short hundredweight vs centner

short hundredweight and centner both are nouns.

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

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

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

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

short hundredweight (noun)	centner (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