16-letter words containing ill
- north ridgeville — a town in N Ohio.
- nuncupative will — a will made by the oral and unwritten declaration of the testator, valid only in special circumstances.
- one in a million — person: unique
- optical illusion — something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality.
- 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.
- pavillon chinois — crescent (def 6).
- percussion drill — a drill that is operated by percussion
- phillis wheatley — Phillis [fil-is] /ˈfɪl ɪs/ (Show IPA), 1753?–84, American poet, born in Africa; probably Senegal.
- 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.
- pocket billiards — pool2 (def 1).
- 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.
- premillennialism — the doctrine or belief that the Second Coming of Christ will precede the millennium.
- premillennialize — to support or believe in premillennialism.
- prisoner of bill — (humour) (PoB) A derisory term, in use generally among Unix users, for anyone who uses Microsoft products either because they don't know there is anything better (i.e. Unix) or because they would be incapable of working anything more complex (i.e. Unix). The interesting and widespread presumption among users of the term is that (at least at the time of writing, 1998) using anything other than Unix or a Microsoft OS (whether VMS, Macintosh, Amiga) is so eccentric a choice as to be at least somewhat praiseworthy.
- quadrimillennial — Occurring every four thousand years.
- queen's shilling — king's shilling.
- razor-billed auk — a black and white auk, Alca torda, of the American and European coasts of the northern North Atlantic, having a compressed black bill encircled by a white band.
- ring-billed gull — a North American gull, Larus delawarensis, having a black ring around the bill.
- rockville centre — a city on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- sapodilla family — the plant family Sapotaceae, characterized by chiefly tropical trees and shrubs having milky juice, simple leaves, small flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry, and including the buckthorn (genus Bumelia), sapodilla, star apple, and trees that are the source of gutta-percha and balata.
- sb will be lucky — If you say that someone will be lucky to do or get something, you mean that they are very unlikely to do or get it, and will definitely not do or get any more than that.
- self-fulfillment — the act or fact of fulfilling one's ambitions, desires, etc., through one's own efforts.
- shopping village — a shopping centre that designed to look like a village
- spill one's guts — the alimentary canal, especially between the pylorus and the anus, or some portion of it. Compare foregut, midgut, hindgut.
- still photograph — a photograph taken from a cinema film which is used for publicity purposes
- sweeten the pill — If someone does something to sweeten the pill or sugar the pill, they do it to make some unpleasant news or an unpleasant measure more acceptable.
- tent caterpillar — any of the larvae of several moths of the genus Malacosoma, which feed on the leaves of orchard and shade trees and live colonially in a tentlike silken web.
- terminal illness — A terminal illness cannot be cured, and causes death.
- the hill of tara — the historic seat of the ancient Irish kings, in Co Meath near Dublin
- the marseillaise — the French national anthem. Words and music were composed in 1792 by C. J. Rouget de Lisle as a war song for the Rhine army of revolutionary France
- the mendip hills — a range of limestone hills in SW England, in N Somerset: includes the Cheddar Gorge and numerous caves. Highest point: 325 m (1068 ft)
- thrilled to bits — If someone is thrilled, they are extremely pleased about something.
- through the mill — a factory for certain kinds of manufacture, as paper, steel, or textiles.
- to foot the bill — If you have to foot the bill for something, you have to pay for it.
- torvill and dean — two British ice dancers, Jayne Torvill, born 1957, and Christopher Dean, born 1958. They won the world championships in 1981–84, the European championships in 1981–82, 1984, and 1994, and the gold medal in the 1984 Olympic Games
- transilluminator — to cause light to pass through.
- trichotillomania — a compulsion to pull out one's hair.
- typhoid bacillus — the bacterium Salmonella typhosa, causing typhoid fever.
- unlawful killing — Unlawful killing is used to refer to crimes which involve one person killing another.
- unskilled worker — a worker who does not have any special skill or training
- vaughan williams — Ralph, 1872–1958, English composer.
- well-illustrated — containing pictures, drawings, and other illustrations: an illustrated book.
- will-o'-the-wisp — ignis fatuus (def 1).
- willem-alexander — full name Willem-Alexander Claus George Ferdinand. born 1967, king of the Netherlands from 2013
- william bradford — Gamaliel, 1863–1932, U.S. biographer and novelist.
- william hamilton — (person) A mathematician who posed Hamilton's problem.
- william mckinley — William, 1843–1901, 25th president of the U.S. 1897–1901.