Sierra hotel india echo lima delta meaning

This means Shield.

What you wrote there is the official NATO way to spell to make sure that there are no mistakes. There is a list of words and the beginning of those words represents a letter. If you call someone and say shield, you spell it out by saying Sierra hotel india echo lima delta and the first letters give the word SHIELD.

"Sierra, hotel, india, echo, lima, delta" are all code words that are a part of NATO's phonetic alphabet. Sierra is the code word for the letter "s". Hotel is the code word for the letter "h". India is the code word for the letter "I". Echo is the code word for the letter "E". Lima is the code word for the letter "L". Delta is the code word for letter "d". "Shield" is what the code means.