6-letter words starting with sh
- sheryl — a female given name, form of Shirley.
- sheuch — a furrow, ditch, or trench.
- sheugh — a furrow, ditch, or trench.
- shevat — the fifth month of the Jewish calendar.
- shibah — the mourning period, following the funeral and lasting traditionally for seven days, observed by Jews for a deceased parent, sibling, child, or spouse.
- shicer — Slang. a swindler.
- shield — a broad piece of armor, varying widely in form and size, carried apart from the body, usually on the left arm, as a defense against swords, lances, arrows, etc.
- shiest — bashful; retiring.
- shifty — resourceful; fertile in expedients.
- shiism — 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.
- shiite — 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.
- shikar — the hunting of game for sport.
- shiksa — a term used especially by a Jew to refer to a girl or woman who is not Jewish.
- shikse — a term used especially by a Jew to refer to a girl or woman who is not Jewish.
- shilha — a Berber language, the language of the Shluh.
- shiloh — a national park in SW Tennessee: Civil War battle 1862.
- shimla — a state in N India. 21,495 sq. mi. (55,673 sq. km). Capital: Shimla.
- shimmy — an American ragtime dance marked by shaking of the hips and shoulders.
- shinar — a land mentioned in the Bible, often identified with Sumer.
- 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
- shippo — Japanese cloisonné-enamel work on metal or porcelain
- shiraz — a city in SW Iran.
- shirer — William Lawrence, 1904–1993, U.S. journalist, news broadcaster, and writer.
- shirty — bad-tempered; irritable; cranky.
- shitty — inferior or contemptible.
- shitzu — breed of small dog with long, silky fur
- shivah — the mourning period, following the funeral and lasting traditionally for seven days, observed by Jews for a deceased parent, sibling, child, or spouse.
- shiver — to shake or tremble with cold, fear, excitement, etc.
- shivoo — a boisterous party or celebration.
- shiʿah — (used with a plural verb) the Shiʿites.
- shlepp — to carry; lug: to schlep an umbrella on a sunny day.
- shlock — Also, schlocky. cheap; trashy: a schlock store.
- shlong — the penis.
- shlump — to loaf or idle.
- shmear — schmear.
- shmuck — schmuck.
- shmutz — schmutz.
- shnaps — schnapps.
- shnook — schnook.
- shoaly — full of shoals or shallows.
- shoddy — of poor quality or inferior workmanship: a shoddy bookcase.
- shoder — a packet of skins in which gold is placed and subjected to the second process of beating
- shofar — a ram's horn blown as a wind instrument, sounded in Biblical times chiefly to communicate signals in battle and announce certain religious occasions and in modern times chiefly at synagogue services on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
- 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.
- shohet — a person certified by a rabbi or Jewish court of law to slaughter animals for food in the manner prescribed by Jewish law.