5-letter words starting with sw
- swack — a hard blow
- swage — a tool for bending cold metal to a required shape.
- swain — a male admirer or lover.
- swale — a low place in a tract of land, usually moister and often having ranker vegetation than the adjacent higher land.
- swalk — sealed with a loving kiss: sometimes written on the back of envelopes
- swami — an honorific title given to a Hindu religious teacher.
- swamp — a tract of wet, spongy land, often having a growth of certain types of trees and other vegetation, but unfit for cultivation.
- swamy — swami.
- swang — simple past tense of swing1 .
- swank — dashing smartness, as in dress or appearance; style.
- swapo — South-West Africa People's Organization
- sward — the grassy surface of land; turf.
- sware — simple past tense of swear.
- swarf — an accumulation of fine particles of metal or abrasive cut or ground from work by a machine tool or grinder.
- swarm — a body of honeybees that emigrate from a hive and fly off together, accompanied by a queen, to start a new colony.
- swart — swarthy.
- swash — to splash, as things in water, or as water does: Waves were swashing against the piers.
- swath — the space covered by the stroke of a scythe or the cut of a mowing machine.
- swati — Swat (def 2).
- swats — a special section of some law enforcement agencies trained and equipped to deal with especially dangerous or violent situations, as when hostages are being held (often used attributively): a SWAT team.
- swave — a transverse earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth and is usually the second conspicuous wave to reach a seismograph.
- swazi — a member of a Nguni people of Swaziland and the Republic of South Africa.
- sweal — the guttering of a candle
- swear — to make a solemn declaration or affirmation by some sacred being or object, as a deity or the Bible.
- sweat — to perspire, especially freely or profusely.
- swede — a native or inhabitant of Sweden.
- sweep — to move or remove (dust, dirt, etc.) with or as if with a broom, brush, or the like.
- sweer — slothful; indolent.
- sweet — having the taste or flavor characteristic of sugar, honey, etc.
- sweir — lazy
- swell — to grow in bulk, as by the absorption of moisture or the processes of growth.
- swelt — to perish
- swept — simple past tense and past participle of sweep1 .
- sweyn — known as Sweyn Forkbeard. died 1014, king of Denmark (?986–1014). He conquered England, forcing Ethelred II to flee (1013); father of Canute
- swift — moving or capable of moving with great speed or velocity; fleet; rapid: a swift ship.
- swill — liquid or partly liquid food for animals, especially kitchen refuse given to swine; hogwash.
- swine — any stout, cloven-hoofed artiodactyl of the Old World family Suidae, having a thick hide sparsely covered with coarse hair, a disklike snout, and an often short, tasseled tail: now of worldwide distribution and hunted or raised for its meat and other products. Compare hog, pig1 , wild boar.
- swing — to play (music) in the style of swing.
- swink — to toil or drudge
- swipe — a strong, sweeping blow, as with a cricket bat or golf club.
- swire — a neck, or depression, between two hills
- swirl — to move around or along with a whirling motion; whirl; eddy.
- swish — to move with or make a sibilant sound, as a slender rod cutting sharply through the air or as small waves washing on the shore.
- swiss — of, pertaining to, associated with, or characteristic of Switzerland or its inhabitants.
- swith — Chiefly British Dialect. immediately; quickly.
- swive — to copulate with.
- swoln — swollen.
- swonk — a simple past tense of swink.
- swoon — to faint; lose consciousness.
- swoop — to sweep through the air, as a bird or a bat, especially down upon prey.
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