5-letter words containing s, e
- shave — to remove a growth of beard with a razor.
- she'd — She'd is the usual spoken form of 'she had', especially when 'had' is an auxiliary verb.
- she's — a female person or animal.
- sheaf — one of the bundles in which cereal plants, as wheat, rye, etc., are bound after reaping.
- sheal — a shell or pod
- shear — to cut (something).
- sheba — Queen of, the queen who visited Solomon to test his wisdom. I Kings 10:1–13.
- sheen — Fulton (John) 1895–1979, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman, writer, and teacher.
- sheep — any of numerous ruminant mammals of the genus Ovis, of the family Bovidae, closely related to the goats, especially O. aries, bred in a number of domesticated varieties.
- sheer — transparently thin; diaphanous, as some fabrics: sheer stockings.
- shees — sídh.
- sheet — Nautical. a rope or chain for extending the clews of a square sail along a yard. a rope for trimming a fore-and-aft sail. a rope or chain for extending the lee clew of a course.
- sheik — Also, shaikh, sheikh. (in Islamic countries) the patriarch of a tribe or family; chief: a term of polite address.
- shelf — a thin slab of wood, metal, etc., fixed horizontally to a wall or in a frame, for supporting objects.
- shell — a hard outer covering of an animal, as the hard case of a mollusk, or either half of the case of a bivalve mollusk.
- shema — a liturgical prayer, prominent in Jewish history and tradition, that is recited daily at the morning and evening services and expresses the Jewish people's ardent faith in and love of God.
- shend — to put to shame.
- shent — to put to shame.
- sheol — the abode of the dead or of departed spirits.
- sherd — shard.
- sheva — a mark placed under a consonant in Hebrew writing to denote an absent vowel sound
- shied — simple past tense and past participle of shy2 .
- shiel — a pasture or grazing ground.
- shier — bashful; retiring.
- shies — bashful; retiring.
- shine — to give forth or glow with light; shed or cast light.
- shire — a river in SE Africa, flowing S from Lake Malawi to the Zambezi River. 370 miles (596 km) long.
- shite — If someone describes something as shite, they do not like it or think that it is very poor quality.
- shive — a splinter or fragment of the husk of flax, hemp, etc.
- shlep — to carry; lug: to schlep an umbrella on a sunny day.
- shmek — a faint smell
- shoed — an external covering for the human foot, usually of leather and consisting of a more or less stiff or heavy sole and a lighter upper part ending a short distance above, at, or below the ankle.
- shoer — a person who shoes horses or other animals.
- shoes — an external covering for the human foot, usually of leather and consisting of a more or less stiff or heavy sole and a lighter upper part ending a short distance above, at, or below the ankle.
- shone — a simple past tense and past participle of shine1 .
- shore — Jane, 1445?–1527, mistress of Edward IV of England.
- shote — shoat (def 1).
- shove — to move along by force from behind; push.
- shred — a piece cut or torn off, especially in a narrow strip.
- shrew — any of several small, mouselike insectivores of the genus Sorex and related genera, having a long, sharp snout.
- shute — Nevil (Nevil Shute Norway) 1899–1960, British novelist and aeronautical engineer.
- shyer — bashful; retiring.
- sided — being at or on one side: the side aisles of a theater.
- sider — one of the surfaces forming the outside of or bounding a thing, or one of the lines bounding a geometric figure.
- sidhe — a mound or hill in which fairies live.
- sidle — to move sideways or obliquely.
- siege — the act or process of surrounding and attacking a fortified place in such a way as to isolate it from help and supplies, for the purpose of lessening the resistance of the defenders and thereby making capture possible.
- sield — provided with a ceiling
- siena — a city in Tuscany, in central Italy, S of Florence: cathedral.
- siepi — Cesare [che-zah-re] /ˈtʃɛ zɑ rɛ/ (Show IPA), 1923–2010, Italian basso.