5-letter words starting with s
- shard — a fragment, especially of broken earthenware.
- share — a plowshare.
- shari — Also, Chari. a river in N central Africa, flowing NW from the Central African Republic into Lake Chad. 1400 miles (2254 km) long.
- shark — a person who preys greedily on others, as by cheating or usury.
- sharp — having a thin cutting edge or a fine point; well-adapted for cutting or piercing: a sharp knife.
- shaul — a wooden scoop made for winnowing corn
- shaun — a male given name, form of John.
- shave — to remove a growth of beard with a razor.
- shawl — a square, triangular, or oblong piece of wool or other material worn, especially by women, about the shoulders, or the head and shoulders, in place of a coat or hat outdoors, and indoors as protection against chill or dampness.
- shawm — an early musical woodwind instrument with a double reed: the forerunner of the modern oboe.
- shawn — Ted (Edwin M) 1891–1972, U.S. dancer and choreographer (husband of Ruth St. Denis).
- shaya — a low-growing Indian plant from which is derived a colourfast red fabric dye
- shays — a chaise.
- shchi — a Russian cabbage soup
- she'd — She'd is the usual spoken form of 'she had', especially when 'had' is an auxiliary verb.
- she's — a female person or animal.
- sheaf — one of the bundles in which cereal plants, as wheat, rye, etc., are bound after reaping.
- sheal — a shell or pod
- shear — to cut (something).
- sheba — Queen of, the queen who visited Solomon to test his wisdom. I Kings 10:1–13.
- sheen — Fulton (John) 1895–1979, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman, writer, and teacher.
- sheep — any of numerous ruminant mammals of the genus Ovis, of the family Bovidae, closely related to the goats, especially O. aries, bred in a number of domesticated varieties.
- sheer — transparently thin; diaphanous, as some fabrics: sheer stockings.
- shees — sídh.
- sheet — Nautical. a rope or chain for extending the clews of a square sail along a yard. a rope for trimming a fore-and-aft sail. a rope or chain for extending the lee clew of a course.
- sheik — Also, shaikh, sheikh. (in Islamic countries) the patriarch of a tribe or family; chief: a term of polite address.
- shelf — a thin slab of wood, metal, etc., fixed horizontally to a wall or in a frame, for supporting objects.
- shell — a hard outer covering of an animal, as the hard case of a mollusk, or either half of the case of a bivalve mollusk.
- shema — a liturgical prayer, prominent in Jewish history and tradition, that is recited daily at the morning and evening services and expresses the Jewish people's ardent faith in and love of God.
- shend — to put to shame.
- shent — to put to shame.
- sheol — the abode of the dead or of departed spirits.
- sherd — shard.
- sheva — a mark placed under a consonant in Hebrew writing to denote an absent vowel sound
- shi'a — a member of one of the two great religious divisions of Islam that regards Ali, the son-in-law of Muhammad, as the legitimate successor of Muhammad, and disregards the three caliphs who succeeded him.
- shi'i — a member of one of the two great religious divisions of Islam that regards Ali, the son-in-law of Muhammad, as the legitimate successor of Muhammad, and disregards the three caliphs who succeeded him.
- shiah — (used with a plural verb) the Shiʿites.
- shiai — a judo contest
- shied — simple past tense and past participle of shy2 .
- shiel — a pasture or grazing ground.
- shier — bashful; retiring.
- shies — bashful; retiring.
- shift — to put (something) aside and replace it by another or others; change or exchange: to shift friends; to shift ideas.
- shilh — a member of a mountain people of Morocco.
- shill — a person who poses as a customer in order to decoy others into participating, as at a gambling house, auction, confidence game, etc.
- shily — a less common spelling of shyly
- shine — to give forth or glow with light; shed or cast light.
- shiny — bright or glossy in appearance.
- shire — a river in SE Africa, flowing S from Lake Malawi to the Zambezi River. 370 miles (596 km) long.
- shirk — to evade (work, duty, responsibility, etc.).