| 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 | - |
| bookshelf | (noun) a shelf on which to keep books | - |
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| bushel | (noun) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 pecks | - |
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| (noun) a United States dry measure equal to 4 pecks or 2152.42 cubic inches | - |
| (verb) restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken | Synonyms: doctor, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, restore, touch on |
| 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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| 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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| seashell | (noun) the shell of a marine organism | - |
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| sheldrake | (noun) Old World gooselike duck slightly larger than a mallard with variegated mostly black-and-white plumage and a red bill | - |
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| (noun) large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges | Synonyms: fish duck, merganser, sawbill |
| shelduck | (noun) female sheldrake | - |
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| shelf | (noun) a support that consists of a horizontal surface for holding objects | - |
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| (noun) a projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water | Synonyms: ledge |
| shelfful | (noun) the amount that a shelf will hold | - |
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| shelflike | (adjective) resembling a shelf (or considered to resemble a shelf) | - |
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| shelfy | (adjective) full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals | Synonyms: reefy, shelvy, shoaly |
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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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| shelter | (noun) a structure that provides privacy and protection from danger | - |
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| (noun) protective covering that provides protection from the weather | - |
| (noun) temporary housing for homeless or displaced persons | - |
| (noun) a way of organizing business to reduce the taxes it must pay on current earnings | Synonyms: tax shelter |
| (noun) the condition of being protected | Synonyms: protection |
| (verb) invest (money) so that it is not taxable | - |
| (verb) provide shelter for | - |
| shelterbelt | (noun) hedge or fence of trees designed to lessen the force of the wind and reduce erosion | Synonyms: windbreak |
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| sheltered | (adjective) protected from danger or bad weather | - |
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| shelve | (verb) place on a shelf | - |
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| (verb) hold back to a later time | Synonyms: defer, hold over, postpone, prorogue, put off, put over, remit, set back, table |
| shelver | (noun) a worker who puts things (as books) on shelves | - |
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| shelvy | (adjective) full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals | Synonyms: reefy, shelfy, shoaly |
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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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