Tail

What do we mean by tail?

The posterior part of an animal, especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body. noun

The bottom, rear, or hindmost part, especially. noun

The lowest part of a garment such as a shirt or coat. noun

The rear end of an automobile or other vehicle. noun

The rear portion of the fuselage of an aircraft or the assembly of stabilizing planes and control surfaces in this portion. noun

The vaned rear portion of a bomb or missile. noun

A long thin arrangement, part, or structure, often extending from a main structure. noun

A long thin part on some kites that hangs down below the part that catches the wind to provide stability. noun

The long stream of gas and dust that is illuminated and directed away from the head of a comet when it is close to the sun. noun

A braid of hair; a pigtail. noun

A train of followers; a retinue. noun

Something that follows something else or takes the last place. noun

The end of a line of persons or things. noun

The short closing line of certain stanzas of verse. noun

The refuse or dross remaining from processes such as distilling or milling. noun

A formal evening costume typically worn by men. noun

A tailcoat. noun

The side of a coin not having the principal design. noun

The trail of a person or animal in flight. noun

The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.

An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.

The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.

The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.

The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.

The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.

The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.

The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.

The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.

One who surreptitiously follows another.

The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.

The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.

(chiefly in the plural) The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.

All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.

The buttocks or backside.

The penis of a person or animal.

Sexual intercourse.

(kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.

A train or company of attendants; a retinue.

The distal tendon of a muscle.

A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies.

A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.

A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; called also tailing.

One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.

A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.

The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.

A tailing.

The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.

A tailcoat.

Words that are spelled similarly to tail:
tail.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word tail:
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Words that rhyme with tail:
scale, rail, pale, hail, entail, trail, mail, avail, email, whale, sale, detail, 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 tail:
long, short, bushy, own, white, forked, black, upper, cytoplasmic, like, prehensile, red, longer, pointed, broad, thick, lower, right, horizontal, terminal, vertical, flat, thin, shaped, powerful, shorter, slender, curly, yellow, big, pig, left, beautiful, tipped, heavy, pancreatic, inch, huge, stubby, rounded, scaly, curved, hydrophobic, stumpy, brown, fat, hand, stiff, blue, dark, fluffy, energy, exponential, green, narrow, heterocercal, tufted, geomagnetic, male, straight, enormous, muscular, rudimentary, hairy, golden, furry, fiery, squirrel, rat, naked, extended, ringed, flexible, elongated, tiny, gray, bright, sharp, plumed.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective tail:
feathers, coverts, end, test, piece, coat, race, pieces, fin, deer, moth, coats, lights, board, grass, tip, water, feather, light, stock, enders, pocket, soup, file, plane, tests, gunner, gate, probability, head, wagging, rope, fins, fan, pipe, wheel, fashion, ends, butterfly, arrangement, burner, fly, spin, short, hair, configuration, brown, rabbit, inches, region, pockets, tendon, moths, male, covers, length, ender, down, bone, buck, fibers, hairs, current, off, twisting, rabbits, rhyme, probabilities, shaft, tips, collagen, quills, lamp, switch, flag, ratio, hawk, skid, butterflies, plumes, orientation, boat, unit, out, addition, flags, recursion.

Consonant match to tail:
tell, tool, till, toll, tale, teal, toil, til, towel, tile, tall, tulle, tole, tel, tal, tull, tol, teel, taul, taille, tuille, tuel, toal, teale, toole, tolle, towle, teall, teele, toelle, tuell, tuyle.

Words that sound like tail:
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