pile
Meanings
- a collection of objects laid on top of each other
- (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent;
- a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit);
- fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
- battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta
- a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
- the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave;
- "for uniform color and texture tailors cut velvet with the pile running the same direction"
- a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy
- arrange in stacks;
- press tightly together or cram;
- place or lay as if in a pile;
- "The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested"
- PILE v PILED, PILING, PILES to lay one upon the other
Synonyms
- heap
- mound
- agglomerate
- cumulation
- cumulus
- batch
- deal
- flock
- good deal
- great deal
- hatful
- lot
- mass
- mess
- mickle
- mint
- mountain
- muckle
- passel
- peck
- plenty
- pot
- quite a little
- raft
- sight
- slew
- spate
- stack
- tidy sum
- wad
- bundle
- big bucks
- megabucks
- big money
- down
- voltaic pile
- galvanic pile
- spile
- piling
- stilt
- nap
- atomic pile
- atomic reactor
- chain reactor
- throng
- mob
- pack
- jam
Scrabble Score: 6
pile is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordpile is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
pile is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 8
pile is a valid Words With Friends word