16-letter words containing sh
- shepherd's check — a pattern of even checks, used in a variety of fabrics.
- shepherd's crook — hooked or curved stick
- shepherd's plaid — a checkered black and white pattern
- shepherd's-purse — a European weed, Capsella bursa-pastoris, having white flowers and purselike pods, naturalized in North America.
- shifting spanner — an adjustable spanner
- ship of the line — a former sailing warship armed powerfully enough to serve in the line of battle, usually having cannons ranged along two or more decks; battleship.
- shipping channel — a navigational pathway that a ship uses to travel from one place to another
- shipping company — business that sends goods overseas
- shirring elastic — elastic used for shirring
- shit-eating grin — a sly, knowing, or self-satisfied grin
- shoemaker's shop — a shop where shoes are repaired, or made
- shoemaker-levy 9 — a comet that was captured into an orbit around Jupiter and later broke up, the fragments colliding with Jupiter in July 1995
- shoestring catch — a catch of a ball on the fly, made close to the ground while running.
- shoot one's bolt — a movable bar or rod that when slid into a socket fastens a door, gate, etc.
- shoot one's load — (of a man) to ejaculate at orgasm
- shoot the breeze — a wind or current of air, especially a light or moderate one.
- shoot-to-disable — of or relating to shooting by soldiers or police that is intended to disable rather than kill
- shooting gallery — a place equipped with targets and used for practice in shooting.
- shopping channel — television station used to sell goods
- shopping complex — a shopping centre
- shopping trolley — A shopping trolley is a large metal basket on wheels which is provided by shops such as supermarkets for customers to use while they are in the shop.
- shopping village — a shopping centre that designed to look like a village
- short ski method — a way of learning to ski, using short skis
- short sweetening — sugar.
- shortfin corvina — See under corvina.
- shorthand typing — shorthand and typing
- shorthand typist — A shorthand typist is a person who types and writes shorthand, usually in an office.
- shorthand writer — a person trained to write in shorthand
- shortsightedness — unable to see far; nearsighted; myopic.
- shot in the dark — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
- shotgun marriage — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
- shoulder harness — the part of a seat belt that goes over the shoulder and diagonally across the chest.
- shoulder holster — a holster that is worn on the shoulder
- shoulder surfing — a form of credit-card fraud in which the perpetrator stands behind and looks over the shoulder of the victim as he or she withdraws money from an automated teller machine, memorizes the card details, and later steals the card
- show cause order — a court order issued to a party in a lawsuit, directing that party to appear to give reasons why a certain action should not be put into effect by the court.
- show one's heels — to run away
- show one's teeth — (in most vertebrates) one of the hard bodies or processes usually attached in a row to each jaw, serving for the prehension and mastication of food, as weapons of attack or defense, etc., and in mammals typically composed chiefly of dentin surrounding a sensitive pulp and covered on the crown with enamel.
- show-me attitude — a sceptical frame of mind
- showbiz reporter — a journalist who writes about the entertainment industry
- showcase project — a project designed to attract attention and show off the abilities of the people involved in it
- showy crab apple — a large Japanese bush or tree, Malus floribunda, of the rose family, having red fruit and rose-colored flowers that fade to white.
- shrinking violet — a shy, modest, or self-effacing person.
- shugart, alan f. — Alan F. Shugart
- shut the door on — to refuse to think about
- shutter priority — of or relating to a semiautomatic exposure system in which the photographer presets the shutter speed and the camera selects the aperture.
- shutter-priority — of or relating to a semiautomatic exposure system in which the photographer presets the shutter speed and the camera selects the aperture.
- shuttle armature — a simple H-shaped armature used in small direct-current motors
- shuttle movement — the movement of a component from one place to another and back to its original position
- soft furnishings — home fabrics
- sooty shearwater — any of several long-winged seabirds, often used as food, especially Puffinus tenuirostris (short-tailed shearwater) of Australia and Puffinus griseus (sooty shearwater) which breeds in the Southern Hemisphere and winters in the Northern Hemisphere.