Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
barrel | a wooden container made of curved staves bound with hoops; (verb) to travel or move very quickly. |
belive | (Scots) with speed, immediately. |
bespeed | (Arch.) to help on. |
blive | (Spenser) with speed, immediately. |
bobble | a woolly ball for trimming clothes, etc (verb) to bob rapidly |
brattle | (Scots) to rush noisily. |
breakneck | at full speed. |
breenge | (Scots) a lunge forward; (verb) to lunge forward. |
breinge | (Scots) a lunge forward; (verb) to lunge forward. |
bugout | the act of running away. |
bustle | energetic movement; (verb) to move energetically. |
bustler | one who bustles. |
bustling | lively and busy. |
bustlingly | (Adv.) BUSTLING. |
bylive | (Spenser) with speed, immediately. |
career | progress through life; (verb) to go at full speed. |
careerer | one who careers. |
celerity | rapidity of motion. |
dart | a sudden forward movement; (verb) to move suddenly or swiftly. |
dartingly | (Adv.) DARTING. |
dartle | to dart. |
dash | a rush, a violent onset; (verb) to strike violently. |
dasher | one who dashes. |
dashing | spirited, showy. |
dashingly | (Adv.) DASHING, spirited, showy. |
downcome | a sudden fall; a downfall. |
downrush | a rushing down. |
emplonge | (Spenser) to plunge. |
endart | (Shakesp.) to dart in. |
ensweep | (Arch.) to sweep over. |
festinate | quick (verb) to hasten |
festinately | (Adv.) FESTINATE, quick. |
fleet | swift (noun) an assemblage of ships; (verb) to move swiftly |
fleetingly | (Adv.) FLEETING. |
fleetingness | the state of being fleeting. |
fleetly | (Adv.) FLEET, swift. |
fleetness | the quality of being fleet. |
flisk | (Scots) a whim (verb) to caper about |
flit | to move lightly and swiftly. |
flitt | (Obs.) fleet, fleeting; (verb) to flit. |
flounce | a hanging strip gathered and sewn to the skirt of a dress by its upper edge (verb) to move impatiently or abruptly |
fluttery | marked by fluttering. |
frisk | a frolicsome movement (verb) to move or leap about playfully |
gee | of horses, to urge on. |
giggit | (Arch. US) to convey or move rapidly. |
haste | urgency calling for speed (verb) to hurry, hasten |
hasteful | hurried. |
hastefully | (Adv.) HASTEFUL, hurried. |
hasten | to hurry. |
hastener | one who hastens. |
hastily | (Adv.) HASTY, speedy. |
hastiness | the state of being hasty. |
hasty | speedy. |
headlong | full tilt. |
hie | to hurry along. |
hightail | to move away at high speed. |
hotfoot | to hurry. |
hurriedly | (Adv.) HURRIED, in haste. |
hurriedness | the state of being hurried. |
hurrier | one who hurries. |
hurry | to move swiftly. |
hurryingly | (Adv.) HURRYING. |
hurtle | to rush violently. |
hustle | to hurry. |
hye | (Obs.) to hasten. |
implunge | to plunge, submerge. |
indart | (Shakesp.) to dart in. |
inrush | the act of rushing in. |
inrushing | the act of rushing in. |
irrupt | to burst in, enter violently. |
irruption | a forcible or violent rush; a breaking in. |
jee | of horses, to urge on. |
jerk | a sudden sharp motion (verb) to move with a sharp, sudden motion |
jook | (Scots) to duck or dodge. |
jostle | to run or strike against. |
jouk | (Scots) to duck or dodge. |
justle | to run or strike against. |
kook | a person who is mad, foolish, or eccentric and amoral (verb, Scots) to dart in and out of sight |
lipe | a lurching or jerking movement. |
lope | to run with a steady, easy gait. |
lunge | a sudden thrust as in fencing; (verb) to make a lunge. |
nimbleness | the state of being nimble. |
nippily | (Adv.) NIPPY, quick. |
nippy | quick. |
onrush | a rushing forward. |
onrushing | rushing forward. |
outpace | to move faster than. |
outrush | to surpass in rushing. |
outspeed | to excel in speed. |
overhaste | too great haste. |
overhastily | (Adv.) OVERHASTY, too hasty. |
overhasty | too hasty. |
overpost | (Obs.) to hasten over quickly. |
overtrip | (Obs.) to trip nimbly over. |
pitapat | with a pattering or tapping; (noun) a light quick step; (verb) to step or tread quickly. |
pooter | to hurry away. |
posthaste | great haste. |
quirk | a trick or peculiarity of action (verb) to move jerkily |
rampage | aggressively excited behaviour or rushing about; (verb) to storm, rush about wildly. |
rampauge | (Scots) to rampage. |
ramstam | (Scots) headlong. |
random | haphazard (noun) a rush, full speed |
randomly | (Adv.) RANDOM, haphazard. |
rapid | quick (noun) a swift-flowing part of a river |
rapidity | the state of being rapid. |
rapidly | (Adv.) RAPID, swift. |
rapidness | rapidity. |
rash | overhasty (noun) an outbreak of red spots or patches on the skin; (verb, obs.) to dash, rush |
rashly | (Adv.) RASH, overhasty. |
renne | (Spenser) to run. |
ronne | (Spenser) to run. |
run | a gait faster than a walk; (verb) to move quickly; to organise and/or control. |
rush | any plant of the grasslike marsh-growing genus Juncus (verb) to move swiftly |
saccade | (Fr.) a brief rapid movement of the eye from one position of rest to another, whether voluntary or involuntary. |
scamper | to run playfully about. |
scamperer | one who scampers. |
scampering | the act of running playfully about. |
schnell | (Ger.) quick. |
scoot | to go quickly. |
scravel | to move quickly, scramble. |
scud | to run along quickly and lightly. |
scudder | one who scuds, a swift runner. |
scuddle | to run hastily; to scuttle. |
scurry | to move in a quick scuttling fashion. |
scutter | to run hastily, scurry. |
scuttle | to move or run with short rapid steps. |
scuttler | one who scuttles. |
shoosh | to move with a rushing sound. |
skelter | to scurry. |
skitter | to move lightly and rapidly SKITTERY. |
skittery | darting about. |
skurry | to move in a quick scuttling fashion. |
skuttle | to move or run with short steps. |
skyte | (Scots) to dart or glide. |
speed | quickness (verb) to move swiftly |
speeder | one who speeds. |
speedful | full of speed (in any sense). |
speedfully | (Adv.) SPEEDFUL, full of speed. |
speedily | (Adv.) SPEEDY, fast. |
speediness | the state of being speedy. |
speedy | fast. |
stampede | a sudden panic-stricken rush; (verb) to rush in panic. |
stampeder | one who stampedes. |
stampedo | (Obs.) a stampede; (verb) to stampede. |
swiftly | (Adv.) SWIFT, rapid. |
swiftness | the state of being swift. |
tantivy | an interjection expressive of galloping or of the sound of the hunting-horn; (noun) a headlong dash or rapid gallop. |
tew | to hustle. |
tivy | with great speed. |
trot | a gait between a walk and a run; (verb) to go at a trot. |
tweaky | twitchy. |
twitch | a sudden involuntary motion (verb) to move or pull with a sudden motion |
twitcher | one that twitches. |
twitchy | given to twitching. |
uprun | to run up. |
vauch | (Dial.) to move fast. |
viff | to change direction abruptly of a VTOL aircraft. |
viretot | (Scott) rush, dash, gad. |
wheech | (Scots) to move rapidly with a whizzing sound. |
whid | (Scots) to move quickly, whiz. |
whidder | (Scots) to whiz. |
whiplash | a blow with a whip; (verb) to move like a whiplash. |
whirry | characteristic of a whir (verb) to move rapidly |
whish | to move with a whizzing or swishing noise. |
whisk | to move or stir briskly. |
whoosh | to move making the sound whoosh. |
woosh | to move making the sound woosh. |
yirk | to tie with a jerk. |
zing | zest, spirit (verb) to move very swiftly, esp with a high-pitched hum |
zoom | a loud humming noise; (verb) to move with a loud humming sound. |