Phrase Hound found 26 phrases and 21 compound words that contain shields. The most common are listed below. Open shields in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 26
- North ShieldsA town in the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England, on the north bank of the Tyne (OS grid ref NZ3568).
- South ShieldsA town in the Metropolitan Borough of South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, in the Northeast of England (OS grid ref NZ3667).
- chin shieldsplural of chin shield: Any of the scales found on the underside of a snake's head towards the anterior and touching the lower labial scales.
- dress shieldsplural of dress shield: A pad affixed temporarily to a dress or other garment, inside the armpit, to prevent the garment's becoming wet or soiled from perspiration.
- heat shieldsplural of heat shield: A shield designed of a substance that absorbs excessive heat from an outside source by either dissipating, reflecting or simply absorbing the heat.
- human shieldsplural of human shield: Civilians which a military group has deliberately placed combat targets near to deter an enemy from attacking those targets.
- riot shieldsplural of riot shield: A lightweight handheld protection device, generally used in riot control.
- face shieldsplural of face shield: A protective shield over the face.
- finger shieldsplural of finger shield: A protective device worn over the fingers or thumb to prevent cuts, burns, blisters, or accidental impacts.
- meat shieldsplural of meat shield: A human shield.
- medicine shieldsplural of medicine shield: A decorated leather shield used by many North American native warriors, believed to protect its owner with its magic power.
- ozone shieldsplural of ozone shield: The ozone layer; a region of the stratosphere containing a relatively high concentration of ozone.
- pop shieldsplural of pop shield: A pop filter.
- rape shieldsplural of rape shield: Any of various laws barring a defendant on a criminal charge of rape from introducing evidence that goes to the alleged rape victim's sexual behavior unrelated to the encounter from which the charge arose.
- sap shieldsplural of sap shield: A metal plate that shelters a sapper.
- tax shieldsplural of tax shield: The reduction in income taxes that results from taking an allowable deduction from taxable income.
- tower shieldsplural of tower shield: Synonym of scutum (“type of shield”).
- water-shieldsplural of water-shield: An aquatic herbaceous flowering plant widely distributed in North America, the West Indies, northern South America, East Asia, Australia, the Indian Subcontinent, and parts of Africa (Brasenia schreberi).
- white shieldsplural of white shield: White people who make a formation around black people in order to protect them from racist violence.
- wind shieldsplural of wind shield: A transparent screen made of glass, located at the front and back of a vehicle in front of its occupants to protect them from the wind force generated by the vehicle's speed and inclement weather.
- panty shieldsplural of panty shield: A pad worn on the inner surface of women's underpants, up against the vulva, during a low-flow day of the menstrual period, designed to absorb small, spotty quantities of menstrual fluid, in contrast to a tampon or …
- radial shieldsplural of radial shield: Either of the two plates situated on the disk at the base of each ray of some starfish.
- kite shieldsplural of kite shield: A shield rounded at the top and curving down to a point or rounded point at the bottom.
- lantern shieldsplural of lantern shield: A small shield combined with a lantern, used during the Italian Renaissance, especially for night-time duels.
- Whipple shieldsplural of Whipple shield: A thin foil film attached to the outside of a spacecraft to reduce the impact of micrometeoroids.
Compound words 21
- windshieldsplural of windshield: A transparent screen made of glass, located at the front and back of a vehicle in front of its occupants to protect them from the wind force generated by the vehicle's speed and inclement weather.
- GreenshieldsA surname.
- sunshieldsplural of sunshield: An assembly for protecting a space telescope from solar heat.
- armshieldsplural of armshield: A badge worn on the sleeve of a soldier's uniform in the shape of a shield, used to denote allegiance
- chinshieldsplural of chinshield: Any of the scales found on the underside of a snake's head towards the anterior and touching the lower labial scales.
- dayshieldsplural of dayshield: A protection from daylight; a screen
- eyeshieldsplural of eyeshield: Something worn to shield the eyes, especially a visor attached to an American football player's helmet.
- faceshieldsplural of faceshield: A protective shield over the face.
- forceshieldsplural of forceshield: A forcefield (invisible barrier).
- greatshieldsplural of greatshield: A particularly large, durable shield.