16-letter words containing il
- strict liability — responsibility for damage or loss regardless of intention or culpability
- subcartilaginous — partially or incompletely cartilaginous.
- substitutability — a person or thing acting or serving in place of another.
- sulfanilyl group — the para form of the group C 6 H 6 NO 2 S–, derived from sulfanilic acid.
- sulfocarbanilide — thiocarbanilide.
- superciliousness — haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression.
- susceptibilities — emotional sensibilities; feelings
- sweet almond oil — almond oil (def 1).
- sweeten the pill — If someone does something to sweeten the pill or sugar the pill, they do it to make some unpleasant news or an unpleasant measure more acceptable.
- tensile strength — the resistance of a material to longitudinal stress, measured by the minimum amount of longitudinal stress required to rupture the material.
- tent caterpillar — any of the larvae of several moths of the genus Malacosoma, which feed on the leaves of orchard and shade trees and live colonially in a tentlike silken web.
- terminal illness — A terminal illness cannot be cured, and causes death.
- the christ child — a very reverential way of referring to Jesus Christ as a child, used particularly when referring to art
- the devil to pay — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
- the first family — a President's family
- the hill of tara — the historic seat of the ancient Irish kings, in Co Meath near Dublin
- the marseillaise — the French national anthem. Words and music were composed in 1792 by C. J. Rouget de Lisle as a war song for the Rhine army of revolutionary France
- the mendip hills — a range of limestone hills in SW England, in N Somerset: includes the Cheddar Gorge and numerous caves. Highest point: 325 m (1068 ft)
- the oil industry — the industry that produces and delivers petroleum and petroleum products
- the silver ferns — the women's international netball team of New Zealand
- the silver state — the nickname of the US state of Nevada, which comes from the large amount of silver discovered and mined there
- the tamil tigers — a Sri Lankan Tamil separatist movement founded in the early 1970s that sought to establish an independent Tamil homeland (Tamil Eelam) in northern Sri Lanka; they waged a military campaign until defeated in 2009 by the Sri Lankan army
- the two sicilies — a former kingdom of S Italy, consisting of the kingdoms of Sicily and Naples (1061–1860)
- thermoacidophile — any organism, especially a type of archaebacterium, that thrives in strongly acidic environments at high temperatures.
- thick-tailed ray — Ichthyology. any ray of the order Rajiformes, having a relatively thick, fleshy tail, including the guitarfishes and the skates.
- three-mile limit — the limit of the marine belt of three miles (4.8 km), which is included within the jurisdiction of the state possessing the coast.
- thrilled to bits — If someone is thrilled, they are extremely pleased about something.
- through the mill — a factory for certain kinds of manufacture, as paper, steel, or textiles.
- thumbnail sketch — small preliminary drawing
- to blaze a trail — If someone blazes a trail, they discover or develop something new.
- to foot the bill — If you have to foot the bill for something, you have to pay for it.
- to put it mildly — to state it with or as if with restraint
- tool builder kit — (tool) (TBK) A product from IPSYS which allows users to develop CASE tools appropriate to any software engineering methodology.
- topsail schooner — a sailing vessel fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts with square sails above the foresail, and often with a square sail before the foresail.
- torvill and dean — two British ice dancers, Jayne Torvill, born 1957, and Christopher Dean, born 1958. They won the world championships in 1981–84, the European championships in 1981–82, 1984, and 1994, and the gold medal in the 1984 Olympic Games
- tower of silence — a circular stone platform, typically 30 feet (9.1 meter) in height, on which the Parsees of India leave their dead to be devoured by vultures.
- trail commission — A trail commission is a further commission of between 0.1 and 1 percent that is paid to an advisor provided that the client’s funds remain invested in the product for a specified time.
- trail one's coat — to invite a quarrel by deliberately provocative behaviour
- trailing arbutus — Also called arbutus, mayflower. a creeping eastern North American plant, Epigaea repens, of the heath family, having leathery, oval leaves and terminal clusters of fragrant pink or white flowers.
- trailing fuchsia — a shrub, Fuchsia procumbens, of the evening primrose family, native to New Zealand, having long-stalked leaves and drooping, orange-and-purple flowers, used in hanging baskets.
- transilluminator — to cause light to pass through.
- transmissibility — capable of being transmitted.
- trichotillomania — a compulsion to pull out one's hair.
- trim one's sails — an area of canvas or other fabric extended to the wind in such a way as to transmit the force of the wind to an assemblage of spars and rigging mounted firmly on a hull, raft, iceboat, etc., so as to drive it along.
- twelvepenny nail — a nail that is 3 1/4 inches (8.25 cm) long.
- two-family house — a house designed for occupation by two families in contiguous apartments, as on separate floors.
- two-percent milk — Two-percent milk is milk from which some of the cream has been removed.
- two-tailed pasha — a distinctive vanessid butterfly of S Europe, Charaxes jasius, having mottled brown wings with a yellow-orange margin and frilled hind edges
- typhoid bacillus — the bacterium Salmonella typhosa, causing typhoid fever.
- ultra filtration — Physical Chemistry. a filter for purifying sols, having a membrane with pores sufficiently small to prevent the passage of the suspended particles.