shenzi
A barbarian (variously used to refer to foreigners, Europeans, or pagans)

shenzis
plural of shenzi

sheugh
A ditch, especially a field boundary ditch usually used to drain fields and mark their boundaries.
The space between the buttocks.
The Atlantic Ocean; the sea.

sheughs
plural of sheugh

shielin
Alternative spelling of shieling.

shieling
An area of summer pasture used for cattle, sheep etc.
A shepherd's hut or shack.

shielings
plural of shieling

shielins
plural of shielin

shinebox
Alternative form of shine box.

shineboxes
plural of shinebox

shinny
To climb in an awkward manner.

shinplasters
plural of shinplaster

shinties
plural of shinty

shinty
A game derived from hurling, and resembling hockey, played in Scotland.
The stick used to strike the ball in this game, similar to a hockey stick.

shiplap
A type of wooden board that has rabbets to allow them to be overlapped, commonly used for the exterior siding of buildings.

shiplaps
plural of shiplap

shiplift
Alternative form of ship lift.

shiraz
Alternative letter-case form of Shiraz.

shirazes
plural of shiraz

shirrings
plural of shirring

shirtings
plural of shirting

shitbowl
Alternative form of shit bowl.

shitbowls
plural of shitbowl

shitrag
A terrible newspaper.
A rag used for additional wiping after defecating.
Toilet paper.
Term of abuse.

shitrags
plural of shitrag

shockumentaries
plural of shockumentary

shockumentary
A form of documentary used to generate a reactionary effect in an audience; especially such a documentary containing scenes of violence, gore, or other disturbing imagery.

shoebrush
Alternative form of shoe brush.

shoebrushes
plural of shoebrush

shoeflies
plural of shoefly

shoefly
Alternative form of shoofly.

shoelace
A lace used for fastening a shoe.

shoelaces
plural of shoelace

shoepeg
A wooden peg formerly used to attach soles to the upper part of shoes.

shoepegs
plural of shoepeg

shoescraper
Synonym of bootscraper.

shoescrapers
plural of shoescraper

shoetree
A foot-shaped device placed in a shoe to maintain its shape when not being worn.

shoetrees
plural of shoetree

shofar
A ram’s-horn trumpet, used for Jewish ritual purposes.

shofarot
plural of shofar

shofaroth
plural of shofar

shofars
plural of shofar

shofroth
plural of shofar

shola
A wild plant of species Aeschynomene aspera, found in Bengal and Assam, having a milky-white, spongy pith used for the manufacture of pith helmets and decorative artifacts.

sholas
plural of shola

shooflies
plural of shoofly

shoofly
A child's rocker having a seat supported between two boards cut and painted to resemble animals.
A device for throwing the track temporarily to one side for carrying out repairs, etc.
A police officer assigned to keep tabs on other members of the police.

shophar
Alternative spelling of shofar.

shopharot
plural of shophar

shopharoth
plural of shophar

shophars
plural of shophar

shophroth
plural of shophar

shoplight
Any of a class of light fixtures designed mainly for workshops, traditionally (in the 20th century) in the form of a tubelight suspended on lightweight chains (usually with twin tubes of four-foot length), now often in LED versions (2020s).
The ambient light in a workshop, through whichever method of lighting is used to provide it, such as daylight through windows or skylights, electric lights, gaslight, etc.

shoplights
plural of shoplight

shorings
plural of shoring

shortenings
plural of shortening

shortometer
A device for measuring the effectiveness of fats as shortening.

shortometers
plural of shortometer

shotcreter
A machine that lays shotcrete onto a surface

shotcreters
plural of shotcreter

shothole
A hole, very deep but only a few inches wide, which is used to drop explosives beneath the Earth's surface to ease petroleum extraction.

shotholes
plural of shothole

shotski
A ski with several shot glasses attached onto it, used for a drinking activity where multiple people hold the ski and consume a shot simultaneously.

shotskis
plural of shotski

shoutout
Alternative spelling of shout-out.

shoutouts
plural of shoutout

shovel
A hand tool with a handle, used for moving portions of material such as earth, snow, and grain from one place to another, with some forms also used for digging. In strict usage differentiated from a spade, which is designed solely for small-scale digging and incidental tasks such as chopping of small roots.
A mechanical part of an excavator with a similar function.
Any shovel in the above senses, or any spade.
Ellipsis of shovel hat.

shovels
plural of shovel

showboard
A board used for display purposes.

showboards
plural of showboard

showpersons
plural of showperson

shruff
Rubbish, especially the dross or refuse of metals.
Light, dry wood, or material used for fuel.

shtick
A generally humorous routine.
A characteristic trait or theme, especially in the way people or media present themselves.
A gimmick.

shticks
plural of shtick

shtik
Alternative spelling of shtick.

shtiks
plural of shtik

shuftiscope
An invasive medical instrument used to test a patient for dysentery.

shuftiscopes
plural of shuftiscope

shuttlebox
Alternative form of shuttle box.

shuttleboxes
plural of shuttlebox

siccative
A drier; a catalyst used to promote drying.

siccatives
plural of siccative

siccimeter
A device for measuring evaporation.

siccimeters
plural of siccimeter

sid
sadiki

sidemount
An equipment configuration which has scuba sets mounted alongside the diver

sidemounts
plural of sidemount

sidepersons
plural of sideperson

sidepod
An aerodynamic device to improve airflow between the front and rear wheels of a racing car.

sidepods
plural of sidepod

sideroscope
An instrument for detecting small quantities of iron in any substance by means of a delicate assembly of magnetic needles.

sideroscopes
plural of sideroscope

sidescraper
A Paleolithic stone tool used for scraping.

sidescrapers
plural of sidescraper

sids
Oat husks, or bran with some kernel, used to make sowens.

sieve
A device with a mesh, grate, or otherwise perforated bottom to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.
A process, physical or abstract, that arrives at a final result by filtering out unwanted pieces of input from a larger starting set of input.
A kind of coarse basket.
A person, or their mind, that cannot remember things or is unable to keep secrets.
An intern who lets too many non-serious cases into the emergency room.
A collection of morphisms in a category whose codomain is a certain fixed object of that category, which collection is closed under precomposition by any morphism in the category.

sieved
past participle of sieve

sieves
plural of sieve

sifter
A tool for sifting, especially one for powdered cooking ingredients.
One who sifts.
Any lamellirostral bird, as a duck or goose, so called because it sifts or strains its food from the water and mud by means of the lamellae of the beak.

sifters
plural of sifter

sightline
A line between an observer or a piece of optical equipment and an object of interest; line of sight.

sightlines
plural of sightline

sigint
Alternative letter-case form of SIGINT.

sigints
plural of sigint

sigma
The eighteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets (Σ, σ), the twentieth letter of Old and Ancient.
The symbol Σ, used to indicate summation of a set or series.
The symbol σ, used to indicate one standard deviation from the mean, particularly in a normal distribution.
A sigma male (a self-reliant and assertive male).

sigmas
plural of sigma

sigmata
plural of sigma

sigmoidoscope
An instrument used for examining the sigmoid colon.

sigmoidoscopes
plural of sigmoidoscope

signet
An object (especially a ring) formerly used to impress a picture into the sealing wax of a document as a proof of its origin.

signets
plural of signet

signori
plural of signor

signors
plural of signor