11-letter words starting with sw
- swage block — an iron block containing holes and grooves of various sizes, used for heading bolts and shaping objects not easily worked on an anvil.
- swallowable — to take into the stomach by drawing through the throat and esophagus with a voluntary muscular action, as food, drink, or other substances.
- swallowtail — the tail of a swallow or a deeply forked tail like that of a swallow.
- swallowwort — celandine (def 1).
- swamp barge — A swamp barge is a vessel used for offshore drilling in very shallow water, which is towed out and then rests on the bottom.
- swamp blues — a style of slow blues originating in Louisiana
- swamp buggy — an amphibious vehicle for use in and around swamps, typically having an automobile engine, four-wheel drive, large wheels with deep treads, and a raised chassis.
- swamp fever — leptospirosis.
- swamp maple — red maple.
- swan maiden — any of a class of folkloric maidens, in many Indo-European and Asian tales, capable of being transformed into swans, as by magic or sorcery.
- swan's neck — a shallow S-curve used in decorative work.
- swan's-down — the fine soft down feathers of a swan, used to trim powder puffs, clothes, etc
- swan-necked — having a neck that is long and elegant like that of a swan
- swan-upping — the taking up of young swans to mark them with nicks on the beak for identification.
- swann's way — the first part of the very long, seven-volume novel by Marcel Proust, 'In Remembrance of Things Past' (also called 'In Search of Lost Time'), in which Charles Swann meets his eventual wife, Odette; one of its major themes is memory
- swansea bay — an inlet of the Bristol Channel, on which the port of Swansea stands
- swarm spore — zoospore
- swarthiness — (of skin color, complexion, etc.) dark.
- swash plate — an inclined circular plate on a rotating shaft for transferring force and motion to or from parts reciprocating in a direction parallel to the axis of shaft rotation.
- swashbuckle — to work, behave, or perform as a swashbuckler.
- swear blind — to assert emphatically
- swearing in — an official ceremony where a person takes an oath of office, allegiance, etc.
- swearing-in — an official ceremony where a person takes an oath of office, allegiance, etc.
- sweat blood — to perspire, especially freely or profusely.
- sweat gland — one of the minute, coiled, tubular glands of the skin that secrete sweat.
- sweat lodge — (especially among North American Indians) a special building used for cleansing and purifying one's body by sweating, in which heated water is poured over heated stones to produce steam.
- sweat pants — loose-fitting pants of soft, absorbent fabric, as cotton jersey, usually with a drawstring at the waist and close-fitting or elastic cuffs at the ankles, commonly worn during athletic activity for warmth or to induce sweating.
- sweat shirt — a heavy, loose, usually long-sleeved pullover made of cotton jersey, worn as by athletes to absorb sweat during or after exercise, sometimes with loose trousers (sweat pants) of the same material, forming an ensemble (sweat suit)
- sweatercoat — a coat knitted like a bulky sweater.
- swedish ivy — any of various plants belonging to the genus Plectranthus, of the mint family, native to the Old World tropics, having rounded, scalloped or toothed leaves and widely cultivated as a houseplant.
- sweep check — a maneuver for depriving an opponent of the puck by seizing it in the crook of one's stick and pulling it away with a movement in a long arc, the stick being held level or nearly level with the ice. Compare check1 (def 37).
- sweepstakes — a sweepstakes.
- sweet basil — any of several aromatic herbs belonging to the genus Ocimum, of the mint family, as O. basilicum (sweet basil) having purplish-green ovate leaves used in cooking.
- sweet birch — a North American tree, Betula lenta, having smooth, blackish bark and twigs that are a source of methyl salicylate.
- sweet cider — the juice pressed from apples (or formerly from some other fruit) used for drinking, either before fermentation (sweet cider) or after fermentation (hard cider) or for making applejack, vinegar, etc.
- sweet grass — any of several fragrant plants, as manna grass or the sweet flag.
- sweet herbs — sweet-smelling herbs that are grown specifically for cooking
- sweet shrub — Carolina allspice.
- sweet spire — a shrub, Itea virginica, of the eastern and southern U.S., having showy, fragrant, white flowers.
- sweet tooth — a liking or craving for candy and other sweets.
- sweet-tooth — a liking or craving for candy and other sweets.
- sweetie pie — sweetheart (used especially as a term of endearment).
- sweetie-pie — sweetheart (used especially as a term of endearment).
- sweetiewife — a garrulous person
- sweetlambda — Sugared lambda-calculus(?).
- swell front — a horizontally convex front, as of a chest of drawers.
- swine fever — hog cholera.
- swing shift — a work shift in industry from midafternoon until midnight.
- swing space — a temporary working environment, used esp while renovations are being carried out
- swing state — a state of the U.S. in which the Democratic and Republican candidates both have a good chance of winning and that is considered key to the outcome of a presidential election: the swing states of Ohio and Indiana.
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