Synonyms of the word

slub

• n. A small thickened portion or knot found on linen yarn, caused by defects.
• n. Sludge.
• n. Fabric fiber produced by slubbing.
• v. To draw and twist fibers in order to prepare them for spinning.

burl

• n. A tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner.
• n. Wood of a mottled veneer, usually cut from such a growth.
• n. A knot or lump in thread or cloth.
• v. To remove the knots in cloth.

knot

• n. A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without…
• n. (of hair, etc) A tangled clump.
• n. A maze-like pattern.
• n. (mathematics) A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction…
• n. A difficult situation.
• n. The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.
• n. Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
• n. A protuberant joint in a plant.
• n. Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
• n. The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.
• n. (engineering) A node.
• n. A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.
• n. A group of people or things.
• n. A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
• n. (nautical) A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour. (From the practice of counting the number…
• n. (slang) A nautical mile (incorrectly).
• v. To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots.
• v. To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.
• v. To unite closely; to knit together.
• v. (obsolete, rare) To entangle or perplex; to puzzle.
• n. One of a variety of shore birds; the red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus).

raggedness

• n. The characteristic of being ragged.

roughness

• n. The property of being rough, coarseness.