Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

250. Convexity — N. convexity, prominence, projection, swelling,

gibbosity†, bilge, bulge, protuberance, protrusion; camber, cahot [U.S.]. thank-ye-ma'am [U.S.]. swell. intumescence; tumour [Brit.], tumor; tubercle, tuberosity [Anat.]; excrescence; hump, hunch, bunch. boss, embossment, hub, hubble; [convex body parts] tooth [U.S.], knob, elbow, process, apophysis†, condyle, bulb, node, nodule, nodosity†, tongue, dorsum, bump, clump; sugar loaf &c (sharpness) 253; bow; mamelon†; molar; belly, corporation†, pot belly, gut [Coll.]; withers, back, shoulder, lip, flange. [convexities on skin] pimple, zit [Slang]; wen, wheel, papula [Med.], pustule, pock, proud flesh, growth, sarcoma, caruncle†, corn, wart, pappiloma, furuncle, polypus†, fungus, fungosity†, exostosis†, bleb, blister, blain†; boil &c (disease) 655; airbubble†, blob, papule, verruca. [convex body parts on chest] papilla, nipple, teat, tit [Vulg.], titty [Vulg.], boob [Vulg.], knocker [Vulg.], pap, breast, dug, mammilla†. [prominent convexity on the face] proboscis, nose, neb, beak, snout, nozzle, schnoz [Coll.]. peg, button, stud, ridge, rib, jutty, trunnion, snag. cupola, dome, arch, balcony, eaves; pilaster. relief, relievo [It], cameo; bassorilievo†, mezzorilevo†, altorivievo; low relief, bas relief [Fr.], high relief. hill &c (height) 206; cape, promontory, mull; forehead, foreland†; point of land, mole, jetty, hummock, ledge, spur; naze†, ness. V. be prominent &c adj.; project, bulge, protrude, pout, bouge [Fr.], bunch; jut out, stand out, stick out, poke out; stick up, bristle up, start up, cock up, shoot up; swell over, hang over, bend over; beetle. render prominent &c adj.; raise 307; emboss, chase. [become convex] belly out. Adj. convex, prominent, protuberant, projecting &c v.; bossed, embossed, bossy, nodular, bunchy; clavate, clavated†, claviform; hummocky†, moutonne†, mammiliform†; papulous†, papilose†; hemispheric, bulbous; bowed, arched; bold; bellied; tuberous, tuberculous; tumous†; cornute†, odontoid†; lentiform†, lenticular; gibbous; club shaped, hubby [U.S.], hubbly [U.S.], knobby, papillose, saddle-shaped, selliform†, subclavate†, torose†, ventricose†, verrucose†. salient, in relief, raised, repousse; bloated &c, (expanded) 194.