-We study the presence of lumplike solutions in models described by a single real scalar field with standard kinematics in two-dimensional spacetime. The results show several distinct models that support the presence of bell-shaped, lumplike structures which may live in a compact space.Introduction. -Defect structures that appear in high energy physics can exhibit a topological or nontopological profile. They have been the issue of several investigations [1,2], and may also be of interest in many other areas of physics [3][4][5]9]. Usually, topological defects are linearly stable in relativistic field theory, and the non-topological ones are unstable. The instability of the localized structures does not rule them out of physics, because we can enlarge the model and find mechanisms to stabilize the solution [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28]. An example of this is the case of a fermionic ball [17,19], for instance, which can appear when one considers the inclusion of charged fermions, in a way such that the fermions may be entrapped inside the collapsing solution, making it charged and stabilizing the whole structure. Another possibility is to see the scalar field as an axion field [6][7][8], and this opens interesting new routes [28]. For these reasons, in this work we concentrate mainly on adding another new possibility, of constructing models that support lumplike structures of the compact type, leaving for the future the use of these solutions to applications in condensed matter and in high energy physics.We then focus on the search of non-topological solutions, which appear in models described by a single real scalar field in (1, 1) spacetime under the action of nonlinear interactions. They are of general interest, and can be used in soft condensed matter physics describing, for instance, charge transport in diatomic chains [10][11][12][13][14] and bright solitons in fibers [9,15], and in high energy