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Words containing shift

5 letter words containing shift

  • shift — to put (something) aside and replace it by another or others; change or exchange: to shift friends; to shift ideas.

6 letter words containing shift

  • shifty — resourceful; fertile in expedients.

7 letter words containing shift

  • shifter — a person or thing that shifts.
  • unshift — to release the shift key, as on a typewriter or the keyboard of a computer terminal.
  • upshift — to shift an automotive transmission or vehicle into a higher gear.

8 letter words containing shift

  • manshift — the work accomplished by one person in one shift
  • 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.
  • shifting — constant movement

9 letter words containing shift

  • backshift — The changing of a present tense in direct speech to a past tense in reported speech (or a past tense to pluperfect).
  • blueshift — a shift in the spectral lines of a stellar spectrum towards the blue end of the visible region relative to the wavelengths of these lines in the terrestrial spectrum: a result of the Doppler effect caused by stars approaching the solar system
  • downshift — to shift an automotive transmission or vehicle into a lower gear.
  • gearshift — shift lever.
  • loanshift — change or extension of the meaning of a word through the influence of a foreign word, as in the application in English of the meaning “profession” to the word calling through the influence of Latin vocātio.

10 letter words containing shift

  • floorshift — a gearshift set into the floor of an automotive vehicle.
  • frameshift — the addition or deletion of one or more nucleotides in a strand of DNA, which shifts the codon triplets of the genetic code of messenger RNA and causes a misreading during translation, resulting in an aberrant protein and therefore a mutation.
  • gearshifts — Plural form of gearshift.
  • jump-shift — a jump bid in a suit different from the suit just bid by one's partner.
  • loan-shift — change or extension of the meaning of a word through the influence of a foreign word, as in the application in English of the meaning “profession” to the word calling through the influence of Latin vocātio.

11 letter words containing shift

  • downshifted — Simple past tense and past participle of downshift.
  • rankshifted — that has been shifted from one linguistic rank to another
  • shifty-eyed — having the appearance of being dishonest, esp as signified by a lack of eye contact

12 letter words containing shift

  • downshifting — to shift an automotive transmission or vehicle into a lower gear.

13 letter words containing shift

  • shape-shifter — a creature or thing that can change shape at will or that does so under certain conditions
  • shiftlessness — lacking in resourcefulness; inefficient; lazy.

14 letter words containing shift

On this page, we collect all words with SHIFT. To make easier to find the right word we have divided all 89 words to groups according to their length. So you should go to appropriate page if can’t find the word that contains SHIFT that you are searching. Also you can use this page in Scrabble.

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