NILL

Definitions: NILL

NILL

Intransitive verb

1. To be unwilling; to refuse to act.

Noun

1. Scales of hot iron from the forge.

2. Shining sparks thrown off from melted brass.

Transitive verb

1. Not to will; to refuse; to reject.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "NILL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Refusal

Verb: refuse, reject, deny, decline, turn down; nill, negative; refuse one's assent, withhold one's assent; shake the head; close the hand, close the purse; grudge, begrudge, be slow to, hang fire; pass.

Unwillingness

Verb: be unwilling; Adjective: nill; dislike; grudge, begrudge; not be able to find it in one's heart to, not have the stomach to.

Crosswords: NILL

Expressions using "NILL": will he nill he ♦ will I nill I. Additional references.

Ukranian 

спростовувати (confute, demolish, deny, disapprove, disprove, negate, negative, overturn, rebut, refute, repulse), відмовлятися (abdicate, abjure, abnegate, back down, backtrack, cast off, discard, forgo, forsake, forswear, jettison, lay aside, lay down, part with, pass up, pretext, recede, refuse, relinquish, renounce, repeal, retract, throw aside, throw out, throw over, waive, withdraw), не хотіти, не бажати, заперечувати (abnegate, answer, answer back, challenge, contradict, contravene, demur, deny, disaffirm, disallow, disavow, disclaim, disown, expostulate, forbid, gainsay, impugn, mind, negative, object, oppugn, rejoin, talk back). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "NILL": nilled, nilling, nills. (additional references)

Words containing "NILL": chenille, chenilles, manilla, manillas, manille, manilles, nonillion, nonillions, tornillo, tornillos, unilluminating, unillusioned, vanilla, vanillas, vanillic, vanillin, vanillins. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ill, lin, nil.

-2 letters: in, li.

+1 letter: nills.

+2 letters: billon, clinal, infall, inwall, lentil, lienal, lineal, lintel, lintol, nellie, nielli, niello, nilled.

+3 letters: ainsell, albinal, alienly, alkalin, allicin, allying, ancilla, anthill, balling, belling, billing, billion, billons, blindly, bolling, bulling, bullion, calling, celling, collins, culling, cullion, dolling, dulling, falling, felling, filling, finally, fulling, gallein, galling, gelling, gilling, gillnet, gingall, gulling, helling, hellion, hilling, hulling, illness, indwell, infalls, inkwell, install, instill, inwalls, jelling, jillion, jingall, killing, ladling, lalling, laminal, lanital, lankily, lanolin, lentils, levulin, lilting, liminal, linable, linalol, lingual, lintels, lintols, lolling, lulling, luminal, lupulin, lyingly, malling, manilla, manille, manlily, melling, milline, milling, million, millrun, mullein, mulling, mullion, nellies, niellos, nilling, nucelli, nullify, nulling, nullity, palling, pilling, pillion, pinball, plainly, polling, pulling, ralline, rilling, rolling, selling, telling, tilling, tolling, vanilla, villain, villein, walling, welling, willing, yelling, zillion.

+4 letters: ainsells, alkaline, allanite, allaying, alleging, allergin, alliance, allicins, allowing, alloying, alluding, alluring, allusion, alluvion, alpinely, ancillae, ancillas, animally, anthills, antipill, antiroll, anvilled, balkline, bellying, beltline, billings, billions, billycan, blueline, bouillon, bulletin, bullions, bullring, bullying, callings, canaille, carillon, chenille, chilling, cliental, clinally, clinical, collying, colonial, cotillon, cullions, cullying, dallying, dialling, dollying, downhill, drilling, drolling, duelling, dunghill, dwelling, felinely, fellahin, fillings, filmland, flailing, flatline, flatling, flintily, frilling, fuelling, galleins, gallican, gallying, ganglial, genially, gillnets, gillying, gingalls, gingelli, gingelly, gingilli, glenlike, globulin, glutelin, grilling, gullying, halloing, handbill, hellions, helloing, hilloing, hollaing, holloing, hornbill, hulloing, illation, illinium, illumine, illuming, illusion, indwells, inkwells, inscroll, installs, instills, inthrall, inwalled, jellying, jillions, jingalls, jollying, kallidin, killings, knelling, knolling, labeling, landfill, landline, landslid, landslip, lanitals, lanoline, lanolins, lenticel, leveling, levulins, libelant, libeling, lienable, lifeline, lifelong, limekiln, linalols, linalool, lineable, lineally, linearly, lineless, linelike, linguals, linkable, linoleum, lintless, lionlike, livelong, livingly, lobeline, lonelier, lonelily, longline, lordling, losingly, lovingly, lupulins, luteolin, malignly, mandrill, manillas, manilles, mantilla, menially, milliner, millines, millings, millions, millpond, millruns, minimill, monellin, mulleins, mulligan, mullions, nailfold, nauplial, niellist, nielloed, nucleoli, papillon, pavillon, pillions, pinballs, pliantly, plotline, plyingly, pollinia, pollinic, prilling, pulingly, quelling, quilling, quinella, rainfall, rallying, rollings, sallying, scallion, sculling, scullion, senilely, sensilla, shelling, shilling, signally, silently, sinfully, skilling, slangily, slinkily, smelling, snelling, spalling, spelling, spilling, spinally, spinelle, splenial, stalling, stallion, stilling, stillman, stillmen, sulfinyl, sullying, swelling, swilling, tallying, tefillin, tenaille, tinselly, tornillo, trilling, trillion, trolling, twilling, unallied, unbilled, uncially, unfilial, unfilled, unholily, unialgal, unlikely, unlively, unmilled, untilled, unwilled, vanillas, vanillic, vanillin, venially, vialling, villains, villainy, villeins, vitellin, wildland, wildling, willying, windfall, windgall, windmill, zillions.

+5 letters: alienable, allanites, allantoic, allantoin, allantois, allegiant, allergins, allethrin, alliances, allogenic, allotting, allusions, alluvions, altiplano, ancillary, andouille, angelical, annulling, antically, anvilling, appalling, balklines, ballerina, balloting, ballpoint, befalling, begalling, bellowing, beltlines, bevelling, bilingual, billabong, billeting, billionth, billowing, billycans, blazingly, blindfold, bloodline, bluelines, bollixing, bolloxing, botulinal, bouillons, bowelling, brailling, brilliant, bulleting, bulletins, bullfinch, bullrings, caballing, callusing, canailles, canalling, candlelit, carillons, carolling, cavilling, cellaring, celloidin, chenilles, chilblain, chillness, cleanlier, clientele, cloyingly, collaging, collaring, collating, collation, collegian, colleting, colliding, collinear, collinses, collision, collodion, colluding, collusion, colonials, conically, coralline, cotillion, cotillons, covelline, cranially, cupelling, cynically, dalliance, darlingly, decillion, devilling, diallings, diurnally, dolloping, dowelling, downhills, drillings, dunghills, dwellings, ebullient, emollient, enrolling, equalling, excelling, expelling, extolling, failingly, fallowing, feelingly, fellating, fellation, fellowing, filleting, filliping, filmlands, finically, flagellin, flamingly, flaringly, flatlined, flatliner, flatlines, flatlings, fledgling, flintlike, flintlock, flowingly, fluxional, following, frillings, fullering, gainfully, galenical, galingale, gallamine, galleting, gallingly, gallinule, gallivant, galloping, gavelling, gazillion, geminally, genically, genitally, gingellis, gingillis, glaringly, globulins, glowingly, glutelins, gruelling, halloaing, hallooing, hallowing, halocline, haltingly, handbills, hellenize, hilloaing, hollering, holloaing, hollooing, hollowing, hornbills, hovelling, howlingly, hulloaing, illations, illiniums, illnesses, illumined, illumines, illusions, impelling, indelible, indelibly, indweller, infalling, initially, inscrolls, insoluble, insolubly, installed, installer, instilled, instiller, insularly, intellect, intercell, intertill, inthralls, invalidly, inwalling, jewelling, jolliness, kallidins, killingly, labelling, landfills, landlines, landsleit, landslide, landslips, languidly, lanolines, lastingly, laureling, leeringly, lemniscal, lengthily, leniently, lenticels, lenticule, levelling, libelants, libellant, libelling, libidinal, lifelines, lilangeni, liltingly, limekilns, limnology, linalools, lineality, linerless, lingually, linoleate, linoleums, lobelines, loincloth, lolloping, loneliest, longingly, longlines, lordlings, lowliness, lunisolar, luteolins, mandrills, manically, mantillas, medaillon, medalling, medallion, mellowing, meltingly, metalling, millenary, millennia, milliners, millinery, millionth, millponds, millstone, mindfully, minimally, minimills, misenroll, modelling, modillion, moilingly, monellins, mulligans, mullioned, multilane, multiline, nailfolds, nickelled, niellists, nielloing, nightfall, nominally, nonillion, nonlineal, nullified, nullifier, nullifies, nullities, octillion, ontically, oxacillin, painfully, panelling, papillons, pavillons, pedalling, pellagrin, pelleting, pencilled, perilling, pillaging, pillaring, pillowing, plaintful, plantlike, plentiful, plotlines, pointelle, pollening, pollinate, pollinium, polluting, pollution, polyvinyl, quillings, quinellas, rainfalls, rallyings, ravelling, rebelling, rebellion, rebilling, recalling, refalling, refelling, refilling, reinstall, reliantly, repelling, repolling, rerolling, reselling, retelling, revelling, rivalling, rowelling, sailplane, saliently, sallowing, scallions, schilling, scintilla, scrolling, scullions, scungilli, seminally, sensillae, sensillum, shillings, shrilling, sibylline, signalled, signaller, silkaline, silkoline, silliness, sinlessly, skillings, slaloming, smilingly, snaillike, snivelled, sonically, spellbind, spellings, spillikin, spinelles, spoonbill, squalling, stallions, stillborn, stillness, strolling, sulfinyls, swellings, synclinal, tailplane, tallaging, tallowing, tellingly, tellurian, tenailles, thralling, thrilling, tillering, tillerman, tillermen, tinselled, tonically, tonsillar, tornillos, totalling, towelling, trillions, trollings, trollying, twillings, ululating, ululation, uncivilly, undrilled, unilineal, unlikable, unlivable, unluckily, unlyrical, unrolling, unselling, unskilled, unsullied, unwilling, upwelling, vaginally, valiantly, vanillins, villenage, violently, vitelline, vitellins, volleying, walloping, wallowing, wildlands, wildlings, willinger, willingly, willowing, windchill, windfalls, windgalls, windmills, worldling, yellowfin, yellowing, yodelling, zibelline, zillionth.

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