| shawny | (noun) showy perennial herb with white flowers; leaves sometimes used as edible greens in southeastern United States | Synonyms: Hydrophyllum virginianum, Indian salad, John's cabbage, Shawnee salad, Virginia waterleaf |
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| shay | (noun) a carriage consisting of two wheels and a calash top; drawn by a single horse | Synonyms: chaise |
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| shaytan | (noun) (Islam) a rebellious jinni who leads men astray | Synonyms: shaitan |
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| sheaf | (noun) a package of several things tied together for carrying or storing | Synonyms: bundle |
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| shear | (noun) a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it | - |
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| (noun) (physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves | - |
| shearer | (noun) a skilled worker who shears the wool off of sheep or other animals | - |
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| (noun) a workman who uses shears to cut leather or metal or textiles | - |
| shearing | (noun) removing by cutting off or clipping | - |
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| shears | (noun) large scissors with strong blades | - |
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| shearwater | (noun) long-winged oceanic bird that in flight skims close to the waves | - |
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| sheatfish | (noun) large elongated catfish of central and eastern Europe | Synonyms: European catfish, Silurus glanis |
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| sheath | (noun) a protective covering (as for a knife or sword) | - |
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| (noun) a dress suitable for formal occasions | Synonyms: cocktail dress |
| (noun) an enveloping structure or covering enclosing an animal or plant organ or part | Synonyms: case |
| sheathing | (noun) protective covering consisting, for example, of a layer of boards applied to the studs and joists of a building to strengthen it and serve as a foundation for a weatherproof exterior | Synonyms: overlay, overlayer |
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| shebang | (noun) an entire system; used in the phrase `the whole shebang' | - |
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| shebeen | (noun) unlicensed drinking establishment | - |
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| shed | (noun) an outbuilding with a single story; used for shelter or storage | - |
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| shedder | (noun) an attacker who sheds or spills blood | Synonyms: spiller |
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| shedding | (noun) loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales | Synonyms: desquamation, peeling |
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| (noun) the process whereby something is shed | Synonyms: sloughing |
| sheen | (noun) the visual property of something that shines with reflected light | Synonyms: luster, lustre, shininess |
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| sheeny | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Jew | Synonyms: hymie, kike, yid |
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| sheep | (noun) woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat | - |
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| (noun) a docile and vulnerable person who would rather follow than make an independent decision | - |
| (noun) a timid defenseless simpleton who is readily preyed upon | - |
| sheepcote | (noun) a pen for sheep | Synonyms: fold, sheep pen, sheepfold |
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| sheepdog | (noun) any of various usually long-haired breeds of dog reared to herd and guard sheep | Synonyms: sheep dog, shepherd dog |
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| sheepfold | (noun) a pen for sheep | Synonyms: fold, sheep pen, sheepcote |
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| sheepherder | (noun) a herder of sheep (on an open range); someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock | Synonyms: sheepman, shepherd |
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| sheepishness | (noun) feeling embarrassed about yourself | Synonyms: shamefacedness |
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| sheepman | (noun) a man who raises (or tends) sheep | - |
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| (noun) a herder of sheep (on an open range); someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock | Synonyms: sheepherder, shepherd |
| sheeprun | (noun) farm devoted to raising sheep | Synonyms: sheepwalk |
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| sheepshank | (noun) a knot for shortening a line | - |
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| sheepshead | (noun) large (up to 20 lbs) food fish of the eastern coast of the United States and Mexico | Synonyms: Archosargus probatocephalus |
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| sheepshearing | (noun) act of shearing sheep | - |
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| (noun) a festival held at the time sheep are normally sheared | - |
| (noun) the time or season when sheep are sheared | - |
| sheepskin | (noun) a document certifying the successful completion of a course of study | Synonyms: diploma |
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| (noun) tanned skin of a sheep with the fleece left on; used for clothing | Synonyms: fleece |
| (noun) skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on | Synonyms: lambskin, parchment |
| sheepwalk | (noun) farm devoted to raising sheep | Synonyms: sheeprun |
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| sheesha | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: calean, chicha, hookah, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, nargileh, shisha, water pipe |
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| sheet | (noun) bed linen consisting of a large rectangular piece of cotton or linen cloth; used in pairs | Synonyms: bed sheet |
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| (noun) (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind | Synonyms: mainsheet, shroud, tack, weather sheet |
| (noun) a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width | Synonyms: flat solid |
| (noun) a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel | Synonyms: canvas, canvass, sail |
| (noun) paper used for writing or printing | Synonyms: piece of paper, sheet of paper |
| (noun) newspaper with half-size pages | Synonyms: rag, tabloid |
| (noun) any broad thin expanse or surface | - |
| (noun) (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape | Synonyms: plane |
| sheeting | (noun) fabric from which bed sheets are made | - |
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| shegetz | (noun) an offensive term for non-Jewish young man | - |
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| sheik | (noun) the leader of an Arab village or family | Synonyms: Arab chief, sheikh, tribal sheik, tribal sheikh |
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| (noun) a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance | Synonyms: beau, clotheshorse, dandy, dude, fashion plate, fop, gallant, swell |
| sheika | (noun) the wife of a sheik | Synonyms: sheikha |
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| sheikdom | (noun) the domain ruled by a sheik | Synonyms: sheikhdom |
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| sheikh | (noun) the leader of an Arab village or family | Synonyms: Arab chief, sheik, tribal sheik, tribal sheikh |
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| sheikha | (noun) the wife of a sheik | Synonyms: sheika |
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| sheikhdom | (noun) the domain ruled by a sheik | Synonyms: sheikdom |
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| shekel | (noun) the basic unit of money in Israel | - |
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| shekels | (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
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| sheldrake | (noun) Old World gooselike duck slightly larger than a mallard with variegated mostly black-and-white plumage and a red bill | - |
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| (noun) large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges | Synonyms: fish duck, merganser, sawbill |
| shelduck | (noun) female sheldrake | - |
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| shelf | (noun) a support that consists of a horizontal surface for holding objects | - |
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| (noun) a projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water | Synonyms: ledge |
| shelfful | (noun) the amount that a shelf will hold | - |
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| shell | (noun) the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod | - |
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| (noun) hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles | Synonyms: carapace, cuticle, shield |
| (noun) ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun | - |
| (noun) a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners) | Synonyms: plate, scale |
| (noun) the housing or outer covering of something | Synonyms: case, casing |
| (noun) a very light narrow racing boat | Synonyms: racing shell |
| (noun) a rigid covering that envelops an object | - |
| (noun) the exterior covering of a bird's egg | Synonyms: eggshell |
| (noun) the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts | - |
| (noun) the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals | - |
| shellac | (noun) a thin varnish made by dissolving lac in ethanol; used to finish wood | Synonyms: shellac varnish |
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| (noun) lac purified by heating and filtering; usually in thin orange or yellow flakes but sometimes bleached white | - |
| shellbark | (noun) North American hickory having loose grey shaggy bark and edible nuts | Synonyms: Carya ovata, shagbark, shagbark hickory, shellbark hickory |
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| sheller | (noun) a worker who removes shells (as of peas or oysters) | - |
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| shellfire | (noun) shooting artillery shells | - |
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| shellfish | (noun) invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell | Synonyms: mollusc, mollusk |
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| (noun) meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean) | - |
| shellflower | (noun) showy perennial of marshlands of eastern and central North America having waxy lanceolate leaves and flower with lower part creamy white and upper parts pale pink to deep purple | Synonyms: Chelone glabra, shell-flower, snake-head, snakehead, turtlehead |
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| (noun) cultivated for its shining oblong leaves and arching clusters of white flowers with pink shading and crinkled yellow lips with variegated magenta stripes | Synonyms: Alpinia speciosa, Alpinia Zerumbet, Languas speciosa, shall-flower, shell ginger |
| shelling | (noun) the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target | Synonyms: barrage, barrage fire, battery, bombardment |
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| shelter | (noun) a structure that provides privacy and protection from danger | - |
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| (noun) protective covering that provides protection from the weather | - |
| (noun) temporary housing for homeless or displaced persons | - |
| (noun) a way of organizing business to reduce the taxes it must pay on current earnings | Synonyms: tax shelter |
| (noun) the condition of being protected | Synonyms: protection |
| shelterbelt | (noun) hedge or fence of trees designed to lessen the force of the wind and reduce erosion | Synonyms: windbreak |
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| shelver | (noun) a worker who puts things (as books) on shelves | - |
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| shemozzle | (noun) (Yiddish) a confused situation or affair; a mess | Synonyms: schemozzle |
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| shenanigan | (noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilment, devilry, deviltry, mischief-making, mischief, mischievousness, rascality, roguery, roguishness |
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| (noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | Synonyms: chicane, chicanery, guile, trickery, wile |
| shepherd | (noun) a herder of sheep (on an open range); someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock | Synonyms: sheepherder, sheepman |
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| (noun) a clergyman who watches over a group of people | - |
| shepherdess | (noun) a woman shepherd | - |
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| sherbert | (noun) a frozen dessert made primarily of fruit juice and sugar, but also containing milk or egg-white or gelatin | Synonyms: sherbet |
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| sherbet | (noun) a frozen dessert made primarily of fruit juice and sugar, but also containing milk or egg-white or gelatin | Synonyms: sherbert |
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| sherd | (noun) a broken piece of a brittle artifact | Synonyms: fragment, shard |
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| sheriff | (noun) the principal law-enforcement officer in a county | - |
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| sherlock | (noun) someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information and assist in criminal investigations | Synonyms: operative, PI, private detective, private eye, private investigator, shamus |
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| sherry | (noun) dry to sweet amber wine from the Jerez region of southern Spain or similar wines produced elsewhere; usually drunk as an aperitif | - |
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| shiatsu | (noun) treatment of symptoms by applying pressure with the fingers to specific pressure points on the body | Synonyms: acupressure, G-Jo |
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| shibah | (noun) (Judaism) a period of seven days of mourning after the death of close relative | Synonyms: shiva, shivah |
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| shibboleth | (noun) a manner of speaking that is distinctive of a particular group of people | - |
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| (noun) a favorite saying of a group, organization or individual | Synonyms: catchword, motto, slogan |
| shield | (noun) hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles | Synonyms: carapace, cuticle, shell |
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| (noun) armor carried on the arm to intercept blows | Synonyms: buckler |
| (noun) a protective covering or structure | - |
| shielder | (noun) a person who cares for persons or property | Synonyms: defender, guardian, protector |
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| shielding | (noun) the act of shielding from harm | - |
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| (noun) a shield of lead or concrete intended as a barrier to radiation emitted in nuclear decay | - |
| (noun) shield consisting of an arrangement of metal mesh or plates designed to protect electronic equipment from ambient electromagnetic interference | - |
| shift | (noun) the act of moving from one place to another | Synonyms: shifting |
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| (noun) the act of changing one thing or position for another | Synonyms: switch, switching |
| (noun) a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist | Synonyms: chemise, sack |
| (noun) a woman's sleeveless undergarment | Synonyms: chemise, shimmy, slip, teddy |
| (noun) the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters | Synonyms: shift key |
| (noun) an event in which something is displaced without rotation | Synonyms: displacement |
| (noun) a qualitative change | Synonyms: transformation, transmutation |
| (noun) a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time | - |
| (noun) (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other | Synonyms: break, fault, faulting, fracture, geological fault |
| (noun) the time period during which you are at work | Synonyms: duty period, work shift |
| shifter | (noun) a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears | Synonyms: gear lever, gearshift, gearstick |
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| (noun) a stagehand responsible for moving scenery | Synonyms: sceneshifter |
| shiftiness | (noun) the quality of being a slippery rascal | Synonyms: rascality, slipperiness, trickiness |
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| (noun) the quality of being changeable in direction | - |
| shifting | (noun) the act of moving from one place to another | Synonyms: shift |
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| shiftlessness | (noun) a failure to be active as a consequence of lack of initiative or ambition | - |
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| shigella | (noun) rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; some are pathogenic for warm-blooded animals; can be used as a bioweapon | - |
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| shigellosis | (noun) an acute infection of the intestine by shigella bacteria; characterized by diarrhea and fever and abdominal pains | Synonyms: bacillary dysentery |
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| shiitake | (noun) edible east Asian mushroom having a golden or dark brown to blackish cap and an inedible stipe | Synonyms: Chinese black mushroom, golden oak mushroom, Lentinus edodes, Oriental black mushroom, shiitake mushroom |
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| shiksa | (noun) a derogatory term used by Jews to refer to non-Jewish women | Synonyms: shikse |
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| shikse | (noun) a derogatory term used by Jews to refer to non-Jewish women | Synonyms: shiksa |
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| shill | (noun) a decoy who acts as an enthusiastic customer in order to stimulate the participation of others | - |
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| shillalah | (noun) a cudgel made of hardwood (usually oak or blackthorn) | Synonyms: shillelagh |
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| shillelagh | (noun) a cudgel made of hardwood (usually oak or blackthorn) | Synonyms: shillalah |
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| shilling | (noun) an English coin worth one twentieth of a pound | - |
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| (noun) a former monetary unit in Great Britain | Synonyms: bob, British shilling |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Kenya; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Kenyan shilling |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Somalia; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Somalian shilling |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Tanzania; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Tanzanian shilling |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Uganda; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Ugandan shilling |
| shillyshally | (noun) the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or deferring an action to a later time | Synonyms: cunctation, procrastination |
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| shim | (noun) a thin wedge of material (wood or metal or stone) for driving into crevices | - |
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| shimmer | (noun) a weak and tremulous light | Synonyms: play |
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| shimmy | (noun) lively dancing (usually to ragtime music) with much shaking of the shoulders and hips | - |
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| (noun) a woman's sleeveless undergarment | Synonyms: chemise, shift, slip, teddy |
| (noun) an abnormal wobble in a motor vehicle (especially in the front wheels) | - |
| shin | (noun) the inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle | Synonyms: shin bone, shinbone, tibia |
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| (noun) the front part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle | - |
| (noun) the 22nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
| (noun) a cut of meat from the lower part of the leg | Synonyms: shin bone |
| shinbone | (noun) the inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle | Synonyms: shin, shin bone, tibia |
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| shindig | (noun) a large and noisy party of people | Synonyms: shindy |
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| shindy | (noun) a large and noisy party of people | Synonyms: shindig |
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| shine | (noun) the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light | Synonyms: effulgence, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency |
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| shiner | (noun) any of numerous small silvery North American cyprinid fishes especially of the genus Notropis | - |
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| (noun) important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales | Synonyms: common mackerel, Scomber scombrus |
| (noun) something that shines (with emitted or reflected light) | - |
| (noun) a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye | Synonyms: black eye, mouse |
| shingle | (noun) a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g. | - |
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| (noun) building material used as siding or roofing | Synonyms: shake |
| (noun) coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel) | - |