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SHELL

SHELL 5 letter word which starts with the letter S and ends with the letter L


We have found 21 definitions.

(n.) A hard outside covering as of a fruit or an animal.
(n.) The covering or outside part of a nut; as a hazelnut shell.
(n.) A pod.
(n.) The hard covering of an egg.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Hence by extension any mollusks having such a covering.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The case which holds the powder or charge of powder and shot used with breechloading small arms.
(n.) Any slight hollow structure; a framework or exterior structure regarded as not complete or filled in; as the shell of a house.
(n.) A coarse kind of coffin; also a thin interior coffin inclosed in a more substantial one.
(n.) An instrument of music as a lyre -- the first lyre having been made it is said by drawing strings over a tortoise shell.
(n.) An engraved copper roller used in print works.
(n.) The husks of cacao seeds a decoction of which is often used as a substitute for chocolate cocoa etc.
(n.) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
(n.) A light boat the frame of which is covered with thin wood or with paper; as a racing shell.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To separate the kernels of (an ear of Indian corn wheat oats etc.) from the cob ear or husk.
(v. t.) To throw shells or bombs upon or into; to bombard; as to shell a town.
(v. i.) To fall off as a shell crust etc.
(v. i.) To cast the shell or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk; as nuts shell in falling.
(v. i.) To be disengaged from the ear or husk; as wheat or rye shells in reaping.

Syllable Information

The word SHELL is a 5 letter word that contains 1 syllable .

The syllable division for the word SHELL is SHELL


Other words from SHELL

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