All shell synonyms
shell
S s noun shell
- discoidal β Having the flat, circular shape of a disc or a quoit.
- crating β a slatted wooden box or framework for packing, shopping, or storing fruit, furniture, glassware, crockery, etc.
- cannonball β A cannonball is a heavy metal ball that is fired from a cannon.
- framework β a skeletal structure designed to support or enclose something.
- cartridge β A cartridge is a metal or cardboard tube containing a bullet and an explosive substance. Cartridges are used in guns.
- cladding β Cladding is a covering of tiles, wooden boards, or other material that is fixed to the outside of a building to protect it against bad weather or to make it look more attractive.
- discoid β having the form of a discus or disk; flat and circular.
- epicarp β (botany) Exocarp.
- exocarp β The outer layer of the pericarp of a fruit.
- wreck β any building, structure, or thing reduced to a state of ruin.
- cutes β attractive, especially in a dainty way; pleasingly pretty: a cute child; a cute little apartment.
- disc β any thin, flat, circular plate or object.
- abalone β Abalone is a shellfish that you can eat and that has a shiny substance called mother-of-pearl inside its shell.
- crust β The crust on a loaf of bread is the outside part.
- nutshell β the shell of a nut.
- mort β a male given name, form of Mortimer or Morton.
- drawer β a sliding, lidless, horizontal compartment, as in a piece of furniture, that may be drawn out in order to gain access to it.
- middies β a midshipman.
- envelope β A flat paper container with a sealable flap, used to enclose a letter or document.
- cockle β Cockles are small edible shellfish.
- epidermis β The outer layer of cells covering an organism, in particular.
- ammo β Ammo is ammunition for guns and other weapons.
- case β A particular case is a particular situation or incident, especially one that you are using as an individual example or instance of something.
- cutis β the vertebrate skin, including both of its layers, the dermis and the epidermis
- gunpowder β an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
- blouse β A blouse is a kind of shirt worn by a girl or woman.
- chaff β Chaff is the outer part of grain such as wheat. It is removed before the grain is used as food.
- aril β an appendage on certain seeds, such as those of the yew and nutmeg, developed from or near the funicle of the ovule and often brightly coloured and fleshy
- mulligan β Gerald Joseph ("Gerry"; "Jeru") 1927β96, U.S. jazz saxophonist, bandleader, and composer.
- lamina β a thin plate, scale, or layer.
- canister β A canister is a strong metal container. It is used to hold gases or chemical substances.
- ormer β an abalone, Haliotis tuberculata, living in waters of the Channel Islands.
- ammunition β Ammunition is bullets and rockets that are made to be fired from guns.
- glume β one of the characteristic chafflike bracts of the inflorescence of grasses, sedges, etc., especially one of the pair of bracts at the base of a spikelet.
- bomb β A bomb is a device which explodes and damages or destroys a large area.
- fireball β Sir Charles George Douglas, 1860β1943, Canadian poet and novelist.
- middy β Informal. a midshipman.
- bodysuit β A bodysuit is a piece of women's clothing that fits tightly over the top part of the body and fastens between the legs.
- carapace β A carapace is the protective shell on the back of some animals such as tortoises or crabs.
- ectoderm β the outer germ layer in the embryo of a metazoan.
- quoit β quoits, (used with a singular verb) a game in which rings of rope or flattened metal are thrown at an upright peg, the object being to encircle it or come as close to it as possible.
verb shell
- blitzed β inebriated; drunk
- knock over β to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
- blitzing β Military. an overwhelming all-out attack, especially a swift ground attack using armored units and air support. an intensive aerial bombing.
- breached β the act or a result of breaking; break or rupture.
- bombard β If you bombard someone with something, you make them face a great deal of it. For example, if you bombard them with questions or criticism, you keep asking them a lot of questions or you keep criticizing them.
- forayed β a quick, sudden attack: The defenders made a foray outside the walls.