| swishy | (adjective) resembling a sustained `sh' or soft whistle | - |
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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 |
| (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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| tailwind | (noun) wind blowing in the same direction as the path of a ship or aircraft | - |
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| thawing | (noun) warm weather following a freeze; snow and ice melt | Synonyms: thaw, warming |
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| (noun) the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid | Synonyms: melt, melting, thaw |
| therewith | (adverb) with that or this or it | - |
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| therewithal | (adverb) together with all that; besides | - |
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| 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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| tiddlywinks | (noun) a game in which players try to flip plastic disks into a cup by pressing them on the side sharply with a larger disk | - |
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| twice | (adverb) two times | - |
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| (adverb) to double the degree | Synonyms: double, doubly |
| twiddle | (noun) a series of small (usually idle) twists or turns | - |
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| (verb) manipulate, as in a nervous or unconscious manner | Synonyms: fiddle with |
| (verb) turn in a twisting or spinning motion | Synonyms: swirl, twirl, whirl |
| twiddler | (noun) someone who manipulates in a nervous or unconscious manner | Synonyms: fiddler |
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| twig | (noun) a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year | Synonyms: branchlet, sprig |
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| (verb) branch out in a twiglike manner | - |
| (verb) understand, usually after some initial difficulty | Synonyms: catch on, cotton on, get it, get onto, get wise, latch on, tumble |
| twiggy | (adjective) thin as a twig | Synonyms: twiglike |
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| twiglike | (adjective) thin as a twig | Synonyms: twiggy |
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| twilight | (adjective) lighted by or as if by twilight | Synonyms: dusky, twilit |
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| (noun) the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth | - |
| (noun) a condition of decline following successes | - |
| (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall |
| twilit | (adjective) lighted by or as if by twilight | Synonyms: dusky, twilight |
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| twill | (noun) a cloth with parallel diagonal lines or ribs | - |
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| (noun) a weave used to produce the effect of parallel diagonal ribs | Synonyms: twill weave |
| (verb) weave diagonal lines into (textiles) | - |
| twilled | (adjective) of textiles; having parallel raised lines | Synonyms: corded |
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| twimbos | (noun) a pair of twins, who are sexually promiscuous | - |
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| twin | (adjective) being two identical | Synonyms: duplicate, matching, twinned |
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| (noun) a duplicate copy | Synonyms: counterpart, similitude |
| (noun) either of two offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy | - |
| (verb) give birth to twins | - |
| (verb) grow as twins | - |
| (verb) bring two objects, ideas, or people together | Synonyms: couple, match, mate, pair |
| (verb) duplicate or match | Synonyms: duplicate, parallel |
| twinberry | (noun) shrubby honeysuckle with purple flowers; western North America | Synonyms: Lonicera involucrata |
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| (noun) creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries | Synonyms: boxberry, Mitchella repens, partridgeberry |
| twine | (noun) a lightweight cord | Synonyms: string |
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| (verb) spin, wind, or twist together | Synonyms: enlace, entwine, interlace, intertwine, lace |
| (verb) make by twisting together or intertwining | - |
| (verb) arrange or coil around | Synonyms: roll, wind, wrap |
| (verb) form into a spiral shape | Synonyms: distort, twist |
| twiner | (noun) someone who intertwines (e.g. threads) or forms something by twisting or interlacing | - |
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| twinflower | (noun) creeping evergreen subshrub of the northern parts of Europe and Asia with delicate fragrant tubular bell-shaped usually pink flowers borne in pairs | Synonyms: Linnaea borealis |
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| twinge | (noun) a sharp stab of pain | - |
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| (noun) a sudden sharp feeling | Synonyms: pang, stab |
| (verb) squeeze tightly between the fingers | Synonyms: nip, pinch, squeeze, tweet, twitch |
| (verb) cause a stinging pain | Synonyms: prick, sting |
| (verb) feel a sudden sharp, local pain | - |
| twinjet | (noun) a jet plane propelled by two jet engines | - |
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| twinkle | (noun) merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance | Synonyms: light, spark, sparkle |
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| (noun) a rapid change in brightness; a brief spark or flash | Synonyms: scintillation, sparkling |
| (verb) gleam or glow intermittently | Synonyms: blink, flash, wink, winkle |
| (verb) emit or reflect light in a flickering manner | Synonyms: scintillate, winkle |
| twinkler | (noun) an object that emits or reflects light in an intermittent flickering manner | - |
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| twinkling | (adjective) shining intermittently with a sparkling light | - |
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| (noun) a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat) | Synonyms: blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, New York minute, split second, trice, wink |
| twinkly | (adjective) smiling with happiness or optimism | Synonyms: beamish, smiling |
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| twinned | (adjective) being two identical | Synonyms: duplicate, matching, twin |
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| twinning | (adjective) producing two offspring at a time | Synonyms: biparous |
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| twins | (noun) (mineralogy) two interwoven crystals that are mirror images on each other | - |
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| twirl | (noun) the act of rotating rapidly | Synonyms: spin, twist, twisting, whirl |
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| (noun) a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight | Synonyms: kink, twist |
| (verb) turn in a twisting or spinning motion | Synonyms: swirl, twiddle, whirl |
| (verb) cause to spin | Synonyms: birl, spin, whirl |
| twirler | (noun) (baseball) the person who does the pitching | Synonyms: hurler, pitcher |
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| (noun) someone who twirls a baton | Synonyms: baton twirler |
| twirlingly | (adverb) doing twirls | - |
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| twirp | (noun) someone who is regarded as contemptible | Synonyms: twerp, twit |
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| (verb) make a weak, chirping sound | Synonyms: tweet |
| twist | (noun) social dancing in which couples vigorously twist their hips and arms in time to the music; was popular in the 1960s | - |
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| (noun) any clever maneuver | Synonyms: device, gimmick |
| (noun) the act of rotating rapidly | Synonyms: spin, twirl, twisting, whirl |
| (noun) turning or twisting around (in place) | Synonyms: turn |
| (noun) the act of winding or twisting | Synonyms: wind, winding |
| (noun) a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair | Synonyms: braid, plait, tress |
| (noun) an interpretation of a text or action | Synonyms: construction |
| (noun) an unforeseen development | Synonyms: turn, turn of events |
| (noun) a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself | Synonyms: eddy |
| (noun) a jerky pulling movement | Synonyms: wrench |
| (noun) a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight | Synonyms: kink, twirl |
| (noun) a circular segment of a curve | Synonyms: bend, crook, turn |
| (noun) a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments | Synonyms: pull, wrench |
| (verb) twist suddenly so as to sprain | Synonyms: rick, sprain, turn, wrench, wrick |
| (verb) form into twists | - |
| (verb) practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive | Synonyms: convolute, pervert, sophisticate, twist around |
| (verb) turn in the opposite direction | - |
| (verb) form into a spiral shape | Synonyms: distort, twine |
| (verb) cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form | Synonyms: bend, deform, flex, turn |
| (verb) twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates | Synonyms: wrench |
| (verb) to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling) | Synonyms: squirm, worm, wrestle, wriggle, writhe |
| (verb) do the twist | - |
| (verb) extend in curves and turns | Synonyms: curve, wind |
| twisted | (adjective) having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented | Synonyms: distorted, misrepresented, perverted |
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| twister | (noun) small friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried; richer than doughnuts | Synonyms: cruller |
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| (noun) a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground | Synonyms: tornado |
| twisting | (adjective) marked by repeated turns and bends | Synonyms: tortuous, twisty, voluminous, winding |
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| (noun) the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean | Synonyms: distortion, overrefinement, straining, torture |
| (noun) the act of rotating rapidly | Synonyms: spin, twirl, twist, whirl |
| twistwood | (noun) vigorous deciduous European treelike shrub common along waysides; red berries turn black | Synonyms: twist wood, Viburnum lantana, wayfaring tree |
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| twisty | (adjective) marked by repeated turns and bends | Synonyms: tortuous, twisting, voluminous, winding |
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| twit | (noun) aggravation by deriding or mocking or criticizing | Synonyms: taunt, taunting |
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| (noun) someone who is regarded as contemptible | Synonyms: twerp, twirp |
| (verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping | Synonyms: bait, cod, rag, rally, razz, ride, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease |
| twitch | (noun) a sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition | Synonyms: twitching, vellication |
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| (verb) make an uncontrolled, short, jerky motion | Synonyms: jerk |
| (verb) squeeze tightly between the fingers | Synonyms: nip, pinch, squeeze, tweet, twinge |
| (verb) move or pull with a sudden motion | - |
| (verb) toss with a sharp movement so as to cause to turn over in the air | Synonyms: flip |
| (verb) move with abrupt, seemingly uncontrolled motions | Synonyms: jerk |
| twitching | (noun) a sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition | Synonyms: twitch, vellication |
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| twitter | (noun) a series of chirps | Synonyms: chirrup |
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| (verb) make high-pitched sounds, as of birds | Synonyms: chitter |
| twitterer | (noun) a bird that twitters | - |
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| twitterverse | (noun) the social sphere of the Twitter service | - |
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| underwing | (noun) moth having dull forewings and brightly colored hind wings | - |
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| unknowing | (adjective) unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge | Synonyms: ignorant, unknowledgeable, unwitting |
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| (noun) ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs) | Synonyms: ignorantness, nescience, unknowingness |
| unknowingly | (adverb) without knowledge or intention | Synonyms: inadvertently, unwittingly |
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| unknowingness | (noun) unconsciousness resulting from lack of knowledge or attention | Synonyms: unawareness |
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| (noun) ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs) | Synonyms: ignorantness, nescience, unknowing |
| untwine | (verb) undo what has been twined together | - |
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| untwist | (verb) cause to become untwisted | - |
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| untwisted | (adjective) not twisted; formerly twisted but now straight | - |
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| unwieldiness | (noun) trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape | Synonyms: awkwardness, cumbersomeness |
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| (noun) the quality of being difficult to direct or control by reason of complexity | - |
| unwieldy | (adjective) difficult to use or handle or manage because of size or weight or shape | Synonyms: unmanageable |
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| (adjective) lacking grace in movement or posture | Synonyms: clumsy, clunky, gawky, ungainly |
| (adjective) difficult to work or manipulate | - |
| unwilled | (adjective) without deliberate volition, desire, or intention | - |
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| unwilling | (adjective) not disposed to and refusing to do something | - |
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| (adjective) in spite of contrary volition | - |
| unwillingly | (adverb) in an unwilling manner | - |
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| unwillingness | (noun) the trait of being unwilling | Synonyms: involuntariness |
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| unwind | (verb) become less tense, rest, or take one's ease | Synonyms: decompress, loosen up, relax, slow down, unbend |
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| (verb) cause to feel relaxed | Synonyms: loosen up, make relaxed, relax, unlax, unstrain |
| (verb) separate the tangles of | Synonyms: disentangle |
| (verb) reverse the winding or twisting of | Synonyms: unroll, wind off |
| unwire | (verb) undo the wiring of | - |
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| unwise | (adjective) showing or resulting from lack of judgment or wisdom | - |
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| (adjective) not appropriate to the purpose | Synonyms: inexpedient |
| unwisely | (adverb) without good sense or judgment | Synonyms: foolishly |
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| unwiseness | (noun) the trait of acting stupidly or rashly | Synonyms: folly, foolishness |
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| unwished | (adjective) not welcome | Synonyms: unwelcome, unwished-for |
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| unwitting | (adjective) not aware or knowing | - |
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| (adjective) unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge | Synonyms: ignorant, unknowing, unknowledgeable |
| (adjective) not done with purpose or intent | Synonyms: unintentional, unplanned |
| unwittingly | (adverb) without knowledge or intention | Synonyms: inadvertently, unknowingly |
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| upwind | (adjective) towards the side exposed to wind | Synonyms: weather |
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| (adverb) in the direction opposite to the direction the wind is blowing | Synonyms: against the wind, into the wind |
| (adverb) away from the wind | Synonyms: leeward |
| viewing | (noun) a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial | Synonyms: wake |
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| (noun) the display of a motion picture | Synonyms: screening, showing |
| waxwing | (noun) brown velvety-plumaged songbirds of the Northern Hemisphere having crested heads and red waxy wing tips | - |
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| welwitschia | (noun) curious plant of arid regions of southwestern Africa having a yard-high and yard-wide trunk like a turnip with a deep taproot and two large persistent woody straplike leaves growing from the base; living relic of a flora long disappeared; some may be 700-5000 years old | Synonyms: Welwitschia mirabilis |
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| wherewithal | (noun) the necessary means (especially financial means) | - |
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| whippoorwill | (noun) American nocturnal goatsucker with grey-and-white plumage | Synonyms: Caprimulgus vociferus |
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| whirlwind | (noun) a more or less vertical column of air whirling around itself as it moves over the surface of the Earth | - |
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| wick | (noun) a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame | Synonyms: taper |
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| (noun) any piece of cord that conveys liquid by capillary action | - |
| wicked | (adjective) morally bad in principle or practice | - |
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| (adjective) intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality | Synonyms: severe, terrible |
| (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, yucky |
| (adjective) naughtily or annoyingly playful | Synonyms: arch, impish, implike, mischievous, pixilated, prankish, puckish |
| (adjective) having committed unrighteous acts | Synonyms: sinful, unholy |
| wickedly | (adverb) in a wicked evil manner | Synonyms: evilly |
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| wickedness | (noun) morally objectionable behavior | Synonyms: evil, immorality, iniquity |
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| (noun) the quality of being wicked | Synonyms: nefariousness, ugliness, vileness |
| (noun) estrangement from god | Synonyms: sin, sinfulness |
| (noun) the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions | Synonyms: loathsomeness, lousiness, repulsiveness, sliminess, vileness |
| (noun) absence of moral or spiritual values | Synonyms: dark, darkness |
| wicker | (noun) work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches) | Synonyms: caning, wickerwork |
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| (noun) slender flexible branches or twigs (especially of willow or some canes); used for wickerwork | - |
| wickerwork | (noun) work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches) | Synonyms: caning, wicker |
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| wicket | (noun) small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted | Synonyms: grille, lattice |
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| (noun) small gate or door (especially one that is part of a larger door) | Synonyms: wicket door, wicket gate |
| (noun) a small arch used as croquet equipment | Synonyms: hoop |
| (noun) cricket equipment consisting of a set of three stumps topped by crosspieces; used in playing cricket | - |
| wickiup | (noun) a lodge consisting of a frame covered with matting or brush; used by nomadic American Indians in the southwestern United States | Synonyms: wikiup |
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| wickup | (noun) tall North American perennial with creeping rootstocks and narrow leaves and spikes of pinkish-purple flowers occurring in great abundance in burned-over areas or recent clearings; an important honey plant | Synonyms: Epilobium angustifolium, fireweed, giant willowherb, rosebay willowherb |
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| wicopy | (noun) deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Dirca palustris, leatherwood, moose-wood, moosewood, ropebark |
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| wide | (adjective) having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other | Synonyms: broad |
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| (adjective) great in degree | - |
| (adjective) having ample fabric | Synonyms: full, wide-cut |
| (adjective) broad in scope or content | Synonyms: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, broad, encompassing, extensive, panoptic |
| (adjective) not on target | Synonyms: wide of the mark |
| (adjective) very large in expanse or scope | Synonyms: broad, spacious |
| (adjective) (used of eyes) fully open or extended | Synonyms: wide-eyed |
| (adverb) to or over a great extent or range; far | Synonyms: widely |
| (adverb) with or by a broad space | - |
| (adverb) far from the intended target | Synonyms: astray |
| (adverb) to the fullest extent possible | - |
| wideband | (adjective) responding to or operating at a wide band of frequencies | Synonyms: broadband |
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