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window-sill

window-sill is the alternative form of windowsill.

Meaning of windowsill

Noun

windowsill (plural windowsills)

  1. The horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame.
    • An upscale version of this tried and true method of providing windowsill humidity is the use of plastic 'egg crating' instead of gravel.1991, Bob Gordon, Orchid Seedling Care: With Special Emphasis on Water Quality

Forms of window-sill

pluralwindow-sills

Questions about window-sill

What is window-sill the alternative form of?
Window-sill is the alternative form of windowsill.

Words near window-sill in the dictionary

  1. window-shopped
  2. window-shopper
  3. window-shoppers
  4. window-shopping
  5. window-shops
  6. window-sill
  7. window-sills
  8. window-washer
  9. window-washers
  10. windowable
  11. windowbox

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Adapted from Wiktionary: window-sill (page history and authors); windowsill (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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