8-letter words that end in il
- gangnail — a particular arrangement of nails on a metal plate, used as a connecting piece in strong timber joints
- go-devil — a flexible, jointed apparatus forced through a pipeline to free it from obstructions.
- graymail — a means of preventing prosecution, as for espionage, by threatening to disclose government secrets during trial.
- gumbotil — a sticky clay formed by the thorough weathering of glacial drift, the thickness of the clay furnishing means for comparing relative lengths of interglacial ages.
- hair oil — hairstyling product
- hairtail — any marine spiny-finned fish of the family Trichiuridae, most common in warm seas, having a long whiplike scaleless body and long sharp teeth
- halophil — Halobacterium.
- handrail — a rail serving as a support or guard at the side of a stairway, platform, etc.
- hangnail — a small piece of partly detached skin at the side or base of the fingernail.
- hardboil — Alternative form of hard-boil.
- hardtail — blue runner.
- headrail — a railing on a sailing vessel, extending forward from abaft the bow to the back of the figurehead.
- headsail — any of various jibs or staysails set forward of the foremost mast of a vessel.
- hexafoil — a pattern with six lobes around a regular hexagon
- hightail — to go away or leave rapidly: Last we saw of him, he was hightailing down the street.
- holy oil — consecrated oil; chrism.
- horntail — any of various wasplike insects of the family Siricidae, the females of which have a hornlike ovipositor.
- igdrasil — Ygdrasil
- kicktail — The upwards-bent tip of the deck of a skateboard.
- lamp oil — kerosene.
- landrail — The corncrake, Crex crex.
- lard oil — a colorless or yellowish oil expressed from lard, used chiefly as a lubricant for cutting tools.
- longtail — A common designation for an animal that has an unusually long tail relative to similar species.
- mainsail — the lowermost sail on a mainmast.
- manderil — A mandrel.
- mci mail — (messaging) The first commercial Internet electronic mail service, launched by MCI in about 1981. Vint Cerf was the chief engineer. Reading mail was free but you had to pay to send. Users discovered you could communicate for free by sharing an account. One user would save a message as a draft and the other would read it and replace it with his response.
- milltail — the channel carrying water that has flown through the mill wheel away from the mill
- mocktail — a nonalcoholic cocktail.
- mofussil — (India) Originally, the regions of India outside the three w East India Company capitals of Bombay, Calcutta and Madras; hence, parts of a country outside an urban centre; the regions, rural areas.
- monorail — a single rail functioning as a track for wheeled vehicles, as railroad or other cars, balanced upon or suspended from it.
- moonsail — a small sail carried high on the mast above the skysail
- motorail — a rail service carrying cars and their drivers as well as ordinary passengers
- neuropil — A dense network of interwoven nerve fibers and their branches and synapses, together with glial filaments.
- noncivil — Not civil.
- octofoil — double quatrefoil.
- oleo oil — a product obtained from beef fat and consisting chiefly of a mixture of olein and palmitin, used for making butterlike foods.
- outcavil — to exceed in cavilling
- overboil — To boil excessively.
- overcoil — a fixed end of a spiral hairspring, consisting of an upwardly and inwardly bent continuation of the outermost coil of the spring: used to offset the asymmetry of the common spiral spring when tight, which impairs isochronism.
- oversail — a projection
- overtoil — to work too hard
- overveil — to cover over
- oz-email — (company) An Internet access provider. Address: Sydney, Australia.
- palm oil — a yellow butterlike oil derived from the fruit of the oil palm and used as an edible fat and for making soap, candles, etc.
- panbroil — to cook in a pan with little fat or moisture
- parafoil — a structure, usually made of a strong yet light fabric, having a shape similar to that of an airplane wing, and used as a kite or a parachute.
- parasail — a special parachute, kept open with wing-tip holders to help provide lift, used in parasailing.
- paravail — being below or inferior to all others; specifically, being a tenant of one who holds land of another who is also a tenant: a tenant paravail.
- pin rail — Theater. a rail on a fly gallery, wall, etc., holding two rows of pins or cleats for securing lines attached to scenery.
- ponytail — an arrangement of the hair in a long lock drawn tightly against the back of the head and cinched so as to hang loosely.