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13-letter words containing sha

  • requiem shark — any of numerous, chiefly tropical sharks of the family Carcharhinidae, including the tiger shark and soupfin shark.
  • rosh hashanah — a Jewish high holy day that marks the beginning of the Jewish New Year, celebrated on the first and second days of Tishri by Orthodox and Conservative Jews and only on the first day by Reform Jews.
  • shack-tapping — the making of house-by-house visits to canvass.
  • shadow boxing — to make the motions of attack and defense, as in boxing, as a training or conditioning procedure.
  • shadowcasting — the enhancement of images by the casting of shadows
  • shaft encoder — A shaft encoder is a sensor for measuring how fast a shaft rotates.
  • shaft feather — one of the two fletchings on an arrow
  • shag pile rug — a piece of thick material with a nap of long rough strands that you put on a floor. It is like a carpet but covers a smaller area
  • shakespearean — of, relating to, or suggestive of Shakespeare or his works.
  • shakespearian — of, relating to, or suggestive of Shakespeare or his works.
  • shaking palsy — Parkinson's disease.
  • shambolically — in a completely disorganized or chaotic manner
  • shamefastness — the state or quality of being modest, shy, or bashful
  • shamelessness — lacking any sense of shame: immodest; audacious.
  • shanks's pony — one's own legs as a means of transportation
  • shape-shifter — a creature or thing that can change shape at will or that does so under certain conditions
  • shaped charge — a warhead having a concave, hollow end and operating on the Munroe effect.
  • share account — a savings account in a credit union.
  • share capital — A company's share capital is the money that shareholders invest in order to start or expand the business.
  • share premium — the excess of the amount actually subscribed for an issue of corporate capital over its par value
  • sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
  • shark biscuit — a bodyboard
  • shark finning — the practice of catching sharks, removing their fins (which are commercially valuable) and throwing the rest of the shark back into the sea (often while it is still alive, but doomed to drown because it cannot swim without its fins)
  • shark watcher — a business consultant who assists companies in identifying and preventing unwelcome takeover bids
  • sharp-sighted — having keen sight.
  • sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
  • shatt-al-arab — a river in SE Iraq, formed by the junction of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, flowing SE to the Persian Gulf. 123 miles (198 km) long.
  • shaver outlet — a point in a wall, esp in a bathroom, where you can connect an electric razor to the power supply
  • shaving brush — a short, cylindrical brush with long, soft, bristles, used in lathering the face before shaving.
  • shaving cream — a preparation, as of soap and free fatty acid, that is lathered and applied to the face to soften and condition the beard for shaving.
  • shaving horse — a trestle for supporting and steadying a piece of work being shaved.
  • shaving stick — a piece of shaving foam moulded into a slender shape and held in a slender container for ease of application to the face when removing hair with a razor
  • shilly-shally — to show indecision or hesitation; be irresolute; vacillate.
  • smooth-shaven — having the beard and mustache shaved off; clean-shaven.
  • soupfin shark — a requiem shark, Galeorhinus zyopterus, inhabiting the Pacific Ocean, valued for its fins, which are used by the Chinese in the preparation of a soup, and for its liver, which is rich in vitamin A.
  • spenta amesha — Amesha Spenta.
  • spindleshanks — spindlelegs.
  • tsinling shan — a mountain range in central China: highest peak over 12,000 feet (3660 meters).
  • twin camshaft — A twin camshaft is an arrangement of two parallel camshafts for each set of cylinders in an engine. Usually one operates the intake valve and the other the exhaust valve.
  • unpublishable — not capable of being made available in print for distribution and sale
  • untarnishable — to dull the luster of (a metallic surface), especially by oxidation; discolor.
  • wappenshawing — (formerly) the reviewing of the men under arms in a Scottish lordship or district
  • wilhelmshaven — a seaport in NW Germany, NW of Bremen, on the North Sea.
  • wood shavings — shavings of wood, as found in a carpenter's workshop etc
  • world-shaking — of sufficient size or importance to affect the entire world: the world-shaking effects of an international clash.
  • yang shangkun — 1907–98, Chinese Communist leader: president 1988–99.
  • zaghlul pasha — Saad [sahd] /sɑd/ (Show IPA), c1860–1927, Egyptian political leader: first prime minister 1924–27.
  • zila parishad — a district council in India
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