10-Letter Words Containing: ILS

• extortion of money by threats to divulge discrediting information

• exert pressure on someone through threats

• obtain through threats

• a device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through

• a speedboat that is equipped with winglike structures that lift it so that it skims the water at high speeds

• a vasodilator (trade name Loniten) used to treat severe hypertension; one side effect is hirsutism so it is also sold (trade name Rogaine) as a treatment for male-patterned baldness

• one of many contractile filaments that make up a striated muscle fiber

• an organism that thrives in a relatively acid environment

• mule deer of western Rocky Mountains

• To cook on a flat, lined metal surface that is heated from below; to chargrill.

• the nail of the thumb

• a drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine

• a computerized system for answering and routing telephone calls; telephone messages can be recorded and stored and relayed