Words Ending With IL
Explore the intriguing collection of words that conclude with the letter IL. This section emphasizes how the final placement of IL influences the tone and character of each word. Whether it's common vocabulary or less familiar terms, uncover the unique impact of ending with IL in the world of words.
3 letter words
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|---|---|---|---|
| oil | 3 | oil paint containing pigment that is used by an artist | - |
| til | 3 | - | - |
| ail | 3 | cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed | - |
| mil | 5 | a Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km | - |
| nil | 3 | a quantity of no importance | reduced to nil all the work we had done |
| fil | 6 | - | - |
4 letter words
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|---|---|---|---|
| evil | 7 | morally objectionable behavior | - |
| jail | 11 | lock up or confine, in or as in a jail | - |
| 6 | cause to be directed or transmitted to another place | I'll mail you the paper when it's written | |
| fail | 7 | disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake | His sense of smell failed him this time |
| tail | 4 | a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements | - |
| hail | 7 | praise vociferously | The critics hailed the young pianist as a new Rubinstein |
| nail | 4 | hit hard | - |
| weil | 7 | United States mathematician (born in France) (1906-1998) | - |
| bail | 6 | (criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial | the judge set bail at $10,000 |
| soil | 4 | material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use) | good agricultural soil |
| sail | 4 | move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions | Shreds of paper sailed through the air |
| veil | 7 | make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing | a veiled threat |
| boil | 6 | a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus | - |
| rail | 4 | a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports | - |
| heil | 7 | - | - |
| foil | 7 | a device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through | the fins of a fish act as hydrofoils |
| toil | 4 | productive work (especially physical work done for wages) | - |
| coil | 6 | a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops | a coil of rope |
| wail | 7 | emit long loud cries | wail in self-pity |
| pail | 6 | the quantity contained in a pail | - |
| teil | 4 | - | - |
| anil | 4 | a blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically | - |
| roil | 4 | make turbid by stirring up the sediments of | - |
| ceil | 6 | - | - |
| vail | 7 | - | - |
| seil | 4 | - | - |
| vril | 7 | - | - |
| axil | 11 | the upper angle between an axis and an offshoot such as a branch or leafstalk | - |
| aril | 4 | fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelops the seed | - |
| deil | 5 | - | - |
| moil | 6 | be agitated | - |
| noil | 4 | - | - |
| muil | 6 | - | - |
| kail | 8 | a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head | - |
5 letter words
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|---|---|---|---|
| until | 5 | As far as; to the place or degree that; especially, up to the time that; till. | - |
| devil | 9 | (Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions) chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell | - |
| civil | 10 | not rude; marked by satisfactory (or especially minimal) adherence to social usages and sufficient but not noteworthy consideration for others | even if he didn't like them he should have been civil |
| trail | 5 | to lag or linger behind | - |
| spoil | 7 | make a mess of, destroy or ruin | - |
| 7 | communicate electronically on the computer | - | |
| pupil | 9 | a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution | - |
| basil | 7 | leaves of the common basil; used fresh or dried | - |
| snail | 5 | edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic | - |
| grail | 6 | (legend) chalice used by Christ at the Last Supper | - |
| peril | 7 | pose a threat to; present a danger to | - |
| frail | 8 | easily broken or damaged or destroyed | a frail craft |
| quail | 14 | draw back, as with fear or pain | - |
| sybil | 10 | - | - |
| vigil | 9 | a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe | - |
| avail | 8 | a means of serving | of no avail |
| anvil | 8 | the ossicle between the malleus and the stapes | - |
| flail | 8 | move like a flail; thresh about | Her arms were flailing |
| cavil | 10 | raise trivial objections | - |
| broil | 7 | be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun | The town was broiling in the sun |
| speil | 7 | - | - |
| exfil | 15 | - | - |
| choil | 10 | - | - |
| zoril | 14 | muishond of northern Africa | - |
| nihil | 8 | (Latin) nil; nothing (as used by a sheriff after an unsuccessful effort to serve a writ) | nihil habet |
| vakil | 12 | - | - |
| vexil | 15 | - | - |
| swail | 8 | - | - |
| steil | 5 | - | - |
| spail | 7 | - | - |
| skail | 9 | - | - |
| sigil | 6 | - | - |
| scail | 7 | - | - |
| reoil | 5 | - | - |
| pugil | 8 | - | - |
| aboil | 7 | - | - |
| bezil | 16 | - | - |
| armil | 7 | - | - |
| argil | 6 | a white clay (especially a white clay used by potters) | - |
| aumil | 7 | - | - |
| brail | 7 | a small net used to draw fish into a boat | - |
| drail | 6 | - | - |
| droil | 6 | - | - |
| meril | 7 | - | - |
| kevil | 12 | - | - |
| intil | 5 | - | - |
| fuzil | 17 | - | - |
| fusil | 8 | a light flintlock musket | - |
| ervil | 8 | - | - |
6 letter words
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|---|---|---|---|
| detail | 7 | a small part that can be considered separately from the whole | it was perfect in all details |
| brazil | 17 | the largest Latin American country and the largest Portuguese speaking country in the world; located in the central and northeastern part of South America; world's leading coffee exporter | - |
| pencil | 10 | a cosmetic in a long thin stick; designed to be applied to a particular part of the face | an eyebrow pencil |
| fossil | 9 | someone whose style is out of fashion | - |
| fulfil | 12 | fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condtion ro restriction | - |
| retail | 6 | be sold at the retail level | These gems retail at thousands of dollars each |
| weevil | 12 | any of several families of mostly small beetles that feed on plants and plant products; especially snout beetles and seed beetles | - |
| unveil | 9 | make visible | - |
| brasil | 8 | the largest Latin American country and the largest Portuguese speaking country in the world; located in the central and northeastern part of South America; world's leading coffee exporter | - |
| lentil | 6 | widely cultivated Eurasian annual herb grown for its edible flattened seeds that are cooked like peas and also ground into meal and for its leafy stalks that are used as fodder | - |
| recoil | 8 | a movement back from an impact | - |
| gerbil | 9 | small Old World burrowing desert rodent with long soft pale fur and hind legs adapted for leaping | - |
| derail | 7 | run off or leave the rails | the train derailed because a cow was standing on the tracks |
| entail | 6 | have as a logical consequence | - |
| tonsil | 6 | either of two masses of lymphatic tissue one on each side of the oral pharynx | - |
| gentil | 7 | - | - |
| distil | 7 | undergo the process of distillation | - |
| oxtail | 13 | the skinned tail of cattle; used especially for soups | - |
| assail | 6 | attack in speech or writing | - |
| instil | 6 | enter drop by drop | instill medication into my eye |
| abseil | 8 | descend by means of a rappel | You have to learn how to abseil when you want to do technical climbing |
| pistil | 8 | the female ovule-bearing part of a flower composed of ovary and style and stigma | - |
| accoil | 10 | - | - |
| agnail | 7 | a loose narrow strip of skin near the base of a fingernail; tearing it produces a painful sore that is easily infected | - |
| bewail | 11 | regret strongly | - |
| betoil | 8 | - | - |
| bemoil | 10 | - | - |
| benzil | 17 | - | - |
| chesil | 11 | - | - |
| camail | 10 | a medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck | - |
| bulbil | 10 | small bulb or bulb-shaped growth arising from the leaf axil or in the place of flowers | - |
| aumail | 8 | - | - |
| assoil | 6 | pronounce not guilty of criminal charges | - |
| archil | 11 | a purplish dye obtained from orchil lichens | - |
| coutil | 8 | - | - |
| frazil | 18 | - | - |
| fibril | 11 | a very slender natural or synthetic fiber | - |
| entoil | 6 | - | - |
| eassil | 6 | - | - |
| emboil | 10 | - | - |
| embail | 10 | - | - |
| dossil | 7 | - | - |
| deasil | 7 | - | - |
| dentil | 7 | - | - |
| huipil | 11 | - | - |
| orchil | 11 | a purplish dye obtained from orchil lichens | - |
| nitril | 6 | any of a class of organic compounds containing the cyano radical -CN | - |
| mesail | 8 | - | - |
| mezail | 17 | - | - |
| limail | 8 | - | - |
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7 letter words
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| council | 11 | a body serving in an administrative capacity | student council |
| prevail | 12 | prove superior | The champion prevailed, though it was a hard fight |
| abigail | 10 | - | - |
| turmoil | 9 | a violent disturbance | - |
| nostril | 7 | either one of the two external openings to the nasal cavity in the nose | - |
| toenail | 7 | drive obliquely | - |
| utensil | 7 | an implement for practical use (especially in a household) | - |
| tinfoil | 10 | foil made of tin or an alloy of tin and lead | - |
| curtail | 9 | terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent | Personal freedom is curtailed in many countries |
| codicil | 12 | a supplement to a will; a testamentary instrument intended to alter an already executed will | - |
| pigtail | 10 | a plait of braided hair | - |
| topsail | 9 | a sail (or either of a pair of sails) immediately above the lowermost sail of a mast and supported by a topmast | - |
| stencil | 9 | a sheet of material (metal, plastic, cardboard, waxed paper, silk, etc.) that has been perforated with a pattern (printing or a design); ink or paint can pass through the perforations to create the printed pattern on the surface below | - |
| topsoil | 9 | the layer of soil on the surface | - |
| vermeil | 12 | - | - |
| travail | 10 | concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child | - |
| tendril | 8 | slender stem-like structure by which some twining plants attach themselves to an object for support | - |
| subsoil | 9 | the layer of soil between the topsoil and bedrock | - |
| airmail | 9 | a system of conveying mail by aircraft | - |
| surveil | 10 | keep under surveillance | - |
| bobtail | 11 | a short or shortened tail of certain animals | - |
| bedevil | 13 | treat cruelly | - |
| uncivil | 12 | lacking civility or good manners | want nothing from you but to get away from your uncivil tongue |
| corbeil | 11 | - | - |
| imperil | 11 | pose a threat to; present a danger to | - |
| foxtail | 17 | grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes | - |
| chervil | 15 | aromatic annual Old World herb cultivated for its finely divided and often curly leaves for use especially in soups and salads | - |
| wassail | 10 | celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities | - |
| wagtail | 11 | Old World bird having a very long tail that jerks up and down as it walks | - |
| entrail | 7 | - | - |
| engrail | 8 | - | - |
| embroil | 11 | force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action | - |
| dysodil | 12 | - | - |
| domicil | 12 | - | - |
| despoil | 10 | destroy and strip of its possession | - |
| deasoil | 8 | - | - |
| conseil | 9 | - | - |
| outsail | 7 | sail faster or better than | They outsailed the Roman fleet |
| reavail | 10 | - | - |
| rattail | 7 | deep-sea fish with a large head and body and long tapering tail | - |
| redtail | 8 | European songbird with a reddish breast and tail; related to Old World robins | - |
| potboil | 11 | - | - |
| preboil | 11 | - | - |
| pintail | 9 | long-necked river duck of the Old and New Worlds having elongated central tail feathers | - |
| penicil | 11 | - | - |
| pasquil | 18 | - | - |
| pedrail | 10 | - | - |
| oxyphil | 22 | - | - |
| parboil | 11 | cook (vegetables) briefly | - |
| jeofail | 17 | - | - |
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8 letter words
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| cocktail | 16 | an appetizer served as a first course at a meal | - |
| ponytail | 13 | a hair style that draws the hair back so that it hangs down in back of the head like a pony's tail | - |
| tranquil | 17 | (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves | a lake of tranquil blue water reflecting a tranquil blue sky |
| doornail | 9 | a nail with a large head; formerly used to decorate doors | - |
| ringtail | 9 | North American raccoon | - |
| handrail | 12 | a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | - |
| mainsail | 10 | the lowermost sail on the mainmast | - |
| monorail | 10 | a railway having a single track | - |
| hightail | 15 | retreat at full speed | - |
| daffodil | 16 | any of numerous varieties of Narcissus plants having showy often yellow flowers with a trumpet-shaped central crown | - |
| hangnail | 12 | a loose narrow strip of skin near the base of a fingernail; tearing it produces a painful sore that is easily infected | - |
| fishtail | 14 | slow down by moving the tail sideways | The airplane fishtailed on the runway |
| dovetail | 12 | a mortise joint formed by interlocking tenons and mortises | - |
| foresail | 11 | the lowest sail on the foremast of a square-rigged vessel | - |
| parasail | 10 | parachute that will lift a person up into the air when it is towed by a motorboat or a car | - |
| staysail | 11 | a fore-and-aft sail set on a stay (as between two masts) | - |
| hardtail | 12 | - | - |
| dogstail | 10 | - | - |
| plowtail | 13 | - | - |
| sangrail | 9 | - | - |
| langspil | 11 | - | - |
| coystril | 13 | - | - |
| contrail | 10 | an artificial cloud created by an aircraft; caused either by condensation due to the reduction in air pressure above the wing surface or by water vapor in the engine exhaust | - |
| coistril | 10 | - | - |
| coattail | 10 | the loose back flap of a coat that hangs below the waist | - |
| cheveril | 16 | - | - |
| outcavil | 13 | - | - |
| outpupil | 12 | - | - |
| oenophil | 13 | - | - |
| neuropil | 10 | the complex network of unmyelinated axones, dendrites, and glial branches that form the bulk of the central nervous system's grey matter and in which nerve cell bodies are embedded | - |
| motorail | 10 | - | - |
| multifil | 13 | - | - |
| mofussil | 13 | - | - |
| mocktail | 16 | - | - |
| moonsail | 10 | - | - |
| milltail | 10 | - | - |
| goldtail | 10 | - | - |
| landrail | 9 | - | - |
| horntail | 11 | - | - |
| headsail | 12 | any sail set forward of the foremast of a vessel | - |
| headrail | 12 | - | - |
| hexafoil | 21 | - | - |
| gumbotil | 13 | - | - |
| hairtail | 11 | long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth; closely related to snake mackerel | - |
| graymail | 14 | - | - |
| distrail | 9 | - | - |
| gaffsail | 15 | a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail suspended from a gaff | - |
| forktail | 15 | - | - |
| fauteuil | 11 | an upholstered armchair | - |
| facemail | 15 | - | - |
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9 letter words
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| blackmail | 19 | exert pressure on someone through threats | - |
| voicemail | 16 | a computerized system for answering and routing telephone calls; telephone messages can be recorded and stored and relayed | - |
| daredevil | 14 | presumptuously daring | a daredevil test pilot having the right stuff |
| thumbnail | 16 | the nail of the thumb | - |
| guardrail | 11 | a railing placed alongside a stairway or road for safety | - |
| horsetail | 12 | perennial rushlike flowerless herbs with jointed hollow stems and narrow toothlike leaves that spread by creeping rhizomes; tend to become weedy; common in northern hemisphere; some in Africa and South America | - |
| hydrofoil | 19 | a speedboat that is equipped with winglike structures that lift it so that it skims the water at high speeds | - |
| chemtrail | 16 | - | - |
| browntail | 14 | small brown and white European moth introduced into eastern United States; pest of various shade and fruit trees | - |
| donepezil | 21 | - | - |
| swingtail | 13 | - | - |
| tadalafil | 13 | virility drug (trade name Cialis) used to treat erectile dysfunction in men | - |
| thorntail | 12 | - | - |
| sharptail | 14 | - | - |
| modafinil | 15 | - | - |
| lunchpail | 16 | - | - |
| acidophil | 17 | an organism that thrives in a relatively acid environment | - |
| anglophil | 15 | an admirer of England and things English | - |
| arctophil | 16 | - | - |
| audiophil | 15 | - | - |
| checkrail | 20 | - | - |
| chokecoil | 20 | - | - |
| charbroil | 16 | - | - |
| captopril | 15 | a drug (trade name Capoten) that blocks the formation of angiotensin in the kidneys resulting in vasodilation; used in the treatment of hypertension and congestive heart failure | - |
| caprifoil | 16 | - | - |
| broadtail | 12 | hardy coarse-haired sheep of central Asia; lambs are valued for their soft curly black fur | - |
| blacktail | 17 | mule deer of western Rocky Mountains | - |
| envermeil | 14 | - | - |
| enalapril | 11 | an ACE inhibitor (trade name Vasotec) that blocks the formation of angiotensin in the kidney and so results in vasodilation; administered after heart attacks | - |
| harestail | 12 | - | - |
| greenmail | 12 | (corporation) the practice of purchasing enough shares in a firm to threaten a takeover and thereby forcing the owners to buy those shares back at a premium in order to stay in business | - |
| eightfoil | 16 | - | - |
| disentail | 10 | - | - |
| courbaril | 13 | West Indian locust tree having pinnate leaves and panicles of large white or purplish flowers; yields very hard tough wood | - |
| interrail | 9 | - | - |
| hygrophil | 21 | - | - |
| photophil | 19 | - | - |
| supercoil | 13 | - | - |
| swordtail | 13 | freshwater fish of Central America having a long swordlike tail; popular aquarium fish | - |
| verapamil | 16 | a drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine | - |
| undersoil | 10 | the layer of soil between the topsoil and bedrock | - |
| tormentil | 11 | - | - |
| subfossil | 14 | - | - |
| sprigtail | 12 | large grouse of prairies and open forests of western North America | - |
| spritsail | 11 | a fore-and-aft sail extended by a sprit | - |
| slavophil | 17 | - | - |
| shirttail | 12 | a brief addendum at the end of a newspaper article | - |
| shavetail | 15 | - | - |
| scotophil | 16 | - | - |
| scaletail | 11 | - | - |
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10 letter words
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| fingernail | 14 | the nail at the end of a finger | - |
| yellowtail | 16 | superior food fish of the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean with broad yellow stripe along the sides and on the tail | - |
| cottontail | 12 | common small rabbit of North America having greyish or brownish fur and a tail with a white underside; a host for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks) | - |
| francophil | 20 | an admirer of France and everything French | - |
| eosinophil | 15 | a leukocyte readily stained with eosin | - |
| disentrail | 11 | - | - |
| disembroil | 15 | free from involvement or entanglement | - |
| neutrophil | 15 | the chief phagocytic leukocyte; stains with either basic or acid dyes | - |
| springtail | 13 | any of numerous minute wingless primitive insects possessing a special abdominal appendage that allows the characteristic nearly perpetual springing pattern; found in soil rich in organic debris or on the surface of snow or water | - |
| silvertail | 13 | - | - |
| quatrefoil | 22 | - | - |
| psammophil | 21 | - | - |
| ploughtail | 16 | - | - |
| whereuntil | 16 | - | - |
| untranquil | 19 | - | - |
| thermophil | 20 | - | - |
| thiouracil | 15 | depresses the function of the thyroid gland | - |
| tripletail | 12 | large food fish of warm waters worldwide having long anal and dorsal fins that with a caudal fin suggest a three-lobed tail | - |
| heterophil | 18 | - | - |
| bibliophil | 19 | - | - |
| breastrail | 12 | - | - |
| cinquefoil | 24 | any of a numerous plants grown for their five-petaled flowers; abundant in temperate regions; alleged to have medicinal properties | - |
| chromophil | 22 | - | - |
| sildenafil | 14 | virility drug (trade name Viagra) used to treat erectile dysfunction in men | - |
| overfulfil | 19 | - | - |
| beavertail | 15 | - | - |
