8-letter words containing lli
- rollicky — rollicking or merry
- scallion — any onion that does not form a large bulb; green onion.
- scillism — poisoning by squill, characterized by vomiting, slow pulse, cardiac arrhythmia, and ventricular fibrillation.
- scullion — a kitchen servant who does menial work.
- shelling — act of removing shell
- shilling — a person who poses as a customer in order to decoy others into participating, as at a gambling house, auction, confidence game, etc.
- sibyllic — of, resembling, or characteristic of a sibyl; prophetic; oracular.
- silliest — weak-minded or lacking good sense; stupid or foolish: a silly writer.
- silliman — Benjamin, 1779–1864, U.S. scientist and educator.
- sillitoe — Alan. 1928–2010, British novelist. His best-known works include Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958) and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1959)
- skilling — skillion.
- skillion — a lean-to serving as a room or a shed.
- smallish — rather small.
- smellies — pleasant-smelling products such as perfumes, body lotions, bath salts, etc
- spalling — a chip or splinter, as of stone or ore.
- spelling — a continuous course or period of work or other activity: to take a spell at the wheel.
- stallion — an uncastrated adult male horse, especially one used for breeding.
- stellify — to change or be changed into a star
- stellion — an olive-green Mediterranean lizard with black star-shaped spots, belonging to the family Stellionidae
- stellite — any of various alloys containing cobalt, chromium, carbon, tungsten, and molybdenum: characteristically very hard and wear-resistant, they are used as castings or hard surface-coatings
- stilling — remaining in place or at rest; motionless; stationary: to stand still.
- stillion — a stand for holding casks in a brewery or for drying pottery
- sullivan — Annie (Anne Mansfield Sullivan Macy) 1866–1936, U.S. teacher of Helen Keller.
- swelling — the act of swelling or the condition of being swollen.
- swellish — stylish; resembling a 'swell'
- swilling — liquid or partly liquid food for animals, especially kitchen refuse given to swine; hogwash.
- talliate — to levy a tax upon; to tallage
- tallises — a shawllike garment of wool, silk, or the like, with fringes, or zizith, at the four corners, worn around the shoulders by Orthodox and Conservative (sometimes also Reform) Jews, as during the morning service.
- tefillin — either of two small, boxlike leather cases holding slips inscribed with certain Scriptural passages, fastened, using leather thongs, one to the forehead and the other to the arm, by Orthodox or Conservative Jewish men during weekday morning prayer: see Deut. 6:4-9
- tehillim — the Book of Psalms.
- teocalli — a ceremonial structure of the Aztecs, consisting of a truncated terraced pyramid supporting a temple.
- thalline — a chemical compound used for medicinal purposes
- thallium — a soft, malleable, rare, bluish-white metallic element: used in the manufacture of alloys and, in the form of its salts, in rodenticides. Symbol: Tl; atomic weight: 204.37; atomic number: 81; specific gravity: 11.85 at 20°C.
- tillicum — (in the Pacific Northwest) a friend
- tortelli — pasta that is folded around a filling and boiled
- trilling — the act or sound of trilling.
- trillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 12 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 18 zeros.
- trillium — any of several plants belonging to the genus Trillium, of the lily family, having a whorl of three leaves from the center of which rises a solitary, three-petalled flower.
- trollies — trolley car.
- trolling — to sing or utter in a full, rolling voice.
- tullibee — a commercially important deep-bodied Canadian whitefish, Coregonus artedi tullibee.
- unallied — not allied; having no ally or alliance
- vanillic — of, derived from, or resembling vanilla or vanillin.
- vanillin — a white, crystalline, water-soluble, alcohol-soluble solid, C 8 H 8 O 3 , obtained by extraction from the vanilla bean or prepared synthetically: used chiefly as a flavoring agent and in perfumery.
- vercelli — a city in NW Italy, W of Milan.
- villiers — Frederic, 1852–1922, English artist and war correspondent.
- vitellin — a phosphoprotein in the yolk of eggs.
- williams — a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter W.
- willings — Plural form of willing.
- williwaw — a violent squall that blows in near-polar latitudes, as in the Strait of Magellan, Alaska, and the Aleutian Islands.