taillike | (adjective) resembling a tail | Synonyms: caudal |
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tailor | (noun) a person whose occupation is making and altering garments | Synonyms: sartor, seamster |
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(verb) adjust to a specific need or market | Synonyms: orient |
(verb) create (clothes) with cloth | Synonyms: sew, tailor-make |
(verb) style and tailor in a certain fashion | Synonyms: cut |
tailorbird | (noun) tropical Asian warbler that stitches leaves together to form and conceal its nest | Synonyms: Orthotomus sutorius |
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tailored | (adjective) (of clothing) custom-made | Synonyms: bespoke, bespoken, made-to-order, tailor-made |
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(adjective) severely simple in line or design | Synonyms: trim |
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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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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(verb) drive obliquely | Synonyms: toe |
topsail | (noun) a sail (or either of a pair of sails) immediately above the lowermost sail of a mast and supported by a topmast | - |
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trail | (noun) a path or track roughly blazed through wild or hilly country | - |
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(noun) evidence pointing to a possible solution | Synonyms: lead, track |
(noun) a track or mark left by something that has passed | - |
(verb) drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground | Synonyms: train |
(verb) hang down so as to drag along the ground | - |
(verb) go after with the intent to catch | Synonyms: chase, chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tag, tail, track |
(verb) move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly | Synonyms: shack |
(verb) to lag or linger behind | Synonyms: drag, drop back, drop behind, get behind, hang back |
trailblazer | (noun) someone who marks a trail by leaving blazes on trees | - |
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(noun) someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art | Synonyms: groundbreaker, innovator, pioneer |
trailer | (noun) a wheeled vehicle that can be pulled by a car or truck and is equipped for occupancy | Synonyms: house trailer |
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(noun) a large transport conveyance designed to be pulled by a truck or tractor | - |
(noun) an advertisement consisting of short scenes from a motion picture that will appear in the near future | Synonyms: preview, prevue |
(noun) someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind | Synonyms: dawdler, drone, laggard, lagger, poke |
trailhead | (noun) the beginning of a trail | Synonyms: trail head |
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trailing | (noun) the pursuit (of a person or animal) by following tracks or marks they left behind | Synonyms: tracking |
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travail | (noun) use of physical or mental energy; hard work | Synonyms: effort, elbow grease, exertion, sweat |
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(noun) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child | Synonyms: childbed, confinement, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency |
(verb) work hard | Synonyms: dig, drudge, fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, toil |
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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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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unassailable | (adjective) without flaws or loopholes | Synonyms: bulletproof, ironclad, unshakable, watertight |
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(adjective) impossible to assail | Synonyms: untouchable |
(adjective) immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with | Synonyms: impregnable, inviolable, secure, strong, unattackable |
unassailably | (adverb) in an unalterable and unchangeable manner | Synonyms: immutably, unalterably, unchangeably |
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unavailability | (noun) the quality of not being available when needed | - |
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unavailable | (adjective) not available or accessible or at hand | - |
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unavailing | (adjective) producing no result or effect | Synonyms: futile, ineffectual, meaningless, otiose |
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unfailing | (adjective) tireless | Synonyms: unflagging |
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(adjective) always able to supply more | - |
(adjective) not liable to failure | Synonyms: foolproof |
unfailingly | (adverb) without fail | - |
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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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voicemail | (noun) a computerized system for answering and routing telephone calls; telephone messages can be recorded and stored and relayed | Synonyms: voice mail |
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volaille | (noun) the flesh of a chicken used for food | Synonyms: chicken, poulet |
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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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wail | (noun) a cry of sorrow and grief | Synonyms: lament, lamentation, plaint |
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(verb) cry weakly or softly | Synonyms: mewl, pule, whimper |
(verb) emit long loud cries | Synonyms: howl, roar, ululate, yaup, yawl |
wailer | (noun) a mourner who utters long loud high-pitched cries | - |
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wailful | (adjective) vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression | Synonyms: lamenting, wailing |
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wailing | (adjective) vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression | Synonyms: lamenting, wailful |
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(noun) loud cries made while weeping | Synonyms: bawling |
wassail | (noun) a punch made of sweetened ale or wine heated with spices and roasted apples; especially at Christmas | - |
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(verb) propose a toast to | Synonyms: drink, pledge, salute, toast |
(verb) celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities | Synonyms: jollify, make happy, make merry, make whoopee, racket, revel, whoop it up |
wassailer | (noun) someone who enjoys riotous drinking | Synonyms: carouser |
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(noun) someone who who drinks to the health of someone or the success of some venture | Synonyms: toaster |
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 |