Words Ending With TAIL
Here's the list of all the 62 Words Ending With TAIL in the English Language.
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| retail | 1. be sold at the retail level 2. sell on the retail market More Definitions → |
| detail | 1. an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole 2. a small part that can be considered separately from the whole More Definitions → |
| tail | 1. go after with the intent to catch 2. remove or shorten the tail of an animal More Definitions → |
| cocktail | 1. a short mixed drink 2. an appetizer served as a first course at a meal More Definitions → |
| entail | 1. have as a logical consequence 2. impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result More Definitions → |
| whitetail | 1. common North American deer; tail has a white underside More Definitions → |
| curtail | 1. place restrictions on 2. terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent More Definitions → |
| dovetail | 1. fit together tightly, as if by means of a dovetail 2. a mortise joint formed by interlocking tenons and mortises More Definitions → |
| ponytail | 1. a hair style that draws the hair back so that it hangs down in back of the head like a pony's tail More Definitions → |
| pigtail | 1. a plait of braided hair More Definitions → |
| aventail | 1. a medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck More Definitions → |
| foxtail | 1. grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes More Definitions → |
| horsetail | 1. perennial rushlike flowerless herbs with jointed hollow stems and narrow toothlike leaves that spread by creeping rhizomes; tend to become weedy; common in Northern Hemisphere; some in Africa and South America More Definitions → |
| yellowtail | 1. superior food fish of the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean with broad yellow stripe along the sides and on the tail 2. game fish of southern California and Mexico having a yellow tail fin More Definitions → |
| swallowtail | 1. a man's full-dress jacket with two long tapering tails at the back More Definitions → |
| cottontail | 1. common small rabbit of North America having greyish or brownish fur and a tail with a white underside; a host for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks) More Definitions → |
| pintail | 1. long-necked river duck of the Old and New Worlds having elongated central tail feathers More Definitions → |
| wagtail | 1. Old World bird having a very long tail that jerks up and down as it walks More Definitions → |
| cattail | 1. tall erect herbs with sword-shaped leaves; cosmopolitan in fresh and salt marshes More Definitions → |
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