English words: swanee whistle to sweater up
300 English words, part 234 of 245 of the words starting with S, A to Z. 33 have a page of their own.
English words swanee whistle to sweater up
- swanee whistle noun: A slide whistle.
- Swanepoel proper noun: A surname from Afrikaans.
- swaness noun: A female swan.
- Swaney proper noun: A surname.
- swang noun, verb /ˈswæŋ/: A swamp.
- swanga noun: Alternative form of swanger.
- swanger noun /ˈswæŋɚ/: A decorative protruding construction on an automobile's rim, especially on a Houston, Texas, slab car.
- Swango proper noun: A surname.
- swanherd noun: A person who tends or herds swans; a keeper of swans.
- swanhood noun: Synonym of swanship (“the state of being a swan”).
- Swanigan proper noun: A surname.
- swanimote noun: Alternative form of swainmote.
- swank adjective, noun, verb /ˈswæŋk/: Fashionably elegant, posh.
- swanker adjective, noun: One who behaves in a swanky fashion.
- swankey noun: Alternative form of swankie (“a kind of drink”).
- swankie noun: An active and clever young fellow.
- swankily adverb: In a swanky manner.
- swankiness noun: The state or quality of being swanky.
- swankish adjective: Synonym of swanky.
- swankly adverb: In a swank manner.
- swanky adjective, noun /ˈswæŋki/: Rather posh, elegant, ritzy.
- swanless adjective: Devoid of swans.
- Swanley proper noun: A town and civil parish with a town council in Sevenoaks district, Kent, England, just outside Greater London (OS grid ref TQ5168).
- swanlike adjective, adverb: Similar to a swan or a characteristic of it, especially in elegance or grace.
- swanling noun: A young or baby swan; a cygnet.
- swanly adjective: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of swans; swanlike.
- swanmark noun: A mark of ownership cut on the bill of a swan.
- Swann proper noun: A surname transferred from the nickname.
- Swannanoa proper noun: A census-designated place in Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States.
- swannery noun /ˈswɒn.ə.ɹi/: A place where swans are bred.
- swanness noun: Synonym of swanship (“the state of being a swan”).
- swannish adjective: Characteristically like a swan; somewhat swanlike
- swanny adjective, verb: Resembling or characteristic of a swan.
- swanpan noun: Dated form of suanpan.
- Swanscombe proper noun: A small town in Swanscombe and Greenhithe parish, Dartford borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ6074).
- swansdown noun: The down of a swan.
- Swansea proper noun /ˈswɒnzi/: A city and county in South Wales.
- swanship noun: A ship shaped like a swan.
- swanskin noun: The skin of a swan with the down or feathers on.
- Swanson proper noun /ˈswɒnsən/: A surname.
- swansong noun: Alternative form of swan song.
- Swanston proper noun: A locality in Southern Midlands council area, eastern Tasmania, Australia.
- Swanstrom proper noun: A surname.
- Swanton proper noun: A surname from Old English.
- Swanwick proper noun /ˈswɒnɪk/: A village and civil parish in Amber Valley district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK4053).
- Swanzey proper noun: A town in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States.
- swap noun, verb /ˈswɒp/: To exchange or give (something) in an non-normal exchange (for something else).
- swap body noun: A demountable body, a type of freight container which can be transported by road or rail.
- swap box noun: A box which is used for exchange of items; individuals put in items that they do not want to have, and other individuals who are in need of such items take...
- swap chain noun: A series of virtual framebuffers used by the graphics card and API for frame rate stabilization, stutter reduction, etc.
- swap file noun: A file on disk used as auxiliary memory.
- swap horses in midstream verb: Alternative form of change horses in midstream.
- swap in verb: To exchange (someone or something) for another of the same kind.
- swap line noun: A procedure whereby a central bank (usually the United States Federal Reserve) trades money with a foreign bank in one currency in exchange for an...
- swap meet noun: A meet for the purpose of trading, including buying and selling or swapping (bartering), especially secondhand, vintage, or collectible goods; a flea market.
- swap out noun, verb: To transfer (memory contents) into a swap file.
- swap over verb: To exchange, change over (positions etc.)
- swap partition noun: A disk partition designated as auxiliary memory, used primarily on Unix and Linux systems.
- swap places verb: Synonym of change places.
- swap shop noun: An agency that provides a communication channel where items, especially secondhand ones, are traded or sold.
- swap space noun: Space on a hard disk used as auxiliary memory.
- swapbody noun: Alternative form of swap body.
- swapchain noun: Alternative form of swap chain.
- swape noun, verb /sweɪp/: A bar or pole used as a lever, swivel handle e.g. on the end of a shaft.
- swapfile noun: Alternative spelling of swap file.
- swaplet noun /ˈswɒplət/: an individual component in a swap
- swapling noun: An infant or child secretly exchanged for another; changeling.
- swaplist noun: A list of items that the owner wishes to exchange for other items.
- swapmeet noun: Alternative form of swap meet.
- swaporama noun: An event at which all participants donate items which can then be taken for free by other participants.
- swapover noun: A conversion or transition from one thing to another; a changeover.
- swappable adjective: That can be swapped.
- swapper noun: One who swaps.
- swappie noun: A member of the Socialist Workers Party
- swappiness noun: A setting in the Linux kernel determining the balance between swapping out runtime memory and dropping pages from the system page cache.
- swapping adjective, noun, verb: The act by which something is swapped; an exchange.
- swapportunity noun: an opportunity to make a swap
- swapsies noun: The act of swapping.
- swaption noun: An instrument granting the owner an option to enter an interest rate swap.
- SWAR noun: Initialism of SIMD within a register.
- swara noun: Alternative form of svara.
- swarabhakti noun: Alternative form of svarabhakti.
- swaraj noun: self-rule
- swarajism noun: Support for swaraj.
- swarajist noun: A supporter of swaraj.
- Swarbrick proper noun: A surname.
- sward noun, verb /swɔːd/: Earth which grass has grown into the upper layer of; greensward, sod, turf; (countable) a portion of such earth.
- swarded adjective /ˈswɔɹdɪd/: Covered with sward.
- swardspeak noun: gayspeak
- swardy adjective: Covered with sward or grass.
- swaree noun: Eye dialect spelling of soiree.
- swarf noun, verb /swɔːf/: The waste chips or shavings from an abrasive activity, such as metalworking, a saw cutting wood, or the use of a grindstone or whetstone.
- swarf-penny noun: money due to a castle guard at the end of his service
- Swarfega noun: A heavy-duty gelatinous, thixotropic substance used to clean grease and oil, etc. from the skin.
- swarm noun, verb /swɔɹm/: A large number of insects or other bugs (e.g. centipedes), especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony.
- swarm intelligence noun: The collective behavior of decentralized, self-organized systems, whether natural or artificial.
- swarm plot noun: A form of scatter plot.
- swarm spore noun: A zoospore
- swarmandal noun: An Indian zither.
- swarmbot noun: A swarm of robots that act as a single organism
- swarmer noun: Something that swarms.
- swarmin' verb: Pronunciation spelling of swarming.
- swarminess noun: The quality of being swarmy.
- swarming noun, verb: The motion of a swarm.
- swarmingly adverb: So as to swarm.
- SWARMP adjective, noun: Acronym of safe with a repair and maintenance program.
- swarmplot noun: Alternative form of swarm plot.
- swarmsize noun: The size (number of individuals) of a swarm
- swarmspore noun: Alternative spelling of swarm spore (“zoospore”).
- swarmy adjective: Of bees: inclined to swarm.
- swarp verb: To strike or push with a sweeping motion.
- swarry noun: Pronunciation spelling of soiree.
- swart adjective, noun, verb /ˈswɔːt/: Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny.
- swarten verb: to make swart, dark, or swarty; darken
- swarth adjective, noun /swɔː(ɹ)ð/: Alternative form of sward.
- swarthaak noun: An African thorn tree, Senegalia mellifera.
- swarthily adverb: In a swarthy manner.
- swarthiness noun: The property of being swarthy.
- Swarthmore proper noun: A small village near Ulverston, in Cumbria, England.
- Swarthout proper noun: A surname.
- swarthy adjective, noun /ˈswɔɹði/: Tawny, dusky, dark.
- swartish adjective: Somewhat swart (dark, or tawny).
- swartness noun: The quality or state of being swart.
- swartrutter noun: A member of a band of irregular troopers in the Netherlands in the 16th and 17th centuries, who dressed in all black.
- Swarts fluorination noun: A process whereby the chlorine atoms in a compound are replaced with fluorine, by treatment with antimony trifluoride in the presence of chlorine or of...
- swarty adjective /ˈswɔː(ɹ)ti/: swarthy; tawny
- Swartz proper noun /swɔɹts/: A surname.
- swartzite noun /ˈswɔɹtsaɪt/: A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing calcium, carbon, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, and uranium.
- swarve verb /swɔːv/: To swerve.
- Swasey proper noun: A surname.
- swash adjective, noun, verb /swɒʃ/: The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken.
- swash letter noun: An italic capital letter with top and bottom flourishes, intended to fill an unsightly gap.
- swash plate noun: Alternative form of swashplate.
- swash someone's buckle verb: To behave or feel in a swashbuckling manner.
- swash-work noun: lathework in which the cuts are inclined to the axis of rotation
- swashbuckle verb: To take part in exciting romantic adventures.
- swashbuckler noun: A swordsman or fencer who engages in showy or extravagant swordplay.
- swashbucklering adjective: Alternative form of swashbuckling.
- swashbucklery noun: adventure and excitement; that which is swashbuckling
- swashbuckling adjective: Adventurous, exciting.
- swashbucklingly adverb: In a swashbuckling way; adventurously, excitingly.
- swasher adjective, noun: One who makes a blustering show of valour or force of arms.
- swashing adjective, noun, verb: Hectoring; swaggering.
- swashplate noun: A revolving circular plate, set obliquely on its shaft, and acting as a cam to give a reciprocating motion to a rod in a direction parallel to the shaft.
- swashway noun: Synonym of swash (“narrow sound or channel of water”).
- swashy adjective: swashbuckling
- swass noun /swæs/: A sweaty ass (buttocks).
- swasti-car noun: Alternative form of Swasticar.
- swasti-kar noun: Alternative form of Swasticar.
- swasticar noun: A vehicle manufactured by Tesla, Inc. especially the Tesla Cybertruck.
- Swastik proper noun: A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- swastika noun /ˈswɒstɪkə/: A cross with arms of equal length all bent halfway along at a 90° angle to the right or to the left, used as a religious symbol by various ancient and...
- Swastikaar noun: Alternative spelling of Swasticar.
- swastikaed adjective: Marked with a swastika.
- swastikalike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a swastika.
- swastikar noun: Alternative spelling of Swasticar.
- swat noun, verb /swɒt/: Acronym of special weapons and tactics, the area of expertise of police officers trained and equipped to neutralize armed or entrenched criminals.
- Swatara proper noun: An unincorporated community in Macville Township, Aitkin County, Minnesota.
- swatch noun, verb /swɒtʃ/: A piece, pattern, or sample, generally of cloth or a similar material.
- swatchel noun /ˈswɒt͡ʃ(ə)l/: swazzle
- swatchway noun: A twisting channel amongst sandbanks that is only navigable at high water
- swath noun /swɒθ/: The track cut out by a scythe in mowing.
- swathe noun, verb /sweɪð/: A bandage; a band.
- swather noun /ˈswɑθɚ/: A device on a mowing machine or combine harvester that raises uncut grain and marks the edge of the swath.
- swathing noun, verb: A wrapping.
- swathy adjective: Of or like a swathe, in mowing.
- Swati adjective, noun: Alternative spelling of Swazi.
- Swatow proper noun /swɑːˈtʰaʊ̯/: Synonym of Shantou: the Teochew-derived name.
- swatter noun, verb: Something used to swat with; a flyswatter.
- swatting noun, verb: A motion or gesture that swats; a swat.
- swattle verb: To splutter; to guzzle.
- swaver verb: To stagger or totter; to walk feebly, as one who is fatigued.
- swavory adjective: Combining sweet and savory flavors.
- swavoury adjective: Alternative form of swavory.
- sway noun, verb /ˈsweɪ̯/: The act of swaying; a swaying motion; a swing or sweep of a weapon.
- sway-backed adjective: Alternative spelling of swaybacked.
- sway bar noun: An anti-sway bar.
- sway-bracing noun: The horizontal bracing of a bridge, which prevents it from swaying.
- swayable adjective: Capable of being swayed; whose mind can be changed.
- swayamsevak noun: A member of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, an Indian nationalist paramilitary volunteer organization.
- swayback noun: An excessive sagging of the spine of a quadruped animal, especially a horse.
- swaybacked adjective: Having a sagged back.
- swaybar noun: Alternative spelling of sway bar.
- swayed adjective, verb /sweɪd/: Bent backwards, as in swayback
- swayer noun: One who or that which sways something.
- swayey adjective /ˈsweɪ(j)i/: That sways; inclined to sway.
- swayful adjective: Able to sway; swaying.
- swaying noun, verb /ˈsweɪ.ɪŋ/: The motion of something that sways.
- swayingly adverb: In a swaying way; unsteadily.
- swayless adjective: Without a swaying motion.
- swaymeter noun: A device that measures postural sway (in people standing still)
- Swayne proper noun: A surname.
- Swayne's hartebeest noun: Alcelaphus buselaphus swaynei, an Ethiopian antelope.
- Swayze adjective: gone; dead
- Swazi adjective, noun /swɑː.zi/: A person from Swaziland/Eswatini or of Swazi/Swati descent originally migrating from Central Africa.
- Swaziland proper noun /ˈswɑːziˌlænd/: Former name of Eswatini: a country in Southern Africa; used until 2018.
- Swazilander noun: A native or inhabitant of Swaziland.
- Swaziness noun: Quality of being Swazi.
- swazz noun, verb /swæz/: curl or spin added when striking a ball hard
- swazzle noun, verb /ˈswɒz(ə)l/: A device to change the voice to make it more raspy, used in Punch and Judy performances
- SWB adjective, noun: short wheelbase (of vehicles)
- SWBAT phrase: Initialism of student(s) will be able to... (used in defining learning objectives)
- swbd noun: Abbreviation of switchboard.
- SWBs noun: Abbreviation of southwest by south.
- SWbW noun: Abbreviation of southwest by west.
- swchmn noun: Abbreviation of switchman.
- SWCNT noun: Initialism of single-walled carbon nanotube.
- SWE adjective, noun: Initialism of supplied with equipment.
- sweal verb /swiːl/: To burn slowly.
- swealing noun, verb: Alternative form of swaling (melted wax that runs down the edge of a candle)
- sweam noun: A swimming of the head; a fainting fit; a swoon.
- sweamish adjective: Sick, giddy, faint, squeamish.
- swear adjective, noun, verb /ˈswɛə(ɹ)/: To take an oath, to promise intensely, solemnly, and/or with legally binding effect.
- swear at verb: To be disagreeably incongruous with, especially in colour; to clash.
- swear blind verb: To insist strongly (that something is true).
- swear box noun: A money box used to collect a nominal fine from people who use foul language, especially in a workplace.
- swear by verb: To invoke in an oath; to swear upon.
- swear down interjection, verb: To promise that something is (not) true.
- swear in verb: To administer an oath to, as an oath of office or of citizenship.
- swear jar noun: A jar into which somebody who utters a profanity is obliged to drop some money, used to encourage people to stop swearing.
- swear like a cutter verb: Synonym of swear like a trooper.
- swear like a pagan verb: Synonym of swear like a trooper.
- swear like a sailor verb: Synonym of swear like a trooper.
- swear like a trooper verb: To swear a lot; to utter many swear words.
- swear off verb: To quit or cease completely, or to promise to quit, as a bad habit.
- swear on verb: Alternative form of swear upon.
- swear on a stack verb: Ellipsis of swear on a stack of Bibles.
- swear on a stack of Bibles verb: To make a promise or give an assurance with great conviction.
- swear out verb: To obtain (a warrant or the like) by swearing to facts.
- swear the peace verb: To swear legally (against someone) that one is in fear of physical violence from a person, in order that they be put under bond to keep the peace.
- swear to God interjection, verb: To vigorously affirm the truth of a statement, knowing that the failure to do so may result in a punishment from God.
- swear upon verb: To take an oath on someone or something.
- swear word noun /swɛə(ɹ)wɜːd/: A word considered obscene and vulgar or offensive.
- swearable adjective: Able to be sworn in.
- Swearengin proper noun: A surname.
- swearer noun: One who swears.
- swearily adverb: In a sweary manner.
- swearin' verb: Pronunciation spelling of swearing.
- sweariness noun: The quality of being sweary.
- swearing noun, verb: The act of swearing, or making an oath.
- swearing contest noun: A trial whose outcome comes down to which of two parties swearing to the truth of opposing accounts is to be believed.
- swearing in noun, verb: The administration of an oath
- swearing jar noun: Synonym of swear jar
- Swearingen proper noun: A surname.
- swearingly adverb: While swearing (using curse words).
- swearsies noun: The act of swearing; a promise or vow.
- swearsome adjective: Characterised or marked by swearing
- swearword noun: Alternative spelling of swear word.
- sweary adjective: Inclined to swear; characterised by bad language.
- sweat noun, verb /swɛt/: Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature for the purpose of regulating body temperature...
- sweat angel noun: A snow angel-shaped mark of sweat remaining on a surface (usually the ground) indicating that one has perspired profusely, generally as a result of intense...
- sweat bath noun: A traditional Native American sweat lodge.
- sweat batten noun: Any of the horizontal timbers in a cargo hold that create space between the cargo and the skin of the ship.
- sweat bee noun: Any of various bees that are attracted to the salt in human sweat, principally Halictidae spp.
- sweat blood verb: To work very hard.
- sweat box noun: Alternative form of sweatbox.
- sweat bricks verb: Synonym of sweat bullets (“to sweat profusely”).
- sweat buckets verb: To sweat very profusely.
- sweat bullets verb: To sweat profusely; especially, to be very nervous or anxious.
- sweat-cloth noun: A canvas cloth placed under a horse’s saddle.
- sweat-dappled adjective: Having beads of sweat on its surface, like a dappled coat.
- sweat equity noun: An investment of labour, typically by the owner and often his or her family, usually in a small business or personal residence that increases the value of...
- sweat gland noun: An exocrine gland found under the skin in mammals for regulating body temperature.
- sweat hole noun: An opening in the skin through which sweat is excreted; pore.
- sweat-house noun: Alternative form of sweathouse.
- sweat it out verb: To do hard physical exercise or work, and sweat as a result.
- sweat like a hooker in church verb: To sweat profusely; to produce a lot of perspiration.
- sweat like a horse verb: Synonym of sweat like a pig.
- sweat like a pig verb: To sweat profusely; to produce a lot of perspiration.
- sweat lodge noun: A structure in which people expose themselves to high-temperature air, often combined with steam or aromatic substances, as in a steam bath or sauna.
- sweat of one's brow noun /ˈswɛt əv wɒnz ˈbɹaʊ/: The effort extended in (often manual) labour, and the value created thereby.
- sweat of the brow noun: In intellectual property law, the effort and expense expended by the creator of a protected work, which are entitled to certain protections, even if the...
- sweat off verb: To lose (weight) by sweating (from heavy exercise, sauna etc.).
- sweat one's guts out verb: to work very hard.
- sweat out verb: To sweat; to secrete sweat because of heat, nerves etc.
- sweat pants noun: Alternative spelling of sweatpants.
- sweat pore noun: The opening of a sweat gland to the surface of the skin.
- sweat rash noun: miliaria
- sweat scraper noun: A grooming tool used to remove sweat from horses or to remove excess water after bathing a horse.
- sweat shirt noun: Alternative spelling of sweatshirt.
- sweat shop noun: Alternative form of sweatshop.
- sweat sock noun: A thick absorbent sock often worn during sports activities.
- sweat-stained adjective: Alternative spelling of sweatstained
- sweat the small stuff verb: To worry about petty issues or insignificant matters.
- sweat trousers noun: Synonym of sweatpants.
- sweatball noun: A sweatdrop.
- sweatband noun: A band of fabric, inside the crown of a hat, designed to absorb perspiration.
- sweatbanded adjective: Wearing a sweatband.
- sweatbead noun: A bead (A small drop of water or other liquid) of sweat.
- sweatbox noun, verb: Any box or boxlike structure used to induce sweating, such as of hides or tobacco
- sweatdrop noun, verb: A drop of sweat.
- sweated adjective, verb: Characterized by sweatshop conditions.
- sweatee noun: A subcontractor doing piece work in the tailoring trade.
- sweater noun, verb /ˈswɛtə/: A knitted jacket or jersey, usually of thick wool, worn by athletes before or after exercise.
- sweater curse noun: A superstition among knitters that making a sweater for a romantic partner increases the likelihood of a breakup.
- sweater dress noun: A knitted dress, especially of wool, worn for warmth.
- sweater girl noun: A young woman wearing a tight sweater that emphasizes the bustline: a popular Hollywood fashion of the 1940s and 1950s.
- sweater meat noun: Breasts visible or discernible beneath a sweater.
- sweater puppies noun: A woman's breasts.
- sweater up verb: To put on or be dressed in a sweater; to be bundled up in clothes including a sweater.
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Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under S: 73,223 words, in 245 parts.