump | a compact mass.; "a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder" |
| ~ clot, coagulum | a lump of material formed from the content of a liquid. |
| ~ agglomeration | a jumbled collection or mass. |
| ~ gob | a lump of slimy stuff.; "a gob of phlegm" |
| ~ clew | a ball of yarn or cord or thread. |
| n. (state) | 2. lump, puffiness, swelling | an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement. |
| ~ spermatocele | a swelling on the epididymis or the testis; usually contains spermatozoa. |
| ~ symptom | (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease. |
| ~ enlargement | the state of being enlarged. |
| ~ bloat | swelling of the rumen or intestinal tract of domestic animals caused by excessive gas. |
| ~ bunion | a painful swelling of the bursa of the first joint of the big toe. |
| ~ dropsy, edema, hydrops, oedema | swelling from excessive accumulation of watery fluid in cells, tissues, or serous cavities. |
| ~ haematocele, haematocoele, hematocele, hematocoele | swelling caused by blood collecting in a body cavity (especially a swelling of the membrane covering the testis). |
| ~ intumescence, intumescency | swelling up with blood or other fluids (as with congestion). |
| ~ iridoncus | swelling of the iris of the eye. |
| ~ lymphogranuloma | swelling of a lymph node. |
| ~ oscheocele, oscheocoele | swelling of the scrotum. |
| ~ tumidity, tumidness | slight swelling of an organ or part. |
| n. (person) | 3. clod, gawk, goon, lout, lubber, lummox, lump, oaf, stumblebum | an awkward stupid person. |
| ~ clumsy person | a person with poor motor coordination. |
| n. (object) | 4. hunk, lump | a large piece of something without definite shape.; "a hunk of bread"; "a lump of coal" |
| ~ nodule | (mineralogy) a small rounded lump of mineral substance (usually harder than the surrounding rock or sediment). |
| ~ nugget | a solid lump of a precious metal (especially gold) as found in the earth. |
| ~ part, piece | a portion of a natural object.; "they analyzed the river into three parts"; "he needed a piece of granite" |
| v. (contact) | 5. chunk, lump | put together indiscriminately.; "lump together all the applicants" |
| ~ accumulate, collect, compile, amass, hoard, roll up, pile up | get or gather together.; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune" |
| v. (cognition) | 6. chunk, collocate, lump | group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side. |
| ~ group | arrange into a group or groups.; "Can you group these shapes together?" |
| swelling | | |
| n. (shape) | 1. bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling | something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings.; "the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns" |
| ~ frontal eminence | either prominence of the frontal bone above each orbit. |
| ~ occipital protuberance | prominence on the outer surface of the occipital bone. |
| ~ belly | a part that bulges deeply.; "the belly of a sail" |
| ~ caput | a headlike protuberance on an organ or structure.; "the caput humeri is the head of the humerus which fits into a cavity in the scapula" |
| ~ mogul | a bump on a ski slope. |
| ~ nub, nubble | a small lump or protuberance. |
| ~ snag | a sharp protuberance. |
| ~ wart | any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals). |
| ~ projection | any solid convex shape that juts out from something. |
| n. (process) | 2. intumescence, intumescency, swelling | the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water). |
| ~ chemical action, chemical change, chemical process | (chemistry) any process determined by the atomic and molecular composition and structure of the substances involved. |
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