protrusion
/prəˈtruːʒn
/noun
Something that protrudes; a protuberance: a protrusion of rock jutted from the mountainside...
- Despite its age, the walls were already pitted and scorched, the ceiling covered with small bumps and protrusions.
- They are coated with distinctive bumps and small protrusions against an overall veiled surface.
- Follow routes on protrusions and ridges, and always ski slow and conservative.
Synonyms
bump, lump, knob, hump, jut, projection, prominence, protuberance, overhang, eminence, ledge, shelf, ridge;
swelling, bulge, excrescence, outgrowth, growth, carbuncle
technical process
rare tumescence, intumescence, tumefaction
sticking out, jutting, projection, projecting, obtrusion, obtruding, prominence, protuberance;
swelling, bulging
rare tumescence, tumefaction
Rhymes
- loris
- lorn
- Lorrain, Claud
- Lorraine
- Lorraine cross
- Lorre, Peter
- lorry
- lorry driver
- lorryload
- lory
- LOS
- starting pistol
- starting point
- starting post
- starting price
- starting salary
- starting stall
- startle
- startler
- startling
- startlingly
- start off (or start someone/thing off)
- start on
- start (or get or set) the ball rolling
- start out (or up)