12-letter words starting with short
- short ballot — a ballot containing only candidates for the most important legislative and executive posts, leaving judicial and lesser administrative posts to be filled by appointment.
- short column — a column whose relative dimensions ensure that when it is overloaded it fails by crushing, rather than buckling
- short notice — little warning
- short radius — the perpendicular distance from the centre of a regular polygon to a side
- short seller — a person, as a speculator, who sells short.
- short shrift — a brief time for confession or absolution given to a condemned prisoner before his or her execution.
- short splice — a splice used when an increased thickness of the united rope is not objectionable, made by unlaying the rope ends a certain distance, uniting them so that their strands overlap, then tucking each alternately over and under others several times.
- short-acting — (of a drug) quickly effective, but requiring regularly repeated doses for long-term treatment, being rapidly absorbed, distributed in the body, and excreted
- short-change — to give less than the correct change to.
- short-haired — having short hair
- short-handed — not having the usual or necessary number of workers, helpers, etc.
- short-spoken — speaking in a short, brief, or curt manner.
- short-winded — short of breath; liable to difficulty in breathing.
- shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
- shortcomings — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
- shortcutting — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
- shortsighted — unable to see far; nearsighted; myopic.
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