10-letter words starting with sh
- shawinigan — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- she's jake — everything is under control
- shear cell — A shear cell is a device for testing how a powder or particle mixture flows.
- shear legs — shear (def 16).
- shear stud — a stud that transfers shear stress between metal and concrete in composite structural members in which the stud is welded to the metal component
- shear zone — Geology. a zone of closely spaced, approximately parallel faults or dispersed displacements.
- shearwater — any of several long-winged petrels of the genus Puffinus that appear to shear the water with their wing tips when flying low.
- sheathbill — either of two white sea birds, Chionis alba or C. minor, of the colder parts of the Southern Hemisphere: so called from the horny sheath covering the base of the upper bill.
- sheathless — lacking a sheath or a covering
- shebagging — the practice by a female passenger on public transport of placing a bag on the seat beside her, so denying it to another passenger
- shed blood — to pour forth (water or other liquid), as a fountain.
- sheep farm — place where sheep are raised
- sheep race — a single-file walkway for sheep at the entrance to a sheep-dip
- sheep tick — a wingless, bloodsucking, dipterous insect, Melophagus ovinus, that is parasitic on sheep.
- sheep-fold — an enclosure for sheep.
- sheepberry — a North American shrub or small tree, Viburnum lentago, of the honeysuckle family, having flat-topped clusters of small white flowers and edible, berrylike black drupes.
- sheepishly — embarrassed or bashful, as by having done something wrong or foolish.
- sheepshank — a kind of knot, hitch, or bend made on a rope to shorten it temporarily.
- sheepshead — a deep-bodied, black-banded food fish, Archosargus probatocephalus, living along the Atlantic coast of the U.S.
- sheeptrack — a small natural terrace on a hillside
- sheet bend — a knot used esp for joining ropes of different sizes
- sheet down — (of rain) to fall heavily in sheets
- sheet feed — the part of a computer printer where sheets of paper can be inserted and are then fed through the machine one at a time
- sheet film — a flat piece of film cut to a required size before being loaded into a camera.
- sheet home — to tighten the sheets of (a square sail) until it is set as flat as possible
- sheet pile — one of a number of piles, usually flat, driven side by side to retain earth, etc., or to prevent seepage into an excavation.
- sheetmetal — metal in sheets or thin plates.
- shelf life — the term or period during which a stored commodity remains effective, useful, or suitable for consumption: Many medicines have a very short shelf life.
- shelf mark — a symbol indicating the location of a work on a shelf.
- shell back — an underside of a spoon bowl ornamented with a shell motif.
- shell bean — any of various kinds of bean of which the unripe seeds are removed from the pods before cooking.
- shell game — a sleight-of-hand swindling game resembling thimblerig but employing walnut shells or the like instead of thimblelike cups.
- shell pink — delicate whitish to yellow pink.
- shell star — a type of star showing bright emission lines superimposed on its normal absorption spectrum, presumably caused by a gaseous shell around the star.
- shell suit — A shell suit is a casual suit which is made of thin nylon.
- shell-like — a hard outer covering of an animal, as the hard case of a mollusk, or either half of the case of a bivalve mollusk.
- shellacked — lac that has been purified and formed into thin sheets, used for making varnish.
- shellbound — encased in, or confined to, a shell
- shelliness — the state or quality of being covered with shells
- shellproof — protected against the explosive effect of shells or bombs.
- shellshock — loss of sight, memory, etc, resulting from psychological strain during prolonged engagement in warfare
- shellycoat — a mythical creature dressed in shells who haunts rivers and streams
- shenandoah — a river flowing NE from N Virginia to the Potomac at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. About 200 miles (322 km) long.
- shenanigan — Usually, shenanigans. mischief; prankishness: Halloween shenanigans. deceit; trickery.
- shepherded — a person who herds, tends, and guards sheep.
- sherardize — to coat (steel) with a thin cladding of zinc by heating in a mixture of sand and powdered zinc.
- sherbrooke — a city in S Quebec, in SE Canada.
- shetlander — a native or inhabitant of Shetland
- shevchenko — Taras Grigoryevich [Russian tah-ruh s gryi-gawr-yi-vyich] /Russian ˈtɑ rəs gryɪˈgɔr yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1814–61, Ukrainian national poet.
- shibboleth — a peculiarity of pronunciation, behavior, mode of dress, etc., that distinguishes a particular class or set of persons.