Words starting with S that are validated

• 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
• 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
• shorthand — Adjective – English ～ written in abbreviated or symbolic form; "shorthand notes"
• shorthorn — Noun – English ～ English breed of short-horned cattle
• Shortia galacifolia — Noun – English ～ plant of southeastern United States having solitary white funnel-shaped flowers flushed with pink and large glossy green leaves that turn bronze-red in fall
• shortia — Noun – English ～ any plant of the genus Shortia; evergreen perennial herbs with smooth leathery basal leaves and showy white solitary flowers
• shortish — Adjective – English ～ somewhat short
• shortleaf pine — Noun – English ～ large pine of southern United States having short needles in bunches of 2-3 and red-brown bark when mature

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