6-letter words containing sh
- hashes — Plural form of hash.
- he/she — he or she
- heishi — a type of Native American shell jewellery
- hesher — (slang) a diehard enthusiast of heavy metal music.
- hewish — Antony, born 1924, British astronomer: discovered pulsars; Nobel Prize in Physics 1974.
- homish — Like a home; domestic; cosy.
- honshu — an island in central Japan: chief island of the country. 88,851 sq. mi. (230,124 sq. km).
- humash — the Pentateuch.
- hushed — Having a calm and still silence.
- husher — to become or be silent or quiet: They hushed as the judge walked in.
- hushes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hush.
- ilesha — a town in SW Nigeria.
- immesh — enmesh.
- imnsho — IMHO
- impish — mischievous.
- ingush — a member of a Sunni Muslim people living north of the Caucasus Mountains, closely related to the Chechen.
- inmesh — enmesh.
- inrush — a rushing or pouring in.
- inship — to travel or send by ship
- irtysh — a river in central Asia, flowing NW from the Altai Mountains in China through NE Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation to the Ob River. About 1840 miles (2960 km) long.
- ishtar — the Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of love and war, identified with the Phoenician Astarte, the Semitic Ashtoreth, and the Sumerian Inanna.
- jadish — (of a horse) Vicious and ill-tempered, like a jade.
- jarash — Jerash.
- jerash — a town in N Jordan, N of Amman: Roman ruins.
- jewish — of, relating to, or characteristic of the Jews or Judaism: Jewish customs.
- joshed — Simple past tense and past participle of josh.
- josher — A person who joshes or ridicules.
- joshes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of josh.
- joshua — the successor of Moses as leader of the Israelites. Deut. 31:14, 23; 34:9.
- jutish — a member of a continental Germanic tribe, probably from Jutland, that invaded Britain in the 5th century a.d. and settled in Kent.
- kadesh — oasis in the desert, south of Palestine: Gen. 14:7, 16:14; Num. 32:8; Deut. 1:46, 2:14
- kaishu — a variety of Chinese script developed in the 4th century a.d. and considered standard since that time.
- kasher — kosher.
- kashim — a building used by Eskimos as a community gathering place or as a place where men congregate and socialize.
- kensho — (sumo) prize money given to encourage rikishi by sponsors.
- kibosh — nonsense.
- kishka — Also called stuffed derma. Jewish Cookery. a beef or fowl intestine stuffed with a mixture, as of flour, fat, onion, and seasonings, and roasted.
- kishke — Also called stuffed derma. Jewish Cookery. a beef or fowl intestine stuffed with a mixture, as of flour, fat, onion, and seasonings, and roasted.
- kiushu — an island in SW Japan. 15,750 sq. mi. (40,793 sq. km).
- klesha — any of the five hindrances to enlightenment, which are ignorance or avidya, egocentricity, attachments, aversions, and the instinctive will to live.
- kosher — Judaism. fit or allowed to be eaten or used, according to the dietary or ceremonial laws: kosher meat; kosher dishes; a kosher tallith. adhering to the laws governing such fitness: a kosher restaurant.
- kyushu — an island in SW Japan. 15,750 sq. mi. (40,793 sq. km).
- lagash — an ancient Sumerian city between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, at the modern village of Telloh in SE Iraq: a palace, statuary, and inscribed clay tablets unearthed here.
- lakish — similar to the poetry of the Lake poets
- lamish — Somewhat lame.
- lashed — having lashes or eyelashes, especially of a specified kind or description (usually used in combination): long-lashed blue eyes.
- lasher — One who whips or lashes.
- lashes — Plural form of lash.
- lashio — a town in N Burma (Myanmar), NE of Mandalay: the SW terminus of the Burma Road.
- lashup — a hastily made or arranged device, organization, etc.