Pill in Scrabble and Meaning

• Finder
• Unscrambler
• Dictionary

Valid words made from Pill

Jump to...

• 4 letter words
• 3 letter words
• 2 letter words

Results

4-letter words (1 found)

3-letter words (2 found)

2-letter words (2 found)

You can make 5 words from pill according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of pill

pill ipll plil lpil ilpl lipl pill ipll plil lpil ilpl lipl plli lpli plli lpli llpi llpi illp lilp illp lilp llip llip

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word pill. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in pill.

Definitions and meaning of pill

pill

Pronunciation

• enPR: pĭl, IPA^(key): /pɪl/, [pʰɪɫ]
• Rhymes: -ɪl

Etymology 1

• From Middle English pille (also pillem), a borrowing from Middle Low German pille or Middle Dutch pille (whence Dutch pil), probably from Latin pila, pilula.
• (persuade or convince): Generalized from red pill.

Noun

pill (plural pills)

2. (broadly) A small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.

   Hyponyms: tablet, caplet, capsule, lozenge

   2. (strictly) Such an object that is of solid constitution (usually of compressed, bonded powder) rather than a capsule (with a shell containing loose powder or liquid).

      Hyponyms: tablet, caplet, lozenge

      Coordinate term: capsule

4. (informal, uncountable, definite, i.e. used with "the") Contraceptive medication, usually in the form of a pill to be taken by a woman; an oral contraceptive pill.
5. Something offensive, unpleasant or nauseous which must be accepted or endured.
   • 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, III [Uniform ed., p. 45]:

     "It's a sad unpalatable truth," said Mr. Pembroke, thinking that the despondency might be personal, "but one must accept it. My sister and Gerald, I am thankful to say, have accepted it, so naturally it has been a little pill."

6. (slang) A contemptible, annoying, or unpleasant person.
7. (slang) A comical or entertaining person.
8. (textile) A small piece of any substance, for example a ball of fibres formed on the surface of a textile fabric by rubbing. Colloquially known as a bobble, fuzzball, or lint ball.
9. (baseball slang) A baseball.
10. (firearms, slang) A bullet (projectile).
11. (graphical user interface) A rounded rectangle containing a brief text caption indicating the tag or category that an item belongs to.

Usage notes

The word pill referring to a swallowable unit conveying a dose of medication is polysemic in that it has a broad sense and a narrower sense: broadly, it means any such object, including any tablet or capsule, whereas narrowly, it means a tablet (including the caplet type of tablet) but not a capsule. But the broad sense of the word is widely used in general vocabulary, and also in the medical and nursing literature; linguistically this is predictably inevitable, because natural language has a practical need for a simple hypernym that intuitively covers all such oral dosage forms, and the word pill provides one by long-established idiomatic convention, with no alternative synonym that is thus established. Thus, trying to enforce a usage prescription that insists that the word must never be used in its broad sense is counterproductive to clear and concise communication. This is why some publications' style sheets specify that the words tablet, caplet, and capsule will be used wherever technical precision is needed and that the word pill will be reserved for contexts where the technical precision is irrelevant because the hypernymic concept is clearly meant, as for example in an instruction to ask the patient whether they remember taking all their pills this morning.

Synonyms

• (small object for swallowing): tablet
• (bullet): cap

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

pill (third-person singular simple present pills, present participle pilling, simple past and past participle pilled)

1. (intransitive, textiles) Of a woven fabric surface, to form small matted balls of fiber.
2. To form into the shape of a pill.

   Pilling is a skill rarely used by modern pharmacists.

3. (transitive) To medicate with pills; to administer pills to.

   She pills herself with all sorts of herbal medicines.

   Pilling the cat is such a nightmare.

4. (transitive, Internet slang) To persuade or convince someone of something.
5. (transitive, UK, slang, dated) To blackball (a potential club member).

Translations

References

• (blackball): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Etymology 2

From Latin pilō (“depilate”), from pilus (“hair”). Doublet of peel.

Verb

pill (third-person singular simple present pills, present participle pilling, simple past and past participle pilled)

1. (obsolete) To peel; to remove the outer layer of hair, skin, or bark.
2. To peel; to make by removing the skin.
3. To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.
4. (obsolete) To pillage; to despoil or impoverish.

Noun

pill (plural pills)

1. (obsolete) The peel or skin.

Etymology 3

From Middle English *pill, *pyll, from Old English pyll (“a pool, pill”), from Proto-Germanic *pullijaz (“small pool, ditch, creek”), diminutive of Proto-Germanic *pullaz (“pool, stream”), from Proto-Indo-European *bl̥nos (“bog, marsh”). Cognate with Old English pull (“pool, creek”), Scots poll (“slow moving stream, creek, inlet”), Icelandic pollur (“pond, pool, puddle”). More at pool.

Noun

pill (plural pills)

2. (now UK regional) An inlet on the coast; a small tidal pool or bay.

Albanian

Etymology

A form of pidh from Proto-Albanian *pizda, from Proto-Indo-European *písdeh₂ (“pudenda”). Cognate to Lithuanian pyzdà (“pudenda”) and Russian пизда (pizda, “pudenda”)

Noun

pill

1. vagina
2. cunt (vulgar)

Synonyms

• pidh

Estonian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *pilli.

Noun

pill (genitive pilli, partitive pilli)

1. (music) instrument

Declension

Synonyms

• muusikariist

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Pille.

Noun

pill (genitive pilli, partitive pilli)

1. (medicine) pill

Declension

Synonyms

• tablett

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /pʲiːlʲ/
• (Galway) IPA^(key): /pʲiːl̠ʲ/
• (Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /pʲɪl̠ʲ/

Etymology 1

Through reinterpretation of /fʲ/ as the lenition of /pʲ/.

Verb

pill (present analytic pilleann, future analytic pillfidh, verbal noun pilleadh, past participle pillte)

1. Ulster form of fill (“return”)

Conjugation

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

pill

1. inflection of peall:
   1. vocative/genitive singular
   2. nominative/dative plural

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

pill m

1. genitive singular of peall

Mutation

Swedish

Noun

pill n

1. (colloquial) finicky or fiddly activity

Usage notes

Could be translated as "finickness" or "finick" (finicky activity) if any of those were used in English. See pilla for intuition.

Declension

Related terms

• pilla
• pillig (“finicky, fiddly”)

References

• pill in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• pill in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• pill in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)