16-letter words containing il
- new philadelphia — a city in E Ohio.
- nodding trillium — a hardy plant, Trillium cernuum, of the lily family, of the eastern coast of North America, having wavy-petalled, white or pinkish flowers on short, recurved stalks hanging beneath the three whorled leaves.
- non-assimilation — the act or process of assimilating, or of absorbing information, experiences, etc.: the need for quick assimilation of the facts.
- non-availability — suitable or ready for use; of use or service; at hand: I used whatever tools were available.
- non-conciliatory — tending to conciliate: a conciliatory manner; conciliatory comments.
- non-debilitating — to make weak or feeble; enfeeble: The siege of pneumonia debilitated her completely.
- non-illumination — an act or instance of illuminating.
- non-reconcilable — capable of being reconciled.
- north ridgeville — a town in N Ohio.
- nucleophilically — In a nucleophilic manner.
- nuncupative will — a will made by the oral and unwritten declaration of the testator, valid only in special circumstances.
- oil installation — a facility or place where petroleum is extracted for industrial purposes
- oil storage tank — a very large industrial container where petroleum is stored
- one in a million — person: unique
- optical illusion — something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality.
- order in council — (in Britain and various other Commonwealth countries) a decree of the Cabinet, usually made under the authority of a statute: in theory a decree of the sovereign and Privy Council
- ordinary jubilee — the celebration of any of certain anniversaries, as the twenty-fifth (silver jubilee) fiftieth (golden jubilee) or sixtieth or seventy-fifth (diamond jubilee)
- outboard profile — an exterior side elevation of a vessel, showing all deck structures, rigging, fittings, etc.
- over-familiarity — thorough knowledge or mastery of a thing, subject, etc.
- overexcitability — to excite too much.
- overhead railway — elevated railroad.
- painted trillium — a North American trillium, Trillium undulatum, having white flowers streaked with pink or purple.
- papillary muscle — one of the small bundles of muscles attached to the ventricle walls and to the chordae tendineae that tighten these tendons during ventricular contraction.
- parallel sailing — sailing along a parallel of latitude.
- pass-band filter — band-pass filter
- pavillon chinois — crescent (def 6).
- pencil and paper — An archaic information storage and transmission device that works by depositing smears of graphite on bleached wood pulp. More recent developments in paper-based technology include improved "write-once" update devices which use tiny rolling heads similar to mouse balls to deposit coloured pigment. All these devices require an operator skilled at so-called "handwriting" technique. These technologies are ubiquitous outside hackerdom, but nearly forgotten inside it. Most hackers had terrible handwriting to begin with, and years of keyboarding tend to have encouraged it to degrade further. Perhaps for this reason, hackers deprecate pencil-and-paper technology and often resist using it in any but the most trivial contexts.
- pencil sharpener — tool for sharpening pencils to a point
- percussion drill — a drill that is operated by percussion
- personal details — details about a person such as their name and address
- philanthropistic — a person who practices philanthropy.
- philip of swabia — 1180?–1208, king of Germany and uncrowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1198–1208 (son of Frederick I).
- philip r. bagley — (person) A pioneer of computer document retrieval. See metadata.
- philips scc68070 — (processor) A microprocessor which is object code compatible with the Motorola 68000. It is not a performance improvement over the 68060; it's performance rather resembles that of the 68000.
- phillis wheatley — Phillis [fil-is] /ˈfɪl ɪs/ (Show IPA), 1753?–84, American poet, born in Africa; probably Senegal.
- philoprogenitive — producing offspring, especially abundantly; prolific.
- philosopher king — the Platonic ideal of a ruler, philosophically trained and enlightened.
- philosopher-king — the Platonic ideal of a ruler, philosophically trained and enlightened.
- pigeon guillemot — a black or brown-speckled seabird of the genus Cepphus, of northern seas, having a sharply pointed black bill, red legs, and white wing patches, as C. grylle (black guillemot) of the North Atlantic and the similar C. columba (pigeon guillemot) of the North Pacific.
- pilot production — sth produced on a trial basis
- pocket billiards — pool2 (def 1).
- point of sailing — the bearing of a sailing vessel, considered with relation to the direction of the wind.
- poiseuille's law — the law that the velocity of a liquid flowing through a capillary is directly proportional to the pressure of the liquid and the fourth power of the radius of the capillary and is inversely proportional to the viscosity of the liquid and the length of the capillary.
- port phillip bay — a bay in SE Australia: the harbor of Melbourne. 31 miles (50 km) long; 25 miles (40 km) wide.
- potemkin village — a pretentiously showy or imposing façade intended to mask or divert attention from an embarrassing or shabby fact or condition.
- powerfully built — (of a person, esp a man) big and physically strong, with large muscles
- premillennialism — the doctrine or belief that the Second Coming of Christ will precede the millennium.
- premillennialize — to support or believe in premillennialism.
- prevost d'exiles — Antoine François [ahn-twan frahn-swa] /ɑ̃ˈtwan frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), ("Abbé Prévost") 1697–1763, French novelist.
- pribilof islands — a group of islands in the Bering Sea, off SW Alaska, belonging to the US: the breeding ground of the northern fur seal. Area: about 168 sq km (65 sq miles)