| BILE | • bile n. A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder… • bile n. Bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility. • bile n. Two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology. |
| FILE | • file n. A collection of papers collated and archived together. • file n. A roll or list. • file n. Course of thought; thread of narration. |
| ILEA | • ilea n. Plural of ileum (Compare ilia). • ILEUM n. (Latin) a part of the small intestine. |
| ILEX | • ilex n. Holm oak (Quercus ilex). • ilex n. Any of the numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Ilex. • Ilex prop.n. A taxonomic genus within the family Aquifoliaceae – the hollies. |
| MILE | • mile n. The international mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers established by treaty… • mile n. Any of several customary units of length derived from the 1593 English statute mile of 8 furlongs, equivalent… • mile n. Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet. |
| PILE | • pile n. A mass of things heaped together; a heap. • pile n. (Informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process. • pile n. A mass formed in layers. |
| RILE | • rile v. To stir or move from a state of calm or order. • rile v. (In particular) To make angry. • RILE v. to anger. |
| SILE | • sile n. (Now chiefly dialectal) A column; pillar. • sile n. (Now chiefly dialectal) A beam; rafter; one of the principal rafters of a building. • sile n. (Now chiefly dialectal) The foot or lower part of a couple or rafter; base. |
| TILE | • tile n. A regularly-shaped slab of clay or other material, affixed to cover or decorate a surface, as in a roof-tile… • tile n. (Computing) A rectangular graphic. • tile n. Any of various flat cuboid playing pieces used in certain games, such as dominoes, Scrabble, or mahjong. |
| VILE | • vile adj. Morally low; base; despicable. • vile adj. Causing physical or mental repulsion; horrid. • VILE adj. odious. |
| WILE | • wile n. (Usually in the plural) A trick or stratagem practiced for ensnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice. • wile v. (Transitive) To entice or lure. • wile v. Misspelling of while (“to pass the time”). |