The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word NODE , but the solution may also be KNOT which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York Times).
Bump on a log crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| NODE | 63 % | 4 |
| KNAR | 19 % | 4 |
| BURL | 4 % | 4 |
| WART | 4 % | 4 |
| GNARL | 4 % | 5 |
| KNUR | 4 % | 4 |
| KNOT | 4 % | 4 |
Why may KNOT be the right solution?
The answer "KNOT" is the right solution to the clue "Bump on a log" because a knot is a raised, often hard, area on a log that can create a bump or unevenness in its surface.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Bump on a log
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- lazy
- slothful
- inactive
- passive
- passivity
- inaction
- vegetative
- inanimate
- inert
- sigmoid
- living dead
- mum
Crossword Answer definitions
NODE noun- A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
- The point where the orbit of a planet, as viewed from the Sun, intersects the ecliptic. The ascending and descending nodes refer respectively to the points where the planet moves from South to North and N to S; their respective symbols are ☊ and ☋.
- A leaf node.
- A computer or other device attached to a network.
- The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; — called also knot.
- The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode and acnode.
- A similar point on a surface, where there is more than one tangent-plane.
- A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
- A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint.
- A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.
- The knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work.
- A hole in the gnomon of a sundial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour of the day, the parallels of the Sun's declination, his place in the ecliptic, etc.
- The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result NODE
- Bump on a log
- Connector
- Protuberance
- Terminal on a network
- Connecting point
- Swelling
- Bump
- Computer network site
- Graph point
- Bump on a log?
More clues leading to the result KNAR
- Knot in wood
- Trunk bulge
- Tree knot
- Bump on a tree
- Burl on a buttonwood
- Tree trunk bulge
- Bump on a log
- Bulge in a trunk
- Knot in wood.
- Burr in wood.
More clues leading to the result BURL
- ___ Ives
- Folk singer Ives
- Growth on a gingko
- Growth on a tree trunk
- Folksinger Ives
- Ives the folksinger
- Ives the Oscar-winner
- Ives of folk music
- Ives of "East of Eden"
- Singer/actor Ives
More clues leading to the result WART
- Kind of hog
- Skin growth
- Hard rough lump
- Blemish
- Dr. Scholl's Freeze Away target
- Skin blemish
- Flaw, as it were
- Toadskin product?
- Imperfection
- Bump on a hog?
More clues leading to the result GNARL
- Bump on a tree
- Tree knot
- Bend out of shape
- Knotty protuberance
- Get all twisty
- Knot in a tree
- Knot on a tree
- Tangle
- Twist or tangle
- Twist out of shape
More clues leading to the result KNUR
- Bump on a log
- Tree growth
- Gnarl.
- Knot in tree trunk.
- Knot in wood.
- Gnarl on a tree.
- Hard tree growth
- Sylvan knot
- Knotty bump on a tree
- Tree protuberance