Crossword-Solution: SHELL 5 letters, 302 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Shell	n.	A hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal.
Shell	n.	The covering, or outside part, of a nut; as, a hazelnut shell.
Shell	n.	A pod.
Shell	n.	The hard covering of an egg.
Shell	n.	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.
Shell	n.	Hence, by extension, any mollusks having such a covering.
Shell	n.	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.
Shell	n.	The case which holds the powder, or charge of powder and shot, used with breechloading small arms.
Shell	n.	Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in; as, the shell of a house.
Shell	n.	A coarse kind of coffin; also, a thin interior coffin inclosed in a more substantial one.
Shell	n.	An instrument of music, as a lyre, -- the first lyre having been made, it is said, by drawing strings over a tortoise shell.
Shell	n.	An engraved copper roller used in print works.
Shell	n.	The husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is often used as a substitute for chocolate, cocoa, etc.
Shell	n.	The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
Shell	n.	A light boat the frame of which is covered with thin wood or with paper; as, a racing shell.
Shell	v. t.	To strip or break off the shell of; to take out of the shell, pod, etc.; as, to shell nuts or pease; to shell oysters.
Shell	v. t.	To separate the kernels of (an ear of Indian corn, wheat, oats, etc.) from the cob, ear, or husk.
Shell	v. t.	To throw shells or bombs upon or into; to bombard; as, to shell a town.
Shell	v. i.	To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
Shell	v. i.	To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk; as, nuts shell in falling.
Shell	v. i.	To be disengaged from the ear or husk; as, wheat or rye shells in reaping.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
SHELL	anagram	HELLS

We have 302 clues for the answer “SHELL”

Clue	Answers
"Marcel the ___ with Shoes On" (June, 2022, movie blending live action and stop-motion animation)	1 answer
A game of sorts.	1 answer
Band ___ (saucer-shaped stadium)	1 answer
Beach bum's find	1 answer
Beach day souvenir	1 answer
Beach decoration of sorts	1 answer
Beach home?	1 answer
Beach vacation souvenir	1 answer
Big name at the pumps	1 answer
Bit of beach house decor	1 answer
Boat used in regatta.	1 answer
Boat with a crew	1 answer
Clam cover	1 answer
Clam's home	1 answer
Clam's house	1 answer
Clambake discard	1 answer
Comber's collectible	1 answer
Combing attraction?	1 answer
Combing find	1 answer
Con-game prop	1 answer
Conch condo	1 answer
Conch or cowrie	1 answer
Conch or puka, e.g.	1 answer
Covering for a peanut	1 answer
Cowrie cover	1 answer
Cowrie or conch	1 answer
Cowrie protector	1 answer
Cox's charge	1 answer
Crustacean's protection	1 answer
Edible case, in cookery.	1 answer
Find at the beach	1 answer
GUTTED building	1 answer
Game or shock	1 answer
Gun cartridge	1 answer
Haliotis shell	1 answer
Hard cover, often?	1 answer
Hard outercase	1 answer
Hardcover?	1 answer
Henley boat	1 answer
Hermit crab's home	1 answer
Hermit crab's protection	1 answer
Humpty Dumpty coat.	1 answer
It covers your nut	1 answer
Item in a confidence game.	1 answer
Long, narrow racing boat.	1 answer
M&M's exterior	1 answer
Manitoba's White ______	1 answer
Metaphor for an introvert's demeanor	1 answer
Mollusk's exoskeleton	1 answer
Mollusk's home	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ETRAE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with SHELL (5)

But Peter issued from the powder magazine with the shell in his hands, and calmly flung it overboard.

Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991

The shell had been so thin, so devoid of excrescence, and so closely drawn over the accommodation granted, that the grim character of what was beneath showed through it, as the shape of a body is visible under a winding sheet.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Steve Bellovin, a grad student at the University of North Carolina, put together the first version of the news software using shell scripts and installed it on the first two sites: unc and duke.

Zen and the Art of the Internet Brendan P. Kehoe 1992

Perhaps they expected to find no living things—certainly no intelligent living things.” “A shell in the pit,” said I, “if the worst comes to the worst, will kill them all.” The intense excitement of the events had no doubt left my perceptive powers in a state of erethism.

The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992

Historical note: The jargon usage derives from `glob', the name of a subprogram that expanded wildcards in archaic pre-Bourne versions of the UNIX shell.

The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992

Quotes with SHELL (3)

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began.

Morrissey

The shell must break before the bird can fly.

Alfred Tennyson

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 210 times in crossword archives (1946–2025).