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9-letter words that end in ll

  • seal cull — an operation designed to reduce the number of seals by slaughtering some of them
  • self-will — stubborn or obstinate willfulness, as in pursuing one's own wishes, aims, etc.
  • sharpbill — a passerine bird, Oxyruncus cristatus, of New World tropical forests, having greenish plumage and a pointed bill, related to the tyrant flycatchers.
  • shortfall — the quantity or extent by which something falls short; deficiency; shortage.
  • shortwall — pertaining to a means of extracting coal when the working face is about a third the length of the longwall system and mining is done by a continuous cutter rather than by longwall machinery.
  • show bill — an advertising poster.
  • sick call — a daily formation for those requiring medical attention.
  • slimeball — thin, glutinous mud.
  • snap roll — a manoeuvre in which an aircraft makes a fast roll
  • snap-roll — to put (an airplane) through the maneuver of a snap roll.
  • soft sell — gentle persuasion to buy sth
  • soft-bill — any of numerous birds, as thrushes or tanagers, having relatively weak bills suited for eating insects, soft-bodied animals, and fruit rather than hard seeds.
  • soft-sell — to promote (a product, service, etc.) using indirect or gentle persuasion: an advertising campaign to soft-sell a new perfume.
  • southwell — Saint Robert. ?1561–95, English poet and Roman Catholic martyr, who was imprisoned, tortured, and executed for his Jesuit activities. His best-known poem is 'The Burning Babe'
  • speedball — a game similar to soccer with the chief difference that a player catching the ball on the fly can pass it with the hands.
  • speedwell — any of several plants, shrubs, or small trees of the genus Veronica, of the figwort family, having opposite leaves and small flowers.
  • spoonbill — any of several wading birds of the family Plataleidae, related to the ibises, having a long, flat bill with a spoonlike tip.
  • spur gall — a hairless and indurated area or gall on the side of a horse, caused by the irritation of a spur.
  • spur-gall — to scrape, rub or injure (a horse) with the spur when riding
  • stairwell — the vertical shaft or opening containing a stairway.
  • stem cell — a cell that upon division replaces its own numbers and also gives rise to cells that differentiate further into one or more specialized types, as various B cells and T cells.
  • stickball — a form of baseball played in the streets, on playgrounds, etc., in which a rubber ball and a broomstick or the like are used in place of a baseball and bat.
  • stingbull — Trachinus draco, a species of fish with venomous spines on their dorsal fins that are capable of wounding humans
  • stinkball — stinkpot (def 1).
  • stonewall — to engage in stonewalling.
  • stoolball — an English country game resembling cricket and played by young women
  • stoopball — an American street game similar to baseball in which a ball is thrown against a wall or stoop
  • sundsvall — a seaport in E Sweden, on the Gulf of Bothnia.
  • supercell — a highly organized thunderstorm that can last for several hours, capable of producing both updrafts and downdrafts exceeding 100 miles per hour, large hailstones, tornadoes, and flash flooding (often used attributively): a supercell in Kansas City; supercell storms.
  • supersell — to sell in large quantities
  • swordbill — a South American hummingbird, Ensifera ensifera, having a slender bill that is longer than its body.
  • the small — an object, person, or group considered to be small
  • thornbill — any of various South American hummingbirds of the genera Chalcostigma, Ramphomicron, etc, having a thornlike bill
  • thornhill — Sir James. 1675–1734, English baroque painter. He is best known for decorating the Painted Hall, Greenwich Hospital (1708–27) and the interior of the dome of St Paul's Cathedral (1715–17)
  • tide mill — a mill operated by the tidal movement of water.
  • time bill — a bill of exchange payable at a specified date.
  • toll call — any telephone call involving a higher base rate than that fixed for a local message.
  • top-shell — any marine gastropod mollusc of the mainly tropical Old World family Trochidae, having a typically brightly coloured top-shaped or conical shell
  • town hall — a hall or building belonging to a town, used for the transaction of the town's business and often also as a place of public assembly.
  • trackball — a computer input device for controlling the pointer on a display screen by rotating a ball set inside a case.
  • treadmill — an apparatus for producing rotary motion by the weight of people or animals, treading on a succession of moving steps or a belt that forms a kind of continuous path, as around the periphery of a pair of horizontal cylinders.
  • true bill — a bill of indictment endorsed by a grand jury as being sufficiently supported by evidence to justify a hearing of the case.
  • twin bill — a doubleheader, as in baseball.
  • underkill — insufficient capacity to defeat or destroy an enemy, especially using nuclear force.
  • undersell — to sell more cheaply than.
  • uninstall — to remove (a software program) from a computer or computer system.
  • unit cell — the simplest unit of a regular lattice.
  • very well — successfully
  • walk tall — to have self-respect or pride
  • wallyball — a game similar to volleyball played in a walled court so that the ball may be bounced against the walls.
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