| stumble | (noun) an unsteady uneven gait | Synonyms: lurch, stagger |
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| (noun) an unintentional but embarrassing blunder | Synonyms: misstep, trip-up, trip |
| (verb) make an error | Synonyms: slip up, trip up |
| (verb) miss a step and fall or nearly fall | Synonyms: trip |
| (verb) walk unsteadily, tripping repeatedly | Synonyms: bumble, falter |
| (verb) encounter by chance | Synonyms: hit |
| stumblebum | (noun) an awkward stupid person | Synonyms: clod, gawk, goon, lout, lubber, lummox, lump, oaf |
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| (noun) a second-rate prize fighter | Synonyms: palooka |
| stumbler | (noun) a walker or runner who trips and almost falls | Synonyms: tripper |
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| (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, botcher, bumbler, bungler, butcher, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack |
| tumble | (noun) an acrobatic feat of rolling or turning end over end | - |
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| (noun) a sudden drop from an upright position | Synonyms: fall, spill |
| (verb) do gymnastics, roll and turn skillfully | - |
| (verb) fall suddenly and sharply | - |
| (verb) suffer a sudden downfall, overthrow, or defeat | - |
| (verb) put clothes in a tumbling barrel, where they are whirled about in hot air, usually with the purpose of drying | - |
| (verb) understand, usually after some initial difficulty | Synonyms: catch on, cotton on, get it, get onto, get wise, latch on, twig |
| (verb) throw together in a confused mass | - |
| (verb) fall down, as if collapsing | Synonyms: topple |
| (verb) fall apart | Synonyms: break down, collapse, crumble, crumple |
| (verb) roll over and over, back and forth | - |
| (verb) cause to topple or tumble by pushing | Synonyms: tip, topple |
| (verb) fly around | Synonyms: whirl, whirl around |
| tumblebug | (noun) any of various dung beetles | - |
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| tumbler | (noun) pigeon that executes backward somersaults in flight or on the ground | Synonyms: roller, tumbler pigeon |
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| (noun) a glass with a flat bottom but no handle or stem; originally had a round bottom | - |
| (noun) a movable obstruction in a lock that must be adjusted to a given position (as by a key) before the bolt can be thrown | - |
| (noun) a gymnast who performs rolls and somersaults and twists etc. | - |
| tumbleweed | (noun) any plant that breaks away from its roots in autumn and is driven by the wind as a light rolling mass | - |
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| (noun) bushy annual weed of central North America having greenish flowers and winged seeds | Synonyms: Cycloloma atriplicifolium, winged pigweed |
| (noun) bushy plant of western United States | Synonyms: Amaranthus albus, Amaranthus graecizans |
| (noun) prickly bushy Eurasian plant; a troublesome weed in central and western United States | Synonyms: Russian cactus, Russian thistle, Russian tumbleweed, Salsola kali tenuifolia |
| tumbling | (noun) the gymnastic moves of an acrobat | Synonyms: acrobatics |
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| tumbrel | (noun) a farm dumpcart for carrying dung; carts of this type were used to carry prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution | Synonyms: tumbril |
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| tumbril | (noun) a farm dumpcart for carrying dung; carts of this type were used to carry prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution | Synonyms: tumbrel |
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