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9-letter words that end in ll

  • catch-all — A catch-all is a term or category which includes many different things.
  • catchpoll — (formerly) a petty officer of justice, especially one arresting persons for debt.
  • cell wall — the outer layer of a cell, esp the structure in plant cells that consists of cellulose, lignin, etc, and gives mechanical support to the cell
  • chainfall — a hand-powered hoist consisting of chains working on the pulley principle, used to lift and manoeuvre large heavy objects
  • chargrill — to grill (meat) over charcoal
  • chartwell — a house near Westerham in Kent: home for 40 years of Sir Winston Churchill
  • cheerfull — Archaic form of cheerful.
  • chin ball — a device fastened under the chin of a bull to mark cows it has mounted
  • chockfull — Alternative form of chock full.
  • chow hall — canteen, refectory
  • churchill — a river in E Canada, rising in SE Labrador and flowing north and southeast over Churchill Falls, then east to the Atlantic. Length: about 1000 km (600 miles)
  • city hall — The city hall is the building which a city council uses as its main offices.
  • clamshell — a dredging bucket that is hinged like the shell of a clam
  • coal ball — a spherical mass of mineral and plant material embedded in coal beds, ranging in size from that of a pea to that of a boulder.
  • cockerell — Sir Christopher Sydney. 1910–99, British engineer, who invented the hovercraft
  • cold call — If someone makes a cold call, they telephone or visit someone they have never contacted, without making an appointment, in order to try and sell something.
  • cold-call — a visit or telephone call to a prospective customer without an appointment or a previous introduction.
  • cold-roll — to roll (metal) at a temperature below that at which recrystallization occurs.
  • cons cell — (programming)   /konz sel/ or /kons sel/ A Lisp pair object containing any two objects. In Lisp, "cons" (short for "construct") is the fundamental operation for building structures such as lists and other binary trees. The application of "cons" to objects H and T is written (cons H T) and returns a pair object known as a "cons", "cons cell" or dotted pair. Typically, a cons would be stored in memory as a two consecutive pointers. The two objects in a cons, and the functions to extract them, are called "car" and "cdr" after two 15-bit fields of the machine code instruction format of the IBM 7090 that hosted the original LISP implementation. These fields were called the "address" and "decrement" parts so "car" stood for "Contents of Address part of Register" and "cdr" for "Contents of Decrement part of Register". In the typical case where the cons holds one node of a list structure, the car is the head of the list (first element) and the cdr is the tail of the list (the rest). If the list had only one element then the tail would be an empty list, represented by the cdr containing the special value "nil". To aid in working with nested structures such as lists of lists, Lisp provides functions to access the car of the car ("caar"), the car of the cdr ("cadr"), the cdr of the car ("cdar") and the cdr of the cdr ("cddr").
  • cram-full — stuffed full
  • crib-wall — a supporting wall constructed by laying cribs at right angles to each other, as in cribwork
  • crossbill — any of various widely distributed finches of the genus Loxia, such as L. curvirostra, that occur in coniferous woods and have a bill with crossed mandible tips for feeding on conifer seeds
  • crossfall — the camber of a road
  • crow-bill — a type of forceps used to extract bullets, etc, from wounds
  • curb ball — stoop ball played off a street curb.
  • curveball — a ball pitched in a curving path so as to make it more difficult to hit
  • damn well — the damned, those condemned to suffer eternal punishment.
  • dancehall — a style of dance-oriented reggae, originating in the late 1980s
  • dead ball — a way of referring to the ball when it is not in play and cannot be used by any player, usually because it has travelled beyond a boundary line
  • deathbell — Alternative form of death bell.
  • deed poll — a deed made by one party only, esp one by which a person changes his or her name
  • deinstall — Uninstall.
  • diet pill — a tablet or capsule containing chemical substances that aid in reducing or controlling body weight, usually by suppressing the appetite.
  • disenroll — to dismiss or cause to become removed from a program of training, care, etc.: The academy disenrolled a dozen cadets.
  • doddypoll — a dunce; imbecile
  • dodgeball — a circle game in which players throw an inflated ball at opponents within the circle who try to avoid being hit, and therefore eliminated, the winner being the one who remains unhit.
  • doubtfull — Archaic form of doubtful.
  • doughball — a small ball of bread dough, cooked in a stew, as an accompaniment to a meal, etc
  • dratchell — a scruffy woman; a slut; a drab
  • dreadfull — Archaic spelling of dreadful.
  • drecksill — a doorstep
  • drum roll — fast continuous drumming
  • dry spell — a prolonged period of dry weather.
  • dumb-bell — A dumb-bell is a short bar with weights on either side which people use for physical exercise to strengthen their arm and shoulder muscles.
  • dust ball — Chiefly Northern and North Midland U.S. a ball or roll of dust and lint that accumulates indoors, as in corners or under furniture.
  • dust well — a hollow in the surface of a glacier, formed by the melting action of dust or soil deposits.
  • duty call — a visit made for reasons of obligation rather than for social reasons
  • ear shell — abalone.
  • earthfall — a fall of earth or a landslide
  • eightball — (in pool) the black ball, marked with the number eight
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