Words and phrases whose definition contains short:  (1157 results)
about, account, acute, airbus, airing, allow, all but, almost, approach, awhile, awnless, balking, balky, barbet, basset, beagle, becket, bettong, billet, billy, bison, blessing, blue star, bobsled, bobsleigh, bobtail, bobtailed, body, bootboys, borges, boxer, box coat, breather, briefly, briefness, bristly, broadbill, brunch coat, brush cut, bryum, bulldog, bullnecked, bull neck, burlesque, burn plant, buzzard, capsule, catnap, cat sleep, cellphone, chaffweed, cheever, chlamys, chunky, clean up, clip lead, close-cropped, clout nail, club steak, coatee, cocktail, cold war, collect, coney, cookie, corgi, credit, curtal, cutlas, cutlass, cut short, dachshund, dachsie, dagger, dendrite, direct, ditty, divvy, dogwatch, duckpin, dudeen, dumbbell, dumpy, durham, dustpan, eclogue, eland, errand, etude, eyelash, fable, faddish, faddy, fairway, fanfare, field mouse, flare pass, flashflood, flashing, flash flood, flaubert, flourish, foray, foreword, for short, fox-trot, foxtrot, frequent, fulmar, garland, goat's foot, goatsfoot, golf tee, gorki, gorky, grass tree, griffon, ground bass, grunting, haiku, half-term, half snipe, hamster, hasek, hatchet, hawthorne, heartbeat, hedge fund, hobnail, hot-wire, hot pants, idyll, indri, indris, instant, jacket, jacksnipe, jacobs, jemmy, jiffy, jimmy, jodhpur, jot down, knackwurst, knockwurst, lardner, lemming, lessing, little, locust, low-set, low beam, lyric, macaque, mansfield, mantelet, manx cat, maraud, marmot, matchstick, maugham, melville, mention, mini, minute, mole rat, moment, moonshell, moon shell, morceau, morse code, mortar, moufflon, mouflon, mound-bird, mound bird, mouse hare, munro, nearly, newsbreak, newsflash, newsreel, nightstick, notice, not far, not long, number, nuthatch, obit, often, ofttimes, paddle, pantie, panty, parrot, passage, passing, peeper, peepshow, pembroke, penguin, petite, pigeon, pine mouse, pitta, pivot, playlet, podgy, pollex, pop fly, portal, porter, preface, preview, prevue, primrose, pudgy, puffin, pug nose, pulsate, queen's cup, quillwort, rabbit, rally, rat-tat, rattle, rattling, reap hook, red haw, red poll, report, resume, rock wren, routine, run-up, runup, saki, sawed-off, sawn-off, scanty, screen pass, scrubber, scrub brush, scrub fowl, scrub pine, seagull, sea gull, second, serif, seriph, serow, short-grass, short-haired, short-lived, short-range, short-run, short-term, short-winged, shortcake, shorten, shortened, shortgrass, shorthorn, shortish, shortlist, shortly, shortness, short line, short shrift, short sleep, shotgun, sickle, sidebar, sidetrack, siding, skibob, skinheads, skirmish, slapshot, slip road, sound bite, sport shirt, sprinter, squabby, squalling, squally, squatness, squatty, squiggle, staple, step-in, step out, sticker, stipple, stone's throw, story, straight pin, streamlined, strip steak, stubbled, stubby, stub nail, stumpy, sudden, survey, t-bill, tabard, tersely, terseness, time frame, tinkly, tongue tie, topper, touring, trailer, transient, trivet, truncheon, tubby, tucket, turnout, tutu, undocked, undue, unstressed, valise, vandyke, visit, waddle, watch chain, watch guard, weasel, well-nigh, well-set, whisk broom, white spruce, wild pink, wilson, wood-rat, wood hen, wood rat, write up, x ray, zigzag
access road, acridid, air cushion, all the way, alpine gold, ancient pine, anecdote, apercu, apologue, apophthegm, apothegm, approach shot, aspergill, autism, b-meson, baby's tears, baby tears, badger dog, bagatelle, ballet skirt, bar billiards, basset hound, battlesight, battle sight, bestubbled, billystick, billy club, black mangrove, blue tulip, blunderbuss, boat paddle, body hair, bolero, breathing place, breathing space, breathing spell, breathing time, brevibloc, bride's bonnet, bristle brush, broad hatchet, bucolic, burmese cat, burr-headed, butterfish, by inches, calvino, camisole, capsulise, capsulize, catamount, catch one's breath, cestida, chickpea, chickpea plant, chihuahua, chimneypot, cilium, citation, closeup lens, credit crunch, crescentia, cuckoopint, curlicue, curtailment, custody, daviesia, decapod, deficient, demerit, demijohn, derringer, detention, douglas fir, douglas pine, douglas spruce, dovekie, down's syndrome, downy haw, down syndrome, drag a bunt, dumpiness, duration, dwarfism, encounter, epilog, epilogue, esmolol, falchion, finger grass, fisheye lens, fleetingness, forty winks, for a while, fraser fir, frequently, fresnel lens, fugacious, gamma ray, glareole, golden mean, golgi cell, gordimer, grab sample, greasy spoon, guano bat, haftarah, haftorah, haphtarah, haphtorah, head cabbage, hedgefund, heinrich boll, herpangia, holiday, home loan bank, howitzer, hunting crop, impatient, impromptu, inclusion, infrequent, inscription, in no time, ipidae, jenny wren, jersey fern, jersey pine, jockey shorts, jodhpur boot, jodhpur shoe, john cheever, jumper lead, just about, keyhole saw, kingfisher, knobkerrie, knobkerry, laconic, lambrequin, ledger line, leger line, light opera, lion's beard, little auk, lumberjack, mackinaw, malinois, maltese cat, manakin, mantilla, maori hen, maupassant, megapode, microwave, miniskirt, mobile phone, mock orange, mound builder, mountain pine, mountain pride, mugho pine, mugo pine, nanism, natterjack, nerita, neritid, news report, new york strip, notation, notepaper, novelette, novella, nutcracker, o. henry, oftentimes, overnight, parable, parfait glass, pekinese, pekingese, personal, petit mal, plautus alle, plesiosaur, pleurocarp, polo shirt, portal vein, porterhouse, pratincole, primula, profiteer, prolusion, puff of air, quotation, rabbit punch, racquetball, rat-a-tat, reaping hook, recommence, red clover, reference, rehearsal, riding crop, ring lardner, rock rabbit, rottweiler, saroyan, scattergun, scrubbing brush, short-circuit, short-handed, short-handled, short-order, shortleaf pine, short account, short iron, short letter, siamese, silencer, silicle, spirula, split second, squattiness, staccato, stromateid, stubbiness, stubbly, substandard, swagger stick, swamp locust, sycamore, syringa, t-bone steak, tapotement, telescope, terrier, thanksgiving, theropod, tinkling, tomentose, tomentous, traveling, trench mortar, truncated, truncation, twinkling, undershoot, vandyke beard, vaquita, velveteen, vena portae, versicle, very fast, violence, vonnegut, welsh corgi, wild crocus, worm lizard, yesterday
abyssinian, acceptor rna, acknowledgment, acrididae, adaptation, allegory, aloe vera, anapaestic, anapestic, anatidae, anatole france, andrenidae, angular vein, annual fern, aphorism, apiculate, arietta, arioso, awnless bromegrass, belgian griffon, bengal tiger, bermuda shorts, blink of an eye, brachycranic, brachypterous, breeches buoy, brussels griffon, buffalo grass, bullterrier, bull terrier, butterfly ray, by small degrees, cellular phone, ceratosaur, classified ad, compendious, crataegus mollis, curtain raiser, dedication, detroit river, developing, disconnected, donkey jacket, doris lessing, douglas hemlock, dryadella, dumpy level, dwarf mountain pine, egyptian pea, encapsulate, english bulldog, ephemeral, ephemerid, false pimpernel, florilegium, four-letter word, fulmar petrel, genus bryum, golden section, gray sea eagle, green douglas fir, h. h. munro, head cabbage plant, herman melville, hypoxia, indri indri, inferior, infomercial, informercial, intermezzo, in short order, itinerant, jamaica shorts, jones' penstemon, jorge borges, joshua tree, jumper cable, kurt vonnegut, lesser twayblade, levant cotton, locustidae, lords-and-ladies, lumber jacket, lycaenidae, lyric poem, mackinaw coat, magnetic stripe, maksim gorky, maxim gorki, miscellany, money market, mulberry fig, musical phrase, necrology, news bulletin, new york minute, northwest passage, o'flaherty, ommastrephes, operetta, oregon fir, oregon pine, philanderer, pinus mugo, plesiosaurus, pleurocarpous, porterhouse steak, prime interest rate, psittacosaur, purple clover, purple rock brake, railroad siding, rat-a-tat-tat, reduplicate, refutation, regulation, rigatoni, roentgen ray, sarcochilus, sawed-off shotgun, scolytidae, short aria, short covering, siamese cat, skye terrier, soluble rna, stromateid fish, sussex spaniel, swiss mountain pine, sycamore fig, take a breather, tasman dwarf pine, telegraphic, theropoda, thundershower, transfer rna, transiently, transitory, treasure flower, treasury bill, uakari, underbodice, unrecognized, upland cotton, variety, virginia pine, virtually, water locust, white violet, wide-angle lens, womaniser, womanizer
abbreviated, abyssinian cat, alligator grass, alligator weed, alpine hulsea, ankyloglossia, appreciation, australian grass tree, bastard pimpernel, brabancon griffon, brachycephalic, brachycranial, brachydactylic, brachydactylous, bristlecone pine, brittany spaniel, bromus inermis, buchloe dactyloides, capital gains tax, carpenter's mallet, catatonia, ceratosaurus, coccobacillus, columbiform bird, commercial paper, compression fracture, conciliation, delmonico steak, doris may lessing, dramatization, eastern pasque flower, english toy spaniel, ephemeralness, epicardia, eurasian woodcock, fulmarus glacialis, galiella rufa, genus crescentia, genus daviesia, genus pyrola, gustave flaubert, guy de maupassant, hector hugh munro, imperiously, infatuation, jack-in-the-pulpit, japanese chestnut, jaroslav hasek, katherine mansfield, linoleum knife, little by little, long-tailed porcupine, malacanthidae, metatarsal arch, mountain parsley fern, musical passage, nadine gordimer, nathaniel hawthorne, norwich terrier, obituary, old english sheepdog, order cestida, ovis musimon, pembroke welsh corgi, penstemon dolius, penstemon newberryi, phocaena sinus, picea glauca, pinus longaeva, pit bull terrier, pleurocarpous moss, popular music, prairie anemone, protactinium, psittacosaurus, serial killer, shortleaf yellow pine, sir angus wilson, somerset maugham, spanish bayonet, sweet white violet, telegraphically, temporariness, underdeveloped, underexposure, variety show, vena angularis, vienna sausage, viola blanda, western wall flower, william saroyan, x-radiation

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