centner vs short hundredweight

centner and short hundredweight both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
centner	Yes	No	No	No
short hundredweight	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, centner and short hundredweight are synonyms defined as:

centner and short hundredweight: a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds

Other synonyms of centner include cental, cwt, hundredweight, quintal.

centner (noun)	short hundredweight (noun)
a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds	a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds
in some European countries: a unit of weight equivalent to 50 kilograms
a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms in the metric system