| swift | (noun) a small bird that resembles a swallow and is noted for its rapid flight | - |
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| (noun) common western lizard; seen on logs or rocks | Synonyms: blue-belly, Sceloporus occidentalis, western fence lizard |
| swiftie | (noun) Fan of Taylor Swift | - |
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| swiftlet | (noun) swift of eastern Asia; produces the edible bird's nest | Synonyms: Collocalia inexpectata |
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| swiftness | (noun) a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens | Synonyms: fastness, speed |
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| swig | (noun) a large and hurried swallow | Synonyms: draft, draught, gulp |
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| swill | (noun) wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk | Synonyms: pigswill, pigwash, slop, slops |
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| swilling | (noun) the drinking of large mouthfuls rapidly | Synonyms: gulping, guzzling |
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| swim | (noun) the act of swimming | Synonyms: swimming |
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| swimmer | (noun) a trained athlete who participates in swimming meets | - |
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| (noun) a person who travels through the water by swimming | Synonyms: bather, natator |
| swimmeret | (noun) one of the paired abdominal appendages of certain aquatic crustaceans that function primarily for carrying the eggs in females and are usually adapted for swimming | Synonyms: pleopod |
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| swimming | (noun) the act of swimming | Synonyms: swim |
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| swimsuit | (noun) tight fitting garment worn for swimming | Synonyms: bathing costume, bathing suit, swimming costume, swimwear |
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| swimwear | (noun) tight fitting garment worn for swimming | Synonyms: bathing costume, bathing suit, swimming costume, swimsuit |
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| swindle | (noun) the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme | Synonyms: cheat, fraud, rig |
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| swindler | (noun) a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud | Synonyms: chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, gouger, grifter, scammer |
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| swine | (noun) stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals | - |
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| swineherd | (noun) a herder or swine | Synonyms: pigman |
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| swing | (noun) changing location by moving back and forth | Synonyms: swinging, vacillation |
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| (noun) in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball | Synonyms: baseball swing, cut |
| (noun) the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it | Synonyms: golf shot, golf stroke |
| (noun) a square dance figure; a pair of dancers join hands and dance around a point between them | - |
| (noun) a sweeping blow or stroke | - |
| (noun) mechanical device used as a plaything to support someone swinging back and forth | - |
| (noun) a jaunty rhythm in music | Synonyms: lilt |
| (noun) a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz | Synonyms: jive, swing music |
| (noun) a state of steady vigorous action that is characteristic of an activity | - |
| swinger | (noun) a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex | Synonyms: tramp |
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| (noun) someone who swings sports implements | - |
| swinging | (noun) changing location by moving back and forth | Synonyms: swing, vacillation |
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| swingletree | (noun) a crossbar that is attached to the traces of a draft horse and to the vehicle or implement that the horse is pulling | Synonyms: whiffletree, whippletree |
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| swinishness | (noun) The quality of resembling a swine; being gluttonous, coarse, debased. | - |
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| swipe | (noun) a sweeping stroke or blow | - |
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| swirl | (noun) the shape of something rotating rapidly | Synonyms: convolution, vortex, whirl |
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| swish | (noun) a brushing or rustling sound | - |
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| switch | (noun) the act of changing one thing or position for another | Synonyms: shift, switching |
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| (noun) a basketball maneuver; two defensive players shift assignments so that each guards the player usually guarded by the other | - |
| (noun) a flexible implement used as an instrument of punishment | - |
| (noun) control consisting of a mechanical or electrical or electronic device for making or breaking or changing the connections in a circuit | Synonyms: electric switch, electrical switch |
| (noun) railroad track having two movable rails and necessary connections; used to turn a train from one track to another or to store rolling stock | - |
| (noun) hairpiece consisting of a tress of false hair; used by women to give shape to a coiffure | - |
| (noun) an event in which one thing is substituted for another | Synonyms: permutation, replacement, substitution, transposition |
| switchblade | (noun) a pocketknife with a blade that springs open at the press of a button | Synonyms: flick-knife, flick knife, switchblade knife |
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| switchboard | (noun) telephone central where circuits are completed with patchcords | Synonyms: patchboard, plugboard |
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| switcher | (noun) a person who administers punishment by wielding a switch or whip | Synonyms: whipper |
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| switcheroo | (noun) a sudden unexpected switch | - |
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| switching | (noun) the act of changing one thing or position for another | Synonyms: shift, switch |
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| switchman | (noun) a man who operates railroad switches | - |
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| swither | (noun) agitation resulting from active worry | Synonyms: fret, lather, stew, sweat |
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| swivel | (noun) a coupling (as in a chain) that has one end that turns on a headed pin | - |
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| swivet | (noun) a panic or extreme discomposure | - |
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| swiz | (noun) British slang for a swindle | - |
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| swizzle | (noun) any of various tall frothy mixed drinks made usually of rum and lime juice and sugar shaken with ice | - |
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