Phrase Hound found 382 phrases and 74 compound words that contain small. The most common are listed below. Open small in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 382
- small businessA privately-owned and operated business with relatively small turnover and staff numbers, typically seen as constituting part of a specific commercial or economic sector.
- small intestineThe upper part of the intestine, between the stomach and the large intestine, divided into the duodenum, the jejunum and the ileum.
- small-townPertaining to a small town; provincial.
- small businessesplural of small business: A privately-owned and operated business with relatively small turnover and staff numbers, typically seen as constituting part of a specific commercial or economic sector.
- Very Small
- small changeCoins of little value kept in one's pocket or bag, ready for small purchases.
- small talkIdle conversation, typically regarding innocuous or unimportant subjects, usually engaged in at social gatherings out of politeness.
- small armsFirearms designed to be carried and fired by a single person, and often held in the hand.
- small screenThe broadcast or cable television screen, as opposed to the cinema screen (or big screen)
- small-scaleConcerning a lower order of magnitude rather than a higher one.
- Small group
- small hoursThe very early morning, just after midnight, when most people are asleep.
- small appliancesplural of small appliance: A portable or semiportable machine, generally used on tabletops, countertops or other platforms, to accomplish a household task.
- small whiteA small, white butterfly Pieris rapae, of the family Pieridae, that damages Brassica rapa crops in temperate regions worldwide.
- Small groups
- small gameSmall animals and birds that are hunted and killed, either by hunters or predators.
- small printfine print
- small pressA small-scale publishing company.
- small categoryA category such that all of its objects form a set and all of its morphisms form a set.
- small roomA lavatory: a room intended for urination and defecation.
- small scienceTraditional scientific research that is conducted by individual researchers or small teams and funded by academic or scientific institutions.
- small timeA modest level of achievement, often local
- Small biz
- small bookSynonym of logbook: A book in which measurements of a ship's position are recorded, along with other salient details of the voyage, such as weather, resupply occasions, the crew's performance, other ships sighted, and so on.
- small endThe end of a connecting rod in a internal combustion engine that is connected to a piston.
Compound words 74
- smallpoxAn acute, highly infectious often fatal disease caused by Variola virus of the family Poxviridae. It was completely eradicated in the 1970s, but still exists in laboratories. Those who survived were left with pockmarks.
- SmallvilleA fictional small town, frequently representing a backwater place of origin, usually a rural farming community in the United States
- smallnessThe state or quality of being small.
- smallishSomewhat small.
- smallmouthA species of freshwater bass, Micropterus dolomieu, native to central North America but widely introduced throughout Canada and the United States as a game fish.
- smalltownAlternative form of small-town: Pertaining to a small town; provincial.
- smallgoodsCooked, dried, cured and otherwise processed meat products, such as salami; manufactured meats.
- SmallmanA surname transferred from the nickname.
- ensmallenTo make smaller.
- smallageCelery in its wild uncultivated form.