shale

About 2.51 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A shell, scale or husk; a cod or pod.
2. noun A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.
3. noun The shale oil and shale gas segment of the oil and gas industry. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
4. verb To take off the shell or coat of.

Similar words

tar bituminous slate schist blackboard shell whiteboard nolichucky claystone siltstone

Often followed by

and is oil of in with or member at

Word family

shales shaley shalier shaliest shaly