CHILLS

"CHILLS" is a plural of: chill.

Date "CHILLS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Medicine

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Crosswords: CHILLS

I got chills! What side of whose bed did you wake up on? (The Mask; writing credit: Michael Fallon; Mark Verheiden)

Brush up against me i get chills all down my spine (Sexual (Li Da Di); performing artist: Amber)

The chills that you spill up my back (Groove Is in the Heart; performing artist: Deee-Lite)

Catch the breeze and the winter chills (Vincent; performing artist: Don McLean)

I get the chills up and down my spine (Play; performing artist: Jennifer Lopez)

I keep getting chills (Straight Up; performing artist: Paula Abdul)

She has no rigors or shaking chills, but her husband states she was very hot in bed last night. (references; author: unknown)

Hot Thrills and Warm Chills (1967)

Spills and Chills (1949)

Thrills and Chills (1938)

Chili and Chills (1932)

Chills and Chickens (1915)

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Books

• Chills, Thrills, and Spills: Sid's Subzero Survival Skills (Ice Age) (reference)

• Dynamic Yoga: The Ultimate Workout That Chills Your Mind As It Changes Your Body (reference)

• Night Chills (reference)

• Scooby-Doo! Jingle Chills with Sticker (reference)

• Stephen King: Stories That Thrill, and a Novel That Chills...from Stephen King: Four Past Midnight/Needful Things (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Gravity Games - Winter One (Skiing, Snowboarding, Chills & Spills) (reference)

• Knight Chills (reference)

• Thomas and Friends - Spills and Chills and Other Thomas Thrills (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Thrills & Chills (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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After the incubation period of 2-6 days, symptoms of the plague appear including severe malaise, headache, shaking chills, fever, and pain and swelling, or adenopathy, in the affected regional lymph nodes, also known as buboes. Credit: CDC.

The symptoms associated with cellulitis can evolve and worsen due to systemic bacterial migration via the bloodstream, and include fever, malaise, and chills. Credit: CDC.

This specimen was from a patient who died of Leptospirosis, a disease with symptoms including high fever, severe headache, chills, muscle aches, and vomiting, and may include jaundice (yellow skin and eyes), red eyes, abdominal pain, diarrhea, or a rash. Credit: CDC.

Chills and fever. Credit: Library of Congress.

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It is an enthusiastic family, but subject to chills.

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Health

Chills, especially shaking chills. (references)

In humans, fever, chills, headache, muscle aches, and a dry cough. (references)

Along with chills, the patient is likely to have headache, nausea, and vomiting. (references)

Economic History

Vietnam

Restrictions on economic activity following reunification in 1975 and the subsequent but unrelated general deterioration in Vietnamese-Chinese relations sent chills through the Chinese-Vietnamese community. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "CHILLS": chills and fever ♦ give the chills ♦ zinc chills ♦ zinc oxide chills. Additional references.

Ending with "CHILLS": air-chills.

Arabic 

‏أثار القشعريرة (give the chills, give the willies). (various references)

Czech

dìsit (give the chills). (various references)

Danish

kuldegysning (shivering). (various references)

Dutch

zinkkoorts (zinc ague, zinc chills, zinc disease, zinc fever, zinc fume fever, zinc oxide chills, zinc shakes). (various references)

Finnish

sinkkikuume (zinc ague, zinc chills, zinc disease, zinc fever, zinc fume fever, zinc oxide chills, zinc shakes). (various references)

French

frissons. (various references)

German

kühlt ab (cooler). (various references)

Greek 

πυρετός από εισπνοή ατμών ψευδαργύρου (zinc ague, zinc chills, zinc disease, zinc fever, zinc fume fever, zinc oxide chills, zinc shakes). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�'רום צמרמורת (give one the creeps, give the chills). (various references)

Hungarian

megdermeszt (benumb, give the chills, numb, to benumb, to chill, to congeal, to curdle, to numb, to petrify, to stupefy). (various references)

Italian

tremito di freddo (shivering), brivido di freddo (shivering). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

冷え腹 (abdominal chills, diarrhea). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひえばら (abdominal chills, diarrhea). (various references)

Pig Latin

illschay

Portuguese

arrepios (shivering). (various references)

Russian 

малярия (ague, agues, chills and fever, malaria, swamp fever, tertian), леденить кровь (curdle the blood, give the chills), пугать (affright, alarm, appal, dismay, frighten, give the chills, intimidate, scare, scares, scaring). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zaplašiti (cow, daunt, get the wind up, give the chills, intimidate, scare). (various references)

Spanish

escalofri/os. (various references)

Swedish

zinkfrossa (zinc ague, zinc chills, zinc disease, zinc fever, zinc fume fever, zinc oxide chills, zinc shakes). (various references)

Turkish

soğukluk getirmek (cast a chill upon, give the chills). (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "CHILLS": overchills, prechills, windchills. (additional references)

Misspellings

"CHILLS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cailles, Chaillu, chall, challa, cheles, chella, Chelles, chelms, Chicles, chiels, Chiklis, chil, chiles, chilils, chilis, chilla, chille, chillest, chillis, chilm, chilt, chiol, chol-su, chrill, chull, Cilss, coilles, Echelles, ghylls. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: chill, hills, shill.

-2 letters: chis, hill, ichs, ills, lich, sill.

-3 letters: chi, cis, hic, his, ich, ill, lis, sic.

-4 letters: hi, is, li, sh, si.

+1 letter: challis.

+2 letters: challies, chillers, chillest, chillies, chillums, hillocks, schiller.

+3 letters: achilleas, challises, chenilles, childless, chilliest, chillness, chiselled, chiseller, coltishly, cultishly, hillcrest, oilcloths, prechills, sailcloth, schillers, schilling, schlemiel, slouchily.

+4 letters: alcoholics, alcoholism, chilblains, childishly, childliest, chilliness, chisellers, chiselling, churlishly, clannishly, cliquishly, clownishly, echolalias, guilloches, haloclines, hellacious, hillcrests, laccoliths, loincloths, overchills, phallicism, physically, sailcloths, schillings, schlemiels, schoolgirl, ticklishly, windchills.