| aftershock | (noun) a tremor (or one of a series of tremors) occurring after the main shock of an earthquake | - |
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| archbishop | (noun) a bishop of highest rank | - |
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| archbishopric | (noun) the territorial jurisdiction of an archbishop | - |
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| asshole | (noun) vulgar slang for anus | Synonyms: arse, arsehole, bunghole |
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| (noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: bastard, cocksucker, dickhead, mother fucker, motherfucker, prick, shit, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson |
| bakeshop | (noun) a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold | Synonyms: bakehouse, bakery |
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| barbershop | (noun) a shop where men can get their hair cut | - |
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| bishop | (noun) (chess) a piece that can be moved diagonally over unoccupied squares of the same color | - |
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| (noun) port wine mulled with oranges and cloves | - |
| (noun) a senior member of the Christian clergy having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve Apostles of Christ | - |
| bishopric | (noun) the territorial jurisdiction of a bishop | Synonyms: diocese, episcopate |
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| bishopry | (noun) the office and dignity of a bishop | Synonyms: episcopate |
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| bookshop | (noun) a shop where books are sold | Synonyms: bookstall, bookstore |
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| boxershorts | (noun) underpants worn by men | Synonyms: boxers, drawers, shorts, underdrawers |
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| buckshot | (noun) small lead shot for shotgun shells | Synonyms: bird shot, duck shot |
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| bullshot | (noun) a cocktail made with vodka and beef bouillon or consomme | - |
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| clotheshorse | (noun) a framework on which to hang clothes (as for drying) | - |
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| (noun) a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance | Synonyms: beau, dandy, dude, fashion plate, fop, gallant, sheik, swell |
| countershot | (noun) a return shot; a retaliatory shot | - |
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| crapshoot | (noun) playing craps | Synonyms: crap game, crap shooting |
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| (noun) a risky and uncertain venture | - |
| crapshooter | (noun) a gambler who plays the game of craps | - |
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| customshouse | (noun) a government building where customs are collected and where ships are cleared to enter or leave the country | Synonyms: customhouse |
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| dishonesty | (noun) lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing | Synonyms: knavery |
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| (noun) the quality of being dishonest | - |
| dishonor | (noun) lacking honor or integrity | Synonyms: dishonour |
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| (noun) a state of shame or disgrace | Synonyms: dishonour |
| dishonorableness | (noun) the quality of not deserving honor or respect | Synonyms: dishonourableness |
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| dishonour | (noun) lacking honor or integrity | Synonyms: dishonor |
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| (noun) a state of shame or disgrace | Synonyms: dishonor |
| dishonourableness | (noun) the quality of not deserving honor or respect | Synonyms: dishonorableness |
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| dosshouse | (noun) a cheap lodging house | Synonyms: flophouse |
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| earshot | (noun) the range within which a voice can be heard | Synonyms: earreach, hearing |
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| electroshock | (noun) the administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma | Synonyms: ECT, electroconvulsive therapy, electroshock therapy |
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| elsholtzia | (noun) any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Elsholtzia having blue or purple flowers in one-sided spikes | - |
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| eyeshot | (noun) the range of the eye | Synonyms: view |
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| flashover | (noun) an unintended electric discharge (as over or around an insulator) | - |
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| floorshow | (noun) a series of acts at a night club | Synonyms: cabaret, floor show |
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| foreshock | (noun) a tremor preceding an earthquake | - |
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| foreshore | (noun) the part of the seashore between the highwater mark and the low-water mark | - |
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| glasshouse | (noun) a building with glass walls and roof; for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions | Synonyms: greenhouse |
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| grapeshot | (noun) a cluster of small projectiles fired together from a cannon to produce a hail of shot | Synonyms: grape |
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| grasshopper | (noun) terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping | Synonyms: hopper |
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| (noun) a cocktail made of creme de menthe and cream (sometimes with creme de cacao) | - |
| gumshoe | (noun) a waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow | Synonyms: arctic, galosh, golosh, rubber |
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| (noun) someone who is a detective | Synonyms: dick, hawkshaw |
| gunshot | (noun) the act of shooting a gun | Synonyms: gunfire |
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| headshot | (noun) a shot aimed at a person's head | - |
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| (noun) an attempt to put the soccer ball into the net by using the head | - |
| (noun) a photograph of a person's head | - |
| horseshoe | (noun) U-shaped plate nailed to underside of horse's hoof | Synonyms: shoe |
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| (noun) game equipment consisting of an open ring of iron used in playing horseshoes | - |
| horseshoer | (noun) a person who shoes horses | Synonyms: farrier |
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| horseshoes | (noun) a game in which iron rings (or open iron rings) are thrown at a stake in the ground in the hope of encircling it | Synonyms: quoits |
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| horseshow | (noun) a competitive exhibition of horses | - |
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| hotshot | (noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: ace, adept, champion, genius, maven, mavin, sensation, star, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard |
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| keeshond | (noun) a spitz-like dog having a shaggy greyish coat and tightly curled tail originating in Holland | - |
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| lakeshore | (noun) the shore of a lake | Synonyms: lakeside |
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| longshoreman | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, lumper, stevedore |
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| longshot | (noun) a photograph taken from a distance | - |
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| monkshood | (noun) a poisonous herb native to northern Europe having hooded blue-purple flowers; the dried leaves and roots yield aconite | Synonyms: Aconitum napellus, helmet flower, helmetflower |
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| moonshot | (noun) an ambitious project with a high chance of failure | - |
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| mugshot | (noun) a photograph of someone's face (especially one made for police records) | Synonyms: mug shot |
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| muishond | (noun) southern African weasel | - |
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| offshoot | (noun) a natural consequence of development | Synonyms: branch, offset, outgrowth |
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| overshoe | (noun) footwear that protects your shoes from water or snow or cold | - |
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| overshoot | (noun) an approach that fails and gives way to another attempt | Synonyms: go-around, wave-off |
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| pawnshop | (noun) a shop where loans are made with personal property as security | Synonyms: loan office, pawnbroker's shop |
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| peepshow | (noun) a short pornographic film shown in a small coin-operated booth | - |
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| (noun) an exhibition of pictures or objects viewed through a small hole or magnifying glass | Synonyms: raree-show |
| potshot | (noun) a shot taken at an easy or casual target (as by a pothunter) | - |
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| (noun) criticism aimed at an easy target and made without careful consideration | - |
| pushover | (noun) any undertaking that is easy to do | Synonyms: breeze, child's play, cinch, duck soup, picnic, piece of cake, snap, walkover |
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| (noun) someone who is easily taken advantage of | - |
| seashore | (noun) the shore of a sea or ocean | Synonyms: coast, sea-coast, seacoast |
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| sharpshooter | (noun) a fast schooner once used by New England fisherman for illegal fishing in Canadian waters | - |
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| (noun) someone skilled in shooting | Synonyms: crack shot, marksman |
| (noun) an athlete noted for accurate aim | - |
| shoal | (noun) a large group of fish | Synonyms: school |
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| (noun) a stretch of shallow water | Synonyms: shallow |
| (noun) a sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide | - |
| shoat | (noun) a young pig | Synonyms: piggy, piglet, shote |
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| shock | (noun) a reflex response to the passage of electric current through the body | Synonyms: electric shock, electrical shock |
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| (noun) the violent interaction of individuals or groups entering into combat | Synonyms: impact |
| (noun) a mechanical damper; absorbs energy of sudden impulses | Synonyms: cushion, shock absorber |
| (noun) an instance of agitation of the earth's crust | Synonyms: seismic disturbance |
| (noun) an unpleasant or disappointing surprise | Synonyms: blow |
| (noun) a sudden jarring impact | Synonyms: jar, jolt, jounce |
| (noun) the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally | Synonyms: daze, stupor |
| (noun) a pile of sheaves of grain set on end in a field to dry; stalks of Indian corn set up in a field | - |
| (noun) a bushy thick mass (especially hair) | - |
| (noun) (pathology) bodily collapse or near collapse caused by inadequate oxygen delivery to the cells; characterized by reduced cardiac output and rapid heartbeat and circulatory insufficiency and pallor | - |
| shocker | (noun) a sensational message (in a film or play or novel) | - |
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| (noun) a shockingly bad person | - |
| shoddiness | (noun) the property of weakness by virtue of careless construction | Synonyms: flimsiness |
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| (noun) the quality of being cheaply imitative of something better | Synonyms: trashiness |
| shoddy | (noun) reclaimed wool fiber | - |
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| shoe | (noun) footwear shaped to fit the foot (below the ankle) with a flexible upper of leather or plastic and a sole and heel of heavier material | - |
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| (noun) U-shaped plate nailed to underside of horse's hoof | Synonyms: horseshoe |
| (noun) a restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation | Synonyms: brake shoe, skid |
| (noun) (card games) a case from which playing cards are dealt one at a time | - |
| shoebill | (noun) large stork-like bird of the valley of the White Nile with a broad bill suggesting a wooden shoe | Synonyms: Balaeniceps rex, shoebird |
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| shoebird | (noun) large stork-like bird of the valley of the White Nile with a broad bill suggesting a wooden shoe | Synonyms: Balaeniceps rex, shoebill |
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| shoeblack | (noun) a person who polishes shoes and boots | Synonyms: bootblack |
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| shoebox | (noun) an oblong rectangular (usually cardboard) box designed to hold a pair of shoes | - |
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| (noun) a structure resembling a shoebox (as a rectangular building or a cramped room or compartment) | - |
| shoeful | (noun) the amount that a shoe will hold | - |
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| shoegazing | (noun) A subgenre of alternative rock typified by significant use of guitar distortion, feedback, obscured vocals and the blurring of component musical parts into indistinguishable "walls of sound" | - |
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| shoehorn | (noun) a device used for easing the foot into a shoe | - |
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| shoelace | (noun) a lace used for fastening shoes | Synonyms: shoe lace, shoe string, shoestring |
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| shoemaker | (noun) a person who makes or repairs shoes | Synonyms: cobbler |
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| shoemaking | (noun) the shoemaker's trade | Synonyms: cobbling, shoe repairing |
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| shoes | (noun) a particular situation | Synonyms: place |
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| shoeshine | (noun) the act of shining shoes | - |
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| (noun) a shiny finish put on shoes with polish and buffing | - |
| shoestring | (noun) a lace used for fastening shoes | Synonyms: shoe lace, shoe string, shoelace |
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| (noun) a small amount of money | Synonyms: shoe string |
| shoetree | (noun) a wooden or metal device that is inserted into a shoe to preserve its shape when it is not being worn | - |
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| shofar | (noun) an ancient musical horn made from the horn of a ram; used in ancient times by the Israelites to sound a warning or a summons; used in synagogues today on solemn occasions | Synonyms: shophar |
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| shogi | (noun) a form of chess played on a board of 81 squares; each player has 20 pieces | - |
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| shogun | (noun) a hereditary military dictator of Japan; the shoguns ruled Japan until the revolution of 1867-68 | - |
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| shogunate | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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| shoji | (noun) a translucent screen made of a wooden frame covered with rice paper | - |
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| shoofly | (noun) a child's rocking chair with the seat built between two flat sides that are shaped to resemble an animal (such as a swan or duck) | - |
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| (noun) an undercover police officer who investigates other policemen | - |
| shook | (noun) a disassembled barrel; the parts packed for storage or shipment | - |
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| shoot | (noun) the act of shooting at targets | - |
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| (noun) a new branch | - |
| shooter | (noun) a large marble used for shooting in the game of marbles | Synonyms: taw |
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| (noun) a person who shoots (usually with respect to their ability to shoot) | Synonyms: shot |
| (noun) a professional killer who uses a gun | Synonyms: gun, gun for hire, gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, hit man, hitman, torpedo, triggerman |
| (noun) (sports) a player who drives or kicks a ball at the goal (or a basketball player who shoots at the basket) | - |
| (noun) a gambler who throws dice in the game of craps | Synonyms: crap-shooter |
| shooting | (noun) the act of firing a projectile | Synonyms: shot |
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| (noun) killing someone by gunfire | - |
| shootout | (noun) a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten | Synonyms: gunfight, gunplay |
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| shop | (noun) a course of instruction in a trade (as carpentry or electricity) | Synonyms: shop class |
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| (noun) a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services | Synonyms: store |
| (noun) small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done | Synonyms: workshop |
| shopaholic | (noun) a compulsive shopper | - |
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| shopfront | (noun) the front side of a store facing the street; usually contains display windows | Synonyms: storefront |
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| shophar | (noun) an ancient musical horn made from the horn of a ram; used in ancient times by the Israelites to sound a warning or a summons; used in synagogues today on solemn occasions | Synonyms: shofar |
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| shopkeeper | (noun) a merchant who owns or manages a shop | Synonyms: market keeper, storekeeper, tradesman |
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| shoplifter | (noun) a thief who steals goods that are in a store | Synonyms: booster, lifter |
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| shoplifting | (noun) the act of stealing goods that are on display in a store | Synonyms: shrinkage |
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| shopper | (noun) someone who visits stores in search of articles to buy | - |
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| (noun) a commercial agent who shops at the competitor's store in order to compare their prices and merchandise with those of the store that employs her | - |