Phrase Hound found 12 phrases and 18 compound words that contain heaps. The most common are listed below. Open heaps in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 12
- Heaps' lawAn empirical law that expresses the correlation between the length of a document or set of documents and the corresponding number of distinct words.
- slag heapsplural of slag heap: A man-made mound or heap formed with the waste material (slag) as a by-product of coal mining. Can also refer to the waste by-product from a foundry or furnace, formed into such a mound.
- ant-heapsplural of ant-heap: An ant-hill.
- ash-heapsplural of ash-heap: A heap of ashes.
- compost heapsplural of compost heap: a pile of garden or other organic waste which is left to decompose. See also compost.
- dung heapsplural of dung heap: A mound of animal droppings for agricultural use.
- heaps upthird-person singular simple present indicative of heap up: To increase over a period of time; to accumulate.
- scrap-heapsplural of scrap-heap: A pile in which junk is discarded.
- spoil heapsplural of spoil heap: A heap formed of spoil (material discarded during mining or excavation).
- heaps coals of fire on someone's headthird-person singular simple present indicative of heap coals of fire on someone's head: To excite remorse in someone by returning good for evil.
- garbage heaps of historyplural of garbage heap of history: A notional place where events, people or objects which have been forgotten or have become irrelevant from a historical perspective are placed or recorded.
- trash heaps of historyplural of trash heap of history: A notional place where events, people or objects which have been forgotten or have become irrelevant from a historical perspective are placed or recorded.
Compound words 18
- antheapsplural of antheap: anthill
- dungheapsplural of dungheap: A mound of animal droppings for agricultural use.
- dustheapsplural of dustheap: A pile of rubbish.
- Heapstersplural of Heapster: A fan of English musician Imogen Heap (b. 1977).
- junkheapsplural of junkheap: A collection or pile of unwanted things
- maxheapsplural of maxheap: A heap data structure with a "less than or equal to" comparison function.
- minheapsplural of minheap: A heap data structure with a "greater than or equal to" comparison function.
- moleheapsplural of moleheap: A small mound of earth created by a mole's burrowing underneath the surface of the ground.
- muckheapsplural of muckheap: dunghill; dung heap
- mudheapsplural of mudheap: A heap of mud; by extension, any pile of metaphorical detritus