| answer | (noun) a nonverbal reaction | - |
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| (noun) the speech act of replying to a question | - |
| (noun) a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation | Synonyms: reply, response |
| (noun) a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem | Synonyms: resolution, result, solution, solvent |
| (noun) the principal pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of `guilty' or `not guilty' (or nolo contendere); in civil law it must contain denials of all allegations in the plaintiff's complaint that the defendant hopes to controvert and it can contain affirmative defenses or counterclaims | - |
| answerability | (noun) responsibility to someone or for some activity | Synonyms: accountability, answerableness |
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| answerableness | (noun) responsibility to someone or for some activity | Synonyms: accountability, answerability |
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| answerer | (noun) someone who responds | Synonyms: respondent, responder |
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| backswimmer | (noun) predaceous aquatic insect that swims on its back and may inflict painful bites | Synonyms: Notonecta undulata |
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| backsword | (noun) a sword with only one cutting edge | - |
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| (noun) a stick used instead of a sword for fencing | Synonyms: fencing stick, singlestick |
| basswood | (noun) any of various deciduous trees of the genus Tilia with heart-shaped leaves and drooping cymose clusters of yellowish often fragrant flowers; several yield valuable timber | Synonyms: lime, lime tree, linden, linden tree |
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| (noun) soft light-colored wood of any of various linden trees; used in making crates and boxes and in carving and millwork | Synonyms: linden |
| beeswax | (noun) a yellow to brown wax secreted by honeybees to build honeycombs | - |
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| bittersweet | (noun) twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds | Synonyms: American bittersweet, Celastrus scandens, climbing bittersweet, false bittersweet, shrubby bittersweet, staff vine, waxwork |
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| (noun) poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America | Synonyms: bittersweet nightshade, climbing nightshade, deadly nightshade, poisonous nightshade, Solanum dulcamara, woody nightshade |
| boatswain | (noun) a petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen | Synonyms: bo's'n, bo'sun, bos'n, bosun |
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| bondswoman | (noun) a female slave | Synonyms: bondmaid, bondwoman |
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| (noun) a female bound to serve without wages | Synonyms: bondmaid, bondwoman |
| (noun) a female who signs a bond as surety for someone else | - |
| broadsword | (noun) a sword with a broad blade and (usually) two cutting edges; used to cut rather than stab | - |
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| businesswoman | (noun) a female businessperson | - |
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| caddisworm | (noun) larva of the caddis fly; constructs a case of silk covered with sand or plant debris | Synonyms: strawworm |
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| chimneysweep | (noun) someone who cleans soot from chimneys | Synonyms: chimneysweeper, sweep |
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| chimneysweeper | (noun) someone who cleans soot from chimneys | Synonyms: chimneysweep, sweep |
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| clanswoman | (noun) a female member of a clan | - |
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| classwork | (noun) the part of a student's work that is done in the classroom | - |
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| cocoswood | (noun) wood of the granadilla tree used for making musical instruments especially clarinets | Synonyms: cocuswood, granadilla wood |
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| cocuswood | (noun) wood of the granadilla tree used for making musical instruments especially clarinets | Synonyms: cocoswood, granadilla wood |
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| codswallop | (noun) nonsensical talk or writing | Synonyms: applesauce, folderol, rubbish, trash, tripe, trumpery, wish-wash |
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| congresswoman | (noun) a female member of the United States House of Representatives | - |
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| coxswain | (noun) the helmsman of a ship's boat or a racing crew | Synonyms: cox |
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| crosswalk | (noun) a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other | Synonyms: crossing, crossover |
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| crossway | (noun) a junction where one street or road crosses another | Synonyms: carrefour, crossing, crossroad, intersection |
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| crosswind | (noun) wind blowing across the path of a ship or aircraft | - |
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| crossword | (noun) a puzzle in which words corresponding to numbered clues are to be found and written in to squares in the puzzle | Synonyms: crossword puzzle |
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| downswing | (noun) a swing downward of a golf club | - |
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| (noun) a worsening of business or economic activity | Synonyms: downturn |
| expressway | (noun) a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic | Synonyms: freeway, motorway, pike, state highway, superhighway, throughway, thruway |
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| flyswat | (noun) an implement with a flat part (of mesh or plastic) and a long handle; used to kill insects | Synonyms: flyswatter, swatter |
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| flyswatter | (noun) an implement with a flat part (of mesh or plastic) and a long handle; used to kill insects | Synonyms: flyswat, swatter |
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| forswearing | (noun) the act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.) | Synonyms: forgoing, renunciation |
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| frontierswoman | (noun) a woman who lives on the frontier | - |
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| gasworks | (noun) the workplace where coal gas is manufactured | - |
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| glassware | (noun) an article of tableware made of glass | Synonyms: glasswork |
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| glasswork | (noun) an article of tableware made of glass | Synonyms: glassware |
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| glassworker | (noun) someone who cuts flat glass to size | Synonyms: glass-cutter, glass cutter, glazer, glazier |
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| glassworks | (noun) a workplace where glass is made | - |
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| glasswort | (noun) fleshy maritime plant having fleshy stems with rudimentary scalelike leaves and small spikes of minute flowers; formerly used in making glass | Synonyms: Salicornia europaea, samphire |
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| (noun) bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash | Synonyms: barilla, kali, kelpwort, Salsola kali, Salsola soda, saltwort |
| greensward | (noun) surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots | Synonyms: sod, sward, turf |
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| guesswork | (noun) an estimate based on little or no information | Synonyms: dead reckoning, guess, guessing, shot |
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| kinswoman | (noun) a female relative | - |
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| minesweeper | (noun) ship equipped to detect and then destroy or neutralize or remove marine mines | - |
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| minesweeping | (noun) the activity of detecting and disposing of marine mines | - |
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| newswoman | (noun) a female newsperson | - |
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| newsworthiness | (noun) the quality of being sufficiently interesting to be reported in news bulletins | Synonyms: news |
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| newswriter | (noun) a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media | Synonyms: correspondent |
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| oarswoman | (noun) a woman oarsman | - |
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| outdoorswoman | (noun) a woman who spends time outdoors (e.g., hunting and fishing) | - |
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| password | (noun) a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group | Synonyms: countersign, parole, watchword, word |
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| pigswill | (noun) wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk | Synonyms: pigwash, slop, slops, swill |
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| praisworthiness | (noun) the property of deserving praise | - |
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| saleswoman | (noun) a woman salesperson | Synonyms: salesgirl, saleslady |
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| sideswipe | (noun) a glancing blow from or on the side of something (especially motor vehicles) | - |
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| silversword | (noun) low-growing plant found only in volcanic craters on Hawaii having rosettes of narrow pointed silver-green leaves and clusters of profuse red-purple flowers on a tall stem | Synonyms: Argyroxiphium sandwicense |
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| spokeswoman | (noun) a female spokesperson | - |
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| sportswear | (noun) attire worn for sport or for casual wear | Synonyms: activewear, athletic wear |
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| sportswoman | (noun) a female who engages in sports | - |
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| sportswriter | (noun) a journalist who writes about sports | Synonyms: sports writer |
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| stateswoman | (noun) a woman statesman | - |
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| swab | (noun) cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors | Synonyms: mop, swob |
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| (noun) implement consisting of a small piece of cotton that is used to apply medication or cleanse a wound or obtain a specimen of a secretion | - |
| swabbing | (noun) cleaning with a mop | Synonyms: mopping |
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| swad | (noun) a bunch | - |
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| swag | (noun) a bundle containing the personal belongings of a swagman | - |
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| (noun) goods or money obtained illegally | Synonyms: booty, dirty money, loot, pillage, plunder, prize |
| (noun) valuable goods | - |
| swage | (noun) a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging | Synonyms: upset |
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| swagger | (noun) a proud stiff pompous gait | Synonyms: prance, strut |
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| (noun) an itinerant Australian laborer who carries his personal belongings in a bundle as he travels around in search of work | Synonyms: swaggie, swagman |
| swaggerer | (noun) someone who walks in an arrogant manner | - |
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| swaggie | (noun) an itinerant Australian laborer who carries his personal belongings in a bundle as he travels around in search of work | Synonyms: swagger, swagman |
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| swagman | (noun) an itinerant Australian laborer who carries his personal belongings in a bundle as he travels around in search of work | Synonyms: swagger, swaggie |
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| swain | (noun) a man who is the lover of a man or woman | Synonyms: beau, boyfriend, fellow |
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| swale | (noun) a low area (especially a marshy area between ridges) | - |
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| swallow | (noun) the act of swallowing | Synonyms: deglutition, drink |
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| (noun) small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations | - |
| (noun) a small amount of liquid food | Synonyms: sup |
| swallowtail | (noun) a man's full-dress jacket with two long tapering tails at the back | Synonyms: morning coat, swallow-tailed coat |
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| swallowwort | (noun) perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow flowers | Synonyms: celandine, Chelidonium majus, greater celandine, swallow wort |
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| (noun) tropical herb having orange-red flowers followed by pods suggesting a swallow with outspread wings; a weed throughout the tropics | Synonyms: Asclepias curassavica, blood flower |
| swami | (noun) a Hindu religious teacher; used as a title of respect | - |
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| swamp | (noun) low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog | Synonyms: swampland |
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| (noun) a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables | - |
| swamphen | (noun) any of various small aquatic birds of the genus Gallinula distinguished from rails by a frontal shield and a resemblance to domestic hens | Synonyms: gallinule, marsh hen, water hen |
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| swampland | (noun) low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog | Synonyms: swamp |
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| swan | (noun) stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult | - |
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| swanflower | (noun) any of several orchids of the genus Cycnoches having slender arching columns of flowers suggesting the neck of a swan | Synonyms: swan-flower, swan-neck, swan orchid, swanneck |
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| swank | (noun) elegance by virtue of being fashionable | Synonyms: chic, chichi, chicness, last word, modishness, smartness, stylishness |
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| swanneck | (noun) any of several orchids of the genus Cycnoches having slender arching columns of flowers suggesting the neck of a swan | Synonyms: swan-flower, swan-neck, swan orchid, swanflower |
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| swap | (noun) an equal exchange | Synonyms: barter, swop, trade |
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| sward | (noun) surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots | Synonyms: greensward, sod, turf |
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| swarm | (noun) a group of many things in the air or on the ground | Synonyms: cloud |
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| (noun) a moving crowd | Synonyms: drove, horde |
| swarthiness | (noun) a swarthy complexion | Synonyms: darkness, duskiness |
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| swash | (noun) the movement or sound of water | - |
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| swashbuckler | (noun) a reckless impetuous irresponsible person | Synonyms: daredevil, harum-scarum, hothead, lunatic, madcap |
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| swashbuckling | (noun) flamboyantly reckless and boastful behavior | - |
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| swastika | (noun) the official emblem of the Nazi Party and the Third Reich; a cross with the arms bent at right angles in a clockwise direction | Synonyms: Hakenkreuz |
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| swat | (noun) a sharp blow | - |
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| swatch | (noun) a sample piece of cloth | - |
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| swath | (noun) a path or strip (as cut by one course of mowing) | Synonyms: belt |
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| (noun) the space created by the swing of a scythe or the cut of a mowing machine | - |
| swathe | (noun) an enveloping bandage | Synonyms: wrapping |
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| swathing | (noun) cloth coverings wrapped around something (as a wound or a baby) | - |
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| swatter | (noun) an implement with a flat part (of mesh or plastic) and a long handle; used to kill insects | Synonyms: flyswat, flyswatter |
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| sway | (noun) pitching dangerously to one side | Synonyms: careen, rock, tilt |
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| (noun) controlling influence | - |
| swayer | (noun) a person who rules or commands | Synonyms: ruler |
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| swearer | (noun) someone who takes a solemn oath | - |
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| (noun) someone who uses profanity | - |
| swearing | (noun) a commitment to tell the truth (especially in a court of law); to lie under oath is to become subject to prosecution for perjury | Synonyms: oath |
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| (noun) profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger | Synonyms: curse, curse word, cuss, expletive, oath, swearword |