| shirking | (noun) the evasion of work or duty | Synonyms: goldbricking, goofing off, slacking, soldiering |
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| shirr | (verb) bake (eggs) in their shells until they are set | - |
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| shirring | (noun) baking shelled eggs | - |
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| shirt | (noun) a garment worn on the upper half of the body | - |
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| (verb) put a shirt on | - |
| shirtdress | (noun) a dress that is tailored like a shirt and has buttons all the way down the front | - |
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| shirtfront | (noun) a man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the front of a shirt | Synonyms: dickey, dickie, dicky |
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| (noun) the front of a shirt (usually the part not covered by a jacket) | - |
| shirting | (noun) any of various fabrics used to make men's shirts | - |
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| shirtlifter | (noun) a homosexual man | Synonyms: gay man |
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| shirtmaker | (noun) a maker of shirts | - |
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| shirtsleeve | (noun) the sleeve of a shirt | - |
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| shirtsleeves | (noun) not wearing a jacket | - |
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| shirttail | (noun) fabric forming the tail of a shirt | - |
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| (noun) a brief addendum at the end of a newspaper article | - |
| shirtwaist | (noun) a blouse with buttons down the front | Synonyms: shirtwaister |
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| shirtwaister | (noun) a blouse with buttons down the front | Synonyms: shirtwaist |
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| shirty | (adjective) (British informal) ill-tempered or annoyed | Synonyms: snorty |
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| shisha | (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, sheesha, water pipe |
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| shit | (noun) something of little value | Synonyms: damn, darn, hoot, red cent, shucks, tinker's dam, tinker's damn |
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| (noun) Obscene word for unacceptable behavior | Synonyms: bull, bullshit, crap, dogshit, horseshit, Irish bull |
| (noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: asshole, bastard, cocksucker, dickhead, mother fucker, motherfucker, prick, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson |
| (noun) a coarse term for defecation | Synonyms: dump |
| (noun) a small worthless amount | Synonyms: diddley, diddly-shit, diddly-squat, diddly, diddlyshit, diddlysquat, doodly-squat, jack, squat |
| (noun) obscene terms for feces | Synonyms: crap, dirt, poop, shite, turd |
| (verb) have a bowel movement | Synonyms: ca-ca, crap, defecate, make, stool, take a crap, take a shit |
| (verb) give away information about somebody | Synonyms: betray, denounce, give away, grass, rat, shop, snitch, stag, tell on |
| shite | (noun) obscene terms for feces | Synonyms: crap, dirt, poop, shit, turd |
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| shithead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull |
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| shitless | (adjective) (used as complement) to the utmost degree | Synonyms: witless |
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| shitlist | (noun) a list of people who are out of favor | Synonyms: black book, blacklist |
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| shitpost | (noun) A poor quality and controversial Internet post | - |
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| shitstorm | (noun) A considerable backlash or controversy | - |
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| shittah | (noun) source of a wood mentioned frequently in the Bible; probably a species of genus Acacia | Synonyms: shittah tree |
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| shitter | (noun) a person who defecates | Synonyms: defecator, voider |
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| shittim | (noun) shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit | Synonyms: Bumelia lycioides, mock orange, shittimwood, southern buckthorn |
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| shittimwood | (noun) wood of the shittah tree used to make the ark of the Hebrew Tabernacle | - |
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| (noun) deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa, chittamwood, chittimwood, false buckthorn |
| (noun) shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit | Synonyms: Bumelia lycioides, mock orange, shittim, southern buckthorn |
| shittiness | (noun) (vulgar, colloquial) The state or condition of being very bad; unpleasant; miserable; insignificant. | - |
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| shitting | (noun) the elimination of fecal waste through the anus | Synonyms: defecation, laxation |
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| shitty | (adjective) very bad | Synonyms: crappy, icky, lousy, rotten, stinking, stinky |
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| shitwork | (noun) trivial, unrewarding, tedious, dirty, and disagreeable chores | Synonyms: scut work |
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| shiv | (noun) a knife used as a weapon | - |
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| shiva | (noun) (Judaism) a period of seven days of mourning after the death of close relative | Synonyms: shibah, shivah |
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| shivah | (noun) (Judaism) a period of seven days of mourning after the death of close relative | Synonyms: shibah, shiva |
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| shivaree | (noun) a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple | Synonyms: belling, callathump, callithump, charivari, chivaree |
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| shiver | (noun) a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement | Synonyms: shake, tremble |
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| (noun) an almost pleasurable sensation of fright | Synonyms: chill, frisson, quiver, shudder, thrill, tingle |
| (verb) shake, as from cold | Synonyms: shudder |
| (verb) tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement | Synonyms: shudder, thrill, throb |
| shivering | (adjective) vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze | Synonyms: shaky, trembling |
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| (noun) a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever | Synonyms: chill |
| shivery | (adjective) provoking fear or terror | Synonyms: chilling, scary, shuddery |
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| (adjective) cold enough to cause shivers | - |
| shlemiel | (noun) (Yiddish) a dolt who is a habitual bungler | Synonyms: schlemiel |
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| shlep | (noun) a tedious or difficult journey | Synonyms: schlep |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) an awkward and stupid person | Synonyms: schlep, schlepper, shlepper |
| (verb) pull along heavily, like a heavy load against a resistance | Synonyms: pull along, schlep |
| (verb) walk or tramp about | Synonyms: traipse |
| shlepper | (noun) (Yiddish) an awkward and stupid person | Synonyms: schlep, schlepper, shlep |
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| shlimazel | (noun) (Yiddish) a very unlucky or inept person who fails at everything | Synonyms: schlimazel |
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| shlock | (noun) merchandise that is shoddy or inferior | Synonyms: dreck, schlock |
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| shlockmeister | (noun) (slang) a merchant who deals in shoddy or inferior merchandise | Synonyms: schlockmeister |
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| shmaltz | (noun) (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music | Synonyms: schmaltz, schmalz |
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| shmear | (noun) (Yiddish) a batch of things that go together | Synonyms: schmear, schmeer |
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| shmegegge | (noun) (Yiddish) baloney; hot air; nonsense | Synonyms: schmegegge |
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| shmo | (noun) (Yiddish) a jerk | Synonyms: schmo, schmuck, shmuck |
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| shmoose | (verb) talk idly or casually and in a friendly way | Synonyms: jawbone, schmoose, schmooze, shmooze |
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| shmooze | (noun) (Yiddish) a warm heart-to-heart talk | - |
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| (verb) talk idly or casually and in a friendly way | Synonyms: jawbone, schmoose, schmooze, shmoose |
| shmuck | (noun) (Yiddish) a jerk | Synonyms: schmo, schmuck, shmo |
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| shnook | (noun) (Yiddish) a gullible simpleton more to be pitied than despised | Synonyms: schnook |
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| shnorr | (verb) obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling | Synonyms: cadge, schnorr, scrounge |
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| shnorrer | (noun) (Yiddish) a scrounger who takes advantage of the generosity of others | Synonyms: schnorrer |
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| shoal | (noun) a large group of fish | Synonyms: school |
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| (noun) a stretch of shallow water | Synonyms: shallow |
| (noun) a sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide | - |
| (verb) become shallow | Synonyms: shallow |
| (verb) make shallow | Synonyms: shallow |
| shoaly | (adjective) full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals | Synonyms: reefy, shelfy, shelvy |
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| shoat | (noun) a young pig | Synonyms: piggy, piglet, shote |
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| shock | (noun) a reflex response to the passage of electric current through the body | Synonyms: electric shock, electrical shock |
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| (noun) the violent interaction of individuals or groups entering into combat | Synonyms: impact |
| (noun) a mechanical damper; absorbs energy of sudden impulses | Synonyms: cushion, shock absorber |
| (noun) an instance of agitation of the earth's crust | Synonyms: seismic disturbance |
| (noun) an unpleasant or disappointing surprise | Synonyms: blow |
| (noun) a sudden jarring impact | Synonyms: jar, jolt, jounce |
| (noun) the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally | Synonyms: daze, stupor |
| (noun) a pile of sheaves of grain set on end in a field to dry; stalks of Indian corn set up in a field | - |
| (noun) a bushy thick mass (especially hair) | - |
| (noun) (pathology) bodily collapse or near collapse caused by inadequate oxygen delivery to the cells; characterized by reduced cardiac output and rapid heartbeat and circulatory insufficiency and pallor | - |
| (verb) inflict a trauma upon | Synonyms: traumatise, traumatize |
| (verb) subject to electrical shocks | - |
| (verb) collect or gather into shocks | - |
| (verb) collide violently | - |
| (verb) strike with horror or terror | - |
| (verb) surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off | Synonyms: ball over, blow out of the water, floor, take aback |
| (verb) strike with disgust or revulsion | Synonyms: appal, appall, offend, outrage, scandalise, scandalize |
| shockable | (adjective) capable of being shocked | Synonyms: narrow-minded |
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| shocked | (adjective) struck with fear, dread, or consternation | Synonyms: aghast, appalled, dismayed |
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| shocker | (noun) a sensational message (in a film or play or novel) | - |
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| (noun) a shockingly bad person | - |
| shocking | (adjective) giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation | Synonyms: disgraceful, scandalous, shameful |
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| (adjective) glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism | Synonyms: lurid |
| shockingly | (adverb) to a shocking degree | - |
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| (adverb) so as to shock the feelings | - |
| (adverb) very badly | - |
| shod | (adjective) wearing footgear | Synonyms: shodden, shoed |
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| (adjective) used of certain religious orders who wear shoes | Synonyms: calced |
| shodden | (adjective) wearing footgear | Synonyms: shod, shoed |
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| shoddily | (adverb) in a shoddy manner | - |
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| shoddiness | (noun) the property of weakness by virtue of careless construction | Synonyms: flimsiness |
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| (noun) the quality of being cheaply imitative of something better | Synonyms: trashiness |
| shoddy | (adjective) unethical or dishonest | Synonyms: dirty, sordid |
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| (adjective) made of inferior workmanship and materials | Synonyms: cheapjack, tawdry |
| (noun) reclaimed wool fiber | - |
| shoe | (noun) footwear shaped to fit the foot (below the ankle) with a flexible upper of leather or plastic and a sole and heel of heavier material | - |
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| (noun) U-shaped plate nailed to underside of horse's hoof | Synonyms: horseshoe |
| (noun) a restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation | Synonyms: brake shoe, skid |
| (noun) (card games) a case from which playing cards are dealt one at a time | - |
| (verb) furnish with shoes | - |
| shoebill | (noun) large stork-like bird of the valley of the White Nile with a broad bill suggesting a wooden shoe | Synonyms: Balaeniceps rex, shoebird |
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| shoebird | (noun) large stork-like bird of the valley of the White Nile with a broad bill suggesting a wooden shoe | Synonyms: Balaeniceps rex, shoebill |
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| shoeblack | (noun) a person who polishes shoes and boots | Synonyms: bootblack |
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| shoebox | (noun) an oblong rectangular (usually cardboard) box designed to hold a pair of shoes | - |
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| (noun) a structure resembling a shoebox (as a rectangular building or a cramped room or compartment) | - |
| shoed | (adjective) wearing footgear | Synonyms: shod, shodden |
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| shoeful | (noun) the amount that a shoe will hold | - |
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| shoegazing | (noun) A subgenre of alternative rock typified by significant use of guitar distortion, feedback, obscured vocals and the blurring of component musical parts into indistinguishable "walls of sound" | - |
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| shoehorn | (noun) a device used for easing the foot into a shoe | - |
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| (verb) fit for a specific purpose even when not well suited | - |
| shoelace | (noun) a lace used for fastening shoes | Synonyms: shoe lace, shoe string, shoestring |
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| shoeless | (adjective) without shoes | Synonyms: barefoot, barefooted |
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| shoemaker | (noun) a person who makes or repairs shoes | Synonyms: cobbler |
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| shoemaking | (noun) the shoemaker's trade | Synonyms: cobbling, shoe repairing |
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| shoes | (noun) a particular situation | Synonyms: place |
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| shoeshine | (noun) the act of shining shoes | - |
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| (noun) a shiny finish put on shoes with polish and buffing | - |
| shoestring | (noun) a lace used for fastening shoes | Synonyms: shoe lace, shoe string, shoelace |
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| (noun) a small amount of money | Synonyms: shoe string |
| shoetree | (noun) a wooden or metal device that is inserted into a shoe to preserve its shape when it is not being worn | - |
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| (verb) stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree | Synonyms: tree |
| shofar | (noun) an ancient musical horn made from the horn of a ram; used in ancient times by the Israelites to sound a warning or a summons; used in synagogues today on solemn occasions | Synonyms: shophar |
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| shogi | (noun) a form of chess played on a board of 81 squares; each player has 20 pieces | - |
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| shogun | (noun) a hereditary military dictator of Japan; the shoguns ruled Japan until the revolution of 1867-68 | - |
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| shogunate | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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| shoji | (noun) a translucent screen made of a wooden frame covered with rice paper | - |
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| shoo | (verb) drive away by crying `shoo!' | Synonyms: shoo away, shoo off |
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| shoofly | (noun) a child's rocking chair with the seat built between two flat sides that are shaped to resemble an animal (such as a swan or duck) | - |
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| (noun) an undercover police officer who investigates other policemen | - |
| shook | (noun) a disassembled barrel; the parts packed for storage or shipment | - |
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| shoot | (noun) the act of shooting at targets | - |
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| (noun) a new branch | - |
| (verb) give an injection to | Synonyms: inject |
| (verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, sprout, spud |
| (verb) measure the altitude of by using a sextant | - |
| (verb) record on photographic film | Synonyms: photograph, snap |
| (verb) make a film or photograph of something | Synonyms: film, take |
| (verb) utter fast and forcefully | - |
| (verb) fire a shot; release | Synonyms: blast |
| (verb) hit with a missile from a weapon | Synonyms: hit, pip |
| (verb) score | - |
| (verb) spend frivolously and unwisely | Synonyms: dissipate, fool, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away |
| (verb) force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing | Synonyms: inject |
| (verb) throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective | - |
| (verb) throw dice, as in a crap game | - |
| (verb) variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors | - |
| (verb) run or move very quickly or hastily | Synonyms: dart, dash, flash, scoot, scud |
| (verb) move quickly and violently | Synonyms: buck, charge, shoot down, tear |
| (verb) send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly | - |
| (verb) cause a sharp and sudden pain in | - |
| (verb) kill by firing a missile | Synonyms: pip |
| (verb) emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully | - |
| shooter | (noun) a large marble used for shooting in the game of marbles | Synonyms: taw |
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| (noun) a person who shoots (usually with respect to their ability to shoot) | Synonyms: shot |
| (noun) a professional killer who uses a gun | Synonyms: gun, gun for hire, gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, hit man, hitman, torpedo, triggerman |
| (noun) (sports) a player who drives or kicks a ball at the goal (or a basketball player who shoots at the basket) | - |
| (noun) a gambler who throws dice in the game of craps | Synonyms: crap-shooter |
| shooting | (noun) the act of firing a projectile | Synonyms: shot |
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| (noun) killing someone by gunfire | - |
| shootout | (noun) a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten | Synonyms: gunfight, gunplay |
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| shop | (noun) a course of instruction in a trade (as carpentry or electricity) | Synonyms: shop class |
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| (noun) a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services | Synonyms: store |
| (noun) small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done | Synonyms: workshop |
| (verb) give away information about somebody | Synonyms: betray, denounce, give away, grass, rat, shit, snitch, stag, tell on |
| (verb) do one's shopping | - |
| (verb) shop around; not necessarily buying | Synonyms: browse |
| (verb) do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of | Synonyms: buy at, frequent, patronise, patronize, shop at, sponsor |
| shopaholic | (noun) a compulsive shopper | - |
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| shopfront | (noun) the front side of a store facing the street; usually contains display windows | Synonyms: storefront |
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