CLUMPS

Definition: CLUMPS

CLUMPS

Noun

1. A game in which questions are asked for the purpose of enabling the questioners to discover a word or thing previously selected by two persons who answer the questions; -- so called because the players take sides in two "clumps" or groups, the "clump" which guesses the word winning the game.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "CLUMPS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Crosswords: CLUMPS

The metastatic colony is the end result of a complicated multistep process. The tumor cells from a primary tumor invade local tissue and gain access to the venous circulation (intravasation). Circulating tumor cells, singly or in clumps, are transported to target organs where they lodge in the capillary bed. Thus arrested, these tumor cells penetrate the endothelial cell lining and the underlining basement membrane to exit the circulation (extravasation). They then grow as a metastatic colony, a development that requires new blood vessels (neovascularization). To complete this multistep process, the tumor cells must overcome the host's defenses. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Lone shrub along the canyon rim. Leading up to the bush are wildflowers and clumps of grass with scattered rocks. Credit: Unknown.

Clouds. Small clumps of scattered clouds. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

He stopped and looked out at the dry fields, at the starved tree clumps hanging uneasily in the heated distance

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Sometimes some of the protein clumps together. (references)

Adenoids are clumps of cells that fight infections. (references)

TB bacilli tend to form clumps, which makes working with them and counting them difficult. (references)

Economic History

Algeria

It is generally barren except for scattered clumps of trees and intermittent bush and pasture land. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Ending with "CLUMPS": mark-clumps.

Chinese 

丛 (Clump). (various references)

German

gruppiert (grouped). (various references)

Indonesian

bergumpal-gumpal (in many clumps), bergumpal (in clumps, wads). (various references)

Pig Latin

umpsclay.(various references)

Misspellings

"CLUMPS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: clampsy, clumbs, clumpsy, clums, crumps, klump, Schlumpf. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: clump, culms, lumps, plums, sculp, slump.

-2 letters: culm, cups, cusp, lump, lums, plum, plus, puls, scum, scup, slum, sump, umps.

-3 letters: cum, cup, lum, mus, pul, pus, sum, sup, ump, ups.

-4 letters: mu, um, up, us.

+1 letter: schlump.

+2 letters: clumpish, crumples, schlumps, speculum, spiculum, unclamps, upclimbs.

+3 letters: clumpiest, opusculum, plectrums, schlumped, speculums.

+4 letters: campanulas, compulsion, compulsive, compulsory, crumpliest, municipals, operculums, schlumping, semipublic, uncrumples.

+5 letters: callithumps, compulsions, compulsives, couplements, lycopodiums, multicampus, multiphasic, nucleoplasm.