The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SHELL which also is the latest solution we found used in Crosswords Media in 2006.
Cowrie protector crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SHELL | 100 % | 5 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Cowrie protector
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- bell
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- lamp
- lantern
- luke
- pill
- rope
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Crossword Answer definitions
SHELL noun- A hard external covering of an animal.
- The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
- The hard external covering of various plant seed forms.
- The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
- The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
- A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scattered at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
- The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
- Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
- A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
- A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
- The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
- (rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
- A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
- The outward form independent of what is inside.
- The empty outward form of someone or something.
- An emaciated person.
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
- A legal entity that has no operations.
- A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
- A gouge bit or shell bit.
- The onset and coda of a syllable.
- A person's ear.
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
- To switch to a shell or command line.
- To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- To form a shelling.
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