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Double L Vocabulary Words

Based on the definitions, guess these words that contain LL.
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Last updated: August 28, 2015
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First submittedMarch 23, 2010
Times taken40,705
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Definition
Word
It's bigger than an alpaca
Llama
1,000 years
Millennium
Artistic writing
Calligraphy
Beheading instrument
Guillotine
Incapable of error; like the Pope
Infallible
Brooding or sulky
Sullen
Jewish bread, eaten on the Sabbath
Challah
Unable to read or write
Illiterate
Feather used a writing implement
Quill
To concentrate alcohol
Distill
It's bigger than a viola
Cello
Definition
Word
Metal that is a combination of two elements
Alloy
Variety act popular around 1900
Vaudeville
One million millions
Trillion
Kitchen on a ship
Galley
Farmland that is left unseeded is …
Fallow
Mosque leader
Mullah
Smaller relative of the kangaroo
Wallaby
Fastest gait of a horse
Gallop
Type of ship found in the Spanish armada
Galleon
Where baseball pitchers warm up
Bullpen
Hairstyle that is short in front, long in back
Mullet
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Level 83
Aug 11, 2013
How about 'ayatollah' for muslim leader?
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Level 89
Aug 25, 2013
"Thirded"
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Level 57
Aug 25, 2013
fifth-ed
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Level ∞
Aug 25, 2013
Changed the clue to "mosque" leader
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Level 39
Aug 29, 2013
How does changing the clue to "mosque leader" help? Shi'a Muslims go to mosques, don't they? I think ayatollah should be accepted.
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Level ∞
Aug 29, 2013
I think you're confused. The leader of a Shia mosque is usually called a mullah. Ayatollahs are high-ranking officials or scholars.
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Level 46
Dec 4, 2015
I thought the real leader was "Allah"
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Level 81
Sep 13, 2017
I thought the leader of a mosque is the Imam. Surely a mullah is just a learned man and/or teacher, not necessarily assigned to a mosque.
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Level 59
Aug 26, 2013
I tried both "wallabe" and "wallabee" then gave up. Didn't even occur to me to try a "y"!
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Level 37
Aug 26, 2013
It was a good quiz. Got 20 out of 22. Took me a bit to get acceptable spelling for wallaby.
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Level 65
Dec 18, 2013
Vaudville. !@##$ it! At any rate, my spelling is getting better.
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Level 57
May 2, 2016
Better, but still wrong - vaudEville.
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Level 75
Jun 1, 2014
Would you accept follies for Vaudeville?
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Level 62
Jul 27, 2016
I tried that first as well.
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Level 62
Jan 28, 2015
I was sad when it didn't accept "bagell" for "Jewish bread, eaten on the Sabbath."
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Level 65
Mar 22, 2024
Because it isn't...
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Level 55
Feb 7, 2015
Why does American remove the extra letter from words like "Travelling" and "Marvellous", but add one in to "Distil"?
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Level 75
May 3, 2016
Why do the Brits take the "i" from medicine and put it in aluminum?
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Level 49
Jun 25, 2016
Erm no one takes the I out of medicine in Britain or U.K. Where did you get your information from?
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Level 74
Mar 24, 2017
It's just a pronunciation issue, much like how Americans don't pronounce the H in Herb or the C in Arctic

And the spelling of Aluminium with a second "i" is internationally agreed convention

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Level 31
Jun 11, 2022
Good point

Also, I am American, and many people say "Arctic" with a C.

I do too.

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Level 70
Oct 5, 2022
Spellings evolve or stay the same depending on where you are

Sometimes that happens naturally.

Sometimes they're championed by individuals -- like Ben Franklin who, among many other things, was a printer or Noah Webster who was a lexicographer -- as part of an effort to standardize spelling.

There's really no correct way to spell a word. It's just convention. It's probably a good idea to follow convention in academics, sciences, the business world, etc. Looking for logic in language is a fool's errand. Maybe one day spelling will be standardized like the Metric system, but I doubt it.

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Level 83
Dec 22, 2015
This is going to sound really picky, but a million millions is also an "English" billion.
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Level 73
May 2, 2016
It was pretty much standardised in the UK in the 70s, and although it still exists in the UK as a million millions, it is less and less common.
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Level 83
Jun 4, 2016
It's still the first word that I thought of. And I wasn't even around in the 70s.
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Level 37
Mar 21, 2019
Long notation is the official standard in Britain, however most use short notation. The clue should clarify short or add the long as another question.
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Level 77
May 12, 2019
It's less common owing to the BBC making a decision to go over to the American meaning of "billion". However, many Brits still use Billion in it's original sense of a million squared. So jetpunk should accept billion as a correct answer to the question just as they should accept the British spelling of distil - or open themselves to the charge of being US-centric again.
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Level 49
Jan 28, 2016
There are quite a few things larger than a viola...
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Level 73
Mar 15, 2016
For the haircut can you accept Tennessee waterfall?
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Level 82
May 2, 2016
Didn't know challah. If it's anything like the other varieties of Jewish bread I've had before, I'm sure I'm not missing anything.
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Level 69
Sep 26, 2016
Mmm, no, it's not crackery (unleavened). It's fluffy and buttery and chewy and delicious!
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Level 78
Jul 24, 2023
Challah is our best-kept secret! Well ok not a secret but it's delicious, give it a try.
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Level 65
Mar 22, 2024
Matzo isn't bread. 🙄
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Level 72
May 2, 2016
I may be wrong but could illumination not be accepted for artistic writing?
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Level 75
May 2, 2016
You're not wrong. It should be.
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Level 65
Mar 22, 2024
He's very wrong, it shouldn't be.
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Level 66
Sep 26, 2023
I couldn't get out of my head that writing means to create something (e.g. a novel), instead of the actual physical act of writing.
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Level 65
Mar 22, 2024
You're very wrong.
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Level 61
May 6, 2016
I hit a mental block on the Broody/Sulky clue once "wallowing" didn't work.
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Level 74
May 9, 2016
I didn't realize that a feather used a writing implement. You might want to add "as" :D Excellent quiz overall!
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Level 65
Mar 22, 2024
How did you not know that?
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Level 42
May 14, 2016
Can you accept gallows as well as guillotine?
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Level 90
Jun 3, 2017
I suppose you could behead someone with gallows if you used piano wire and dropped them far enough, but that's not generally done.
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Level 65
Mar 22, 2024
Do you understand what a guillotine is? 🤦🏻‍♀️
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Level 65
Aug 22, 2016
What about 'dull' instead of 'sullen'?
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Level 65
Mar 22, 2024
What about no because that means something entirely different. 🙄
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Level 82
Aug 25, 2017
"Feather used AS a writing implement"
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Level 55
Oct 3, 2017
"Feather used a writing instrument" doesn't make sense
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Level 22
Dec 20, 2017
Mall Stall Gallon Ball ? Where are these? Good quiz!
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Level 56
Oct 18, 2022
they could very well swell this collection, but sorrowfully the full tally of allowable _ will not follow the small lull we'll be allotted to stall in our before the toll instills hell, despite it really meant to alleviate the hollowness filling us individually.

Yes I will spill that i wasted my own time and yes I was compelled to use a thesaurus. However, the thrill nullifies the dull wallowing of mademoiselle Willuna the illogical.

(sorry for old and annoying)

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Level 76
Mar 21, 2018
Galley, Galleon, and Galleass are (or were, rather) all types of ships in the Spanish Armada.
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Level 27
Nov 28, 2018
Can you change the Jewish bread one to accept the spelling "Hallah" as well?
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Level 59
Jan 15, 2019
Accept illegible for artistic writing, please
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Level 48
Jan 15, 2019
You could use a cello as a beheading instrument.
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Level 84
May 23, 2019
I thought Music Hall for variety act popular around 1900. But, yeah, not one word.
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Level 66
Aug 28, 2019
Of the bottom 6 I ve only heard of vaudevill and sullen
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Level 67
Nov 18, 2019
Yeah we don't have mullahs wtf
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Level 76
Feb 10, 2020
I only got Challah because I just had some earlier...
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Level 76
Mar 3, 2020
Just noticed that the llama in the picture was standing in front of Machu Picchu (at least I think that's Machu Picchu)
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Level 68
Jan 3, 2021
Could you accept the spelling 'chollah' please...that's how it's spelled on the bag when I buy it.
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Level 59
Jan 30, 2021
Ugh. I thought it was Gallion for the ship and when I tried it and it was wrong, I gave up. Lesson learned. Try other spellings when you aren't sure.
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Level 34
Jun 11, 2021
Isn't a million millions a billion, not a trillion? If not - and I may well be wrong - what is a billion?
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Level ∞
Jun 11, 2021
A billion is a thousand million.

In the United Kingdom, a billion used to be a million million, but this was changed in 1974.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#History

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Level 78
Jul 7, 2022
I kept thinking it was some clever spelling of googol with two L's, but then I realized I was missing the obvious
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Level 63
Apr 23, 2023
Feather used AS A writing implement. That would be more grammatically correct
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Level 67
Jun 27, 2023
Maybe not, but how about novella for "artistic writing"?
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Level 66
Sep 26, 2023
Can you accept Galleass as well for Galleon (I think Galley might also be a correct answer which complicates things)
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Level 64
Jan 21, 2024
"It's Bigger than alpaca" A mall.
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Level 78
Feb 5, 2024
Quite a number of things would fit that description: a valley, a galleass, Carnegie Hall, The Great Wall of China for example :D
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Level 65
Mar 22, 2024
Jews eat challah on the Sabbath but the challah isn't Jewish. How about "bread eaten by Jews on the Sabbath?"