air shaft
— Noun
– English
～ a shaft for ventilation
Ahmad Shah Masoud
— Noun
– English
～ Afghan leader of forces opposed to the Taliban; won fame by successfully resisting the Soviets in the 1980s; was assassinated by men posing as journalists (1953-2001)
Asian shamanism
— Noun
– English
～ an animistic religion of northern Asia having the belief that the mediation between the visible and the spirit worlds is effected by shamans
amorphous shape
— Noun
– English
～ an ill-defined or arbitrary shape
angular shape
— Noun
– English
～ a shape having one or more sharp angles
authorized shares
— Noun
– English
～ the maximum number of shares authorized under the terms of a corporation's articles of incorporation
angel shark
— Noun
– English
～ sharks with broad flat bodies and winglike pectoral fins but that swim the way sharks do
after-shave
— Noun
– English
～ a fragrant lotion for a man's face after shaving
after-shave lotion
— Noun
– English
～ a fragrant lotion for a man's face after shaving
Anna Howard Shaw
— Noun
– English
～ United States physician and suffragist (1847-1919)
Artie Shaw
— Noun
– English
～ United States clarinetist and leader of a swing band (1910-2004)
artillery shell
— Noun
– English
～ a shell fired by artillery
ark shell
— Noun
– English
～ marine bivalve mollusk having a heavy toothed shell with a deep boat-like inner surface
air-raid shelter
— Noun
– English
～ a chamber (often underground) reinforced against bombing and provided with food and living facilities; used during air raids
Adar Sheni
— Noun
– English
～ included seven times in every 19 years
Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr.
— Noun
– English
～ astronaut who made the first United States' suborbital rocket-powered flight in 1961 (1923-1998)
Alan Shepard
— Noun
– English
～ astronaut who made the first United States' suborbital rocket-powered flight in 1961 (1923-1998)
Aum Shinrikyo
— Noun
– English
～ a terrorist organization whose goal is to take over Japan and then the world; based on a religion founded in 1987 that combines elements of Buddhism with Christianity; "in 1995 Aum members released deadly sarin gas on a Tokyo subway train"
abandoned ship
— Noun
– English
～ a ship abandoned on the high seas
anaphylactic shock
— Noun
– English
～ a severe and rapid and sometimes fatal hypersensitivity reaction to a substance (especially a vaccine or penicillin or shellfish or insect venom) to which the organism has become sensitized by previous exposure