short sale
short selling | sale of securities or commodity futures not owned by the seller (who hopes to buy them back later at a lower price) |
| short covering | the purchase of securities or commodities by a short seller to close out a short sale |
whist
long whist
short whist | a card game for four players who form two partnerships, a pack of cards is dealt and each side scores one point for each trick it takes in excess of six |
| sperm count | the act of estimating the number of spermatozoa in an ejaculate |
shortstop
short | the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base |
nap
catnap
cat sleep
forty winks
short sleep
snooze | sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed) |
| short division | the operation of division in which the sequence of steps is performed without writing them out |
whale shark
Rhincodon typus | large spotted shark of warm surface waters worldwide, resembles a whale and feeds chiefly on plankton |
lesser whitethroat
whitethroat Sylvia curruca | Old World warbler similar to the greater whitethroat but smaller |
sedge wren short-billed marsh wren
Cistothorus platensis | small American wren inhabiting wet sedgy meadows |
blue-headed vireo
Vireo solitarius solitarius | common vireo of northeastern North America with bluish slaty-grey head |
harrier eagle
short-toed eagle | any of numerous large Old World hawks intermediate in some respects between typical hawks and typical eagles |
lowland burrowing treefrog
northern casque-headed frog
Pternohyla fodiens | terrestrial burrowing nocturnal frog of grassy terrain and scrub forests having very hard upper surface of head, of the United States southwest |
| bone-headed dinosaur | bipedal herbivorous dinosaurs with bony crowns |
| black-headed snake | small secretive ground-living snake, found from central United States to Argentina |
rubber boa
tow-headed snake
Charina bottae | boa of grasslands and woodlands of western North America, looks and feels like rubber with tail and head of similar shape |
lesser prairie chicken
Tympanuchus pallidicinctus | a smaller prairie chicken of western Texas |
lesser scaup
lesser scaup duck
lake duck
Aythya affinis | common scaup of North America, males have purplish heads |
short-tailed shrew
Blarina brevicauda | North American shrew with tail less than half its body length |
acanthocephalan
spiny-headed worm | any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines |
| whale louse | amphipod crustacean parasitic on cetaceans |
lesser yellowlegs
Tringa flavipes | a variety of yellowlegs |
white-headed stilt
Himantopus himantopus leucocephalus | stilt of the southwest Pacific including Australia and New Zealand having mostly white plumage but with black wings and nape of neck |
| whale | any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head |
baleen whale
whalebone whale | whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water |
| right whale | large Arctic whalebone whale, allegedly the `right' whale to hunt because of its valuable whalebone and oil |
bowhead
bowhead whale
Greenland whale
Balaena mysticetus | large-mouthed Arctic whale |
blue whale
sulfur bottom
Balaenoptera musculus | largest mammal ever known, bluish-grey migratory whalebone whale mostly of southern hemisphere |
finback
finback whale
fin whale
common rorqual
Balaenoptera physalus | large flat-headed whalebone whale having deep furrows along the throat, of Atlantic and Pacific |
sei whale
Balaenoptera borealis | similar to but smaller than the finback whale |
lesser rorqual
piked whale
minke whale
Balaenoptera acutorostrata | small finback of coastal waters of Atlantic and Pacific |
humpback
humpback whale
Megaptera novaeangliae | large whalebone whale with long flippers noted for arching or humping its back as it dives |
grey whale
gray whale
devilfish Eschrichtius gibbosus
Eschrichtius robustus | medium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific |
| toothed whale | any of several whales having simple conical teeth and feeding on fish etc. |
sperm whale
cachalot
black whale Physeter catodon | large whale with a large cavity in the head containing spermaceti and oil, also a source of ambergris |
Kogia
genus Kogia | pygmy sperm whales |
pygmy sperm whale
Kogia breviceps | small sperm whale of warm waters of both coasts of North America |
dwarf sperm whale
Kogia simus | very small (to feet) sperm whale of central coasts of Atlantic and Pacific |
| beaked whale | any of several whales inhabiting all oceans and having beaklike jaws with vestigial teeth in the upper jaw |
bottle-nosed whale
bottlenose whale
bottlenose Hyperoodon ampullatus | northern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead |
killer whale
killer
orca
grampus sea wolf
Orcinus orca | predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin, common in cold seas |
pilot whale
black whale common blackfish
blackfish Globicephala melaena | small darkolored whale of the Atlantic coast of the United States, the largest male acts as pilot or leader for the school |
white whale
beluga Delphinapterus leucas | small northern whale that is white when adult |
| German short-haired pointer | liver or liver-and-white hunting dog developed in Germany,
pointer and
bloodhound |
short-horned grasshopper
acridid | grasshopper with short antennae |
pygmy mouse
Baiomys taylori | very small dark greyish brown mouse resembling a house mouse, of Texas and Mexico |
lesser kudu
Tragelaphus imberbis | a smaller variety of kudu |
tamandua
tamandu
lesser anteater
Tamandua tetradactyla | small toothless anteater with prehensile tail and fourlawed forelimbs, of tropical South America and Central America |
pygmy chimpanzee
bonobo
Pan paniscus | small chimpanzee of swamp forests in Zaire, a threatened species |
| lesser ape | gibbons and siamangs |