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sharpshooter - an expecially skillful rifleman, often acting as a sniper

Shavian - pertaining to George Bernard Shaw.

shearwater - a sea bird


sheaved - made into sheaves, bundles of cut grainstalks or grass

sheepish, sherry, sherryvallies

shibatsu - a Japanese form of massage

shigellosis - a serious type of bacterial enteritis

shine, shingler, shinnery,

Shinto - one of the forms of religion in Japan

shiny, shipboard, shipshape,

shirring
n.
1 a gathering made in cloth by drawing the material up on parallel rows of short, running stitches
2 any trim made by shirring

shoddy
n.,
pl. shod4dies 519th c. < ?6
1 a) an inferior woolen yarn made from fibers taken from used fabrics and reprocessed b) cheap woolen cloth made from this
2 anything of less worth or quality than it seems to have; esp., an inferior imitation
adj.
3di[er, 3di[est
1 a) made of shoddy b) made of any cheap, inferior material c) poorly done or made
2 counterfeit; sham !shoddy gentility"
3 contemptible; mean; low !a shoddy trick"
shod4di[ly
adv.
shod4di[ness
n.
shogi - a Japanese game similar to chess


shogun
n.
5SinoJpn shbgun, military leader < Chin chiang-chun6 any of the hereditary governors of Japan who, until 1867, constituted a quasi-dynasty exercising absolute rule and relegating the emperors to a nominal position
sho4gun[ate 73g! nit, 3nat#8
n.
shoji
n.,
pl. sho$ji or 3jis 5SinoJpn shbji, partition6
1 a translucent sliding panel of rice paper on a wooden frame, used in Japanese homes as a partition or door
2 any panel, screen, etc. like this Also shoji screen

should, showery

shrievalty
n.,
pl. 3ties [Brit.]
1 a sheriff‘s office or term of office
2 the district served by a sheriff
schrivel, shrunken, shutter, shuttlecock,

sial 8
n.
5SI(LICON) + AL(UMINUM)6 Geol. the light, granitic rock material near the surface of the earth‘s crust, underlying the continents
si[al$ic

sialagogue
n.
5ModL sialagogus < Gr sialon, saliva + ModL 3agogus, 3AGOGUE6 any substance that stimulates the flow of saliva
si[al#a[gog$ic 73g94jik8
adj.
sialoid - resembling saliva




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Would the family cook be happy to be told her comestible creation was sialogogic?



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