piles

A mass of things heaped together; a heap.

A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.

“When we were looking for a new housemate, we put the nice woman on the "maybe" pile, and the annoying guy on the "no" pile”

A mass formed in layers.

“a pile of shot”

A funeral pile; a pyre.

A large amount of money.

“He made a pile from that invention of his.”

A large building, or mass of buildings.

A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot.

A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals (especially copper and zinc), laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; a voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.

An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.

The reverse (or tails) of a coin.

A list or league

(often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate

“They were piling up wood on the wheelbarrow.”

To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.

“We piled the camel with our loads.”

To add something to a great number.

(of vehicles) To create a hold-up.

To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.

A dart; an arrow.

The head of an arrow or spear.

A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.

One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.

To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.

(usually in the plural) A hemorrhoid.

Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)

The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.

To give a pile to; to make shaggy.

(piles of) A large amount of.

“He must earn piles of money.”

Haemorrhoids.

“Many women get piles when pregnant.”