Shell is valid Scrabble Word

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

shelled11 sheller10 shellers11 shellful14 shellfuls15 shellier11 shelliest12 shelling12 shellings13 shells9 shelly12

Words that contain SHELL

shells9 shelly12 enshell10 inshell10 shellac12 shelled11 sheller10 unshell10 dayshell15 eggshell13 enshells11 inshells11 nutshell11 seashell11 shellack17 shellacs13 shellers11 shellful14 shellier11 shelling12 subshell13 unshells11 aeroshell12 bandshell15 bodyshell18 bombshell18 bushelled15 busheller14 clamshell16 dayshells16 eggshells14 enshelled13 hardshell16 inshelled13 lampshell16 nutshells12 seashells12 shellacks18 shellback20 shellbark18 shellduck19 shellfire15 shellfish18 shellfuls15 shelliest12 shellings13 shellwork19 softshell15 subshells14 unshelled13 aeroshells13 bandshells16 bodyshells19 bombshells19 bushellers15 bushelling16 clamshells17 enshelling14 inshelling14 lampshells17 shellacked20 shellacker19 shellbacks21 shellbarks19 shellbound16 shelldrake18 shellducks20 shellfires16 shelliness13 shellproof18 shellshock22 shellworks20 shellycoat18 softshells16 toothshell16 unshelling14 bushellings17 cockleshell22 shellackers20 shellacking21 shelldrakes19 shellfishes20 shellshocks23 shellycoats19 toothshells17 cockleshells23 shellackings22 shellcracker23 shellfishery24 shellinesses15 shellshocked25 shellcrackers24 tortoiseshell16 shellfisheries23 tortoiseshells17

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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