6-letter words starting with sh
- sharny — a person who is responsible for cleaning a cow-house
- sharon — Ariel, 1928–2014, Israeli military and political leader; prime minister 2001–06.
- sharpe — William Forsyth [fawr-sahyth] /ˈfɔr saɪθ/ (Show IPA), born 1934, U.S. economist: Nobel prize 1990.
- sharps — something sharp.
- sharpy — sharpie.
- sharra — a member of a Mongol people inhabiting Outer Mongolia.
- shashi — a river in SE Africa, flowing SE along the Botswana-Zimbabwe border to the Limpopo River. About 225 miles (360 km) long.
- shasta — Mount, a volcanic peak in N California, in the Cascade Range. 14,161 feet (4315 meters).
- shaugh — a smoke or a draw on a tobacco pipe
- shaved — to remove a growth of beard with a razor.
- shaven — a past participle of shave.
- shaver — a person or thing that shaves.
- shavie — a trick or prank.
- shawty — a person of less than average stature (sometimes used as a disparaging and offensive term of address).
- shaykh — sheik (def 1).
- shazam — a magic slogan used like 'abracadabra' to set in motion an extraordinary deed or event
- shazar — Zalman [zahl-mahn] /ˈzɑl mɑn/ (Show IPA), (Shneor Zalman Rubashev) 1889–1974, Israeli statesman, born in Russia: president 1963–73.
- she'll — She'll is the usual spoken form of 'she will'.
- she/he — she or he
- sheafy — composed of, related to, or resembling a sheaf
- shears — to cut (something).
- sheath — a case or covering for the blade of a sword, dagger, or the like.
- sheave — to gather, collect, or bind into a sheaf or sheaves.
- shebat — Shevat.
- sheena — a female given name.
- sheene — Barry (Stephen Frank). 1950–2003, British racing motorcyclist: 500 cc world champion (1976, 1977)
- sheeny — shining; lustrous.
- sheepo — a person employed to bring sheep to the catching pen in a shearing shed
- sheepy — of, related to, or resembling sheep
- sheers — a deviation or divergence, as of a ship from its course; swerve.
- sheesh — an exclamation of surprise or annoyance
- sheety — spreading, covering, or stretching out in a broad sheet
- sheika — the wife of a sheik.
- sheikh — Also, shaikh, sheikh. (in Islamic countries) the patriarch of a tribe or family; chief: a term of polite address.
- sheila — a female given name, form of Celia.
- shekel — Also, sheqel. a paper money, cupronickel or silver coin, and monetary unit of Israel equal to 100 agorot: replaced the pound in 1980.
- shelby — a city in S North Carolina.
- shelfy — full of sandbanks or reefs hidden beneath the water's surface
- shells — a hard outer covering of an animal, as the hard case of a mollusk, or either half of the case of a bivalve mollusk.
- shelly — abounding in shells: a shelly surf.
- shelta — a private language, based in part on Irish, used among Travelers in the British Isles.
- shelty — Shetland pony.
- shelve — to place (something) on a shelf or shelves.
- shelvy — full of sandbanks or reefs hidden beneath the water's surface
- shembe — (in South Africa) an African sect that combines Christianity with aspects of Bantu religion
- shensi — Older Spelling. Shaanxi.
- sheqel — shekel (def 1).
- sherif — a governor of Mecca descended from Muhammad.
- sherpa — a member of a people of Tibetan stock living in the Nepalese Himalayas, who often serve as porters on mountain-climbing expeditions.
- sherry — a fortified, amber-colored wine of southern Spain or any of various similar wines made elsewhere.