Shale is valid Scrabble Word

Is shale a scrabble word?
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Words with Friends YES

5 letters word
8 points in Scrabble
8 points in WWF

Definitions for SHALE in dictionary:

VERB:

to shell, husk, also SHEAL, SHEEL, SHIEL
To take off the shell or coat of; to shell.

NOUN:

clay rock splitting readily into thin layers along the bedding planes
soft finely stratified sedimentary rock that formed from consolidated mud or clay and can be split easily into fragile plates.
flaky sedimentary rock
A shell or husk; a cod or pod.
A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.
a sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive layers of clay

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a fissile rock

Words related to SHALE

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Words that contain SHALE

shaled10 shales9 shaley12 unshale10 unshaled12 unshales11 marshaled15 marshaler14 shalelike16 marshalers15

How to use SHALE in a sentence

A stream, sometimes large as a river, crawling languidly through deep fissures in the red shale, protected the left flank of the column.
Layers of sandstone or of shale containing this decayed vegetable, alternate with layers which contain none.
Now it was she, with her child in her arms, who walked for ever and ever along that road, toiling through snow or over shale and finding no rest anywhere.
All the ugliness of the lower shale slopes is hidden.
Hands and feet he dug fiercely into shale and rock as he fought to make those last three or four yards as quickly as possible.
Under him fell away the chaos of torn-up rock and shale.
In the thick grass and hard shale of the first crest of the slope the tracks were quickly lost, but the hunters were not much interested in these tracks now.
It was certain that Hilda Shale would make known her circumstances.
Lady Shale and Hilda meant, no doubt, to give the Rocketts a good fright, and then contemptuously pardon them.
The gun, dismounted, was half buried in a pile of shale which lay feet deep across the road.

The sun sank gloriously behind High Shale, and a soft breeze blew in from the sea.
But in the summer, as a concession to High Shale, he held his concerts, whenever feasible, up on the hill, and practically the whole of High Shale village came to them.
The sun had gone down behind High Shale, and the quiet shadows stretched towards him.
CHAPTER VII FLIGHT It was a dumb and sullen crowd that Dick Green faced that night in the great barn on the slope of High Shale.
Where-ever she looked the mountains fronted her, with their splendid green slopes reaching up to their bald caps of gray shale and reddish rock or gleaming summits of snow.
In the manufacture of alum near Glasgow the shale and slate clay from the old coal pits constitute the material used, and in France alum is manufactured directly from the clay.
About an hour later I thought to hear a single tinkle of shale.
He found the rock extremely brittle and he was a long hour reaching the green shale.
The hills of shale might have been vast heaps of ashes.
On the trail lay Eleanor Loring, her black hair vivid against the gray of the shale.
Then reverse the plates, that it may shale and fall out, and so put the parcels up in boxes.
A layer of several feet in thickness may be composed of compact shale, while above it will be a zone of limestone, and again above this another layer of shale.
Dots of vivid colors flame and fade and pass to ledges of dank, vineclad rock and drifts of shale, as the road climbs again.
A burst of shale and dust shot up from the hillside.
Andy edged his horse around an impracticable slope of shale stuff and went on.
The stone was a soft red shale, and the trail had been cut in it at a steep angle.
The promontory I had chosen had a split, and choked as this was with brush, rock, and shale, it seemed a place where I might climb down.
At other times they lie horizontally on the bed of coal, having been thrown down previously to the formation of the shale or sandstone, which now rests upon them.
This time it burned suddenly clear and large and very bright, away off to the left of him where he had by daylight noticed a bare shale slide.

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