Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: dop
- Amharic: በቀዳሚ
- Arabic: شل
- Azerbaijani: qabıq
- Bashkir: тышлыҡтар
- Belarusian: абалонка
- Bulgarian: обвивка
- Bengali: শেল
- Bosnian: oklop
- Catalan: shell
- Cebuano: shell
- Czech: shell
- Welsh: cragen
- Danish: shell
- German: shell
- Greek: shell
- Esperanto: ŝelo
- Spanish: shell
- Estonian: shell
- Basque: shell
- Persian: پوسته
- Finnish: kuori
- French: shell
- Irish: bhlaosc
- Scottish Gaelic: sin cho
- Galician: shell
- Gujarati: શેલ
- Hebrew: מעטפת
- Hindi: शैल
- Croatian: ljuska
- Haitian: koki
- Hungarian: a shell
- Armenian: վահանակ
- Indonesian: shell
- Icelandic: skel
- Italian: shell
- Japanese: シェル
- Javanese: nihan
- Georgian: გარსი
- Kazakh: қабығы
- Khmer: សែល
- Kannada: ಶೆಲ್
- Korean: 셸
- Kyrgyz: оболочка
- Latin: testa
- Luxembourgish: shell
- Lao: ຫອຍ
- Lithuanian: shell
- Latvian: shell
- Malagasy: akorandriaka
- Mari: чора
- Maori: anga
- Macedonian: школка
- Malayalam: ഷെൽ
- Mongolian: бүрхүүл
- Marathi: शेल
- Hill Mari: цӓрӓ
- Malay: shell
- Maltese: - qoxra tal -
- Burmese: အခွံ
- Nepali: खोल
- Dutch: shell
- Norwegian: shell
- Punjabi: ਸ਼ੈੱਲ
- Papiamento: snel
- Polish: osłona
- Portuguese: casca
- Romanian: shell
- Russian: оболочка
- Sinhalese: ෂෙල්
- Slovak: shell
- Slovenian: shell
- Albanian: shell
- Serbian: шкољка
- Sundanese: cangkang
- Swedish: skal
- Swahili: shell
- Tamil: ஷெல்
- Telugu: షెల్
- Tajik: ниҳонӣ
- Thai: เชลล์
- Tagalog: shell
- Turkish: kabuk
- Tatar: тышча
- Udmurt: дыж
- Ukrainian: оболонка
- Urdu: شیل
- Uzbek: qobiq
- Vietnamese: vỏ
- Xhosa: yemiyalelo
- Yiddish: שאָל
- Chinese: 外壳
Synonyms, close and similar words for shell
- sheath
- hull
- membrane
- jacket
- encasement
- casing
- housing
- wrapper
- case
- shell structure
- bark
- enclosure
- skin
- cladding
- coating
- covering
- shield
- veneer
- command processor
- command interpreter
- command shell
- mussel
- wash basin
- clam
- seashell
- mollusc
- sea shell
- conch
- mollusk
- eggshell
- shuck
- husk
- cartridge case
- liner
- shell ring
- carapace
- coat of mail
- armor
- cocoon
- pod
- capsule
- cover
- skeleton
- framing
- armature
- frame
- fork up
- framework
- structure
- shelly limestone
- surface
- plate
- blast