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 shags

shags (noun)

  1. Matted material; rough massed hair, fibres etc.
  2. Coarse shredded tobacco.
  3. A type of rough carpet pile.
  4. Bacon or fat, especially if with some remaining hair or bristles.
  5. A roughly-cut or torn-off piece of bread or cheese.

shags (noun)

  1. Several species of sea birds in the family Phalacrocoracidae (cormorant family), especially the common shag or European shag, Phalacrocorax aristotelis, found on European and African coasts.

shags (noun)

  1. A swing dance.
  2. An act of sexual intercourse.
  3. A casual sexual partner.

shags (noun)

  1. (Northwestern Ontario) A fundraising dance in honour of a couple engaged to be married.

shags (noun)

  1. Friend; mate; buddy.

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 shift

shift (noun)

  1. A modifier key whose main function is shifting between two or more functions of any of certain other keys (usually by pressing Shift and the other button simultaneously).

shift (noun)

  1. A type of women's undergarment, a slip.
  2. A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
  3. An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
  4. The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
  5. A bit shift.
  6. The infield shift.
  7. (often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of kissing passionately.
  8. A contrivance, a device to try when other methods fail.
  9. A trick, an artifice.
  10. The extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
  11. A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
  12. A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.
  13. In violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut.

shift (verb)

  1. (sometimes figurative) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
  2. To change in form or character; swap.
  3. To change position.
  4. To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere.
  5. To change (clothes, especially underwear).
  6. To change (someone's) clothes; sometimes specifically, to change underwear.
  7. To change gears (in a car).
  8. (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters.
  9. (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters.
  10. To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.
  11. To remove the first value from an array.
  12. To dispose of.
  13. To hurry.
  14. To engage in sexual petting.
  15. To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.
  16. To practice indirect or evasive methods.
  17. In violin-playing, to move the left hand from its original position next to the nut.

Definition of shire

shire (noun)

  1. Physical area administered by a sheriff.
  2. Former administrative area of Britain; a county.
  3. The general area in which a person lives or comes from, used in the context of travel within the United Kingdom.
  4. A rural or outer suburban local government area of Australia.
  5. A shire horse.

shire (verb)

  1. To (re)constitute as one or more shires or counties.

Definition of shuns

shuns (verb)

  1. To avoid, especially persistently.
  2. To escape (a threatening evil, an unwelcome task etc).
  3. To screen, hide.
  4. To shove, push.