Describing Wordsfor Shell

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Here are some adjectives for shell: uniform spherical, hollow translucent, hollow, animated, specially opaque, normal reticent, hollow, deceitful, bluish basal, compacted outer, decayed, lifeless, thin spherical, own air-conditioned, invincible immortal, sinister and naked, spherical common, extremely thin and fragile, spherical amber, compact pentagonal, tremendous fractal, vast, frail, coldly remote, increasingly shapeless, japanese pyrotechnic, specious outer, perfectly entire, unorthodox ceramic, fragile, hollow, humble and plain, segmented outer, porous ceramic, rotten, empty. You can get the definitions of these shell adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to shell (and find more here).

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Words to Describe shell

Below is a list of describing words for shell. You can sort the descriptive words by uniqueness or commonness using the button above. Sorry if there's a few unusual suggestions! The algorithm isn't perfect, but it does a pretty good job for most common nouns. Here's the list of words that can be used to describe shell:

uniform spherical hollow translucent hollow, animated specially opaque normal reticent hollow, deceitful bluish basal compacted outer decayed, lifeless thin spherical own air-conditioned invincible immortal sinister and naked spherical common extremely thin and fragile spherical amber compact pentagonal tremendous fractal vast, frail coldly remote increasingly shapeless japanese pyrotechnic specious outer perfectly entire unorthodox ceramic fragile, hollow
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humble and plain segmented outer porous ceramic rotten, empty frail, arthritic helluva strong endless, impenetrable sometimes malformed otherwise metallic cool diplomatic requisite ellipsoidal extremely fine and smooth perforated upper beautifully corrugated funny spiked hollow, incomplete shrunken, bloodless conical, heat-resistant impenetrable, spherical weak, empty drab and unpretentious hollow burned-out white petrified black prehistoric real or symbolical hard, egocentric complete, multilayered last-minute emotional outer cooler irregularly-spherical inner hemispherical rough, outer ragged and hard german seventeen-inch hollow spheroidal flexible or leathery perforated flinty curiously worn-out hard entire turkish conical aetherial spherical old suicidal miraculous gray multivalve harsh monastic rare fossil porous, outer self-involved, self-pitying immense, sparse smooth chromed decrepit, literal curved acoustical empty leathery clear poisonous black, elastic complimentary empty strange and spiritless protective artificial outdated naval last eight-inch poor glorious unresponsive outer proud, gilded tough, sensible seamless translucent scorched cinder-block beautiful and soulless pale, dehydrated dangly blue protective and impervious empty mechanical metallic outer unnatural youthful solitary and self-sufficient disposable hypersonic devastating and continuous upright mobile eighteenth-century legal yellow five-inch camp--fatal ornamental blond well-placed belgian fragile, bright thick old-world solitary big fragile, snail-like handsome empty extremely fine and compact fine and slightly glossy remarkably thin and delicate exquisitely fine and glossy rickety leaden upper or deep discoidal spiral symmetrical convoluted well-developed external spheroidal or pear-shaped flat discoidal bloodless, gentle natural modest splendid horned white eatable thick and impregnable eligible little solid and defensive henceforth useless tiny, embryonic empty, fraudulent red explosive japanese explosive ready spare curious, impenetrable untimely german outer repulsive stringed sonorous tiled and timbered convex, circular awkward metal sheer and delicate sodden, evil-looking sacred petrified fascinating scalloped oval, thin oblong, thick large five-inch hollow double conical internal glaring, spectral heavy and lubberly old casual german internal rudimentary intermediate spherical solid eight-inch quaint occidental flat semicircular handsome yellowish well-polished, smooth yellowish or pinkish-white smooth, red or brown exterior consolidated insignificant aerial flaming spherical soft but very tough inverted upper inner and harder continuous spherical stupendous, invulnerable sarcastic outer imaginary spheroidal solid collapsible lucky hostile white and chalky speckled foreign flattish, striped oblong, conical clean, glassy strikingly distinct delicate and rather uncommon ribbed and rosy vestigial internal muddy outworn solid chalky local and southern oblong and thinner fugitive and precarious brittle, red german eight-inch explosive german seventeen-inch german huge and otherwise empty ticklishly balanced welcome, mystic shrunken and calamitous outer logical tubular conical soft or fragile huge, bowl-shaped faint luminescent brazilian continental empty, dead high explosive rough hemispherical intellectual outer huge top armored little ancient empty brittle, empty hard and unchangeable particularly glossy vertical and other oval brownish bleak impersonal smooth and thin solid cellular fresh transparent crisp and dainty thy airy puny, pitiful utterly impersonal flattish oval purple outer outer orbital other semicircular thy brittle turquoise and white hollow spherical hard outer brittle purple inert, scorched infinitely devious uncaring bitter soft spiral fragile, antique fragile metal thick external translucent flexible fancy, ambulatory empty cinder-block cold, tensile colored spiral mysterious protective harsh unyielding now bottomless crystalline spherical standard individual confidential industrial proud ceramic lifeless and corrupt shoddily ornate scabrous outer perfect, pink narrow fragile seemingly unoccupied corruptible little concrete protective however savage protective leathery huge, streamlined inordinately thick brown inner absolutely frictionless and reflective absolutely frictionless cruel and soulless frail, wrinkled hulking empty inner, leaden crisp, outer largespiral blue-black, spiked deceptively brittle softly fragile heavy convoluted silvery external hot waxy offshore and foreign gaseous outer cosmetic outer thin and highly flammable useless worn-out apparently maniacal empty and exceptionally fragile impenetrable oriental organic, indestructible slovenly mortal large, six-story empty, litter-strewn largely technological silvered-metal callous and hard carefree outer single invulnerable toroidial pyramidal spiral gnarled pyramidal dry, untenanted invisible elliptical dazed, woozy empty bureaucratic sphe-ri-cal transparent and softly luminous bony, worn-out succulent soft white lucid shrill and dull rigid and hard frail and leaky hard or tough slightly glossy fairly glossy tough thin impressive outer external fibrous strange and uncertified dark, melodious clean, compact austrian six-inch deep or flat naval, nautical bottomless metal hardy soft massive and unbroken passive, senseless tough but now thin unexpected british eastern soft flat and very thin frequent and immense bright rare prettiest double french incendiary crazy, senseless outer solid great eight-inch big mother-of-pearl hard, foul inhospitable outer thy oval exquisite, pale smooth, impervious smaller oblong brave heavy hard, morose possible spherical crystal, white copious secondary definite outer enormous perforated thick, obstinate broad enamelled old coercive concentric and complete beautiful and highly interesting deeper and smoother homogeneous spherical white external edible top rampant british twentieth and final irregularly furrowed black and ignorant mere fossil deadly chemical hemispherical black biggest and most abundant reilly explosive decent outer goodly spiral mere brittle spiral mother-of-pearl straight, conical stout spiral conical spiral outer stony royal dutch graceful spiral suddenly rigid outer metal seamless black peculiar fossil ceramic composite thy vocal concentric spherical hard and impenetrable massive flat thick, defensive attractive physical fantastically beautiful hot empty immense, hollow nearly hollow magical protective own reclusive gaunt, charred thin false white and featureless upper concave flat simple elaborately coloured heavy retaliatory outer hard outer green similar purple transparent hollow mere frothy exterior wooden incandescent molten usual one-man brittle wooden well-developed internal solid blue-black heavier and rougher smooth, greenish transparent, thin brown, delicate glaring, white external protective hard, resistant smooth, dark-brown hollow open new coercive new and very rare irresistible foreign common spiral brown and glossy almost equilateral rare silvery thick cylindrical tiny empty smooth convex protective metal protective magnetic tough, sexy vaguely spherical bright speckled peculiar mexican less pliable upper flat somewhat unpromising sooty old smooth dusty independently movable hard, arrogant awkward rocky cool, translucent few penny-ante translucent opalescent charred concrete corpo\-real large mother-of-pearl hollow, angry icy mental main armored soft off-white damned rusting thinner interior ole miserable imaginary spherical empty mindless clear and hard brittle outer super-metal thick outer glassy outer old, water-filled last smart toroidal basic nice metal spherical golden same burned-out occasional intact blue, viscous narrow, impervious smooth, armored single rusted lovely mortal dreadful, empty mother-of-pearl or other wooden, outer charred, shapeless outer empty interior white largest and thinnest considerably thicker tough, heat-resistant inner metal desolate, dead yon empty outer spherical almost crimson finely perforated secondary or intermediate flat and wet new incendiary white and glossy smooth, cylindrical listless, indifferent solid, concentric mere spherical empty, miserable curved conical well-developed spiral massive armored thin, crooked hard and strong mere hollow fleshy outer outer brown hard and flinty great conventional single unlucky heavy cylindrical smooth, gray outer atmospheric thin opaque hollow, dead naked, empty thick, segmented new, pink huge iridescent inner hard occasional common plain but decent pink or rosy small, perforated wonderful virgin yellowish or white hard lower transparent, glassy ribbed white thicker and stronger mere featureless glossy, brown white perforated circular flat common fossil small petrified rough and thick dead, hollow great automatic massive curved smaller and narrower liquid and gaseous numerous sharp thin outer pearly black mere lifeless frail mortal graceful exterior hard defensive upper wooden anti-animal single incendiary polite, wary hard, golden sleek, expensive perfect hard exceptionally fragile intricate inner such lightweight hollow gray defensive outer lucky german papery outer gray outer good workable other outworn perfectly streamlined scorched and empty exceptionally thin vast musical little thicker aetherial electro-magnetic internal liquid present, few mere withered uncommon hard tremendous and continuous yellowish or brown strange spiral german anti-aircraft external nor internal hard fibrous probably open decorative outer satisfactory chemical little armored prickly green particular british heavy and rapid flat perforated hard flinty marvellously attractive invisibly thin hard protective clear outer heavy and effective good thin keen, black tactical atomic outer and visible big cylindrical slender conical thick deep smooth, metallic vast and massive completely false hollow old entire habitable curved spiral bitter, empty red outer translucent inner simple ballistic great corrugated tight protective hard, efficient polished white huge, windowless black overwhelming cooler outer smooth cylindrical massive spherical hard leathery mological smooth, hairless cold and hollow wild hollow cumbersome hard warm and smooth single recent outer black flat spiral slight german thin weak hollow golden arched upper black, cylindrical less widespread wretched german seventeen-inch fine empty sudden verbal huge ribbed slightly iridescent simple but efficient recent egyptian flat lower common deal foraminiferal thick, large outer protective single well-known hard chalky thin solid outer huge armored mother-of-pearl mere outer whole external last pink relatively thin construction-material transparent outer solid transparent industrial gray delicate transparent fair frail tough outer harsh blue empty human mere long hard, transparent thin liquid solid outer rough outer big transparent rough dirty amber colored half-swamped hard, thick burned-out enormous luminous barren, worthless thin but tough yellow and maroon dim, hollow empty, black smaller concentric planetary orbital outer armored little coal-black sparkling azure old, extinct hard, translucent hard, protective fine compact empty yellow also empty hard, outer solid, smooth usual cynical deep jagged small rudimentary somewhat curved great spherical empty blue comparatively thin thick, hard cold, hollow empty and useless tiny spiral thin protective tough, thin large spiral long, frail hard upper little perforated empty social brown or yellowish hard, durable old impersonal smooth, compact upper or dorsal lower or ventral hard bony dry and brittle precious blue usually empty huge and ancient hollow, empty whole outer dry empty beautiful, serene withered human mere tattered concave metal smooth outer hot outer electrelogical papery gray metal outer synthetic black huge, metal bright, brown hard brittle somewhat harder nearly cubical such galling empty hollow outer circular absolutely plain enormous cylindrical peculiar and romantic delicate internal eight-inch spherical grave, sad white inner dead, empty brownish or yellowish thin, whitish occasional lazy vast, hollow thin oval once sweet fairly hard magically animated rare blue small spiral great spiral single fragile beautiful empty outer curved empty dusty same explosive dark, sodden single defensive hard inner hard stony thin, leathery moderately thin rough, rugged modest brown warm, pink concave upper new, soft explosive polyhedral cylindrical metal huge solid great knotted smooth glossy old rigid cold and alien tremendously thick dark, hard empty upper great concave handsome purple brown or grey rough, thick hollow empty own outer plastic-and-metal suddenly wet mere empty white and lavender completely transparent thick, armored leathery grey transluscent hard purple poor hollow clear, crystalline mere thin visible outer soft or hard large freshwater single well-placed hard, cynical thine airy extremely thin hard green hollow beautiful spiral little aerial long common last austrian highly arched transparent brown comparatively plain empty, lifeless big german discoid much thicker thin, hard heavy naval rather bony small, curved me\-tal flat, long defective human whole hard mere old black upper thin, brittle tiny wee rough shaggy strange german similar circular frail human smooth hard single german great curved mere wooden hard, thin slightly open little shrunken dark and empty huge empty mere flat ascensional new automatic five-inch single explosive fleshy green silent, dead distinct physical bifurcated soft lower dark hollow mysterious metal wooden inner formerly empty ribbed black gray dusty rather eerie blue spiral thin, slight remarkably thin somewhat somber strong metallic thin frail hard thin empty single big great blind greenish brown slender metal conformist fragile wooden enormous german large and old equally thick quite thick warm, snug protective beautiful, delicate ellipsoidal last empty tall golden old, frail empty and desolate damn thin protective white smooth new discoidal single modern quite thin thy hollow thick bony somewhat elastic single fossil spiral six-inch great empty earth-colored beautiful pink hard bitter small perforated strong, hard mere senseless numerous recent large external cold outer smooth, thick thin metal hard, rough single, thin protective magical pleated white miniature green weak and wretched hard external spheroidal hard metal grey metal hard brown heavy, solid little spiral small external anti-aircraft pearly pink protective outer inner wooden great gaunt lofty, airy dry, dead monstrous mechanical comparatively smooth beautiful and rare single pink thick liquid unusually hard entire outer empty crystal brown or white white or grey small brownish chapel-like rough, uneven frail wooden hard, hollow soft outer thin, green thick solid whole false rather thick mere naked bigger and bigger physi\-cal fierce and furious large cylindrical nearly intact huge human smooth, cool smooth, pink wee white nut-like invisible protective long withered real, big dead and lifeless small common rare and remarkable mere dead large naval silvery gray snail-like same fragile roughly spherical mere yellow endoskeletal hard, lumpy

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Words to Describe shell

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "shell" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "shell" are: uniform spherical, hollow translucent, hollow, animated, specially opaque, and normal reticent. There are 995 other words to describe shell listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe shell suits your needs.

If you're getting strange results, it may be that your query isn't quite in the right format. The search box should be a simple word or phrase, like "tiger" or "blue eyes". A search for words to describe "people who have blue eyes" will likely return zero results. So if you're not getting ideal results, check that your search term, "shell" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

Note also that if there aren't many shell adjectives, or if there are none at all, it could be that your search term has an abiguous part-of-speech. For example, the word "blue" can be an noun and an adjective. This confuses the engine and so you might not get many adjectives describing it. I may look into fixing this in the future. You might also be wondering: What type of word is shell?

Describing Words

The idea for the Describing Words engine came when I was building the engine for Related Words (it's like a thesaurus, but gives you a much broader set of related words, rather than just synonyms). While playing around with word vectors and the "HasProperty" API of conceptnet, I had a bit of fun trying to get the adjectives which commonly describe a word. Eventually I realised that there's a much better way of doing this: parse books!

Project Gutenberg was the initial corpus, but the parser got greedier and greedier and I ended up feeding it somewhere around 100 gigabytes of text files - mostly fiction, including many contemporary works. The parser simply looks through each book and pulls out the various descriptions of nouns.

Hopefully it's more than just a novelty and some people will actually find it useful for their writing and brainstorming, but one neat little thing to try is to compare two nouns which are similar, but different in some significant way - for example, gender is interesting: "woman" versus "man" and "boy" versus "girl". On an inital quick analysis it seems that authors of fiction are at least 4x more likely to describe women (as opposed to men) with beauty-related terms (regarding their weight, features and general attractiveness). In fact, "beautiful" is possibly the most widely used adjective for women in all of the world's literature, which is quite in line with the general unidimensional representation of women in many other media forms. If anyone wants to do further research into this, let me know and I can give you a lot more data (for example, there are about 25000 different entries for "woman" - too many to show here).

The blueness of the results represents their relative frequency. You can hover over an item for a second and the frequency score should pop up. The "uniqueness" sorting is default, and thanks to my Complicated Algorithm™, it orders them by the adjectives' uniqueness to that particular noun relative to other nouns (it's actually pretty simple). As you'd expect, you can click the "Sort By Usage Frequency" button to adjectives by their usage frequency for that noun.

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