| shaped | (adjective) having the shape of | - |
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| (adjective) shaped to fit by or as if by altering the contours of a pliable mass (as by work or effort) | Synonyms: molded, wrought |
| shapeless | (adjective) having no definite form or distinct shape | Synonyms: amorphous, formless |
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| (adjective) lacking symmetry or attractive form | - |
| shapelessly | (adverb) in a shapeless manner | - |
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| shapelessness | (noun) the quality of lacking an esthetically pleasing shape | - |
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| (noun) an amorphous or indefinite shape | - |
| shapeliness | (noun) the quality of having a well-rounded body | Synonyms: curvaceousness, voluptuousness |
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| shapely | (adjective) having a well-proportioned and pleasing shape | - |
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| shaper | (noun) a machine tool for shaping metal or wood | Synonyms: shaping machine |
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| (noun) a person who makes things | Synonyms: maker |
| shaping | (adjective) forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning | Synonyms: formative, plastic |
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| (noun) the act of fabricating something in a particular shape | Synonyms: formation |
| (noun) any process serving to define the shape of something | Synonyms: defining |
| shard | (noun) a broken piece of a brittle artifact | Synonyms: fragment, sherd |
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| share | (noun) the allotment of some amount by dividing something | Synonyms: parcel, portion |
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| (noun) the effort contributed by a person in bringing about a result | Synonyms: contribution, part |
| (noun) a sharp steel wedge that cuts loose the top layer of soil | Synonyms: ploughshare, plowshare |
| (noun) assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group | Synonyms: part, percentage, portion |
| (noun) any of the equal portions into which the capital stock of a corporation is divided and ownership of which is evidenced by a stock certificate | - |
| (verb) communicate | - |
| (verb) give out as one's portion or share | Synonyms: apportion, deal, divvy up, portion out |
| (verb) have, give, or receive a share of | Synonyms: partake, partake in |
| (verb) use jointly or in common | - |
| (verb) have in common | - |
| sharecropper | (noun) small farmers and tenants | Synonyms: cropper, sharecrop farmer |
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| shared | (adjective) have in common; held or experienced in common | - |
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| (adjective) distributed in portions (often equal) on the basis of a plan or purpose | Synonyms: divided, divided up, shared out |
| shareholder | (noun) someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation | Synonyms: shareowner, stockholder |
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| shareholding | (noun) a holding in the form of shares of corporations | - |
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| shareowner | (noun) someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation | Synonyms: shareholder, stockholder |
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| sharer | (noun) someone who has or gives or receives a part or a share | Synonyms: partaker |
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| shareware | (noun) software that is available free of charge; may be distributed for evaluation with a fee requested for additional features or a manual etc. | - |
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| sharia | (noun) the code of law derived from the Koran and from the teachings and example of Mohammed | Synonyms: Islamic law, sharia law, shariah, shariah law |
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| shariah | (noun) the code of law derived from the Koran and from the teachings and example of Mohammed | Synonyms: Islamic law, sharia, sharia law, shariah law |
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| sharing | (adjective) unselfishly willing to share with others | - |
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| (noun) a distribution in shares | Synonyms: share-out |
| (noun) sharing thoughts and feelings | Synonyms: communion |
| (noun) having in common | - |
| (noun) using or enjoying something jointly with others | - |
| shark | (noun) any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales | - |
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| (noun) a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways | - |
| (noun) a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest | - |
| (verb) hunt shark | - |
| (verb) play the shark; act with trickery | - |
| sharkskin | (noun) a smooth crisp fabric | - |
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| sharksucker | (noun) remoras found attached to sharks | Synonyms: Echeneis naucrates |
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| sharp | (adjective) having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing | - |
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| (adjective) (of a musical note) raised in pitch by one chromatic semitone | - |
| (adjective) keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point | - |
| (adjective) (of something seen or heard) clearly defined | Synonyms: crisp |
| (adjective) quick and forceful | - |
| (adjective) having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones | Synonyms: shrill |
| (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing |
| (adjective) ending in a sharp point | Synonyms: acuate, acute, needlelike |
| (adjective) marked by practical hardheaded intelligence | Synonyms: astute, shrewd |
| (adjective) dangerously steep | Synonyms: abrupt, precipitous |
| (adjective) very sudden and in great amount or degree | - |
| (adjective) harsh | Synonyms: sharp-worded, tart |
| (noun) a long thin sewing needle with a sharp point | - |
| (noun) a musical notation indicating one half step higher than the note named | - |
| (adverb) changing suddenly in direction and degree | Synonyms: acutely, sharply |
| sharpen | (verb) become sharp or sharper | - |
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| (verb) make crisp or more crisp and precise | - |
| (verb) raise the pitch of (musical notes) | - |
| (verb) put (an image) into focus | Synonyms: focalise, focalize, focus |
| (verb) make (one's senses) more acute | Synonyms: heighten |
| (verb) give a point to | Synonyms: point, taper |
| (verb) make sharp or sharper | - |
| (verb) make (images or sounds) sharp or sharper | - |
| sharpened | (adjective) having the point made sharp | - |
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| (adjective) made sharp or sharper | - |
| sharpener | (noun) any implement that is used to make something (an edge or a point) sharper | - |
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| sharper | (noun) a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games | Synonyms: card shark, card sharp, card sharper, cardsharp, cardsharper, sharpie, sharpy |
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| sharpie | (noun) a shallow-draft sailboat with a sharp prow, flat bottom, and triangular sail; formerly used along the northern Atlantic coast of the United States | - |
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| (noun) a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games | Synonyms: card shark, card sharp, card sharper, cardsharp, cardsharper, sharper, sharpy |
| (noun) an alert and energetic person | Synonyms: busy bee, eager beaver, live wire, sharpy |
| sharply | (adverb) in an aggressive manner | Synonyms: aggressively |
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| (adverb) in a well delineated manner | Synonyms: crisply |
| (adverb) changing suddenly in direction and degree | Synonyms: acutely, sharp |
| (adverb) very suddenly and to a great degree | Synonyms: precipitously |
| sharpness | (noun) harshness of manner | Synonyms: asperity |
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| (noun) thinness of edge or fineness of point | Synonyms: keenness |
| (noun) a strong odor or taste property | Synonyms: bite, pungency, raciness |
| (noun) the quality of being sharp and clear | Synonyms: distinctness |
| (noun) the attribute of urgency in tone of voice | Synonyms: edge |
| (noun) the quality of being keenly and painfully felt | - |
| (noun) a quick and penetrating intelligence | Synonyms: acuity, acuteness, keenness |
| sharpshoot | (verb) aim and shoot with great precision | Synonyms: snipe |
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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 | - |
| sharpy | (noun) a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games | Synonyms: card shark, card sharp, card sharper, cardsharp, cardsharper, sharper, sharpie |
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| (noun) an alert and energetic person | Synonyms: busy bee, eager beaver, live wire, sharpie |
| shart | (verb) to intend to release flatulence but actually defecate | - |
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| shatter | (verb) break into many pieces | - |
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| (verb) cause to break into many pieces | - |
| (verb) damage or destroy | - |
| shattered | (adjective) ruined or disrupted | Synonyms: tattered |
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| shattering | (adjective) seemingly loud enough to break something; violently rattling or clattering | - |
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| (noun) the act of breaking something into small pieces | Synonyms: smashing |
| shatterproof | (adjective) resistant to shattering or splintering | Synonyms: splinterless, splinterproof |
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| shave | (noun) the act of removing hair with a razor | Synonyms: shaving |
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| (verb) remove body hair with a razor | - |
| (verb) touch the surface of lightly | - |
| (verb) cut closely | Synonyms: trim |
| (verb) cut or remove with or as if with a plane | Synonyms: plane |
| (verb) make shavings of or reduce to shavings | - |
| (verb) cut the price of | Synonyms: knock off |
| shaved | (adjective) having the beard or hair cut off close to the skin | Synonyms: shaven |
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| shaven | (adjective) having the beard or hair cut off close to the skin | Synonyms: shaved |
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| shaver | (noun) a razor powered by an electric motor | Synonyms: electric razor, electric shaver |
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| (noun) a young person of either sex | Synonyms: child, fry, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster |
| (noun) an adult male who shaves | - |
| shaving | (noun) the act of removing hair with a razor | Synonyms: shave |
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| (noun) the act of brushing against while passing | Synonyms: grazing, skimming |
| (noun) a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something | Synonyms: paring, sliver |
| shawl | (noun) cloak consisting of an oblong piece of cloth used to cover the head and shoulders | - |
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| shawm | (noun) a medieval oboe | - |
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| 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 | - |
| (verb) become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain | - |
| (verb) cut with shears | - |
| (verb) cut or cut through with shears | - |
| (verb) shear the wool from | Synonyms: fleece |
| sheared | (adjective) having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers | Synonyms: shorn |
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| (adjective) (used especially of fur or wool) shaped or finished by cutting or trimming to a uniform length | - |
| 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 |
| sheathe | (verb) enclose with a sheath | - |
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| (verb) cover with a protective sheathing | - |
| (verb) plunge or bury (a knife or sword) in flesh | - |
| sheathed | (adjective) enclosed in a protective covering; sometimes used in combination | - |
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| 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 | (adjective) shed at an early stage of development | Synonyms: caducous |
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| (noun) an outbuilding with a single story; used for shelter or storage | - |
| (verb) cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers | Synonyms: exuviate, molt, moult, slough |
| (verb) cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over | Synonyms: disgorge, spill |
| (verb) to remove | Synonyms: cast, cast off, drop, shake off, throw, throw away, throw off |
| (verb) pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities | Synonyms: pour forth, spill |
| 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 | (adjective) reflecting light | Synonyms: glistening, glossy, lustrous, shining, shiny |
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| (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Jew | Synonyms: hymie, kike, yid |
| 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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| sheepish | (adjective) showing a sense of shame | Synonyms: shamefaced |
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| (adjective) like or suggestive of a sheep in docility or stupidity or meekness or timidity | Synonyms: sheeplike |
| sheepishly | (adverb) in a sheepish manner | - |
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| sheepishness | (noun) feeling embarrassed about yourself | Synonyms: shamefacedness |
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| sheeplike | (adjective) like or suggestive of a sheep in docility or stupidity or meekness or timidity | Synonyms: sheepish |
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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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| sheer | (adjective) complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: absolute, downright, out-and-out, rank, right-down |
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| (adjective) not mixed with extraneous elements | Synonyms: plain, unmingled, unmixed |
| (adjective) very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front | Synonyms: bluff, bold |
| (adjective) so thin as to transmit light | Synonyms: cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, transparent, vaporous, vapourous |
| (adverb) completely | - |
| (adverb) straight up or down without a break | Synonyms: perpendicularly |
| (verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: curve, cut, slew, slue, swerve, trend, veer |
| (verb) cause to sheer | - |
| 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 |
| (verb) cover with a sheet, as if by wrapping | - |
| (verb) come down as if in sheets | - |
| sheeting | (noun) fabric from which bed sheets are made | - |
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| sheetlike | (adjective) resembling a sheet | - |
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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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