| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| shackling | present participle & vb. noun | of Shackle |
| shacklock | noun | A sort of shackle. |
| shadeless | adjective | Being without shade; not shaded. |
| shadiness | noun | Quality or state of being shady. |
| shadowing | present participle & vb. noun | of Shadow, Shade, or gradation of light and color; shading., A faint representation; an adumbration. |
| shadowish | adjective | Shadowy; vague. |
| shaftment | noun | A measure of about six inches. |
| shagebush | noun | A sackbut. |
| shakedown | noun | A temporary substitute for a bed, as one made on the floor or on chairs; — perhaps originally from the shaking down of straw for this purpose. |
| shakefork | noun | A fork for shaking hay; a pitchfork. |
| shakeress | noun | A female Shaker. |
| shakerism | noun | Doctrines of the Shakers. |
| shakiness | noun | Quality of being shaky. |
| shallowly | adverb | In a shallow manner. |
| shamanism | noun | The type of religion which once prevalied among all the Ural-Altaic peoples (Tungusic, Mongol, and Turkish), and which still survives in various parts of Northern Asia. The Shaman, or wizard priest, deals with good as well as with evil spirits, especially the good spirits of ancestors. |
| shamanist | noun | An adherent of Shamanism. |
| shambling | present participle & vb. noun | of Shamble, Characterized by an awkward, irregular pace; as, a shambling trot; shambling legs., An awkward, irregular gait. |
| shamefast | adjective | Modest; shamefaced. |
| shameless | adjective | Destitute of shame; wanting modesty; brazen-faced; insensible to disgrace., Indicating want of modesty, or sensibility to disgrace; indecent; as, a shameless picture or poem. |
| shamoying | noun | A process used in preparing certain kinds of leather, which consists in frizzing the skin, and working oil into it to supply the place of the astringent (tannin, alum, or the like) ordinarily used in tanning. |
| shampooed | imp. & past participle | of Shampoo |
| shampooer | noun | One who shampoos. |
| shankbeer | noun | See Schenkbeer. |
| shapeless | adjective | Destitute of shape or regular form; wanting symmetry of dimensions; misshapen; — opposed to shapely. |
| sharebeam | noun | The part of the plow to which the share is attached. |
| sharebone | noun | The public bone. |
| sharewort | noun | A composite plant (Aster Tripolium) growing along the seacoast of Europe. |
| sharp-cut | adjective | Cut sharply or definitely, or so as to make a clear, well-defined impression, as the lines of an engraved plate, and the like; clear-cut; hence, having great distinctness; well-defined; clear. |
| sharpling | noun | A stickleback. |
| sharpness | noun | The quality or condition of being sharp; keenness; acuteness. |
| sharp-set | adjective | Eager in appetite or desire of gratification; affected by keen hunger; ravenous; as, an eagle or a lion sharp-set. |
| sharptail | noun | The pintail duck., The pintail grouse, or prairie chicken. |
| shathmont | noun | A shaftment. |
| shattered | imp. & past participle | of Shatter |
| shaveling | noun | A man shaved; hence, a monk, or other religious; — used in contempt. |
| shearbill | noun | The black skimmer. See Skimmer. |
| shearling | noun | A sheep but once sheared. |
| sheartail | noun | The common tern., Any one of several species of humming birds of the genus Thaumastura having a long forked tail. |
| sheatfish | noun | A European siluroid fish (Silurus glanis) allied to the cat-fishes. It is the largest fresh-water fish of Europe, sometimes becoming six feet or more in length. See Siluroid. |
| sheathing | present participle & adjective | Inclosing with a sheath; as, the sheathing leaves of grasses; the sheathing stipules of many polygonaceous plants., That which sheathes., The casing or covering of a ship’s bottom and sides; the materials for such covering; as, copper sheathing., The first covering of boards on the outside wall of a frame house or on a timber roof; also, the material used for covering; ceiling boards in general. |
| shea tree | An African sapotaceous tree (Bassia, / Butyrospermum, Parkii), from the seeds of which a substance resembling butter is obtained; the African butter tree. | |
| shebander | noun | A harbor master, or ruler of a port, in the East Indies. |
| shechinah | noun | See Shekinah. |
| sheepback | noun | A rounded knoll of rock resembling the back of a sheep. — produced by glacial action. Called also roche moutonnee; — usually in the plural. |
| sheepbite | verb i. | To bite or nibble like a sheep; hence, to practice petty thefts. |
| sheepcote | noun | A small inclosure for sheep; a pen; a fold. |
| sheepfold | noun | A fold or pen for sheep; a place where sheep are collected or confined. |
| sheephook | noun | A hook fastened to pole, by which shepherds lay hold on the legs or necks of their sheep; a shepherd’s crook. |
| sheeprack | noun | The starling. |
| sheepskin | noun | The skin of a sheep; or, leather prepared from it., A diploma; — so called because usually written or printed on parchment prepared from the skin of the sheep. |
| sheetfuls | plural | of Sheetful |
| sheldafle | noun | Alt. of Sheldaple |
| sheldaple | noun | A chaffinch. |
| sheldfowl | noun | The common sheldrake. |
| sheldrake | noun | Any one of several species of large Old World ducks of the genus Tadorna and allied genera, especially the European and Asiatic species. (T. cornuta, / tadorna), which somewhat resembles a goose in form and habit, but breeds in burrows., Any one of the American mergansers. |
| shell-lac | noun | Alt. of Shellac |
| shellbark | noun | A species of hickory (Carya alba) whose outer bark is loose and peeling; a shagbark; also, its nut. |
| shellfish | noun | Any aquatic animal whose external covering consists of a shell, either testaceous, as in oysters, clams, and other mollusks, or crustaceous, as in lobsters and crabs. |
| shellwork | noun | Work composed of shells, or adorned with them. |
| sheltered | imp. & past participle | of Shelter |
| shemitish | adjective | Of or pertaining to Shem, the son of Noah, or his descendants. See Semitic. |
| shemitism | noun | See Semitism. |
| shendship | noun | Harm; ruin; also, reproach; disgrace. |
| sheriffry | noun | Alt. of Sheriffwick |
| shewbread | See Showbread. | |
| shielding | present participle & vb. noun | of Shield |
| shiftable | adjective | Admitting of being shifted. |
| shiftless | adjective | Destitute of expedients, or not using successful expedients; characterized by failure, especially by failure to provide for one’s own support, through negligence or incapacity; hence, lazy; improvident; thriftless; as, a shiftless fellow; shiftless management. |
| shillalah | noun | Alt. of Shillelah |
| shillelah | noun | An oaken sapling or cudgel; any cudgel; — so called from Shillelagh, a place in Ireland of that name famous for its oaks. |
| shimmered | imp. & past participle | of Shimmer |
| shingling | present participle & vb. noun | of Shingle, The act of covering with shingles; shingles, collectively; a covering made of shingles., The process of expelling scoriae and other impurities by hammering and squeezing, in the production of wrought iron. |
| shintiism | noun | One of the two great systems of religious belief in Japan. Its essence is ancestor worship, and sacrifice to dead heroes. |
| shintoist | noun | An adherent of Shintoism. |
| shipboard | noun | A ship’s side; hence, by extension, a ship; — found chiefly in adverbial phrases; as, on shipboard; a shipboard. |
| shipowner | noun | Owner of a ship or ships. |
| shipshape | adjective | Arranged in a manner befitting a ship; hence, trim; tidy; orderly., In a shipshape or seamanlike manner. |
| shipwreck | noun | The breaking in pieces, or shattering, of a ship or other vessel by being cast ashore or driven against rocks, shoals, etc., by the violence of the winds and waves., A ship wrecked or destroyed upon the water, or the parts of such a ship; wreckage., Fig.: Destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss., To destroy, as a ship at sea, by running ashore or on rocks or sandbanks, or by the force of wind and waves in a tempest., To cause to experience shipwreck, as sailors or passengers. Hence, to cause to suffer some disaster or loss; to destroy or ruin, as if by shipwreck; to wreck; as, to shipwreck a business. |
| shirtless | adjective | Not having or wearing a shirt. |
| shivering | present participle & vb. noun | of Shiver |
| shoddyism | noun | The quality or state of being shoddy. |
| shoeblack | noun | One who polishes shoes. |
| shoemaker | noun | One whose occupation it is to make shoes and boots., The threadfish., The runner, 12. |
| shogunate | noun | The office or dignity of a Shogun. |
| shopboard | noun | A bench or board on which work is performed; a workbench. |
| shopshift | noun | The trick of a shopkeeper; deception. |
| shopwomen | plural | of Shopwoman |
| shopwoman | noun | A woman employed in a shop. |
| shoreless | adjective | Having no shore or coast; of indefinite or unlimited extent; as, a shoreless ocean. |
| shoreling | noun | See Shorling. |
| shoreward | adverb | Toward the shore. |
| shortcake | noun | An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked. |
| shortener | noun | One who, or that which, shortens. |
| shorthand | noun | A compendious and rapid method or writing by substituting characters, abbreviations, or symbols, for letters, words, etc.; short writing; stenography. See Illust. under Phonography. |
| shorthead | noun | A sucking whale less than one year old; — so called by sailors. |
| shorthorn | adjective | One of a breed of large, heavy domestic cattle having short horns. The breed was developed in England. |
| shortness | noun | The quality or state of being short; want of reach or extension; brevity; deficiency; as, the shortness of a journey; the shortness of the days in winter; the shortness of an essay; the shortness of the memory; a shortness of provisions; shortness of breath. |
| shortstop | noun | The player stationed in the field bewtween the second and third bases. |
| shortwing | noun | Any one of several species of small wrenlike Asiatic birds having short wings and a short tail. They belong to Brachypterix, Callene, and allied genera. |
| shoshones | noun pl. | A linguistic family or stock of North American Indians, comprising many tribes, which extends from Montana and Idaho into Mexico. In a restricted sense the name is applied especially to the Snakes, the most northern of the tribes. |
| shot-clog | noun | A person tolerated only because he pays the shot, or reckoning, for the rest of the company, otherwise a mere clog on them. |
| shot-free | adjective | Not to be injured by shot; shot-proof., Free from charge or expense; hence, unpunished; scot-free. |
| shovelled | of Shovel | |
| shoveling | present participle & vb. noun | of Shovel |
| shovelard | noun | Shoveler. |
| shovelful | noun | As much as a shovel will hold; enough to fill a shovel. |
| showbread | noun | Bread of exhibition; loaves to set before God; — the term used in translating the various phrases used in the Hebrew and Greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest of the week placed before the Lord on the golden table in the sanctuary. They were made of fine flour unleavened, and were changed every Sabbath. The loaves, twelve in number, represented the twelve tribes of Israel. They were to be eaten by the priests only, and in the Holy Place. |
| showering | present participle & vb. noun | of Shower |
| showerful | adjective | Full of showers. |
| showiness | noun | The quality or state of being showy; pompousness; great parade; ostentation. |
| shredding | present participle & vb. noun | of Shred, The act of cutting or tearing into shreds., That which is cut or torn off; a piece. |
| shredcook | noun | The fieldfare; — so called from its harsh cry before rain. |
| shredless | adjective | Having no shreds; without a shred. |
| shrieking | present participle & vb. noun | of Shriek |
| shrilling | present participle & vb. noun | of Shrill |
| shrinking | present participle & vb. noun | of Shrink, a. & n. from Shrink. |
| shrinkage | noun | The act of shrinking; a contraction into less bulk or measurement., The amount of such contraction; the bulk or dimension lost by shrinking, as of grain, castings, etc., Decrease in value; depreciation. |
| shrivalty | noun | Shrievalty. |
| shriveled | imp. & past participle | of Shrivel |
| shroffage | noun | The examination of coins, and the separation of the good from the debased. |
| shrouding | present participle & vb. noun | of Shroud, The shrouds. See Shroud, n., 7. |
| shrubbery | noun | A collection of shrubs., A place where shrubs are planted. |
| shrubless | adjective | having no shrubs. |
| shrugging | present participle & vb. noun | of Shrug |
| shuddered | imp. & past participle | of Shudder |
| shuffling | present participle & vb. noun | of Shuffle, Moving with a dragging, scraping step., Evasive; as, a shuffling excuse., In a shuffling manner. |
| shuttered | adjective | Furnished with shutters. |
| shwan-pan | noun | See Schwan-pan. |