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58 short excerpts of Wiktionnary (A collaborative project to produce a free-content dictionary.)

— English words —
  • tail n. (Anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
  • tail n. An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o’-nine-tails.
  • tail n. The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
  • tail n. The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.
  • tail n. The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft’s fuselage, containing the tailfin.
  • tail n. The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
  • tail n. (Astronomy) The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
  • tail n. The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
  • tail n. (Statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
  • tail n. One who surreptitiously follows another.
  • tail n. (Cricket) The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
  • tail n. (Typography) The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
  • tail n. (Chiefly in the plural) The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary…
  • tail n. (Mathematics) All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
  • tail n. (Now colloquial, chiefly US) The buttocks or backside.
  • tail n. (Slang) The penis of a person or animal.
  • tail n. (Slang, uncountable) Sexual intercourse.
  • tail n. (Kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.
  • tail n. A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
  • tail n. (Anatomy) The distal tendon of a muscle.
  • tail n. (Entomology) A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies.
  • tail n. A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
  • tail n. (Surgery) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness…
  • tail n. One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
  • tail n. (Nautical) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
  • tail n. (Music) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
  • tail n. (Mining) A tailing.
  • tail n. (Architecture) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
  • tail n. (Colloquial, dated) A tailcoat.
  • tail n. (Electrical engineering) Synonym of pigtail (“a short length of twisted electrical wire”).
  • tail v. (Transitive) To follow and observe surreptitiously.
  • tail v. (Architecture) To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into.
  • tail v. (Nautical) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
  • tail v. To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
  • tail v. To pull or draw by the tail.
  • tail adj. (Law) Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.
  • tail n. (Law) Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.
  • Tail prop.n. (Chinese astronomy) A Chinese constellation coinciding with the tail of Scorpius, one of the 28 lunar…
— Foreign words, define in English —
  • Estonian
    • täil n. Adessive singular of täi.
  • Middle english
    • tail n. Alternative form of tayl.
  • Polish
    • taił v. Third-person singular masculine past of taić.
  • Welsh
— English words, defined in German —
  • tail S. Tier: Schwanz.
  • tail S. Fluggerät: Schwanz, Rumpfende, Heck.
  • tail S. Komet: Schweif.
  • tail S. Person: Hinterteil, Allerwertester.
— English words, defined in Dutch —
  • tail n. Staart.
  • tail w. Schaduwen.
— English words, defined in French —
  • tail n. Queue.
  • tail n. Empennage (d’un avion).
  • tail n. (Astronomie) Queue (d’une comète).
  • tail n. Pile (côté d’une pièce de monnaie).
  • tail v. (Argot policier) Poursuivre, surtout en parlant d’un détective ou d’un policier.
— English word, defined in Spanish —
  • tail s. Zootomía. Cola.
— English word, defined in Portuguese —
  • tail s. Rabo.
— English words, defined in Italian —
  • tail s. Coda.
  • tail s. Pedinare.
  • tail s. Diminuire, affievolirsi.
248 English words from 42 English definitions

abridged Adessive aircraft All alphabet Alternative Anatomy anchor and animal another anus anything appendage Architecture as␣in astronomy at␣anchor attached attendants back backside bandage batsmen batting batting␣order bearing beginning bird block blown bottom bowlers butterflies buttocks can cat caudal certain chiefly Chinese closely coin coinciding collectively colloquial comet company constellation containing Cricket curtailed dated direction distal distant distribution does downward downy draw dung dust each electrical Electrical␣engineering elongated empennage end end␣of engineering Entomology evaded event feathers feathery filamentous follow follows form formed from fuselage gases go␣through hang head heirs hind hind␣wing hold incision inferior inheritance in␣shape intercourse into its kayak Kayaking lashed last latter Law length letters like Limitation Limited long long␣tail loop lower lower␣order lunar masculine Mathematics may may␣be member Mining mode monetary more most muscle Music Nautical near nine normally not note Now object objects observe of␣a of␣an one on␣the order other part past penis period permanent perpendicularly person persons pigtail plural portion posterior projection pull pygostyle rear reduced represented resembling rests retinue Roman Roman␣alphabet rope runs said Scorpius section sequence Sexual Sexual␣intercourse shape Shit short side singular Slang slate solar solar␣wind some specialist spliced splitting Statistics stem stern strap stream strips structure style such such␣as support Surgery surreptitiously swing Synonym tail tailcoat tail␣end tailfin tail␣in tailing tails tendon term terms that that␣is the thickness Third Third␣person Third-person␣singular this thongs through tile timber time time␣period times tornal to␣the train Transitive twisted Typography uncountable upon upward usually vessel visible wall when which who whole wind wing wire with

11 English words from 16 foreign definitions

Argot Coda Cola Empennage Heck Person Pile policier Queue surtout Tier

21 foreign words from 16 foreign definitions

Allerwertester Astronomie avion comète côté détective Fluggerät Hinterteil Komet monnaie parlant pièce pièce␣de␣monnaie Poursuivre Rabo Schaduwen Schwanz Schweif Staart une Zootomía

316 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

tails Tailu T'ai-lu tailed tailer tail␣in taille tailor Tailor Tailte tailye tailage Tai␣Lake tail-bay tailbud tailcup tailend tail-end tail␣end tailers tailfan tailfin tail␣fin tailgut tail-gut tail␣gut tailing tailism tailles taillie Taillon tail-off tail␣off Tai␣Long tailors Tailors tailor's tailory tailour tailout tail␣pad tailpin Tailtiu tailyes tailzee tailzie tailable tailache tailages tail␣away +266 words

707 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

stails T-tails details de-tails entails etailer e-tailer intails oxtails patails potails retails battaile bobtails box␣tails cattails cowtails curtails detailed Detailed de-tailed detailee detailer detailly entailed entailer etailers e-tailers e-tailing fantails fat-tails fat␣tails foxtails intailed lobtails pentails pigtails pintails poptails rattails rat-tails redtails retailed retailer retaillé retailor Softails tagtails untailed ventaile +657 words

324 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

e-tail stail T-tail betail detail de-tail entail intail oxtail potail retail bigtail bobtail box␣tail cattail cowtail curtail e-retail fantail fat-tail fat␣tail fee␣tail foxtail lobtail pentail pigtail pintail poptail rattail rat-tail redtail Softail tagtail ventail wagtail wrytail antitail aventail bangtail bang-tail bang␣tail beertail bluetail boattail brantail bucktail catstail clubtail coattail cocktail +274 words

4 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ail tai Tai TAI

3 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

IAT LIA LIAT

16 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

alit alti ATLI ital Ital ital. Ital. lait Lait LIAT Lita LITA tali Ta-li Tila TILA

100 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

aillt alist A-list A␣list Alita Alito -ality Altai altie altin atilt a-tilt Atlit balti Balti Bălți batil bilat -bital cital CLAIT Dalit datil dital Eilat e-tail ictal IOLTA irtal Itala -it-all Italo italo- Italo- itals Itals Italy IT␣law Lahti Laist laith laits Laits laity lapti lathi Latic latid Latif latik +50 words

42 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

ail ait AIT Ali ali- alt Alt ALT alt- alt. Alt. ATL Atl. IAL -ial IAT ita ITA lai Lai lat LAT lat. Lat. LIA lit Lit &lit lit. LTA tai Tai TAI Tal tia Tia TIA til TIL 'til TLA TLI

42 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

bail Bail Cail Dail fail Fail Gail hail Hail jail kail Kail Lail mail nail Nail Oail pail rail sail SAIL Taal tael Taic taig tain Tain tair tais Tais tait Tait tall Taul teil toil TOIL Twil vail Vail wail zail

8 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

ail tai Tai TAI Tal til TIL 'til

6 epenthesis (New words found when adding only one letter.)

tahil Tamil Tawil trail Trail T-tail


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