| 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 |
| 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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| 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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| congresswoman | (noun) a female member of the United States House of Representatives | - |
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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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| 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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| 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 |
| guesswork | (noun) an estimate based on little or no information | Synonyms: dead reckoning, guess, guessing, shot |
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| hornswoggle | (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
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| kinswoman | (noun) a female relative | - |
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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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| newsworthy | (adjective) sufficiently interesting to be reported in a newspaper | - |
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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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| praisworthiness | (noun) the property of deserving praise | - |
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| saleswoman | (noun) a woman salesperson | Synonyms: salesgirl, saleslady |
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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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| sportswoman | (noun) a female who engages in sports | - |
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| stateswoman | (noun) a woman statesman | - |
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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 |
| unsworn | (adjective) not bound by or stated on oath | - |
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| yachtswoman | (noun) a female person who owns or sails a yacht | - |
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