5-letter words starting with s
- shirr — to draw up or gather (cloth or the like) on three or more parallel threads.
- shirt — a long- or short-sleeved garment for the upper part of the body, usually lightweight and having a collar and a front opening.
- shite — If someone describes something as shite, they do not like it or think that it is very poor quality.
- shiur — a lesson, esp one in which a passage of the Talmud is studied together by a group of people
- shiva — “the Destroyer,” the third member of the Trimurti, along with Brahma the Creator and Vishnu the Preserver.
- shive — a splinter or fragment of the husk of flax, hemp, etc.
- shlep — to carry; lug: to schlep an umbrella on a sunny day.
- shlub — zhlob.
- shluh — plural of Shilh.
- shmek — a faint smell
- shoad — float (def 43).
- shoah — the Holocaust.
- shoal — any large number of persons or things.
- shoat — Also, shote. a young, weaned pig.
- shock — a thick, bushy mass, as of hair.
- shoed — an external covering for the human foot, usually of leather and consisting of a more or less stiff or heavy sole and a lighter upper part ending a short distance above, at, or below the ankle.
- shoer — a person who shoes horses or other animals.
- shoes — an external covering for the human foot, usually of leather and consisting of a more or less stiff or heavy sole and a lighter upper part ending a short distance above, at, or below the ankle.
- shogi — the Japanese version of chess.
- shogs — to shake; jolt.
- shoji — a light screen consisting of a framework of wood covered with paper or other translucent material, used originally in Japanese homes as one of a series of sliding panels between the interior and exterior or between two interior spaces.
- shola — a high-altitude evergreen forest in southern India
- shona — Also called Mashona. a member of a group of peoples constituting more than two thirds of the population of Zimbabwe.
- shone — a simple past tense and past participle of shine1 .
- shook — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
- shoon — an external covering for the human foot, usually of leather and consisting of a more or less stiff or heavy sole and a lighter upper part ending a short distance above, at, or below the ankle.
- shoos — to drive away by saying or shouting “shoo.”.
- shoot — to hit, wound, damage, kill, or destroy with a missile discharged from a weapon.
- shore — Jane, 1445?–1527, mistress of Edward IV of England.
- shorl — the black variety of tourmaline
- shorn — a past participle of shear.
- short — having little length; not long.
- shote — shoat (def 1).
- shott — a shallow brackish or saline marsh or lake in N Africa, usually dry during the summer.
- shout — to call or cry out loudly and vigorously.
- shove — to move along by force from behind; push.
- showa — ("Showa") 1901–89, emperor of Japan 1926–89.
- showd — to rock or sway to and fro
- shown — a past participle of show.
- showy — making an imposing display: showy flowers.
- shoyu — soy sauce.
- shred — a piece cut or torn off, especially in a narrow strip.
- shrew — any of several small, mouselike insectivores of the genus Sorex and related genera, having a long, sharp snout.
- shrub — any of various acidulated beverages made from the juice of fruit, sugar, and other ingredients, often including alcohol.
- shrug — to raise and contract (the shoulders), expressing indifference, disdain, etc.
- shtup — to have sexual intercourse with.
- shuar — the name the Jivaro people of the Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazon have for themselves
- shuck — a husk or pod, as the outer covering of corn, hickory nuts, chestnuts, etc.
- shufu — former name of Kashi.
- shuha — of or relating to any Shinto sect other than the Kokka.