A member of the alt.suicide.holiday newsgroup, which deals with the topics of suicide and depression.
ashir
ashur
ashur
Proper noun
the head of the Assyrian pantheon, later identified with Anshar
the city of Assur
a common given name among Assyrian people
grandson of Noah in Genesis
brash
brash
adj
(US, colloquial, dated) Brittle (said e.g. of wood or vegetables).
(of actions) Overly bold, impetuous or rash.
(of people or behaviour) Overly bold or self-assertive to the point of being insensitive, tactless or impudent; shameless.
(of things) Bold, bright or showy, often in a tasteless way.
noun
(geology) Broken and angular rock fragments underlying alluvial deposits.
(obsolete) An attack or assault.
A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.
A sudden burst of rain.
Broken fragments of ice.
Leaf litter of small leaves and little twigs as found under a hedge.
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To disturb.
brush
brush
noun
(North Wisconsin, uncountable) Evergreen boughs, especially balsam, locally cut and baled for export, usually for use in making wreaths.
(archaic) A short contest, or trial, of speed.
(computer graphics) A set of defined design and parameters that produce drawn strokes of a certain texture and quality.
(computer graphics) An on-screen tool for "painting" a particular colour or texture.
(music) An instrument, resembling a brush, used to produce a soft sound from drums or cymbals.
(poker, slang) The floorperson of a poker room, usually in a casino.
(uncountable) Wild vegetation, generally larger than grass but smaller than trees. See shrubland.
(video games) In 3D video games, a convex polyhedron, especially one that defines structure of the play area.
(zoology) A tuft of hair on the mandibles.
A brush-like electrical discharge of sparks.
A piece of conductive material, usually carbon, serving to maintain electrical contact between the stationary and rotating parts of a machine.
A short and sometimes occasional encounter or experience.
An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or other filaments attached to a handle, used for any of various purposes including cleaning, painting, and arranging hair.
The act of brushing something.
The furry tail of an animal, especially of a fox.
verb
(intransitive) To clean one's teeth by brushing them.
(transitive) To apply with a brush.
(transitive) To clean with a brush.
(transitive) To remove with a sweeping motion.
(transitive) To untangle or arrange with a brush.
(transitive, intransitive) To touch with a sweeping motion, or lightly in passing.
buhrs
chars
chars
noun
plural of char
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of char
chris
chris
Proper noun
A diminutive of the male given names Christopher and, less commonly, of Christian.
A diminutive of the female name Christina and of its variant forms.
crash
crash
adj
Quick, fast, intensive, impromptu.
noun
(collective) A group of rhinoceroses.
(computing) A malfunction of computer software or hardware which causes it to shut down or become partially or totally inoperable.
(fibre) A type of rough linen.
(finance) A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures).
(informal) A comedown from a drug.
A sudden, intense, loud sound, as made for example by cymbals.
An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.
verb
(computing, hardware, software, intransitive) To terminate extraordinarily.
(computing, hardware, software, transitive) To cause to terminate extraordinarily.
(intransitive) To experience a period of depression and/or lethargy after a period of euphoria, as after the euphoric effect of a psychotropic drug has dissipated.
(intransitive, slang) To lie down for a long rest, sleep or nap, as from tiredness or exhaustion.
(intransitive, slang) To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements, especially overnight.
(medicine, of a patient's condition) To take a sudden and severe turn for the worse; to rapidly deteriorate.
(transitive) To collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently.
(transitive) To hit or strike with force
(transitive) To severely damage or destroy something by causing it to collide with something else.
(transitive, management) To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources to it.
(transitive, slang) Short for gatecrash.
(transitive, slang) To give, as a favor.
To make a sudden loud noise.
crush
crush
noun
(Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season when this process takes place.
(dated) A party or festive function.
(informal) An infatuation with somebody one is not dating.
(informal, by extension) The human object of such infatuation or affection.
(slang) A group or gang.
(television, uncountable) The situation where certain colors are so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
(uncountable, sexuality) A paraphilia involving arousal from seeing things destroyed by crushing.
A crowd control barrier.
A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure.
A drink made by squeezing the juice out of fruit.
A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
A violent crowding.
Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
verb
(figurative) To overwhelm by pressure or weight.
(figurative, colloquial) To do impressively well at (sports events; performances; interviews; etc.).
(film, television) To give a compressed or foreshortened appearance to.
(intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller volume or area, by external weight or force.
(intransitive) To feel infatuation or unrequited love.
(transitive, television) To make certain colors so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
To oppress or grievously burden.
To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity, or to force together into a mass.
To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding.
earsh
earsh
noun
(archaic) stubble field.
esher
esher
Proper noun
a town in northern Surrey, England.
fresh
fresh
adj
(archaic, slang) Tipsy; drunk.
(of food) Not dried, frozen, or spoiled.
(of plant material) Still green and not dried.
(of water) Without salt; not saline.
(slang) Good, fashionable.
Disobedient or rude, as of a child.
In a raw or untried state; uncultured; unpracticed.
Invigoratingly cool and refreshing.
Newly produced or obtained; recent.
Rested; not tired or fatigued.
Rude, cheeky, or inappropriate; presumptuous; disrespectful; forward.
Sexually aggressive or forward; prone to caress too eagerly; overly flirtatious.
Youthful; florid.
adv
recently; just recently; most recently
noun
A rush of water, along a river or onto the land; a flood.
A stream or spring of fresh water.
The mingling of fresh water with salt in rivers or bays, as by means of a flood of fresh water flowing toward or into the sea.
verb
(commercial fishing) To pack (fish) loosely on ice.
(of a dairy cow) to give birth to a calf.
(of wind) To become stronger.
To flood or dilute an area of salt water with flowing fresh water.
To freshen up.
To rebore the barrel of a rifle or shotgun.
To renew.
To update.
frosh
frosh
noun
(colloquial) A first-year student, at certain universities, and a first-or-second-year student at other universities.
(colloquial) Short for frosh week.
(now dialectal) A frog.
verb
(transitive, slang) To damage through incompetence.
(transitive, slang) To initiate academic freshmen, notably in a testing way.
frush
frush
adj
Easily broken; brittle; crisp.
noun
(obsolete) noise; clatter; crash
A discharge of a foetid or ichorous matter from the frog of a horse's foot; thrush.
The frog of a horse's foot.
verb
(historical, transitive) To straighten up (the feathers on an arrow).
(obsolete, intransitive) To charge, rush violently.
(obsolete, transitive) To break up, smash.
girsh
girsh
noun
Dated form of qursh.
grush
gursh
haars
haars
noun
plural of haar
hairs
hairs
noun
plural of hair
haras
haras
noun
(archaic) An establishment that breeds horses; a stud farm.
(obsolete) A herd of stud horses; a harras.
hards
hards
noun
The short coarser fibers of flax or hemp; tow.
plural of hard
hares
hares
noun
plural of hare
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hare
harks
harks
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hark
harls
harls
noun
plural of harl
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of harl
harms
harms
noun
plural of harm
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of harm
harns
harns
noun
(now archaic, dialectal or rare) Brains.
harps
harps
noun
plural of harp
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of harp
harsh
harsh
adj
Severe or cruel.
Unpleasantly rough to the touch or other senses.
verb
(intransitive, slang) To negatively criticize.
(transitive, slang) To put a damper on (a mood).
harst
harts
harts
noun
plural of hart
hdqrs
hdqrs
noun
Abbreviation of headquarters.
hears
hears
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hear
heirs
heirs
noun
plural of heir
herbs
herbs
noun
plural of herb
herds
herds
noun
plural of herd
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of herd
heres
heres
noun
plural of here
herls
herls
noun
plural of herl
herms
herms
noun
plural of herm
herns
herns
noun
plural of hern
heros
heros
noun
plural of hero (in the sense of a type of sandwich)
herse
herse
noun
(obsolete) A funeral ceremony.
A kind of gate or portcullis, having iron bars, like a harrow, studded with iron spikes, hung above gateways so that it may be quickly lowered to impede the advance of an enemy.
Obsolete form of hearse (a carriage for the dead)
verb
Alternative form of hearse
hersh
herts
hires
hires
noun
plural of hire
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hire
hirse
hirsh
hirst
hlhsr
hoars
hoars
noun
plural of hoar
hoers
hoers
noun
plural of hoer
horas
horas
noun
plural of hora
horns
horns
noun
plural of horn
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of horn
horsa
horse
horse
noun
(US) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or H.O.R.S.E. (see H-O-R-S-E on Wikipedia.Wikipedia).
(chess, informal) The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a horse.
(dated, slang, among students) A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.
(dated, slang, among students) Horseplay; tomfoolery.
(historical) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
(military, sometimes uncountable) Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).
(mining) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.
(prison slang) A prison guard who smuggles contraband in or out for prisoners.
(slang) A large and sturdy person.
(slang) The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.
(uncountable) The flesh of a horse as an item of cuisine.
(uncountable, slang) Heroin (drug).
(xiangqi) A xiangqi piece, that moves and captures one point orthogonally and then one point diagonally.
(zoology) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including zebras and asses.
A breastband for a leadsman.
A frame with legs, used to support something.
A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
A jackstay.
A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.
An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.
Any member of the species Equus ferus, including the Przewalski's horse and the extinct Equus ferus ferus.
In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high, sometimes (pommel horse) with two handles on top.
verb
(by extension) To flog.
(informal) To cram (food) quickly, indiscriminately or in great volume.
(intransitive) To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".)
(intransitive, dated) To charge for work before it is finished.
(obsolete) To get on horseback.
(of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).
(transitive) To play mischievous pranks on.
(transitive) To provide with a horse; supply horses for.
(transitive) To pull, haul, or move (something) with great effort, like a horse would.
(transitive, dated) To urge at work tyrannically.
To place (someone) on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, chair, etc., to be flogged or punished.
To sit astride of; to bestride.
To take or carry on the back.
horst
horst
noun
(geology) An area of the earth's surface which is raised relative to surrounding land.
horsy
horsy
adj
Of a graphic design or typographical treatment which is clumsy, clunky, or unrefined.
Of a person or people, involved in breeding or riding horses.
Of or relating to horses.
noun
(childish or endearing) A child's term or name for a horse.
A game where a child rides on the back of another, who is on all fours.
horus
hours
hours
noun
plural of hour
hurds
hurds
noun
Alternative form of hards.
hurls
hurls
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hurl
hurst
hurst
noun
(rare outside place names) A wood or grove.
hurts
hurts
noun
plural of hurt
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hurt
hyrse
hyrse
noun
Millet, a cereal grass commonly grown for food.
hyrst
irish
irish
Proper noun
The Goidelic language indigenous to Ireland, also known as Irish Gaelic.
Noun
The Irish people.
A board game of the tables family.
Temper; anger, passion.
whiskey, or whisky, elaborated in Ireland.
Adjective
Pertaining to or originating from Ireland or the Irish people.
Pertaining to the Irish language.
nonsensical, daft or complex.
kursh
lehrs
lehrs
noun
plural of lehr
marsh
marsh
noun
An area of low, wet land, often with tall grass.
osher
qursh
qursh
noun
A monetary unit in Saudi Arabia equivalent to a twentieth of a rial.
raash
rashi
rashi
Proper noun
a medieval Rabbi from Troyes, known for his commentary on the Hebrew Bible and
Rashi's commentary on the Hebrew Bible or Talmud.
A semicursive typeface for the Hebrew alphabet, customarily used for printing Rashi's commentaries.
Noun
a single piece of Rashi's commentary on the Hebrew Bible or Talmud
rasht
rdhos
resht
rheas
rheas
noun
plural of rhea
rishi
rishi
noun
(post-Vedic) A Hindu sage or saint occupying the same position in India history as the patriarchs of other countries, constituting a peculiar class of beings in the early mythical system, as distinct from Asuras, Devas and mortal men.
A Vedic poet and seer who composed Rigvedic hymns, who alone or with others invokes the deities with poetry of a sacred character.
roshi
roshi
noun
An elderly and revered Buddhist monk.
rushy
rushy
adj
(of a marsh etc) abounding in rushes
Characterised by rushing; hurried; fast-paced
having the characteristics of a rush (the plant); rushlike
ruths
ruths
noun
plural of ruth
sarah
sarah
Proper noun
The wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac in the Bible.
sereh
shaer
shara
shard
shard
noun
(by extension) A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery.
(databases) A component of a sharded distributed database.
(online gaming) An instance of an MMORPG that is one of several independent and structurally identical virtual worlds, none of which has so many players as to exhaust a system's resources.
(slang, in the singular or in the plural) A piece of crystal methamphetamine.
A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.
A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle.
The plant chard.
verb
(intransitive) To fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion.
(online gaming, transitive) To divide (an MMORPG) into several shards, or to establish a shard of one.
(transitive) To break (something) into shards.
share
share
noun
(agriculture) The cutting blade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a seeding-machine.
(anatomy) The sharebone or pubis.
(computing) A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network.
(finance) A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability.
(social media) The action of sharing something with other people via social media.
A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone.
verb
(computing, Internet) To allow public or private sharing of computer data or space in a network
(transitive, obsolete) To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.
To divide and distribute.
To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.
To have or use in common.
To tell to another.
shari
shari
noun
Dead wood on the main trunk of a bonsai tree.
shark
shark
noun
(UK, university slang) A university student who is not a fresher that has engaged in sexual activity with a fresher; usually habitually and with multiple people.
(ichthyology) A scaleless, predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.
(informal) A relentless and resolute person or group, especially in business.
(informal) A very good poker or pool player. Compare fish (a bad poker player).
(informal, derogatory) A sleazy and amoral lawyer.
(informal, derogatory) An ambulance chaser.
(sports and games) A person who feigns ineptitude to win money from others.
Someone who exploits others, for example by trickery, lies, usury, extortion.
verb
(UK, university slang) Of a university student who is not a fresher, to engage in sexual activity with a fresher, or to be at a bar or club with the general intention of engaging in such activity.
(obsolete) To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.
(obsolete) To steal or obtain through fraud.
(obsolete, intransitive) To live by shifts and stratagems.
(obsolete, intransitive) To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.
(rare) To fish for sharks.
sharl
sharn
sharn
noun
(chiefly Scotland) The dung or manure of cattle or sheep.
sharp
sharp
adj
(chess) Tactical; risky.
(colloquial) Illegal or dishonest.
(colloquial) Intelligent.
(colloquial) Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interests; shrewd.
(colloquial) Stylish or attractive.
(mathematics, of a statement) Said of as extreme a value as possible.
(music) Higher in pitch than required.
(music) Higher than usual by one semitone (denoted by the symbol ♯ after the name of the note).
(phonetics, dated) Uttered in a whisper, or with the breath alone; aspirated; unvoiced.
Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty.
Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification.
Exact, precise, accurate; keen.
Forming a small angle; especially, forming an angle of less than ninety degrees.
Having an intense, acrid flavour.
Observant; alert; acute.
Offensive, critical, or acrimonious.
Piercing; keen; severe; painful.
Steep; precipitous; abrupt.
Sudden and intense.
Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut easily; not obtuse or rounded.
adv
(music) In a higher pitch than is correct or desirable.
(not comparable) Exactly.
To a point or edge; piercingly; eagerly; sharply.
noun
(in the plural) Fine particles of husk mixed with coarse particle of flour of cereals; middlings.
(medicine) A hypodermic syringe.
(medicine, dated) A scalpel or other edged instrument used in surgery.
(music) A note that is played a semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed by the symbol ♯.
(music) A note that is sharp in a particular key.
(music) The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic.
(music) The symbol ♯, placed after the name of a note in the key signature or before a note on the staff to indicate that the note is to be played a semitone higher.
(slang, dated) An expert.
(usually in the plural) Something that is sharp.
A dishonest person; a cheater.
A sewing needle with a very slender point, more pointed than a blunt or a between.
A sharp tool or weapon.
A sharpie (member of Australian gangs of the 1960s and 1970s).
Part of a stream where the water runs very rapidly.
verb
(music) To raise the pitch of a note half a step making a natural note a sharp.
(transitive, obsolete) To sharpen.
To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper.
shear
shear
adj
Misspelling of sheer.
noun
(aviation, meteorology) Wind shear, or an instance thereof.
(geology) The response of a rock to deformation usually by compressive stress, resulting in particular textures.
(mathematics) A transformation that displaces every point in a direction parallel to some given line by a distance proportional to the point’s distance from the line.
(metalworking) A large machine use for cutting sheet metal.
(physics) Forces that push in opposite directions.
A cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger.
The act of shearing, or something removed by shearing.
verb
(Scotland) To reap, as grain.
(aviation, meteorology, intransitive, of wind) To change in direction or speed.
(figurative) To deprive of property; to fleece.
(mathematics) To transform by displacing every point in a direction parallel to some given line by a distance proportional to the point’s distance from the line.
(mining, intransitive) To make a vertical cut in coal.
(physics) To deform because of forces pushing in opposite directions.
To cut the hair of (a person).
To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears.
To remove the fleece from a sheep etc. by clipping.
sheer
sheer
adj
(by extension) Downright; complete; pure.
(obsolete) Pure in composition; unmixed; unadulterated.
(textiles) Very thin or transparent.
Used to emphasize the amount or degree of something.
Very steep; almost vertical or perpendicular.
adv
(archaic) Clean; quite; at once.
noun
(nautical) An abrupt swerve from the course of a ship.
(nautical) The curve of the main deck or gunwale from bow to stern.
A sheer curtain or fabric.
verb
(chiefly nautical) To swerve from a course.
(obsolete) To shear.
sherd
sherd
noun
(dated or archaeology) Alternative form of shard
shere
sheri
sheri
Proper noun
name, variant of Sherry.
sherj
sherl
sherm
sherm
noun
(slang) A cigarette soaked in PCP
(slang) The drug phencyclidine (PCP)
sherr
shier
shira
shira
Proper noun
A lake in Russia,
A local government area in Nigeria.
shire
shire
noun
(UK, colloquial) The general area in which a person lives or comes from, used in the context of travel within the United Kingdom.
A rural or outer suburban local government area of Australia.
A shire horse.
Former administrative area of Britain; a county.
Physical area administered by a sheriff.
verb
County Longford was shired in 1586
To (re)constitute as one or more shires or counties.
shiri
shirk
shirk
noun
(Islam) The unforgivable sin of idolatry.
One who shirks, who avoids a duty or responsibility.
verb
(intransitive) To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away.
(transitive) To avoid, especially a duty, responsibility, etc.; to stay away from.
(transitive) To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.
shirl
shirl
noun
(mineralogy) Archaic form of schorl.
verb
(UK, dialect, intransitive) To slide.
shiro
shiro
noun
A mass of hyphae constituting the mycelium of certain fungi.
A stew of Ethiopia and Eritrea origin whose primary ingredient is powdered chickpeas or broad-bean meal.
shirr
shirr
verb
(US, sewing) To make gathers in textiles by drawing together parallel threads.
(US, transitive) To bake (a raw egg removed from its shell) in a baking dish.
shirt
shirt
noun
A member of the shirt-wearing team in a shirts and skins game.
An article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, and often has sleeves, either long or short, that cover the arms.
An interior lining in a blast furnace.
verb
To cover or clothe with a shirt, or as if with a shirt.
shoer
shoer
noun
One who fits shoes to the feet.
shoor
shore
shore
adv
Pronunciation spelling of sure.
noun
(from the perspective of one on a body of water) Land, usually near a port.
(obsolete except Scotland) A sewer.
A prop or strut supporting some structure or weight above it.
Land adjoining a non-flowing body of water, such as an ocean, lake or pond.
verb
(obsolete) To set on shore.
Not followed by up: to provide (something) with support.
To offer (someone).
To threaten or warn (someone).
Usually followed by up: to reinforce (something at risk of failure).
simple past tense of shear
shorl
shorl
noun
Alternative form of schorl
shorn
shorn
adj
Of a person, having had a haircut.
Of a sheep, etc., having been shorn.
verb
past participle of shear
short
short
adj
(baking, of pastries, metallurgy) Brittle, crumbly. (See shortbread, shortcake, shortcrust, shortening, hot short, cold-short.)
(by extension) Doubtful of, skeptical of.
(colloquial) Undiluted; neat.
(cricket, of a ball) bowled so that it bounces relatively far from the batsman.
(cricket, of a fielder or fielding position) that is relatively close to the batsman.
(finance) Being in a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.
(finance, dated) Of money: given in the fewest possible notes, i.e. those of the largest denomination.
(followed by for) Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).
(gambling) Of betting odds, offering a small return for the money wagered.
(golf, of an approach shot or putt) that falls short of the green or the hole.
(obsolete) Not distant in time; near at hand.
(of a person) Of comparatively small height.
Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.
Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
Having little duration.
Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied, especially with money; scantily furnished; lacking.
Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
adv
(cricket, of the manner of bounce of a cricket ball) Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full.
(finance) With a negative ownership position.
Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
Unawares.
Without achieving a goal or requirement.
noun
(US, slang) An automobile; especially in crack shorts, to break into automobiles.
(baseball) A shortstop.
(finance) A short sale or short position.
(finance) A short seller.
(phonetics) A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
(programming) An integer variable having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
A short circuit.
A short film.
A short version of a garment in a particular size.
A summary account.
prep
(finance) Having a negative position in.
Deficient in.
verb
(intransitive, of an electrical circuit) To short circuit.
(obsolete) To shorten.
(transitive) To cause a short circuit in (something).
(transitive) To shortchange.
(transitive, business) To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.
(transitive, informal) To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.
shrab
shrab
Noun
form of (a drink of fruit juice, spirits, etc.)
shraf
shrag
shrag
noun
A twig cut from a tree.
shram
shram
verb
(UK, dialect, dated) To cause to shrink or shrivel with cold; to benumb.
shrap
shrap
noun
(obsolete) A place baited with chaff to entice birds.
shred
shred
adj
Synonym of shredded (“cut or torn into narrow strips or small pieces”)
noun
(archaic) A piece of gold or silver lace or thread.
(by extension) A thin strand or wisp, as of a cloud, mist, etc.
(cooking) A thin strip of fruit peel, a vegetable, etc., cut so that it curls.
(obsolete) A tailor.
(rare) A shard or sherd (“a piece of broken glass or pottery”).
A fragment of something; a particle; a piece; also, a very small amount.
A long, narrow piece (especially of fabric) cut or torn off; a strip; specifically, a piece of cloth or clothing.
verb
(archaic) To cut or sever (something) into two parts.
(bodybuilding) To reduce body weight due to fat and water before a competition.
(cooking) To cut (fruit peel, a vegetable, etc.) into thin strips that curl.
(music) Chiefly in rock and heavy metal: to play (a musical instrument (especially a guitar) or a piece of music) very fast.
(originally US) To convincingly defeat (someone); to thrash, to trounce.
(snowboarding, surfing) To cut through (snow, water, etc.) swiftly with one's snowboard, surfboard, etc.; (by extension) to move or ride along (a road, track, etc.) aggressively and rapidly.
(snowboarding, surfing, etc.) To travel swiftly using a snowboard, surfboard, or vehicle.
To become separated into small portions.
To chop or cut (something) into pieces.
To cut or tear (something) into long, narrow pieces or strips.
To cut, lop, or strip (branches, etc.) off; also, to cut (a piece) from something.
To destroy (a document) by cutting or tearing into strips or small pieces that cannot easily be read, especially using a shredder.
To prune or trim (a tree, a vineyard, etc.).
To reduce (something) by a large percentage; to slash.
To separate (something) into small portions.
shree
shrew
shrew
noun
(derogatory) An ill-tempered, nagging woman: a scold.
Any of numerous small, mouselike, chiefly nocturnal, mammals of the family Soricidae (order Soricomorpha).
Certain other small mammals that resemble true shrews (order Soricomorpha).
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To beshrew; to curse.
shrip
shris
shrog
shrog
noun
Alternative spelling of scrog
shrpg
shrub
shrub
noun
(Kenyan English) A word mispronounced by replacing some consonant sounds with others of a similar place of articulation due to interference from one's knowledge of an indigenous Kenyan language.
A liquor composed of vegetable acid, fruit juice (especially lemon), sugar, sometimes vinegar, and a small amount of spirit as a preservative. Modern shrub is usually non-alcoholic, but in earlier times it was often mixed with a substantial amount of spirit such as brandy or rum, thus making it a liqueur.
A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.
verb
(obsolete) To lop; to prune.
(transitive, Kenyan English) To mispronounce a word by replacing some consonant sounds with others of a similar place of articulation due to interference from one's knowledge of an indigenous Kenyan language.
shrug
shrug
noun
A cropped, cardigan-like garment with short or long sleeves, typically knitted.
A lifting of the shoulders to signal indifference or a casual lack of knowledge.
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To raise (the shoulders) to express uncertainty, lack of concern, (formerly) dread, etc.
shure
shure
adj
Eye dialect spelling of sure.
shurf
shyer
shyer
adj
comparative form of shy: more shy
noun
A horse that shies.
sirih
sirih
noun
A vining plant of Sumatra, whose leaves may be chewed with betel nuts or used medicinally to shrink the vagina after childbirth.
spohr
stroh
surah
surah
noun
Alternative spelling of sura (“chapter of Quran”)
soft twilled silk
tahrs
tahrs
noun
plural of tahr
thurs
trash
trash
noun
(agriculture, uncountable) Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, with much less commercial value than the principal grades.
(chiefly Canada, US) (fandom slang, humorous, uncountable) A fan who is excessively obsessed with their fandom and its fanworks.
(chiefly Canada, US) (slang, derogatory) People of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash.)
(chiefly Canada, US) Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
(chiefly Canada, US, figurative) Something worthless or of poor quality.
(chiefly Canada, US, metonymically) A container into which things are discarded.
(chiefly Southern United States, agriculture) The disused stems, leaves, or vines of a crop, as well as any weeds mixed therewith, which will either be plowed in as green manure or be removed by raking, grazing, or burning.
(computing) Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.
A dubious assertion, either for appearing untrue or for being excessively boastful.
verb
(US) To beat soundly in a game.
(US) To discard.
(US) To disrespect someone or something
(US) To make into a mess.
To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.
To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously.
To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush.
trish
trish
Proper noun
A diminutive of the female given name Patricia.
trush
usher
usher
noun
(dated, derogatory) Any schoolteacher.
(obsolete) An assistant to a head teacher or schoolteacher; an assistant teacher.
A doorkeeper in a courtroom.
A male escort at a wedding.
A person, in a church, cinema etc., who escorts people to their seats.
verb
(figuratively) To precede; to act as a forerunner or herald.
(figuratively, transitive) To lead or guide somewhere.
To accompany or escort (someone).
To guide people to their seats.
wersh
wersh
adj
(UK dialectal, Scotland) Insipid; tasteless; delicate; having a pale and sickly look.