11-letter words containing ll
- porterville — a town in central California.
- post-bellum — of or during the period after a war, esp the American Civil War
- postcollege — an institution of higher learning, especially one providing a general or liberal arts education rather than technical or professional training. Compare university.
- postillator — a writer of postils; an annotator, a postiller
- postnatally — after birth, following a birth
- pot-bellied — a distended or protuberant belly.
- potentially — possibly but not yet actually: potentially useful information.
- potwalloper — (in some boroughs before the Reform Bill of 1832) a man who qualified as a householder, and therefore a voter, by virtue of ownership of his own fireplace at which to boil pots.
- powder mill — a mill in which gunpowder is made.
- power alley — either of the two areas in the outfield between the outfielders
- power drill — a drill operated by a motor.
- practically — in effect; virtually: It is practically useless to protest.
- prayerfully — given to, characterized by, or expressive of prayer; devout.
- pre-college — an institution of higher learning, especially one providing a general or liberal arts education rather than technical or professional training. Compare university.
- pre-selling — to sell in advance, as before manufacture or construction: to presell a planned house.
- prepatellar — describing a bursa between the skin of the knee and the patella
- prepollence — prevalence; predominance
- prepollency — the quality of being prepollent
- principally — chiefly; mainly.
- prosaically — commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
- prothallium — Botany. the gametophyte of ferns and related plants.
- prothalloid — resembling a prothallus
- psychically — of or relating to the human soul or mind; mental (opposed to physical).
- psychobilly — loud frantic rockabilly music
- public bill — a congressional or parliamentary bill involving the general interests of the people at large or of the whole community.
- puerperally — in a puerperal manner
- pull hitter — a batter who tends to hit the ball to the same side of the field as that on which he or she stands at home plate.
- pulled pork — of or denoting meat that is cooked until the meat can easily be pulled off the bone, as in pulled pork.
- pulley bone — wishbone (def 1).
- pullulation — to send forth sprouts, buds, etc.; germinate; sprout.
- punchinello — a grotesque or absurd chief character in a puppet show of Italian origin: the prototype of Punch.
- pupillarity — the period between birth and puberty, or until attaining majority.
- pyroballogy — the study of artillery
- pyrogallate — a salt or ether of pyrogallol.
- quadrillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 15 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 24 zeros.
- quaintrelle — (obscure) A woman who emphasizes a life of passion expressed through personal style, leisurely pastimes, charm, and cultivation of life’s pleasures.
- quarrelling — an angry dispute or altercation; a disagreement marked by a temporary or permanent break in friendly relations.
- quarrellous — argumentative or given to complaint
- quesadillas — Plural form of quesadilla.
- quintillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 18 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 30 zeros.
- quizzically — odd, queer, or comical.
- rabbit ball — a lively baseball, especially the ball used in present-day baseball: The pitchers keep complaining about the rabbit ball.
- racquetball — a game similar to handball, played on a four-walled court but with a short-handled, strung racket and a larger, somewhat softer ball.
- radicellose — having small roots or rhizoids
- rag-rolling — a decorating technique in which paint is applied with a roughly folded cloth in order to create a marbled effect
- ragman roll — Usually, ragman rolls. a series of documents in which the Scottish nobles acknowledged their allegiance to Edward I of England, 1291–92 and 1296.
- rallentando — slackening; becoming slower (used as a musical direction).
- rally round — show solidarity
- rallymaster — an organizer and director of an automobile rally.
- rambouillet — one of a breed of hardy sheep, developed from the Merino, yielding good mutton and a fine grade of wool.