5 letter words starting with sw

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  • SWABS
  • SWACK
  • SWADS
  • SWAGE
  • SWAGS
  • SWAIL
  • SWAIN
  • SWALE
  • SWALY
  • SWAMI
  • SWAMP
  • SWAMY
  • SWANG
  • SWANK
  • SWANS
  • SWAPS
  • SWAPT
  • SWARD
  • SWARE
  • SWARF
  • SWARM
  • SWART
  • SWASH
  • SWATH
  • SWATS
  • SWAYL
  • SWAYS
  • SWEAL
  • SWEAR
  • SWEAT
  • SWEDE
  • SWEED
  • SWEEL
  • SWEEP
  • SWEER
  • SWEES
  • SWEET
  • SWEIR
  • SWELL
  • SWELT
  • SWEPT
  • SWERF
  • SWEYS
  • SWIES
  • SWIFT
  • SWIGS
  • SWILE
  • SWILL
  • SWIMS
  • SWINE
  • SWING
  • SWINK
  • SWIPE
  • SWIRE
  • SWIRL
  • SWISH
  • SWISS
  • SWITH
  • SWITS
  • SWIVE
  • SWIZZ
  • SWOBS
  • SWOLE
  • SWOLL
  • SWOLN
  • SWOON
  • SWOOP
  • SWOPS
  • SWOPT
  • SWORD
  • SWORE
  • SWORN
  • SWOTS
  • SWOUN
  • SWUNG

Sometimes the solution is an uncommon word, then It’s time to learn something new. Here’s the definition of a few of these words:

Definition of swage

swage (noun)

  1. A tool, used by blacksmiths and other metalworkers, for cold shaping of a metal item.

swage (verb)

  1. To bend or shape through use of a swage.

swage (verb)

  1. To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.).
  2. To pacify or soothe (someone).
  3. To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate.

Definition of swale

swale (noun)

  1. A low tract of moist or marshy land.
  2. A long narrow and shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline.
  3. A shallow troughlike depression that's created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch.
  4. A shallow, usually grassy depression sloping downward from a plains upland meadow or level vegetated ridgetop.
  5. A shallow trough dug into the land on contour (horizontally with no slope), whose purpose is to allow water time to percolate into the soil.

swale (noun)

  1. A gutter in a candle.

swale (verb)

  1. To burn slowly.
  2. To melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; waste away without feeding the flame.
  3. To singe; scorch; dress (as a hog) with burning or singeing.
  4. To consume with fire; burn.
  5. To make disappear; cause to waste away; diminish; reduce.

Definition of swamp

swamp (noun)

  1. A piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth of certain kinds of trees, but is unfit for agricultural or pastoral purposes.
  2. A type of wetland that stretches for vast distances, and is home to many creatures which have adapted specifically to that environment.
  3. A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult.

swamp (verb)

  1. To drench or fill with water.
  2. To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
  3. To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.


Definition of swell

swell (verb)

  1. To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
  2. To cause to become bigger.
  3. To grow gradually in force or loudness.
  4. To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
  5. To be raised to arrogance.
  6. To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
  7. To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
  8. To protuberate; to bulge out.

swell (noun)

  1. The act of swelling; increase in size.
  2. A bulge or protuberance.
  3. Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
  4. A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
  5. A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
  6. A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
  7. A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
  8. A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
  9. An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle.
  10. A person who dresses in a fancy or elegant manner.
  11. A person of high social standing; an important person.
  12. The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.

swell (adjective)

  1. Fashionable, like a swell or dandy.
  2. Excellent.

swell (adverb)

  1. Very well.