10-letter words starting with sho
- short-wave — Electricity. a radio wave, shorter than that used in AM broadcasting, corresponding to frequencies of over 1600 kilohertz: used for long-distance reception or transmission.
- shortboard — a type of surfboard that is shorter than standard
- shortbread — a butter cookie commonly made in thick, pie-shaped wheels or rolled and cut in fancy shapes.
- shortcrust — light crumbly pastry
- shortening — butter, lard, or other fat, used to make pastry, bread, etc., short.
- shortgrass — any of several range grasses of short stature, as buffalo grass, prevalent in semiarid regions of the Great Plains.
- shortsheet — to fold a sheet so that it is impossible for a person to stretch their legs when they get into bed (done as a practical joke)
- shortsword — a short-bladed sword
- shosholoza — a popular Zulu choral song
- shoshonean — (in some, especially earlier, classifications) a grouping of four branches of the Uto-Aztecan language family including Numic, Hopi, and several languages of southern California.
- shot angle — the angle from which a shot is taken
- shot clock — a clock used in basketball games to limit to a specific length the time taken between shots.
- shot glass — a small, heavy glass for serving a shot of whiskey or liquor.
- shot metal — lead hardened with antimony and arsenic, used to manufacture shot for cartridges.
- shot noise — 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 tower — a tower from the top of which finely divided streams of molten lead are dropped down a central well, breaking up into spherical drops during their fall to be quenched and hardened in a tank of water at the bottom.
- shotgunner — a person who is skilled with a shotgun
- shotmaking — the playing of good shots (by a sports player)
- shout down — silence by speaking more loudly than
- shoutingly — by way of shouting
- shovel hat — a hat with a broad brim turned up at the sides and projecting with a shovellike curve in front and behind; worn by some ecclesiastics, chiefly in England.
- shovelhead — bonnethead.
- shovelnose — any of various animals with a shovellike snout or head, as a guitarfish, Rhinobatos productus, of California.
- show a leg — to get up in the morning
- show house — theater (def 1).
- show trial — (especially in a totalitarian state) the public trial of a political offender conducted chiefly for propagandistic purposes, as to suppress further dissent against the government by making an example of the accused.
- show-place — an estate, mansion, or the like, usually open to the public, renowned for its beauty, excellent design and workmanship, historical interest, etc.
- showboater — a boat, especially a paddle-wheel steamer, used as a traveling theater.
- showcasing — a glass case for the display and protection of articles in shops, museums, etc.
- shower cap — a plastic cap worn in the shower to keep the hair dry
- shower gel — liquid soap product
- shower tea — kitchen tea.
- showerhead — a brief fall of rain or, sometimes, of hail or snow.
- showerless — without showers; rain-free
- showground — outdoor events venue