swelling

swelling is a 8-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Swell. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 16 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. present participle. of Swell
2. noun. The act of that which swells; as, the swelling of rivers in spring; the swelling of the breast with pride.
3. noun. A protuberance; a prominence
4. noun. an unnatural prominence or protuberance; as, a scrofulous swelling.
5. noun. the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water)

   Synonyms: intumescence, intumescency

6. noun. something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings

   "the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"

   "the hump of a camel"

   Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance

7. noun. an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement

   Synonyms: lump, puffiness

Synonyms

intumescence, intumescency, bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, lump, puffiness

Common word forms

swell, swellings

Words from these letters

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