8-letter words containing ile
- pileless — without pile
- pilework — construction built from heavy stakes or cylinders
- pilewort — Also called fireweed. a weedy composite plant, Erechtites hieracifolia, having narrow flower heads enclosed in green bracts.
- pitiless — feeling or showing no pity; merciless: pitiless criticism of his last novel.
- profiled — the outline or contour of the human face, especially the face viewed from one side.
- profiler — any of several types of machine tools for reproducing shapes in metal or other materials from a master form.
- quantile — one of the class of values of a variate that divides the total frequency of a sample or population into a given number of equal proportions.
- quartile — Statistics. (in a frequency distribution) one of the values of a variable that divides the distribution of the variable into four groups having equal frequencies. Compare first quartile, median, third quartile.
- quintile — Statistics. a quantile for the special case of five equal proportions.
- reboiler — A reboiler is a stage in distillation when a liquid is heated again to make some of it become a vapor.
- recoiled — to draw back; start or shrink back, as in alarm, horror, or disgust.
- reptiles — any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia, comprising the turtles, snakes, lizards, crocodilians, amphisbaenians, tuatara, and various extinct members including the dinosaurs.
- retailer — the sale of goods to ultimate consumers, usually in small quantities (opposed to wholesale).
- revilers — to assail with contemptuous or opprobrious language; address or speak of abusively.
- sandpile — a pile of sand, esp one for children to play on
- saxatile — living or growing on or among rocks.
- scissile — capable of being cut or divided; splitting easily.
- scurrile — scurrilous.
- sea mile — nautical mile.
- seilenos — Silenus.
- shagpile — (of a carpet or rug) having long, rough fibres
- silenced — absence of any sound or noise; stillness.
- silencer — a person or thing that silences.
- silently — making no sound; quiet; still: a silent motor.
- silesian — 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.
- smileful — full of smiles
- snailery — a place where snails are bred
- squailer — a stick that has been specially weighted to use as a missile for throwing at something
- stiletto — a short dagger with a blade that is thick in proportion to its width.
- strobile — a reproductive structure characterized by overlapping scalelike parts, as a pine cone or the fruit of the hop.
- symphile — an insect or other organism that lives in the nests of social insects, esp ants and termites, and is fed and reared by the inmates
- tafilelt — an oasis in SE Morocco, about 200 sq. mi. (520 sq. km).
- taileron — an aileron located on the tailplane of an aircraft
- textiles — any cloth or goods produced by weaving, knitting, or felting.
- tilefish — a large, brilliantly colored food fish, Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps, of deep waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
- tilelike — like a tile
- toiletry — any article or preparation used in cleaning or grooming oneself, as soap or deodorant.
- toilette — toilet (defs 6, 8).
- ton-mile — a unit of freight transportation measurement equivalent to a ton of freight transported one mile.
- tractile — capable of being drawn out in length; ductile.
- trilemma — a situation, analogous to a dilemma, in which there are three almost equally undesirable alternatives: His trilemma consisted in not knowing whether to acknowledge receipt, deny it, or simply leave.
- umquhile — (esp of a person now dead) former or previous
- unboiled — not boiled
- undocile — not docile; not submissive or obedient
- unfailed — to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved: The experiment failed because of poor planning.
- unfoiled — ornamented with foils, as a gable, spandrel, or balustrade.
- unhailed — not acclaimed
- unmailed — not sent by post
- unmobile — capable of moving or being moved readily.
- unsailed — not sailed