12-letter words containing ile
- high-profile — prominent publicly
- hispanophile — an admirer of Hispanic culture or the Spanish language.
- hostile fire — an unintentional fire, from which any resulting loss can be claimed as an insurance liability (opposed to friendly fire).
- Îles du vent — a group of islands in the S Pacific, in French Polynesia in the W Society Archipelago: Moorea, Maio (Tubuai Manu), and Mehetia and Tetiaroa. Pop: 184 222 (2002)
- interfertile — able to interbreed.
- intersterile — not able to produce offspring by interbreeding
- irreconciled — not reconciled, esp with God
- jubilee year — jubilee (def 5a).
- male-sterile — producing no pollen or infertile pollen.
- miracle mile — an extended area of fashionable or expensive shops, restaurants, etc., usually along an urban or suburban thoroughfare.
- missile base — a military base used for storing and firing missiles
- mobile phone — any wireless telephone that operates over a relatively large area, as a cell phone or PCS phone.
- motor sailer — a yacht having sails and an engine as an alternative or auxiliary means of propulsion.
- multileveled — having different levels or planes: a multilevel stage set.
- myrmecophile — An invertebrate or plant that has a symbiotic relationship with ants, such as being tended and protected by ants or living inside an ants' nest.
- nailer joist — a steel joist having a permanently attached nailing strip, as for securing wooden flooring.
- neurilemmoma — A schwannoma.
- neutrophiles — (of a cell or cell part) having an affinity for neutral dyes.
- non-detailed — thorough in the treatment of details; minute: a detailed report.
- non-volatile — non-volatile storage
- nondomiciled — of, relating to, or denoting a person who is not domiciled in his or her country of origin
- nonexpansile — Not expansile.
- nucleophiles — Plural form of nucleophile.
- on the tiles — on a spree, esp of drinking or debauchery
- open trailer — any dog that barks or bays on the trail of its quarry.
- penthesileia — the daughter of Ares and queen of the Amazons, whom she led to the aid of Troy. She was slain by Achilles
- pestilential — producing or tending to produce pestilence.
- piano nobile — the principal story of a large building, as of a palace or villa.
- predilection — a tendency to think favorably of something in particular; partiality; preference: a predilection for Bach.
- profile drag — the sum of the surface friction drag and the form drag for a body moving subsonically through a fluid
- profile plan — a diagrammatic fore-and-aft elevation of the hull of a vessel, showing bow and buttock lines, stations, water lines, diagonals, decks, bulwarks, etc.
- pulley stile — (in a window frame) a stile against which a window sash slides.
- quarter mile — an event in which competitors run a quarter mile or 400 metres
- remedilessly — in a remediless manner, beyond remedy
- sacrilegious — pertaining to or involving sacrilege: sacrilegious practices.
- sal volatile — an aromatic alcoholic solution of ammonium carbonate, the chief ingredient in smelling salts.
- scratch file — A scratch file is a temporary computer file which you use as a work area or as a store while a program is operating.
- self-fertile — capable of self-fertilization.
- self-sterile — incapable of self-fertilization.
- semi-trailer — Also called semi. a detachable trailer for hauling freight, with wheels at the rear end, the forward end being supported by the rear of a truck tractor when attached. Compare full trailer.
- servile work — work of a physical nature that is forbidden on Sundays and on certain holidays
- shirt-tailed — (of a garment) having a shirt-tail
- silent alarm — an alarm that alerts security personnel or the police without the knowledge of the intruder or criminal whose presence triggers it: The silent alarm set off a flashing light at the police station.
- soil profile — a vertical succession of horizons, commonly lettered A, B, C (beginning at the surface), that have been subjected to soil-forming processes, chiefly leaching and oxidation.
- spindle file — a device for holding bills, memos, etc., having a projecting metal spike or hooked object on which to stick papers.
- statute mile — mile (def 1).
- steam boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
- steam-boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
- stem reptile — any member of the extinct order Cotylosauria, comprising heavy-bodied, splay-limbed, plant-eating reptiles that arose during the Carboniferous Period and that are considered to include the ancestors of all other reptiles.
- student file — a file containing information about each student in a school, college, etc, such as demographic information and information about grades, etc