12-letter words that end in il
- nature trail — a path through a forest, wildlife preserve, or the like, especially one designed to provide opportunities for observing and learning about the flora and fauna.
- nizhni tagil — a city in the Russian Federation in Asia, on the E slope of the Ural Mountains.
- nose to tail — If vehicles are nose to tail, the front of one vehicle is close behind the back of another.
- oiticica oil — a light yellow drying oil expressed from the seeds of the oiticica tree, used as a vehicle for paints, varnishes, etc.
- olap council — (body, standard) A body formed in early 1995 to work on a cross-product API for OLAP. After little success it was replaced by the Analytical Solutions Forum.
- oregon trail — a route used during the U.S. westward migrations, especially in the period from 1840 to 1860, starting in Missouri and ending in Oregon. About 2000 miles (3200 km) long.
- pancake coil — a coil (of wire, etc) wound in a flat circular shape
- paraffin-oil — a white or colorless, tasteless, odorless, water-insoluble, solid substance not easily acted upon by reagents, consisting of a mixture of hydrocarbons chiefly of the alkane series, obtained from crude petroleum: used in candles, for forming preservative coatings and seals, for waterproofing paper, etc.
- picture rail — bar from which pictures are hung
- pied wagtail — a British songbird, Motacilla alba yarrellii, with a black throat and back, long black tail, and white underparts and face: family Motacillidae (wagtails and pipits)
- potting soil — enriched topsoil for potting plants, especially house plants.
- prairie soil — a soil that forms in subhumid, temperate regions with tall grass as native vegetation.
- rapeseed oil — a brownish-yellow oil obtained by expression from rapeseed and used chiefly as a lubricant, an illuminant, and in the manufacture of rubber substitutes.
- rolling boil — heated liquid: bubbling
- roofing nail — a short nail for nailing asphalt shingles or the like, having a broad head.
- rooster tail — the wake thrown up behind a speeding boat or the dust thrown up behind a speeding vehicle.
- rosewood oil — a fragrant oil extracted from the wood of a South American tree, Aniba rosaeodora, and used in the manufacture of perfumes.
- snowy mespil — a N American tree, Amelanchier Lamarckii, that produces small white flowers in spring
- spotted tail — (Sinte-galeshka) 1833?–81, Brulé Sioux leader.
- studdingsail — a light sail, sometimes set outboard of either of the leeches of a square sail and extended by booms.
- surface mail — the system, especially a government postal system, of sending mail by truck, train, or boat, as opposed to airmail.
- take in sail — to lower sails, as in order to reduce the area of sail set
- the good oil — true or reliable facts, information, etc
- tick trefoil — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Desmodium, of the legume family, having trifoliolate leaves and jointed pods with hooked hairs by which they adhere to objects.
- tickler coil — the coil by which the plate circuit of a vacuum tube is inductively coupled with the grid circuit in the process of regeneration.
- tie-off rail — trim rail.
- to jump bail — If a prisoner jumps bail, he or she does not come back for his or her trial after being released on bail.
- top and tail — method of washing a baby
- town council — municipal government
- trace fossil — a fossilized track, trail, burrow, boring, or other structure in sedimentary rock that records the presence or behavior of the organism that made it.
- vapour trail — A vapour trail is a white line of water vapour left in the sky by an aeroplane, a rocket, or a missile.
- volatile oil — a distilled oil, especially one obtained from plant tissue, as distinguished from glyceride oils by their volatility and failure to saponify.
- without fail — to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved: The experiment failed because of poor planning.
- working rail — fly rail (def 2).
- wormseed oil — chenopodium oil.
- yellow peril — (in historical contexts) the alleged danger that predominantly white Western civilizations and populations could be overwhelmed by Asian peoples.