Synonyms of the word

furuncle

• n. A boil or infected, inflamed, pus-filled sore.

boil

• n. A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.
• n. The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour.
• n. A dish of boiled food, especially based on seafood.
• n. (rare, nonstandard) The collective noun for a group of hawks.
• v. (transitive) To heat (a liquid) to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To cook in boiling water.
• v. (intransitive) Of a liquid, to begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
• v. (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) Said of weather being uncomfortably hot.
• v. (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot. See also seethe.
• v. To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
• v. (obsolete) To steep or soak in warm water.
• v. To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.
• v. To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.