All protuberance synonyms

noun protuberance

• bulkiness — of relatively large and cumbersome bulk or size.
• knurl — a small ridge or bead, especially one of a series, as on a button for decoration or on the edge of a thumbscrew to assist in obtaining a firm grip.
• nodulation — The presence of nodules.
• jutting — to extend beyond the main body or line; project; protrude (often followed by out): The narrow strip of land juts out into the bay.
• lobe — a roundish projection or division, as of an organ or a leaf.
• distension — the act of distending or the state of being distended.
• nodule — a small node, knot, or knob.
• ledge — a relatively narrow, projecting part, as a horizontal, shelflike projection on a wall or a raised edge on a tray.
• ancillaries — subordinate; subsidiary.
• knob — a projecting part, usually rounded, forming the handle of a door, drawer, or the like.
• excrescence — A distinct outgrowth on a human or animal body or on a plant, especially one that is the result of disease or abnormality.
• esker — A long ridge of gravel and other sediment, typically having a winding course, deposited by meltwater from a retreating glacier or ice sheet.
• downs — from higher to lower; in descending direction or order; toward, into, or in a lower position: to come down the ladder.
• highland — a region in N Scotland, including a number of the Inner Hebrides. 9710 sq. mi. (25,148 sq. km).
• kyphosis — an abnormal, convex curvature of the spine, with a resultant bulge at the upper back.
• hummock — Also, hammock. an elevated tract of land rising above the general level of a marshy region.
• bagginess — The characteristic of being baggy.
• highlands — a region in N Scotland, including a number of the Inner Hebrides. 9710 sq. mi. (25,148 sq. km).
• knot — either of two large sandpipers, Calidris canutus or C. tenuirostris, that breed in the Arctic and winter in the Southern Hemisphere.
• hill — the small hill in Washington, D.C., on which the Capitol stands.
• wart — a small, often hard, abnormal elevation on the skin, usually caused by a papomavirus.
• conspicuity — conspicuousness
• knap — a crest or summit of a small hill.
• bunion — A bunion is a large painful lump on the first joint of a person's big toe.
• antenna — The antennae of something such as an insect or crustacean are the two long, thin parts attached to its head that it uses to feel things with.
• intumescence — a swelling up, as with congestion.
• hillside — a township in NE New Jersey.
• burl — a small knot or lump in wool
• flab — flabby flesh; unwanted fat: Daily exercise will get rid of the flab around your waist.
• hump — a rounded protuberance, especially a fleshy protuberance on the back, as that due to abnormal curvature of the spine in humans, or that normally present in certain animals, as the camel or bison.
• convexedness — The state or quality of being convexed.
• conspicuousness — Openness or exposure to the view; a state of being clearly visible.
• crag — A crag is a steep rocky cliff or part of a mountain.
• lump — a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape: a lump of coal.
• hilltop — the top or summit of a hill.
• markedness — strikingly noticeable; conspicuous: with marked success.
• gibbosity — the state of being gibbous.
• bulb — A bulb is the glass part of an electric lamp, which gives out light when electricity passes through it.
• fatness — the state or condition of being fat; obesity; corpulence.
• fleshiness — The state or characteristic of being fleshy.
• wing — either of the two forelimbs of most birds and of bats, corresponding to the human arms, that are specialized for flight.
• knuckle — a joint of a finger, especially one of the articulations of a metacarpal with a phalanx.
• ell — A former measure of length (equivalent to six hand breadths) used mainly for textiles, locally variable but typically about 45 inches.
• bulge — If something such as a person's stomach bulges, it sticks out.
• flabs — flabby flesh; unwanted fat: Daily exercise will get rid of the flab around your waist.
• butte — an isolated steep-sided flat-topped hill
• doorknob — the handle or knob by which a door is opened or closed.
• corm — an organ of vegetative reproduction in plants such as the crocus, consisting of a globular stem base swollen with food and surrounded by papery scale leaves
• convexity — the state or quality of being convex
• crags — the neck, throat, or craw.