5 letter words starting with sh

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• SHACK
• SHADE
• SHADS
• SHADY
• SHAFT
• SHAGS
• SHAHS
• SHAKA
• SHAKE
• SHAKO
• SHAKT
• SHAKY
• SHALE
• SHALL
• SHALM
• SHALT
• SHALY
• SHAMA
• SHAME
• SHAMS
• SHAND
• SHANK
• SHANS
• SHAPE
• SHAPS
• SHARD
• SHARE
• SHARK
• SHARN
• SHARP
• SHART
• SHASH
• SHAUL
• SHAVE
• SHAWL
• SHAWM
• SHAWN
• SHAWS
• SHAYA
• SHAYS
• SHCHI
• SHEAF
• SHEAL
• SHEAR
• SHEAS
• SHEDS
• SHEEL
• SHEEN
• SHEEP
• SHEER
• SHEET
• SHEIK
• SHELF
• SHELL
• SHEND
• SHENG
• SHENT
• SHEOL
• SHERD
• SHERE
• SHERO
• SHETS
• SHEVA
• SHEWN
• SHEWS
• SHIAI
• SHIED
• SHIEL
• SHIER
• SHIES
• SHIFT
• SHILL
• SHILY
• SHIMS
• SHINE
• SHINS
• SHINY
• SHIOK
• SHIPS
• SHIRE
• SHIRK
• SHIRR
• SHIRS
• SHIRT
• SHISH
• SHISO
• SHIST
• SHITE
• SHITS
• SHIUR
• SHIVA
• SHIVE
• SHIVS
• SHLEP
• SHLUB
• SHMEK
• SHMOE
• SHOAL
• SHOAT
• SHOCK
• SHOED
• SHOER
• SHOES
• SHOGI
• SHOGS
• SHOJI
• SHOJO
• SHOLA
• SHONE
• SHONK
• SHOOK
• SHOOL
• SHOON
• SHOOS
• SHOOT
• SHOPE
• SHOPS
• SHORE
• SHORL
• SHORN
• SHORT
• SHOTE
• SHOTS
• SHOTT
• SHOUD
• SHOUT
• SHOVE
• SHOWD
• SHOWN
• SHOWS
• SHOWY
• SHOYU
• SHRED
• SHREW
• SHRIS
• SHROW
• SHRUB
• SHRUG
• SHTAR
• SHTIK
• SHTUM
• SHTUP
• SHUBA
• SHUCK
• SHULE
• SHULN
• SHULS
• SHUNS
• SHUNT
• SHURA
• SHUSH
• SHUTE
• SHUTS
• SHWAS
• SHYER
• SHYLY

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Definition of shack

shack (noun)

1. A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.
2. Any poorly constructed or poorly furnished building.
3. The room from which a ham radio operator transmits.

shack (verb)

1. To live (in or with); to shack up.

shack (noun)

1. Grain fallen to the ground and left after harvest.
2. Nuts which have fallen to the ground.
3. Freedom to pasturage in order to feed upon shack.
4. A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
5. Bait that can be picked up at sea.

shack (verb)

1. To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.
2. To feed in stubble, or upon waste.
3. To wander as a vagabond or tramp.
4. To hibernate; to go into winter quarters.

Definition of shake

shake (noun)

1. The act of shaking or being shaken; tremulous or back-and-forth motion.
2. A milkshake.
3. A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
4. Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
5. (building material) A thin shingle.
6. A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
7. A fissure in rock or earth.
8. A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc.
9. Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.)
10. One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
11. A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
12. A shook of staves and headings.
13. The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.

shake (verb)

1. To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
2. To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate refusal, reluctance or disapproval.
3. To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
4. To disturb emotionally; to shock.
5. To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
6. To move from side to side.
7. (usually as "shake on") To shake hands.
8. To dance.
9. To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
10. To threaten to overthrow.
11. To be agitated; to lose firmness.

Definition of sheer

sheer (noun)

1. A sheer curtain or fabric.

sheer (adjective)

1. Very thin or transparent.
2. Pure in composition; unmixed; unadulterated.
3. (by extension) Downright; complete; pure.
4. Used to emphasize the amount or degree of something.
5. Very steep; almost vertical or perpendicular.

sheer (adverb)

1. Clean; quite; at once.

sheer (noun)

1. The curve of the main deck or gunwale from bow to stern.
2. An abrupt swerve from the course of a ship.

sheer (verb)

1. To swerve from a course.
2. To shear.

Definition of shell

shell (noun)

1. A hard external covering of an animal.
2. The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
3. One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
4. The hard external covering of various plant seed forms.
5. The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
6. The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
7. A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scattered at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
8. The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
9. Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
10. A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
11. A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
12. A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
13. The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
14. An engraved copper roller used in print works.
15. The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
16. The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
17. (rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
18. A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
19. A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
20. The outward form independent of what is inside.
21. The empty outward form of someone or something.
22. An emaciated person.
23. A psychological barrier to social interaction.
24. An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
25. A legal entity that has no operations.
26. A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
27. A gouge bit or shell bit.
28. The onset and coda of a syllable.
29. A person's ear.

shell (verb)

1. To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
2. To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
3. To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
4. To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
5. To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
6. To switch to a shell or command line.
7. To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
8. To form a shelling.

Definition of shims

shims (noun)

1. A wedge.
2. A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support.
3. A small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes.
4. A kind of shallow plow used in tillage to break the ground and clear it of weeds.
5. A small metal device used to pick open a lock.

shims (verb)

1. To fit one or more shims to a piece of machinery.
2. To adjust something by using shims.
3. To intercept and modify calls to (an API), usually for compatibility purposes.

shims (noun)

1. A person characterised by both male and female traits, or by ambiguous male-female traits, also called a he-she; transsexual.
2. Hermaphrodite.