9-letter words starting with sw
- sweirness — the state of being slothful
- swell box — a chamber containing a set of pipes in a pipe organ or of reeds in a reed organ, and having movable slats or shutters that can be opened or closed to increase or diminish tonal volume.
- swellfish — puffer (def 2).
- swellhead — a vain or arrogant person.
- sweptback — (of the leading edge of an airfoil) forming a markedly obtuse angle with the fuselage.
- sweptwing — (of an aircraft, winged missile, etc.) having sweptback wings.
- swift fox — a small fox, Vulpes velox, of the plains of W North America
- swiftness — moving or capable of moving with great speed or velocity; fleet; rapid: a swift ship.
- swim mask — mask (def 3).
- swimmeret — (in many crustaceans) one of a number of abdominal limbs or appendages, usually adapted for swimming and for carrying eggs, as distinguished from other limbs adapted for walking or seizing.
- swinburne — Algernon Charles, 1837–1909, English poet and critic.
- swine flu — a highly contagious form of influenza caused by infection with a filterable virus first isolated from swine.
- swineherd — a person who tends swine.
- swinehood — the quality or condition of a swine
- swing leg — a leg at the end of a hinged rail, swinging out to support a drop leaf.
- swing-bin — a rubbish bin with a hinged lid, used esp in a kitchen or bathroom
- swingback — (especially in political affairs) a return or reversion, as to previous opinion, custom, or ideology: We must fight any swingback to isolationism.
- swingbeat — a type of modern dance music that combines soul, rhythm and blues, and hip-hop
- swingboat — a piece of fairground equipment consisting of a boat-shaped carriage for swinging in
- swingeing — enormous; thumping.
- swingover — a shift or transfer in attitude, opinion, or the like.
- swingtail — denoting an aircraft with a rear portion that can be opened to assist in loading cargo
- swingtree — a whiffletree.
- swissvale — a city in SW Pennsylvania, on the Monongahela River.
- switch on — the act or process of switching on an ignition, light, appliance, etc.
- switch-on — a slender, flexible shoot, rod, etc., used especially in whipping or disciplining.
- switching — a slender, flexible shoot, rod, etc., used especially in whipping or disciplining.
- switchman — a person who has charge of a switch on a railroad.
- sword arm — the arm in which your sword is normally held
- swordbill — a South American hummingbird, Ensifera ensifera, having a slender bill that is longer than its body.
- swordfish — a large, marine food fish, Xiphias gladius, having the upper jaw elongated into a swordlike structure.
- swordplay — the action or technique of wielding a sword; fencing.
- swordsman — a person who uses or is skilled in the use of a sword.
- swordtail — any of several small, brightly colored, viviparous, freshwater fishes of the genus Xiphophorus, native to Central America, having the lower part of the caudal fin elongated into a swordlike structure: often kept in aquariums.