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9-letter words that end in ll

  • navel ill — joint ill.
  • nightfall — the coming of night; the end of daylight; dusk.
  • nine ball — a variation of pool played with nine numbered object balls that must be pocketed in order by number.
  • numbskull — a dull-witted or stupid person; dolt.
  • o'connellDaniel, 1775–1847, Irish nationalist leader and orator.
  • oil spill — an accidental release of oil into a body of water, as from a tanker, offshore drilling rig, or underwater pipeline, often presenting a hazard to marine life and the environment.
  • on a roll — to move along a surface by revolving or turning over and over, as a ball or a wheel.
  • open call — an audition, especially for actors or dancers, open to anyone wishing to try out.
  • overchill — to make too cold
  • overspill — to spill over.
  • overswell — to overflow
  • oxon hill — a city in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
  • pack wall — pack1 (def 12a).
  • paintball — a game in which players mark their opponents with colored gelatin capsules shot out of an air gun.
  • pall mall — a street in central London, noted for its many clubs
  • pall-mall — a street in London, England, famed for its clubs.
  • peekskill — a city in SE New York, on the Hudson.
  • pell-mell — in disorderly, headlong haste; in a recklessly hurried manner.
  • permabull — an investor who consistently acts in the expectation that the value of stocks and shares will rise
  • photocall — a time arranged for photographers, esp press photographers, to take pictures of a celebrity, the cast of a play, etc, usually for publicity purposes
  • photocell — a solid-state device that converts light into electrical energy by producing a voltage, as in a photovoltaic cell, or uses light to regulate the flow of current, as in a photoconductive cell: used in automatic control systems for doors, lighting, etc.
  • piccadill — a high stiff collar characteristic of the early 17th century
  • pipe roll — an annual record of the accounts of a sheriff or other minister of the crown kept at the British Exchequer from the 12th to the 19th centuries
  • play ball — a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape; sphere: He rolled the piece of paper into a ball.
  • play hell — To play hell with something means to have a bad effect on it or cause great confusion. In British English, you can also say that one person or thing plays merry hell with another.
  • play-bill — a program or announcement of a play.
  • pool hall — poolroom (def 1).
  • poor-will — a goatsucker, Phalaenoptilus nuttallii, of western North America.
  • post mill — a windmill built round a central post on which the whole mill can be turned so that the sails catch the wind
  • pot still — a simple and sometimes primitive type of still, used especially in the making of cognac, corn liquor, and malt Scotch whisky.
  • puff-ball — any of various basidiomycetous fungi, especially of the genus Lycoperdon and allied genera, characterized by a ball-like fruit body that emits a cloud of spores when broken.
  • punchball — a form of playground or street baseball in which a rubber ball is batted with the fist.
  • push poll — a seemingly unbiased telephone survey that is actually conducted by supporters of a particular candidate and disseminates negative information about an opponent.
  • push-pull — Radio. a two-tube symmetrical arrangement in which the grid excitation voltages are opposite in phase.
  • quantrillWilliam Clarke, 1837–65, Confederate guerrilla leader.
  • razorbill — a common auk, Alca torda, of the North Atlantic, having a thick laterally compressed bill with white markings
  • re-enroll — to write the name of (a person) in a roll or register; place upon a list; register: It took two days to enroll the new students.
  • reinstall — to place in position or connect for service or use: to install a heating system; to install software on a computer.
  • rent-roll — an account or schedule of rents, the amount due from each tenant, and the total received.
  • ring-pull — A ring-pull is a metal strip that you pull off the top of a can of drink in order to open it.
  • road kill — Informal. the body of an animal killed on a road by a motor vehicle.
  • rock fall — a fall of loose rocks
  • rock hill — a city in N South Carolina.
  • rock wall — rock fence.
  • roll call — the calling of a list of names, as of soldiers or students, for checking attendance.
  • roll mill — A roll mill is a mixer with cylinders that rotate to squeeze the components together.
  • roundball — basketball
  • salt well — a well from which brine is obtained.
  • screwball — Slang. an eccentric or whimsically eccentric person; a nut.
  • scuzzball — Also called scuzzball [skuhz-bawl] /ˈskʌzˌbɔl/ (Show IPA), scuzzbucket [skuhz-buhk-it] /ˈskʌzˌbʌk ɪt/ (Show IPA). a dirty, grimy, sordid, or repulsive person or thing.
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