S: (n) squat, squatting (the act of assuming or maintaining a crouching position with the knees bent and the buttocks near the heels)
Verb
S: (v) squat, crouch, scrunch, scrunch up, hunker, hunker down (sit on one's heels) "In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting"; "The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm"
S: (v) squat (be close to the earth, or be disproportionately wide) "The building squatted low"
S: (adj) chunky, dumpy, low-set, squat, squatty, stumpy (short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature) "some people seem born to be square and chunky"; "a dumpy little dumpling of a woman"; "dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears"; "a little church with a squat tower"; "a squatty red smokestack"; "a stumpy ungainly figure"
S: (adj) squat, underslung (having a low center of gravity; built low to the ground)