13-letter words that end in ll
- 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.
- sinking spell — a temporary decline, as in health or market values: Wall Street is over its sinking spell.
- sleeping pill — a pill or capsule containing a drug for inducing sleep.
- spring squill — a European liliaceous plant Scilla verna, having small blue or purple flowers
- standard cell — a primary electric cell, as the Weston cell, that produces an accurately known constant voltage: used in scientific measurements.
- steve's shell — (operating system) (ssh) A Unix shell with many csh- and ksh-like features, by Steve Baker <[email protected]> and Thomas Moore. Version 1.7 has been ported to Sequent, Sun, NeXT, Ultrix, BSDI and is available from comp.sources.unix volume 26.
- still and all — remaining in place or at rest; motionless; stationary: to stand still.
- stinging-cell — a nematocyst.
- sutter's mill — the location in California, NE of Sacramento, near which gold was discovered in 1848, precipitating the gold rush of 1849.
- take its toll — If you say that something takes its toll or takes a heavy toll, you mean that it has a bad effect or causes a lot of suffering.
- take the fall — to be blamed, punished, or imprisoned
- team handball — a game, similar to soccer, played between two teams of seven players who catch, dribble, throw, or hit the ball with the hands.
- thundersquall — a combined squall and thunderstorm.
- to cap it all — to provide the finishing touch
- to end it all — If someone ends it all, they kill themselves.
- to raise hell — If you say that someone raises hell, you are emphasizing that they protest strongly and angrily about a situation in order to persuade other people to correct it or improve it.
- tortoiseshell — a horny substance of a mottled brown and yellow coloration, composing the laminae that cover the inner body plates of the carapace of certain tortoises or turtles, especially the hawksbill, used for making combs and ornamental articles, inlaying, etc.
- tracking poll — a type of poll repeated periodically with the same group of people to check and measure changes of opinion or knowledge.
- training wall — an artificial embankment or wall for directing the course of a stream.
- treasury bill — an obligation of the U.S. government represented by promissory notes in denominations ranging from $1000 to $1,000,000, with a maturity of about 90 days but bearing no interest, and sold periodically at a discount on the market.
- tumbling mill — A tumbling mill is a machine for reducing the particle size of a solid, with a drum which turns to lift and drop the feed mixed with a grinding medium.
- under a spell — in a trance
- valence-shell — an electron of an atom, located in the outermost shell (valence shell) of the atom, that can be transferred to or shared with another atom.
- venetian ball — a small glass ball containing colorful objects or pieces, used chiefly as a paperweight.
- warts and all — despite flaws
- weeping myall — any of several Australian acacias, especially Acacia pendula (weeping myall) having gray foliage and drooping branches.
- west caldwell — a town in NE New Jersey.
- what the hell — the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
- what you will — whatever you like
- wrecking ball — a heavy metal ball swung on a cable from a crane and used in demolition work.