12-letter words containing shel
- bomb shelter — a shelter, usually underground, in which people take refuge from bomb attacks
- bourne shell — (sh, Shellish). The original command-line interpreter shell and script language for Unix written by S.R. Bourne of Bell Laboratories in 1978. sh has been superseded for interactive use by the Berkeley C shell, csh but still widely used for writing shell scripts. There were even earlier shells, see glob. [Details?]
- bushelbasket — a rounded basket with a capacity of one bushel
- closed shell — (in atomic structure) a shell that contains the maximum number of electrons permitted by the exclusion principle.
- cockleshells — Plural form of cockleshell.
- helmet shell — a predatory marine gastropod of the family Cassidae, characterized by a thick, heavy shell with a broadened outer lip.
- jingle shell — any of several marine, bivalve mollusks of the genus Anomia, having a thin, pearly shell with a conspicuous hole or notch near the hinge of the lower valve.
- on the shelf — a thin slab of wood, metal, etc., fixed horizontally to a wall or in a frame, for supporting objects.
- oyster shell — oyster's hard outer covering
- parcel shelf — flat storage panel in a vehicle
- rock-shelter — a shallow cave or cavelike area, as one formed by an overhanging cliff or standing rocks, occupied by Stone Age peoples, possibly for extended periods.
- secure shell — (operating system) (ssh) A Unix shell program for logging into, and executing commands on, a remote computer. ssh is intended to replace rlogin and rsh, and provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network. X11 connections and arbitrary TCP/IP ports can also be forwarded over the secure channel.
- shelf fungus — bracket fungus
- shelf talker — a cardboard, paper, or plastic advertisement of a product designed to be attached to a shelf on which the product is exhibited for sale.
- shell jacket — a close-fitting, semiformal jacket, with a short back, worn in the tropics in place of a tuxedo.
- shellcracker — redear sunfish.
- shellfishery — the industry and commerce of catching, processing, and selling shellfish; raising shellfish for commercial purposes.
- shellshocked — suffering from shellshock
- shelter belt — a row of trees planted to protect an area from the wind
- shelter deck — a weather deck covering a space not considered fully watertight.
- shelter tent — a small, two-person, military tent consisting of two halves (shelter halves) buttoned or tied together, held up by accessory ropes and poles.
- simian shelf — a shelflike thickening along the inside of the mandible, characteristic of the anthropoid apes.
- soft-shelled — Also, soft-shelled. having a soft, flexible, or fragile shell, as a crab that has recently molted.
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