8-letter words containing shi
- mashings — Plural form of mashing.
- mateship — the state of being a mate.
- midships — amidships.
- mis-ship — a vessel, especially a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.
- mishigas — Craziness; silliness; tomfoolery; nonsense.
- moonship — a lunar module
- mushiest — resembling mush; pulpy.
- outshine — to surpass in shining; shine more brightly than.
- peatship — the state of being a peat
- pershing — a 38-foot (12 meters) U.S. Army surface-to-surface nuclear missile with a single warhead and range of more than 1000 miles (1609 km).
- peshitta — the principal Syriac version of the Bible.
- phishing — to try to obtain financial or other confidential information from Internet users, typically by sending an email that looks as if it is from a legitimate organization, usually a financial institution, but contains a link to a fake website that replicates the real one.
- plashing — a gentle splash.
- plushily — in a plush manner
- poetship — the state or function of being poet
- popeship — the office of a pope
- quashing — Present participle of quash.
- redshift — a shift toward longer wavelengths of the spectral lines emitted by a celestial object that is caused by the object moving away from the earth.
- redshirt — a high-school or college athlete kept out of varsity competition for one year to develop skills and extend eligibility. a child held back from starting kindergarten for one year, the practice of which is believed by some parents to give the child academic, athletic, and social advantages.
- shamshir — a curved Persian saber having one edge on the convex side.
- shidduch — an arranged marriage
- shieling — a pasture or grazing ground.
- shift in — (character) (SI, Control-O, ASCII 15) The character used on some ancient teletypes to start using an alternative character set.
- shift up — When you shift up, you move the gear lever in the vehicle you are driving in order to use a higher gear.
- shifting — constant movement
- shigella — any of several rod-shaped aerobic bacteria of the genus Shigella, certain species of which are pathogenic for humans and other warm-blooded animals.
- shih tzu — one of a Tibetan breed of toy dogs having a long luxurious coat of any color, formerly bred in imperial China as a pet of the nobility.
- shih-tzu — one of a Tibetan breed of toy dogs having a long luxurious coat of any color, formerly bred in imperial China as a pet of the nobility.
- shiitake — a large, meaty, black or dark brown mushroom, Lentinus edodes, native to eastern Asia and frequently used in Japanese and Chinese cookery.
- shilingi — the currency of Tanzania
- shilling — a person who poses as a customer in order to decoy others into participating, as at a gambling house, auction, confidence game, etc.
- shillong — a state in NE India. 8660 sq. mi. (22,429 sq. km). Capital: Shillong.
- shimmery — shimmering; shining softly.
- shimmied — an American ragtime dance marked by shaking of the hips and shoulders.
- shimming — a thin slip or wedge of metal, wood, etc., for driving into crevices, as between machine parts to compensate for wear, or beneath bedplates, large stones, etc., to level them.
- shin bet — the internal security service of Israel
- shin pad — A shin pad is a thick piece of material that you wear inside your socks to protect the lower part of your leg when you are playing a game such as football or rugby.
- shinbone — the tibia.
- shingled — a thin piece of wood, slate, metal, asbestos, or the like, usually oblong, laid in overlapping rows to cover the roofs and walls of buildings.
- shingles — small, waterworn stones or pebbles such as lie in loose sheets or beds on a beach.
- shinleaf — a North American plant, Pyrola elliptica, having leaves used formerly for shinplasters.
- shinnery — a dense growth of small trees, especially scrub oaks.
- shinnied — a simple variety of hockey, played with a ball, block of wood, or the like, and clubs curved at one end.
- shinning — the front part of the leg from the knee to the ankle.
- ship out — a vessel, especially a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.
- shipless — free of ships
- shipload — a full load for a ship.
- shipmate — a person who serves with another on the same vessel.
- shipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
- shipping — a romantic relationship between fictional characters, especially one that people discuss, write about, or take an interest in, whether or not the romance actually exists in the original book, show, etc.: popular ships in fan fiction.