Letter: s
- short-arm blow, backstroke, hook, roundhouse, swing
- short-breathed, breathless, panting, puffing, wheezing
- short-change, beat, beguile of, bilk, burn, cheat, chisel, cog, cog the dice, con, cozen, crib, defraud, diddle, do in, do out of
- short-circuit, amplify, blow, charge, dodge, electrify, energize, galvanize, generate, shock, short, step down, step up, stiffen, switch off, thwart
- short-cut, abbreviated, abridged, abstracted, capsule, clipped, compressed, condensed, cropped, curtailed, cut across, cut corners, cut short, docked, elliptic, elliptical
- short-handed, bare-handed, beggarly, empty-handed, famished, half-starved, ill off, ill-equipped, ill-furnished, ill-provided, impoverished, on short commons, pauperised, poor, short, starved
- short-lived, brief, brittle, capricious, changeable, corruptible, deciduous, dying, ephemeral, evanescent, fading, fickle, fleeting, flitting, fly-by-night, flying
- short-short, dreadful, novel, short story, vignette
- short-sighted, authoritarian, bigot, bigoted, blind, blindfold, blindfolded, blinking, borne, brash, careless, closed, constricted, cramped, deaf, deaf to reason
- short-sightedness, bigotry, blind spot, blinders, blindness, fanaticism, incomprehension, insensibility, insularity, littleness, meanness, near-sightedness, parochialism, pettiness, provincialism, smallness
- short-story writer, annalist, author, bibliographer, co-author, collaborator, columnist, composer, copywriter, critic, diarist, dramatist, essayist, free lance, ghost, humorist
- short-story writing, artistry, authorship, automatic writing, composition, journalism, pen, writing
- short-tempered, abrupt, acerbic, acid, acidulous, acrimonious, bearish, bluff, brusque, caustic, crabbed, crabby, crusty, curt, disagreeable, discourteous
- short-term note, certificate of deposit, note, portfolio, stocks and bonds, treasury note, warrant
- short-term, brief, brisk, flashing, fleet, flickering, meteoric, quick, shoot, short, speedy, swift, transient, transitory
- short-termed, brief, brisk, flashing, fleet, flickering, meteoric, quick, short, speedy, swift
- short-winded, breathless, panting, puffing, wheezing
- shortage, absence, adulteration, arrearage, arrears, beggary, break, curtailment, dearth, decline, defalcation, default, defect, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit
- shortcake, cake, gingerbread, jumble
- shortcoming, absence, adulteration, asymmetry, beggary, blemish, bug, catch, contrariety, crack, defect, defection, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, demerit
- shortcut, air lane, air line, axis, beat, beeline, bypass, chord, circuit, course, cut, cut-off, diagonal, diameter, direct line, directrix
- shorten sail, clear the decks, forearm, guard against, hedge, play safe, prepare, provide for, reef, take steps
- shorten, abate, abbreviate, abrade, abridge, abstract, bate, bob, boil down, brief, capsule, capsulize, circumscribe, clip, compact, compress
- shortened version, abbreviation, abstract, brief, capsule, compendium, condensation, conspectus, digest, draft, draught, draughtsman, draughty, epitome, head, outline
- shortened, Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, abstracted, bobbed, brief, brusque, capsule, capsulized, clipped, close, compact, compendious, compressed, concise
- shortening, abbreviation, abridgement, abstract, astringency, attrition, bottleneck, cervix, circumscription, clipping, compression, concentration, condensation, consolidation, conspectus, constriction
- shorter, abated, ablated, attenuated, bated, belittled, consumed, contracted, curtailed, decreased, deflated, diminished, dissipated, dropped, eroded, fallen
- shortest way, airline, beeline, cut, cut-off, shortcut
- shortest, direct, few, least, lowest, minimal, minimum
- shortfall, absence, arrearage, arrears, beggary, decline, defalcation, default, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, delinquency, deprivation, destitution, drought, failure
