Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The horizontal member at the base of a window opening.
Wiktionary
- n. The horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame
WordNet 3.0
- n. the sill of a window; the horizontal member at the bottom of the window frame
Etymologies
- window + sill (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Growing herbs, even in pots on an apartment windowsill, is a great way to have fresh flavor right on hand.”
“The plantation on my windowsill is growing under the loving care of (mostly) my bf.”
“On the windowsill was a pigeon, had a blood-stained wings.”
“I knew exotic Asian teas and the bean sprouts she grew on her windowsill were the most outrageous things she consumed.”
“Oskar tried to act like HIS windowsill was HIS and HIS alone, but he is literally only half the size of his fellow apartment cat, who thinks that everything Oskar does is solid gold.”
“But over on there on the windowsill was a replica of our planet on which the island of Oahu itself is barely visible, and if we were to search for Honolulu, much less Punahou School or our own pitiful selves, we would find ourselves marginalized quite out of existence.”
“On the windowsill was a large black bird, staring right at them.”
“Last year I made Black pepper biscotti, and they can be stored a lot more than the 5 days the recipe calls for I made mine about two weeks before Christmas and stored them in the bedroom windowsill, which is a cool place.”
“The bright heads of the chives that Delilah grew on the windowsill were a brilliant splash of purple against the headstone.”
“On the windowsill was a ceramic pot that Lilly had made in an art class.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘windowsill’.
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Awesome Pronunciations
BRING IT ON!!!!!
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Words sung by: Belle and Sebastian
beguiling, herbaceous, peninsula, suffragette, damascan, hastening, berserk, overtime, leccy, bestow, swathe, arab strap and 193 more...
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kat's words
ecumenical, cacophony, clatter, marimba, bamboo, saffron, slice, mercurial, pomegranate, cranky, slipshod, scritch and 511 more...
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Words I have to learn
exasperate, felony, weld, fraud, worksheet, ransom, rehearse, preliminary, offshore, parole, infamous, sieve and 436 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, W
washboard, winterbourne, winze, wirble, waterway, windrow, winceyette, waft, whiffletree, wheelbarrow, whicker, wacky and 170 more...
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Palabrarium
The delicious wonderful words that I love terribly dearly and without which, the world would be a less inventive and worthwhile place. Also, ostensibly, the reason 1984 and esperanto secretly suck.
panoply, footpad, piccalilli, snickersnee, marl, hispid, greengage, slumgullion, golliwog, mumbletypeg, circumlocution, quiescent and 366 more...
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D's Words
If you could "tag" people....
allemande, bebop, excessive, assiduous, bailiwick, bandana, befuddle, busker, disconcerting, clothespin, cogitate, cultivar and 55 more...
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words i like to say
copulate, fornicate, capitulate, elope, mooring, bovine, windowsill, albatross, page, bustle, logic, per se and 2 more...
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Miscellany, pt. w
whorl, wacken porphyry, wafture, waggle dance, wayzgoose, wall-eyed, wanwordy, wiseacre, whisterclister, whirlery, whigmaleery, weirdward and 21 more...
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Doorways
threshold, hinge, doorknob, doorknocker, doorbell, doorway, peephole, doormat, window, curtain, latch, lock and 7 more...
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cosy
pyjamas, toast, windowsill, teaspoon, kettle, pocket, journal, flannelette, quilt, doona, and, sneeze and 15 more...
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stuttermonkey's Words
disremember, suboptimal, windowsill, pickle, package, hagiography, historiography, petitio principii, ampersand, perseveration, peloton, cruft and 25 more...
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Inspiring
decade, collection, flutter, winged, born, senses, onto, present, dwell, past, wander, roam and 51 more...
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compound words
My favourites.
birdbath, gallowglass, lamplight, chokecherry, lightbox, riptide, softshoe, snowshed, bluebird, matchbox, sugarcane, nightcap and 64 more...
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XanthoPaletteSoul's list
I'm a writer/artist/jewelry maker/singer and I love fairies and Harry Potter, I love Lord of The Ring, and music is my absolute life. I wish to travel someday to Ireland. I'm a very creative pers...
wrapping, palette, soul, mind, spirit, creamy, despondent, beautiful, life, death, one, windowsill and 16 more...
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kello24841's Words
Tweets
Looking for tweets for windowsill.

Prolagus
((My girl's got) Miraculous technique, by Belle and Sebastian) Nov 24, 2009