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12-letter words containing sha

  • oneg shabbat — a Jewish celebration in honor of the Sabbath that takes place on Friday evening or Saturday afternoon and usually includes a program of songs, a lecture, and refreshments.
  • onion-shaped — bulb-shaped; shaped like an onion
  • out of shape — person: unfit
  • penny shares — Penny shares are shares that are offered for sale at a low price.
  • peppershaker — a container with a perforated top for sprinkling ground pepper.
  • prayer shawl — a tallith.
  • put to shame — the painful feeling arising from the consciousness of something dishonorable, improper, ridiculous, etc., done by oneself or another: She was overcome with shame.
  • qinling shan — mountain range in NC China, extending across Gansu, Shaanxi, & Henan provinces: highest peak, c. 13,500 ft (4,115 m)
  • rosh hashana — the Jewish New Year, celebrated on the 1st and 2d days of Tishri
  • salad shaker — a portable plastic container which is used for storing salad and which has a separate compartment for salad dressing. The dressing is put on the salad just before it is eaten and the container can then be shaken to spread the salad dressing evenly.
  • school shark — an Australian shark resembling the tope, Notogaleus australis
  • scrimshander — a person who makes scrimshaw objects.
  • scrimshanker — a shirker
  • shadow bands — slow-moving waves of light and dark observed to move across light-coloured surfaces on the earth just before and after totality in a solar eclipse. They are thought to originate from the effects of irregular atmospheric refraction
  • shadow dance — a dance in which shadows of the dancers are cast on a screen.
  • shadow price — the calculated price of a good or service for which no market price exists
  • shadowgraphy — the production of a shadowgraph
  • shagreen ray — a species of skate, Leucoraja fullonica
  • shahjahanpur — a city in central Uttar Pradesh, in N India.
  • shale shaker — A shale shaker is a moving screen which removes cuttings from the mud so they can be disposed of.
  • shamateurism — a sports term referring to a state in which an athlete is classified as an amateur but acts like a professional, usually by raising money
  • shame on you — expressing disapproval
  • shamefacedly — modest or bashful.
  • shamrock-pea — a trailing plant, Parochetus communis, of the legume family, native to Asia and east Africa, having shamrocklike leaves with a brown crescent at the base and pea-shaped, pink and blue flowers.
  • shank's pony — one's own legs, especially as a means of moving from one place to another: The only way we can get there is by shanks' mare.
  • shanks' mare — one's own legs, especially as a means of moving from one place to another: The only way we can get there is by shanks' mare.
  • share market — a highly organized market facilitating the purchase and sale of securities and operated by professional stockbrokers and market makers according to fixed rules
  • share option — A share option is an opportunity for the employees of a company to buy shares at a special price.
  • share-milker — (in New Zealand) a person who lives on a dairy farm milking the owner's herd for an agreed share of the profits and, usually, building his own herd simultaneously
  • shareability — the state or property of being able to be shared
  • sharecropper — a tenant farmer who pays as rent a share of the crop.
  • shared logic — the sharing of a central processing unit and associated software among several terminals
  • shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
  • shark patrol — a watch for sharks kept by an aircraft flying over beaches used by swimmers
  • sharp tongue — If you say that someone has a sharp tongue, you are critical of the fact that they say things which are unkind though often clever.
  • sharp-freeze — quick-freeze.
  • sharp-witted — having or showing mental acuity; intellectually discerning; acute.
  • sharpshooter — a person skilled in shooting, especially with a rifle.
  • shasta daisy — any of several horticultural varieties of Chrysanthemum superbum, having large, white, daisylike flowers.
  • shatter cone — a cone-shaped fragment of rock, probably formed by violent shock waves, as from meteoritic impact or atomic explosions
  • shatterproof — designed or made to resist shattering: shatterproof glass in automobile windows.
  • shavano peak — a mountain in central Colorado, in the S Sawatch Range, in the Rocky Mountains. 14,229 feet (4337 meters).
  • shaving foam — lather used for shaving
  • shaving soap — a special soap for lathering the face to soften and condition the beard for shaving, capable of producing a thick lather due to its high fat content and low alkalinity.
  • shawl collar — a rolled collar and lapel in one piece that curves from the back of the neck down to the front closure of a single-breasted or double-breasted garment.
  • shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
  • shillyshally — to show indecision or hesitation; be irresolute; vacillate.
  • shiva-shakti — the Godhead, of which the masculine, passive, transcendent, eternal principle is Shiva, and the feminine, active, immanent, temporal principle is Shakti, the Divine Mother.
  • slumbershade — sleep shade.
  • square shake — square deal.
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