| shore | (noun) a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support | Synonyms: shoring |
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| (noun) the land along the edge of a body of water | - |
| (verb) support by placing against something solid or rigid | Synonyms: prop, prop up, shore up |
| (verb) arrive on shore | Synonyms: land, set ashore |
| (verb) serve as a shore to | - |
| shorebird | (noun) any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries | Synonyms: limicoline bird, shore bird |
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| shoreline | (noun) a boundary line between land and water | - |
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| shoreward | (adjective) (of winds) coming from the sea toward the land | Synonyms: inshore, onshore |
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| shoring | (noun) the act of propping up with shores | Synonyms: propping up, shoring up |
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| (noun) a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support | Synonyms: shore |
| shorn | (adjective) having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers | Synonyms: sheared |
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| short | (adjective) (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range | Synonyms: forgetful, unretentive |
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| (adjective) (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length | - |
| (adjective) primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration | - |
| (adjective) low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal | Synonyms: little |
| (adjective) of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration | - |
| (adjective) not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices | - |
| (adjective) tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening | - |
| (adjective) marked by rude or peremptory shortness | Synonyms: brusk, brusque, curt |
| (adjective) lacking foresight or scope | Synonyms: myopic, shortsighted, unforesightful |
| (adjective) of insufficient quantity to meet a need | Synonyms: inadequate, jejune, poor |
| (adjective) less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so | Synonyms: light, scant |
| (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 |
| (adverb) in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner | Synonyms: curtly, shortly |
| (adverb) at a disadvantage | Synonyms: unawares |
| (adverb) so as to interrupt | - |
| (adverb) at some point or distance before a goal is reached | - |
| (adverb) clean across | - |
| (adverb) without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold | - |
| (adverb) quickly and without warning; happening unexpectedly; on impulse; without premeditation | Synonyms: abruptly, all of a sudden, dead, of a sudden, on the spur of the moment, suddenly |
| (verb) create a short circuit in | Synonyms: short-circuit |
| (verb) cheat someone by not returning him enough money | Synonyms: short-change |
| shortage | (noun) the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required | Synonyms: deficit, shortfall |
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| (noun) an acute insufficiency | Synonyms: dearth, famine |
| shortbread | (noun) very rich thick butter cookie | Synonyms: shortbread cookie |
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| shortcake | (noun) very short biscuit dough baked as individual biscuits or a round loaf; served with sweetened fruit and usually whipped cream | - |
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| shortcoming | (noun) a failing or deficiency | Synonyms: defect |
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| shortcut | (noun) a route shorter than the usual one | Synonyms: crosscut, cutoff |
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| shorten | (verb) become short or shorter | - |
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| (verb) make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration | - |
| (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce |
| (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerise, bowdlerize, castrate, expurgate |
| (verb) make short or shorter | - |
| shortened | (adjective) with parts removed | Synonyms: cut |
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| (adjective) cut short in duration | Synonyms: abbreviated, truncated |
| (adjective) shortened | Synonyms: sawed-off, sawn-off |
| (adjective) shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another | Synonyms: telescoped |
| shortener | (noun) any agent that shortens | - |
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| shortening | (noun) act of decreasing in length | - |
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| (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 |
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| 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 |
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| shorthand | (adjective) written in abbreviated or symbolic form | - |
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| (noun) a method of writing rapidly using an abbreviated symbolic system | Synonyms: stenography, tachygraphy |
| shorthorn | (noun) English breed of short-horned cattle | Synonyms: Durham |
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| shortia | (noun) any plant of the genus Shortia; evergreen perennial herbs with smooth leathery basal leaves and showy white solitary flowers | - |
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| shortish | (adjective) somewhat short | - |
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| 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 |
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| (verb) put someone or something on a short list | - |
| shortly | (adverb) in the near future | Synonyms: before long, presently, soon |
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| (adverb) for a short time | - |
| (adverb) in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner | Synonyms: curtly, short |
| (adverb) at a short distance | - |
| (adverb) in a concise manner; in a few words | Synonyms: briefly, concisely, in brief, in short |
| shortness | (noun) an abrupt discourteous manner | Synonyms: abruptness, brusqueness, curtness, gruffness |
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| (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 |
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| (noun) underpants worn by men | Synonyms: boxers, boxershorts, drawers, underdrawers |
| shortsighted | (adjective) unable to see distant objects clearly | Synonyms: myopic, nearsighted |
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| (adjective) lacking foresight or scope | Synonyms: myopic, short, unforesightful |
| (adjective) not given careful consideration | Synonyms: ill-considered, ill-judged, improvident |
| shortsightedness | (noun) a lack of prudence and care by someone in the management of resources | Synonyms: improvidence |
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| (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 |
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| (noun) (baseball) the person who plays the shortstop position | - |