11-letter words containing ll
- high-roller — a person who gambles for large stakes, as in a casino.
- highballing — a drink of whiskey mixed with club soda or ginger ale and served with ice in a tall glass.
- hill farmer — a farmer on a hill farm
- hill walker — a person who takes part in hill walking
- hillbillies — Plural form of hillbilly.
- hills cloud — a hypothetical dense, disc-shaped area within the Oort cloud
- hills hoist — an Australian brand of rotary clothesline
- hillwalking — The pastime of walking in hilly country.
- hiring hall — an employment office operated by a union for placing members in jobs.
- hodgenville — a town in central Kentucky: birthplace of Abraham Lincoln.
- hollandaise — The hollandaise sauce.
- hollow back — a paper tube or roll, almost flattened, having one side glued to the back of a book and the other to the inside of the spine.
- hollow tile — tile (def 5).
- hollow-back — a paper tube or roll, almost flattened, having one side glued to the back of a book and the other to the inside of the spine.
- hollow-eyed — having sunken eyes.
- hollowpoint — Alternative form of hollow point.
- holluschick — a young male fur seal.
- holly berry — a bitter, slightly poisonous berry that grows on holly trees or shrubs
- holy roller — a contemptuous term used to refer to a member of a Pentecostal sect.
- holy willie — a person who is hypocritically pious
- homicidally — In a homicidal manner.
- homoallylic — (organic chemistry) Containing a homoallyl radical.
- homothallic — having all mycelia alike, the opposite sexual functions being performed by different cells of a single mycelium. Compare heterothallic (def 1).
- hooverville — a collection of huts and shacks, as at the edge of a city, housing the unemployed during the 1930s.
- hospitaller — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
- hot-selling — (of a good or product) that sells in large numbers
- hull girder — the theoretical box girder formed by the continuous longitudinal members of the hull of a ship, providing resistance to hogging and sagging.
- hullaballoo — Alternative spelling of hullabaloo.
- hullabaloos — Plural form of hullabaloo.
- hully gully — a dance that is a modification of the frug.
- hyattsville — a city in central Maryland.
- hybrid bill — (in Parliament) a public bill to which the standing orders for private business apply; a bill having a general application as well as affecting certain private interests
- hypallactic — relating to a hypallage
- hypothallus — a layer of hyphae rimming the thallus of certain lichens.
- ida b wells — Henry, 1805–78, U.S. businessman: pioneered in banking, stagecoach services, and express shipping.
- ida tarbell — Ida Minerva, 1857–1944, U.S. author.
- idaho falls — a city in E Idaho.
- identically — similar or alike in every way: The two cars are identical except for their license plates.
- idiotically — of, relating to, or characteristic of an idiot.
- idle pulley — a loose pulley made to press or rest on a belt in order to tighten or guide it.
- idyllically — In an idyllic manner.
- ill at ease — of unsound physical or mental health; unwell; sick: She felt ill, so her teacher sent her to the nurse.
- ill effects — If something has ill effects, it causes problems or damage.
- ill feeling — animosity or resentment felt toward another.
- ill-advised — acting or done without due consideration; imprudent: an ill-advised remark.
- ill-behaved — 1. [numerical analysis] Said of an algorithm or computational method that tends to blow up because of accumulated roundoff error or poor convergence properties. 2. Software that bypasses the defined operating system interfaces to do things (like screen, keyboard, and disk I/O) itself, often in a way that depends on the hardware of the machine it is running on or which is nonportable or incompatible with other pieces of software. In the IBM PC/mess-dos world, there is a folk theorem (nearly true) to the effect that (owing to gross inadequacies and performance penalties in the OS interface) all interesting applications are ill-behaved. See also bare metal. Opposite: well-behaved, compare PC-ism.
- ill-defined — badly or inadequately defined; vague: He confuses the reader with ill-defined terms and concepts.
- ill-favored — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
- ill-fitting — (of a garment) not fitting well.
- ill-founded — based on weak evidence, illogical reasoning, or the like: an ill-founded theory.