pile

A mass of things heaped together; a heap.

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

A mass formed in layers.

A funeral pile; a pyre.

(slang) A large amount of money.

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.

(architecture, civil engineering) A beam, pole, or pillar, driven completely into the ground.

An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.

(obsolete) The reverse (or tails) of a coin.

A list or league