| assumption | (noun) the act of taking possession of or power over something | Synonyms: laying claim |
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| (noun) the act of assuming or taking for granted | - |
| (noun) audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to | Synonyms: effrontery, presumption, presumptuousness |
| (noun) a hypothesis that is taken for granted | Synonyms: supposal, supposition |
| (noun) a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn | Synonyms: premise, premiss |
| bump | (noun) an impact (as from a collision) | Synonyms: blow |
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| (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling |
| (noun) a lump on the body caused by a blow | - |
| bumper | (noun) a mechanical device consisting of bars at either end of a vehicle to absorb shock and prevent serious damage | - |
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| (noun) a glass filled to the brim (especially as a toast) | - |
| bumph | (noun) reading materials (documents, written information) that you must read and deal with but that you think are extremely boring | Synonyms: bumf |
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| bumpiness | (noun) the texture of a surface that has many bumps | - |
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| bumpkin | (noun) a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture | Synonyms: chawbacon, hayseed, hick, rube, yahoo, yokel |
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| bumptiousness | (noun) offensive boldness and assertiveness | Synonyms: cockiness, forwardness, pushiness |
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| callathump | (noun) a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple | Synonyms: belling, callithump, charivari, chivaree, shivaree |
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| (noun) a noisy boisterous parade | Synonyms: callithump, callithump parade |
| callithump | (noun) a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple | Synonyms: belling, callathump, charivari, chivaree, shivaree |
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| (noun) a noisy boisterous parade | Synonyms: callathump, callithump parade |
| chump | (noun) a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of | Synonyms: fall guy, fool, gull, mark, mug, patsy, soft touch, sucker |
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| clump | (noun) a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects) | Synonyms: clunk, thud, thump, thumping |
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| (noun) a grouping of a number of similar things | Synonyms: bunch, cluster, clustering |
| (noun) a compact mass | Synonyms: ball, chunk, clod, glob, lump |
| clumping | (noun) the sound of a horse's hoofs hitting on a hard surface | Synonyms: clip-clop, clippety-clop, clop, clopping, clunking |
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| consumption | (noun) the act of consuming something | Synonyms: expenditure, using up |
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| (noun) the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) | Synonyms: ingestion, intake, uptake |
| (noun) (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing | Synonyms: economic consumption, usance, use, use of goods and services |
| (noun) involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body | Synonyms: phthisis, pulmonary tuberculosis, wasting disease, white plague |
| consumptive | (noun) a person with pulmonary tuberculosis | Synonyms: lunger, tubercular |
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| crumpet | (noun) a thick soft cake with a porous texture; cooked on a griddle | - |
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| dump | (noun) a place where supplies can be stored | - |
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| (noun) (computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs | - |
| (noun) a piece of land where waste materials are dumped | Synonyms: dumpsite, garbage dump, rubbish dump, trash dump, waste-yard, wasteyard |
| (noun) a coarse term for defecation | Synonyms: shit |
| dumpcart | (noun) a cart that can be tilted to empty contents without handling | - |
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| dumper | (noun) truck whose contents can be emptied without handling; the front end of the platform can be pneumatically raised so that the load is discharged by gravity | Synonyms: dump truck, tip truck, tipper, tipper lorry, tipper truck |
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| dumpiness | (noun) a short and stout physique | Synonyms: squattiness |
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| dumping | (noun) selling goods abroad at a price below that charged in the domestic market | - |
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| dumpling | (noun) small balls or strips of boiled or steamed dough | Synonyms: dumplings |
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| (noun) dessert made by baking fruit wrapped in pastry | - |
| dumplings | (noun) small balls or strips of boiled or steamed dough | Synonyms: dumpling |
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| dumps | (noun) an informal expression for a mildly depressed state | Synonyms: mopes |
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| dumpsite | (noun) a piece of land where waste materials are dumped | Synonyms: dump, garbage dump, rubbish dump, trash dump, waste-yard, wasteyard |
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| frump | (noun) a dull unattractive unpleasant girl or woman | Synonyms: dog |
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| goosebump | (noun) reflex erection of hairs of the skin in response to cold or emotional stress or skin irritation | Synonyms: goose bump, goose pimple, goose skin, gooseflesh, horripilation, pilomotor reflex |
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| grump | (noun) a bad-tempered person | Synonyms: churl, crank, crosspatch, grouch |
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| grumpiness | (noun) a fussy and eccentric disposition | Synonyms: contrariness, crankiness, crotchetiness |
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| gumption | (noun) fortitude and determination | Synonyms: backbone, grit, guts, moxie, sand |
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| (noun) sound practical judgment | Synonyms: common sense, good sense, horse sense, mother wit, sense |
| hump | (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling |
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| humpback | (noun) large whalebone whale with long flippers noted for arching or humping its back as it dives | Synonyms: humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae |
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| (noun) a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine | Synonyms: crookback, hunchback |
| (noun) an abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column | Synonyms: hunchback, kyphosis |
| jump | (noun) the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground | Synonyms: jumping |
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| (noun) a sudden involuntary movement | Synonyms: start, startle |
| (noun) descent with a parachute | Synonyms: parachuting |
| (noun) (film) an abrupt transition from one scene to another | - |
| (noun) an abrupt transition | Synonyms: leap, saltation |
| (noun) a sudden and decisive increase | Synonyms: leap |
| jumper | (noun) (basketball) a player releases the basketball at the high point of a jump | Synonyms: jump shot |
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| (noun) a sleeveless dress resembling an apron; worn over other clothing | Synonyms: pinafore, pinny |
| (noun) a loose jacket or blouse worn by workmen | - |
| (noun) a small connector used to make temporary electrical connections | - |
| (noun) a coverall worn by children | - |
| (noun) a crocheted or knitted garment covering the upper part of the body | Synonyms: sweater |
| (noun) an athlete who competes at jumping | - |
| (noun) a person who jumps | - |
| jumpiness | (noun) the anxious feeling you have when you have the jitters | Synonyms: jitteriness, nervousness, restiveness |
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| jumping | (noun) the act of participating in an athletic competition in which you must jump | - |
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| (noun) the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground | Synonyms: jump |
| jumpstart | (noun) starting an automobile engine that has a weak battery by means of jumper cables to another car | Synonyms: jump-start |
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| jumpsuit | (noun) one-piece garment fashioned after a parachutist's uniform | Synonyms: jump suit |
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| kalumpang | (noun) large tree of Old World tropics having foul-smelling orange-red blossoms followed by red pods enclosing oil-rich seeds sometimes used as food | Synonyms: Java olives, Sterculia foetida |
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| lump | (noun) a compact mass | Synonyms: ball, chunk, clod, clump, glob |
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| (noun) a large piece of something without definite shape | Synonyms: hunk |
| (noun) an awkward stupid person | Synonyms: clod, gawk, goon, lout, lubber, lummox, oaf, stumblebum |
| (noun) an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement | Synonyms: puffiness, swelling |
| lumpectomy | (noun) surgical removal of a tumor without removing much of the surrounding tissue or lymph nodes; performed in some cases of breast cancer | - |
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| lumpenproletariat | (noun) (Marxism) the unorganized lower levels of the proletariat who are not interested in revolutionary advancement | - |
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| lumper | (noun) a taxonomist who classifies organisms into large groups on the basis of major characteristics | - |
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| (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, stevedore |
| lumpfish | (noun) clumsy soft thick-bodied northern Atlantic fish with pelvic fins fused into a sucker; edible roe used for caviar | Synonyms: Cyclopterus lumpus |
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| lumpiness | (noun) The property of being full of lumps, not being smooth. | - |
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| lumpsucker | (noun) any of several very small lumpfishes | - |
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| mugwump | (noun) a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics) | Synonyms: fencesitter, independent |
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| mumps | (noun) an acute contagious viral disease characterized by fever and by swelling of the parotid glands | Synonyms: epidemic parotitis |
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| mumpsimus | (noun) a traditional notion that is obstinately held although it is unreasonable | - |
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| plump | (noun) the sound of a sudden heavy fall | - |
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| plumpness | (noun) the bodily property of being well rounded | Synonyms: embonpoint, roundness |
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| presumption | (noun) a kind of discourtesy in the form of an act of presuming | - |
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| (noun) audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to | Synonyms: assumption, effrontery, presumptuousness |
| (noun) an assumption that is taken for granted | Synonyms: given, precondition |
| (noun) (law) an inference of the truth of a fact from other facts proved or admitted or judicially noticed | - |
| presumptuousness | (noun) audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to | Synonyms: assumption, effrontery, presumption |
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| pump | (noun) a mechanical device that moves fluid or gas by pressure or suction | - |
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| (noun) a low-cut shoe without fastenings | - |
| (noun) the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body | Synonyms: heart, ticker |
| pumpernickel | (noun) bread made of coarse rye flour | Synonyms: black bread |
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| pumpkin | (noun) usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn | - |
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| (noun) a coarse vine widely cultivated for its large pulpy round orange fruit with firm orange skin and numerous seeds; subspecies of Cucurbita pepo include the summer squashes and a few autumn squashes | Synonyms: autumn pumpkin, Cucurbita pepo, pumpkin vine |
| pumpkinseed | (noun) small brilliantly colored North American sunfish | Synonyms: Lepomis gibbosus |
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| resumption | (noun) beginning again | Synonyms: recommencement |
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| rump | (noun) the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks | Synonyms: croup, croupe, hindquarters |
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| (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
| (noun) fleshy hindquarters; behind the loin and above the round | - |
| rumpus | (noun) the act of making a noisy disturbance | Synonyms: commotion, din, ruckus, ruction, tumult |
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| scrumpy | (noun) strong cider (as made in western England) | - |
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| showjumping | (noun) riding horses in competitions over set courses to demonstrate skill in jumping over obstacles | Synonyms: stadium jumping |
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| slump | (noun) a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality | Synonyms: drop-off, falling off, falloff, slack |
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| (noun) a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment | Synonyms: depression, economic crisis |
| slumpflation | (noun) a situation in which economic depression is combined with increasing inflation. | - |
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| strumpet | (noun) a woman adulterer | Synonyms: adulteress, fornicatress, hussy, jade, loose woman, slut, trollop |
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| stump | (noun) (cricket) any of three upright wooden posts that form the wicket | - |
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| (noun) a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it | Synonyms: ambo, dais, podium, pulpit, rostrum, soapbox |
| (noun) the part of a limb or tooth that remains after the rest is removed | - |
| (noun) the base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled | Synonyms: tree stump |
| stumper | (noun) a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem | Synonyms: poser, sticker, toughie |
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| stumping | (noun) campaigning for something by making political speeches (stump speeches) | - |
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| stumpknocker | (noun) inhabits streams from South Carolina to Florida; esteemed panfish | Synonyms: Lepomis punctatus, spotted sunfish |
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| subsumption | (noun) incorporating something under a more general category | - |
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| (noun) the premise of a syllogism that contains the minor term (which is the subject of the conclusion) | Synonyms: minor premise, minor premiss |
| sump | (noun) a well or other hole in which water has collected | - |
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| (noun) an oil reservoir in an internal combustion engine | - |
| (noun) a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it | Synonyms: cesspit, cesspool, sink |
| sumpsimus | (noun) a correct expression that takes the place of a popular but incorrect expression | - |
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| sumpter | (noun) an animal (such as a mule or burro or horse) used to carry loads | Synonyms: pack animal |
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| sumptuosity | (noun) the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive | Synonyms: lavishness, luxury, sumptuousness |
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| sumptuousness | (noun) the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive | Synonyms: lavishness, luxury, sumptuosity |
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| (noun) wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living | Synonyms: luxuriousness, luxury, opulence |
| thump | (noun) a heavy blow with the hand | - |
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| (noun) a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects) | Synonyms: clump, clunk, thud, thumping |
| thumping | (noun) a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects) | Synonyms: clump, clunk, thud, thump |
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| triumph | (noun) a successful ending of a struggle or contest | Synonyms: victory |
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| (noun) the exultation of victory | - |
| trump | (noun) a playing card in the suit that has been declared trumps | Synonyms: trump card |
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| (noun) a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves | Synonyms: cornet, horn, trumpet |
| (noun) (card games) the suit that has been declared to rank above all other suits for the duration of the hand | - |
| trumpery | (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, folderal, frill, gimcrack, gimcrackery, nonsense |
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| (noun) nonsensical talk or writing | Synonyms: applesauce, codswallop, folderol, rubbish, trash, tripe, wish-wash |
| trumpet | (noun) a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves | Synonyms: cornet, horn, trump |
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| trumpeter | (noun) large gregarious crane-like bird of the forests of South America having glossy black plumage and a loud prolonged cry; easily domesticated | - |
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| (noun) large pure white wild swan of western North America having a sonorous cry | Synonyms: Cygnus buccinator, trumpeter swan |
| (noun) a musician who plays the trumpet or cornet | Synonyms: cornetist |
| (noun) (formal) a person who announces important news | Synonyms: herald |
| trumpetfish | (noun) tropical Atlantic fish with a long snout; swims snout down | Synonyms: Aulostomus maculatus |
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| trumpets | (noun) pitcher plant of southeastern United States having erect yellow trumpet-shaped pitchers with wide mouths and erect lids | Synonyms: huntsman's horn, huntsman's horns, Sarracenia flava, yellow pitcher plant, yellow trumpet |
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| trumpetwood | (noun) tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems | Synonyms: Cecropia peltata, imbauba, snake wood, trumpet-wood, trumpet tree |
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| trumping | (noun) (card games) the act of taking a trick with a trump when unable to follow suit | Synonyms: ruff |
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| ump | (noun) an official at a baseball game | Synonyms: umpire |
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| umpirage | (noun) the act of umpiring | Synonyms: officiating, officiation, refereeing |
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| (noun) mediation by an umpire | - |
| umpire | (noun) an official at a baseball game | Synonyms: ump |
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| (noun) someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue | Synonyms: arbiter, arbitrator |
| wampumpeag | (noun) small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency | Synonyms: peag, wampum |
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