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Showing words for SHINGLES using the English dictionary

8 Letter Words for Shingles

shingles

7 Letter Words for Shingles

elshins, english, essling, shingle, singles, sleighs

6 Letter Words for Shingles

elshin, elsins, glinse, gneiss, heling, hinges, hingle, hissel, ingles, inless, lignes, neighs, seling, shiels, shines, silens, singes, single, sleigh, slinge, slings

5 Letter Words for Shingles

ehing, elsin, ensis, eshin, ghess, giles, gilse, gisel, gleis, glens, gliss, heils, helis, hinge, hings, hsien, ingle, ishes, isles, legin, legis, leish, leiss, lengs, lenis, lessn, liens, liesh, ligne, lines, linge, lings, neigh, nelis, nighs, nisse, segni, seils, sengi, sheng, shiel, shies, shine, shins, shisn, siens, sighs, signs, silen, siles, sines, singe, singh, sings, sinhs, sline, sling, slish, snies, snigs, ssing

4 Letter Words for Shingles

eigh, elhi, engl, engs, gein, gels, genl, gens, gess, gien, gies, gile, gils, gins, gise, gish, glei, glen, glis, heil, heli, heng, hens, hies, hile, hine, hing, hins, hisn, hiss, isle, isls, legs, leis, leng, lens, less, lien, lies, lige, ligs, line, ling, lins, lish, liss, negs, nesh, ness, nies, nigh, nile, nils, segs, seil, seis, sels, sens, shes, shin, sien, sigh, sign, sile, sine, sing, sinh, sins, sise, sish, snig

3 Letter Words for Shingles

ehs, eli, els, eng, enl, ens, ess, gel, gen, gie, gin, gis, gns, hei, hel, hen, hes, hie, hin, his, ign, ihs, ile, ing, ins, ise, ish, isl, isn, leg, lei, les, lie, lig, lin, lis, neg, nei, nie, nig, nil, nis, seg, sei, sel, sen, she, shi, sie, sig, sil, sin, sis, sle, sse, ssh

Definitions for Shingles

[1] a disease caused by the varicella-zoster virus, especially by reactivated virus in an older person, characterized by skin eruptions and pain along the course of involved sensory nerves.
[2] a thin piece of wood, slate, metal, asbestos, or the like, usually oblong, laid in overlapping rows to cover the roofs and walls of buildings.
[3] a woman's close-cropped haircut.
[4] Informal . a small signboard, especially as hung before a doctor's or lawyer's office.
[5] to cover with shingles, as a roof.
[6] to cut (hair) close to the head.
[7] small, waterworn stones or pebbles such as lie in loose sheets or beds on a beach.
[8] a beach, riverbank, or other area covered with such small pebbles or stones.
[9] to hammer or squeeze (puddled iron) into a bloom or billet, eliminating as much slag as possible; knobble.
[10] (functioning as singular) an acute viral disease affecting the ganglia of certain nerves, characterized by inflammation, pain, and skin eruptions along the course of the affected nerve Technical names: herpes zoster , zoster
[11] a thin rectangular tile, esp one made of wood, that is laid with others in overlapping rows to cover a roof or a wall
[12] a woman's short-cropped hairstyle
[13] US and Canadian a small signboard or nameplate fixed outside the office of a doctor, lawyer, etc
[14] a shingle short Australian informal unintelligent or mentally subnormal
[15] to cover (a roof or a wall) with shingles
[16] to cut (the hair) in a short-cropped style
[17] coarse gravel, esp the pebbles found on beaches
[18] a place or area strewn with shingle
[19] (tr) metallurgy to hammer or squeeze the slag out of (iron) after puddling in the production of wrought iron

Words related to Shingles

beach, coast, seashore, border, bank, sand, seaboard, waterfront, riverbank, shore, tribute, salute, sanction, license, certificate, permission, summons, subpoena, passport, permit

Words nearby Shingles

shine up to, shiner, shiner perch, shingle, shingle oak, shingles, shingling, shingly, shingon, shining, shining cuckoo

Origin of Shingles

31665–75; < French cingler to whip, beat < German zängeln, derivative of Zange tongs

Other words from Shingles

shin·gler , noun

Word origin for Shingles

C17: from Old French dialect chingler to whip, from chingle belt, from Latin cingula girdle; see cingulum

Synonyms for Shingles

bank, coast, littoral, oceanfront, seaboard, seafront, seaside, shore, strand, waterfront