5 letter words starting with shi

Looking for a clue for todays Wordle or another Word game? Look no further! We got you covered. We got quite a few plausible five letter words starting with shi.

  • 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

Sometimes the solution is an uncommon word, then It’s time to learn something new. Here’s the definition of a few of these words:

Definition of shill

shill (noun)

  1. A person paid to endorse a product favourably, while pretending to be impartial.
  2. An accomplice at a confidence trick during an auction or gambling game.
  3. A house player in a casino.

shill (verb)

  1. To promote or endorse in return for payment, especially dishonestly.
  2. To put under cover; to sheal.
  3. To shell.

Definition of shirk

shirk (noun)

  1. One who shirks, who avoids a duty or responsibility.

shirk (verb)

  1. To avoid, especially a duty, responsibility, etc.; to stay away from.
  2. To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away.
  3. To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.

shirk (noun)

  1. The unforgivable sin of idolatry.


Definition of shive

shive (noun)

  1. A slice, especially of bread.
  2. A sheave.
  3. A beam or plank of split wood.
  4. A flat, wide cork for plugging a large hole or closing a wide-mouthed bottle.

shive (noun)

  1. A splinter or fragment of the woody core of flax or hemp broken off in braking or scutching
  2. A plant fragment remaining in scoured wool.
  3. A piece of thread or fluff on the surface of cloth or other material.
  4. (papermaking) A dark particle or impurity in finished paper resulting from a bundle of incompletely cooked wood fibres in the pulp.

shive (noun)

  1. A knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush).
  2. A particular woody by-product of processing flax or hemp.

shive (noun)

  1. A weeklong period of formal mourning for a close relative.

Definition of shivs

shivs (noun)

  1. A knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush).
  2. A particular woody by-product of processing flax or hemp.

shivs (verb)

  1. To stab someone with a shiv.
  2. (by extension) To stab someone with anything not normally used as a stabbing weapon.