Crossword-Solution: SHALE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Shale | n. | A shell or husk; a cod or pod. |
| Shale | n. | A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure. |
| Shale | v. t. | To take off the shell or coat of; to shell. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SHALE | anagram | ELAHS, HALES, HALSE, HASEL, HEALS, HELAS, LEAHS, LEASH, SAHEL, SALEH, SELAH, SHEAL, SHELA |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with SHALE (5)
Estonia has a large, relatively modern port and produces more than half of its own energy needs at highly polluting shale oil power plants.
Beyond the gateway a lush level ca隳n into which you plunged as into a bath; then again the laboring trail, up and always up toward the blue California sky, out of the lilacs, and laurels, and redwood chaparral into the manzanita, the Spanish bayonet, the creamy yucca, and the fine angular shale of the upper regions.
She turned back behind the bushy screen, rode hastily along the ridge to the head of the little coulee and dismounted, leading Pard down a steep bank that was treacherous with loose shale.
Its sides were steep, so that the snow had slipped off in patches, leaving stretches of glistening black shale.
The road wound over the shale of the hillside and then into what in spring must have been upland meadows.
Quotes with SHALE (3)
If you imagine the 4,500-bilion-odd years of Earth's history compressed into a normal earthly day, then life begins very early, about 4 A.M., with the rise of the first simple, single-celled organisms, but then advances no further for the next sixteen hours. Not until almost 8:30 in the evening, with the day five-sixths over, has Earth anything to show the universe but a restless skin of microbes. Then, finally, the first sea plants appear, followed twenty minutes later by th…
she should have told me that times slides away on a hillside of lose shale and takes everything in its path-dreams, opportunities, hopes. And youth. It takes that fastest of all.
Gankis lifted an arm to point at the distant shale cliffs. "And in the face of it there were thousands of little holes, little what-you-call-'ems...""Alcoves," Kennit supplied in an almost dreamy voice. "I call them alcoves, Gankis. As would you, if you could speak your own mother tongue.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 325 times in crossword archives (1955–2025).