Nouns starting with S

• shell — Noun – English ～ the exterior covering of a bird's egg
• shell ginger — Noun – English ～ cultivated for its shining oblong leaves and arching clusters of white flowers with pink shading and crinkled yellow lips with variegated magenta stripes
• shell bean — Noun – English ～ a bean plant grown primarily for its edible seed rather than its pod
• shell — Noun – English ～ a rigid covering that envelops an object; "the satellite is covered with a smooth shell of ice"
• shell — Noun – English ～ the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts
• shell corporation — Noun – English ～ a company that is incorporated but has no assets or operations
• shell bean plant — Noun – English ～ a bean plant grown primarily for its edible seed rather than its pod
• shell parakeet — Noun – English ～ small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors
• shell entity — Noun – English ～ a company that is incorporated but has no assets or operations
• shell — Noun – English ～ a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
• shell collecting — Noun – English ～ the collection and study of mollusc shells
• shell — Noun – English ～ ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun
• shell jacket — Noun – English ～ waist-length jacket tapering to a point at the back; worn by officers in the mess for formal dinners
• shell — Noun – English ～ the housing or outer covering of something; "the clock has a walnut case"
• shell — Noun – English ～ a very light narrow racing boat
• shell — Noun – English ～ hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
• shell — Noun – English ～ the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals
• shell game — Noun – English ～ a swindling sleight-of-hand game; victim guesses which of three things a pellet is under
• shell-flower — Noun – English ～ 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
• shell — Noun – English ～ the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod

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