Synonyms of the word

cockle

• n. Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
• n. The shell of such a mollusk.
• n. (in the plural) One’s innermost feelings (only in the expression “the cockles of one’s heart”).
• n. (directly from French coquille) A wrinkle, pucker.
• n. (by extension) A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep.
• n. (mining, Britain, Cornwall) The mineral black tourmaline or schorl.
• n. (Britain) The fire chamber of a furnace.
• n. (Britain) A kiln for drying hops; an oast.
• n. (Britain) The dome of a heating furnace.
• v. To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting; to pucker.
• n. Any of several field weeds, such as the corncockle, Agrostemma githago, and Lolium temulentum.

bivalve

• n. Any mollusc belonging to the taxonomic class Bivalvia, characterized by a shell consisting of two hinged…
• n. (botany) A pericarp in which the seed case opens or splits into two parts or valves.

crease

• n. A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced.
• n. (cricket) One of the white lines drawn on the pitch to show different areas of play; especially the popping…
• n. (lacrosse) The circle around the goal, where no offensive players can go.
• n. (ice hockey, handball) The goal crease; an area in front of each goal.
• v. (transitive) To make a crease in; to wrinkle.
• v. (transitive) To lightly bloody; to graze.
• n. Archaic form of kris.

crinkle

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To fold, crease, crumple, or wad.
• v. (intransitive) To rustle, as stiff cloth when moved.
• n. A wrinkle, fold, crease, or unevenness.

crisp

• adj. (of something seen or heard) Sharp, clearly defined.
• adj. Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture.
• adj. Possessing a certain degree of firmness and freshness.
• adj. (of weather, air etc.) Dry and cold.
• adj. (of movement, action etc.) Quick and accurate.
• adj. (of talk, text, etc.) Brief and to the point.
• adj. (of wine) having a refreshing amount of acidity; having less acidity than green wine, but more than a…
• adj. (obsolete) Lively; sparking; effervescing.
• adj. (dated) Curling in stiff curls or ringlets.
• adj. (obsolete) Curled by the ripple of water.
• adj. (computing theory) Not using fuzzy logic; based on a binary distinction between true and false.
• n. (Britain) A thin slice of fried potato eaten as a snack.
• v. (transitive) To make crisp.
• v. (intransitive) To become crisp.
• v. (transitive, dated) To curl; to form into ringlets, for example hair, or the nap of cloth.
• v. (transitive, dated) to interweave, like the branches of trees.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To undulate or ripple.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to undulate irregularly, as crape or water; to wrinkle; to cause to ripple.

crumple

• n. A crease, wrinkle, or irregular fold.
• v. (transitive) To rumple; to press into wrinkles by crushing together.
• v. (transitive) To cause to collapse.
• v. (intransitive) To become wrinkled.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To collapse.

flow

• n. A movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts.
• n. The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
• n. (mathematics) A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of…
• n. The rising movement of the tide.
• n. Smoothness or continuity.
• n. The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
• n. (psychology) A mental state characterized by concentration, focus and enjoyment of a given task.
• n. The emission of blood during menstruation.
• n. (rap music slang) The ability to skilfully rap along to a beat.
• v. (intransitive) To move as a fluid from one position to another.
• v. (intransitive) To proceed; to issue forth.
• v. (intransitive) To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
• v. (intransitive) To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
• v. (intransitive) To hang loosely and wave.
• v. (intransitive) To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb.
• v. (transitive, computing) To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated…
• v. (transitive) To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
• v. (transitive) To cover with varnish.
• v. (intransitive) To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.

flux

• n. The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream.
• n. A state of ongoing change.
• n. A chemical agent for cleaning metal prior to soldering or welding.
• n. (physics) The rate of transfer of energy (or another physical quantity) through a given surface, specifically…
• n. (archaic) A disease which causes diarrhea, especially dysentery.
• n. (archaic) Diarrhea or other fluid discharge from the body.
• n. The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.
• v. To use flux.
• v. To melt.
• v. To flow as a liquid.
• adj. (uncommon) Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.

knit

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To turn thread or yarn into a piece of fabric by forming loops that are pulled…
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To join closely and firmly together.
• v. (intransitive) To become closely and firmly joined; become compacted.
• v. (intransitive) To grow together.
• v. (transitive) To combine from various elements.
• v. (intransitive) Of bones: to heal following a fracture.
• v. (transitive) To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying.
• v. (transitive) To draw together; to contract into wrinkles.
• n. A knitted garment.

lamellibranch

• n. any marine or freshwater bivalve mollusk, of the class Lamellibranchia or Bivalvia; includes the clams,…

pelecypod

• n. (zoology) Any of the Pelecypoda.

pucker

• v. To pinch or wrinkle; to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold.
• n. A fold or wrinkle.
• n. A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation.

riffle

• n. A fast-flowing, shallow part of a stream causing broken water.
• n. A succession of small waves.
• n. A trough or sluice having cleats, grooves, or steps across the bottom for holding quicksilver and catching…
• n. A quick skim through the pages of a book.
• n. The act of shuffling cards; the sound made while shuffling cards.
• v. (intransitive) To flow over a fast moving shallow part of a stream.
• v. (transitive) To ruffle with a rippling action.
• v. (intransitive) To skim or flick through the pages of a book.
• v. (transitive) To leaf through rapidly.
• v. (transitive) To shuffle playing cards by separating the deck in two and sliding the thumbs along the edges…
• v. (transitive) To idly manipulate objects with the fingers.
• v. (transitive) To prepare samples of material using a riffler.

ripple

• n. A moving disturbance or undulation in the surface of a liquid.
• n. A sound similar to that of undulating water.
• n. A style of ice cream in which flavors have been coarsely blended together.
• n. (electronics) A small oscillation of an otherwise steady signal.
• v. To move like the undulating surface of a body of water; to undulate.
• v. To propagate like a moving wave.
• v. To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore.
• v. (transitive) To scratch, tear, or break slightly; graze.
• n. An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom…
• v. To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple.

ruckle

• v. To crease or wrinkle.
• n. A disordered collection.
• n. A wrinkle.

ruffle

• n. Any gathered or curled strip of fabric added as trim or decoration.
• n. Disturbance; agitation; commotion.
• n. (military) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruff.
• n. (zoology) The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of several species of American marine…
• v. (transitive) To make a ruffle in; to curl or flute, as an edge of fabric.
• v. (transitive) To disturb; especially, to cause to flutter.
• v. (intransitive) To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.
• v. (intransitive) To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.
• v. (intransitive) To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.
• v. To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
• v. To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
• v. (military) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
• v. To throw together in a disorderly manner.

rumple

• v. To make wrinkled, particularly of fabric.
• v. To muss.
• v. To tousle.

scrunch

• v. To crumple and squeeze to make more compact.
• n. A crunching noise.

shellfish

• n. An aquatic invertebrate, such as a mollusc or crustacean, that has a shell, especially as food.

undulate

• v. (transitive) To cause to move in a wavelike motion.
• v. (transitive) To cause to resemble a wave.
• v. (intransitive) To move in wavelike motions.
• v. (intransitive) To appear wavelike.
• adj. Wavy in appearance or form.
• adj. Changing the pitch and volume of one's voice.
• adj. (botany, of a margin) sinuous, winding up and down.

wrinkle

• n. A small furrow, ridge or crease in an otherwise smooth surface.
• n. A line or crease in the skin, especially when caused by age or fatigue.
• n. A fault, imperfection or bug especially in a new system or product; typically, they will need to be ironed…
• n. (dated) A notion or fancy; a whim.
• v. (transitive) To make wrinkles in; to cause to have wrinkles.
• v. (intransitive) To pucker or become uneven or irregular.
• v. (intransitive, of skin) To develop irreversibly wrinkles; to age.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To sneer (at).
• n. (US, dialect) A winkle.