Shell is valid Scrabble Word

Is shell a scrabble word?
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5 letters word
8 points in Scrabble
9 points in WWF

Definitions for SHELL in dictionary:

VERB:

to remove the outer covering from nuts
bombard with shells
score heavily against (an opposing pitcher or team)
remove the shell or pod from (a nut or seed)
To strip or break off the shell of; to take out of the shell, pod, etc.; as, to shell nuts or pease; to shell oysters.
To separate the kernels of (an ear of Indian corn, wheat, oats, etc.) from the cob, ear, or husk.
To throw shells or bombs upon or into; to bombard; as, to shell a town.
To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk; as, nuts shell in falling.
To be disengaged from the ear or husk; as, wheat or rye shells in reaping.

use explosives on
create by using explosives
hit the pitches of hard and regularly
look for and collect shells by the seashore
come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
remove from its shell or outer covering
remove the husks from
take the shell from

NOUN:

the hard protective outer case of a mollusc or crustacean
the outer case of a nut kernel or seed
the carapace of a tortoise, turtle, or terrapin.
the wing cases of a beetle.
the integument of an insect pupa or chrysalis.
used with reference to a state of shyness or introversion
an explosive artillery projectile or bomb
a hollow metal or paper case used as a container for fireworks, explosives, or cartridges.
a cartridge.
something resembling or likened to a shell because of its shape or its function as an outer case
the walls of an unfinished or gutted building or other structure
an outer form without substance
the metal framework of a vehicle body.
a light racing boat.
an inner or roughly made coffin.
the hand guard of a sword.
each of a set of orbitals around the nucleus of an atom, occupied or able to be occupied by electrons of similar energies
hard outer covering of an egg, nut, or certain animals
A hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal.
The covering, or outside part, of a nut; as, a hazelnut shell.
A pod.
The hard covering of an egg.
The hard calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates. In some mollusks, as the cuttlefishes, it is internal, or concealed by the mantle. Also, the hard covering of some vertebrates, as the armadillo, the tortoise, and the like.
Hence, by extension, any mollusks having such a covering.
A hollow projectile, of various shapes, adapted for a mortar or a cannon, and containing an explosive substance, ignited with a fuse or by percussion, by means of which the projectile is burst and its fragments scattered. See Bomb.
The case which holds the powder, or charge of powder and shot, used with breechloading small arms.
Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in; as, the shell of a house.
A coarse kind of coffin; also, a thin interior coffin inclosed in a more substantial one.
An instrument of music, as a lyre, -- the first lyre having been made, it is said, by drawing strings over a tortoise shell.
An engraved copper roller used in print works.
The husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is often used as a substitute for chocolate, cocoa, etc.
The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
A light boat the frame of which is covered with thin wood or with paper; as, a racing shell.
ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun
the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals
hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts
the exterior covering of a bird\'s egg
a rigid covering that envelops an object
a very light narrow racing boat
the housing or outer covering of something
a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod
the thin outer covering of an animal's egg, which is hard and fragile in that of a bird but leathery in that of a reptile.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to divest of a shell (a hard outer covering)

Words related to SHELL

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How to use SHELL in a sentence

I should have expected them to faint at the sight of blood, and to swoon at the bursting of a shell.
Many if not most of them were suffering from shell wounds, and the sufferers were rather human.
He was the most shell, bullet, and bomb defying person I have ever seen.
When they lifted it we could see where the shell had hit him.
The shell burst well behind them, but it was followed immediately by about a dozen rounds from a light gun.
Arrived at home, our first care was to turn the turtle on his back, to get the excellent meat out of the shell.
We then hastened to assist, turned the creature on its back, passed a long cord through its shell, and tied it firmly to a post close to the water.
When overhead a shell passed they would stroll, still knitting, out into the middle of the street to see where the shell struck.
The shell went through the iron verandah, pierced the stone wall above the front door without bursting, and exploded against the partition wall of the passage and drawing-room.
An examination of his ship showed that she had been struck 240 times by shot and shell in her nineteen months of service.

It fires a shell 7 feet long, weighing nearly 3,000 pounds, and carrying a bursting charge of 660 pounds of high explosive.
The road had shell holes in it from one to three feet deep.
The fruit is a hard, round shell, resembling a common ball, which contains from twenty to twenty-four nuts.
Suddenly a shell landed near us, and his movements were filled with alacrity.
Nothing was in sight but the wide expanse of rolling country cut up on all sides by trenches and shell holes, and wearing a sort of khaki uniform of light brown mud.
Stooping to pick up a shell, Cunningham was startled by a yell, and Harris came rushing along, pursued by a native.
For an hour and a quarter longer the blazing ships were pounded with shot and shell, the Spaniards feebly replying.
The descent from her carriage, too, where she sat like a nautilus in its shell, was a display which no one in these days could accomplish or even fancy.
This he lays before you, and explains that if he had been standing at the spot where the shell burst, it would have killed him.
Over each shell sprinkle bread crumbs, and a little chicken-fat.
The goddess that she was, she liked watching things come and go as well as how she felt superior in this fancy moving shell.
Francis Hotel, on Powell Street, fronting on Union Square, was left a ruined shell.
Far behind him, and usually on his right or left, the artillerymen are hard at work sending shell after shell upon the trenches in front.

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