| 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) | - |
|---|
| (noun) an undercover police officer who investigates other policemen | - |
| shook | (noun) a disassembled barrel; the parts packed for storage or shipment | - |
|---|
| shoot | (noun) the act of shooting at targets | - |
|---|
| (noun) a new branch | - |
| shooter | (noun) a large marble used for shooting in the game of marbles | Synonyms: taw |
|---|
| (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 |
|---|
| (noun) killing someone by gunfire | - |
| shootout | (noun) a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten | Synonyms: gunfight, gunplay |
|---|
| shop | (noun) a course of instruction in a trade (as carpentry or electricity) | Synonyms: shop class |
|---|
| (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 | - |
|---|
| shopfront | (noun) the front side of a store facing the street; usually contains display windows | Synonyms: storefront |
|---|
| 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 |
|---|
| shopkeeper | (noun) a merchant who owns or manages a shop | Synonyms: market keeper, storekeeper, tradesman |
|---|
| shoplifter | (noun) a thief who steals goods that are in a store | Synonyms: booster, lifter |
|---|
| shoplifting | (noun) the act of stealing goods that are on display in a store | Synonyms: shrinkage |
|---|
| shopper | (noun) someone who visits stores in search of articles to buy | - |
|---|
| (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 | - |
| shopping | (noun) searching for or buying goods or services | - |
|---|
| (noun) the commodities purchased from stores | - |
| shopwalker | (noun) an employee of a retail store who supervises sales personnel and helps with customer problems | Synonyms: floorwalker |
|---|
| shopwindow | (noun) a window of a store facing onto the street; used to display merchandise for sale in the store | Synonyms: display window, shop window, show window |
|---|
| shore | (noun) a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support | Synonyms: shoring |
|---|
| (noun) the land along the edge of a body of water | - |
| shorebird | (noun) any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries | Synonyms: limicoline bird, shore bird |
|---|
| shoreline | (noun) a boundary line between land and water | - |
|---|
| shoring | (noun) the act of propping up with shores | Synonyms: propping up, shoring up |
|---|
| (noun) a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support | Synonyms: shore |
| short | (noun) the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base | Synonyms: shortstop |
|---|
| (noun) the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed | - |
| (noun) accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference | Synonyms: short circuit |
| shortage | (noun) the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required | Synonyms: deficit, shortfall |
|---|
| (noun) an acute insufficiency | Synonyms: dearth, famine |
| shortbread | (noun) very rich thick butter cookie | Synonyms: shortbread cookie |
|---|
| shortcake | (noun) very short biscuit dough baked as individual biscuits or a round loaf; served with sweetened fruit and usually whipped cream | - |
|---|
| shortcoming | (noun) a failing or deficiency | Synonyms: defect |
|---|
| shortcut | (noun) a route shorter than the usual one | Synonyms: crosscut, cutoff |
|---|
| shortener | (noun) any agent that shortens | - |
|---|
| shortening | (noun) act of decreasing in length | - |
|---|
| (noun) fat such as butter or lard used in baked goods | - |
| shortfall | (noun) the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required | Synonyms: deficit, shortage |
|---|
| shortgrass | (noun) any of various grasses that are short and can tolerate drought conditions; common on the dry upland plains just east of the Rocky Mountains | Synonyms: short-grass |
|---|
| shorthand | (noun) a method of writing rapidly using an abbreviated symbolic system | Synonyms: stenography, tachygraphy |
|---|
| shorthorn | (noun) English breed of short-horned cattle | Synonyms: Durham |
|---|
| shortia | (noun) any plant of the genus Shortia; evergreen perennial herbs with smooth leathery basal leaves and showy white solitary flowers | - |
|---|
| shortlist | (noun) a list of applicants winnowed from a longer list who have been deemed suitable and from which the successful person will be chosen | Synonyms: short list |
|---|
| shortness | (noun) an abrupt discourteous manner | Synonyms: abruptness, brusqueness, curtness, gruffness |
|---|
| (noun) the property of being shorter than average stature | - |
| (noun) the property of being of short temporal extent | - |
| (noun) the property of being of short spatial extent | - |
| (noun) the property of being truncated or short | Synonyms: truncation |
| (noun) the condition of being short of something | - |
| shorts | (noun) (used in the plural) trousers that end at or above the knee | Synonyms: short pants, trunks |
|---|
| (noun) underpants worn by men | Synonyms: boxers, boxershorts, drawers, underdrawers |
| shortsightedness | (noun) a lack of prudence and care by someone in the management of resources | Synonyms: improvidence |
|---|
| (noun) (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred | Synonyms: myopia, nearsightedness |
| shortstop | (noun) the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base | Synonyms: short |
|---|
| (noun) (baseball) the person who plays the shortstop position | - |
| shot | (noun) the act of firing a projectile | Synonyms: shooting |
|---|
| (noun) the act of putting a liquid into the body by means of a syringe | Synonyms: injection |
| (noun) informal words for any attempt or effort | Synonyms: stab |
| (noun) (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand | Synonyms: stroke |
| (noun) the launching of a missile or spacecraft to a specified destination | Synonyms: blastoff |
| (noun) an attempt to score in a game | - |
| (noun) a blow hard enough to cause injury | - |
| (noun) throwing the basketball toward the hoop | Synonyms: basketball shot |
| (noun) a solid missile discharged from a firearm | Synonyms: pellet |
| (noun) an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera | Synonyms: snap, snapshot |
| (noun) an explosive charge used in blasting | - |
| (noun) sports equipment consisting of a heavy metal ball used in the shot put | - |
| (noun) an estimate based on little or no information | Synonyms: dead reckoning, guess, guessing, guesswork |
| (noun) an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect | Synonyms: barb, dig, gibe, jibe, shaft, slam |
| (noun) a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film | Synonyms: scene |
| (noun) a person who shoots (usually with respect to their ability to shoot) | Synonyms: shooter |
| (noun) a small drink of liquor | Synonyms: nip |
| (noun) a chance to do something | Synonyms: crack |
| shote | (noun) a young pig | Synonyms: piggy, piglet, shoat |
|---|
| shotgun | (noun) firearm that is a double-barreled smoothbore shoulder weapon for firing shot at short ranges | Synonyms: scattergun |
|---|
| shoulder | (noun) a narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road | Synonyms: berm |
|---|
| (noun) the part of a garment that covers or fits over the shoulder | - |
| (noun) the part of the body between the neck and the upper arm | - |
| (noun) a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula | Synonyms: articulatio humeri, shoulder joint |
| (noun) a cut of meat including the upper joint of the foreleg | - |
| shout | (noun) a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition | Synonyms: call, cry, outcry, vociferation, yell |
|---|
| shouter | (noun) someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice | Synonyms: bawler, bellower, roarer, screamer, screecher, yeller |
|---|
| shouting | (noun) encouragement in the form of cheers from spectators | Synonyms: cheering |
|---|
| (noun) uttering a loud inarticulate cry as of pain or excitement | Synonyms: yelling |
| shove | (noun) the act of shoving (giving a push to someone or something) | - |
|---|
| shovel | (noun) a hand tool for lifting loose material; consists of a curved container or scoop and a handle | - |
|---|
| (noun) a fire iron consisting of a small shovel used to scoop coals or ashes in a fireplace | - |
| (noun) a machine for excavating | Synonyms: digger, excavator, power shovel |
| (noun) the quantity a shovel can hold | Synonyms: shovelful, spadeful |
| shovelboard | (noun) a game in which players use long sticks to shove wooden disks onto the scoring area marked on a smooth surface | Synonyms: shuffleboard |
|---|
| shoveler | (noun) freshwater duck of the Northern Hemisphere having a broad flat bill | Synonyms: Anas clypeata, broadbill, shoveller |
|---|
| (noun) a worker who shovels | Synonyms: shoveller |
| shovelful | (noun) the quantity a shovel can hold | Synonyms: shovel, spadeful |
|---|
| shovelhead | (noun) small harmless hammerhead having a spade-shaped head; abundant in bays and estuaries | Synonyms: bonnet shark, bonnethead, Sphyrna tiburo |
|---|
| shoveller | (noun) freshwater duck of the Northern Hemisphere having a broad flat bill | Synonyms: Anas clypeata, broadbill, shoveler |
|---|
| (noun) a worker who shovels | Synonyms: shoveler |
| shover | (noun) someone who pushes | Synonyms: pusher |
|---|
| show | (noun) an act or social event involving a public performance or entertainment | - |
|---|
| (noun) pretending that something is the case in order to make a good impression | Synonyms: appearance |
| (noun) something intended to communicate a particular impression | Synonyms: display |
| showboat | (noun) a river steamboat on which theatrical performances could be given (especially on the Mississippi River) | - |
|---|
| showboy | (noun) a man who dances in a chorus line | - |
|---|
| showcase | (noun) a glass container used to store and display items in a shop or museum or home | Synonyms: case, display case, vitrine |
|---|
| (noun) a setting in which something can be displayed to best effect | Synonyms: show window |
| showdown | (noun) a hostile disagreement face-to-face | Synonyms: confrontation, encounter, face-off |
|---|
| shower | (noun) washing yourself by standing upright under water sprayed from a nozzle | Synonyms: shower bath |
|---|
| (noun) a plumbing fixture that sprays water over you | - |
| (noun) a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower | Synonyms: cascade |
| (noun) a party of friends assembled to present gifts (usually of a specified kind) to a person | - |
| (noun) a brief period of precipitation | Synonyms: rain shower |
| (noun) someone who organizes an exhibit for others to see | Synonyms: exhibitioner, exhibitor |
| showerhead | (noun) a perforated nozzle that showers water on a bather | - |
|---|
| showgirl | (noun) a woman who dances in a chorus line | Synonyms: chorine, chorus girl |
|---|
| showiness | (noun) extravagant elaborateness | Synonyms: flamboyance, floridity, floridness |
|---|
| showing | (noun) something shown to the public | Synonyms: display, exhibit |
|---|
| (noun) the display of a motion picture | Synonyms: screening, viewing |
| showjumping | (noun) riding horses in competitions over set courses to demonstrate skill in jumping over obstacles | Synonyms: stadium jumping |
|---|
| showman | (noun) a sponsor who books and stages public entertainments | Synonyms: impresario, promoter |
|---|
| (noun) a person skilled at making effective presentations | - |
| showmanship | (noun) the ability to present something (especially theatrical shows) in an attractive manner | - |
|---|
| showpiece | (noun) the outstanding item (the prize piece or main exhibit) in a collection | Synonyms: collector's item, piece de resistance |
|---|
| showplace | (noun) a place that is frequently exhibited and visited for its historical interest or natural beauty | - |
|---|
| showroom | (noun) an area where merchandise (such as cars) can be displayed | Synonyms: saleroom, salesroom |
|---|
| showstopper | (noun) something that is strikingly attractive or has great popular appeal | Synonyms: show-stopper |
|---|
| (noun) an act so striking or impressive that the show must be delayed until the audience quiets down | Synonyms: show-stopper, stopper |
| showtime | (noun) the time at which something is supposed to begin | Synonyms: beginning, commencement, first, get-go, kickoff, offset, outset, start, starting time |
|---|
| shrapnel | (noun) shell containing lead pellets that explodes in flight | - |
|---|
| shred | (noun) a small piece of cloth | Synonyms: rag, tag, tag end, tatter |
|---|
| (noun) a tiny or scarcely detectable amount | Synonyms: iota, scintilla, smidge, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, tittle, whit |
| shredder | (noun) a device that shreds documents (usually in order to prevent the wrong people from reading them) | - |
|---|
| shrew | (noun) small mouselike mammal with a long snout; related to moles | Synonyms: shrewmouse |
|---|
| (noun) a scolding nagging bad-tempered woman | Synonyms: termagant |
| shrewdness | (noun) intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings) | Synonyms: astuteness, perspicaciousness, perspicacity |
|---|
| shrewishness | (noun) a nature given to nagging or scolding | - |
|---|
| shrewmouse | (noun) small mouselike mammal with a long snout; related to moles | Synonyms: shrew |
|---|
| shriek | (noun) sharp piercing cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, screeching, shrieking |
|---|
| (noun) a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, screeching, shrieking |
| shrieking | (noun) sharp piercing cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, screeching, shriek |
|---|
| (noun) a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, screeching, shriek |
| shrift | (noun) the act of being shriven | - |
|---|
| shrike | (noun) any of numerous Old World birds having a strong hooked bill that feed on smaller animals | - |
|---|
| shrilling | (noun) a continuing shrill noise | - |
|---|
| shrillness | (noun) having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound | Synonyms: stridence, stridency |
|---|
| (noun) the quality of being sharp or harsh to the senses | - |
| shrimp | (noun) small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible | - |
|---|
| (noun) any of various edible decapod crustaceans | Synonyms: prawn |
| (noun) disparaging terms for small people | Synonyms: half-pint, peewee, runt |
| shrimper | (noun) a vessel engaged in shrimping | - |
|---|
| shrimpfish | (noun) slender tropical shallow-water East Indian fish covered with transparent plates | Synonyms: shrimp-fish |
|---|
| shrine | (noun) a place of worship hallowed by association with some sacred thing or person | - |
|---|
| shrink | (noun) a physician who specializes in psychiatry | Synonyms: head-shrinker, psychiatrist |
|---|
| shrinkage | (noun) the act of stealing goods that are on display in a store | Synonyms: shoplifting |
|---|
| (noun) the amount by which something shrinks | - |
| (noun) process or result of becoming less or smaller | Synonyms: shrinking |
| shrinking | (noun) the act of becoming less | - |
|---|
| (noun) process or result of becoming less or smaller | Synonyms: shrinkage |
| shroud | (noun) burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped | Synonyms: cerement, pall, winding-clothes, winding-sheet |
|---|
| (noun) (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind | Synonyms: mainsheet, sheet, tack, weather sheet |
| (noun) a line that suspends the harness from the canopy of a parachute | - |
| shrub | (noun) a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems | Synonyms: bush |
|---|
| shrubbery | (noun) a collection of shrubs growing together | - |
|---|
| (noun) an area where a number of shrubs are planted | - |
| shrublet | (noun) dwarf shrub | - |
|---|
| shrug | (noun) a gesture involving the shoulders | - |
|---|
| shtick | (noun) (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtik |
|---|
| (noun) (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtik |
| (noun) (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtik |
| (noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtik |
| shtickl | (noun) a really little shtik | Synonyms: schtickl, schtikl, shtikl |
|---|
| shtik | (noun) (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtick |
|---|
| (noun) (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtick |
| (noun) (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtick |
| (noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtick |