Entail

What do we mean by entail?

To have, impose, or require as a necessary accompaniment or consequence. transitive verb

To limit the inheritance of (property) to a specified succession of heirs. transitive verb

To bestow or impose on a person or a specified succession of heirs. transitive verb

The act of entailing, especially property. noun

The state of being entailed. noun

An entailed estate. noun

A predetermined order of succession, as to an estate or to an office. noun

Something transmitted as if by unalterable inheritance. noun

. Engraved or carved work; intaglio; inlay. noun

Shape; that which is carved or shaped. noun

In law: The limitation of land to certain members of a particular family or line of descent; a prescribed order of successive inheritances, voluntarily created, to keep land in the family undivided; the rule of descent settled for an estate. noun

An estate entailed or limited to particular heirs; an estate given to a man and his heirs. noun

To cut; carve for ornament.

In law, to limit and restrict the descent of (lands and tenements) by gift to a man and to a specified line of heirs, by settlement in such wise that neither the donee nor any subsequent possessor can alienate or bequeath it: as, to entail a manor to A. B. and to his eldest son, or to his heirs of his body begotten, or to his heirs by a particular wife. See entail, n., 3.

Hence To fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants; transmit in an unalterable course; devolve as an unavoidable consequence.

To bring about; cause to ensue or accrue; induce; involve or draw after itself.

That which is entailed. noun

An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue. noun

The rule by which the descent is fixed. noun

To imply or require.

To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as a heritage.

To appoint hereditary possessor.

To cut or carve in an ornamental way.

Words that are spelled similarly to entail:
entail, intail, entrail, ventail, entoil, ental, pentail, e-tail, etail, enjail, e tail.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word entail:
entails, heirs, estates, consequences, inheritance, risks, heir, costs, inherited, expense, risk, possibility, removal, punishment, reduction, nephew, truth, estate, moral, eldest, psychological, destruction, ownership, substantial, principle, definition.

Words that rhyme with entail:
scale, rail, pale, hail, trail, mail, avail, email, whale, sale, detail, tail, prevail, nail, bail, cocktail, fail, curtail, ale, sail, tale, veil, assail, hale, retail, stale, gale, bale, frail, quail, travail, vale, wail, male, dovetail, blackmail, flail, wholesale, swale, zale, telltale, voicemail, pail, dale, ail, braille, kale, grail, shale, jail, female, upscale, snail, wale, vail, derail, unveil, impale, exhale, yale, surveil, fairytale, inhale, abigail, holy grail, foxtail, quale, cale, gmail, guardrail, ponytail, thumbnail, handrail, brail, greenmail, gael, dwale, gail, coattail, dail, orrell, toenail, resale, monorail, fantail, martingale, airedale, horsetail, clydesdale, countervail, folktale, airmail, soleil, hobnail, biennale, faille, kail, calle, salle, shail.

Adjectives that are often used to describe entail:
strict, such, perpetual, latter, new, unbarrable, great, quasi, conditional, old, former, general, original, special, irrevocable, parliamentary, hereditary, future, scotch, male, equitable, least, feudal, strictest, individual, vast, likely, english, constitutional, cautious, legal, ancient, governmental, unrecorded, sad, defective, collateral, valid, chosen, life, mutual, evil, abrogate, prenatal, corporate, legislative, imperfect, literary, effectual, eternal, intellectual, alone, rigorous, virtual, dreadful, permanent, self, fatal, lasting, ecclesiastical, registered, democratic.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective entail:
misery, risk, infamy, bill, consequences, poverty, pain, anguish, disgrace, laws, evil, languor, guilt.

Consonant match to entail:
until, intel, intail, ant hill, entoil, ental, antal, antle, untile, antill, antell, antol, aunt hill, aunt till, en taille, hunt hill, hunt till, inn til, inn till, on till, un tale, un tel, un til.

Words that sound like entail:
entail, ental, intail, entel, until, intel, ente, endl, mtl, end all, untile, untl, end-all, intal, pentail, mtel, ventail, intl, antle, antill, antal, antel, ant hill, inhale, mental, gentle, rental, dental, entails, gentile, lentil, genteel, entailed, entrail, gentil, cental, enteral, ento, enta, and all, etoile, ettle, yentl, gentille, centile, dentel, pintail, enel, indal, dentil, et al, mentale, et al., ettl, indel, pentyl, kentle, indole, dentile, end day, etl, dentelle, entame, etel, ventile, engdahl, ventil, indol, n t, andel, andal, fantail, oundle, antae, ending, unwhole, unheal, atoll, anul, -ent, anneal, edel, cente, bendel, airedale, atol, aigner, atole, bendall, aedile, airdale, airtel, edge tool, aneel, edil, annelle, atil, buntal, arendal, cendal.