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. |