Turtles

What do we mean by turtles?

Any land or marine reptile of the order Testudines, characterised by a protective shell enclosing its body. See also tortoise.

(specifically) A marine reptile of that order.

An Ancient Roman attack method, where the shields held by the soldiers hide them, not only left, right, front and back, but also from above.

A type of robot having a domed case (and so resembling the reptile), used in education, especially for making line drawings by means of a computer program.

An on-screen cursor that serves the same function as a turtle for drawing.

The curved plate in which the form is held in a type-revolving cylinder press.

A small element towards the end of a list of items to be bubble sorted, and thus tending to take a long time to be swapped into its correct position. Compare rabbit.

A breakdancing move consisting of a float during which the dancer's weight shifts from one hand to the other, producing rotation or a circular "walk".

A low stand for a lamp etc.

I like them. Urban Dictionary

The best animal in the world! Urban Dictionary

Used in Hawaii as a slang for 'thirty' when telling time. Urban Dictionary

Used instead of "thirty" when saying half past the hour. Urban Dictionary

Slang term for email. Urban Dictionary

A breaker move like the cricket except instead of bouncing from hand to hand you have your elbows in your gut and your spining in a circle by slightly raising your hand shifting if and puting it back down. keep dooing this from hand to hand until you've gone around in a complete cirle Urban Dictionary

Cool, awesome, neat-o Urban Dictionary

Travel in damn flocks not herds Urban Dictionary

A half-hour (30 minutes). Urban Dictionary

Evil little shits who are the reason for everything bad in life. little shits. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to turtles:
turtles, turtle, hurtles, turtled, turtler, turtlet, turtlers.

Words that rhyme with turtles:
hurtles, myrtles, bertels, dirt hills.

Adjectives that are often used to describe turtles:
green, marine, many, young, loggerhead, large, freshwater, giant, aquatic, small, little, shelled, most, female, leatherback, hawksbill, huge, big, live, sea, necked, fossil, mud, pet, male, terrestrial, painted, dead, juvenile, ridley, tiny, olive, wild, enormous, spotted, adult, captive, larger, north, eastern, snapping, fresh, hatchling, shell, largest, immature, numerous, smaller, mature, innumerable, ornate, australian, gigantic, embryonic, eared, ninja, atlantic, rare, endangered, soft, nesting, sacred, fetched, mammoth, tropical, hatched, asian, emydid, fewer, softshelled, edible, mutant, fat, hawaiian, stranded.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective turtles:
pair, nest, case, sun, litigation, cough, comin, feed.

Consonant match to turtles:
titles, totals, tootles, tattles.

Words that sound like turtles:
turtles, turtle, trials, titles, tittles, tattles, trowels, truls, turtler, trulls, hurtles, trills, trails, trolls, totals, tootles, toddles, turtled, trawls, troels, treadles, hurdles, dirtily, myrtles, kirtles, turtling, title, trial, troubles, travels, towels, drills, tattle, tittle, truffles, trickles, tuttle, toodles, trifles, triples, tatas, tals, tital, towles, tols, startles, tottle, trull, ttyl, trebles, turmoils, trias, sea turtles, turdus, tribbles, tribals, trestles, titler, traill, trammels, troas, teitel, tertius, tra-la, triol, tattily, tea towels, tittl, turtle bay, hurtle, hertel, details, mortals, portals, drools, drawls, ordeals, shuttles, aerials, dirties, orals, chortles, chattels, curdles, girdles, diddles, bartels, dawdles, dreidels, curtails, airtel, bartles, oertel, drolls, artel, arils, artily, nurdles, airedales, erol's.