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

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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 sward

sward (noun)

  1. A layer of earth into which grass has grown; turf; sod.
  2. An expanse of land covered in grass; a lawn or meadow.
  3. Skin; covering.

sward (verb)

  1. To cover with sward.

sward (noun)

  1. A homosexual man.

Definition of sweat

sweat (noun)

  1. 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 and removing certain compounds from the circulation.
  2. The state of one who sweats; diaphoresis.
  3. (especially WWI) A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced).
  4. The sweating sickness.
  5. Moisture issuing from any substance.
  6. A short run by a racehorse as a form of exercise.
  7. Hard work; toil.

sweat (verb)

  1. To emit sweat.
  2. To cause to excrete moisture through skin.
  3. To work hard.
  4. To extract money, labour, etc. from, by exaction or oppression.
  5. To worry.
  6. To worry about (something).
  7. To emit, in the manner of sweat.
  8. To emit moisture.
  9. To solder (a pipe joint) together.
  10. To stress out.
  11. To cook slowly at low heat, in shallow oil and without browning, to reduce moisture content.
  12. To remove a portion of (a coin), as by shaking it with others in a bag, so that the friction wears off a small quantity of the metal.
  13. To suffer a penalty; to smart for one's misdeeds.
  14. To scrape the sweat from (a horse).


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.