English words: shopmark to short strokes

300 English words, part 84 of 245 of the words starting with S, A to Z. 10 have a page of their own.

English words shopmark to short strokes

shopmark noun: A logo indicating the workshop from which a product originated.
shopmate noun: A person working in the same shop.
shopocracy noun: Shopkeepers as a social class.
shopocrat noun: A member of the shopocracy.
shopoffice noun: A building of virtually the same design as a shophouse, but devoted either to commercial use or to a mixture of commercial and residential use.
shopoholic noun: Alternative form of shopaholic.
shopowner noun: Someone who owns a shop.
shoppability noun: The quality or degree of being shoppable.
shoppable adjective: Allowing or promoting shopping; suitable for shopping in.
shoppe noun: A fanciful spelling of shop, chiefly used in the names of businesses to give an air of old-fashionedness.
shopper noun /ˈʃɒp.ə/: A person who shops.
shoppertainment noun: Synonym of retailtainment.
shoppie noun: A shopkeeper.
shoppily adverb: In a shoppy way.
shoppin' verb /ˈʃɑpɪn/: Pronunciation spelling of shopping.
shoppiness noun: The state or condition of being shoppy.
shopping noun, verb /ˈʃɒpɪŋ/: The process of buying goods or services, or searching for those suitable to buy.
shopping agent noun: A shopping bot.
shopping bag noun: A strong bag with handles used to put purchases in; usually made of plastic, paper or fabric, sometimes given away with a purchase.
shopping-bag lady noun: Synonym of bag lady.
shopping basket noun: A basket to put groceries and other merchandise in while shopping.
shopping bot noun: A bot that searches the Internet for the best price of a particular retail product.
shopping cart noun /ˈʃɑpɪŋ kɑɹt/: A conveyance used to carry groceries and other items while shopping in a store.
shopping center noun: An area hosting multiple retail stores, especially one with outdoor common areas.
shopping centre noun: A large retail outlet consisting of several shops.
shopping guide noun: A written guide to buying a product.
shopping list noun: A list, written on e.g. a piece of paper, of items that need to be bought.
shopping mall noun: A collection of retail stores, usually one with an indoor common area joining the stores, that is usually anchored by department stores.
shopping net noun: A bag of network used to carry shopping items, especially groceries.
shopping precinct noun: shopping mall; shopping centre
shopping spree noun: A period of intense and indulgent shopping involving many purchases.
shopping trolley noun: A shopping cart.
shoppish adjective: Having the appearance or qualities of a shopkeeper.
shoppishness noun: The quality of being shoppish.
shoppy adjective: Inclined to talk shop; full of jargon.
shoppy shop noun: A small, independent retail store that sells unique, upscale gourmet food and often called boutique grocers, artisanal markets, or curated mini-marts.
shoproom noun: Room (available space) in a workshop.
shopska salad noun: A Bulgarian salad made from tomatoes, cucumbers, onions or scallions, peppers, sirene cheese, and parsley.
shopsoiled adjective: Alternative form of shop-soiled.
shopstead noun, verb: To buy and renovate abandoned shop facilities that are offered for sale inexpensively as part of an urban renewal policy.
shopsteader noun: An entrepreneur who buys and renovates an abandoned shop as part of a shopsteading program.
shopsteading noun, verb: The sale by the government of abandoned shops to entrepreneurs who are willing to renovate them and operate there, as part of an urban revitalization policy.
shopsteal verb: Alternative form of shop steal.
shoptalk noun: Alternative form of shop talk.
shopvac noun: A heavy-duty industrial vacuum cleaner designed to handle debris from a worksite or mechanical shop.
shopwalker noun: Alternative form of shop-walker.
shopward adverb: Toward a shop.
shopwards adverb: Towards a shop.
shopway noun: The way that leads to a shop.
shopwear noun: The condition of being shopworn; minor damage through being stored and handled in a retail outlet.
shopwide adjective, adverb: Existing or applying throughout a shop or shop chain.
shopwindow noun: Alternative form of shop window.
shopwoman noun: A woman employed in a shop.
shopwork noun: Work done in a workshop, such as woodwork or metalwork.
shopworker noun: A person who works in a shop; a shop assistant
shopworn adjective /ˈʃɒpwɔːn/: Of a product in a retail store: damaged from being on display and handled by customers, etc.; shop-soiled.
shor noun: A Turkic ethnic group living in Mountain Shoria, a southern part of Kemerovo oblast in Russia.
SHORAD noun: Acronym of short-range air defense
shorage noun: The right to use a shore, for example to land goods.
SHORAN noun: Acronym of short-range navigation.
shorb noun: A shorebird.
shorba noun /ʃoɹ.ba/: Alternative form of chorba.
shordy noun: Alternative form of shorty (“a young woman”).
shore adjective, adverb, interjection, noun, verb /ʃɔː/: Land adjoining a non-flowing body of water, such as an ocean, lake or pond.
shore bird noun: Alternative form of shorebird.
shore break noun: The area along the shoreline where waves break (as distinguished from other types of breaks).
shore bug noun: An insect of any of numerous small predatory, often burrowing, species of the family Saldidae, found near bodies of water.
shore cod noun: Any cod-like fish caught close to shore, but especially the Atlantic cod.
shore crab noun: A type of crab (Carcinus maenas) native to the coasts of Europe and North Africa.
shore dinner noun: A dinner consisting of seafood.
shore dotterel noun: A plover of the endangered New Zealand species Thinornis novaeseelandiae
Shore durometer noun: A device for measuring the hardness of a material, typically a polymer, elastomer, or rubber.
shore duty noun: naval service at land bases
shore fly noun: A tiny fly found near seashores or at smaller inland waters, such as ponds, of one the 1,500 species of the family Ephydridae.
Shore hardness noun: The hardness of a material as measured in degrees by a Shore durometer.
shore lark noun: A horned lark (Eremophila alpestris).
shore leave noun: Free time given to sailors of the military navy when they are off duty and allowed to disembark and spend time on land.
shore patrol noun: A special unit of the military police of the U.S. navy or the Royal Navy whose duties are to police the seamen while they are on shore leave.
shore pine noun: A lodgepole pine, Pinus contorta.
shore pit viper noun: A pit viper of the species Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus, of venomous snakes found in India and Southeast Asia.
shore plover noun: A plover of the endangered New Zealand species Thinornis novaeseelandiae.
shore plum noun: A tree, Prunus maritima, bearing small plums, found along the US Atlantic coast from Maine to Maryland.
shore power noun: Alternative form of shorepower.
shore snipe noun: A sandpiper, a bird in the Scolopacidae family.
shore teetan noun: A rock pipit.
shore thistle noun: Any thistle of genus Carduus found along a shore, known to cause poisoning of ruminants.
shore up verb /ʃɔːˈɹ‿ʌp/: To reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure).
shorebird noun: A bird, or species of birds, that is found near the edge of bodies of water.
shorebound adjective: Heading towards the shore.
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shorecrab noun: Alternative form of shore crab.
shored adjective, verb: Having a shore, often one of a specified type.
Shoreditch proper noun /ˈʃɔː(ɹ)dɪt͡ʃ/: An urban area of London in the borough of Hackney, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3382).
shoreface noun: A narrow, steeply sloping zone between a seaward limit of the shore at low water and a nearly horizontal offshore zone.
shorefast adjective: Held fast (securely) to the shore.
shorefish noun: Any of several fishes which inhabit shallow waters
shorefront adjective, noun: The area fronting on a coastline.
shoregoing adjective: Going ashore.
Shoreham proper noun: A village and civil parish in Sevenoaks district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ5161).
shoreland noun: The land at the shore of a lake, sea, etc.
shorelark noun: Either of two larks, of genus Eremophila, found in the Arctic or in mountainous regions
shoreless adjective: Without a shore, or with no shore in sight; boundless.
shorelessly adverb: In a shoreless manner.
shorelessness noun: Absence of a shore.
shorelike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a shore.
shoreline noun: The divide between land and a body of water.
shorelined adjective: Having a shoreline.
shoreling noun: Alternative form of shorling.
shoreman noun: A person employed to spread cod on the beach to dry, and to prepare it for curing.
shorepound noun: A dangerous condition, due to high tide or larger surf, where the waves break in one single "wall" onto the beach, often in shallow water.
shorepower noun: The supply of electricity to a vessel at berth
shorer noun: Someone or something that shores or props up.
shoresh noun: A Semitic root
shoreside adjective, noun: Located on or near a shore.
shoresman noun: Alternative form of shoreman.
Shoreview proper noun: A city in Ramsey County, Minnesota, United States.
shoreward adjective, adverb, noun: In the direction of the shoreline, relatively speaking.
shorewards adjective, adverb: Alternative form of shoreward.
shoreweed noun: A small European plantain, Littorella uniflora, that grows in shallow water or mud at the edges of ponds
shoreworker noun: Someone who works on land in the fishing industry
Shorey proper noun: A surname.
shorgoghal noun: A traditional Azerbaijani pastry in a round shape filled with anise or fennel seed, cumin, cinnamon, turmeric, salt and pepper
shoring noun, verb: Temporary bracing used to prevent something, such as a tunnel, trench, or wall, from collapse.
shorinji kempo noun: A Japanese modification of Shaolin kung fu established in 1947.
shorkie noun: A dog that is a cross between a Shih Tzu and Yorkie.
shorl noun: Alternative form of schorl.
shorling noun: The skin of a sheep after the fleece is shorn off, as distinct from the morling, or skin taken from the dead sheep.
shorn adjective, verb /ʃɔːn/: Of a sheep, etc., having been shorn.
Shorncliffe proper noun: A suburb and army camp in Folkestone, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR1935).
Shorr proper noun: A surname.
Shorrock proper noun: A surname.
short adjective, adverb, noun, preposition, verb /ʃɔːt/: Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
short 20th century noun: Alternative form of short twentieth century.
short a noun: The vowel sound in the English words cat and rack, usually represented by /æ/ or /a/. (The presence of a short vowel is sometimes signaled in spelling by...
short accounts make long friends proverb: Alternative form of short reckonings make long friends.
short-acting adjective: Having a pharmaceutical effect principally in the short term.
short and noun: The ampersand symbol.
short and curlies noun: pubic hair
short and sweet adjective: Efficiently brief in duration, especially when referring to a task that becomes unpleasant when prolonged.
short-answer noun: A type of question or prompt, especially found in school quizzes and tests, which usually requires the student to write in sentences, as opposed to...
short appoggiatura noun: Synonym of acciaccatura.
short arm noun: The penis.
short back and sides noun: A typically men's haircut where the sides and the back are left shorter than the top of the hair.
short ballot noun: A ballot that lists only the major candidates for the major offices, for a voting district.
short-billed dowitcher noun: a long-legged and long-billed migratory wading bird, Limnodromus griseus
short-billed marsh wren noun: The sedge wren Cistothorus stellaris
short bit noun: The monetary amount of ten cents.
short black noun: A small cup or glass of espresso coffee.
short block noun: An engine subassembly comprising the portion of the cylinder block below the cylinder head gasket but above the oil pan (and including neither).
short bond noun: Ellipsis of short bond paper.
short bond paper noun: Synonym of US letter (paper size: 8½ in × 11 in (215.9 mm × 279.4 mm))
short bowel syndrome noun: A rare malabsorption disorder caused by a lack of functional small intestine.
short break noun: A short vacation or holiday.
short-breathed adjective: Synonym of short of breath.
short bus adjective, noun: A minibus, such as a type-A or type-B school bus.
short-chain adjective: Having a chain of fewer than about six carbon atoms.
short change verb: Alternative spelling of shortchange.
short ciliary nerve noun: Any of 6 to 10 delicate nerve filaments of parasympathetic, sympathetic, and general sensory function that arise in the ciliary ganglion and innervate the...
short circuit noun, verb: A usually unintentional connection of low resistance or impedance in a circuit such that excessive and often damaging current flows in it.
short circuit operator noun: A logical operator that returns a value as soon as the outcome is certain, without necessarily testing all operands (for example, an OR operator returning...
short-circuiter noun: One who or that which short circuits.
short-coat noun, verb: The shortened skirts of a child when it no longer wears long clothes.
short code noun: A number of fewer digits than a telephone number, used as an abbreviated telephone number for use only when dialing from a cellular phone.
short commons noun: Meagre rations.
short con noun: A scam that can be performed in minutes or seconds, typically aiming to rob the victim of the money or valuables they carry on them.
short corner adjective, noun: A short pass from a corner (the set piece).
short cross noun: The short crossbar of a printer's chase.
short cut noun, verb: Alternative spelling of shortcut.
short-dated adjective: Having little time to run from its date; soon due.
short-distance adjective: Relating to movement, travel, transport, or communication covering only a relatively small spatial extent.
short division noun: A division algorithm which breaks down a division problem into a series of easy steps, relying on mental arithmetic.
short down verb: To reduce the price of a stock by selling short.
short dozen noun: Ten.
short drink noun: An alcoholic beverage served in a small glass and typically containing less mixer than a long drink.
short drop noun: A technique for execution by hanging, according to which the condemned stands on a raised support such as a stool or ladder, with the noose around the neck,...
short e noun: The vowel sound /ɛ/, as in the words "pet" and "sled". (The presence of a short vowel is sometimes signaled in spelling by the doubling of a consonant after...
short-eared dog noun: A canid of the species Atelocynus microtis, endemic to the Amazonian Basin.
short-eared fox noun: Synonym of short-eared dog.
short-eared owl noun: A species of owl, Asio flammeus.
short-eared zorro noun: Synonym of short-eared dog.
short end noun: Alternative form of short end of the stick.
short end of the stick noun: A situation, opportunity, or outcome which is less favorable than situations, opportunities, or outcomes experienced by or available to others.
short ess noun: Alternative form of short s.
short exact sequence noun: An exact sequence of the form 0→A→B→C→0.
short eyes noun: A child molester.
short-faced bear noun: A member of a subfamily of Ursidae that contains one living representative, the spectacled bear.
short-faced kangaroo noun: A sthenurine.
short-fall noun: Alternative form of shortfall.
short fetched adjective /ˈʃɔːtfɛtʃt/: Alternative form of short-fetched.
short file name noun: Alternative form of short filename.
short filename noun: A legacy filename format with up to eight characters for the basename, plus an optional three-character extension.
short film noun /ˈʃɔːt ˈfɪlm/: Any motion picture not long enough to be considered a feature film.
short finals noun: The last section of an aircraft's approach to a runway.
short-finned eel noun: A species of eel, Anguilla australis
short-finned pilot whale noun: Any of the species Globicephala macrorhynchus of oceanic dolphins, generally having a stocky build with black to dark gray or brown skin.
short for phrase: An abbreviation or nickname for; a shortening of.
short form adjective, noun: A word with the same meaning as another formed by removing one or more of the syllables of the longer word, and considered a word in its own right rather...
short fuse noun: The personality trait of being quick to anger.
short-grain adjective: Of rice, characterized by its small, plump and rounded grains, typically shorter than 5.5 mm.
short-grained adjective: Alternative form of short-grain
short gross noun: One hundred and twenty (120).
short-haired adjective: Having short hair.
short-haired bumblebee noun: A species of bumblebee, Bombus subterraneus, native to Eurasia.
short hairs noun: Pubic hair.
short handed adjective, adverb: Alternative form of shorthanded.
short-handedly adverb: Alternative form of shorthandedly.
short-handedness noun: Alternative form of shorthandedness.
short haul adjective, noun: Traveling or involving a short distance.
short head noun: A distance of less than the length of a horse's head
short-head seahorse noun: A species of seahorse, Hippocampus breviceps
short hop noun: A ball that bounces three to six feet away from the fielder who is throwing or catching it.
short-horned grasshopper noun: Any of a large family of grasshoppers, the Acrididae
short hose noun: The stockings of the Highland dress, reaching to the knee, as opposed to the long hose formerly worn by Englishmen.
short hundred noun: One hundred (100), 10 x 10, especially when contrasted with one long hundred.
short i noun: The vowel sound /ɪ/, as in the words pit and stick. (The presence of a short vowel is sometimes signaled in spelling by the doubling of a consonant after...
short illative noun: In some languages, a shortened version of the illative case.
short king noun: A man of short stature.
short leash noun: A strict set of rules, or great scrutiny or oversight which limit one's freedom of action.
short leg noun: A fielding position on the leg side, square of, and close to the batsman.
short-legged adjective: Having short legs, particularly in proportion to one's body.
short-leggedness noun: The state or quality of being short-legged.
short line noun: Alternative form of shortline.
short-lined chocolate noun: Argyrostrotis anilis, a species of brown owlet moth.
short list noun, verb: A list of candidates selected from a longer list, and from which one or more successful candidates are in turn selected.
short-lived adjective /ʃɔɹtˈlɪvd/: Alive or existent for only a short period of time.
short-livedness noun /ˈʃɔːtˈlaɪvɪdnɪs/: The quality of being short-lived.
short loin noun: A cut of beef from the hind quarters of a steer or heifer, behind the ribs, including the top loin and the tenderloin, usually cut into steaks.
short man syndrome noun: Synonym of Napoleon complex.
short measure noun: Synonym of short meter.
short meter noun: A hymn metre characterized by a quatrain of iambic lines, of which the first, second, and fourth are in trimeter, and the third in tetrameter.
Short money noun: An annual payment made to opposition parties in the House of Commons, to help them with their costs.
short-necked adjective: Having a short neck
short-nose adjective, noun: Alternative form of shortnose.
short-nosed unicornfish noun: A fish, Naso brevirostris
short o noun: The vowel sound /ɒ/, as in the words "top" and "dot". (The presence of a short vowel is sometimes signaled in spelling by the doubling of a consonant after...
short of phrase: Except; but; without resorting to; up to the point of.
short of a length adjective: of a ball that pitches short of a good length; a ball that bounces closer to the bowler than the area of the pitch regarded as the best for dismissing or...
short of breath adjective: Short-winded; panting; breathless; in a state of breathlessness.
short on looks adjective: Plain; unattractive.
short oo noun: The vowel sound, /ʊ/, of the "oo" in the word "good", as contrasted with the "oo" in the word "mood".
short order adjective, noun: Alternative spelling of short order.
short-order chef noun: A chef who cooks simple meals (typically grilled or fried).
short-order cook noun: Synonym of short-order chef
short out verb: To short circuit.
short-paid adjective, verb: Paid less than the amount owed; underpaid, especially due to clerical error, billing adjustment, or miscalculation.
short pants noun: short trousers
short pass noun: A pass of the ball between teammates too close together to allow an opponent to get between them. There is no particular distance the ball must travel to...
short passive noun: A passive construction that does not have an agent.
short pastry noun: Synonym of shortcrust pastry.
short pay verb: To pay (someone) less than the amount that is owed; to underpay through error, omission, or miscalculation.
short payment noun: A payment that is less than the full amount owed; an underpayment resulting from error, adjustment, or deduction.
short-period adjective: Having an orbital period of less than 200 years, especially said of comets
short period comet noun: Any periodic comet with an orbital period of less than 200 years.
short plate noun: Synonym of beef plate (“cut of meat from the abdomen”).
short pocosin noun: A pocosin with relatively short trees, deep peat, and fewer soil nutrients.
short position noun: A financial instrument bought with the expectation that it will decrease in value.
short posterior ciliary artery noun: Any of 6 to 10 arteries that arise from the ophthalmic artery or its branches, pass to the posterior part of the eyeball while surrounding the optic nerve,...
short pull noun: A light impression on a hand-press.
short QT syndrome noun: A very rare genetic disease of the electrical system of the heart, and is associated with an increased risk of abnormal heart rhythms and sudden cardiac death.
short queen noun: A woman of short stature.
short-range adjective: Intended for use on something close or nearby.
short reckonings make long friends proverb: Borrowed money should be paid back as soon as possible.
short rib noun: false rib
short ribs noun: A cut of beef from the rib and plate primals and a small corner of the square-cut chuck.
short run adjective, noun: Short-term; of a brief passage of time.
short s noun: The s character, as distinct from the long s – the ſ character.
short sale noun: A property sale negotiated with a mortgage company in which a lender takes less than the total amount due.
short scale noun: A system of numeric names in which every new term with -illion greater than million is 1,000 times the previous term. (i.e., a billion is a thousand million.)
short sea noun: A sea in which the waves are choppy, irregular, and interrupted.
short-sea shipping noun: Shipping that takes place in coastal waters or on short sea crossings.
short sell verb: Alternative form of sell short.
short seller noun: A person or organization that participates in short selling.
short selling noun, verb: The practice of selling items or stock which one does not currently possess.
short sharp shock noun: A regime intended to deter crime by making an immediate severe impact.
short sheet verb: To play a prank by folding someone's bed sheets to make the space for lying in the bed unusably short.
short-ship verb: To ship a smaller quantity of (goods) than the customer ordered.
short short noun: A very short film, typically of a length less than three minutes.
short short story noun: A work of fiction that is briefer than a typical short story.
short shorts noun: Trousers that are very short, covering the pelvis but exposing most of the legs; hot pants.
short shrift noun /ˌʃɔːt ˈʃɹɪft/: A rushed sacrament of confession given to a prisoner who is to be executed very soon.
short sight noun: shortsightedness, myopia
short-sighted adjective: Near-sighted; myopic; unable to focus on distant objects.
short-sightedly adverb: In a short-sighted manner.
short-sightedness noun: Myopia: impairment of vision's acuity for distant objects.
short six noun: A candle weighing one sixth of a pound, about four inches long.
short sleeper noun: A person who consistently requires substantially less sleep every day than the customary amount for most people of the same age and developmental level.
short-sleeved adjective: Having sleeves that are not long enough to reach the elbows.
short snorter noun: A banknote inscribed by people travelling together on an aircraft, as a keepsake or for good luck.
short spar noun: Synonym of monkey spar.
short-spoken adjective: sharp and curt in one's speech; terse
short squeeze noun: A rapid increase in the price of a stock caused primarily by technical factors in the market rather than underlying fundamentals.
short stack noun: A relatively small quantity of chips relative to the stakes.
short stacked adjective: Having a short stack.
short-staff verb: To employ insufficient staff in (a facility)
short-staffed adjective, verb: Not having sufficient members of staff.
short-staffing noun, verb: Employment of insufficient staff.
short stop noun, verb: Alternative spelling of shortstop.
short story noun: A work of fiction that is shorter than a novella.
short straddle noun: An investment position in a futures deal, where the trader places a call order and a put order at the same time on the same item, in hopes of the item...
short strokes noun: The final steps of an undertaking, especially one which has been lengthy or laborious.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under S: 73,223 words, in 245 parts.