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9-letter words containing pil

  • pillaging — the act of robbing a town, village, etc of booty or spoils, esp during a war
  • pillarbox — a technique for displaying a video recorded in portrait orientation on a wider screen by reducing its size but retaining the aspect ratio, with black bands filling the screen to the right and left of the picture (often used attributively): pillarbox format. Compare letterbox (def 2).
  • pillarist — in the Byzantine era, a Christian ascetic who stayed on top of a high pillar as a form of religious self-denial
  • pillicock — a penis
  • pilloried — a wooden framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, formerly used to expose an offender to public derision.
  • pillorize — to pillory (someone or something)
  • pillsburyCharles Alfred, 1842–99, U.S. businessman.
  • pilomotor — causing movement of hairs
  • pilonidal — noting or pertaining to a growth of hair in a dermoid cyst or in the deeper layers of the skin.
  • pilotfish — a small, marine fish, Naucrates ductor, often swimming with sharks.
  • pilotless — lacking a pilot or needing no pilot: pilotless aircraft.
  • pilotweed — the compass plant, Silphium laciniatum.
  • pilsudski — Józef [yoo-zef] /ˈyu zɛf/ (Show IPA), 1867–1935, Polish marshal and statesman: president 1918–22; premier 1926–28, 1930.
  • pupillage — the condition of being a pupil or duration for which one is a pupil
  • pupillary — pertaining to the pupil of the eye.
  • pupillate — having a spot of a different colour in the middle
  • pupilship — the state of being a pupil
  • recompile — to put together (documents, selections, or other materials) in one book or work.
  • sand pile — a base for a footing in soft soil, made by compacting sand in a cavity left by a wooden pile.
  • sky pilot — a member of the clergy, especially a chaplain of the armed forces.
  • sky-pilot — a member of the clergy, especially a chaplain of the armed forces.
  • spill out — overflow
  • spillable — to cause or allow to run or fall from a container, especially accidentally or wastefully: to spill a bag of marbles; to spill milk.
  • spillikin — a jackstraw.
  • spillover — the act of spilling over.
  • spilosite — a form of slate
  • stockpile — a supply of material, as a pile of gravel in road maintenance.
  • tocopilla — a seaport in N Chile.
  • unhappily — sad; miserable; wretched: Why is she so unhappy?
  • unpiloted — without a pilot; unguided
  • woodpiles — Plural form of woodpile.
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