11-letter words starting with sh
- shirt-waist — a tailored blouse or shirt worn by women.
- shirtjacket — a jacket styled like a shirt
- shirtsleeve — not wearing a jacket; informally dressed: a shirt-sleeve mob.
- shish kebab — meat on skewer
- shish-kebab — to broil or roast food on a skewer.
- shit-scared — very scared
- shitkickers — an unsophisticated farmer, cowboy, or other rural person; country person.
- shittimwood — the wood of the shittah tree, believed to be a species of acacia
- shiveringly — in a shivering manner, usually from cold or fright
- 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
- short sight — myopia
- short snort — a quick drink of liquor
- short story — a piece of prose fiction, usually under 10,000 words.
- short title — an abridged listing in a catalog or bibliography, giving only such essential information as the author's name and the book's title, publisher, and date and place of publication.
- short-dated — (of a gilt-edged security) having less than five years to run before redemption
- short-lived — living or lasting only a little while.
- short-order — of, relating to, or specializing in short orders: a short-order cook; short-order diner.
- short-range — having a limited extent, as in distance or time: a short-range shot; a short-range plan.
- short-sheet — to fold and tuck in the top sheet of (a bed) so that it simulates both the top and bottom sheets: when the victim of this joke enters the bed, his or her legs are obstructed by the fold.
- short-timer — a person, as a soldier, who has a short period of time left to serve on a tour of duty.
- shortchange — to give less than the correct change to.
- shortcoming — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
- shorthaired — (of an animal) having hair that is short and lies close to the body.
- shortweight — to give less than the weight charged for: The firm is accused of shortweighting grain.
- shot effect — random fluctuations in the emission of electrons from a hot cathode, causing a hissing or sputtering sound (shot noise) in an audio amplifier and causing snow on a television screen.
- shot putter — a sportsperson who competes in the shot put