| jailbreak | (noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: break, breakout, gaolbreak, prison-breaking, prisonbreak |
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| (noun) the removal of security locks from an electronic device | - |
| jailed | (adjective) being in captivity | Synonyms: captive, confined, imprisoned |
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| jailer | (noun) someone who guards prisoners | Synonyms: gaoler, jailor, prison guard, screw, turnkey |
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| jailhouse | (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, jail, pokey, poky, slammer |
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| jailor | (noun) someone who guards prisoners | Synonyms: gaoler, jailer, prison guard, screw, turnkey |
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| kail | (noun) coarse curly-leafed cabbage | Synonyms: cole, kale |
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| (noun) a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head | Synonyms: borecole, Brassica oleracea acephala, cole, colewort, kale |
| lugsail | (noun) a sail with four corners that is hoisted from a yard that is oblique to the mast | Synonyms: lug |
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| mail | (noun) (Middle Ages) flexible armor made of interlinked metal rings | Synonyms: chain armor, chain armour, chain mail, ring armor, ring armour, ring mail |
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| (noun) a conveyance that transports the letters and packages that are conveyed by the postal system | - |
| (noun) the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office | Synonyms: mail service, post, postal service |
| (noun) the bags of letters and packages that are transported by the postal service | - |
| (noun) any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered | Synonyms: post |
| (verb) cause to be directed or transmitted to another place | Synonyms: post, send |
| (verb) send via the postal service | Synonyms: get off |
| mailbag | (noun) letter carrier's shoulder bag | Synonyms: postbag |
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| (noun) pouch used in the shipment of mail | Synonyms: mail pouch |
| mailboat | (noun) a boat for carrying mail | Synonyms: mail boat, packet, packet boat |
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| mailbox | (noun) a private box for delivery of mail | Synonyms: letter box |
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| (noun) public box for deposit of mail | Synonyms: letter box, postbox |
| maildrop | (noun) a drop where mail can be deposited | - |
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| mailed | (adjective) wearing protective mail | Synonyms: mail-clad |
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| mailer | (noun) a container for something to be mailed | - |
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| (noun) an advertisement that is sent by mail | - |
| (noun) a person who mails something | - |
| mailing | (noun) the transmission of a letter | Synonyms: posting |
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| (noun) mail sent by a sender at one time | - |
| maillot | (noun) tights for dancers or gymnasts | - |
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| (noun) a woman's one-piece bathing suit | Synonyms: tank suit |
| mailman | (noun) a man who delivers the mail | Synonyms: carrier, letter carrier, mail carrier, postman |
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| mailsorter | (noun) a sorter for sorting mail according to the address | - |
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| mainsail | (noun) the lowermost sail on the mainmast | - |
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| monorail | (noun) a railway having a single track | - |
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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 | - |
| (verb) complete a pass | Synonyms: complete |
| (verb) attach something somewhere by means of nails | - |
| (verb) take into custody | Synonyms: apprehend, arrest, collar, cop, nab, pick up |
| (verb) hit with great force | Synonyms: blast, boom, smash |
| (verb) locate exactly | Synonyms: pinpoint |
| (verb) succeed at easily | Synonyms: ace, breeze through, pass with flying colors, sail through, sweep through |
| (verb) succeed in obtaining a position | Synonyms: nail down, peg |
| 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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| netmail | (verb) communicate electronically on the computer | Synonyms: e-mail, email |
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| outsail | (verb) sail faster or better than | - |
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| oxtail | (noun) the skinned tail of cattle; used especially for soups | - |
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| pail | (noun) a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top | Synonyms: bucket |
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| (noun) the quantity contained in a pail | Synonyms: pailful |
| pailful | (noun) the quantity contained in a pail | Synonyms: pail |
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| paillasse | (noun) mattress consisting of a thin pad filled with straw or sawdust | Synonyms: palliasse |
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| parasail | (noun) parachute that will lift a person up into the air when it is towed by a motorboat or a car | - |
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| parasailing | (noun) gliding in a parasail | Synonyms: paragliding |
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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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| prevail | (verb) use persuasion successfully | - |
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| (verb) prove superior | Synonyms: triumph |
| (verb) continue to exist | Synonyms: die hard, endure, persist, run |
| (verb) be valid, applicable, or true | Synonyms: hold, obtain |
| (verb) be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance | Synonyms: dominate, predominate, reign, rule |
| prevailing | (adjective) most frequent or common | Synonyms: dominant, predominant, prevalent, rife |
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| quail | (noun) small gallinaceous game birds | - |
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| (noun) flesh of quail; suitable for roasting or broiling if young; otherwise must be braised | - |
| (verb) draw back, as with fear or pain | Synonyms: cringe, flinch, funk, recoil, shrink, squinch, wince |
| rail | (noun) any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud | - |
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| (noun) a horizontal bar (usually of wood or metal) | - |
| (noun) a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll | Synonyms: rails, runway, track |
| (noun) a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports | Synonyms: railing |
| (noun) short for railway | - |
| (verb) complain bitterly | Synonyms: inveigh |
| (verb) spread negative information about | Synonyms: revile, vilify, vituperate |
| (verb) criticize severely | Synonyms: fulminate |
| (verb) fish with a handline over the rails of a boat | - |
| (verb) lay with rails | - |
| (verb) travel by rail or train | Synonyms: train |
| (verb) separate with a railing | Synonyms: rail off |
| (verb) convey (goods etc.) by rails | - |
| (verb) provide with rails | - |
| (verb) enclose with rails | Synonyms: rail in |
| railbird | (noun) a fan of racing who watches races from the outer rail of the track | - |
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| railcar | (noun) a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad | Synonyms: car, railroad car, railway car |
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| railhead | (noun) a railroad depot in a theater of operations where military supplies are unloaded for distribution | - |
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| (noun) the end of the completed track on an unfinished railway | - |
| railing | (noun) a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports | Synonyms: rail |
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| (noun) material for making rails or rails collectively | - |
| raillery | (noun) light teasing repartee | Synonyms: backchat, banter, give-and-take |
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| railroad | (noun) line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight | Synonyms: railroad line, railway, railway line, railway system |
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| (noun) a line of track providing a runway for wheels | Synonyms: railroad track, railway |
| (verb) transport by railroad | - |
| (verb) supply with railroad lines | - |
| (verb) compel by coercion, threats, or crude means | Synonyms: dragoon, sandbag |
| railroader | (noun) an employee of a railroad | Synonyms: railroad man, railway man, railwayman, trainman |
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| railroading | (noun) the activity of designing and constructing and operating railroads | Synonyms: rail technology |
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| rails | (noun) a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll | Synonyms: rail, runway, track |
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| railway | (noun) line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight | Synonyms: railroad, railroad line, railway line, railway system |
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| (noun) a line of track providing a runway for wheels | Synonyms: railroad, railroad track |
| railwayman | (noun) an employee of a railroad | Synonyms: railroad man, railroader, railway man, trainman |
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| railyard | (noun) an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines | Synonyms: railway yard, yard |
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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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| reassail | (verb) assail again | - |
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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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| (adverb) at a retail price | - |
| (verb) sell on the retail market | - |
| (verb) be sold at the retail level | - |
| 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 |
| sail | (noun) an ocean trip taken for pleasure | Synonyms: cruise |
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| (noun) a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel | Synonyms: canvas, canvass, sheet |
| (noun) any structure that resembles a sail | - |
| (verb) travel on water propelled by wind | - |
| (verb) move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions | Synonyms: sweep |
| (verb) travel on water propelled by wind or by other means | Synonyms: navigate, voyage |
| (verb) traverse or travel on (a body of water) | - |
| sailboat | (noun) a small sailing vessel; usually with a single mast | Synonyms: sailing boat |
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| sailcloth | (noun) a strong fabric (such as cotton canvas) used for making sails and tents | - |
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| sailfish | (noun) large pelagic game fish having an elongated upper jaw and long dorsal fin that resembles a sail | - |
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| (noun) a saltwater fish with lean flesh | - |
| sailing | (noun) riding in a sailboat | - |
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| (noun) the work of a sailor | Synonyms: navigation, seafaring |
| (noun) the departure of a vessel from a port | - |
| (noun) the activity of flying a glider | Synonyms: glide, gliding, sailplaning, soaring |
| sailmaker | (noun) a maker of sails | - |
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| sailor | (noun) a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown | Synonyms: boater, leghorn, Panama, Panama hat, skimmer, straw hat |
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| (noun) any member of a ship's crew | Synonyms: crewman |
| (noun) a serviceman in the navy | Synonyms: bluejacket, navy man, sailor boy |
| sailplane | (noun) aircraft supported only by the dynamic action of air against its surfaces | Synonyms: glider |
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| (verb) fly a plane without an engine | Synonyms: soar |
| sailplaning | (noun) the activity of flying a glider | Synonyms: glide, gliding, sailing, soaring |
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| 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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| 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 | - |
| semitrailer | (noun) a trailer having wheels only in the rear; the front is supported by the towing vehicle | Synonyms: semi |
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| serail | (noun) living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household | Synonyms: hareem, harem, seraglio |
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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 | - |
| skysail | (noun) the sail above the royal on a square-rigger | - |
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| 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 |
| (verb) gather snails | - |
| 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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| 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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| spritsail | (noun) a fore-and-aft sail extended by a sprit | - |
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| squaretail | (noun) sluggish square-tailed fish armored with tough bony scales; of deep warm waters | - |
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| staysail | (noun) a fore-and-aft sail set on a stay (as between two masts) | - |
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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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| taffrail | (noun) the railing around the stern of a ship | - |
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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 |
| (verb) remove or shorten the tail of an animal | Synonyms: bob, dock |
| (verb) remove the stalk of fruits or berries | - |
| (verb) go after with the intent to catch | Synonyms: chase, chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tag, track, trail |
| 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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| tailed | (adjective) having a tail of a specified kind; often used in combination | - |
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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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| (verb) follow at a dangerously close distance | - |
| 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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| tailless | (adjective) not having a tail | Synonyms: anurous |
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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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