Nouns starting with S

• shore boulder — Noun – English ～ a boulder found on a shore remote from its place of origin
• Shorea — Noun – English ～ genus of Indonesian and Malaysian timber trees rich in resin
• shorebird — Noun – English ～ any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries
• shoreline — Noun – English ～ a boundary line between land and water
• shoring — Noun – English ～ the act of propping up with shores
• shoring — Noun – English ～ a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support
• short letter — Noun – English ～ a short personal letter; "drop me a line when you get there"
• short loin — Noun – English ～ the portion of the loin from which porterhouse steaks are cut
• short list — Noun – English ～ a list of applicants winnowed from a longer list who have been deemed suitable and from which the successful person will be chosen
• short covering — Noun – English ～ the purchase of securities or commodities by a short seller to close out a short sale
• short-leaf pine — Noun – English ～ large pine of southern United States having short needles in bunches of 2-3 and red-brown bark when mature
• short aria — Noun – English ～ a short aria
• short hundredweight — Noun – English ～ a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds
• short gastric artery — Noun – English ～ several small arteries branching off of the splenic artery and going to the greater curvature of the stomach
• short account — Noun – English ～ the aggregate of short sales on an open market
• short-grass — Noun – English ～ any of various grasses that are short and can tolerate drought conditions; common on the dry upland plains just east of the Rocky Mountains
• short-horned grasshopper — Noun – English ～ grasshopper with short antennae
• short pants — Noun – English ～ (used in the plural) trousers that end at or above the knee
• short selling — Noun – English ～ sale of securities or commodity futures not owned by the seller (who hopes to buy them back later at a lower price)
• short — Noun – English ～ accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference

Previous ·1 ··· 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 ··· 1245 ·Next