5-letter words starting with sh
- sheet — Nautical. a rope or chain for extending the clews of a square sail along a yard. a rope for trimming a fore-and-aft sail. a rope or chain for extending the lee clew of a course.
- sheik — Also, shaikh, sheikh. (in Islamic countries) the patriarch of a tribe or family; chief: a term of polite address.
- shelf — a thin slab of wood, metal, etc., fixed horizontally to a wall or in a frame, for supporting objects.
- shell — a hard outer covering of an animal, as the hard case of a mollusk, or either half of the case of a bivalve mollusk.
- shema — a liturgical prayer, prominent in Jewish history and tradition, that is recited daily at the morning and evening services and expresses the Jewish people's ardent faith in and love of God.
- shend — to put to shame.
- shent — to put to shame.
- sheol — the abode of the dead or of departed spirits.
- sherd — shard.
- sheva — a mark placed under a consonant in Hebrew writing to denote an absent vowel sound
- shi'a — a member of one of the two great religious divisions of Islam that regards Ali, the son-in-law of Muhammad, as the legitimate successor of Muhammad, and disregards the three caliphs who succeeded him.
- shi'i — a member of one of the two great religious divisions of Islam that regards Ali, the son-in-law of Muhammad, as the legitimate successor of Muhammad, and disregards the three caliphs who succeeded him.
- shiah — (used with a plural verb) the Shiʿites.
- shiai — a judo contest
- shied — simple past tense and past participle of shy2 .
- shiel — a pasture or grazing ground.
- shier — bashful; retiring.
- shies — bashful; retiring.
- shift — to put (something) aside and replace it by another or others; change or exchange: to shift friends; to shift ideas.
- shilh — a member of a mountain people of Morocco.
- shill — a person who poses as a customer in order to decoy others into participating, as at a gambling house, auction, confidence game, etc.
- shily — a less common spelling of shyly
- shine — to give forth or glow with light; shed or cast light.
- shiny — bright or glossy in appearance.
- shire — a river in SE Africa, flowing S from Lake Malawi to the Zambezi River. 370 miles (596 km) long.
- shirk — to evade (work, duty, responsibility, etc.).
- 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 .