curium
— Noun
– English
~ a radioactive transuranic metallic element; produced by bombarding plutonium with helium nuclei
curl
— Verb
– English
~ twist or roll into coils or ringlets; "curl my hair, please"
curl
— Verb
– English
~ form a curl, curve, or kink; "the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling"
curl
— Verb
– English
~ wind around something in coils or loops
curl
— Verb
– English
~ shape one's body into a curl; "She curled farther down under the covers"; "She fell and drew in"
curl
— Verb
– English
~ play the Scottish game of curling
curl
— Noun
– English
~ a strand or cluster of hair
curl
— Noun
– English
~ a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
Curl
— Noun
– English
~ American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)
curled
— Adjective
– English
~ (of hair) making curls or having been made to curl
curler
— Noun
– English
~ a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it; "a woman with her head full of curlers is not a pretty sight"
curlew
— Noun
– English
~ large migratory shorebirds of the sandpiper family; closely related to woodcocks but having a down-curved bill