Words containing shel
5 letter words containing shel
6 letter words containing shel
- bushel — A bushel is a unit of volume that is used for measuring agricultural produce such as corn or beans. A bushel is equivalent in volume to eight gallons.
- shelby — a city in S North Carolina.
- shelfy — full of sandbanks or reefs hidden beneath the water's surface
- shells — a hard outer covering of an animal, as the hard case of a mollusk, or either half of the case of a bivalve mollusk.
- shelly — abounding in shells: a shelly surf.
7 letter words containing shel
- dishelm — to deprive of a helmet.
- inshell — to retreat, as into a shell
- k-shell — the first shell of electrons surrounding the nucleus of an atom and containing, when filled, two electrons having principal quantum number 1.
- l-shell — the second shell of electrons surrounding the nucleus of an atom and containing, when filled, eight electrons having principal quantum number 2.
- m-shell — the third shell of electrons surrounding the nucleus of an atom and containing, when filled, 18 electrons having principal quantum number three.
8 letter words containing shel
9 letter words containing shel
- aeroshell — a protective shield, containing a parachute, which slows a spacecraft during re-entry to the earth's atmosphere and landing
- bandshell — a type of bandstand enclosed at the back
- bodyshell — the external shell of a motor vehicle
- bombshell — A bombshell is a sudden piece of bad or unexpected news.
- bookshelf — A bookshelf is a shelf on which you keep books.
10 letter words containing shel
- aeroshells — Plural form of aeroshell.
- bushelling — alteration of clothes
- clam-shell — the shell of a clam.
- clamshells — Plural form of clamshell.
- deshelling — a hard outer covering of an animal, as the hard case of a mollusk, or either half of the case of a bivalve mollusk.
11 letter words containing shel
- bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
- cockleshell — the shell of the cockle
- half-bushel — a unit of dry measure equal to 2 pecks (17.6 liters).
- hinshelwood — Sir Cyril Norman, 1897–1967, English chemist: Nobel Prize 1956.
- mantelshelf — mantel (def 2).
12 letter words containing shel
- bushelbasket — a rounded basket with a capacity of one bushel
- cockleshells — Plural form of cockleshell.
- 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.
- shellcracker — redear sunfish.
- shellfishery — the industry and commerce of catching, processing, and selling shellfish; raising shellfish for commercial purposes.
13 letter words containing shel
- mantelshelves — Plural form of mantelshelf.
- off-the-shelf — readily available from merchandise in stock.
- paper-shelled — having a thin, easily broken shell: paper-shelled nuts.
- shelf-stacker — a person whose job is to fill the shelves and displays in a supermarket or other shop with goods for sale
- shell-shocked — battle fatigue.
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