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17-letter words containing il

  • similar triangles — triangles that are similar due to the equality of corresponding angles and the proportional similarity of the corresponding sides
  • sinbad the sailor — a merchant in The Arabian Nights who makes seven adventurous voyages
  • six o'clock swill — a period of heavy drinking, esp during the years when hotels had to close their bars at 6.00 p.m.
  • smoke-filled room — a place, as a hotel room, for conducting secret negotiations, effecting compromises, devising strategy, etc.
  • soil conservation — any of various methods to achieve the maximum utilization of the land and preserve its resources through such controls as crop rotation, prevention of soil erosion, etc.
  • spanish civil war — the civil war in Spain 1936–39.
  • special privilege — exclusive advantage
  • spoonbill catfish — flathead catfish.
  • sports facilities — places and things for doing sports
  • spot-illustration — a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck.
  • square millimeter — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one millimeter on each side. 2 , sq. mm. Abbreviation: mm.
  • stenothermophilic — growing best within a narrow temperature range.
  • sting in the tail — an unexpected and unpleasant ending
  • striped killifish — a killifish, Fundulus majalis, of the Atlantic coast of the U.S., the female of which is marked with black stripes.
  • surrender to bail — to present oneself at court at the appointed time after having been on bail
  • tactile corpuscle — an oval sense organ made of flattened cells and encapsulated nerve endings, occurring in hairless skin, as the tips of the fingers and toes, and functioning as a touch receptor.
  • take a chill pill — something that has a calming or relaxing effect.
  • tertiary syphilis — the third stage of syphilis, characterized by involvement of the internal organs, especially the brain, spinal cord, heart, and liver.
  • the evil day/hour — If someone is putting off the evil day or the evil hour, they have to do something unpleasant and are trying to avoid doing it for as long as possible.
  • the life of riley — If you say that someone is living the life of Riley, you mean that they have a very easy and comfortable life with few worries.
  • the rail-splitter — Lincoln2
  • the silent screen — silent films, considered as a whole
  • the silken ladder — a one-act opera by Rossini, telling the story of Giulia, who is secretly married to Dorvil; he visits her bedroom every night by climbing up a ladder made of silk. Giulia's guardian, Dormont, expects her to marry Blansac, but she introduces Blansac to her cousin Lucilla; after much confusion, the two couples are joyfully united
  • the whole boiling — the whole lot
  • three mile island — an island in the Susquehanna River, near Middletown, Pennsylvania, SE of Harrisburg: scene of a near-disastrous accident at a nuclear plant in 1979 that raised the issue of nuclear-energy safety.
  • tiger swallowtail — a yellow swallowtail butterfly, Papilio glaucus, of eastern North America, having the forewings striped with black.
  • tiglath-pileser i — died 1102? b.c, king of Assyria c1115–1102?.
  • till eulenspiegel — a legendary German peasant of the 14th century whose practical jokes yielded many stories.
  • tilt at windmills — to cause to lean, incline, slope, or slant.
  • to oil the wheels — If someone or something oils the wheels of a process or system, they help things to run smoothly and successfully.
  • trailing geranium — an ivy-leaved variety of geranium, Pelargonium peltatum
  • troilus butterfly — spicebush swallowtail.
  • tubercle bacillus — the bacterium, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, causing tuberculosis.
  • twelve-mile limit — the offshore boundary of a state, extending 12 miles (19 km) at sea.
  • understandability — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
  • unintelligibility — the quality of being unintelligible
  • unlisted building — a building that is not amongst those buildings officially recognized as having special historical or architectural interest and therefore protected from demolition or alteration
  • vanilla-flavoured — having been flavoured with vanilla extract or essence
  • veiltail goldfish — an artificially bred, indoor variety of goldfish, usually golden or calico and of a spheroid shape, having a fully divided, drooping tail fin exceeding the body in length.
  • ventilation shaft — a shaft in a mine, tunnel, or building used for providing ventilation or fresh air
  • vertical mobility — movement from one social level to a higher one (upward mobility) or a lower one (downward mobility) as by changing jobs or marrying.
  • vertical retailer — A vertical retailer is a retail business that designs, produces, and sells its own products, without using middlemen or wholesalers, so that it can satisfy customer demands very efficiently.
  • verticillium wilt — a disease affecting many temperate-climate plants in hot weather, caused by soil-inhabiting fungi of the genus Verticillium and characterized by wilt, dulling or yellowing of leaf color, and withering near the base.
  • vila nova de gaia — a city in NW Portugal.
  • village community — an early form of community organization in which land belonged to the village, the arable land being allotted to the members or households of the community by more or less permanent arrangements and the waste or excess land remaining undivided.
  • wade-giles system — a system of Romanization of Chinese, devised by Sir Thomas Francis Wade (1818–95) and adapted by Herbert Allen Giles (1845–1935), widely used in representing Chinese words and names in English, especially before the adoption of pinyin.
  • water lily family — the plant family Nymphaeaceae, characterized by aquatic herbaceous plants having usually broad leaves, solitary, often showy flowers, and fruit in a variety of forms, and including the lotus (genus Nelumbo), spatterdock, water lily, and water shield.
  • water tube boiler — a boiler for generating steam by passing water in tubes (water tubes) through flames and hot gases.
  • water-tube boiler — a boiler for generating steam by passing water in tubes (water tubes) through flames and hot gases.
  • white-pine weevil — a brown beetle, Pissodes strobi, the larvae of which feed on the terminal buds and shoots of white pine and other conifers.
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