Words Like SHELL

We have put together a list of words that are similar to SHELL.

56 Alternative Words Similar to shell

1 Case Noun      Synonym Words Like Case
2 Plate Noun      Synonym Words Like Plate
3 Cover Noun      Synonym Words Like Cover
4 Covering Noun      Synonym Words Like Covering
5 Housing Noun      Synonym Words Like Housing
6 Beat Verb      Synonym Words Like Beat
7 Crush Verb      Synonym Words Like Crush
8 Trounce Verb      Synonym Words Like Trounce
9 Vanquish Verb      Synonym Words Like Vanquish
10 Emerge Verb      Synonym Words Like Emerge
11 Gather Verb      Synonym Words Like Gather
12 Hit Verb      Synonym Words Like Hit
13 Remove Verb      Synonym Words Like Remove
14 Take Verb      Synonym Words Like Take
15 Withdraw Verb      Synonym Words Like Withdraw
16 Phragmocone Noun      Hyponym
17 Phragmacone Noun      Hyponym
18 Seashell Noun      Hyponym
19 Scull Noun      Hyponym
20 Outflank Verb      Hyponym Words Like Outflank
21 Surmount Verb      Hyponym Words Like Surmount
22 Lick Verb      Hyponym Words Like Lick
23 Outmatch Verb      Hyponym Words Like Outmatch
24 Trump Verb      Hyponym Words Like Trump
25 Cheat Verb      Hyponym Words Like Cheat
26 Outperform Verb      Hyponym Words Like Outperform
27 Cream Verb      Hyponym Words Like Cream
28 Outstrip Verb      Hyponym Words Like Outstrip
29 Outgo Verb      Hyponym Words Like Outgo
30 Outfight Verb      Hyponym Words Like Outfight
31 Eliminate Verb      Hyponym Words Like Eliminate
32 Screw Verb      Hyponym Words Like Screw
33 Outpoint Verb      Hyponym Words Like Outpoint
34 Outdo Verb      Hyponym Words Like Outdo
35 Scoop Verb      Hyponym Words Like Scoop
36 Best Verb      Hyponym Words Like Best
37 Worst Verb      Hyponym Words Like Worst
38 Exceed Verb      Hyponym Words Like Exceed
39 Master Verb      Hyponym Words Like Master
40 Rout Verb      Hyponym Words Like Rout
41 Shaft Verb      Hyponym Words Like Shaft
42 Surpass Verb      Hyponym Words Like Surpass
43 Outscore Verb      Hyponym Words Like Outscore
44 Pip Verb      Hyponym Words Like Pip
45 Outplay Verb      Hyponym Words Like Outplay
46 Mate Verb      Hyponym Words Like Mate
47 Nutshell Noun      Hyponym
48 Cuticula Noun      Hyponym
49 Create Verb      Hypernym Words Like Create
50 Make Verb      Hypernym Words Like Make
51 Nacre Noun      Hyponym
52 Shrapnel Noun      Hyponym
53 Whizzbang Noun      Hyponym
54 Whizbang Noun      Hyponym
55 Boot Noun      Hyponym Words Like Boot
56 Gearbox Noun      Hyponym Words Like Gearbox

6 examples of shell

1 a hazelnut shell
2 the shell of a house
3 a racing shell
4 We beat the competition
5 Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game
6 shell mussels

10 definitions of shell

1 A hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal.
2 The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
3 A pod.
4 The hard covering of an egg.
5 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.
6 Hence, by extension, any mollusks having such a covering.
7 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.
8 The case which holds the powder, or charge of powder and shot, used with breechloading small arms.
9 Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in.
10 A coarse kind of coffin; also, a thin interior coffin inclosed in a more substantial one.
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