Words in english starting with S

• shortcake — Noun – English ～ very short biscuit dough baked as individual biscuits or a round loaf; served with sweetened fruit and usually whipped cream
• shortcoming — Noun – English ～ a failing or deficiency; "that interpretation is an unfortunate defect of our lack of information"
• shortcut — Noun – English ～ a route shorter than the usual one
• shorten — Verb – English ～ make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration; "He shortened his trip due to illness"
• shorten — Verb – English ～ edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel"
• shorten — Verb – English ～ become short or shorter; "In winter, the days shorten"
• shorten — Verb – English ～ make short or shorter; "shorten the skirt"; "shorten the rope by a few inches"
• shorten — Verb – English ～ reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"
• shortened — Adjective – English ～ cut short in duration; "the abbreviated speech"; "her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; "an unsatisfactory truncated conversation"
• shortened — Adjective – English ～ shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another; "a miracle that anyone survived in the telescoped cars"; "years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream"
• shortened — Adjective – English ～ with parts removed; "the drastically cut film"
• shortened — Adjective – English ～ cut short; "a sawed-off shotgun"; "a sawed-off broomstick"; "the shortened rope was easier to use"
• shortener — Noun – English ～ any agent that shortens; "alcohol is a great shortener of life"
• shortening — Noun – English ～ act of decreasing in length; "the dress needs shortening"
• shortening — Noun – English ～ fat such as butter or lard used in baked goods
• shorter – English – not validated
• shortfall — Noun – English ～ the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required; "new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit"
• shortfin mako — Noun – English ～ very swift active bluish shark found worldwide in warm waters; important game fish
• shortgrass — 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
• shorthand — Noun – English ～ a method of writing rapidly using an abbreviated symbolic system

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