12-letter words containing lle
- char-grilled — Char-grilled meat or fish has been cooked so that it burns slightly and turns black.
- city college — an educational institution providing higher education and lower-level tertiary education in the US and Canada
- city dweller — a resident or inhabitant of a city
- cockeysville — a town in N Maryland.
- collect call — A collect call is a telephone call which is paid for by the person who receives the call, rather than the person who makes the call.
- collectables — capable of being collected.
- collectibles — capable of being collected.
- collectively — formed by collection.
- collectivise — Alternative spelling of collectivize.
- collectivism — Collectivism is the political belief that a country's industries and services should be owned and controlled by the state or by all the people in a country. Socialism and communism are both forms of collectivism.
- collectivist — Collectivist means relating to collectivism.
- collectivity — the quality or state of being collective
- collectivize — If farms or factories are collectivized, they are brought under state ownership and control, usually by combining a number of small farms or factories into one large one.
- collectorate — the office of a collector in India
- college park — a city in N Georgia.
- collegialism — the theory that the church's highest authority is its collective membership
- collegiality — the sharing of authority among colleagues
- collegiately — in a collegiate way
- collegiates' — of or relating to a college: collegiate life.
- collembolans — Plural form of collembolan.
- collembolous — of or relating to colembolans
- collinsville — a city in SW Illinois.
- comptrollers — Plural form of comptroller.
- connersville — a city in E Indiana.
- cross volley — (in tennis) a volley across the court
- crowd-puller — If you describe a performer or event as a crowd-puller, you mean that they attract a large audience.
- death valley — a desert valley in E California and W Nevada: the lowest, hottest, and driest area of the US. Lowest point: 86 m (282 ft) below sea level. Area: about 3885 sq km (1500 sq miles)
- decontrolled — Simple past tense and past participle of decontrol.
- distilleries — Plural form of distillery.
- dusty miller — Botany. any of several composite plants, as Centaurea cineraria, Senecio cineraria, or the beach wormwood, having pinnate leaves covered with whitish pubescence. rose campion.
- edwardsville — a town in SW Illinois.
- ellenborough — Earl of, title of Edward Law. 1780–1871, British colonial administrator: governor general of India (1742–44)
- emollescence — a state of softening before hardening
- equipollence — The condition of being equipollent; equality of power, force, signification, or application.
- excellencies — Plural form of excellency.
- faithfullest — Superlative form of faithful.
- fayetteville — a city in S North Carolina.
- field-holler — a cry employing falsetto, portamento, and sudden changes of pitch, used in African-American work songs, later integrated into the techniques of the blues
- filler metal — metal supplied in the form of a welding rod, sometimes flux coated, melted by an arc or a flame into a joint between components to be joined
- fillet steak — boneless cut of beef
- floor-filler — a dance recording that is so catchy and popular that everyone in the place where it is played wants to dance
- focus puller — the member of a camera crew who adjusts the focus of the lens as the camera is tracked in or out
- food allergy — an allergy to a specific type of food
- gallery tray — a tray usually of silver with a raised rim, used for serving drinks
- gallery wire — perforated wire or metal stripping used to support or enhance a stone mounted in a ring.
- galley proof — a proof, originally one set from type in a galley, taken before the material has been made up into pages and usually printed as a single column of type with wide margins for marking corrections.
- galley slave — a person condemned to work at an oar on a galley.
- giant killer — sb who defeats a larger opponent
- giant-killer — A giant-killer is a sportsman, sportswoman, or team that unexpectedly beats a much stronger opponent.
- gloversville — a city in E New York.