7-letter words starting with sh
- sheelah — a female given name.
- sheeler — Charles, 1883–1965, U.S. painter and photographer.
- sheeney — sheeny2 .
- sheenie — a contemptuous term used to refer to a Jew.
- sheeple — people who tend to follow the majority in matters of opinion, taste, etc
- sheerly — transparently thin; diaphanous, as some fabrics: sheer stockings.
- sheeter — a machine used to form something into sheets, such as paper or cloth
- shegetz — a term used especially by a Jew to refer to a boy or man who is not Jewish.
- sheikha — the chief wife of a sheikh, also the matron of a respected Arab family
- sheitan — Ash-Shaytān.
- sheitel — a wig worn by certain Orthodox Jewish married women in keeping with an old rabbinical precept that forbids a woman to leave her hair uncovered in the sight of a man other than her husband.
- shekels — Also, sheqel. a paper money, cupronickel or silver coin, and monetary unit of Israel equal to 100 agorot: replaced the pound in 1980.
- sheldon — a male given name.
- shellac — lac that has been purified and formed into thin sheets, used for making varnish.
- shelled — having the shell removed: shelled pecans.
- sheller — a person, device, machine, etc., that shells something, as peas or clams.
- shelley — Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) [woo l-stuh n-kraft,, -krahft] /ˈwʊl stənˌkræft,, -ˌkrɑft/ (Show IPA), 1797–1851, English author (wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley).
- shellys — a male or female given name.
- shelter — something beneath, behind, or within which a person, animal, or thing is protected from storms, missiles, adverse conditions, etc.; refuge.
- sheltie — Shetland pony.
- shelton — a city in SW Connecticut.
- shelves — plural of shelf.
- shemite — a Semite.
- shepard — Alan Bartlett, Jr. 1923–1998, U.S. astronaut: first American in space, May 5, 1961.
- sherbet — a frozen fruit-flavored mixture, similar to an ice, but with milk, egg white, or gelatin added.
- sheriff — the law-enforcement officer of a county or other civil subdivision of a state.
- sherman — Forrest Percival, 1896–1951, U.S. naval officer.
- sheroot — a cigar having open, untapered ends.
- sherris — sherry.
- sherrys — a female given name, form of Charlotte.
- shertok — Moshe [moh-shuh] /ˈmoʊ ʃə/ (Show IPA), Sharett, Moshe.
- shiatsu — a Japanese massage technique that includes the use of acupressure.
- shiatzu — a Japanese massage technique that includes the use of acupressure.
- shibeli — river in E Africa, flowing from SE Ethiopia through Somalia into a swamp near the Juba River: c. 1,200 mi (1,931 km)
- shicker — alcoholic liquor.
- shidder — a female animal
- shields — a broad piece of armor, varying widely in form and size, carried apart from the body, usually on the left arm, as a defense against swords, lances, arrows, etc.
- shifter — a person or thing that shifts.
- shiites — 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.
- shikari — (in India) a person who hunts big game, especially a professional guide or hunter.
- shikibu — Murasaki Shikibu.
- shikker — shicker
- shikoku — an island in SW Japan, S of Honshu: the smallest of the main islands of Japan. 7249 sq. mi. (18,775 sq. km).
- shilled — a person who poses as a customer in order to decoy others into participating, as at a gambling house, auction, confidence game, etc.
- shilluk — a member of a Nilotic people of Sudan.
- shilpit — (of a person) sickly; puny; feeble.
- shimizu — a city in Shizuoka prefecture, E central Honshu, Japan.
- shimmed — a thin slip or wedge of metal, wood, etc., for driving into crevices, as between machine parts to compensate for wear, or beneath bedplates, large stones, etc., to level them.
- shimmer — to shine with or reflect a subdued, tremulous light; gleam faintly.
- shin up — If you shin up a tree or a pole, you climb it quickly and easily, using your hands and legs to grip it.