| burl | (noun) soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design | Synonyms: knot, slub |
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| (noun) a large rounded outgrowth on the trunk or branch of a tree | - |
| (noun) the wood cut from a tree burl or outgrowth; often used decoratively in veneer | - |
| (verb) remove the burls from cloth | - |
| burlap | (noun) coarse jute fabric | Synonyms: gunny |
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| burled | (adjective) (of wood) have a pattern from the grain of a tree burl | - |
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| burlesque | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of a burlesque | - |
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| (noun) a theatrical entertainment of broad and earthy humor; consists of comic skits and short turns (and sometimes striptease) | - |
| (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: lampoon, mockery, parody, pasquinade, put-on, send-up, sendup, spoof, takeoff, travesty |
| (verb) make a parody of | Synonyms: parody, spoof |
| burly | (adjective) muscular and heavily built | Synonyms: beefy, buirdly, husky, strapping |
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| churl | (noun) a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement | Synonyms: barbarian, boor, Goth, peasant, tike, tyke |
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| (noun) a bad-tempered person | Synonyms: crank, crosspatch, grouch, grump |
| (noun) a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend | Synonyms: niggard, scrooge, skinflint |
| churlish | (adjective) having a bad disposition; surly | - |
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| (adjective) rude and boorish | - |
| churlishly | (adverb) in a churlish manner | Synonyms: surlily |
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| colourless | (adjective) weak in color; not colorful | Synonyms: colorless |
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| (adjective) lacking in variety and interest | Synonyms: colorless |
| colourlessness | (noun) the visual property of being without chromatic color | Synonyms: achromaticity, achromatism, colorlessness |
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| courlan | (noun) wading bird of South America and Central America | Synonyms: Aramus guarauna |
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| curl | (noun) lock of hair in the shape of a spiral or curl | Synonyms: ringlet, whorl |
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| (noun) a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) | Synonyms: coil, curlicue, gyre, ringlet, roll, scroll, whorl |
| (verb) form a curl, curve, or kink | Synonyms: curve, kink |
| (verb) play the Scottish game of curling | - |
| (verb) twist or roll into coils or ringlets | Synonyms: wave |
| (verb) wind around something in coils or loops | Synonyms: coil, loop |
| (verb) shape one's body into a curl | Synonyms: curl up, draw in |
| curled | (adjective) (of hair) making curls or having been made to curl | Synonyms: curling |
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| curler | (noun) a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it | Synonyms: crimper, hair curler, roller |
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| curlew | (noun) large migratory shorebirds of the sandpiper family; closely related to woodcocks but having a down-curved bill | - |
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| curlicue | (noun) a short twisting line | Synonyms: squiggle |
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| (noun) a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) | Synonyms: coil, curl, gyre, ringlet, roll, scroll, whorl |
| curliness | (noun) (of hair) a tendency to curl | Synonyms: waviness |
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| curling | (adjective) (of hair) making curls or having been made to curl | Synonyms: curled |
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| (noun) a game played on ice in which heavy stones with handles are slid toward a target | - |
| curly | (adjective) (of hair) having curls or waves | - |
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| dourly | (adverb) in a sullen manner | Synonyms: glumly, sullenly |
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| flavourless | (adjective) lacking taste or flavor or tang | Synonyms: bland, flat, flavorless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid |
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| flavourlessness | (noun) the property of having no flavor | Synonyms: flavorlessness, savorlessness, savourlessness, tastelessness |
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| furl | (verb) form into a cylinder by rolling | Synonyms: roll up |
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| furled | (adjective) rolled up and secured | Synonyms: rolled |
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| furlike | (adjective) resembling fur | - |
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| furlong | (noun) a unit of length equal to 220 yards | - |
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| furlough | (noun) a temporary leave of absence from military duty | - |
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| (verb) grant a leave to | - |
| (verb) dismiss, usually for economic reasons | Synonyms: lay off |
| hourlong | (adjective) lasting for an hour | - |
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| hourly | (adjective) occurring every hour or payable by the hour | - |
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| (adverb) every hour; by the hour | - |
| humourless | (adjective) lacking humor | Synonyms: humorless, unhumorous |
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| humourlessly | (adverb) in a humorless manner | Synonyms: humorlessly |
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| hurl | (noun) a violent throw | Synonyms: cast |
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| (verb) utter with force; utter vehemently | Synonyms: throw |
| (verb) throw forcefully | Synonyms: cast, hurtle |
| (verb) make a thrusting forward movement | Synonyms: hurtle, lunge, thrust |
| hurler | (noun) (baseball) the person who does the pitching | Synonyms: pitcher, twirler |
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| hurling | (noun) a traditional Irish game resembling hockey; played by two teams of 15 players each | - |
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| neighbourliness | (noun) a disposition to be friendly and helpful to neighbors | Synonyms: good-neighborliness, good-neighbourliness, neighborliness |
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| neighbourly | (adjective) exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor | Synonyms: neighborly |
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| odourless | (adjective) having no odor | Synonyms: inodorous, odorless |
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| purl | (noun) a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the righthand side | Synonyms: purl stitch |
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| (noun) gold or silver wire thread | - |
| (verb) make a murmuring sound | Synonyms: sough |
| (verb) embroider with gold or silver thread | - |
| (verb) edge or border with gold or silver embroidery | - |
| (verb) knit with a purl stitch | - |
| (verb) flow in a circular current, of liquids | Synonyms: eddy, swirl, whirl, whirlpool |
| purlieu | (noun) an outer adjacent area of any place | Synonyms: environs |
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| purloin | (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, snarf, sneak, swipe |
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| purloo | (noun) thick stew made of rice and chicken and small game; southern U.S. | Synonyms: chicken purloo, poilu |
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| savourless | (adjective) lacking taste or flavor or tang | Synonyms: bland, flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, vapid |
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| savourlessness | (noun) the property of having no flavor | Synonyms: flavorlessness, flavourlessness, savorlessness, tastelessness |
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| sourly | (adverb) in a sour manner | - |
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| surlily | (adverb) in a churlish manner | Synonyms: churlishly |
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| surliness | (noun) a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger | Synonyms: biliousness, irritability, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, temper |
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| surly | (adjective) inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace | Synonyms: ugly |
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| uncurl | (verb) move out of a curled position | - |
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| uncurled | (adjective) not having been curled | - |
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| (adjective) not curled | - |
| unfurl | (verb) unroll, unfold, or spread out or be unrolled, unfolded, or spread out from a furled state | Synonyms: unroll |
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| unneighbourly | (adjective) not exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor | Synonyms: unneighborly |
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