SHANIA

Name Report For First Name SHANIA:

First name SHANIA's origin is Native American. SHANIA means "Meaning Unknown". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with SHANIA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of shania.(Brown names are of the same origin (Native American) with SHANIA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with SHANIA - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming SHANIA

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES SHAN�A AS A WHOLE:

NAMES RHYMING WITH SHAN�A (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 5 Letters (hania) - Names That Ends with hania:

theophania hania stephania nathania

Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (ania) - Names That Ends with ania:

titania urania cumania dania estefania evania gordania melania natania stefania tania vania slania grania

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (nia) - Names That Ends with nia:

aminia beornia bernia dummonia donia calligenia harmonia iphegenia parthenia polyhymnia sophronia xenia zenia albinia eugenia sonia yessenia ylenia adonia allonia alonnia antonia apollonia atonia aurnia dannia davinia denia dulcinia edenia etenia fannia faunia florinia galenia gardenia gavenia grazinia ibernia kyrenia lavernia lavinia llesenia lorenia luvenia nia petunia ronia saxonia sidonia tawnia teaonia tonia virginia yesenia zelinia neomenia ionia filomenia evgenia sodonia fawnia cinnia elvinia

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ia) - Names That Ends with ia:

afia ashia efia fowsia kamaria safia tawia odelia alaia badi'a amaia erensia kamia melodia saskia nubia tabia berengaria

NAMES RHYMING WITH SHAN�A (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 5 Letters (shani) - Names That Begins with shani:

shani shanika shaniyah

Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (shan) - Names That Begins with shan:

shan shanahan shanaye shandley shandon shandy shane shanley shann shanna shannen shannon shanta shantae

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (sha) - Names That Begins with sha:

sha-mia sha-ul shaaban shaan shabab shabaka shace shad shada shadd shaddoc shaddock shadha shadi shadia shadiyah shadoe shadrach shadwell shae shaela shaeleigh shaelynn shafeeq shafiq shahana shaheen shahrazad shai shaibya shailey shain shaina shaine shaithis shakeh shaker shakini shakir shakira shaku shalene shalom shalott shamay shamika shamra shamus shapa sharada sharaden sharama sharanya sharayah shareef shareefa shareek sharif sharifa sharifah sharlene sharmila sharni sharnta sharon sharongila sharufa shashi shasti shattuck shauden shaughn shaun shauna shaundre shaunta shauntia shavana shaw shawe shawn shawna shawnasea

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH SHAN�A:

First Names which starts with 'sh' and ends with 'ia':

First Names which starts with 's' and ends with 'a':

saa saada saadya saba sabana sabina sabiya sabola sabra sabria sabrina sadaka sadhbba sadira safa safiya sagira sahara saida saina sakeena sakima sakra sakujna sakura salama salbatora saleema salma saloma salvadora salvatora salwa samantha samara sameeha sameera samira samoanna samuela samuka samvarta sanaa sancha sancia sanda sandhya sandra sanjna sanora sanura sanya sapphira sara sarama sarika sarina sarisha sarita sasa sasha sativola saturnina sauda saumya saura savanna savarna saxona sayda sbtinka scadwiella scota scotia scowyrhta scylla seafra seaghda seana seanna sebastiana seda seentahna segunda seina sela selena seleta selima selina selma semira senalda senona senora senta seorsa serafina seraphina serefina

English Words Rhyming SHANIA

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES SHAN�A AS A WHOLE:

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH SHAN�A (According to last letters):

Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (hania) - English Words That Ends with hania:

Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (ania) - English Words That Ends with ania:

acrania	noun (n.) Partial or total absence of the skull.
	noun (n.) The lowest group of Vertebrata, including the amphioxus, in which no skull exists.

aegicrania

noun (n. pl.) Sculptured ornaments, used in classical architecture, representing rams' heads or skulls.

anglomania

noun (n.) A mania for, or an inordinate attachment to, English customs, institutions, etc.

anthomania

noun (n.) A extravagant fondness for flowers.

bibliomania

noun (n.) A mania for acquiring books.

campania

noun (n.) Open country.

cleptomania

noun (n.) See Kleptomania.

crania	noun (n.) A genus of living Brachiopoda; -- so called from its fancied resemblance to the cranium or skull.
	(pl. ) of Cranium

dalmania

noun (n.) A genus of trilobites, of many species, common in the Upper Silurian and Devonian rocks.

decalcomania

noun (n.) Alt. of Decalcomanie

demonomania

noun (n.) A form of madness in which the patient conceives himself possessed of devils.

dipsomania

noun (n.) A morbid an uncontrollable craving (often periodic) for drink, esp. for alcoholic liquors; also improperly used to denote acute and chronic alcoholism.

eleutheromania

noun (n.) A mania or frantic zeal for freedom.

gallomania

noun (n.) An excessive admiration of what is French.

hemicrania

noun (n.) A pain that affects only one side of the head.

iconomania

noun (n.) A mania or infatuation for icons, whether as objects of devotion, bric-a-brac, or curios.

kleptomania

noun (n.) A propensity to steal, claimed to be irresistible. This does not constitute legal irresponsibility.

klopemania

noun (n.) See Kleptomania.

mania	noun (n.) Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity. Cf. Delirium.
	noun (n.) Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; as, the tulip mania.

megalomania

noun (n.) A form of mental alienation in which the patient has grandiose delusions.

metromania

noun (n.) A mania for writing verses.

monomania

noun (n.) Derangement of the mind in regard of a single subject only; also, such a concentration of interest upon one particular subject or train of ideas to show mental derangement.

musicomania

noun (n.) A kind of monomania in which the passion for music becomes so strong as to derange the intellectual faculties.

musomania

noun (n.) See Musicomania.

nymphomania

noun (n.) Morbid and uncontrollable sexual desire in women, constituting a true disease.

oenomania	noun (n.) Delirium tremens.
	noun (n.) Dipsomania.

oinomania

noun (n.) See oenomania.

phyllomania

noun (n.) An abnormal or excessive production of leaves.

potichomania

noun (n.) Alt. of Potichomanie

pteridomania

noun (n.) A madness, craze, or strong fancy, for ferns.

pyromania

noun (n.) An insane disposition to incendiarism.

solania

noun (n.) Solanine.

toxicomania	noun (n.) Toxiphobia.
	noun (n.) An insane desire for intoxicating or poisonous drugs, as alcohol or opium.

tulipomania

noun (n.) A violent passion for the acquisition or cultivation of tulips; -- a word said by Beckman to have been coined by Menage.

typhomania

noun (n.) A low delirium common in typhus fever.

urania	noun (n.) One of the nine Muses, daughter of Zeus by Mnemosyne, and patron of astronomy.
	noun (n.) A genus of large, brilliantly colored moths native of the West Indies and South America. Their bright colored and tailed hind wings and their diurnal flight cause them to closely resemble butterflies.

zizania

noun (n.) A genus of grasses including Indian rice. See Indian rice, under Rice.

xenomania

noun (n.) A mania for, or an inordinate attachment to, foreign customs, institutions, manners, fashions, etc.

Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (nia) - English Words That Ends with nia:

actinia	noun (n.) An animal of the class Anthozoa, and family Actinidae. From a resemblance to flowers in form and color, they are often called animal flowers and sea anemones. [See Polyp.].
	noun (n.) A genus in the family Actinidae.

adansonia

noun (n.) A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth.

ammonia

noun (n.) A gaseous compound of hydrogen and nitrogen, NH3, with a pungent smell and taste: -- often called volatile alkali, and spirits of hartshorn.

aphonia

noun (n.) Alt. of Aphony

arthrodynia

noun (n.) An affection characterized by pain in or about a joint, not dependent upon structural disease.

asthenia

noun (n.) Alt. of Astheny

begonia

noun (n.) A genus of plants, mostly of tropical America, many species of which are grown as ornamental plants. The leaves are curiously one-sided, and often exhibit brilliant colors.

bignonia

noun (n.) A large genus of American, mostly tropical, climbing shrubs, having compound leaves and showy somewhat tubular flowers. B. capreolata is the cross vine of the Southern United States. The trumpet creeper was formerly considered to be of this genus.

britannia

noun (n.) A white-metal alloy of tin, antimony, bismuth, copper, etc. It somewhat resembles silver, and is used for table ware. Called also Britannia metal.

caledonia

noun (n.) The ancient Latin name of Scotland; -- still used in poetry.

catamenia

noun (n. pl.) The monthly courses of women; menstrual discharges; menses.

cavicornia

noun (n. pl.) A group of ruminants whose horns are hollow, and planted on a bony process of the front, as the ox.

chelonia

noun (n. pl.) An order of reptiles, including the tortoises and turtles, peculiar in having a part of the vertebrae, ribs, and sternum united with the dermal plates so as to form a firm shell. The jaws are covered by a horny beak. See Reptilia; also, Illust. in Appendix.

claytonia

noun (n.) An American genus of perennial herbs with delicate blossoms; -- sometimes called spring beauty.

conia

noun (n.) Same as Conine.

daphnia

noun (n.) A genus of the genus Daphnia.

darlingtonia

noun (n.) A genus of California pitcher plants consisting of a single species. The long tubular leaves are hooded at the top, and frequently contain many insects drowned in the secretion of the leaves.

decagynia

noun (n. pl.) A Linnaean order of plants characterized by having ten styles.

didonia

noun (n.) The curve which on a given surface and with a given perimeter contains the greatest area.

digynia

noun (n.) A Linnaean order of plants having two styles.

dodecagynia

noun (n. pl.) A Linnaean order of plants having twelve styles.

dysphonia

noun (n.) Alt. of Dysphony

encenia

noun (n. pl.) A festival commemorative of the founding of a city or the consecration of a church; also, the ceremonies (as at Oxford and Cambridge, England) commemorative of founders or benefactors.

equinia

noun (n.) Glanders.

eugenia

noun (n.) A genus of myrtaceous plants, mostly of tropical countries, and including several aromatic trees and shrubs, among which are the trees which produce allspice and cloves of commerce.

encaenia

noun (n. pl.) = Encenia.

gadolinia	noun (n.) A rare earth, regarded by some as an oxide of the supposed element gadolinium, by others as only a mixture of the oxides of yttrium, erbium, ytterbium, etc.
	noun (n.) A rare earth associated with yttria and regarded as the oxide (Gd2O3) of a metallic element, Gad`olin"ium (/), with an assigned atomic weight of 153.3.

garcinia

noun (n.) A genus of plants, including the mangosteen tree (Garcinia Mangostana), found in the islands of the Indian Archipelago; -- so called in honor of Dr. Garcin.

gardenia

noun (n.) A genus of plants, some species of which produce beautiful and fragrant flowers; Cape jasmine; -- so called in honor of Dr. Alexander Garden.

gloxinia

noun (n.) American genus of herbaceous plants with very handsome bell-shaped blossoms; -- named after B. P. Gloxin, a German botanist.

gorgonia	noun (n.) A genus of Gorgoniacea, formerly very extensive, but now restricted to such species as the West Indian sea fan (Gorgonia flabellum), sea plume (G. setosa), and other allied species having a flexible, horny axis.
	noun (n.) Any slender branched gorgonian.

heliconia

noun (n.) One of numerous species of Heliconius, a genus of tropical American butterflies. The wings are usually black, marked with green, crimson, and white.

heptagynia

noun (n. pl.) A Linnaean order of plants having seven pistils.

hernia

noun (n.) A protrusion, consisting of an organ or part which has escaped from its natural cavity, and projects through some natural or accidental opening in the walls of the latter; as, hernia of the brain, of the lung, or of the bowels. Hernia of the abdominal viscera in most common. Called also rupture.

hexactinia

noun (n. pl.) The Anthozoa.

hexagynia

noun (n. pl.) A Linnaean order of plants having six pistils.

houstonia

noun (n.) A genus of small rubiaceous herbs, having tetramerous salveform blue or white flower. There are about twenty species, natives of North America. Also, a plant of this genus.

inia

noun (n.) A South American freshwater dolphin (Inia Boliviensis). It is ten or twelve feet long, and has a hairy snout.

insignia	noun (n. pl.) Distinguishing marks of authority, office, or honor; badges; tokens; decorations; as, the insignia of royalty or of an order.
	noun (n. pl.) Typical and characteristic marks or signs, by which anything is known or distinguished; as, the insignia of a trade.

insomnia

noun (n.) Want of sleep; inability to sleep; wakefulness; sleeplessness.

jeffersonia

noun (n.) An American herb with a pretty, white, solitary blossom, and deeply two-cleft leaves (Jeffersonia diphylla); twinleaf.

jungermannia

noun (n.) A genus of hepatic mosses, now much circumscribed, but formerly comprising most plants of the order, which is sometimes therefore called Jungermanniaceae.

lacinia	noun (n.) One of the narrow, jagged, irregular pieces or divisions which form a sort of fringe on the borders of the petals of some flowers.
	noun (n.) A narrow, slender portion of the edge of a monophyllous calyx, or of any irregularly incised leaf.
	noun (n.) The posterior, inner process of the stipes on the maxillae of insects.

lamellicornia

noun (n. pl.) A group of lamellicorn, plant-eating beetles; -- called also Lamellicornes.

lawsonia

noun (n.) An Asiatic and North African shrub (Lawsonia inermis), with smooth oval leaves, and fragrant white flowers. Henna is prepared from the leaves and twigs. In England the shrub is called Egyptian privet, and in the West Indies, Jamaica mignonette.

longicornia

noun (n. pl.) A division of beetles, including a large number of species, in which the antennae are very long. Most of them, while in the larval state, bore into the wood or beneath the bark of trees, and some species are very destructive to fruit and shade trees. See Apple borer, under Apple, and Locust beetle, under Locust.

mahonia

noun (n.) The Oregon grape, a species of barberry (Berberis Aquifolium), often cultivated for its hollylike foliage.

marsdenia

noun (n.) A genus of plants of the Milkweed family, mostly woody climbers with fragrant flowers, several species of which furnish valuable fiber, and one species (Marsdenia tinctoria) affords indigo.

mastodynia

noun (n.) Alt. of Mastodyny

monogynia

noun (n. pl.) A Linnaean order of plants, including those which have only one style or stigma.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH SHAN�A (According to first letters):

Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (shani) - Words That Begins with shani:

Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (shan) - Words That Begins with shan:

shandrydan

noun (n.) A jocosely depreciative name for a vehicle.

shandygaff

noun (n.) A mixture of strong beer and ginger beer.

shanghaiing

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shanghai

shanghai	noun (n.) A large and tall breed of domestic fowl.
	verb (v. t.) To intoxicate and ship (a person) as a sailor while in this condition.

shank	noun (n.) See Chank.
	verb (v.) The part of the leg from the knee to the foot; the shin; the shin bone; also, the whole leg.
	verb (v.) Hence, that part of an instrument, tool, or other thing, which connects the acting part with a handle or other part, by which it is held or moved.
	verb (v.) That part of a key which is between the bow and the part which enters the wards of the lock.
	verb (v.) The middle part of an anchor, or that part which is between the ring and the arms.
	verb (v.) That part of a hoe, rake, knife, or the like, by which it is secured to a handle.
	verb (v.) A loop forming an eye to a button.
	verb (v.) The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph.
	verb (v.) A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it.
	verb (v.) The body of a type.
	verb (v.) The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel.
	verb (v.) A wading bird with long legs; as, the green-legged shank, or knot; the yellow shank, or tattler; -- called also shanks.
	verb (v.) Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round.
	verb (v. i.) To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; -- usually followed by off.

shankbeer

noun (n.) See Schenkbeer.

shanked

adjective (a.) Having a shank.

shanker

noun (n.) See Chancre.

shanny

noun (n.) The European smooth blenny (Blennius pholis). It is olive-green with irregular black spots, and without appendages on the head.

shanty	noun (n.) A small, mean dwelling; a rough, slight building for temporary use; a hut.
	adjective (a.) Jaunty; showy.
	verb (v. i.) To inhabit a shanty.

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 SHAN�A:

English Words which starts with 'sh' and ends with 'ia':

shepherdia

noun (n.) A genus of shrubs having silvery scurfy leaves, and belonging to the same family as Elaeagnus; also, any plant of this genus. See Buffalo berry, under Buffalo.

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