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Definition of nil

"nil" in the noun sense

1. nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo

a quantity of no importance

"it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"

"reduced to nil all the work we had done"

"we racked up a pathetic goose egg"

"it was all for naught"

"I didn't hear zilch about it"

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Quotations for nil

To nil married men be this caution, which they should duly tender as their life: Neither to doat too much, nor doubt a wife. [ Massinger ]

Good resolutions are a useless attempt to interfere with scientific laws; their origin pure vanity, their results absolutely nil. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

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nil in Scrabble®

The word nil is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 3

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters nil:

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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word nil

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The 23 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In nil

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nil in Words With Friends™

The word nil is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 5

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters nil:

NIL
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Words containing the sequence nil

Words that start with nil (4 words)

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Words with nil in them (184 words)

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Words that end with nil (1 word)

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Word Growth involving nil

Shorter words in nil

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Longer words containing nil

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anilide acetanilide acetanilides aminoacetanilides

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anilide butyranilide butyranilides

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anilide gallanilide

anilide oxanilide oxanilides

anilide propionanilide propionanilides

anilide salicylanilide salicylanilides

anilide thioanilide thioanilides

aniline anilines dimethylanilines

aniline anilines monomethylanilines

aniline anilines nitranilines

aniline dimethylaniline dimethylanilines

aniline monomethylaniline monomethylanilines

aniline nitraniline nitranilines

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