| BASTILE | • bastile n. Obsolete form of bastille. • BASTILE n. a tower or an elevated work, used for the defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place, also BASTILLE. |
| CENTILE | • centile n. Clipping of percentile. • CENTILE n. a value of a statistical variable. |
| COCTILE | • coctile adj. Made by baking, or exposure to heat. • coctile adj. Built of baked bricks. • COCTILE adj. baked, hardened by fire. |
| CORTILE | • cortile n. (Architecture) An internal courtyard, surrounded by walls but open to the sky. • CORTILE n. (Italian) an enclosed, usually roofless courtyard. |
| DUCTILE | • ductile adj. Capable of being pulled or stretched into thin wire by mechanical force without breaking. • ductile adj. Molded easily into a new form. • ductile adj. (Rare) Led easily; prone to follow. |
| FERTILE | • fertile adj. Of land, etc.: capable of growing abundant crops; productive. • fertile adj. (Figuratively) Of one’s imagination, etc.: active, productive, prolific. • fertile adj. (Biology). |
| FICTILE | • fictile adj. Capable of being molded into the shape of an artifact or art work. • fictile adj. (Of an art work or artifact) Molded of clay or earth. • fictile adj. (Pottery) Of or relating to earthenware. |
| GENTILE | • gentile adj. Non-Jewish. • gentile adj. Heathen, pagan. • gentile adj. (Mormonism) Non-Mormon. |
| HOSTILE | • hostile adj. Not friendly; appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence… • hostile adj. Aggressive; antagonistic. • hostile adj. Unwilling. |
| INUTILE | • inutile adj. (Obsolete) useless; unprofitable. • INUTILE adj. useless; unprofitable. |
| PANTILE | • pantile n. A type of interlocking roof tile with a rounded under and over, giving it an elongated S shape. • pantile n. (Obsolete, slang) A hat. • pantile n. (Obsolete) A flat jam-covered cake. |
| PONTILE | • pontile adj. (Anatomy) Of or relating to the pons. • PONTILE n. an iron rod used in holding and manipulating glassware during manufacture, also PONTIE, PONTIL, PONTY, PUNTEE, PUNTY. |
| REPTILE | • reptile n. A cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia; an amniote that is neither a synapsid nor a bird. • reptile n. (Figuratively) A mean or grovelling person. • reptile adj. Creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs. |
| SECTILE | • sectile adj. Capable of being cut. • sectile adj. Having the appearance of being divided. • SECTILE adj. capable of being cut smoothly. |
| SEXTILE | • sextile adj. (Astronomy, astrology) Of or denoting the aspect or position of any two celestial bodies separated by 60°. • sextile n. (Statistics) A quantile of six equal proportions; any of the subsets thus obtained. • sextile n. A segment that is a sixth of the whole. |
| SUBTILE | • subtile adj. (Obsolete) subtle. • SUBTILE adj. (archaic) subtle, delicate, also SUBTIL, SUBTLE. |
| TACTILE | • tactile adj. Tangible; perceptible to the sense of touch. • tactile adj. Used for feeling. • tactile adj. Of or relating to the sense of touch. |
| TEXTILE | • textile n. (Usually in the plural) Any material made of interlacing fibres, including carpeting and geotextiles. • textile n. (Naturism) A non-nudist. • textile adj. (Naturism) Clothing compulsive. |
| TORTILE | • tortile adj. (Rare) Twisted, winding, contorted. • TORTILE adj. twisted. |