| 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 |
| (verb) reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) | Synonyms: alternate, flip-flop, flip, interchange, tack |
| (verb) make a shift in or exchange of | Synonyms: change over, shift |
| (verb) lay aside, abandon, or leave for another | Synonyms: change, shift |
| (verb) change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence | Synonyms: exchange, switch over |
| (verb) cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation | Synonyms: flip, throw |
| (verb) flog with or as if with a flexible rod | - |
| (verb) exchange or give (something) in exchange for | Synonyms: swap, swop, trade |
| 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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| (verb) turn on a pivot | Synonyms: pivot |
| 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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| swob | (noun) cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors | Synonyms: mop, swab |
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| (verb) wash with a swab or a mop | Synonyms: swab |
| (verb) apply (usually a liquid) to a surface | Synonyms: dab, swab |
| swole | (adjective) Extremely muscled | - |
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| swollen | (adjective) characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance | Synonyms: conceited, egotistic, egotistical, self-conceited, swollen-headed, vain |
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| (adjective) abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas | Synonyms: bloated, distended, intumescent, puffy, tumescent, tumid, turgid |
| swoon | (noun) a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain | Synonyms: deliquium, faint, syncope |
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| (verb) pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain | Synonyms: conk, faint, pass out |
| swooning | (adjective) weak and likely to lose consciousness | Synonyms: faint, light-headed, light, lightheaded |
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| swoop | (noun) a swift descent through the air | - |
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| (noun) a very rapid raid | - |
| (noun) (music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale | Synonyms: slide |
| (verb) seize or catch with a swooping motion | Synonyms: swoop up |
| (verb) move down on as if in an attack | Synonyms: pounce |
| (verb) move with a sweep, or in a swooping arc | - |
| swoosh | (noun) the noise produced by the sudden rush of a fluid (a gas or liquid) | Synonyms: whoosh |
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| (verb) move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound | Synonyms: lap, swish, swosh |
| swop | (noun) an equal exchange | Synonyms: barter, swap, trade |
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| (verb) exchange or give (something) in exchange for | Synonyms: swap, switch, trade |
| sword | (noun) a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard | Synonyms: blade, brand, steel |
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| swordfish | (noun) large toothless marine food fish with a long swordlike upper jaw; not completely cold-blooded i.e. they are able to warm their brains and eyes: worldwide in warm waters but feed on cold ocean floor coming to surface at night | Synonyms: Xiphias gladius |
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| (noun) flesh of swordfish usually served as steaks | - |
| swordlike | (adjective) shaped like a sword blade | Synonyms: bladelike, ensiform, sword-shaped |
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| swordplay | (noun) the act using a sword (or other weapon) vigorously and skillfully | Synonyms: play |
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| swordsman | (noun) someone skilled at fencing | Synonyms: fencer |
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| swordsmanship | (noun) skill in fencing | - |
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| swordtail | (noun) freshwater fish of Central America having a long swordlike tail; popular aquarium fish | Synonyms: helleri, topminnow, Xyphophorus helleri |
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| sworn | (adjective) bound by or stated on oath | - |
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| (adjective) bound by or as if by an oath | Synonyms: pledged |
| swosh | (verb) move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound | Synonyms: lap, swish, swoosh |
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| swot | (noun) an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious | Synonyms: dweeb, grind, nerd, wonk |
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| (verb) study intensively, as before an exam | Synonyms: bone, bone up, cram, drum, get up, grind away, mug up, swot up |
| unanswerable | (adjective) impossible to answer | - |
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| unanswered | (adjective) not returned in kind | Synonyms: unreciprocated, unrequited |
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| unswayed | (adjective) not influenced or affected | Synonyms: uninfluenced, untouched |
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| unsweet | (adjective) distasteful | - |
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| (adjective) (of champagne) moderately dry | Synonyms: sec |
| unsweetened | (adjective) not made sweet | - |
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| unswept | (adjective) not swept or having sweep | - |
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| (adjective) not having been swept | - |
| unswerving | (adjective) firm and dependable especially in loyalty | Synonyms: staunch, steadfast |
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| (adjective) going directly ahead from one point to another without veering or turning aside | Synonyms: undeviating |
| unswervingly | (adverb) without swerving; in a direct and unswerving manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a constant and steadfast manner | - |
| unsworn | (adjective) not bound by or stated on oath | - |
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| windswept | (adjective) open to or swept by wind | - |
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| yachtswoman | (noun) a female person who owns or sails a yacht | - |
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