7-letter words containing ll
- phyllid — the leaf of a liverwort or moss
- phyllis — a name used in pastoral literature, as the Eclogues of Vergil, for a country girl or sweetheart.
- phyllo- — leaf
- pigalle — Place Pigalle.
- pillage — to strip ruthlessly of money or goods by open violence, as in war; plunder: The barbarians pillaged every conquered city.
- pillbox — a box, usually shallow and often round, for holding pills.
- pillbug — any of various small terrestrial isopods, especially of the genera Armadillidium and Oniscus, which can roll themselves up into a spherical shape.
- pilling — a small globular or rounded mass of medicinal substance, usually covered with a hard coating, that is to be swallowed whole.
- pillion — a pad or cushion attached behind a saddle, especially as a seat for a woman.
- pillock — idiot
- pillory — a wooden framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, formerly used to expose an offender to public derision.
- pillowy — pillowlike; soft; yielding: a pillowy carpet.
- pinball — any of various games played on a sloping, glass-topped table presenting a field of colorful, knoblike target pins and rails, the object usually being to shoot a ball, driven by a spring, up a side passage and cause it to roll back down against these projections and through channels, which electrically flash or ring and record the score.
- pitfall — a lightly covered and unnoticeable pit prepared as a trap for people or animals.
- pollack — a food fish, Pollachius pollachius, of the cod family, inhabiting coastal North Atlantic waters from Scandinavia to northern Africa.
- pollard — a tree cut back nearly to the trunk, so as to produce a dense mass of branches.
- pollent — strong
- pollera — a gaily colored costume worn by women during fiestas in Latin-American countries.
- pollero — a smuggler of Mexican workers into the U.S.
- polling — poll
- pollist — a person who advocates the use of polls
- pollman — a graduate of Cambridge University who passed without honours
- pollock — Also called saithe. a North Atlantic food fish, Pollachius virens, of the cod family.
- pollute — to make foul or unclean, especially with harmful chemical or waste products; dirty: to pollute the air with smoke.
- pouilly — a village in central France: known for its wines.
- pre-ill — experiencing mild physical discomfort prior to the onset of illness
- prebill — to issue an invoice (to someone) prior to the service being provided
- prepill — of the period before the contraceptive pill became available
- presell — to sell in advance, as before manufacture or construction: to presell a planned house.
- pretell — to predict
- proball — believable; probable
- proller — someone who prolls
- psyllid — jumping plant louse.
- pucelle — a maid or virgin
- pull in — to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill.
- pull on — to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill.
- pull up — the act of pulling or drawing.
- pull-in — vehicle rest stop
- pull-on — the act of pulling or drawing.
- pull-up — an exercise consisting of chinning oneself, as on a horizontal bar attached at each end to a doorpost.
- pullman — plural Pullmans. a railroad sleeping car or parlor car.
- pullout — an act or instance of pulling out; removal.
- purcell — Edward Mills [milz] /mɪlz/ (Show IPA), 1912–97, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1952.
- quelled — Simple past tense and past participle of quell.
- queller — to suppress; put an end to; extinguish: The troops quelled the rebellion quickly.
- quillai — soapbark (def 1).
- quilled — rolled or incurved into a narrow tubular form.
- quiller — a machine for quilling yarn.
- quillet — a subtlety or quibble.
- quillon — either of two transverse projecting members forming the cross guard of a sword.