Sill or cill is a supporting rail as in the bottom rail of a window or door (threshold). It's also the name of the base beam on which timber framed houses are built.
But most people also use the term erroneously to refer to the board that closes the bottm of the window opening internally.
It would be more correctto refer to the outside lip if the window is of the type that has one as a sill is also a ledge in geology. (Or a seam with that tendency, I think.)