A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc.
A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying.
A positive 1-soliton solution to the sine-Gordon equation.
An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.
Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.
A person with peculiar sexual tastes.
To laugh loudly.
To be formed into a kink or twist.
To form a kink or twist.
To gasp for breath as in a severe fit of coughing.
An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.
A word whose meaning changes depending on the situation, as by deixis.
A switcher or shunter: a railroad locomotive used for shunting.
One who, or that which, shifts or changes.
An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.
A component used by the rider to control the gearing mechanisms and select the desired gear ratio, usually connected to the derailleur by a mechanical actuation cable.
A genre of erotica focusing on lycanthropes or other shapeshifters, such as werewolves.
A spanner with an adjustable jaw size.
A person who changes the reality their consciousness resides in, through meditation or other means.
A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.
A person employed to repair the horseways and other passages, and keep them unobstructed.
A shape-shifter, or a person or other being capable of changing their physical form.