wad

nouns

a small mass of soft material
"he used a wad of cotton to wipe the counter"
wad
is a type of (narrower)
the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
"coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread"
material, stuff
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
"a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"
batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad
a wad of something chewable as tobacco
chaw, chew, cud, plug, quid, wad

verbs

compress into a wad
"wad paper into the box"
bundle, compact, pack, wad
crowd or pack to capacity
"the theater was jampacked"
chock up, cram, jam, jampack, ram, wad