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12-letter words that end in ll

  • forward roll — a gymnastic movement in which the body is turned heels over head with the back of the neck resting on the ground
  • free-for-all — a fight, argument, contest, etc., open to everyone and usually without rules.
  • gastric mill — a gizzard in decapod crustaceans, as lobsters, crabs, and shrimps, having an arrangement of teeth and small bones for grinding food and bristles for filtering small particles.
  • general will — (in the philosophy of Rousseau) the source of legitimate authority residing in the collective will as contrasted with individual interests
  • give sb hell — If you say that something is giving you hell, you are emphasizing that it is causing you a lot of trouble or pain.
  • gravity cell — a cell containing two electrolytes that have different specific gravities.
  • hammer drill — a rock drill operated by compressed air in which the boring bit is not attached to the reciprocating piston
  • hanging wall — Mining. the underside of the wall rock overlying a vein or bed of ore. Compare footwall (def 1).
  • heating bill — a bill for the supply of energy to heat a building
  • helmet shell — a predatory marine gastropod of the family Cassidae, characterized by a thick, heavy shell with a broadened outer lip.
  • heron's-bill — stork's-bill (def 1).
  • herring gull — a common, large gull, Larus argentatus, of the Northern Hemisphere.
  • higher still — a system of post-Standard Grade qualifications offered at five levels including Higher and Advanced Higher
  • hit the wall — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
  • holkham hall — a Palladian mansion near Wells in Norfolk: built 1734–59 by William Kent for Thomas Coke
  • invercargill — a city on S South Island, in New Zealand.
  • jack russell — a small short-legged terrier having a white coat with tan, black, or lemon markings: there are rough- and smooth-haired varieties
  • jane goodall — Jane, born 1934, English primatologist and zoologist.
  • jingle shell — any of several marine, bivalve mollusks of the genus Anomia, having a thin, pearly shell with a conspicuous hole or notch near the hinge of the lower valve.
  • just as well — fortunate
  • kachina doll — a Hopi Indian doll carved from cottonwood root in representation of a kachina and given as a gift to a child or used as a household decoration.
  • kingdom hall — a meeting place of Jehovah's Witnesses for religious services.
  • knuckle ball — a slow pitch that moves erratically toward home plate, usually delivered by holding the ball between the thumb and the knuckles of the first joints of the first two or three fingers.
  • least of all — You can use least of all after a negative statement to emphasize that it applies especially to the person or thing mentioned.
  • lecture hall — conference room
  • liberty bell — the bell of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, rung on July 8, 1776, to announce the adoption of the Declaration of Independence; since then a national symbol of liberty: moved to a special exhibition pavilion behind Independence Hall on January 1, 1976.
  • liberty hall — a place or condition of complete liberty
  • lobster roll — lobster salad served on a frankfurter roll or the like.
  • looping mill — a rolling mill for bar stock, wire, and the like, having the successive stands side by side so that the metal forms a loop in passing from stand to stand.
  • malvern hill — a plateau in E Virginia, SE of Richmond: battle 1862.
  • mentally ill — having a mental illness.
  • object chill — ["Object CHILL - An Object Oriented Language for Systems Implementation", J. Winkler et al, ACM Comp Sci Conf 1992, pp. 139-147].
  • off the wall — of or relating to a wall: wall space.
  • off-the-wall — markedly unconventional; bizarre; oddball: an unpredictable, off-the-wall personality.
  • omnibus bill — a bill dealing with, or providing for many different things or cases
  • opinion poll — survey of public attitudes
  • oyster shell — oyster's hard outer covering
  • pancake roll — A pancake roll is an item of Chinese food consisting of a small roll of thin crisp pastry filled with vegetables and sometimes meat.
  • passing bell — a bell tolled to announce a death or funeral.
  • patent still — a type of still in which the distillation is continuous
  • planing hull — a hull that tends to rise from the water when under way so that no significant amount of water is displaced beyond a certain speed.
  • port of call — a port visited briefly by a ship, usually to take on or discharge passengers and cargo or to undergo repairs.
  • primary cell — a cell designed to produce electric current through an electrochemical reaction that is not efficiently reversible, so that the cell when discharged cannot be efficiently recharged by an electric current.
  • primary wall — the wall of a plant cell that is formed first around the protoplast, composed of cellulose microfibrils aligned at all angles and held together by hydrogen bonds.
  • private bill — a congressional or parliamentary bill involving the private interests of a particular individual, corporation, or local unit.
  • quantum cell — (electronics, computing)   (Or "quantum dot cell") A structure comprising four quantum dots arranged in a square, with two diagonally opposed dots containing electron charges. One diagonal containing charges is arbitrarily defined as representing a value of '1', the other as '0'. In a five-dot cell, the fifth, central dot contains no charge. See also: quantum cell wire, quantum-dot cellular automata.
  • rolling mill — a mill where ingots, slabs, sheets, etc., of usually hot metal are passed between rolls to give them a certain thickness or cross-sectional form.
  • russian doll — wooden figures that nest inside one other
  • sacring bell — a small bell rung at the elevation of the Host and chalice during Mass
  • sanctus bell — a bell rung during the celebration of Mass to call attention to the more solemn parts.
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