7-letter words containing ile
- rc file — /R C fi:l/ [Unix: from the startup script "/etc/rc", but this is commonly believed to have been named after older scripts to "run commands"] Script file containing startup instructions for an application program (or an entire operating system), usually a text file containing commands of the sort that might have been invoked manually once the system was running but are to be executed automatically each time the system starts up. See also dot file, profile (sense 1).
- reptile — any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia, comprising the turtles, snakes, lizards, crocodilians, amphisbaenians, tuatara, and various extinct members including the dinosaurs.
- retiled — a thin slab or bent piece of baked clay, sometimes painted or glazed, used for various purposes, as to form one of the units of a roof covering, floor, or revetment.
- reviled — to assail with contemptuous or opprobrious language; address or speak of abusively.
- reviler — to assail with contemptuous or opprobrious language; address or speak of abusively.
- reviles — to assail with contemptuous or opprobrious language; address or speak of abusively.
- sectile — capable of being cut smoothly with a knife.
- sensile — capable of feeling; sensitive; capable of perceiving; sentient
- servile — slavishly submissive or obsequious; fawning: servile flatterers.
- sessile — Botany. attached by the base, or without any distinct projecting support, as a leaf issuing directly from the stem.
- sextile — Astronomy. noting or pertaining to the aspect or position of two heavenly bodies when 60° distant from each other.
- silence — absence of any sound or noise; stillness.
- silenos — Silenus.
- silenus — a forest spirit, sometimes referred to as the oldest of the satyrs and the foster father, teacher, and companion of Dionysus: often represented as a bearded old man.
- silesia — a region in central Europe along both banks of the upper Oder River, mainly in SW Poland and the N Czech Republic: formerly divided between Germany (which had the largest portion), Poland, and Czechoslovakia; by provision of the Potsdam agreement 1945, the greater part of German Silesia came under Polish administration; rich deposits of coal, iron, and other minerals.
- similes — a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in “she is like a rose.”. Compare metaphor.
- spoiled — to damage severely or harm (something), especially with reference to its excellence, value, usefulness, etc.: The water stain spoiled the painting. Drought spoiled the corn crop.
- spoiler — a person or thing that spoils.
- stabile — fixed in position; stable.
- sterile — free from living germs or microorganisms; aseptic: sterile surgical instruments.
- subfile — a file within another file
- subtile — subtle.
- sysvile — Missed'em-five
- tactile — of, pertaining to, endowed with, or affecting the sense of touch.
- tensile — of or relating to tension: tensile strain.
- textile — any cloth or goods produced by weaving, knitting, or felting.
- theiler — Max, 1899–1972, South African medical scientist, in the U.S. after 1922: Nobel Prize in medicine 1951.
- tortile — twisted; coiled.
- trailed — to drag or let drag along the ground or other surface; draw or drag along behind.
- trailer — a large van or wagon drawn by an automobile, truck, or tractor, used especially in hauling freight by road. Compare full trailer, semitrailer.
- unagile — quick and well-coordinated in movement; lithe: an agile leap.
- unfiled — not filed
- unoiled — not covered or smeared with oil
- verbile — a person who is best stimulated by words
- whilere — a while ago
- whilest — Obsolete form of whilst.
- wileful — full of trickery; deceitful