| aventail | (noun) a medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck | Synonyms: camail, ventail |
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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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| blacktail | (noun) mule deer of western Rocky Mountains | Synonyms: black-tailed deer, blacktail deer, Odocoileus hemionus columbianus |
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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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| cattail | (noun) tall erect herbs with sword-shaped leaves; cosmopolitan in fresh and salt marshes | - |
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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 | - |
| 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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| 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 | - |
| 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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| dovetail | (noun) a mortise joint formed by interlocking tenons and mortises | Synonyms: dovetail joint |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| shirttail | (noun) fabric forming the tail of a shirt | - |
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| (noun) a brief addendum at the end of a newspaper article | - |
| 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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| swallowtail | (noun) a man's full-dress jacket with two long tapering tails at the back | Synonyms: morning coat, swallow-tailed coat |
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| swordtail | (noun) freshwater fish of Central America having a long swordlike tail; popular aquarium fish | Synonyms: helleri, topminnow, Xyphophorus helleri |
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| tail | (noun) the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body | - |
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| (noun) the rear part of a ship | Synonyms: after part, poop, quarter, stern |
| (noun) the rear part of an aircraft | Synonyms: empennage, tail assembly |
| (noun) (usually plural) the reverse side of a coin that does not bear the representation of a person's head | - |
| (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail end, tooshie, tush |
| (noun) a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements | Synonyms: shadow, shadower |
| (noun) any projection that resembles the tail of an animal | Synonyms: tail end |
| (noun) the time of the last part of something | Synonyms: fag end, tail end |
| tailback | (noun) (American football) the position of the offensive back on a football team who lines up farthest from the line of scrimmage | - |
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| (noun) (American football) the person who plays tailback | - |
| tailband | (noun) an endband along the bottom edge of the book (as a book is standing upright). | - |
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| tailboard | (noun) a gate at the rear of a vehicle; can be lowered for loading | Synonyms: tailgate |
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| tailcoat | (noun) formalwear consisting of full evening dress for men | Synonyms: dress suit, full dress, tail coat, tails, white tie, white tie and tails |
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| tailfin | (noun) a stabilizer that is part of the vertical tail structure of an airplane | Synonyms: tail fin, vertical fin, vertical stabiliser, vertical stabilizer |
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| (noun) one of a pair of decorations projecting above the rear fenders of an automobile | Synonyms: fin, tail fin |
| tailflower | (noun) any of various tropical American plants cultivated for their showy foliage and flowers | Synonyms: anthurium, tail-flower |
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| tailgate | (noun) a gate at the rear of a vehicle; can be lowered for loading | Synonyms: tailboard |
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| tailgater | (noun) a driver who follows too closely behind another motor vehicle | - |
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| tailing | (noun) the act of following someone secretly | Synonyms: shadowing |
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| taillight | (noun) lamp (usually red) mounted at the rear of a motor vehicle | Synonyms: rear lamp, rear light, tail lamp |
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| tailor | (noun) a person whose occupation is making and altering garments | Synonyms: sartor, seamster |
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| tailorbird | (noun) tropical Asian warbler that stitches leaves together to form and conceal its nest | Synonyms: Orthotomus sutorius |
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| tailoring | (noun) the occupation of a tailor | - |
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| tailpiece | (noun) appendage added to extend the length of something | - |
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| tailpipe | (noun) a pipe carrying fumes from the muffler to the rear of a car | - |
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| tailplane | (noun) the horizontal airfoil of an aircraft's tail assembly that is fixed and to which the elevator is hinged | Synonyms: horizontal stabiliser, horizontal stabilizer |
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| tailrace | (noun) a watercourse that carries water away from a mill or water wheel or turbine | - |
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| tails | (noun) formalwear consisting of full evening dress for men | Synonyms: dress suit, full dress, tail coat, tailcoat, white tie, white tie and tails |
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| tailspin | (noun) rapid descent of an aircraft in a steep spiral | Synonyms: spin |
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| (noun) loss of emotional control often resulting in emotional collapse | - |
| tailstock | (noun) support consisting of the movable part of a lathe that slides along the bed in alignment with the headstock and is locked into position to support the free end of the workpiece | - |
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| tailwind | (noun) wind blowing in the same direction as the path of a ship or aircraft | - |
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| tailwort | (noun) hairy blue-flowered European annual herb long used in herbal medicine and eaten raw as salad greens or cooked like spinach | Synonyms: borage, Borago officinalis |
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| telsontail | (noun) any of several minute primitive wingless and eyeless insects having a cone-shaped head; inhabit damp soil or decaying organic matter | Synonyms: proturan |
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| tripletail | (noun) large food fish of warm waters worldwide having long anal and dorsal fins that with a caudal fin suggest a three-lobed tail | - |
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| ventail | (noun) a medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck | Synonyms: aventail, camail |
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| wagtail | (noun) Old World bird having a very long tail that jerks up and down as it walks | - |
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| whiptail | (noun) any of numerous very agile and alert New World lizards | Synonyms: whiptail lizard |
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| whitetail | (noun) common North American deer; tail has a white underside | Synonyms: Odocoileus Virginianus, Virginia deer, white-tailed deer, white tail, whitetail deer |
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| yellowtail | (noun) superior food fish of the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean with broad yellow stripe along the sides and on the tail | Synonyms: Ocyurus chrysurus, yellowtail snapper |
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| (noun) game fish of southern California and Mexico having a yellow tail fin | Synonyms: Seriola dorsalis |