7-letter words starting with sh
- shindig — an elaborate or large dance, party, or other celebration.
- shiness — brightness
- shingle — small, waterworn stones or pebbles such as lie in loose sheets or beds on a beach.
- shingly — consisting of or covered with shingle.
- shingon — a Japanese form of syncretistic Buddhism founded in the 9th century by Kūkai (a.d. 774–835) and stressing the oral transmission of mystic formulas from master to disciple.
- shinier — bright or glossy in appearance.
- shinily — in a shiny manner
- shining — radiant; gleaming; bright.
- shinkin — a worthless person
- shinned — the front part of the leg from the knee to the ankle.
- shinner — a supporter or member of Sinn Féin
- shipboy — ship's boy.
- shipful — the amount a ship can carry or hold
- shiplap — an overlapping joint, as a rabbet, between two boards joined edge to edge.
- shipley — Dame Jenny, full name Jennifer (Mary) Shipley. born 1952, New Zealand National Party politician; prime minister (1997–1999)
- shipman — a sailor.
- shipped — a romantic relationship between fictional characters, especially one that people discuss, write about, or take an interest in, whether or not the romance actually exists in the original book, show, etc.: popular ships in fan fiction.
- shippen — a cowshed
- shipper — a person who discusses, writes about, or takes an interest in a romantic relationship between fictional characters, whether or not the romance actually exists in the original book, show, etc.: Harry Potter/Hermione Granger shippers.
- shippie — a prostitute who solicits at a port
- shippon — a cow barn or cattle shed.
- shipway — the structure that supports a ship being built.
- shirked — to evade (work, duty, responsibility, etc.).
- shirker — a person who evades work, duty, responsibility, etc.
- shirley — James, 1596–1666, English dramatist.
- shirred — to draw up or gather (cloth or the like) on three or more parallel threads.
- shishya — a pupil of a guru.
- shit on — to behave contemptuously or disparagingly toward
- shitcan — to dismiss from a job or position.
- shittah — a tree, said to be an acacia, probably Acacia seyal, that yielded the shittim wood of the Old Testament.
- shittim — a tree, said to be an acacia, probably Acacia seyal, that yielded the shittim wood of the Old Testament.
- shively — a city in N Kentucky, near Louisville.
- shivers — an attack of shivering, esp caused by fear or illness
- shivery — readily breaking into shivers or fragments; brittle.
- shiviti — a Jewish plaque found in homes and synagogues and inscribed with Psalm 16:8
- shizzle — a form of slang popularized by US rap musicians in which the trailing syllables of certain words are replaced by the suffix -izzle
- shi`ism — 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.
- shiʿite — 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.
- shkoder — a city in NW Albania, on Lake Scutari: a former capital of Albania.
- shlocky — schlock (def 1).
- shmaltz — schmaltz.
- shmatte — an old ragged garment; tattered article of clothing.
- shmooze — schmooze
- shoaler — a place where a sea, river, or other body of water is shallow.
- shochet — shohet.
- shocked — a group of sheaves of grain placed on end and supporting one another in the field.
- shocker — a thick, bushy mass, as of hair.
- shodden — wearing footwear or shoes
- shoebox — an oblong cardboard box of a standard size used to package a pair of shoes for sale.
- shoeing — an external covering for the human foot, usually of leather and consisting of a more or less stiff or heavy sole and a lighter upper part ending a short distance above, at, or below the ankle.