Reverse Dictionary: SWELL

ADJECTIVES
► BAGGIT bulging, swelled out → 1843 Sc.
► BASHY fat, swelled → 1790 Eng. dial.
► BELLYING swelling, bulging out → a1700
► BLUFFY puffed, swelled → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BOLDIN swelled → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BOULDEN swelled, inflated → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BOUZY big, swelling, distended; fat, overgrown → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BUNTING swelling, plump; filled out, rounded, short and thick → 1584
► EXTUBERANT swelling or standing out; protuberant → 1578
► EXTUBEROUS swelling out, protuberant → 1706 obs.
► TURGENT physically swelling or swollen → 1440
► TURGESCENT becoming swollen, swelling, growing bigger → 1727
► TURGESCIBLE capable of swelling up → 1886

NOUNS
► AMPER an inflamed swelling, a pustule; a varicose vein; matter, pus → 1790 Eng. dial.
► BELLYING a swelling or bulging out → 1662
► BOLGAN a swelling that becomes a boil or pimple → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BONK a small swelling on the head caused by a sharp blow → 1966 Amer. dial.
► BOWDING swelling → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BUNCH a swelling or protuberance of the skin; a cyst → 1857 Amer. dial.
► BURGEON a slight swelling or pimple → 1597 obs.
► CAWL a swelling from a blow → 1886 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► ERCLE a small swelling, a watery blister; a pimple, a sore place → 1876 Eng. dial.
► EVIL an ill, complaint, illness; a swelling on the neck or other local affliction → 1683 Eng. dial.
► EXTUBERANCE something that swells out or up; a swelling, protuberance → 1607
► EXTUBERANCY a swelling out → 1634 obs.
► EXTUBERATION something that swells out or up; protuberance → 1615 obs.
► FELON a severe inflammation or swelling, usually in a finger or toe and often involving a bone → 1840 Amer. dial.
► FELONY a hard, painful swelling, often on a finger, that seems to come from deep under the skin → 1969 Amer. dial.
► GAFF a protuberance or swelling of any kind → 1969 Amer. dial.
► GOOM – a swelling, as from a sprain → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GOWL a lump or swelling on the body → 1889 Eng. dial.
► HEAVE a swelling or rising up; rhythmical rising and falling, as of waves, the breast, etc.; an effort to vomit; a throw → a1571
► KNUB a small knob or lump; a nugget; also, a swelling or protuberance on the body → 1563
► KNULE a lump, a swelling, an excrescence → 1824 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► MOUSER a lump or swelling caused by a blow; a black eye → 1860 Amer. dial.
► NIRLOCK a small swelling on the skin → 1887 Sc.
► OBTUMESCENCE a swelling up; swollen condition → 1657 obs.
► PONE a lump; a swelling → 1916 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► PUMPKNOCK ► PUMPKNOT a bump or swelling. esp. one on the head caused by a blow → 1933 Amer. dial.
► RAISING a boil, an abscess, or other swelling → 1966 Amer. dial.
► RISIN’ a boil, ulcer, tumour, swelling → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► SWELTH a swelling → 1631
► TURGENCE a swelling or becoming swollen → 1671 obs.
► TURGENCY a swelling; a swollen state → 1650
► TURGESCENCE a swelling up; a being swollen → 1631
► TURGESCENCY a swelling or swollen condition → 1666
► WALE a tumour; a large swelling → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)

VERBS
► ABLOW to puff up, to swell → c1000 obs.
► BEAL to suppurate, to fester; to cause to swell; to raise the flesh in blisters → 1611 obs. exc. Eng. & Amer. dial.
► BEELD to swell, to suppurate → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BELL to swell up; to cause to swell or bulge out → a1225 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► BELLEN to swell → 1852 obs. (Bk.)
► BELLY to bulge out, to swell out  → 1624
► BEPUFF to puff or blow out; to swell; hence, to flatter, to praise greatly → 1843
► BLOB to swell up, to become puffy or bloated → 1875 Eng. dial.
► BLOW to swell, to puff up, to explode, to burst → 1878 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► BOLDEN ► BOULDEN to swell → 1953 Amer. dial.
► BOUND OUT to swell out; to enlarge → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BOYN to swell → 1914 (Bk.)
► BUMFLE to cause something to bulge or swell; to puff up → 1832 chiefly Sc. & N. Ireland
► EXTUBERATE to swell → 1623 obs.
► EXUBERATE to swell out or up → 1623 obs.
► GAGGER to cut or wound deeply with the idea of a ragged edge; to cause to project, swell up → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► GATHER HEAD to acquire strength; also, to swell as a festering sore → 1590
► GO OUT of a swelling: to go down → 1983 Amer. dial.
► GUMFIATE to puff up, to cause to swell → 1821
► GUMFLATE to swell, to inflate → 1820 Sc. obs.
► HEAVE to swell, to become swollen, to distend; to puff up, to cause to swell → 1766 Sc. & Eng. dial.  
► HOVE to swell, to inflate, to puff up or out → 1601 obs.
► PAGGLE to bulge, to swell out as a bag; to hang loosely, to dangle → c1590 obs.
► POOCH OUT to bulge, to swell; to stick out → 1903
► STROUT to swell out → 1886 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► STRUT OUT to bulge, to swell; to protrude on account of being full or swollen → 1300 obs.
► SWEDDLE to swell → 1825 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► THRUMP to swell, to thicken → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TO-BELL to swell exceedingly → c1200 obs.
► TURGESCE to begin to swell → 1864
► TYMPANY to swell or puff up; to inflate; to distend → 1901 obs. (Bk.)
► UNBOLNE of a swelling: to go down; to subside → a1425 obs.
► VAIL of a swelling: to go down, to subside → c1450 obs.