Phrase Hound found 3 phrases and 35 compound words that contain sill. The most common are listed below. Open sill in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 3
- window sillAlternative spelling of windowsill: The horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame.
- cross-sillA railroad sleeper lying under the rails transversely as a support to the stringer.
- trip sillA timber placed across the bottom of the sluiceway in a splash dam, against which rest the planks by which the dam is closed.
Compound words 35
- groundselAny of several widely-distributed plants, of the genus Senecio, having yellow, daisylike flowers.
- doorsillThe horizontal piece of material at the threshold of a doorway; a doorstep.
- lugsillA window sill that extends beyond the width of the window opening, with its ends built into the wall at the jambs.
- sillcockA faucet designed to be installed horizontally on the outside wall of a building, typically to attach a garden hose.
- undersillBeneath a sill.
- groundsillA timber beam used as the foundation for a building.
- portsillA horizontal wooden member that forms the sill of a gunport.
- sillockA pollock or a coalfish, sometimes especially a young coalfish.
- skysillHorizon.
- windowsillThe horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame.