| swan | (noun) stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult | - |
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| (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, assert, aver, avow, swear, verify |
| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, tramp, vagabond, wander |
| (verb) sweep majestically | - |
| 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 | (adjective) imposingly fashionable and elegant | Synonyms: swanky |
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| (noun) elegance by virtue of being fashionable | Synonyms: chic, chichi, chicness, last word, modishness, smartness, stylishness |
| (verb) display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously | Synonyms: flash, flaunt, ostentate, show off |
| swanky | (adjective) imposingly fashionable and elegant | Synonyms: swank |
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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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| (verb) move (a piece of a program) into memory, in computer science | - |
| (verb) exchange or give (something) in exchange for | Synonyms: switch, swop, trade |
| 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 |
| (verb) move in large numbers | Synonyms: pour, pullulate, stream, teem |
| (verb) be teeming, be abuzz | Synonyms: pullulate, teem |
| swart | (adjective) naturally having skin of a dark color | Synonyms: dark-skinned, dusky, swarthy |
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| swarthiness | (noun) a swarthy complexion | Synonyms: darkness, duskiness |
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| swarthy | (adjective) naturally having skin of a dark color | Synonyms: dark-skinned, dusky, swart |
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| swash | (noun) the movement or sound of water | - |
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| (verb) act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner | Synonyms: bluster, swagger |
| (verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, bluster, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, tout, vaunt |
| (verb) dash a liquid upon or against | Synonyms: plash, spatter, splash, splatter, splosh |
| (verb) make violent, noisy movements | - |
| swashbuckler | (noun) a reckless impetuous irresponsible person | Synonyms: daredevil, harum-scarum, hothead, lunatic, madcap |
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| swashbuckling | (adjective) flamboyantly adventurous | Synonyms: swaggering |
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| (noun) flamboyantly reckless and boastful behavior | - |
| 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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| (verb) to make an illegitimate call to the police so as to have a SWAT team dispatched to a location | - |
| (verb) hit swiftly with a violent blow | - |
| 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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| (verb) wrap in swaddling clothes | Synonyms: swaddle |
| 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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| (verb) splash and flutter about in or as if in water | - |
| sway | (noun) pitching dangerously to one side | Synonyms: careen, rock, tilt |
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| (noun) controlling influence | - |
| (verb) move back and forth or sideways | Synonyms: rock, shake |
| (verb) move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner | Synonyms: swing |
| (verb) cause to move back and forth | Synonyms: rock |
| (verb) win approval or support for | Synonyms: carry, persuade |
| swayback | (adjective) having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses) | Synonyms: dipped, lordotic, swaybacked |
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| swaybacked | (adjective) having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses) | Synonyms: dipped, lordotic, swayback |
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| swayer | (noun) a person who rules or commands | Synonyms: ruler |
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| tableware | (noun) articles for use at the table (dishes and silverware and glassware) | - |
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| takeaway | (noun) the act of taking the ball or puck away from the team on the offense (as by the interception of a pass) | - |
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| (noun) a concession made by a labor union to a company that is trying to lower its expenditures | - |
| (noun) prepared food that is intended to be eaten off of the premises | Synonyms: takeout, takeout food |
| taxiway | (noun) a paved surface in the form of a strip; used by planes taxiing to or from the runway at an airport | Synonyms: taxi strip |
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| tearaway | (adjective) characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation | Synonyms: brainish, hotheaded, impetuous, impulsive, madcap |
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| (noun) a reckless and impetuous person | - |
| throughway | (noun) a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic | Synonyms: expressway, freeway, motorway, pike, state highway, superhighway, thruway |
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| throwaway | (adjective) intended to be thrown away after use | - |
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| (adjective) thrown away | Synonyms: cast-off, discarded, thrown-away |
| (noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution | Synonyms: bill, broadsheet, broadside, circular, flier, flyer, handbill |
| (noun) words spoken in a casual way with conscious under-emphasis | - |
| (noun) (sometimes offensive) a homeless boy who has been abandoned and roams the streets | Synonyms: gamin, street arab |
| thruway | (noun) a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic | Synonyms: expressway, freeway, motorway, pike, state highway, superhighway, throughway |
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| thwack | (noun) a hard blow with a flat object | - |
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| (verb) deliver a hard blow to | Synonyms: smack |
| thwart | (noun) a crosspiece spreading the gunnels of a boat; used as a seat in a rowboat | Synonyms: cross thwart |
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| (verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, bilk, cross, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil |
| thwarted | (adjective) disappointingly unsuccessful | Synonyms: defeated, disappointed, discomfited, foiled, frustrated |
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| thwarter | (noun) someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take | Synonyms: obstructer, obstructionist, obstructor, resister |
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| thwarting | (adjective) preventing realization or attainment of a desire | Synonyms: frustrating, frustrative |
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| (noun) an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts | Synonyms: foiling, frustration |
| thwartwise | (adjective) extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis | Synonyms: cross, transversal, transverse |
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| tidewater | (noun) low-lying coastal land drained by tidal streams | - |
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| tideway | (noun) a channel in which a tidal current runs | - |
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| tightwad | (noun) a miserly person | Synonyms: cheapskate |
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| tinware | (noun) articles of commerce made of tin plate | - |
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| towage | (noun) the act of hauling something (as a vehicle) by means of a hitch or rope | Synonyms: tow |
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| tramway | (noun) the track on which trams or streetcars run | Synonyms: streetcar track, tramline |
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| (noun) a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers | Synonyms: aerial tramway, cable tramway, ropeway, tram |
| twaddle | (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh |
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| (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle |
| twaddler | (noun) someone who twaddles; someone who writes or talks twaddle | - |
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| twain | (noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: brace, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twosome, yoke |
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| twang | (noun) exaggerated nasality in speech (as in some regional dialects) | Synonyms: nasal twang |
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| (noun) a sharp vibrating sound (as of a plucked string) | - |
| (verb) pronounce with a nasal twang | - |
| (verb) pluck (strings of an instrument) | - |
| (verb) sound with a twang | - |
| (verb) cause to sound with a twang | - |
| (verb) twitch or throb with pain | - |
| twat | (noun) obscene terms for female genitals | Synonyms: cunt, puss, pussy, slit, snatch |
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| (noun) a man who is a stupid incompetent fool | Synonyms: bozo, cuckoo, fathead, goof, goofball, goose, jackass, zany |
| twayblade | (noun) orchid having a pair of ovate leaves and a long slender raceme of green flowers sometimes tinged red-brown; Europe to central Asia | Synonyms: Listera ovata |
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| (noun) an orchid of the genus Liparis having a pair of leaves | - |
| unawakened | (adjective) not aroused or activated | - |
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| (adjective) still asleep | - |
| unaware | (adjective) (often followed by `of') not aware | Synonyms: incognizant |
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| unawareness | (noun) unconsciousness resulting from lack of knowledge or attention | Synonyms: unknowingness |
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| unawares | (adverb) suddenly and unexpectedly | - |
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| (adverb) without forethought or plan; inadvertently | - |
| (adverb) at a disadvantage | Synonyms: short |
| unbrainwashed | (adjective) not successfully subjected to brainwashing | - |
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| unchewable | (adjective) (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew | Synonyms: fibrous, sinewy, stringy |
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| underwater | (adjective) growing or remaining under water | Synonyms: subaquatic, subaqueous, submerged, submersed |
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| (adjective) beneath the surface of the water | Synonyms: submerged, submersed |
| underway | (adjective) currently in progress | Synonyms: afoot |
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| unknowable | (adjective) not knowable | - |
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| unrenewable | (adjective) that can not be renewed | Synonyms: nonrenewable |
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| unrewarded | (adjective) having acquired or gained nothing | Synonyms: empty-handed |
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| unrewarding | (adjective) not rewarding; not providing personal satisfaction | - |
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| unswayed | (adjective) not influenced or affected | Synonyms: uninfluenced, untouched |
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| untoward | (adjective) not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society | Synonyms: indecent, indecorous, unbecoming, uncomely, unseemly |
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| (adjective) contrary to your interests or welfare | Synonyms: adverse, inauspicious |
| unwanted | (adjective) not wanted; not needed | - |
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| (adjective) not wanted | Synonyms: undesirable |
| unwantedly | (adverb) in an undesirable manner | Synonyms: undesirably |
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| unwarily | (adverb) without heed or caution | - |
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| unwariness | (noun) the trait of not being cautious and watchful | - |
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| unwarmed | (adjective) not having been heated or warmed | Synonyms: unheated |
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| unwarrantable | (adjective) incapable of being justified or explained | Synonyms: indefensible, insupportable, unjustifiable, unwarranted |
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| unwarrantably | (adverb) in an unwarrantable manner or to an unwarranted degree | - |
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| unwarranted | (adjective) incapable of being justified or explained | Synonyms: indefensible, insupportable, unjustifiable, unwarrantable |
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| (adjective) lacking justification or authorization | Synonyms: undue, unjustified |
| (adjective) without a basis in reason or fact | Synonyms: baseless, groundless, idle, unfounded, wild |
| unwary | (adjective) not alert to danger or deception | - |
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| unwashed | (adjective) not cleaned with or as if with soap and water | - |
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| (adjective) of or associated with the great masses of people | Synonyms: common, plebeian, vulgar |
| unwatchful | (adjective) not alert to what is potentially dangerous | Synonyms: unalert, unvigilant |
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| unwavering | (adjective) marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable | Synonyms: firm, steadfast, steady, stiff, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable |
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| (adjective) not showing abrupt variations | Synonyms: level |
| unwaveringly | (adverb) with resolute determination | Synonyms: firm, firmly, steadfastly |
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| unwaxed | (adjective) not waxed | - |
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| upward | (adjective) extending or moving toward a higher place | Synonyms: up |
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| (adjective) directed up | - |
| (adverb) spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position | Synonyms: up, upwardly, upwards |
| (adverb) to a later time | Synonyms: up, upwards |
| upwardly | (adverb) spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position | Synonyms: up, upward, upwards |
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| upwards | (adverb) spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position | Synonyms: up, upward, upwardly |
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| (adverb) to a later time | Synonyms: up, upward |
| viewable | (adjective) capable of being viewed | - |
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| wackily | (adverb) in a mildly insane manner | Synonyms: balmily, daftly, dottily, nuttily |
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| wacko | (noun) a person who is regarded as eccentric or mad | Synonyms: nutter, whacko |
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| wacky | (adjective) ludicrous, foolish | Synonyms: goofy, silly, whacky, zany |
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| (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, whacky |
| wad | (noun) a wad of something chewable as tobacco | Synonyms: chaw, chew, cud, plug, quid |
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| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum |
| (noun) a small mass of soft material | - |
| (verb) crowd or pack to capacity | Synonyms: chock up, cram, jam, jampack, ram |
| (verb) compress into a wad | Synonyms: bundle, compact, pack |
| wadding | (noun) any material used especially to protect something | Synonyms: packing, packing material |
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| waddle | (noun) walking with short steps and the weight tilting from one foot to the other | - |
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| (verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps | Synonyms: coggle, dodder, paddle, toddle, totter |
| waddler | (noun) someone who walks with a waddling gait | - |
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| wade | (verb) walk (through relatively shallow water) | - |
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| wader | (noun) any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food | Synonyms: wading bird |
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| waders | (noun) waterproof hip boots (sometimes extending to the chest) worn by anglers | - |
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| wadi | (noun) gully or streambed in northern Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season | - |
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| wading | (noun) walking with your feet in shallow water | - |
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| wads | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons |
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| wafer | (noun) a small thin crisp cake or cookie | - |
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| (noun) thin disk of unleavened bread used in a religious service (especially in the celebration of the Eucharist) | - |
| (noun) a small adhesive disk of paste; used to seal letters | - |
| waffle | (noun) pancake batter baked in a waffle iron | - |
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| (verb) pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness | Synonyms: hesitate, waver |
| waffler | (noun) someone who speaks or writes in a vague and evasive manner | - |
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| waft | (noun) a long flag; often tapering | Synonyms: pennant, pennon, streamer |
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| (verb) be driven or carried along, as by the air | - |
| (verb) blow gently | - |
| wafture | (noun) the act of signaling by a movement of the hand | Synonyms: wave, waving |
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