Preposition: of

• rubble: Can they make building stones out of heaps of burnt rubble?

• dung: This means both the heap of dung and the coarse grasses that grow from that heap.

• junk: To the uninitiated, i.e. a woman, the car looked like a clapped out heap of junk only fit for the scrap yard!

Object

• tablespoon: Level teaspoon of dried mixed herbs or a heaped tablespoon of fresh chopped mixed herbs.

• teaspoon: Recommended Dosage is one heaped teaspoon per day ( about 3g ).

• praise: Prime Minister Winston Churchill has heaped praise on London's firefighters.

• tsp: Mix a heaped tsp of wholegrain mustard into a tbs Greek yogurt and add chopped fresh herbs of your choice.

Adjective modifier

• crumpled: They walk, the run, they fire guns, they fall to the floor in a crumpled heap.

• rubbish: Were he to find where I put my rubbish heap, he would say: " You shouldn't go there!

• tangled: Within 48 hours, the printing presses of the newspaper lay in a twisted, tangled heap, destroyed by anti-tank explosives.

• untidy: She lay in an untidy heap, her head under the table, and her figure sprawling.

• rusty: I'd sell the yellow one first if someone really wanted it and didn't want the rusty heap to go with it.

Modifies a noun

• leach: During the heap leach trial phase, the concerns of these communities were addressed on a continuous basis by EN officers.

• overflow: Each of these cases result in a heap overflow.

Noun used with modifier

• slag: The slag heaps or pit mounds of closed mines have been put to many new uses.

• compost: All through keeping a compost heap in your living room.

• spoil: Not a lot to see - some old walls; numerous shallow pits; spoil heaps.

• scrap: I feel like I'm the scrap heap at 41.

• dung: The word started life meaning dung heap, then later refuse or rubbish heap.

• muck: You will be amazed at how much smaller your muck heap is!