| bombshell | (noun) an explosive bomb or artillery shell | - |
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| (noun) a shocking surprise | Synonyms: thunderbolt, thunderclap |
| (noun) an entertainer who has a sensational effect | - |
| clamshell | (noun) the shell of a clam | - |
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| (noun) a dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam | Synonyms: grapple |
| cockleshell | (noun) a small light flimsy boat | - |
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| eggshell | (noun) the exterior covering of a bird's egg | Synonyms: shell |
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| hell | (noun) noisy and unrestrained mischief | Synonyms: blaze |
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| (noun) a cause of difficulty and suffering | Synonyms: blaze |
| (noun) any place of pain and turmoil | Synonyms: hell on earth, hellhole, inferno, snake pit, the pits |
| hellbender | (noun) large salamander of North American rivers and streams | Synonyms: Cryptobranchus alleganiensis, mud puppy |
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| hellcat | (noun) a malicious woman with a fierce temper | Synonyms: harpy, vixen |
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| hellebore | (noun) any plant of the Eurasian genus Helleborus | - |
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| (noun) perennial herbs of the lily family having thick toxic rhizomes | Synonyms: false hellebore |
| helleborine | (noun) any of several orchids of the genus Cephalanthera | - |
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| (noun) any of various orchids of the genus Epipactis | - |
| (noun) any of several small temperate and tropical orchids having mottled or striped leaves and spikes of small yellowish-white flowers in a twisted raceme | Synonyms: rattlesnake plantain |
| heller | (noun) a rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man) | Synonyms: devil, hellion |
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| (noun) 100 halers equal 1 koruna in Czech Republic | Synonyms: haler |
| (noun) 100 halers equal 1 koruna Slovakia | Synonyms: haler |
| helleri | (noun) freshwater fish of Central America having a long swordlike tail; popular aquarium fish | Synonyms: swordtail, topminnow, Xyphophorus helleri |
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| hellfire | (noun) a place of eternal fire envisaged as punishment for the damned | Synonyms: red region |
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| hellgrammiate | (noun) large brown aquatic larva of the dobsonfly; used as fishing bait | Synonyms: dobson |
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| hellhole | (noun) any place of pain and turmoil | Synonyms: hell, hell on earth, inferno, snake pit, the pits |
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| hellhound | (noun) a very evil man | - |
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| (noun) (Greek mythology) the three-headed dog guarding the entrance to Hades; son of Typhon | Synonyms: Cerberus |
| hellion | (noun) a rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man) | Synonyms: devil, heller |
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| hellish | (adjective) extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | Synonyms: demonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, infernal, satanic, unholy |
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| (adjective) (informal) very unpleasant | Synonyms: beastly, god-awful |
| hellishly | (adverb) diabolically | Synonyms: infernally |
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| hellishness | (noun) The property of being extremely bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying; resembling a nightmare. | Synonyms: nightmarishness |
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| hello | (noun) an expression of greeting | Synonyms: hi, how-do-you-do, howdy, hullo |
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| lampshell | (noun) marine animal with bivalve shell having a pair of arms bearing tentacles for capturing food; found worldwide | Synonyms: brachiopod, lamp shell |
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| moonshell | (noun) marine gastropods having smooth rounded shells that form short spires | Synonyms: moon shell |
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| nutshell | (noun) the shell around the kernel of a nut | - |
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| phellem | (noun) (botany) outer tissue of bark; a protective layer of dead cells | Synonyms: cork |
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| philhellene | (adjective) characterized by a love of Greece and Grecian things | Synonyms: Graecophile, Graecophilic, philhellenic |
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| (noun) an admirer of Greece and everything Greek | Synonyms: Graecophile, philhellenist |
| philhellenic | (adjective) characterized by a love of Greece and Grecian things | Synonyms: Graecophile, Graecophilic, philhellene |
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| philhellenism | (noun) admiration for Greece and the Greeks and Greek customs | - |
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| philhellenist | (noun) an admirer of Greece and everything Greek | Synonyms: Graecophile, philhellene |
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| rakehell | (noun) a dissolute man in fashionable society | Synonyms: blood, profligate, rake, rip, roue |
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| seashell | (noun) the shell of a marine organism | - |
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| shell | (noun) the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod | - |
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| (noun) hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles | Synonyms: carapace, cuticle, shield |
| (noun) ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun | - |
| (noun) a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners) | Synonyms: plate, scale |
| (noun) the housing or outer covering of something | Synonyms: case, casing |
| (noun) a very light narrow racing boat | Synonyms: racing shell |
| (noun) a rigid covering that envelops an object | - |
| (noun) the exterior covering of a bird's egg | Synonyms: eggshell |
| (noun) the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts | - |
| (noun) the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals | - |
| (verb) remove from its shell or outer covering | - |
| (verb) remove the husks from | Synonyms: husk |
| (verb) use explosives on | Synonyms: blast |
| (verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | Synonyms: beat, beat out, crush, trounce, vanquish |
| (verb) hit the pitches of hard and regularly | - |
| (verb) look for and collect shells by the seashore | - |
| (verb) fall out of the pod or husk | - |
| (verb) create by using explosives | Synonyms: blast |
| shellac | (noun) a thin varnish made by dissolving lac in ethanol; used to finish wood | Synonyms: shellac varnish |
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| (noun) lac purified by heating and filtering; usually in thin orange or yellow flakes but sometimes bleached white | - |
| (verb) cover with shellac | Synonyms: shellack |
| shellack | (verb) cover with shellac | Synonyms: shellac |
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| shellbark | (noun) North American hickory having loose grey shaggy bark and edible nuts | Synonyms: Carya ovata, shagbark, shagbark hickory, shellbark hickory |
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| shelled | (adjective) of animals or fruits that have a shell | - |
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| sheller | (noun) a worker who removes shells (as of peas or oysters) | - |
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| shellfire | (noun) shooting artillery shells | - |
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| shellfish | (noun) invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell | Synonyms: mollusc, mollusk |
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| (noun) meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean) | - |
| shellflower | (noun) showy perennial of marshlands of eastern and central North America having waxy lanceolate leaves and flower with lower part creamy white and upper parts pale pink to deep purple | Synonyms: Chelone glabra, shell-flower, snake-head, snakehead, turtlehead |
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| (noun) cultivated for its shining oblong leaves and arching clusters of white flowers with pink shading and crinkled yellow lips with variegated magenta stripes | Synonyms: Alpinia speciosa, Alpinia Zerumbet, Languas speciosa, shall-flower, shell ginger |
| shelling | (noun) the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target | Synonyms: barrage, barrage fire, battery, bombardment |
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| shellproof | (adjective) able to resist the explosive force of bombs and shells | Synonyms: bombproof |
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| tortoiseshell | (noun) a cat having black and cream-colored and yellowish markings | Synonyms: calico cat, tortoiseshell-cat |
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| (noun) brilliantly colored; larvae feed on nettles | Synonyms: tortoiseshell butterfly |
| (noun) the mottled horny substance of the shell of some turtles | - |
| unshelled | (adjective) of animals or fruits that have no shell | Synonyms: shell-less |
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