| lapwing | (noun) large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs | Synonyms: green plover, peewit, pewit |
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| leastwise | (adverb) if nothing else (`leastwise' is informal and `leastways' is colloquial) | Synonyms: at any rate, at least, leastways |
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| lengthwise | (adjective) running or extending in the direction of the length of a thing | Synonyms: lengthways |
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| (adverb) in the direction of the length | Synonyms: lengthways, longitudinally, longways, longwise |
| likewise | (adverb) in like or similar manner | Synonyms: similarly |
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| (adverb) in addition | Synonyms: also, as well, besides, too |
| (adverb) equally | Synonyms: alike |
| longwise | (adverb) in the direction of the length | Synonyms: lengthways, lengthwise, longitudinally, longways |
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| mellowing | (noun) the process of becoming mellow | - |
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| mellowingly | (adverb) so as to mellow | - |
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| midwife | (noun) a woman skilled in aiding the delivery of babies | Synonyms: accoucheuse |
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| midwifery | (noun) assisting women at childbirth | - |
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| (noun) the branch of medicine dealing with childbirth and care of the mother | Synonyms: OB, obstetrics, tocology |
| midwinter | (noun) the middle of winter | - |
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| narrowing | (adjective) (of circumstances) tending to constrict freedom | Synonyms: constricting, constrictive |
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| (adjective) becoming gradually narrower | Synonyms: tapered, tapering |
| (noun) the act of making something narrower | - |
| (noun) an instance of becoming narrow | - |
| (noun) a decrease in width | - |
| nationwide | (adjective) occurring or extending throughout a country or nation | Synonyms: countrywide |
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| (adverb) extending throughout an entire nation | Synonyms: across the country, across the nation, nationally |
| nimblewill | (noun) slender branching American grass of some value for grazing in central United States | Synonyms: Muhlenbergia schreberi, nimble Will |
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| nitwit | (noun) a stupid incompetent person | Synonyms: dimwit, doofus, half-wit |
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| nitwitted | (adjective) (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment | Synonyms: senseless, soft-witted, witless |
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| notwithstanding | (adverb) despite anything to the contrary (usually preceding a concession) | Synonyms: all the same, at the same time, even so, however, nevertheless, nonetheless, still, withal, yet |
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| nowise | (adverb) in no manner | Synonyms: to no degree |
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| oldwife | (noun) tropical Atlantic fish | Synonyms: Balistes vetula, Bessy cerca, oldwench, queen triggerfish |
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| (noun) a common long-tailed sea duck of the northern parts of the United States | Synonyms: Clangula hyemalis, old squaw |
| otherwise | (adjective) other than as supposed or expected | - |
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| (adverb) in other respects or ways | - |
| (adverb) in another and different manner | Synonyms: differently |
| outflowing | (adjective) that is flowing outward | Synonyms: effluent |
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| outwit | (verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: beat, circumvent, outfox, outsmart, overreach |
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| overflowing | (adjective) covered with water | Synonyms: afloat, awash, flooded, inundated |
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| overwinter | (verb) spend the winter | Synonyms: winter |
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| owing | (adjective) owed as a debt | Synonyms: outstanding, undischarged |
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| peewit | (noun) large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs | Synonyms: green plover, lapwing, pewit |
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| (noun) small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America | Synonyms: Contopus virens, peewee, pewee, pewit, wood pewee |
| periwig | (noun) a wig for men that was fashionable in the 17th and 18th centuries | Synonyms: peruke |
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| periwigged | (adjective) wearing a wig popular for men in the 17th and 18th centuries | Synonyms: peruked |
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| periwinkle | (noun) edible marine gastropod | Synonyms: winkle |
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| (noun) small edible marine snail; steamed in wine or baked | Synonyms: winkle |
| (noun) chiefly trailing poisonous plants with blue flowers | - |
| (noun) commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers | Synonyms: Cape periwinkle, Catharanthus roseus, cayenne jasmine, Madagascar periwinkle, old maid, red periwinkle, rose periwinkle, Vinca rosea |
| pewit | (noun) large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs | Synonyms: green plover, lapwing, peewit |
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| (noun) small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America | Synonyms: Contopus virens, peewee, peewit, pewee, wood pewee |
| (noun) small black-headed European gull | Synonyms: blackcap, Larus ridibundus, laughing gull, pewit gull |
| pigswill | (noun) wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk | Synonyms: pigwash, slop, slops, swill |
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| plowing | (noun) tilling the land with a plow | Synonyms: ploughing |
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| poorwill | (noun) goatsucker of western North America | Synonyms: Phalaenoptilus nuttallii |
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| prizewinning | (adjective) holding first place in a contest | Synonyms: champion |
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| puddingwife | (noun) bluish and bronze wrasse; found from Florida keys to Brazil | Synonyms: Halicoeres radiatus, pudding-wife |
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| redwing | (noun) small European thrush having reddish flanks | Synonyms: Turdus iliacus |
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| (noun) North American blackbird with scarlet patches on the wings | Synonyms: Agelaius phoeniceus, red-winged blackbird |
| renewing | (adjective) tending to impart new life and vigor to | Synonyms: restorative, revitalising, revitalizing, reviving |
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| rewind | (verb) wind (up) again | - |
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| rewire | (verb) provide with new wiring | - |
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| rowing | (noun) the act of rowing as a sport | Synonyms: row |
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| sandwich | (noun) two (or more) slices of bread with a filling between them | - |
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| (verb) insert or squeeze tightly between two people or objects | - |
| (verb) make into a sandwich | - |
| sandwichman | (noun) a person with advertising boards hanging from the shoulders | - |
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| scarecrowish | (adjective) resembling a scarecrow in being thin and ragged | - |
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| schoolwide | (adjective) occurring or extending throughout a school | - |
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| screwing | (noun) slang for sexual intercourse | Synonyms: ass, fuck, fucking, nookie, nooky, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, screw, shag, shtup |
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| sewing | (noun) joining or attaching by stitches | Synonyms: stitching |
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| (noun) needlework on which you are working with needle and thread | Synonyms: stitchery |
| shadowiness | (noun) relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body | Synonyms: shade, shadiness |
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| shadowing | (noun) the act of following someone secretly | Synonyms: tailing |
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| shopwindow | (noun) a window of a store facing onto the street; used to display merchandise for sale in the store | Synonyms: display window, shop window, show window |
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| showily | (adverb) with ostentation; in an ostentatious manner | Synonyms: ostentatiously |
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| (adverb) in a fancy colorful manner | Synonyms: flamboyantly, flashily |
| showiness | (noun) extravagant elaborateness | Synonyms: flamboyance, floridity, floridness |
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| showing | (noun) something shown to the public | Synonyms: display, exhibit |
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| (noun) the display of a motion picture | Synonyms: screening, viewing |
| shrewish | (adjective) continually complaining or faultfinding | Synonyms: nagging |
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| shrewishly | (adverb) in a shrewish manner | - |
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| shrewishness | (noun) a nature given to nagging or scolding | - |
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| sideswipe | (noun) a glancing blow from or on the side of something (especially motor vehicles) | - |
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| (verb) strike from the side | - |
| sidewinder | (noun) small pale-colored desert rattlesnake of southwestern United States; body moves in an s-shaped curve | Synonyms: Crotalus cerastes, horned rattlesnake |
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| (noun) air-to-air missile with infrared homing device | - |
| sidewise | (adverb) from the side; obliquely | Synonyms: sideway, sideways |
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| (adverb) with one side forward or to the front | Synonyms: sideway, sideways |
| (adverb) in a lateral direction | Synonyms: sideway, sideways |
| slantwise | (adverb) at a slant; moving or directed in a slantwise position or direction | Synonyms: slantways |
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| slowing | (noun) a decrease in rate of change | Synonyms: deceleration, retardation |
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| snowiness | (noun) The property or condition of being marked by or covered with snow. | - |
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| sorrowing | (adjective) sorrowful through loss or deprivation | Synonyms: bereaved, bereft, grief-stricken, grieving, mourning |
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| statewide | (adjective) occurring or extending throughout a state | - |
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| stepwise | (adjective) one thing at a time | Synonyms: bit-by-bit, in small stages, piecemeal, step-by-step |
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| (adverb) proceeding in steps | Synonyms: step by step |
| stewing | (noun) cooking in a liquid that has been brought to a boil | Synonyms: boiling, simmering |
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| (noun) an extreme state of worry and agitation | - |
| stowing | (noun) the act of packing or storing away | Synonyms: stowage |
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| streetwise | (adjective) having the shrewd resourcefulness needed to survive in an urban environment | Synonyms: street smart, with-it |
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| strewing | (noun) the act of scattering | Synonyms: scatter, scattering |
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| supertwister | (noun) the most powerful tornado which can create enormously devastating damage | - |
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| sweptwing | (adjective) (of an aircraft) having sweptback wings | - |
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| swift | (adjective) moving very fast | Synonyms: fleet |
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| (noun) a small bird that resembles a swallow and is noted for its rapid flight | - |
| (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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| swiftly | (adverb) in a swift manner | Synonyms: fleetly |
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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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| (verb) to swallow hurriedly or greedily or in one draught | Synonyms: gulp, quaff |
| (verb) strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat | Synonyms: slog, slug |
| 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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| (verb) drink large quantities of (liquid, especially alcoholic drink) | Synonyms: swill down |
| (verb) feed pigs | Synonyms: slop |
| 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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| (verb) travel through water | - |
| (verb) be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom | Synonyms: float |
| (verb) move as if gliding through water | - |
| (verb) be covered with or submerged in a liquid | Synonyms: drown |
| (verb) be dizzy or giddy | - |
| 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 | (adjective) applied to a fish depicted horizontally | Synonyms: naiant |
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| (adjective) filled or brimming with tears | Synonyms: liquid |
| (noun) the act of swimming | Synonyms: swim |
| swimmingly | (adverb) with no problems or difficulties | Synonyms: smoothly |
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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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| (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, victimize |
| 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 | - |
| (verb) alternate dramatically between high and low values | - |
| (verb) hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement | - |
| (verb) make a big sweeping gesture or movement | Synonyms: sweep, swing out |
| (verb) engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends | - |
| (verb) play with a subtle and intuitively felt sense of rhythm | - |
| (verb) move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner | Synonyms: sway |
| (verb) move in a curve or arc, usually with the intent of hitting | - |
| (verb) change direction with a swinging motion; turn | - |
| (verb) be a social swinger; socialize a lot | Synonyms: get around |
| (verb) influence decisively | Synonyms: swing over |
| (verb) hang loosely | Synonyms: dangle, drop |
| (verb) live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style | - |
| (verb) have a certain musical rhythm | - |
| swinge | (verb) burn superficially or lightly | Synonyms: singe |
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| swingeing | (adjective) severe; punishingly bad | - |
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| swinger | (noun) a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex | Synonyms: tramp |
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| (noun) someone who swings sports implements | - |
| swinging | (adjective) characterized by a buoyant rhythm | Synonyms: lilting, swingy, tripping |
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| (noun) changing location by moving back and forth | Synonyms: swing, vacillation |
| 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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| swingy | (adjective) characterized by a buoyant rhythm | Synonyms: lilting, swinging, tripping |
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| swinish | (adjective) resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy | Synonyms: hoggish, piggish, piggy, porcine |
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| (adjective) ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance | Synonyms: boorish, loutish, neandertal, neanderthal, oafish |
| 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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| (verb) strike with a swiping motion | - |
| (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak |
| swirl | (noun) the shape of something rotating rapidly | Synonyms: convolution, vortex, whirl |
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| (verb) flow in a circular current, of liquids | Synonyms: eddy, purl, whirl, whirlpool |
| (verb) turn in a twisting or spinning motion | Synonyms: twiddle, twirl, whirl |
| swish | (adjective) elegant and fashionable | Synonyms: classy, posh |
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| (noun) a brushing or rustling sound | - |
| (verb) move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound | Synonyms: lap, swoosh, swosh |