There are 12 words that start with 'shear'.
| shear | shears | sheared | 
| shearer | shearers | shearing | 
| shearings | shearlegs | shearling | 
| shearlings | shearwater | shearwaters | 
Note: These 12 words that start with 'shear' are found from the USA & Canada version of the tournament Scrabble word list.