| agnail | (noun) a loose narrow strip of skin near the base of a fingernail; tearing it produces a painful sore that is easily infected | Synonyms: hangnail |
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| doornail | (noun) a nail with a large head; formerly used to decorate doors | - |
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| fingernail | (noun) the nail at the end of a finger | - |
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| hangnail | (noun) a loose narrow strip of skin near the base of a fingernail; tearing it produces a painful sore that is easily infected | Synonyms: agnail |
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| hobnail | (noun) a short nail with a thick head; used to protect the soles of boots | - |
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| nail | (noun) a thin pointed piece of metal that is hammered into materials as a fastener | - |
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| (noun) horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits | - |
| (noun) a former unit of length for cloth equal to 1/16 of a yard | - |
| nailbrush | (noun) a brush used to clean a person's fingernails | - |
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| nailer | (noun) a worker who attaches something by nailing it | - |
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| nailfile | (noun) a small flat file for shaping the nails | - |
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| nailhead | (noun) flattened boss on the end of nail opposite to the point | - |
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| (noun) something resembling the head of a nail that is used as an ornamental device | - |
| nailrod | (noun) tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down; its long flat leaves are used for making mats and chair seats; of North America, Europe, Asia and North Africa | Synonyms: bullrush, bulrush, cat's-tail, reed mace, reedmace, Typha latifolia |
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| seasnail | (noun) small tadpole-shaped cold-water fishes with pelvic fins forming a sucker; related to lumpfish | Synonyms: Liparis liparis, sea snail, snailfish |
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| (noun) any of several creeping marine gastropods with a spirally coiled shell: whelks, tritons, moon shells, neritids | - |
| snail | (noun) freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell | - |
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| (noun) edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic | Synonyms: escargot |
| snailfish | (noun) small tadpole-shaped cold-water fishes with pelvic fins forming a sucker; related to lumpfish | Synonyms: Liparis liparis, sea snail, seasnail |
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| snailflower | (noun) perennial tropical American vine cultivated for its racemes of showy yellow and purple flowers having the corolla keel coiled like a snail shell; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus | Synonyms: corkscrew flower, Phaseolus caracalla, snail-flower, snail bean, snail flower, Vigna caracalla |
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| thumbnail | (noun) the nail of the thumb | - |
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| toenail | (noun) the nail at the end of a toe | - |
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| treenail | (noun) a wooden peg that is used to fasten timbers in shipbuilding; water causes the peg to swell and hold the timbers fast | Synonyms: trenail, trunnel |
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| trenail | (noun) a wooden peg that is used to fasten timbers in shipbuilding; water causes the peg to swell and hold the timbers fast | Synonyms: treenail, trunnel |
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