swelling

/swˈɛlɪŋ/ · 2 syllables

Meaning

noun

1. an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement
2. something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
   “the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge”
3. the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water)

Synonyms for swelling

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

Words that rhyme with swelling

• telling
• compelling
• foretelling
• smelling
• belling
• dwelling
• expelling
• misspelling
• propelling
• quelling
• repelling
• selling
• shelling
• spelling
• yelling
• behling
• bestselling
• delling
• dispelling
• elling
• excelling
• fehling
• felling
• flewelling
• gehling
• helling
• kelling
• lewelling
• mehling
• meling