| shabbily | (adverb) in a mean and ungenerous manner | - |
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| (adverb) so as to appear worn and threadbare or dilapidated | - |
| shabbiness | (noun) an unjust act | Synonyms: iniquity, injustice, unfairness |
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| (noun) a lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing | Synonyms: manginess, seediness, sleaziness |
| shabby | (adjective) mean and unworthy and despicable | - |
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| (adjective) showing signs of wear and tear | Synonyms: moth-eaten, ratty, tatty |
| shabu | (noun) an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant | Synonyms: chalk, chicken feed, crank, deoxyephedrine, glass, ice, meth, methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, trash |
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| shack | (noun) small crude shelter used as a dwelling | Synonyms: hovel, hut, hutch, shanty |
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| (verb) move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly | Synonyms: trail |
| (verb) make one's home in a particular place or community | Synonyms: domicile, domiciliate, reside |
| shackle | (noun) a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner) | Synonyms: bond, hamper, trammel |
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| (noun) a U-shaped bar; the open end can be passed through chain links and closed with a bar | - |
| (verb) restrain with fetters | Synonyms: fetter |
| (verb) bind the arms of | Synonyms: pinion |
| shackled | (adjective) bound by chains fastened around the ankles | Synonyms: fettered |
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| shad | (noun) herring-like food fishes that migrate from the sea to fresh water to spawn | - |
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| (noun) bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning; especially of Atlantic coast | - |
| shadberry | (noun) edible purple or red berries | Synonyms: juneberry, saskatoon, serviceberry |
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| shadblow | (noun) any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit | Synonyms: Juneberry, service tree, serviceberry, shadbush |
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| shadbush | (noun) any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit | Synonyms: Juneberry, service tree, serviceberry, shadblow |
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| shaddock | (noun) large pear-shaped fruit similar to grapefruit but with coarse dry pulp | Synonyms: pomelo |
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| (noun) southeastern Asian tree producing large fruits resembling grapefruits | Synonyms: Citrus decumana, Citrus grandis, Citrus maxima, pomelo, pomelo tree, pummelo |
| shade | (noun) protective covering that protects something from direct sunlight | - |
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| (noun) a representation of the effect of shadows in a picture or drawing (as by shading or darker pigment) | - |
| (noun) a protective ornamental covering for a lamp, used to screen a light bulb from direct view | Synonyms: lamp shade, lampshade |
| (noun) a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color | Synonyms: tincture, tint, tone |
| (noun) a mental representation of some haunting experience | Synonyms: ghost, specter, spectre, spook, wraith |
| (noun) a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude | Synonyms: nicety, nuance, refinement, subtlety |
| (noun) a slight amount or degree of difference | Synonyms: tad |
| (noun) relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body | Synonyms: shadiness, shadowiness |
| (noun) a position of relative inferiority | - |
| (verb) pass from one quality such as color to another by a slight degree | - |
| (verb) vary slightly | - |
| (verb) protect from light, heat, or view | - |
| (verb) represent the effect of shade or shadow on | Synonyms: fill in |
| (verb) cast a shadow over | Synonyms: shade off, shadow |
| shaded | (adjective) protected from heat and light with shade or shadow | - |
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| (adjective) (of pictures or drawings) drawn or painted with degrees or gradations of shadow | - |
| shades | (noun) (plural) spectacles that are darkened or polarized to protect the eyes from the glare of the sun | Synonyms: dark glasses, sunglasses |
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| (noun) (plural) something that reminds you of someone or something | - |
| shadflower | (noun) annual weed of Europe and North America having a rosette of basal leaves and tiny flowers followed by oblong seed capsules | Synonyms: Draba verna, shad-flower, whitlow grass |
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| shadfly | (noun) slender insect with delicate membranous wings having an aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days | Synonyms: dayfly, mayfly |
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| shadiness | (noun) questionable honesty or legality | - |
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| (noun) relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body | Synonyms: shade, shadowiness |
| shading | (noun) a gradation involving small or imperceptible differences between grades | Synonyms: blending |
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| (noun) graded markings that indicate light or shaded areas in a drawing or painting | - |
| shadow | (noun) refuge from danger or observation | - |
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| (noun) something existing in perception only | Synonyms: apparition, fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom |
| (noun) an indication that something has been present | Synonyms: tincture, trace, vestige |
| (noun) a premonition of something adverse | - |
| (noun) an unilluminated area | Synonyms: dark, darkness |
| (noun) a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements | Synonyms: shadower, tail |
| (noun) an inseparable companion | - |
| (noun) a dominating and pervasive presence | - |
| (noun) shade within clear boundaries | - |
| (verb) follow, usually without the person's knowledge | - |
| (verb) make appear small by comparison | Synonyms: dwarf, overshadow |
| (verb) cast a shadow over | Synonyms: shade, shade off |
| shadowbox | (verb) go through boxing motions without an opponent | - |
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| shadowboxing | (noun) sparring with an imaginary opponent (for exercise or training) | - |
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| shadowed | (adjective) filled with shade | Synonyms: shadowy, shady, umbrageous |
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| shadower | (noun) a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements | Synonyms: shadow, tail |
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| shadowgraph | (noun) a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays) | Synonyms: radiogram, radiograph, skiagram, skiagraph |
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| shadowiness | (noun) relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body | Synonyms: shade, shadiness |
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| shadowing | (noun) the act of following someone secretly | Synonyms: tailing |
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| shadowy | (adjective) lacking clarity or distinctness | Synonyms: dim, faint, vague, wispy |
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| (adjective) lacking in substance | Synonyms: wraithlike |
| (adjective) filled with shade | Synonyms: shadowed, shady, umbrageous |
| shady | (adjective) quiet, dark, or concealed | - |
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| (adjective) of questionable honesty or legality | - |
| (adjective) not as expected | Synonyms: fishy, funny, suspect, suspicious |
| (adjective) filled with shade | Synonyms: shadowed, shadowy, umbrageous |
| shaft | (noun) the hollow spine of a feather | Synonyms: calamus, quill |
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| (noun) a long rod or pole (especially the handle of an implement or the body of a weapon like a spear or arrow) | - |
| (noun) a revolving rod that transmits power or motion | Synonyms: rotating shaft |
| (noun) a long vertical passage sunk into the earth, as for a mine or tunnel | - |
| (noun) (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column | Synonyms: scape |
| (noun) a vertical passageway through a building (as for an elevator) | - |
| (noun) a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon | Synonyms: lance, spear |
| (noun) the main (mid) section of a long bone | Synonyms: diaphysis |
| (noun) obscene terms for penis | Synonyms: cock, dick, pecker, prick, putz, tool |
| (noun) a line that forms the length of an arrow pointer | - |
| (noun) an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect | Synonyms: barb, dig, gibe, jibe, shot, slam |
| (noun) a column of light (as from a beacon) | Synonyms: beam, beam of light, irradiation, light beam, ray, ray of light, shaft of light |
| (verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: cheat, chicane, chouse, jockey, screw |
| (verb) equip with a shaft | - |
| shag | (noun) a lively dance step consisting of hopping on each foot in turn | - |
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| (noun) slang for sexual intercourse | Synonyms: ass, fuck, fucking, nookie, nooky, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, screw, screwing, shtup |
| (noun) a fabric with long coarse nap | - |
| (noun) a matted tangle of hair or fiber | - |
| (noun) a strong coarse tobacco that has been shredded | - |
| (verb) dance the shag | - |
| shagbark | (noun) North American hickory having loose grey shaggy bark and edible nuts | Synonyms: Carya ovata, shagbark hickory, shellbark, shellbark hickory |
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| shagged | (adjective) having a very rough nap or covered with hanging shags | Synonyms: shaggy |
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| shaggily | (adverb) in a shaggy manner | - |
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| shagginess | (noun) roughness of nap produced by long woolly hairs | - |
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| (noun) unkemptness of hair | - |
| shaggy | (adjective) having a very rough nap or covered with hanging shags | Synonyms: shagged |
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| (adjective) used of hair; thick and poorly groomed | Synonyms: bushy, shaggy-coated, shaggy-haired |
| shaggymane | (noun) common edible mushroom having an elongated shaggy white cap and black spores | Synonyms: Coprinus comatus, shaggy cap, shaggymane mushroom |
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| shahadah | (noun) the first pillar of Islam is an affirmation of faith | - |
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| shaheed | (noun) Arabic term for holy martyrs | - |
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| shaitan | (noun) (Islam) a rebellious jinni who leads men astray | Synonyms: shaytan |
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| shakable | (adjective) capable of being weakened | Synonyms: shakeable |
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| shake | (noun) a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement | Synonyms: shiver, tremble |
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| (noun) causing to move repeatedly from side to side | Synonyms: wag, waggle |
| (noun) grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract) | Synonyms: handclasp, handshake, handshaking |
| (noun) a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it | Synonyms: trill |
| (noun) frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream | Synonyms: milk shake, milkshake |
| (noun) building material used as siding or roofing | Synonyms: shingle |
| (verb) move with or as if with a tremor | Synonyms: didder |
| (verb) undermine or cause to waver | - |
| (verb) bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking | - |
| (verb) shake (a body part) to communicate a greeting, feeling, or cognitive state | - |
| (verb) stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of | Synonyms: excite, shake up, stimulate, stir |
| (verb) move or cause to move back and forth | Synonyms: agitate |
| (verb) shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively | Synonyms: judder |
| (verb) move back and forth or sideways | Synonyms: rock, sway |
| (verb) get rid of | Synonyms: escape from, shake off, throw off |
| shakeable | (adjective) capable of being weakened | Synonyms: shakable |
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| shakedown | (adjective) intended to test a new system under operating conditions and to familiarize the operators with the system | - |
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| (noun) extortion of money (as by blackmail) | - |
| (noun) a very thorough search of a person or a place | - |
| (noun) initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state | - |
| shaken | (adjective) disturbed psychologically as if by a physical jolt or shock | Synonyms: jolted |
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| shakeout | (noun) an economic condition that results in the elimination of marginally financed participants in an industry | - |
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| shaker | (noun) a container in which something can be shaken | - |
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| (noun) a person who wields power and influence | Synonyms: mover and shaker |
| shakeup | (noun) the imposition of a new organization; organizing differently (often involving extensive and drastic changes) | Synonyms: reorganisation, reorganization, shake-up |
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| shakily | (adverb) in a manner characterized by trembling or shaking | - |
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| (adverb) in an insecurely shaky manner | - |
| shakiness | (noun) the quality of being unstable and insecure | - |
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| (noun) a shaky motion | Synonyms: palpitation, quiver, quivering, shaking, trembling, vibration |
| shaking | (noun) the act of causing something to move up and down (or back and forth) with quick movements | - |
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| (noun) a shaky motion | Synonyms: palpitation, quiver, quivering, shakiness, trembling, vibration |
| shako | (noun) tall hat; worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions | Synonyms: bearskin, busby |
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| shaky | (adjective) not secure; beset with difficulties | Synonyms: precarious |
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| (adjective) inclined to shake as from weakness or defect | Synonyms: rickety, wobbly, wonky |
| (adjective) vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze | Synonyms: shivering, trembling |
| shale | (noun) a sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive layers of clay | - |
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| shallon | (noun) small evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having edible dark purple grape-sized berries | Synonyms: Gaultheria shallon, salal |
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| shallot | (noun) small mild-flavored onion-like or garlic-like clustered bulbs used for seasoning | - |
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| (noun) type of onion plant producing small clustered mild-flavored bulbs used as seasoning | Synonyms: Allium ascalonicum, Allium cepa aggregatum, eschalot, multiplier onion |
| (noun) aggregate bulb of the multiplier onion | - |
| shallow | (adjective) lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center | - |
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| (adjective) not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply | - |
| (adjective) lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious | - |
| (noun) a stretch of shallow water | Synonyms: shoal |
| (verb) become shallow | Synonyms: shoal |
| (verb) make shallow | Synonyms: shoal |
| shallowly | (adverb) in a shallow manner | - |
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| shallowness | (noun) the quality of lacking physical depth | - |
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| (noun) lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling | Synonyms: superficiality |
| shallu | (noun) sorghum having slender dry stalks and small hard grains; introduced into United States from India | Synonyms: Sorghum vulgare rosburghii |
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| shalwar | (noun) a pair of light loose trousers with a tight fit around the ankles; worn by women from the Indian subcontinent (usually with a kameez) | Synonyms: salwar |
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| sham | (adjective) adopted in order to deceive | Synonyms: assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on |
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| (noun) something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be | Synonyms: fake, postiche |
| (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, shammer |
| (verb) make believe with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: affect, dissemble, feign, pretend |
| (verb) make a pretence of | Synonyms: assume, feign, simulate |
| shaman | (noun) in societies practicing shamanism: one acting as a medium between the visible and spirit worlds; practices sorcery for healing or divination | Synonyms: priest-doctor |
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| shamanise | (verb) practice shamanism | Synonyms: shamanize |
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| shamanism | (noun) an animistic religion of northern Asia having the belief that the mediation between the visible and the spirit worlds is effected by shamans | Synonyms: Asian shamanism |
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| (noun) any animistic religion similar to Asian shamanism (especially as practiced by certain Native American tribes) | - |
| shamanist | (adjective) of or relating to shamanism | Synonyms: shamanistic |
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| shamanistic | (adjective) of or relating to shamanism | Synonyms: shamanist |
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| shamanize | (verb) practice shamanism | Synonyms: shamanise |
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| shamble | (noun) walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet | Synonyms: shambling, shuffle, shuffling |
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| (verb) walk by dragging one's feet | Synonyms: scuffle, shuffle |
| shambles | (noun) a building where animals are butchered | Synonyms: abattoir, butchery, slaughterhouse |
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| (noun) a condition of great disorder | - |
| shambling | (noun) walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet | Synonyms: shamble, shuffle, shuffling |
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| shambolic | (adjective) (British slang) disorderly or chaotic | - |
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| shambolically | (adverb) in a shambolic manner | - |
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| shame | (noun) an unfortunate development | Synonyms: pity |
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| (noun) a painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt | - |
| (noun) a state of dishonor | Synonyms: disgrace, ignominy |
| (verb) surpass or beat by a wide margin | - |
| (verb) cause to be ashamed | - |
| (verb) bring shame or dishonor upon | Synonyms: attaint, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour |
| (verb) compel through a sense of shame | - |
| shamed | (adjective) suffering shame | Synonyms: discredited, disgraced, dishonored |
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| (adjective) showing a sense of guilt | Synonyms: guilty, hangdog, shamefaced |
| shamefaced | (adjective) extremely modest or shy | - |
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| (adjective) showing a sense of shame | Synonyms: sheepish |
| (adjective) showing a sense of guilt | Synonyms: guilty, hangdog, shamed |
| shamefacedly | (adverb) in a shamefaced manner | - |
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| shamefacedness | (noun) feeling embarrassed about yourself | Synonyms: sheepishness |
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| shameful | (adjective) (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame | Synonyms: black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious |
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| (adjective) giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation | Synonyms: disgraceful, scandalous, shocking |
| shamefully | (adverb) in a dishonorable manner or to a dishonorable degree | Synonyms: discreditably, disgracefully, dishonorably, dishonourably, ignominiously, ingloriously |
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| shamefulness | (noun) unworthiness meriting public disgrace and dishonor | Synonyms: disgracefulness, ignominiousness |
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| shameless | (adjective) feeling no shame | Synonyms: unblushing |
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| shamelessly | (adverb) without shame | Synonyms: barefacedly, unashamedly |
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| shamelessness | (noun) behavior marked by a bold defiance of the proprieties and lack of shame | Synonyms: brazenness |
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| shamisen | (noun) a Japanese stringed instrument resembling a banjo with a long neck and three strings and a fretless fingerboard and a rectangular soundbox; played with a plectrum | Synonyms: samisen |
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| shammer | (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham |
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| (noun) someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity | Synonyms: malingerer, skulker |
| shammy | (noun) a soft suede leather formerly from the skin of the chamois antelope but now from sheepskin | Synonyms: chammy, chammy leather, chamois, chamois leather, shammy leather |
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| shampoo | (noun) the act of washing your hair with shampoo | - |
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| (noun) cleansing agent consisting of soaps or detergents used for washing the hair | - |
| (verb) use shampoo on (hair) | - |
| shamrock | (noun) clover native to Ireland with yellowish flowers; often considered the true or original shamrock | Synonyms: hop clover, lesser yellow trefoil, Trifolium dubium |
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| (noun) creeping European clover having white to pink flowers and bright green leaves; naturalized in United States; widely grown for forage | Synonyms: dutch clover, Trifolium repens, white clover |
| (noun) Eurasian plant with heart-shaped trifoliate leaves and white purple-veined flowers | Synonyms: common wood sorrel, cuckoo bread, Oxalis acetosella |
| shamus | (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, sherlock |
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| shandy | (noun) a drink made of beer and lemonade | Synonyms: shandygaff |
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| shandygaff | (noun) a drink made of beer and lemonade | Synonyms: shandy |
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| shanghai | (verb) take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship | Synonyms: impress |
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| shanghaier | (noun) a kidnapper who drugs men and takes them for compulsory service aboard a ship | Synonyms: seizer |
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| shank | (noun) a poor golf stroke in which the heel of the club hits the ball | - |
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| (noun) lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals | Synonyms: cannon |
| (noun) the narrow part of the shoe connecting the heel and the wide part of the sole | Synonyms: waist |
| (noun) cylinder forming the part of a bit by which it is held in the drill | - |
| (noun) cylinder forming the part of a bolt between the thread and the head | - |
| (noun) cylinder forming a long narrow part of something | Synonyms: stem |
| (noun) the part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle | - |
| (noun) a cut of meat (beef or veal or mutton or lamb) from the upper part of the leg | - |
| (verb) hit (a golf ball) with the heel of a club, causing the ball to veer in the wrong direction | - |
| shanny | (noun) European scaleless blenny | Synonyms: Blennius pholis |
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| shantung | (noun) a heavy silk fabric with a rough surface (or a cotton imitation) | - |
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| shanty | (noun) small crude shelter used as a dwelling | Synonyms: hovel, hut, hutch, shack |
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| (noun) a rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors | Synonyms: chantey, chanty, sea chantey |
| shantytown | (noun) a city district inhabited by people living in huts and shanties | - |
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| shape | (noun) the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance | Synonyms: form |
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| (noun) any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline) | Synonyms: configuration, conformation, contour, form |
| (noun) the visual appearance of something or someone | Synonyms: cast, form |
| (noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: anatomy, bod, build, chassis, figure, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, soma |
| (noun) a perceptual structure | Synonyms: form, pattern |
| (noun) a concrete representation of an otherwise nebulous concept | Synonyms: embodiment |
| (noun) the state of (good) health (especially in the phrases `in condition' or `in shape' or `out of condition' or `out of shape') | Synonyms: condition |
| (verb) give shape or form to | Synonyms: form |
| (verb) shape or influence; give direction to | Synonyms: determine, influence, mold, mould, regulate |
| (verb) make something, usually for a specific function | Synonyms: forge, form, mold, mould, work |