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SHALE

“SHALE” is a valid word.

8 Scrabble points
8 Words with Friends
5 letters

Definition

noun

  1. a sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive layers of clay

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4-letter words 10

  • salea particular instance of selling
  • sealfastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm; used for sealing documents and parcels and letters
  • healheal or recover
  • halea soldier of the American Revolution who was hanged as a spy by the British; his last words were supposed to have been `I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country' (1755-1776)
  • shea
  • lashany of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids
  • alesa general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the United States an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume
  • leasa unit of length of thread or yarn
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3-letter words 15

  • she
  • hashave or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense
  • seaa division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land
  • ashthe residue that remains when something is burned
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  • alea general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the United States an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume
  • leaa unit of length of thread or yarn
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  • alsthickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord; results in progressive muscle atrophy that starts in the limbs
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2-letter words 11

  • hea very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses; the most difficult gas to liquefy; occurs in economically extractable amounts in certain natural gases (as those found in Texas and Kansas)
  • asa very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms; arsenic and arsenic compounds are used as herbicides and insecticides and various alloys; found in arsenopyrite and orpiment and realgar
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  • ha(astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing; the right ascension for an observer at a particular location and time of day
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  • laa white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily; occurs in rare earth minerals and is usually classified as a rare earth
  • ala silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite
  • elangular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
  • esa radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons
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