SHAKER - Name Report For First Name SHAKER:
First name SHAKER's origin is Arabic. SHAKER
means "thankful". You can find other first names
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First Names Rhyming SHAKER
English Words Rhyming SHAKER
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES SHAKER AS A WHOLE:| shaker | noun (n.) A person or thing that shakes, or by means of which something is shaken. | | | noun (n.) One of a religious sect who do not marry, popularly so called from the movements of the members in dancing, which forms a part of their worship. | | | noun (n.) A variety of pigeon. |
| shakeress | noun (n.) A female Shaker. |
| shakerism | noun (n.) Doctrines of the Shakers. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH SHAKER (According to last letters):Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (haker) - English Words That Ends with haker:Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (aker) - English Words That Ends with aker:| beaker | noun (n.) A large drinking cup, with a wide mouth, supported on a foot or standard. | | | noun (n.) An open-mouthed, thin glass vessel, having a projecting lip for pouring; -- used for holding solutions requiring heat. |
| bedmaker | noun (n.) One who makes beds. |
| bespeaker | noun (n.) One who bespeaks. |
| bookmaker | noun (n.) One who writes and publishes books; especially, one who gathers his materials from other books; a compiler. | | | noun (n.) A betting man who "makes a book." See To make a book, under Book, n. |
| bootmaker | noun (n.) One who makes boots. |
| breaker | noun (n.) One who, or that which, breaks. | | | noun (n.) Specifically: A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines; also, the building in which such a machine is placed. | | | noun (n.) A small water cask. | | | noun (n.) A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface. |
| brickmaker | noun (n.) One whose occupation is to make bricks. |
| cabinetmaker | noun (n.) One whose occupation is to make cabinets or other choice articles of household furniture, as tables, bedsteads, bureaus, etc. |
| craker | noun (n.) One who boasts; a braggart. |
| croaker | noun (n.) One who croaks, murmurs, grumbles, or complains unreasonably; one who habitually forebodes evil. | | | noun (n.) A small American fish (Micropogon undulatus), of the Atlantic coast. | | | noun (n.) An American fresh-water fish (Aplodinotus grunniens); -- called also drum. | | | noun (n.) The surf fish of California. |
| daker | noun (n.) Alt. of Dakir |
| dressmaker | noun (n.) A maker of gowns, or similar garments; a mantuamaker. |
| forsaker | noun (n.) One who forsakes or deserts. |
| faker | noun (n.) One who fakes something, as a thief, a peddler of petty things, a workman who dresses things up, etc. |
| glass maker | noun (n.) Alt. of Glassmaker |
| glassmaker | noun (n.) One who makes, or manufactures, glass. |
| haymaker | noun (n.) One who cuts and cures hay. | | | noun (n.) A machine for curing hay in rainy weather. |
| housebreaker | noun (n.) One who is guilty of the crime of housebreaking. |
| kayaker | noun (n.) One who uses a kayak. |
| lawbreaker | noun (n.) One who disobeys the law; a criminal. |
| lawmaker | noun (n.) A legislator; a lawgiver. |
| laker | noun (n.) One that is connected with a lake or lakes, as in habitation, toil, etc.: | | | noun (n.) One of the poets of the Lake school. See Lake poets, under Lake, n. | | | noun (n.) A fish living in, or taken from, a lake, esp. the namaycush. | | | noun (n.) A lake steamer or canal boat. |
| maker | noun (n.) One who makes, forms, or molds; a manufacturer; specifically, the Creator. | | | noun (n.) The person who makes a promissory note. | | | noun (n.) One who writes verses; a poet. |
| mantuamaker | noun (n.) One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker. |
| matchmaker | noun (n.) One who makes matches for burning or kinding. | | | noun (n.) One who tries to bring about marriages. |
| merrymaker | noun (n.) One who makes merriment or indulges in conviviality; a jovial comrade. |
| mistaker | noun (n.) One who mistakes. |
| moonraker | noun (n.) Same as Moonsail. |
| naker | noun (n.) Same as Nacre. | | | noun (n.) A kind of kettledrum. |
| nutbreaker | noun (n.) The European nuthatch. | | | noun (n.) The nutcracker. |
| oaker | noun (n.) See Ocher. |
| quaker | noun (n.) One who quakes. | | | noun (n.) One of a religious sect founded by George Fox, of Leicestershire, England, about 1650, -- the members of which call themselves Friends. They were called Quakers, originally, in derision. See Friend, n., 4. | | | noun (n.) The nankeen bird. | | | noun (n.) The sooty albatross. | | | noun (n.) Any grasshopper or locust of the genus (Edipoda; -- so called from the quaking noise made during flight. | | | noun (n.) One who quakes. | | | noun (n.) One of a religious sect founded by George Fox, of Leicestershire, England, about 1650, -- the members of which call themselves Friends. They were called Quakers, originally, in derision. See Friend, n., 4. | | | noun (n.) The nankeen bird. | | | noun (n.) The sooty albatross. | | | noun (n.) Any grasshopper or locust of the genus (Edipoda; -- so called from the quaking noise made during flight. |
| painstaker | noun (n.) One who takes pains; one careful and faithful in all work. |
| partaker | noun (n.) One who partakes; a sharer; a participator. | | | noun (n.) An accomplice; an associate; a partner. |
| pathmaker | noun (n.) One who, or that which, makes a way or path. |
| peacebreaker | noun (n.) One who disturbs the public peace. |
| peacemaker | noun (n.) One who makes peace by reconciling parties that are at variance. |
| playmaker | noun (n.) A playwright. |
| raker | noun (n.) One who, or that which, rakes | | | noun (n.) A person who uses a rake. | | | noun (n.) A machine for raking grain or hay by horse or other power. | | | noun (n.) A gun so placed as to rake an enemy's ship. | | | noun (n.) See Gill rakers, under 1st Gill. |
| retaker | noun (n.) One who takes again what has been taken; a recaptor. |
| roadmaker | noun (n.) One who makes roads. |
| sailmaker | noun (n.) One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. |
| saker | noun (n.) A falcon (Falco sacer) native of Southern Europe and Asia, closely resembling the lanner. | | | noun (n.) The peregrine falcon. | | | noun (n.) A small piece of artillery. |
| shoemaker | noun (n.) One whose occupation it is to make shoes and boots. | | | noun (n.) The threadfish. | | | noun (n.) The runner, 12. |
| sleepwaker | noun (n.) On in a state of magnetic or mesmeric sleep. |
| sneaker | noun (n.) One who sneaks. | | | noun (n.) A vessel of drink. | | | noun (n.) Shoes with rubber or other soft soles which give no warning of one's approaching, esp. such shoes as are worn in games, as tennis. | | | noun (n.) A punch bowl. |
| soaker | noun (n.) One who, or that which, soaks. | | | noun (n.) A hard drinker. |
| speaker | noun (n.) One who speaks. | | | noun (n.) One who utters or pronounces a discourse; usually, one who utters a speech in public; as, the man is a good speaker, or a bad speaker. | | | noun (n.) One who is the mouthpiece of others; especially, one who presides over, or speaks for, a delibrative assembly, preserving order and regulating the debates; as, the Speaker of the House of Commons, originally, the mouthpiece of the House to address the king; the Speaker of a House of Representatives. | | | noun (n.) A book of selections for declamation. |
| speechmaker | noun (n.) One who makes speeches; one accustomed to speak in a public assembly. |
| spinnaker | noun (n.) A large triangular sail set upon a boom, -- used when running before the wind. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ker) - English Words That Ends with ker:| anker | noun (n.) A liquid measure in various countries of Europe. The Dutch anker, formerly also used in England, contained about 10 of the old wine gallons, or 8/ imperial gallons. |
| asker | noun (n.) One who asks; a petitioner; an inquirer. | | | noun (n.) An ask; a water newt. |
| attacker | noun (n.) One who attacks. |
| backer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, backs; especially one who backs a person or thing in a contest. |
| balker | noun (n.) One who, or that which balks. | | | noun (n.) A person who stands on a rock or eminence to espy the shoals of herring, etc., and to give notice to the men in boats which way they pass; a conder; a huer. |
| banker | noun (n.) One who conducts the business of banking; one who, individually, or as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchange, etc. | | | noun (n.) A money changer. | | | noun (n.) The dealer, or one who keeps the bank in a gambling house. | | | noun (n.) A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland. | | | noun (n.) A ditcher; a drain digger. | | | noun (n.) The stone bench on which masons cut or square their work. |
| barker | noun (n.) An animal that barks; hence, any one who clamors unreasonably. | | | noun (n.) One who stands at the doors of shops to urg/ passers by to make purchases. | | | noun (n.) A pistol. | | | noun (n.) The spotted redshank. | | | noun (n.) One who strips trees of their bark. |
| becker | noun (n.) A European fish (Pagellus centrodontus); the sea bream or braise. |
| berserker | noun (n.) One of a class of legendary heroes, who fought frenzied by intoxicating liquors, and naked, regardless of wounds. | | | noun (n.) One who fights as if frenzied, like a Berserker. |
| bicker | noun (n.) A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub. | | | noun (n.) A skirmish; an encounter. | | | noun (n.) A fight with stones between two parties of boys. | | | noun (n.) A wrangle; also, a noise,, as in angry contention. | | | verb (v. i.) To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight. | | | verb (v. i.) To contend in petulant altercation; to wrangle. | | | verb (v. i.) To move quickly and unsteadily, or with a pattering noise; to quiver; to be tremulous, like flame. |
| billsticker | noun (n.) One whose occupation is to post handbills or posters in public places. |
| blinker | noun (n.) One who, or that which, blinks. | | | noun (n.) A blinder for horses; a flap of leather on a horse's bridle to prevent him from seeing objects as his side hence, whatever obstructs sight or discernment. | | | (pl.) A kind of goggles, used to protect the eyes form glare, etc. |
| bloodsucker | noun (n.) Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species. | | | noun (n.) One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer. | | | noun (n.) A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an extortioner. |
| bogsucker | noun (n.) The American woodcock; -- so called from its feeding among the bogs. |
| booker | noun (n.) One who enters accounts or names, etc., in a book; a bookkeeper. |
| bucker | noun (n.) One who bucks ore. | | | noun (n.) A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore. | | | noun (n.) A horse or mule that bucks. |
| bulker | noun (n.) A person employed to ascertain the bulk or size of goods, in order to fix the amount of freight or dues payable on them. |
| bunker | noun (n.) A sort of chest or box, as in a window, the lid of which serves for a seat. | | | noun (n.) A large bin or similar receptacle; as, a coal bunker. | | | noun (n.) A small sand hole or pit, as on a golf course. | | | noun (n.) Hence, any rough hazardous ground on the links; also, an artificial hazard with built-up faces. | | | verb (v. t.) To drive (the ball) into a bunker. |
| bushwhacker | noun (n.) One accustomed to beat about, or travel through, bushes. | | | noun (n.) A guerrilla; a marauding assassin; one who pretends to be a peaceful citizen, but secretly harasses a hostile force or its sympathizers. |
| cadilesker | noun (n.) A chief judge in the Turkish empire, so named originally because his jurisdiction extended to the cases of soldiers, who are now tried only by their own officers. |
| calker | noun (n.) One who calks. | | | noun (n.) A calk on a shoe. See Calk, n., 1. |
| canker | noun (n.) A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth; -- called also water canker, canker of the mouth, and noma. | | | noun (n.) Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroy. | | | noun (n.) A disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off. | | | noun (n.) An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths; -- usually resulting from neglected thrush. | | | noun (n.) A kind of wild, worthless rose; the dog-rose. | | | verb (v. t.) To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume. | | | verb (v. t.) To infect or pollute; to corrupt. | | | verb (v. i.) To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral. | | | verb (v. i.) To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous. |
| cauker | noun (n.) See Cawk, Calker. |
| cawker | noun (n.) See Calker. |
| checker | noun (n.) To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by crossing stripes of different colors. | | | noun (n.) To variegate or diversify with different qualities, colors, scenes, or events; esp., to subject to frequent alternations of prosperity and adversity. | | | verb (v. t.) One who checks. | | | verb (v. t.) A piece in the game of draughts or checkers. | | | verb (v. t.) A pattern in checks; a single check. | | | verb (v. t.) Checkerwork. |
| choker | noun (n.) One who, or that which, chokes. | | | noun (n.) A stiff wide cravat; a stock. |
| clacker | noun (n.) One who clacks; that which clacks; especially, the clapper of a mill. | | | noun (n.) A claqueur. See Claqueur. |
| clicker | noun (n.) One who stands before a shop door to invite people to buy. | | | noun (n.) One who as has charge of the work of a companionship. |
| clinker | noun (n.) A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln. | | | noun (n.) Scoria or vitrified incombustible matter, formed in a grate or furnace where anthracite coal in used; vitrified or burnt matter ejected from a volcano; slag. | | | noun (n.) A scale of oxide of iron, formed in forging. | | | noun (n.) A kind of brick. See Dutch clinker, under Dutch. |
| cocker | noun (n.) One given to cockfighting. | | | noun (n.) A small dog of the spaniel kind, used for starting up woodcocks, etc. | | | noun (n.) A rustic high shoe or half-boots. | | | verb (v. t.) To treat with too great tenderness; to fondle; to indulge; to pamper. |
| coworker | noun (n.) One who works with another; a co/perator. |
| cracker | noun (n.) One who, or that which, cracks. | | | noun (n.) A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow. | | | noun (n.) A small firework, consisting of a little powder inclosed in a thick paper cylinder with a fuse, and exploding with a sharp noise; -- often called firecracker. | | | noun (n.) A thin, dry biscuit, often hard or crisp; as, a Boston cracker; a Graham cracker; a soda cracker; an oyster cracker. | | | noun (n.) A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States. | | | noun (n.) The pintail duck. | | | noun (n.) A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc. |
| crocker | noun (n.) A potter. |
| croker | noun (n.) A cultivator of saffron; a dealer in saffron. |
| cowalker | noun (n.) A phantasmic or "astral" body deemed to be separable from the physical body and capable of acting independently; a doppelganger. |
| decker | noun (n.) One who, or that which, decks or adorns; a coverer; as, a table decker. | | | noun (n.) A vessel which has a deck or decks; -- used esp. in composition; as, a single-decker; a three-decker. |
| deerstalker | noun (n.) One who practices deerstalking. | | | noun (n.) A close-fitting hat, with a low crown, such as is worn in deerstalking; also, any stiff, round hat. |
| dicker | noun (n.) The number or quantity of ten, particularly ten hides or skins; a dakir; as, a dicker of gloves. | | | noun (n.) A chaffering, barter, or exchange, of small wares; as, to make a dicker. | | | verb (v. i. & t.) To negotiate a dicker; to barter. |
| diesinker | noun (n.) An engraver of dies for stamping coins, medals, etc. |
| diker | noun (n.) A ditcher. | | | noun (n.) One who builds stone walls; usually, one who builds them without lime. |
| disliker | noun (n.) One who dislikes or disrelishes. |
| drinker | noun (n.) One who drinks; as, the effects of tea on the drinker; also, one who drinks spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard. |
| ducker | noun (n.) One who, or that which, ducks; a plunger; a diver. | | | noun (n.) A cringing, servile person; a fawner. |
| dunker | noun (n.) One of a religious denomination whose tenets and practices are mainly those of the Baptists, but partly those of the Quakers; -- called also Tunkers, Dunkards, Dippers, and, by themselves, Brethren, and German Baptists. |
| esker | noun (n.) See Eschar. |
| eyewinker | noun (n.) An eyelash. |
| firecracker | noun (n.) See Cracker., n., 3. |
| flanker | noun (n.) One who, or that which, flanks, as a skirmisher or a body of troops sent out upon the flanks of an army toguard a line of march, or a fort projecting so as to command the side of an assailing body. | | | verb (v. t.) To defend by lateral fortifications. | | | verb (v. t.) To attack sideways. |
| flicker | noun (n.) The act of wavering or of fluttering; flucuation; sudden and brief increase of brightness; as, the last flicker of the dying flame. | | | noun (n.) The golden-winged woodpecker (Colaptes aurutus); -- so called from its spring note. Called also yellow-hammer, high-holder, pigeon woodpecker, and yucca. | | | verb (v. i.) To flutter; to flap the wings without flying. | | | verb (v. i.) To waver unsteadily, like a flame in a current of air, or when about to expire; as, the flickering light. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH SHAKER (According to first letters):Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (shake) - Words That Begins with shake:| shake | noun (n.) The act or result of shaking; a vacillating or wavering motion; a rapid motion one way and other; a trembling, quaking, or shivering; agitation. | | | noun (n.) A fissure or crack in timber, caused by its being dried too suddenly. | | | noun (n.) A fissure in rock or earth. | | | noun (n.) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill. | | | noun (n.) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart. | | | noun (n.) A shook of staves and headings. | | | noun (n.) The redshank; -- so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground. | | | verb (v.) To cause to move with quick or violent vibrations; to move rapidly one way and the other; to make to tremble or shiver; to agitate. | | | verb (v.) Fig.: To move from firmness; to weaken the stability of; to cause to waver; to impair the resolution of. | | | verb (v.) To give a tremulous tone to; to trill; as, to shake a note in music. | | | verb (v.) To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion; to rid one's self of; -- generally with an adverb, as off, out, etc.; as, to shake fruit down from a tree. | | | verb (v. i.) To be agitated with a waving or vibratory motion; to tremble; to shiver; to quake; to totter. | | | () obs. p. p. of Shake. |
| shakedown | noun (n.) A temporary substitute for a bed, as one made on the floor or on chairs; -- perhaps originally from the shaking down of straw for this purpose. |
| shakefork | noun (n.) A fork for shaking hay; a pitchfork. |
| shaken | noun (n.) Impaired, as by a shock. | | | adjective (a.) Caused to shake; agitated; as, a shaken bough. | | | adjective (a.) Cracked or checked; split. See Shake, n., 2. | | | (p. p.) of Shake |
| shakespearean | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the style of, Shakespeare or his works. |
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (shak) - Words That Begins with shak:| shaking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shake |
| shakiness | noun (n.) Quality of being shaky. |
| shakings | noun (n. pl.) Deck sweepings, refuse of cordage, canvas, etc. |
| shako | noun (n.) A kind of military cap or headdress. |
| shakudo | noun (n.) An alloy of copper, invented by the Japanese, having a very dark blue color approaching black. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (sha) - Words That Begins with sha:| shab | noun (n.) The itch in animals; also, a scab. | | | verb (v. t.) To play mean tricks; to act shabbily. | | | verb (v. t.) To scratch; to rub. |
| shabbing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shab |
| shabbed | adjective (a.) Shabby. | | | (imp. & p. p.) of Shab |
| shabbiness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being sghabby. |
| shabble | noun (n.) Alt. of Shabble | | | noun (n.) A kind of crooked sword or hanger. |
| shabby | noun (n.) Torn or worn to rage; poor; mean; ragged. | | | noun (n.) Clothed with ragged, much worn, or soiled garments. | | | noun (n.) Mean; paltry; despicable; as, shabby treatment. |
| shabrack | noun (n.) The saddlecloth or housing of a cavalry horse. |
| shack | noun (n.) The grain left after harvest or gleaning; also, nuts which have fallen to the ground. | | | noun (n.) Liberty of winter pasturage. | | | noun (n.) A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp. | | | verb (v. t.) To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest. | | | verb (v. t.) To feed in stubble, or upon waste corn. | | | verb (v. t.) To wander as a vagabond or a tramp. | | | verb (v. i.) A hut; a shanty; a cabin. |
| shackatory | noun (n.) A hound. |
| shackle | noun (n.) Stubble. | | | noun (n.) Something which confines the legs or arms so as to prevent their free motion; specifically, a ring or band inclosing the ankle or wrist, and fastened to a similar shackle on the other leg or arm, or to something else, by a chain or a strap; a gyve; a fetter. | | | noun (n.) Hence, that which checks or prevents free action. | | | noun (n.) A fetterlike band worn as an ornament. | | | noun (n.) A link or loop, as in a chain, fitted with a movable bolt, so that the parts can be separated, or the loop removed; a clevis. | | | noun (n.) A link for connecting railroad cars; -- called also drawlink, draglink, etc. | | | noun (n.) The hinged and curved bar of a padlock, by which it is hung to the staple. | | | verb (v. t.) To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free motion; to bind with shackles; to fetter; to chain. | | | verb (v. t.) Figuratively: To bind or confine so as to prevent or embarrass action; to impede; to cumber. | | | verb (v. t.) To join by a link or chain, as railroad cars. |
| shackling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shackle |
| shacklock | noun (n.) A sort of shackle. |
| shackly | adjective (a.) Shaky; rickety. |
| shad | noun (n. sing. & pl.) Any one of several species of food fishes of the Herring family. The American species (Clupea sapidissima), which is abundant on the Atlantic coast and ascends the larger rivers in spring to spawn, is an important market fish. The European allice shad, or alose (C. alosa), and the twaite shad. (C. finta), are less important species. |
| shadbird | noun (n.) The American, or Wilson's, snipe. See under Snipe. So called because it appears at the same time as the shad. | | | noun (n.) The common European sandpiper. |
| shadd | noun (n.) Rounded stones containing tin ore, lying at the surface of the ground, and indicating a vein. |
| shaddock | noun (n.) A tree (Citrus decumana) and its fruit, which is a large species of orange; -- called also forbidden fruit, and pompelmous. |
| shade | noun (n.) Comparative obscurity owing to interception or interruption of the rays of light; partial darkness caused by the intervention of something between the space contemplated and the source of light. | | | noun (n.) Darkness; obscurity; -- often in the plural. | | | noun (n.) An obscure place; a spot not exposed to light; hence, a secluded retreat. | | | noun (n.) That which intercepts, or shelters from, light or the direct rays of the sun; hence, also, that which protects from heat or currents of air; a screen; protection; shelter; cover; as, a lamp shade. | | | noun (n.) Shadow. | | | noun (n.) The soul after its separation from the body; -- so called because the ancients it to be perceptible to the sight, though not to the touch; a spirit; a ghost; as, the shades of departed heroes. | | | noun (n.) The darker portion of a picture; a less illuminated part. See Def. 1, above. | | | noun (n.) Degree or variation of color, as darker or lighter, stronger or paler; as, a delicate shade of pink. | | | noun (n.) A minute difference or variation, as of thought, belief, expression, etc.; also, the quality or degree of anything which is distinguished from others similar by slight differences; as, the shades of meaning in synonyms. | | | noun (n.) To undergo or exhibit minute difference or variation, as of color, meaning, expression, etc.; to pass by slight changes; -- used chiefly with a preposition, as into, away, off. | | | verb (v. t.) To shelter or screen by intercepting the rays of light; to keep off illumination from. | | | verb (v. t.) To shelter; to cover from injury; to protect; to screen; to hide; as, to shade one's eyes. | | | verb (v. t.) To obscure; to dim the brightness of. | | | verb (v. t.) To pain in obscure colors; to darken. | | | verb (v. t.) To mark with gradations of light or color. | | | verb (v. t.) To present a shadow or image of; to shadow forth; to represent. |
| shading | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shade | | | noun (n.) Act or process of making a shade. | | | noun (n.) That filling up which represents the effect of more or less darkness, expressing rotundity, projection, etc., in a picture or a drawing. |
| shadeful | adjective (a.) Full of shade; shady. |
| shadeless | adjective (a.) Being without shade; not shaded. |
| shader | noun (n.) One who, or that which, shades. |
| shadiness | noun (n.) Quality or state of being shady. |
| shadoof | noun (n.) A machine, resembling a well sweep, used in Egypt for raising water from the Nile for irrigation. |
| shadow | noun (n.) Shade within defined limits; obscurity or deprivation of light, apparent on a surface, and representing the form of the body which intercepts the rays of light; as, the shadow of a man, of a tree, or of a tower. See the Note under Shade, n., 1. | | | noun (n.) Darkness; shade; obscurity. | | | noun (n.) A shaded place; shelter; protection; security. | | | noun (n.) A reflected image, as in a mirror or in water. | | | noun (n.) That which follows or attends a person or thing like a shadow; an inseparable companion; hence, an obsequious follower. | | | noun (n.) A spirit; a ghost; a shade; a phantom. | | | noun (n.) An imperfect and faint representation; adumbration; indistinct image; dim bodying forth; hence, mystical representation; type. | | | noun (n.) A small degree; a shade. | | | noun (n.) An uninvited guest coming with one who is invited. | | | noun (n.) To cut off light from; to put in shade; to shade; to throw a shadow upon; to overspead with obscurity. | | | noun (n.) To conceal; to hide; to screen. | | | noun (n.) To protect; to shelter from danger; to shroud. | | | noun (n.) To mark with gradations of light or color; to shade. | | | noun (n.) To represent faintly or imperfectly; to adumbrate; hence, to represent typically. | | | noun (n.) To cloud; to darken; to cast a gloom over. | | | noun (n.) To attend as closely as a shadow; to follow and watch closely, especially in a secret or unobserved manner; as, a detective shadows a criminal. |
| shadowing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shadow | | | noun (n.) Shade, or gradation of light and color; shading. | | | noun (n.) A faint representation; an adumbration. |
| shadowiness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being shadowy. |
| shadowish | adjective (a.) Shadowy; vague. |
| shadowless | adjective (a.) Having no shadow. |
| shadowy | adjective (a.) Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. | | | adjective (a.) Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. | | | adjective (a.) Not brightly luminous; faintly light. | | | adjective (a.) Faintly representative; hence, typical. | | | adjective (a.) Unsubstantial; unreal; as, shadowy honor. |
| shadrach | noun (n.) A mass of iron on which the operation of smelting has failed of its intended effect; -- so called from Shadrach, one of the three Hebrews who came forth unharmed from the fiery furnace of Nebuchadnezzar. (See Dan. iii. 26, 27.) |
| shaffler | noun (n.) A hobbler; one who limps; a shuffer. |
| shafiite | noun (n.) A member of one of the four sects of the Sunnites, or Orthodox Mohammedans; -- so called from its founder, Mohammed al-Shafei. |
| shaft | noun (n.) The slender, smooth stem of an arrow; hence, an arrow. | | | noun (n.) The long handle of a spear or similar weapon; hence, the weapon itself; (Fig.) anything regarded as a shaft to be thrown or darted; as, shafts of light. | | | noun (n.) That which resembles in some degree the stem or handle of an arrow or a spear; a long, slender part, especially when cylindrical. | | | noun (n.) The trunk, stem, or stalk of a plant. | | | noun (n.) The stem or midrib of a feather. | | | noun (n.) The pole, or tongue, of a vehicle; also, a thill. | | | noun (n.) The part of a candlestick which supports its branches. | | | noun (n.) The handle or helve of certain tools, instruments, etc., as a hammer, a whip, etc. | | | noun (n.) A pole, especially a Maypole. | | | noun (n.) The body of a column; the cylindrical pillar between the capital and base (see Illust. of Column). Also, the part of a chimney above the roof. Also, the spire of a steeple. | | | noun (n.) A column, an obelisk, or other spire-shaped or columnar monument. | | | noun (n.) A rod at the end of a heddle. | | | noun (n.) A solid or hollow cylinder or bar, having one or more journals on which it rests and revolves, and intended to carry one or more wheels or other revolving parts and to transmit power or motion; as, the shaft of a steam engine. | | | noun (n.) A humming bird (Thaumastura cora) having two of the tail feathers next to the middle ones very long in the male; -- called also cora humming bird. | | | noun (n.) A well-like excavation in the earth, perpendicular or nearly so, made for reaching and raising ore, for raising water, etc. | | | noun (n.) A long passage for the admission or outlet of air; an air shaft. | | | noun (n.) The chamber of a blast furnace. |
| shafted | adjective (a.) Furnished with a shaft, or with shafts; as, a shafted arch. | | | adjective (a.) Having a shaft; -- applied to a spear when the head and the shaft are of different tinctures. |
| shafting | noun (n.) Shafts, collectivelly; a system of connected shafts for communicating motion. |
| shaftman | noun (n.) Alt. of Shaftment |
| shaftment | noun (n.) A measure of about six inches. |
| shag | noun (n.) Coarse hair or nap; rough, woolly hair. | | | noun (n.) A kind of cloth having a long, coarse nap. | | | noun (n.) A kind of prepared tobacco cut fine. | | | noun (n.) Any species of cormorant. | | | adjective (a.) Hairy; shaggy. | | | verb (v. t.) To make hairy or shaggy; hence, to make rough. |
| shagging | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shag |
| shagbark | noun (n.) A rough-barked species of hickory (Carya alba), its nut. Called also shellbark. See Hickory. | | | noun (n.) The West Indian Pithecolobium micradenium, a legiminous tree with a red coiled-up pod. |
| shagebush | noun (n.) A sackbut. |
| shagged | adjective (a.) Shaggy; rough. | | | (imp. & p. p.) of Shag |
| shagginess | noun (n.) The quality or state of being shaggy; roughness; shaggedness. |
| shaggy | noun (n.) Rough with long hair or wool. | | | noun (n.) Rough; rugged; jaggy. |
| shagreen | noun (n.) A kind of untanned leather prepared in Russia and the East, from the skins of horses, asses, and camels, and grained so as to be covered with small round granulations. This characteristic surface is produced by pressing small seeds into the grain or hair side when moist, and afterward, when dry, scraping off the roughness left between them, and then, by soaking, causing the portions of the skin which had been compressed or indented by the seeds to swell up into relief. It is used for covering small cases and boxes. | | | noun (n.) The skin of various small sharks and other fishes when having small, rough, bony scales. The dogfishes of the genus Scyllium furnish a large part of that used in the arts. | | | adjective (a.) Alt. of Shagreened | | | verb (v. t.) To chagrin. |
| shagreened | adjective (a.) Made or covered with the leather called shagreen. | | | adjective (a.) Covered with rough scales or points like those on shagreen. |
| shah | noun (n.) The title of the supreme ruler in certain Eastern countries, especially Persia. |
| shahin | noun (n.) A large and swift Asiatic falcon (Falco pregrinator) highly valued in falconry. |
| shaik | noun (n.) See Sheik. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH SHAKER:English Words which starts with 'sh' and ends with 'er':| shamer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, disgraces, or makes ashamed. |
| shammer | noun (n.) One who shams; an impostor. |
| shampooer | noun (n.) One who shampoos. |
| shankbeer | noun (n.) See Schenkbeer. |
| shanker | noun (n.) See Chancre. |
| shaper | noun (n.) One who shapes; as, the shaper of one's fortunes. | | | noun (n.) That which shapes; a machine for giving a particular form or outline to an object. | | | noun (n.) A kind of planer in which the tool, instead of the work, receives a reciprocating motion, usually from a crank. | | | noun (n.) A machine with a vertically revolving cutter projecting above a flat table top, for cutting irregular outlines, moldings, etc. |
| sharebroker | noun (n.) A broker who deals in railway or other shares and securities. |
| shareholder | noun (n.) One who holds or owns a share or shares in a joint fund or property. |
| sharer | noun (n.) One who shares; a participator; a partaker; also, a divider; a distributer. |
| sharker | noun (n.) One who lives by sharking. |
| sharper | noun (n.) A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. |
| sharpshooter | noun (n.) One skilled in shooting at an object with exactness; a good marksman. |
| shaster | noun (n.) Alt. of Shastra |
| shatter | noun (n.) A fragment of anything shattered; -- used chiefly or soley in the phrase into shatters; as, to break a glass into shatters. | | | verb (v. t.) To break at once into many pieces; to dash, burst, or part violently into fragments; to rend into splinters; as, an explosion shatters a rock or a bomb; too much steam shatters a boiler; an oak is shattered by lightning. | | | verb (v. t.) To disorder; to derange; to render unsound; as, to be shattered in intellect; his constitution was shattered; his hopes were shattered. | | | verb (v. t.) To scatter about. | | | verb (v. i.) To be broken into fragments; to fall or crumble to pieces by any force applied. |
| shaver | noun (n.) One who shaves; one whose occupation is to shave. | | | noun (n.) One who is close in bargains; a sharper. | | | noun (n.) One who fleeces; a pillager; a plunderer. | | | noun (n.) A boy; a lad; a little fellow. | | | noun (n.) A tool or machine for shaving. |
| shearer | noun (n.) One who shears. | | | noun (n.) A reaper. |
| shearwater | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of long-winged oceanic birds of the genus Puffinus and related genera. They are allied to the petrels, but are larger. The Manx shearwater (P. Anglorum), the dusky shearwater (P. obscurus), and the greater shearwater (P. major), are well-known species of the North Atlantic. See Hagdon. |
| sheather | noun (n.) One who sheathes. |
| shebander | noun (n.) A harbor master, or ruler of a port, in the East Indies. |
| shedder | noun (n.) One who, or that which, sheds; as, a shedder of blood; a shedder of tears. | | | noun (n.) A crab in the act of casting its shell, or immediately afterwards while still soft; -- applied especially to the edible crabs, which are most prized while in this state. |
| sheepbiter | noun (n.) One who practices petty thefts. |
| sheepmaster | noun (n.) A keeper or feeder of sheep; also, an owner of sheep. |
| sheer | noun (n.) The longitudinal upward curvature of the deck, gunwale, and lines of a vessel, as when viewed from the side. | | | noun (n.) The position of a vessel riding at single anchor and swinging clear of it. | | | noun (n.) A turn or change in a course. | | | noun (n.) Shears See Shear. | | | verb (v. i.) Bright; clear; pure; unmixed. | | | verb (v. i.) Very thin or transparent; -- applied to fabrics; as, sheer muslin. | | | verb (v. i.) Being only what it seems to be; obvious; simple; mere; downright; as, sheer folly; sheer nonsense. | | | verb (v. i.) Stright up and down; vertical; prpendicular. | | | adverb (adv.) Clean; quite; at once. | | | verb (v. t.) To shear. | | | verb (v. i.) To decline or deviate from the line of the proper course; to turn aside; to swerve; as, a ship sheers from her course; a horse sheers at a bicycle. |
| sheerwater | noun (n.) The shearwater. |
| sheller | noun (n.) One who, or that which, shells; as, an oyster sheller; a corn sheller. |
| shelter | noun (n.) That which covers or defends from injury or annoyance; a protection; a screen. | | | noun (n.) One who protects; a guardian; a defender. | | | noun (n.) The state of being covered and protected; protection; security. | | | verb (v. t.) To be a shelter for; to provide with a shelter; to cover from injury or annoyance; to shield; to protect. | | | verb (v. t.) To screen or cover from notice; to disguise. | | | verb (v. t.) To betake to cover, or to a safe place; -- used reflexively. | | | verb (v. i.) To take shelter. |
| shepster | noun (n.) A seamstress. |
| shewer | noun (n.) One who shews. See Shower. |
| shifter | noun (n.) One who, or that which, shifts; one who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener. | | | noun (n.) An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions. | | | noun (n.) An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another. | | | noun (n.) A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc. |
| shimmer | noun (n.) A faint, tremulous light; a gleaming; a glimmer. | | | verb (v. i.) To shine with a tremulous or intermittent light; to shine faintly; to gleam; to glisten; to glimmer. |
| shiner | noun (n.) That which shines. | | | noun (n.) A luminary. | | | noun (n.) A bright piece of money. | | | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of small freshwater American cyprinoid fishes, belonging to Notropis, or Minnilus, and allied genera; as the redfin (Notropis megalops), and the golden shiner (Notemigonus chrysoleucus) of the Eastern United States; also loosely applied to various other silvery fishes, as the dollar fish, or horsefish, menhaden, moonfish, sailor's choice, and the sparada. | | | noun (n.) The common Lepisma, or furniture bug. |
| shingler | noun (n.) One who shingles. | | | noun (n.) A machine for shingling puddled iron. |
| shinplaster | noun (n.) Formerly, a jocose term for a bank note greatly depreciated in value; also, for paper money of a denomination less than a dollar. |
| shipbuilder | noun (n.) A person whose occupation is to construct ships and other vessels; a naval architect; a shipwright. |
| shipholder | noun (n.) A shipowner. |
| shipmaster | noun (n.) The captain, master, or commander of a ship. |
| shipowner | noun (n.) Owner of a ship or ships. |
| shipper | noun (n.) One who sends goods from one place to another not in the same city or town, esp. one who sends goods by water. |
| shirker | noun (n.) One who shirks. |
| shiver | noun (n.) One of the small pieces, or splinters, into which a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence; -- generally used in the plural. | | | noun (n.) A thin slice; a shive. | | | noun (n.) A variety of blue slate. | | | noun (n.) A sheave or small wheel in a pulley. | | | noun (n.) A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter. | | | noun (n.) A spindle. | | | noun (n.) The act of shivering or trembling. | | | verb (v. t.) To break into many small pieces, or splinters; to shatter; to dash to pieces by a blow; as, to shiver a glass goblet. | | | verb (v. i.) To separate suddenly into many small pieces or parts; to be shattered. | | | verb (v. i.) To tremble; to vibrate; to quiver; to shake, as from cold or fear. | | | verb (v. t.) To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind. |
| shoder | noun (n.) A package of gold beater's skins in which gold is subjected to the second process of beating. |
| shoer | noun (n.) One who fits shoes to the feet; one who furnishes or puts on shoes; as, a shoer of horses. |
| shooter | noun (n.) One who shoots, as an archer or a gunner. | | | noun (n.) That which shoots. | | | noun (n.) A firearm; as, a five-shooter. | | | noun (n.) A shooting star. |
| shopkeeper | noun (n.) A trader who sells goods in a shop, or by retail; -- in distinction from one who sells by wholesale. |
| shoplifter | noun (n.) One who steals anything in a shop, or takes goods privately from a shop; one who, under pretense of buying goods, takes occasion to steal. |
| shopper | noun (n.) One who shops. |
| shopwalker | noun (n.) One who walks about in a shop as an overseer and director. Cf. Floorwalker. |
| shorer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, shores or props; a prop; a shore. |
| shortener | noun (n.) One who, or that which, shortens. |
| shoulder | noun (n.) The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint. | | | noun (n.) The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the upper part of the back; that part of the human frame on which it is most easy to carry a heavy burden; -- often used in the plural. | | | noun (n.) Fig.: That which supports or sustains; support. | | | noun (n.) That which resembles a human shoulder, as any protuberance or projection from the body of a thing. | | | noun (n.) The upper joint of the fore leg and adjacent parts of an animal, dressed for market; as, a shoulder of mutton. | | | noun (n.) The angle of a bastion included between the face and flank. See Illust. of Bastion. | | | noun (n.) An abrupt projection which forms an abutment on an object, or limits motion, etc., as the projection around a tenon at the end of a piece of timber, the part of the top of a type which projects beyond the base of the raised character, etc. | | | verb (v. t.) To push or thrust with the shoulder; to push with violence; to jostle. | | | verb (v. t.) To take upon the shoulder or shoulders; as, to shoulder a basket; hence, to assume the burden or responsibility of; as, to shoulder blame; to shoulder a debt. | | | verb (v. i.) To push with the shoulder; to make one's way, as through a crowd, by using the shoulders; to move swaying the shoulders from side to side. |
| shouter | noun (n.) One who shouts. |
| shoveler | noun (n.) One who, or that which, shovels. | | | noun (n.) A river duck (Spatula clypeata), native of Europe and America. It has a large bill, broadest towards the tip. The male is handsomely variegated with green, blue, brown, black, and white on the body; the head and neck are dark green. Called also broadbill, spoonbill, shovelbill, and maiden duck. The Australian shoveler, or shovel-nosed duck (S. rhynchotis), is a similar species. |
| shower | noun (n.) One who shows or exhibits. | | | noun (n.) That which shows; a mirror. | | | noun (n.) A fall or rain or hail of short duration; sometimes, but rarely, a like fall of snow. | | | noun (n.) That which resembles a shower in falling or passing through the air copiously and rapidly. | | | noun (n.) A copious supply bestowed. | | | verb (v. t.) To water with a shower; to //t copiously with rain. | | | verb (v. t.) To bestow liberally; to destribute or scatter in /undance; to rain. | | | verb (v. i.) To rain in showers; to fall, as in a hower or showers. |
| shragger | noun (n.) One who lops; one who trims trees. |
| shrieker | noun (n.) One who utters a shriek. |
| shrimper | noun (n.) One who fishes for shrimps. |
| shrinker | noun (n.) One who shrinks; one who withdraws from danger. |
| shriver | noun (n.) One who shrives; a confessor. |
| shucker | noun (n.) One who shucks oysters or clams |
| shudder | noun (n.) The act of shuddering, as with fear. | | | verb (v. i.) To tremble or shake with fear, horrer, or aversion; to shiver with cold; to quake. |
| shuffler | noun (n.) One who shuffles. | | | noun (n.) Either one of the three common American scaup ducks. See Scaup duck, under Scaup. |
| shunter | noun (n.) A person employed to shunt cars from one track to another. |
| shutter | noun (n.) One who shuts or closes. | | | noun (n.) A movable cover or screen for a window, designed to shut out the light, to obstruct the view, or to be of some strength as a defense; a blind. | | | noun (n.) A removable cover, or a gate, for closing an aperture of any kind, as for closing the passageway for molten iron from a ladle. | | | noun (n.) A mechanical device of various forms, attached to a camera for opening and closing to expose the plate. |
| shyster | noun (n.) A trickish knave; one who carries on any business, especially legal business, in a mean and dishonest way. |
| shicer | noun (n.) An unproductive mine; a duffer. |
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