English Words: S

an American bird of prey in the family Accipitridae

Easily angered; frequently losing one's temper.

Of or pertaining to the near or immediate future.

Concentration on obtaining immediate profit at the expense of long-term security.

Tending to think and plan only for the short term.

The state, quality, or condition of being short-term.

A soldier during the Vietnam War who had less than two months to serve.

Out of breath, gasping for air; breathing rapidly, or given to becoming short of breath.

A lack or deficiency; an insufficient amount.

A surname from Irish.

An overall, particularly with short-cut legs, like a pair of shorts.

A short person; someone of small stature.

A short person.

A truck with a short bed.

A shortsword.

A type of surfboard which is about 6 to 7 feet long (boards are always measured in feet, even in metric countries), and with a tapered pointy nose.

A surfer who rides a shortboard.

The use of a shortboard in surfing.

A small bow that has a strong tension, and is usually about a meter tall.

A type of biscuit (cookie), popular in Britain, traditionally made from one part sugar, two parts butter and three parts flour.

Exhaling with short and irregular breaths; nearly out of breath.

A sweet cake or biscuit (crumbly leavened bread) typically made with flour, sugar, salt, butter, milk or cream, and sometimes eggs, and leavened with baking powder or baking soda.

Resembling or characteristic of shortcake.

A short podcast, especially one that summarizes the key points from a longer one.

To defraud (someone) by giving them less change than they should be given after a transaction.

One who shortchanges.

A covering for the legs of men or boys, consisting of trousers which reach to the knees, similar to modern-day shorts.

A special short telephone number for an SMS or MMS service, designed to be easier to remember.

One who falls short, failing to attain a goal or ideal.

A deficiency or falling short; failure to attain a goal or ideal.

plural of shortcoming

Describing a form of pastry that is relatively hard and brittle.

A path between two points that is faster than the commonly used paths.

plural of shortcut

A person who takes shortcuts.

Dressed in shorts.

A surname from Irish.

To make shorter; to abbreviate.

To make something shorter in height, briefer in duration or more close together.

That may be shortened.

simple past and past participle of shorten

One who, or that which, shortens.

second-person singular simple present indicative of shorten

third-person singular simple present indicative of shorten

comparative form of short: more short.

superlative form of short: most short; Least in stature, length or height.

The quality of being shortest.

An instance of falling short, of not meeting a quota, an obligation, or more generally any expected target.

A falling short; failure to meet an expectation or standard.

Alternative form of short-fetched.