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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