7-Letter Words Containing: SHORT

• To cause a short circuit in (something).

• Of an electrical circuit, to short circuit.

• To shortchange.

• To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.

• To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.

• To shorten.

• Dressed in shorts.

• make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration

• reduce in scope while retaining essential elements

• make short or shorter

• become short or shorter

• edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate

• Something or someone that is shorter than normal.

• A short-handed goal.

• A short person.

• A term of endearment for a child, younger sibling, shorter person, etc.

• A child.

• An attractive young female, especially one who is sexually available.

• A girlfriend.

• Shorter than normal, especially of clothing.

• primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration

• (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length

• low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal

• (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range

• not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices

• of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration

• the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed

• accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference

• the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base

• clean across

• without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold

• at some point or distance before a goal is reached

• so as to interrupt

• at a disadvantage

• in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner

• quickly and without warning

• of insufficient quantity to meet a need

• less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so

• lacking foresight or scope

• tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening

• marked by rude or peremptory shortness

• cheat someone by not returning him enough money

• create a short circuit in

• any plant of the genus Shortia; evergreen perennial herbs with smooth leathery basal leaves and showy white solitary flowers