tail
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How tail fits the hive
Base Score
1
Before any pangram bonus
Unique Letters
4
A I L T
Two-Letter Start
TA
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Ending
IL
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- 4 letters
- 4 unique letters
- TA start
- IL ending
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- tail is a four-letter word, so it is worth 1 point when accepted.
- It uses 4 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include a, i, l, t plus any remaining hive letters.
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Pronunciation
Definitions
noun
The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
"Most primates have a tail and fangs."
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An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
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The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
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The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.
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The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.
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The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
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The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
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The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
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The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
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One who surreptitiously follows another.
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The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
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The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
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(chiefly in the plural) The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.
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All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
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The buttocks or backside.
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The penis of a person or animal.
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Sexual intercourse.
"I'm gonna get me some tail tonight."
noun
(kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.
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A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
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The distal tendon of a muscle.
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A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies.
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A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
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A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; called also tailing.
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One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
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A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
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The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
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A tailing.
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The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
noun
A tailcoat.
verb
To follow and observe surreptitiously.
"Tail that car!"
verb
To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into
verb
To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
"This vessel tails downstream."
verb
To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
verb
To pull or draw by the tail.
noun
Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.
"in tail — subject to such a limitation"
adjective
Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.
"estate tail"
Related Words
Same Letters
- tallit
- atilt
- alit
- tali
Synonyms
- ass
- poon
- poontang
- punani
- pussy
- skin
- tang
- descender