Phrase Hound found 30 phrases and 25 compound words that contain tumble. The most common are listed below. Open tumble in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 30
- rough-and-tumbleActive, vigorous and rough, with the possibility of harm.
- tumble dryerAn electrical device that dries clothes in a rotating drum which tumbles the clothes in a flow of hot air.
- tumble downTo topple, collapse.
- tumble dryTo make or become dry by rolling about in the heated rotating drum of a clothes dryer.
- tumble dryingpresent participle and gerund of tumble dry
- tumble homeTo incline inward, as the sides of a vessel, above the bends or extreme breadth.
- tumble mustardSisymbrium altissimum, a tumbleweed-forming plant native to the Mediterranean region and widely invasive.
- tumble thistleA thistle-like herb of genus Gundelia, especially species Gundelia tournefortii, native to the Middle East, the seedpods of which break off and disperse by tumbling across the ground.
- tumble turnA turn used to reverse the direction in which the person is swimming.
- tumble turnsplural of tumble turn: A turn used to reverse the direction in which the person is swimming.
- tumble drierAlternative spelling of tumble dryer: An electrical device that dries clothes in a rotating drum which tumbles the clothes in a flow of hot air.
- taken a tumblepast participle of take a tumble: To fall off something, or down something.
- take a tumbleTo fall off something, or down something.
- tumble togetherTo mix or combine haphazardly.
- tumble driedsimple past and past participle of tumble dry
- tumble dryersplural of tumble dryer: An electrical device that dries clothes in a rotating drum which tumbles the clothes in a flow of hot air.
- tumble motorA small rocket motor mounted to a rocket stage, which fires following staging in order to cause the discarded stage to tumble and prevent it from potentially ramming the spacecraft due to residual thrust.
- tumble motorsplural of tumble motor: A small rocket motor mounted to a rocket stage, which fires following staging in order to cause the discarded stage to tumble and prevent it from potentially ramming the spacecraft due to residual thrust.
- tumble upTo get out of bed.
- tumble-carA one-horse car.
- tumble-carsplural of tumble-car: A one-horse car.
- tumble driesthird-person singular simple present indicative of tumble dry: To make or become dry by rolling about in the heated rotating drum of a clothes dryer.
- takes a tumblethird-person singular simple present indicative of take a tumble: To fall off something, or down something.
- taking a tumblepresent participle and gerund of take a tumble
- took a tumblesimple past of take a tumble
Compound words 25
- tumblelogA microblog, especially one on the Tumblr microblogging service.
- tumblesetSynonym of somersault: Starting on one's feet, an instance of rotating one's body 360 degrees while airborne or on the ground, with one's feet passing over one's head.
- tumblehomeThe inward curve of the topsides of some ship hulls; the term was also used for rolling stock on railways in Britain.
- tumblyMoving by, or as if, tumbling.
- detumbleTo prevent tumbling or spinning of (a satellite, an astronaut, etc.).
- tumblesomeMarked or characterised by tumbling
- atumbleSet in a tumbling motion.
- overtumbleTo tumble over; to trip; to fall over.
- retumbleTo tumble again.
- tumblebugA dung beetle.