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6-letter words containing n, s, h

  • shindy — a row; rumpus.
  • shiner — a person or thing that shines.
  • shinju — (formerly, in Japan) a ritual double suicide of lovers
  • shinny — a simple variety of hockey, played with a ball, block of wood, or the like, and clubs curved at one end.
  • shinto — Also, Shintoism. the native religion of Japan, primarily a system of nature and ancestor worship.
  • shinty — a simple form of hockey of Scottish origin played with a ball and sticks curved at the lower end
  • shlong — the penis.
  • shnaps — schnapps.
  • shnook — schnook.
  • shogun — the title applied to the chief military commanders from about the 8th century a.d. to the end of the 12th century, then applied to the hereditary officials who governed Japan, with the emperor as nominal ruler, until 1868, when the shogunate was terminated and the ruling power was returned to the emperor.
  • shonky — of dubious integrity or legality
  • shoran — a system for aircraft navigation in which two signals sent from an aircraft are received and answered by two fixed transponders, the round-trip times of the signals enabling the navigator to determine the aircraft's position.
  • shrank — a simple past tense of shrink.
  • shrine — a building or other shelter, often of a stately or sumptuous character, enclosing the remains or relics of a saint or other holy person and forming an object of religious veneration and pilgrimage.
  • shrink — to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance: to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.
  • shrunk — a past participle and simple past tense of shrink.
  • shumen — a city in NE Bulgaria.
  • shunto — the annual sessions of collective bargaining for wage increases sought by Japanese labor unions each spring.
  • shutin — closed; fastened up: a shut door.
  • shying — bashful; retiring.
  • sindhi — an inhabitant of Sind.
  • siphon — a tube or conduit bent into legs of unequal length, for use in drawing a liquid from one container into another on a lower level by placing the shorter leg into the container above and the longer leg into the one below, the liquid being forced up the shorter leg and into the longer one by the pressure of the atmosphere.
  • snatch — to make a sudden effort to seize something, as with the hand; grab (usually followed by at).
  • snathe — the shaft or handle of a scythe.
  • sneesh — snuff1 (def 9).
  • snitch — to snatch or steal; pilfer.
  • sphene — a mineral, calcium titanium silicate, CaTiSiO 5 , occurring as an accessory mineral in a variety of crystalline rocks, usually in small wedge-shaped crystals.
  • sphinx — a figure of an imaginary creature having the head of a man or an animal and the body of a lion. (usually initial capital letter) the colossal recumbent stone figure of this kind near the pyramids of Giza.
  • sphynx — a breed of medium-sized hairless cat with large ears and a long whiplike tail
  • stanch — to stop the flow of (a liquid, especially blood).
  • stench — an offensive smell or odor; stink.
  • stheno — one of the three Gorgons
  • sunhat — a hat that shades the face and neck from the sun
  • sunnah — the traditional portion of Muslim law, based on the words and acts of Muhammad, and preserved in the traditional literature.
  • syphon — a tube or conduit bent into legs of unequal length, for use in drawing a liquid from one container into another on a lower level by placing the shorter leg into the container above and the longer leg into the one below, the liquid being forced up the shorter leg and into the longer one by the pressure of the atmosphere.
  • thanks — to express gratitude, appreciation, or acknowledgment to: She thanked them for their hospitality.
  • things — (in Scandinavian countries) a public meeting or assembly, especially a legislative assembly or a court of law.
  • tonish — high fashion; stylishness.
  • unhasp — to loosen the hasp of.
  • unhusk — to free from or as if from a husk.
  • unlash — to loosen, unfasten, or detach, as something lashed or tied fast.
  • unmesh — any knit, woven, or knotted fabric of open texture.
  • unshed — not spilled or caused to flow
  • unship — to put or take off from a ship, as persons or goods.
  • unshod — not having shoes
  • unshoe — to remove the shoes from
  • unshot — not shot out or fired
  • unshut — open
  • unwish — to cease to wish for.
  • ushant — an island off the NW coast of France: naval battles 1778, 1794. 4½ miles (7 km) long.
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