9-letter words that end in ll
- haverhill — a city in NE Massachusetts, on the Merrimack River.
- hawksbill — A small tropical sea turtle with hooked jaws and overlapping horny plates on the shell, extensively hunted as the traditional source of tortoiseshell.
- head wall — a cliff or steep slope rising at one end of a glaciated valley.
- headstall — that part of a bridle or halter that encompasses the head of an animal.
- hear tell — to be told (about); learn (of)
- hedgebill — a tool for pruning a hedge
- hela cell — a vigorous strain of laboratory-cultured cells descended from a human cervical cancer, used widely in research.
- hindafell — Hindfell.
- homestall — Dialect. a farmyard.
- honeywell — (company) A US company known for its mainframes and operating systems. The company's history is long and tortuous, with many mergers, acquisitions and name changes. A company formed on 1886-04-23 to make furnace regulators eventually merged in 1927 with another company formed in 1904 by a young plumbing and heating engineer named Mark Honeywell who was perfecting the heat generator. A 1955 joint venture with Raytheon Corp., called Datamatic Corporation, marked Honeywell's entry into the computer business. Their first computer was the D-1000. In 1960 Honeywell bought out Raytheon's interest and the name changed to Electronic Data Processing (EDP) then in 1963 it was officially renamed Honeywell Inc. In 1970 Honeywell merged its computer business with General Electric's to form Honeywell Information Systems. In 1986 a joint venture with the french company Bull and japanese NEC Corporation created Honeywell Bull. By 1991 Honeywell had withdrawn from the computer business, focussing more on aeropspace. See also: brain-damaged.
- hounskull — a snoutlike, usually conical, visor attached to a basinet of the 14th century.
- in-thrall — to captivate or charm: a performer whose grace, skill, and virtuosity enthrall her audiences.
- ingersoll — Robert Green, 1833–99, U.S. lawyer, political leader, and orator.
- intercell — intercellular
- intertill — to cultivate between rows of (a crop)
- iron will — stubbornness, determination
- ivorybill — The ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis).
- jail cell — a small room in a jail where a prisoner is kept
- jellyroll — a thin, rectangular layer of sponge cake, spread with fruit jelly and rolled up.
- john bull — England; the English people.
- joint ill — an infectious disease of newborn foals characterized by swollen inflamed joints and high fever, usually fatal.
- jump ball — a ball tossed into the air above and between two opposing players by the referee in putting the ball into play.
- junk call — a telephone call soliciting a donation or selling a product or service by a caller making many such calls to a list of prospects.
- kalispell — a city in NW Montana.
- kerr cell — a transparent cell filled with a fluid, usually nitrobenzene, and containing two electrodes placed between two polarizing light filters, suitable for demonstrating the Kerr effect and often used as a high-speed camera shutter.
- lampshell — Alternative form of lamp shell.
- leaf roll — a viral disease of plants, especially potatoes, characterized by upward rolling of the leaflets, chlorosis, stunting, and necrosis of the phloem.
- lightwell — (architecture) An open shaft that transmits light from above into a staircase or an inner room.
- like hell — the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
- line call — the judgment of the umpire or linesman as to whether the ball has landed in or out of court
- live well — be comfortably well off
- macdowell — Edward Alexander, 1861–1908, U.S. composer and pianist.
- mast ball — an ornamental ball forming the truck of a mast.
- mast cell — a large granular cell, common in connective tissue, that produces heparin, histamine, and serotonin.
- mcconnell — Jack (Wilson), Baron. born 1960, Scottish Labour politician; first minister of the Scottish Parliament (2001–07)
- mcdougall — William, 1871–1938, U.S. psychologist and writer, born in England.
- megaphyll — the relatively large type of leaf produced by ferns and seed plants
- mercyfull — Obsolete spelling of merciful.
- mesophyll — the parenchyma, usually containing chlorophyll, that forms the interior parts of a leaf.
- mess call — a bugle call for mess.
- mess hall — a place in which a group eats regularly, especially a dining hall in a military camp, post, etc.
- mirthfull — Archaic form of mirthful.
- misbefall — (transitive, obsolete) Of an event, to happen unfortunately to (a person).
- moot hall — a building in some English villages where moots were once held; town hall.
- mournfull — Archaic form of mournful.
- mouthfull — Misspelling of mouthful.
- multicell — comprised of or involving many cells or constituent parts; multicellular
- multihull — (of a vessel) having more than one hull joined by a single deck.
- multiwall — having a wall or casing composed of layers of material, often pressed closely together: multiwall bags for shipping grain.
- nanoshell — A dielectric nanoparticle coated with a very thin metallic shell.