4-letter words containing s, h
- s/he — Some writers use s/he instead of either 'he' or 'she' when they are referring to someone who might exist but who has not been identified. By using s/he, the writer does not need to say whether the person is male or female.
- sash — a fixed or movable framework, as in a window or door, in which panes of glass are set.
- sch. — school
- sech — a hyperbolic secant; a hyperbolic function that is the reciprocal of cosh
- seth — the brother and murderer of Osiris, represented as having the form of a donkey or other mammal and regarded as personifying the desert.
- shad — a deep-bodied herring, Alosa sapidissima, of Europe and North America, that migrates up streams to spawn, used for food.
- shag — this dance step.
- shah — (formerly, in Iran) king; sovereign.
- shak — Shakespeare
- sham — something that is not what it purports to be; a spurious imitation; fraud or hoax.
- shan — a group of Mongoloid tribes in the hills of Burma.
- shat — excrement; feces.
- shaw — Anna Howard, 1847–1919, U.S. physician, reformer, and suffragist, born in England.
- shay — a chaise.
- shd. — should
- she- — female
- shea — shea tree.
- shed — Textiles. (on a loom) a triangular, transverse opening created between raised and lowered warp threads through which the shuttle passes in depositing the loose pick.
- shee — sídh.
- shem — the eldest of the three sons of Noah. Gen. 10:21.
- sher — Sir Antony. born 1953, British actor and writer, born in South Africa
- shes — a female person or animal.
- shet — to shut
- shew — show
- shia — a member of one of the two great religious divisions of Islam that regards Ali, the son-in-law of Muhammad, as the legitimate successor of Muhammad, and disregards the three caliphs who succeeded him.
- shim — a thin slip or wedge of metal, wood, etc., for driving into crevices, as between machine parts to compensate for wear, or beneath bedplates, large stones, etc., to level them.
- shin — the 13th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- ship — a romantic relationship between fictional characters, especially one that people discuss, write about, or take an interest in, whether or not the romance actually exists in the original book, show, etc.: popular ships in fan fiction.
- shit — excrement; feces.
- shiv — a knife, especially a switchblade.
- shmo — schmo.
- shoa — a former kingdom in E Africa: now a province of Ethiopia. 25,290 sq. mi. (65,501 sq. km). Capital: Addis Ababa.
- shod — a simple past tense and past participle of shoe.
- shoe — 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.
- shog — to shake; jolt.
- shoo — to drive away by saying or shouting “shoo.”.
- shop — a retail store, especially a small one.
- shot — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
- show — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
- shpt — shipment
- shtg — shortage
- shul — a synagogue.
- shun — to keep away from (a place, person, object, etc.), from motives of dislike, caution, etc.; take pains to avoid.
- shut — to put (a door, cover, etc.) in position to close or obstruct.
- shwa — the mid-central, neutral vowel sound typically occurring in unstressed syllables in English, however spelled, as the sound of a in alone and sofa, e in system, i in easily, o in gallop, u in circus.
- sidh — a mound or hill in which fairies live.
- sigh — to let out one's breath audibly, as from sorrow, weariness, or relief.
- sikh — a member of a monotheistic religion, founded in the Punjab c1500 by the guru Nanak, that refuses to recognize the Hindu caste system or the Brahmanical priesthood and forbids magic, idolatry, and pilgrimages.
- sinh — hyperbolic sine.
- sith — since