8-letter words containing ll
- antiroll — designed to prevent a vehicle from tilting
- apically — of, at, or forming the apex.
- apollyon — the destroyer, a name given to the Devil (Revelation 9:11)
- appalled — If you are appalled by something, you are shocked or disgusted because it is so bad or unpleasant.
- apparell — Obsolete form of apparel.
- appellee — a person who is accused or appealed against
- appellor — the accuser or prosecutor
- arabella — a feminine name: dim. Bella
- arillary — (of seeds) having an aril
- arillate — having an aril.
- arillode — a false aril, developing from an opening in the covering of the ovule instead of from its stalk
- arilloid — relating to or resembling an aril
- artfully — slyly crafty or cunning; deceitful; tricky: artful schemes.
- ash fall — a rain of airborne ash resulting from a volcanic eruption.
- astrally — pertaining to or proceeding from the stars; stellar; star-shaped.
- atonally — In an atonal manner; without tone.
- autofill — (computing) Any software feature that fills in (fields of a form, cells of a spreadsheet, etc.) automatically.
- avellane — of hazelnuts
- axillary — of, relating to, or near the armpit
- babydoll — a short sleeveless nightgown or dress with a loose skirt
- bacillar — (biology) Shaped like a rod or staff.
- bacillus — A bacillus is any bacterium that has a long, thin shape.
- backfall — a fall or throw onto the back
- backfill — to refill an excavated trench, esp (in archaeology) at the end of an investigation
- bakewell — Robert. 1725–95, English agriculturist; radically improved livestock breeding, esp of cattle and sheep
- balefull — Archaic form of baleful.
- ball boy — In a tennis match, the ball boys pick up any balls that go into the net or off the court and throw them back to the players. In a baseball game, the ball boys are in charge of collecting the balls that are hit out of the field.
- ball cap — a close-fitting cap with a deep visor and usually the name or emblem of a baseball team, worn by baseball players, or by others as casual attire.
- ball ice — floating balls of slushy ice formed at sea.
- ballader — A writer of ballads.
- ballades — Plural form of ballade.
- balladic — relating to ballads
- balladry — ballad poetry or songs
- ballance — John. 1839–93, New Zealand statesman, born in Northern Ireland: prime minister of New Zealand (1891–93)
- ballarag — (archaic, transitive) To bully; to threaten.
- ballarat — a town in SE Australia, in S central Victoria: originally the centre of a gold-mining region. Pop: 72 999 (2001)
- ballasts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ballast.
- ballclay — a type of fine-grained clay suitable for making ceramics
- ballclub — (baseball) A baseball team.
- ballcock — A valve that automatically fills a tank after liquid has been drawn from it. Used, for example, in a flush toilet, a ballcock has a float on the end of a pivoting arm that opens the valve when the arm drops.
- balletic — If you describe someone's movements as balletic, you mean that they have some of the graceful qualities of ballet.
- ballgame — any game played with a ball
- ballgown — A ballgown is a long dress that women wear to formal dances.
- ballhawk — a sportsman who is skilled at winning possession of the ball, esp in basketball
- ballista — an ancient catapult for hurling stones, etc
- ballocks — (nonce, used only by James Joyce) Alternative form of bollocks.
- ballonet — an air or gas compartment in a balloon or nonrigid airship, used to control buoyancy and shape
- ballonne — a bouncing step in dancing, esp in ballet
- balloons — a bag made of thin rubber or other light material, usually brightly colored, inflated with air or with some lighter-than-air gas and used as a children's plaything or as a decoration.
- balloted — a slip or sheet of paper, cardboard, or the like, on which a voter marks his or her vote.