layer

• accumulate
• amass
• assemble
• band
• bank
• bed
• blanket
• bracket
• bunch
• caste
• clan
• class
• clump
• coat
• collect
• concentrate
• coping
• corrugation
• couch
• course
• cover
• covering
• crease
• crimp
• crinkle
• echelon
• estate
• family
• film
• flag
• flap
• floor
• fold
• folk
• food chain
• fraternity
• furrow
• garner
• gather
• gentry
• girdle
• grade
• group
• grouping
• heap
• hierarchy
• lamina
• lamination
• lap
• level
• loop
• lump
• mantle
• mass
• mound
• order
• overlap
• overlay
• panel
• people
• pile
• place
• plait
• pleat
• ply
• position
• pucker
• pyramid
• race
• rank
• row
• seam
• sheet
• slab
• stack
• standing
• status
• story
• stratification
• stratum
• stripe
• subcaste
• substratum
• thickness
• tier
• tribe
• tuck
• wrinkle
• zone

• unpile

• noun
  1. A single thickness of some material covering a surface.
  2. A (usually) horizontal deposit; a stratum.
  3. One of the items in a hierarchy.
  4. (by analogy to a stack of transparencies) one in a stack of (initially transparent) drawing surfaces that comprise an image; used to keep elements of an image separate so that they can be modified independently from one another.
  5. A person who lays things, such as tiles.
  6. A mature female bird, insect, etc. that is able to lay eggs.
  7. A hen kept to lay eggs.
  8. A shoot of a plant, laid underground for growth.
• verb
  1. To cut or divide (something) into layers.
  2. To arrange (something) in layers.

• She wore a thick layer of clothing to stay warm.
• The cake has a delicious chocolate layer in the middle.
• Apply a thin layer of paint for a smooth finish.
• Fog formed a light layer over the mountains.
• Each layer of the atmosphere has unique characteristics.

dab

lacquer

wadding

cairn

caking

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