shingles
nounHow many syllables in shingles?
There are 2 syllables in the word shingles.How to pronounce shingles:
Definition of shingles:
- shingles (noun):
- eruptions along a nerve path often accompanied by severe neuralgia.
- an acute viral inflammation of the sensory ganglia of spinal and cranial nerves that is associated with a vesicular eruption and neuralgic pains and is caused by reactivation of the herpesvirus causing chicken pox
Synonyms for shingles:
alluvia
alluviums
blacklands
clays
clods
colluvia
colluviums
detritus
dirt
dust
earth
gaults
gleys
gooks
gravels
ground
gucks
gumbos
herpes
herpes zoster
kaolins
loams
loesses
marls
molds
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- shara
- shaper
- shanty
- shanti
- shankar
- shambles
- shaman
- shakti
- shahrzad
- shadrach
- shadows
- shackle
- seychelles
- sevrel
- servile
- serum
- serein
- seraphs
- sera
- seprate
- sentience
- sentenced
- sended
- seltzer
- sela
- seduct
- seduced
- sedgwick
- secpar
- seamless
- sealer
- scuppered
- sculptor
- scudded
- scuba
- scrunchies
- scrubbing
- scriptures
- scripture
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