12-letter words containing il
- crop failure — a failure of crops to yield sufficient food, etc, to maintain a community or to provide a surplus to sell
- crossability — the quality of being crossable
- crushability — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
- cuir-bouilli — a type of leather hardened by soaking in wax, used for armour before the 14th century
- culvertailed — dove-tailed
- cunnilinctus — the act or practice of orally stimulating the female genitals.
- cunnilingist — Alt form cunnilinguist.
- curtail step — the step or steps at the foot of a flight of stairs, widened at one or both ends and terminated with a scroll
- curtail-step — a horizontal, spiral termination to the lower end of a stair railing.
- curtailments — Plural form of curtailment.
- curtain rail — a rail from which a curtain is hung
- custom-build — to make according to the specifications of an individual buyer
- custom-built — If something is custom-built, it is built according to someone's special requirements.
- cut and fill — a process of localized gradation whereby material eroded from one place is deposited a short distance away.
- dail eireann — (in the Republic of Ireland) the lower chamber of parliament
- daily double — a single bet on the winners of two named races in any one day's racing
- daredeviltry — reckless daring; venturesome boldness.
- de havilland — Sir Geoffrey. 1882–1965, British aircraft designer. He produced many military aircraft and the first jet airliners
- de-stabilise — to make unstable; rid of stabilizing attributes: conflicts that tend to destabilize world peace.
- debilitating — tending to weaken or enfeeble
- debilitation — to make weak or feeble; enfeeble: The siege of pneumonia debilitated her completely.
- debilitative — producing or bringing about a weakened state
- debrouillard — (one who is) skilled or resourceful at handling any difficulty
- decidability — the capability of being decided
- defibrillate — to stop fibrillation of (the heart), as by the use of electric current
- definability — The quality of being definable.
- demilitarise — (British) alternative spelling of demilitarize.
- demilitarize — To demilitarize an area means to ensure that all military forces are removed from it.
- demobilizing — Present participle of demobilize.
- dentilingual — pronounced or articulated with the tongue touching the upper teeth
- deoppilation — the removal of obstructions
- deoppilative — any drug which removes obstructions in the body
- depilatories — Plural form of depilatory.
- derivability — The condition of being derivable.
- derogatorily — tending to lessen the merit or reputation of a person or thing; disparaging; depreciatory: a derogatory remark.
- desirability — worth having or wanting; pleasing, excellent, or fine: a desirable apartment.
- destabilised — Simple past tense and past participle of destabilise.
- destabilises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of destabilise.
- destabilized — to make unstable; rid of stabilizing attributes: conflicts that tend to destabilize world peace.
- destabilizer — a person who or a thing that destabilizes
- destabilizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of destabilize.
- detailedness — the quality of being detailed
- detonability — the quality of being detonable
- devil's club — a spiny shrub, Oplopanax horridus, of northwestern North America, having broad palmate leaves, greenish flowers, and clusters of bright red berries.
- devil's dung — asafetida.
- devil's grip — pleurodynia (def 2).
- devil's mark — (in witchcraft) a mark, as a scar or blemish, on the body of a person who has made a compact with a devil.
- devilishness — The state or quality of being devilish.
- devolatilise — to cause (a vapor) to liquefy.
- devolatilize — to cause (a vapor) to liquefy.