| abstainer | (noun) a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages | Synonyms: abstinent, nondrinker |
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| (noun) someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline | Synonyms: ascetic |
| attainability | (noun) the state of being achievable | Synonyms: achievability, attainableness |
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| attainableness | (noun) the state of being achievable | Synonyms: achievability, attainability |
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| attainder | (noun) cancellation of civil rights | Synonyms: civil death |
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| attainment | (noun) the act of achieving an aim | - |
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| (noun) arrival at a new stage | - |
| (noun) an ability that has been acquired by training | Synonyms: accomplishment, acquirement, acquisition, skill |
| aventail | (noun) a medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck | Synonyms: camail, ventail |
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| backstairs | (noun) a second staircase at the rear of a building | - |
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| bandtail | (noun) wild pigeon of western North America; often mistaken for the now extinct passenger pigeon | Synonyms: band-tail pigeon, band-tailed pigeon, Columba fasciata |
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| bangtail | (noun) a horse bred for racing | Synonyms: race horse, racehorse |
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| betaine | (noun) a sweet tasting alkaloid that occurs in sugar beets | - |
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| blacktail | (noun) mule deer of western Rocky Mountains | Synonyms: black-tailed deer, blacktail deer, Odocoileus hemionus columbianus |
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| bloodstain | (noun) a discoloration caused by blood | - |
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| bobtail | (noun) a short or shortened tail of certain animals | Synonyms: bob, dock |
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| (noun) large sheepdog with a profuse shaggy bluish-grey-and-white coat and short tail; believed to trace back to the Roman occupation of Britain | Synonyms: Old English sheepdog |
| bristletail | (noun) small wingless insect with a long bristlelike tail | - |
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| broadtail | (noun) hardy coarse-haired sheep of central Asia; lambs are valued for their soft curly black fur | Synonyms: caracul, karakul |
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| (noun) the fur of a very young karakul lamb | - |
| browntail | (noun) small brown and white European moth introduced into eastern United States; pest of various shade and fruit trees | Synonyms: brown-tail moth, Euproctis phaeorrhoea |
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| captain | (noun) a dining-room attendant who is in charge of the waiters and the seating of customers | Synonyms: headwaiter, maitre d', maitre d'hotel |
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| (noun) the pilot in charge of an airship | Synonyms: senior pilot |
| (noun) the naval officer in command of a military ship | Synonyms: skipper |
| (noun) an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship | Synonyms: master, sea captain, skipper |
| (noun) a policeman in charge of a precinct | Synonyms: police captain, police chief |
| (noun) an officer holding a rank below a major but above a lieutenant | - |
| (noun) the leader of a group of people | Synonyms: chieftain |
| captaincy | (noun) the post of captain | Synonyms: captainship |
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| captainship | (noun) the post of captain | Synonyms: captaincy |
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| catamountain | (noun) bushy-tailed wildcat of Europe that resembles the domestic cat and is regarded as the ancestor of the domestic cat | Synonyms: European wildcat, Felis silvestris |
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| cattail | (noun) tall erect herbs with sword-shaped leaves; cosmopolitan in fresh and salt marshes | - |
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| certainty | (noun) something that is certain | Synonyms: foregone conclusion, sure thing |
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| (noun) the state of being certain | - |
| chevrotain | (noun) very small hornless deer-like ruminant of tropical Asia and west Africa | Synonyms: mouse deer |
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| chieftain | (noun) the head of a tribe or clan | Synonyms: chief, headman, tribal chief |
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| (noun) the leader of a group of people | Synonyms: captain |
| chieftaincy | (noun) the position of chieftain | Synonyms: chieftainship |
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| chieftainship | (noun) the position of chieftain | Synonyms: chieftaincy |
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| chigetai | (noun) Mongolian wild ass | Synonyms: dziggetai, Equus hemionus hemionus |
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| coattail | (noun) the loose back flap of a coat that hangs below the waist | - |
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| cocktail | (noun) a short mixed drink | - |
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| (noun) an appetizer served as a first course at a meal | - |
| container | (noun) any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another) | - |
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| containerful | (noun) the quantity that a container will hold | - |
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| containership | (noun) a cargo ship designed to hold containerized cargoes | Synonyms: container ship, container vessel |
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| containment | (noun) the act of containing; keeping something from spreading | - |
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| (noun) (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor | - |
| (noun) a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully | - |
| cottontail | (noun) 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) | Synonyms: cottontail rabbit, wood rabbit |
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| counterstain | (noun) a stain of contrasting color that is used when the principal stain does not show the structure clearly | - |
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| curtailment | (noun) the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation | Synonyms: suppression |
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| (noun) the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable | Synonyms: downsizing, retrenchment |
| (noun) the temporal property of being cut short | - |
| curtain | (noun) hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) | Synonyms: drape, drapery, mantle, pall |
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| (noun) any barrier to communication or vision | - |
| detail | (noun) an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole | Synonyms: item, point |
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| (noun) extended treatment of particulars | - |
| (noun) a temporary military unit | Synonyms: contingent |
| (noun) a crew of workers selected for a particular task | - |
| (noun) a small part that can be considered separately from the whole | Synonyms: item, particular |
| detailing | (noun) an individualized description of a particular instance | Synonyms: particularisation, particularization |
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| details | (noun) true confidential information | Synonyms: inside information |
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| detainee | (noun) some held in custody | Synonyms: political detainee |
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| detainment | (noun) a state of being confined (usually for a short time) | Synonyms: custody, detention, hold |
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| dovetail | (noun) a mortise joint formed by interlocking tenons and mortises | Synonyms: dovetail joint |
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| dziggetai | (noun) Mongolian wild ass | Synonyms: chigetai, Equus hemionus hemionus |
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| edutainment | (noun) entertainment that is intended to be educational | - |
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| entail | (noun) the act of entailing property; the creation of a fee tail from a fee simple | - |
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| (noun) land received by fee tail | - |
| entailment | (noun) something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied) | Synonyms: deduction, implication |
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| entertainer | (noun) a person who tries to please or amuse | - |
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| entertainment | (noun) an activity that is diverting and that holds the attention | Synonyms: amusement |
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| fantail | (noun) an overhang consisting of the fan-shaped part of the deck extending aft of the sternpost of a ship | - |
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| flickertail | (noun) of sagebrush and grassland areas of western United States and Canada | Synonyms: Citellus richardsoni, Richardson ground squirrel |
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| fountain | (noun) a plumbing fixture that provides a flow of water | Synonyms: fount |
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| (noun) an artificially produced flow of water | Synonyms: jet |
| (noun) a structure from which an artificially produced jet of water arises | - |
| (noun) a natural flow of ground water | Synonyms: natural spring, outflow, outpouring, spring |
| fountainhead | (noun) an abundant source | Synonyms: well, wellspring |
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| (noun) the source of water from which a stream arises | Synonyms: head, headspring |
| foxtail | (noun) grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes | Synonyms: foxtail grass |
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| freetail | (noun) small swift insectivorous bat with leathery ears and a long tail; common in warm regions | Synonyms: free-tailed bat, freetailed bat |
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| hairtail | (noun) long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth; closely related to snake mackerel | Synonyms: cutlassfish, frost fish |
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| horsetail | (noun) 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 | - |
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| infotainment | (noun) a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event | Synonyms: docudrama, documentary, documentary film |
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| maintainer | (noun) someone who upholds or maintains | Synonyms: sustainer, upholder |
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| matai | (noun) conifer of Australia and New Zealand | Synonyms: black pine, Podocarpus spicata, Prumnopitys taxifolia |
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| militainment | (noun) entertainment with military themes in which the Department of Defense is celebrated | - |
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| mountain | (noun) a land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill | Synonyms: mount |
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| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| mountaineer | (noun) someone who climbs mountains | Synonyms: mountain climber |
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| mountaineering | (noun) the activity of climbing a mountain | Synonyms: mountain climbing |
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| mountainside | (noun) the side or slope of a mountain | Synonyms: versant |
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| obtainment | (noun) the act of obtaining | Synonyms: obtention |
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| oxtail | (noun) the skinned tail of cattle; used especially for soups | - |
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| pentail | (noun) brown tree shrew having a naked tail bilaterally fringed with long stiff hairs on the distal third; of Malaysia | Synonyms: pen-tail, pen-tailed tree shrew |
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| pertainym | (noun) meaning relating to or pertaining to | - |
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| pigtail | (noun) a plait of braided hair | - |
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| pintail | (noun) long-necked river duck of the Old and New Worlds having elongated central tail feathers | Synonyms: Anas acuta, pin-tailed duck |
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| plantain | (noun) starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics | - |
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| (noun) a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics | Synonyms: Musa paradisiaca, plantain tree |
| (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Plantago; mostly small roadside or dooryard weeds with elliptic leaves and small spikes of very small flowers; seeds of some used medicinally | - |
| ponytail | (noun) a hair style that draws the hair back so that it hangs down in back of the head like a pony's tail | - |
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| rattail | (noun) deep-sea fish with a large head and body and long tapering tail | Synonyms: grenadier, rattail fish |
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| redtail | (noun) dark brown American hawk species having a reddish-brown tail | Synonyms: Buteo jamaicensis, red-tailed hawk |
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| (noun) European songbird with a reddish breast and tail; related to Old World robins | Synonyms: redstart |
| retail | (noun) the selling of goods to consumers; usually in small quantities and not for resale | - |
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| retailer | (noun) a merchant who sells goods at retail | Synonyms: retail merchant |
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| retailing | (noun) the activities involved in selling commodities directly to consumers | - |
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| retainer | (noun) a dental appliance that holds teeth (or a prosthesis) in position after orthodontic treatment | - |
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| (noun) a person working in the service of another (especially in the household) | Synonyms: servant |
| (noun) a fee charged in advance to retain the services of someone | Synonyms: consideration |
| ringtail | (noun) an immature golden eagle | - |
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| (noun) North American raccoon | Synonyms: common raccoon, common racoon, coon, Procyon lotor |
| (noun) raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings | Synonyms: Bassariscus astutus, bassarisk, cacomistle, cacomixle, civet cat, coon cat, miner's cat, raccoon fox, ring-tailed cat |
| (noun) monkey of Central America and South America having thick hair on the head that resembles a monk's cowl | Synonyms: capuchin, Cebus capucinus |
| scissortail | (noun) grey flycatcher of the southwestern United States and Mexico and Central America having a long forked tail and white breast and salmon and scarlet markings | Synonyms: Muscivora-forficata, scissortailed flycatcher |
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| secretaire | (noun) a desk used for writing | Synonyms: escritoire, secretary, writing table |
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| shirttail | (noun) fabric forming the tail of a shirt | - |
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| (noun) a brief addendum at the end of a newspaper article | - |
| solitaire | (noun) a card game played by one person | Synonyms: patience |
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| (noun) a dull grey North American thrush noted for its beautiful song | - |
| (noun) extinct flightless bird related to the dodo | Synonyms: Pezophaps solitaria |
| (noun) a gem (usually a diamond) in a setting by itself | - |
| sprigtail | (noun) large grouse of prairies and open forests of western North America | Synonyms: Pedioecetes phasianellus, sharp-tailed grouse, sprig tail |
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| springtail | (noun) any of numerous minute wingless primitive insects possessing a special abdominal appendage that allows the characteristic nearly perpetual springing pattern; found in soil rich in organic debris or on the surface of snow or water | Synonyms: collembolan |
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| squaretail | (noun) sluggish square-tailed fish armored with tough bony scales; of deep warm waters | - |
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| staidness | (noun) a trait of dignified seriousness | Synonyms: sedateness, solemness, solemnity |
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| stain | (noun) an act that brings discredit to the person who does it | Synonyms: blot, smear, smirch, spot |
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| (noun) a soiled or discolored appearance | Synonyms: discoloration, discolouration |
| (noun) a symbol of disgrace or infamy | Synonyms: brand, mark, stigma |
| (noun) anything regarded as making something unclean | Synonyms: dirt, filth, grease, grime, grunge, soil |
| (noun) (microscopy) a dye or other coloring material that is used in microscopy to make structures visible | - |
| stainability | (noun) (cytology) the capacity of cells or cell parts to stain specifically with certain dyes | - |
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| stainer | (noun) a worker who stains (wood or fabric) | - |
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| staining | (noun) (histology) the use of a dye to color specimens for microscopic study | - |
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| (noun) the act of spotting or staining something | Synonyms: maculation, spotting |
| stainless | (noun) steel containing chromium that makes it resistant to corrosion | Synonyms: chromium steel, stainless steel |
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| stair | (noun) support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway | Synonyms: step |
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| staircase | (noun) a way of access (upward and downward) consisting of a set of steps | Synonyms: stairway |
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| stairhead | (noun) platform at the top of a staircase | - |
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| stairs | (noun) a flight of stairs or a flight of steps | Synonyms: steps |
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| stairway | (noun) a way of access (upward and downward) consisting of a set of steps | Synonyms: staircase |
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| stairwell | (noun) a vertical well around which there is a stairway | - |
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| sustainability | (noun) the property of being sustainable | - |
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