11-letter words containing sho
- like a shot — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
- longshoring — the work or occupation of a longshoreman.
- medium shot — a camera shot in which the subject is in the middle distance, permitting some of the background to be seen. Compare closeup (def 2), long shot (def 3).
- mobile shop — a van, truck, etc, which travels from place to place and from which goods are sold
- nearshoring — the practice of moving one's employees or business activities from a distant country back to a country that is nearby: The U.S.-based company is focusing on the nearshoring of its customer-service operations from India to Canada. Compare offshoring.
- offshoreman — a person who works offshore, especially on an offshore oil rig.
- oxford shoe — oxford (def 1).
- pea-shooter — a tube through which dried peas, beans, or small pellets are blown, used as a toy.
- photo shoot — photography session
- pistol shot — a shot fired from a pistol
- potshotting — the act of taking potshots
- puppet show — an entertainment, as a play or musical revue, in which the performers are puppets.
- rain shower — a brief rainfall, usually of variable intensity.
- ramgunshoch — surly; bad-tempered; rude
- record shop — store selling recorded music
- reject shop — a shop that sells damaged or imperfect products that cannot be sold at the full price
- repair shop — garage, body shop: for vehicles
- retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers
- saddle shoe — an oxford with a saddle of contrasting color.
- scattershot — delivered over a wide area and at random; generalized and indiscriminate: a scattershot attack on the proposed program.
- screen shot — Also called screen capture. a copy or image of what is seen on a computer screen at a given time: Save the screenshot as a graphics file.
- screenshort — a screenshot that is shared on a social media website.
- scrimshoner — a person who makes scrimshaw
- set up shop — a retail store, especially a small one.
- shell shock — battle fatigue.
- shock front — the forward boundary surface of a shock wave.
- shock radio — broadcasting by a commercial radio station whose humor includes tasteless jokes, sexual innuendo, and ethnic insults.
- shockheaded — having a shock or thick mass of hair on the head.
- shoe polish — wax for making footwear shiny
- shoe-string — a shoelace.
- shogun bond — a bond sold on the Japanese market by a foreign institution and denominated in a foreign currency
- shoofly pie — an open pie filled with a sweet crumb and molasses mixture and baked.
- shoot craps — to play this game
- shoot'em-up — a book, film, TV show, video game, etc. characterized by much violent content, gunplay, etc., esp. one in the western, crime, or war genres
- shoot-em-up — A shoot-em-up is a computer game that involves shooting and killing characters.
- shootaround — an informal match or practice session
- shop around — compare prices
- shop window — storefront display
- shop-window — a window used for display of merchandise.
- shopbreaker — a robber who breaks into a shop
- shopkeeping — a retail merchant or tradesman; a person who owns or operates a small store or shop.
- shoplifting — to steal (merchandise) as a shoplifter.
- shore leave — permission to spend time ashore, usually 48 hours or more, granted a member of a ship's company.
- short field — the area of the infield between third base and second, covered by the shortstop.
- short hairs — pubic hair.
- short jenny — an in-off into a middle pocket
- short metre — a stanza form, used esp for hymns, consisting of four lines, the third of which has eight syllables, while the rest have six
- short money — (in Britain) the annual payment made to Opposition parties in the House of Commons to help them pay for certain services necessary to the carrying out of their parliamentary duties; established in 1975
- short novel — a prose narrative midway between the novel and the short story in length and scope
- short score — a condensed version of the score for a musical composition, usually written for piano