8-letter words containing sh
- sawshark — a shark with a long, flat, saw-like snout from the family Pristiophoridae and found in waters from South Africa to Australia and Japan
- scampish — an unscrupulous and often mischievous person; rascal; rogue; scalawag.
- scarfish — a fish in the family Scaridae
- scomfish — to stifle
- scottish — Also, Scots. of or relating to Scotland, its people, or their language.
- scumfish — to disgust or to stifle
- sea fish — a fish that lives in salt water
- seashell — the shell of any marine mollusk.
- seashore — land along the sea or ocean.
- set shot — a shot with two hands from a point relatively distant from the basket, in which a player stands still and shoots the ball usually from chest level.
- sex shop — a store that sells products relating to sexual interests or activities.
- sex show — a live performance that customers pay to watch in which people perform sexual acts
- shabbier — impaired by wear, use, etc.; worn: shabby clothes.
- shabbily — impaired by wear, use, etc.; worn: shabby clothes.
- shabelle — Webi Shebeli.
- shabrack — the saddlecloth of a cavalry horse used by European light cavalry
- shabuoth — a festival, celebrated on the sixth and seventh days of Sivan by Orthodox and Conservative Jews outside Israel but only on the sixth day by Reform Jews and Jews in Israel, that commemorates God's giving of the Ten Commandments to Moses.
- shack up — a rough cabin; shanty.
- shackled — a ring or other fastening, as of iron, for securing the wrist, ankle, etc.; fetter.
- shackles — two metal rings joined by a chain which are fastened around someone's wrists or ankles in order to prevent them from moving or escaping
- shadbolt — Maurice. 1932–2004, New Zealand novelist
- shadbush — the serviceberry, Amelanchier canadensis.
- shadchan — shadkhan.
- shaddock — pomelo.
- shadiest — abounding in shade; shaded: shady paths.
- shadings — a slight variation or difference of color, character, etc.
- shadkhan — a person who arranges Jewish marriages; matchmaker.
- shadowed — of or relating to a shadow cabinet.
- shadower — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
- shadrach — a companion of Daniel who, with Meshach and Abednego, was thrown into the fiery furnace of Nebuchadnezzar and came out unharmed. Dan. 3:12–30.
- shadwell — Thomas, 1642?–92, English dramatist: poet laureate 1688–92.
- shafting — a long pole forming the body of various weapons, as lances, halberds, or arrows.
- shag ass — to chase or follow after; pursue.
- shagbark — a hickory, Carya ovata, having shaggy, rough bark and yielding a valuable wood.
- shagpile — (of a carpet or rug) having long, rough fibres
- shagreen — an untanned leather with a granular surface, prepared from the hide of a horse, shark, seal, etc.
- shagroon — a nineteenth-century Australian settler in Canterbury
- shahadah — Islam. the Islamic profession of faith, “There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is his messenger”: the first of the Pillars of Islam.
- shake up — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
- shake-up — a thorough change in a business, department, or the like, as by dismissals, demotions, etc.
- shakeout — an elimination or winnowing out of some competing businesses, products, etc., as a result of intense competition in a market of declining sales or rising standards of quality.
- shaktism — the worship of Shakti as the wife of Shiva.
- shalloon — a light, twilled woolen fabric used chiefly for linings.
- shallows — The shallows are the shallow part of an area of water.
- shamanic — (especially among certain tribal peoples) a person who acts as intermediary between the natural and supernatural worlds, using magic to cure illness, foretell the future, control spiritual forces, etc.
- shambled — to walk or go awkwardly; shuffle.
- shambles — a shambling gait.
- shame on — shame should be felt by; this is shameful of
- shameful — causing shame: shameful behavior.
- shamiana — a flat tent, canopy, or marquee used for parties or functions in India and often made of striped calico