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— English words —

• swell v. (Intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
• swell v. (Transitive) To cause to become bigger.
• swell v. (Intransitive) To grow gradually in force or loudness.
• swell v. (Transitive) To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness.
• swell v. (Transitive) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
• swell v. (Intransitive) To be raised to arrogance.
• swell v. To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
• swell v. To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
• swell v. To protuberate; to bulge out.
• swell n. The act of swelling; increase in size.
• swell n. A bulge or protuberance.
• swell n. Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
• swell n. A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
• swell n. (Music) A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
• swell n. (Music) A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
• swell n. (Music) A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
• swell n. A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
• swell n. (Geology) An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle.
• swell n. (Informal, dated) A person who is stylish, fancy, or elegant.
• swell n. (Informal) A person of high social standing; an important person.
• swell n. The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
• swell adj. (Dated) Fashionable, like a swell or dandy.
• swell adj. (North America, dated slang) Excellent.
• swell adv. (North America, informal) Very well.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Middle english
  • swell v. Alternative form of swellen.
  • swell adv. Alternative form of swelle.

— English words, defined in Dutch —

• swell n. Vloedgolf, zwalp.
• swell w. Zwellen.

— English words, defined in French —

• swell v. Gonfler.
• swell n. Gonflement.
• swell n. Houle.
• swell adj. (Informel) Super, sensass.
• Swell n.prop. (Géographie) Paroisse civile d’Angleterre située dans le district de Cotswold.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• swell v. Hincharse.
• swell v. Crecer, levantar.
• swell v. Alzarse el mar con olas.
• swell s. Inflamación, hinchazón.
• swell s. Protuberancia.
• swell s. Ola en especial grande o una serie de olas.
• swell s. Cuesta, elevación gradual en el terreno.
• swell s. Incremento gradual.

— English words, defined in Portuguese —

• swell adj. (Arcaico) excelente.
• swell s. Aumento, intumescimento, incremento.
• swell s. Inchação, dilatação, expansão, janota.
• swell s. Longa série de ondas do oceano, geralmente produzidas pelo vento, e duradoura depois que o vento cessa.
• swell s. Dispositivo para controlar o volume de um órgão de tubos.
• swell s. Divisão em um órgão de tubos, geralmente o maior divisão fechada.
• swell v. Aumentar de volume, encher, crescer, intumescer, inchar.

— English word, defined in Italian —

• swell s. Tumefazione.

— In French —

• Swell n.prop. (Géographie) Paroisse civile d’Angleterre située dans…

129 English words from 26 English definitions

act after Alternative America and angle area arrogance arrogantly bars become beds being bigger bombastic bow brow bulge cantle cause ceased central connected controlling crescendo dandy dated device diminuendo dip division due due␣to elated elegant enclosed end engorged especially Excellent extravagant fancy Fashionable followed followed␣by for force form from front generally Geology gradual gradually grow has high hillock important increase inflate in␣force informal in␣style Intransitive largest lasting like long loudness low Music North North␣America ocean of␣a on␣the organ other other␣end out person pipe pipe␣organ power produced protrusion protuberance protuberate puff puff␣up quaquaversally raise raised region rhetorical rise saddle saddle␣bars saddle␣bow series similar size slang social social␣standing standing strata style stylish swell swelling terrain the to␣the Transitive tree turgid two upward usually Very Very␣well volume waves well who whose wind

18 English words from 24 foreign definitions

con Cotswold Cuesta dans district especial gradual grande Houle Longa mar Ola olas para que serie Super volume

53 foreign words from 24 foreign definitions

Alzarse Angleterre Arcaico Aumentar Aumento cessa civile controlar Crecer crescer depois dilatação Dispositivo divisão elevación encher excelente expansão fechada Géographie geralmente Gonflement Gonfler Hincharse hinchazón Inchação inchar incremento Inflamación Informel intumescer janota levantar maior oceano ondas órgão Paroisse Paroisse␣civile pelo produzidas Protuberancia sensass série située terreno tubos Tumefazione una vento Vloedgolf zwalp Zwellen

46 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

swell'd swells swelly swelled sweller swellin' swell␣up swell␣box swelldom swellers swellest swelleth swellies swelling swellish swell␣mob swellable swellfish swellhead swellings swell␣mobs swellness swelltoad swell␣boxes swellegant swellheads swelligant swellingly swell␣organ swellshark swelltoads swelled␣head swellfishes swellheaded swell-headed swell␣organs swellsharks swellability swelling␣soil swellishness swell-mobsman swell-mobsmen swelling␣soils swell␣the␣ranks swellabilities swellheadedness

86 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

Aswells aswell␣as as␣well␣as Baswells Boswells Buswells enswells Haswells Laswells reswells Roswells unswells upswells Wiswells boswellic Braswells Carswells Cogswells Creswells Criswells Croswells doswellid Friswells Kerswells Lasswells outswells preswells reswelled unswelled upswelled Boswellian Boswellism Boswellize caswellite Chriswells Cresswells deswelling doswellids doswelliid knee␣swells outswelled overswells preswelled reswelling Roswellian St␣Boswells Tideswells transwells unswelling upswelling +36 words

62 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

aswell Aswell as␣well Baswell Boswell Buswell Caswell Doswell enswell Haswell Laswell reswell Roswell unswell upswell Wiswell Braswell Carswell Cogswell Creswell Criswell Croswell Digswell does␣well Elmswell Friswell Horswell Kerswell Lasswell outswell preswell Rowswell Berkswell Chriswell Cresswell Grasswell knee␣swell may␣as␣well minus␣well overswell Taff's␣Well Tideswell transwell wind␣swell Dowdeswell Edginswell just␣as␣well underswell wishes␣well groundswell ground␣swell +11 words

8 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ell Ell ELL 'e'll SWE we'l well we'll

4 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

EWS lew Lew lews

2 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

wells Wells

15 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

aswell Aswell as␣well dwells Ewells Sewall Sewell Sowell swell'd swells swelly Twells Wellsy willes Willes

13 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

ells Ells ELLs ESWL lews sell Sell slew well we'll wels Wels WLLs

19 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

dwell Ewell shell Shell she'll skell smell snell Snell spell Spell stell Stell sweal swelp swelt swill swoll twell

4 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

sell Sell well we'll

2 epenthesis (New words found when adding only one letter.)

Sewell Sowell

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