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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 sheep

sheep (noun)

  1. A woolly ruminant of the genus Ovis.
  2. A timid, shy person who is easily led by others.
  3. (chiefly plural) A religious adherent, a member of a congregation or religious community (compare flock).
  4. Sheepskin leather.
  5. (speech recognition) A person who is easily understood by a speech recognition system; contrasted with goat.

sheep (noun)

  1. A sheep; specifically singular form of sheep.

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 shews

shews (noun)

  1. A play, dance, or other entertainment.
  2. An exhibition of items.
  3. A broadcast program/programme.
  4. A movie.
  5. An agricultural show.
  6. A project or presentation.
  7. A demonstration.
  8. Mere display or pomp with no substance. (Usually seen in the phrases "all show" and "for show".)
  9. Outward appearance; wileful or deceptive appearance.
  10. (with "the") The major leagues.
  11. A pale blue flame at the top of a candle flame, indicating the presence of firedamp.
  12. Pretence.
  13. Sign, token, or indication.
  14. Semblance; likeness; appearance.
  15. Plausibility.
  16. A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occurring a short time before labor.

shews (verb)

  1. To display, to have somebody see (something).
  2. To bestow; to confer.
  3. To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate.
  4. To guide or escort.
  5. To be visible; to be seen; to appear.
  6. To put in an appearance; show up.
  7. To have an enlarged belly and thus be recognizable as pregnant.
  8. (racing) To finish third, especially of horses or dogs.
  9. To have a certain appearance, such as well or ill, fit or unfit; to become or suit; to appear.

Definition of shoal

shoal (noun)

  1. A sandbank or sandbar creating a shallow.
  2. A shallow in a body of water.

shoal (verb)

  1. To arrive at a shallow (or less deep) area.
  2. To cause a shallowing; to come to a more shallow part of.
  3. To become shallow.

shoal (adjective)

  1. Shallow.

shoal (noun)

  1. Any large number of persons or things.
  2. (collective) A large number of fish (or other sea creatures) of the same species swimming together.

shoal (verb)

  1. To collect in a shoal; to throng.

Definition of short

short (noun)

  1. A short circuit.
  2. A short film.
  3. A short version of a garment in a particular size.
  4. A shortstop.
  5. A short seller.
  6. A short sale.
  7. A summary account.
  8. A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
  9. An integer variable having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
  10. An automobile; especially in crack shorts, to break into automobiles.

short (verb)

  1. To cause a short circuit in (something).
  2. Of an electrical circuit, to short circuit.
  3. To shortchange.
  4. To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.
  5. To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.
  6. To shorten.

short (adjective)

  1. Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
  2. (of a person) Of comparatively small height.
  3. Having little duration.
  4. (followed by for) Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).
  5. (of a fielder or fielding position) that is relatively close to the batsman.
  6. (of a ball) that bounced relatively far from the batsman.
  7. (of an approach shot or putt) that falls short of the green or the hole.
  8. (of pastries) Brittle, crumbly, especially due to the use of a large quantity of fat. (See shortbread, shortcake, shortcrust, shortening.)
  9. Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.
  10. Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
  11. Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied, especially with money; scantily furnished; lacking.
  12. Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
  13. Undiluted; neat.
  14. Not distant in time; near at hand.
  15. Being in a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.

short (adverb)

  1. Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
  2. Unawares.
  3. Without achieving a goal or requirement.
  4. (of the manner of bounce of a cricket ball) Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full.
  5. With a negative ownership position.

short (preposition)

  1. Deficient in.
  2. Having a negative position in.