10-letter words containing il
- buildering — the practice of climbing tall urban buildings, for sport or publicity.
- bumbailiff — (formerly) an officer employed to collect debts and arrest debtors for nonpayment
- bunker oil — Nautical. oil taken on board a tanker as fuel, as distinguished from the oil carried as cargo.
- bunny hill — a nursery slope
- burnsville — a city in SE Minnesota.
- bush basil — See under basil.
- bush pilot — a pilot who flies small aircraft over rugged terrain or unsettled regions to serve remote areas inaccessible to or off the route of larger planes: Bush pilots brought supplies to the Alaskan village once a week.
- buttermilk — Buttermilk is the liquid that remains when fat has been removed from cream when butter is being made. You can drink buttermilk or use it in cooking.
- caecilians — Plural form of caecilian.
- caerphilly — a market town in SE Wales, in Caerphilly county borough: site of the largest castle in Wales (13th–14th centuries). Pop: 31 060 (2001)
- calciphile — calcicole.
- calla lily — any southern African plant of the aroid genus Zantedeschia, esp Z. aethiopica, which has a white funnel-shaped spathe enclosing a yellow spadix
- calla-lily — Also called calla lily, arum lily. any of several plants belonging to the genus Zantedeschia, of the arum family, especially Z. aethiopica, having arrow-shaped leaves and a large white spathe enclosing a yellow spike.
- camarillas — Plural form of camarilla.
- campaniles — Plural form of campanile.
- candelilla — either of two wax-coated Mexican shrubs, Euphorbia antisyphilitica or Pedilanthus pavonis (or bracteatus)
- cannetille — a gold or silver thread with a spiral twist, formerly much used in embroidery.
- canola oil — rapeseed oil
- canophilia — the love of dogs
- cantabiles — Plural form of cantabile.
- cantilenas — Plural form of cantilena.
- cantilever — A cantilever is a long piece of metal or wood used in a structure such as a bridge. One end is fastened to something and the other end is used to support part of the structure.
- cantillate — to chant (passages of the Hebrew Scriptures) according to the traditional Jewish melody
- capability — If you have the capability or the capabilities to do something, you have the ability or the qualities that are necessary to do it.
- capillaire — a syrup flavoured with maidenhair fern or orange flower water
- capillatus — (of a cumulonimbus cloud) having a cirriform upper portion that resembles an anvil or a disorderly mass of hair.
- capnophile — (biology) A microorganism that requires or grows best in presence of high concentrations of carbon dioxide.
- carron oil — an ointment of limewater and linseed oil, formerly used to treat burns
- cartilages — Plural form of cartilage.
- cartophile — a cartophilist
- cartophily — the hobby of collecting cigarette cards
- cascarilla — a West Indian euphorbiaceous shrub, Croton eluteria, whose bitter aromatic bark is used as a tonic
- castor oil — Castor oil is a thick yellow oil that is obtained from the seeds of the castor oil plant. It has a very unpleasant taste and in former times was used as a medicine.
- cavilation — Alternative spelling of cavillation.
- cavillers' — to raise irritating and trivial objections; find fault with unnecessarily (usually followed by at or about): He finds something to cavil at in everything I say.
- cefadroxil — A broad-spectrum cephalosporin antibiotic.
- cefmatilen — An orally active cephalosporin antibiotic.
- ceilometer — a device for determining the cloud ceiling, esp by means of a reflected light beam
- centiliter — A centiliter is a unit of volume in the metric system equal to ten milliliters or one-hundredth of a liter.
- centilitre — A centilitre is a unit of volume in the metric system equal to ten millilitres or one-hundredth of a litre.
- centillion — (in Britain and Germany) the number represented as one followed by 600 zeros (10600)
- chain mail — Chain mail is a kind of armour made from small metal rings joined together so that they look like cloth.
- chair rail — a molding on an interior wall for preventing the backs of chairs from rubbing against plaster.
- chamomiles — Plural form of chamomile.
- charbroils — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of charbroil.
- chari-nile — a group of languages of E Africa, now generally regarded as a branch of the Nilo-Saharan family, spoken in parts of the Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and adjacent countries
- check rail — (in a window sash) a meeting rail, especially one closing against the corresponding rail with a diagonal or rabbeted overlap.
- chevesaile — a decorative collar on an article of clothing
- chilblains — Plural form of chilblain.
- child lock — a lock, such as one on a door or window, designed to keep children safe