Definition of Swell

Noun

• a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
  dandy dude fop gallant sheik beau - fashion plate clotheshorse
• a crescendo followed by a decrescendo
  
• a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor)
  
• the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea
  - crestless wave

Verb

• cause to become swollen
  "The water swells the wood"
  
• come up, as of a liquid
  "Tears well in her eyes"
  "the currents well up"
  well
• come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things)
  "Strong emotions welled up"
  "Smoke swelled from it"
  - well up
• expand abnormally
  "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"
  - swell up intumesce tumefy tumesce
• become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
  "The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son"
  - puff up
• increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity
  "The music swelled to a crescendo"
  

Adjective

• very good
  "he did a bully job"
  "a neat sports car"
  "had a great time at the party"
  "you look simply smashing"
  - bang up bully corking cracking dandy great groovy keen neat nifty - not bad peachy - slap up smashing

Word games points for the Swell

• Scrabble® score of the swell (8)
• Word Chums® score of the swell (11)
• Words With Friends® score of the swell (10)

Unscramble swell

16 unscramble word found using the letters swell.

el, ell, ells, els, es, les, lew, sel, sell, sew, slew, swell, we, well, wells, wels,