| 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 |
| 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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| 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 |