13-letter words that end in ll
- helper t cell — a T cell that stimulates B cells to produce antibody against a foreign substance, using lymphokines or direct contact as a signal.
- helper t-cell — a type of T cell that helps coordinate the immune response, especially by activating B cells: the AIDS virus targets and destroys these T cells
- hospital bill — the bills incurred for receiving hospital treatment
- in a nutshell — the shell of a nut.
- indigo squill — wild hyacinth.
- intellectuall — Obsolete form of intellectual.
- itemized bill — invoice giving detailed breakdown of costs
- john marshall — Alfred, 1842–1924, English economist.
- judgment call — Sports. an observational ruling by a referee or umpire that is necessarily subjective because of the disputable nature of the play in question, and one that may be appealed but not protested, as opposed to a matter of official rule interpretation: Balks and close plays at first are of course judgment calls, and umpires are human.
- killer t cell — a killer cell that destroys target cells only when specifically activated by helper T cells.
- killer t-cell — a type of T-lymphocyte that is responsible for killing cells that are infected by a virus
- kiss-and-tell — revealing sth private for money
- laughing gull — a North American gull, Larus atricilla, having a high, laughlike call.
- lower burrell — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
- lymphoid cell — a cell in the lymph glands that produces leukocytes.
- mackerel gull — tern1 .
- medicine ball — a large, solid, heavy, leather-covered ball, thrown from one person to another for exercise.
- might as well — have no reason not to
- mother of all — a female parent.
- nature's call — call of nature.
- ne'er-do-well — an idle, worthless person; a person who is ineffectual, unsuccessful, or completely lacking in merit; good-for-nothing.
- nuisance call — an unsolicited telephone call such as a prank call or a call for telemarketing purposes
- over the hill — a natural elevation of the earth's surface, smaller than a mountain.
- palisade cell — a columnar cell of palisade parenchyma.
- pandora shell — any marine bivalve of the genus Pandora, having a scimitar-shaped shell with a pronounced ridge along the hinge.
- parietal cell — any of the cells in the mucous membranes of the stomach that secrete hydrochloric acid.
- parrot's-bill — a showy, vinelike plant, Clianthus puniceus, of New Zealand, having clusters of eight white-streaked, crimson flowers.
- pattern-drill — (in foreign-language learning) a technique for practicing a linguistic structure in which students repeat a sentence or other structure, each time substituting a new element, such as a new verb, as directed by the teacher, or transforming the original structure, as in changing a statement to a question.
- personal call — a private phone call
- pick-and-roll — an offensive maneuver in which a player interposes himself or herself between a teammate with the ball and a defender, then cuts quickly toward the basket for a pass from the same teammate.
- play hardball — baseball, as distinguished from softball.
- play-the-ball — a method for bringing the ball back into play after a tackle, in which the tackled player is allowed to stand up and kick or heel the ball behind him or her to a team-mate
- pleasant hill — a city in W California, near San Francisco Bay.
- pressure hull — the inner, pressure-resistant hull of a submarine.
- purkinje cell — a large, densely branching neuron in the cerebellar cortex of the brain.
- reminder call — an automated service which you can set up in advance to make a telephone call to you at a fixed time for the purpose of reminding you of something important
- richmond hill — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada, N of Toronto.
- ring the bell — a hollow instrument of cast metal, typically cup-shaped with a flaring mouth, suspended from the vertex and rung by the strokes of a clapper, hammer, or the like.
- rock 'n' roll — a style of popular music that derives in part from blues and folk music and is marked by a heavily accented beat and a simple, repetitive phrase structure.
- rock and roll — a style of popular music that derives in part from blues and folk music and is marked by a heavily accented beat and a simple, repetitive phrase structure.
- rock-'n'-roll — a style of popular music that derives in part from blues and folk music and is marked by a heavily accented beat and a simple, repetitive phrase structure.
- rock-and-roll — a style of popular music that derives in part from blues and folk music and is marked by a heavily accented beat and a simple, repetitive phrase structure.
- roughing mill — a rolling mill for converting steel ingots into blooms, billets, or slabs.
- saint austell — a town in SW England, in S Cornwall on St Austell Bay (an inlet of the English Channel): centre for the now-declining china clay industry; the Eden Project, a rainforest environment in the world's largest greenhouse, is nearby; administratively part of St Austell with Fowey 1968-74. Pop (with Fowey): 22 658 (2001)
- san juan hill — a hill in SE Cuba, near Santiago de Cuba: captured by U.S. forces in battle during the Spanish-American War in 1898.
- scallop shell — the shell of a scallop
- selenium cell — a photovoltaic cell consisting of a thin strip of selenium placed between two metal electrodes.
- shoot-to-kill — of or relating to shooting by soldiers or police that is intended to kill rather than disable
- shopping mall — mall (def 1).
- show and tell — an activity for young children, especially in school, in which each participant produces an object of unusual interest and tells something about it.