| 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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| ail | (noun) aromatic bulb used as seasoning | Synonyms: garlic |
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| (verb) be ill or unwell | - |
| (verb) cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed | Synonyms: pain, trouble |
| ailanthus | (noun) any of several deciduous Asian trees of the genus Ailanthus | - |
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| aileron | (noun) an airfoil that controls lateral motion | - |
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| ailing | (adjective) somewhat ill or prone to illness | Synonyms: indisposed, peaked, poorly, seedy, sickly, under the weather, unwell |
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| ailment | (noun) an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining | Synonyms: complaint, ill |
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| ailurophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of cats | - |
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| airmail | (noun) a system of conveying mail by aircraft | Synonyms: airpost |
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| (noun) letters and packages that are transported by aircraft | - |
| (verb) send or transport by airmail | - |
| airmailer | (noun) a mailer for airmail | - |
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| assail | (verb) attack in speech or writing | Synonyms: assault, attack, lash out, round, snipe |
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| (verb) attack someone physically or emotionally | Synonyms: assault, attack, set on |
| (verb) launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with | Synonyms: attack |
| assailability | (noun) vulnerability to forceful attack | - |
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| assailable | (adjective) not defended or capable of being defended | Synonyms: open, undefendable, undefended |
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| assailant | (noun) someone who attacks | Synonyms: aggressor, assaulter, attacker |
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| avail | (noun) a means of serving | Synonyms: help, service |
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| (verb) take advantage of | - |
| (verb) take or use | Synonyms: help |
| (verb) be of use to, be useful to | - |
| availability | (noun) the quality of being at hand when needed | Synonyms: accessibility, availableness, handiness |
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| available | (adjective) obtainable or accessible and ready for use or service | - |
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| (adjective) convenient for use or disposal | Synonyms: usable, useable |
| (adjective) not busy; not otherwise committed | Synonyms: uncommitted |
| availableness | (noun) the quality of being at hand when needed | Synonyms: accessibility, availability, handiness |
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| aventail | (noun) a medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck | Synonyms: camail, ventail |
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| bail | (noun) the legal system that allows an accused person to be temporarily released from custody (usually on condition that a sum of money guarantees their appearance at trial) | - |
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| (noun) (criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial | Synonyms: bail bond, bond |
| (verb) remove (water) from a vessel with a container | - |
| (verb) empty (a vessel) by bailing | - |
| (verb) secure the release of (someone) by providing security | - |
| (verb) deliver something in trust to somebody for a special purpose and for a limited period | - |
| (verb) release after a security has been paid | - |
| bailable | (adjective) eligible for bail | - |
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| (adjective) admitting of bail | - |
| bailee | (noun) the agent to whom property involved in a bailment is delivered | - |
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| bailey | (noun) the outer defensive wall that surrounds the outer courtyard of a castle | - |
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| (noun) the outer courtyard of a castle | - |
| bailiff | (noun) an officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc. | - |
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| bailiffship | (noun) the office of bailiff | - |
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| bailiwick | (noun) a branch of knowledge | Synonyms: discipline, field, field of study, study, subject, subject area, subject field |
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| (noun) the area over which a bailiff has jurisdiction | - |
| bailment | (noun) the delivery of personal property in trust by the bailor to the bailee | - |
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| bailor | (noun) the person who delivers personal property (goods or money) in trust to the bailee in a bailment | - |
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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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| bewail | (verb) regret strongly | Synonyms: bemoan, deplore, lament |
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| blackmail | (noun) extortion of money by threats to divulge discrediting information | - |
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| (verb) obtain through threats | - |
| (verb) exert pressure on someone through threats | Synonyms: blackjack, pressure |
| blackmailer | (noun) a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them | Synonyms: extortioner, extortionist |
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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 | (adjective) having a short or shortened tail | Synonyms: bobtailed |
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| (noun) a short or shortened tail of certain animals | Synonyms: bob, dock |
| (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 |
| bobtailed | (adjective) having a short or shortened tail | Synonyms: bobtail |
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| brail | (noun) a small rope (one of several) used to draw a sail in | - |
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| (noun) a small net used to draw fish into a boat | - |
| (verb) haul fish aboard with brails | - |
| (verb) take in a sail with a brail | - |
| braille | (noun) a point system of writing in which patterns of raised dots represent letters and numerals | - |
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| (verb) transcribe in braille | - |
| 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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| camail | (noun) a medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck | Synonyms: aventail, ventail |
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| capercaillie | (noun) large black Old World grouse | Synonyms: capercailzie, horse of the wood, Tetrao urogallus |
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| capercailzie | (noun) large black Old World grouse | Synonyms: capercaillie, horse of the wood, Tetrao urogallus |
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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 | - |
| contrail | (noun) an artificial cloud created by an aircraft; caused either by condensation due to the reduction in air pressure above the wing surface or by water vapor in the engine exhaust | Synonyms: condensation trail |
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| 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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| countervail | (verb) oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions | Synonyms: counteract, counterbalance, neutralize |
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| (verb) compensate for or counterbalance | Synonyms: offset |
| curtail | (verb) place restrictions on | Synonyms: curb, cut back, restrict |
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| (verb) terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent | Synonyms: clip, cut short |
| 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 | - |
| daily | (adjective) appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions | Synonyms: casual, everyday |
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| (adjective) of or belonging to or occurring every day | Synonyms: day-after-day, day-by-day, day-to-day |
| (noun) a newspaper that is published every day | - |
| (adverb) every day; without missing a day | - |
| (adverb) gradually and progressively | Synonyms: day by day |
| derail | (verb) run off or leave the rails | Synonyms: jump |
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| (verb) cause to run off the tracks | - |
| derailment | (noun) an accident in which a train runs off its track | - |
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| 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 |
| (verb) assign to a specific task | - |
| (verb) provide details for | - |
| detailed | (adjective) developed or executed with care and in minute detail | Synonyms: elaborate, elaborated |
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| 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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| doornail | (noun) a nail with a large head; formerly used to decorate doors | - |
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| dovetail | (noun) a mortise joint formed by interlocking tenons and mortises | Synonyms: dovetail joint |
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| (verb) fit together tightly, as if by means of a dovetail | - |
| email | (noun) (computer science) a system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that can be regenerated at the recipient's terminal when the recipient logs in | Synonyms: e-mail, electronic mail |
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| (verb) communicate electronically on the computer | Synonyms: e-mail, netmail |
| 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 | - |
| (verb) limit the inheritance of property to a specific class of heirs | Synonyms: fee-tail |
| (verb) impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result | Synonyms: implicate |
| (verb) have as a logical consequence | Synonyms: imply, mean |
| entailment | (noun) something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied) | Synonyms: deduction, implication |
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| entrails | (noun) internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity) | Synonyms: innards, insides, viscera |
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| fail | (verb) stop operating or functioning | Synonyms: break, break down, conk out, die, give out, give way, go, go bad |
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| (verb) deteriorate | - |
| (verb) prove insufficient | Synonyms: give out, run out |
| (verb) disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake | Synonyms: betray |
| (verb) become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close | - |
| (verb) be unsuccessful | Synonyms: go wrong, miscarry |
| (verb) fail to get a passing grade | Synonyms: bomb, flunk, flush it |
| (verb) fail to do something; leave something undone | Synonyms: neglect |
| (verb) judge unacceptable | - |
| (verb) be unable | - |
| (verb) fall short in what is expected | - |
| failing | (adjective) below acceptable in performance | - |
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| (noun) failure to reach a minimum required performance | Synonyms: flunk |
| (noun) a flaw or weak point | Synonyms: weakness |
| faille | (noun) a ribbed woven fabric of silk or rayon or cotton | - |
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| failure | (noun) an act that fails | - |
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| (noun) an unexpected omission | - |
| (noun) an event that does not accomplish its intended purpose | - |
| (noun) a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently | Synonyms: loser, nonstarter, unsuccessful person |
| (noun) lack of success | - |
| (noun) loss of ability to function normally | - |
| (noun) inability to discharge all your debts as they come due | Synonyms: bankruptcy |
| 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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| fingernail | (noun) the nail at the end of a finger | - |
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| fishtail | (verb) slow down by moving the tail sideways | - |
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| flail | (noun) an implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end; used in manual threshing | - |
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| (verb) give a thrashing to; beat hard | Synonyms: lam, thrash, thresh |
| (verb) move like a flail; thresh about | Synonyms: thresh |
| flickertail | (noun) of sagebrush and grassland areas of western United States and Canada | Synonyms: Citellus richardsoni, Richardson ground squirrel |
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| foresail | (noun) the lowest sail on the foremast of a square-rigged vessel | - |
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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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| frail | (adjective) physically weak | - |
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| (adjective) easily broken or damaged or destroyed | Synonyms: delicate, fragile |
| (adjective) wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings | Synonyms: fallible, imperfect, weak |
| (noun) a basket for holding dried fruit (especially raisins or figs) | - |
| (noun) the weight of a frail (basket) full of raisins or figs; between 50 and 75 pounds | - |
| frailness | (noun) the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age) | Synonyms: debility, feebleness, frailty, infirmity, valetudinarianism |
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| frailty | (noun) moral weakness | Synonyms: vice |
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| (noun) the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age) | Synonyms: debility, feebleness, frailness, infirmity, valetudinarianism |
| freemail | (noun) a service providing free email delivery in exchange for exposure to advertising | - |
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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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| gaffsail | (noun) a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail suspended from a gaff | Synonyms: gaff-headed sail |
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| gaillardia | (noun) any plant of western America of the genus Gaillardia having hairy leaves and long-stalked flowers in hot vibrant colors from golden yellow and copper to rich burgundy | - |
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| gaily | (adverb) in a gay manner | - |
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| grail | (noun) (legend) chalice used by Christ at the Last Supper | Synonyms: Holy Grail, Sangraal |
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| (noun) the object of any prolonged endeavor | - |
| greenmail | (noun) (corporation) the practice of purchasing enough shares in a firm to threaten a takeover and thereby forcing the owners to buy those shares back at a premium in order to stay in business | - |
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| grisaille | (noun) chiaroscuro painting or stained glass etc., in shades of grey imitating the effect of relief | - |
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| guardrail | (noun) a railing placed alongside a stairway or road for safety | Synonyms: safety rail |
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| hail | (noun) enthusiastic greeting | - |
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| (noun) many objects thrown forcefully through the air | - |
| (noun) precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents | - |
| (verb) greet enthusiastically or joyfully | Synonyms: herald |
| (verb) call for | - |
| (verb) praise vociferously | Synonyms: acclaim, herald |
| (verb) be a native of | Synonyms: come |
| (verb) precipitate as small ice particles | - |
| hailstone | (noun) small pellet of ice that falls during a hailstorm | - |
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| hailstorm | (noun) a storm during which hail falls | - |
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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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| handrail | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balusters, balustrade, banister, bannister |
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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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| headsail | (noun) any sail set forward of the foremast of a vessel | - |
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| hightail | (verb) retreat at full speed | Synonyms: high-tail |
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| hobnail | (noun) a short nail with a thick head; used to protect the soles of boots | - |
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| (verb) supply with hobnails | - |
| hobnailed | (adjective) marked by the wearing of heavy boots studded with hobnails | - |
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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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| jail | (noun) a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence) | Synonyms: clink, gaol, jailhouse, pokey, poky, slammer |
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| (verb) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail | Synonyms: gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand |
| jailbird | (noun) a criminal who has been jailed repeatedly | Synonyms: gaolbird, jail bird |
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