Shrapnel is valid Scrabble Word

Is shrapnel a scrabble word?
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8 letters word
13 points in Scrabble
15 points in WWF

Definitions for SHRAPNEL in dictionary:

NOUN:

fragments from an exploding bomb, mine, or shell
fragments of a bomb, shell, or other object thrown out by an explosion
a shell containing bullets or pieces of metal timed to burst short of impact.
small change
artillery shell filled with pellets which scatter on explosion
A shrapnel shell; shrapnel shells, collectively.
shell containing lead pellets that explodes in flight

ADJECTIVE:

Applied as an appellation to a kind of shell invented by Gen. H. Shrapnel of the British army.

Words related to SHRAPNEL

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Words that contain SHRAPNEL

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How to use SHRAPNEL in a sentence

As for cover, two bricks and his shrapnel hat make a very passable pavilion.
I counted seventy-four shrapnel that burst in a circle of half a mile around us in about two hours, and yet we had no more than about eighteen casualties.
These huts, and all covered trenches, are only safe from shrapnel exploding in the air or near by.
On these chill Autumn evenings, with the rain or the dead leaves or the shrapnel whirling by outside, you could have few more agreeable companions than Mr.
In the trenches along the Yser men crouched down close to the moist mud to shelter themselves from a wind which was harder to dodge than shrapnel shells.
They had sighted it, and we saw their shrapnel searching the sky for it.
We were there some time, wondering when one of the bursts of shrapnel would strike the lane, but none did.
The shells, the length of a tall man and weighing very nearly a ton, were charged with shrapnel, carrying no fewer than twenty thousand bullets apiece.
Here and there we could see great shells bursting, and even shrapnel.
She had been in the famous old Dunkirk Convoy in 1914, and was battle-scarred, as her canvas testified, where the bullets and shrapnel had pierced it.

But I can still see those poplars almost hidden in the smoke of shrapnel.
The projectiles consist of shells, shrapnel, and solid shot.
This will be the proper time for examining the shrapnel and shells, which must receive the particular attention of the Officer who is to command the boat.
A French writer in La Nature shows that 332 out of 479 abnormal wounds were caused by shrapnel and pieces of shell having a low velocity.
The roofs were covered with from three to four feet of earth, which made them proof against shrapnel or shell splinters.
The group is now more compact and we go on with the shrapnel bursting now and then around us.
Colonel Fitz Shrapnel in his dug-out with a telephone at Battalion Headquarters, his dug-out being blown to pieces, a shell bursting on the top of it.
A few rounds of shrapnel were fired at us as a parting present, but no casualties were sustained.
He had been struck by a piece of shrapnel in the head and his brain was protruding.
A shrapnel bullet caught him inside the door and he fell dead on the pavement.
The smoke from a shrapnel hung in the air for a moment like a ball of cotton, and then that, too, disappeared.
A shrapnel had just destroyed the top of the copper church tower, which the Japanese were using as a lookout.
We could see the lines of troops in their retreat and advance, batteries and charges shrouded in shrapnel smoke.
And many of the shrapnel bullets, or pieces of exploding shells, found their marks.
We glanced into the sky at the shrapnel puffs, and immediately discovered two enemy aeroplanes flying lower than they had ever done before.
It was always the shrapnel with the hideous whine and shriek and its tearing wound that they dreaded most.
About mid-day our men seemed to be held up, the Turkish shrapnel appearing to be too much for them.

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