| shadowy |
resembling a shadow; vague, faint, or illusory in nature. [2 definitions] |
| shady |
sheltered from sunlight; in the shade. [3 definitions] |
| shaft |
an arrow or spear, or the straight, slender part of one. [11 definitions] |
| shag1 |
coarse, tangled hair, fur, or the like. [3 definitions] |
| shag2 |
to run after, esp. in order to catch or retrieve. [2 definitions] |
| shagbark hickory |
a North American hickory tree that has rough shaggy bark and bears small hard-shelled edible nuts. |
| shaggy |
having long, untidy hair, fur, or pile. [2 definitions] |
| shaggy dog story |
a prolonged joke with a ridiculous or irrelevant punch line. |
| shagreen |
the rough skin, covered with bony denticles, of certain sharks or dogfish, used as an abrasive. [3 definitions] |
| shah |
formerly in Iran, king. |
| Shah Jahan |
Mogul Emperor of India from 1628 to 1658 who commissioned the Taj Mahal and other magnificent architectural works (b.1592--d.1666). |
| shake |
to move back and forth or up and down with rapid, jerky motions. [16 definitions] |
| shakeable |
combined form of shake. |
| shakedown |
an attempt to get something, esp. money, by threat of violence or of revealing a discrediting secret; instance of blackmail or extortion. [4 definitions] |
| shake hands |
to grasp the hand of another person and move it up and down in a gesture of good will, often used upon meeting a new person or when confirming an agreement (often fol. by "with"). |
| shaken |
past participle of shake. |
| shakeout |
any change in market prices that obliges speculators to sell their securities. [2 definitions] |
| shaker |
someone or something that shakes, esp. a container with a perforated lid for shaking seasoning onto food. [3 definitions] |
| Shakespearean |
of, concerning, or resembling Shakespeare or his writing. [2 definitions] |
| Shakespearean sonnet |
a sonnet form in which three quatrains are followed by a final rhyming couplet. |
| shake-up |
a complete, often radical rearrangement, as in the structure or staff of a business or other organization. |