English Words: T

Alternative form of tailswing.

A minor or secondary part of something which is controlling or dominating the whole or the main part.

Synonym of tail-pole.

Alternative form of tailender.

A wooden pole, usually fifteen to twenty-five long and nine inches in diameter, used to rotate a windmill into the wind.

tail autotomy, the defensive technique used by some animals (especially some lizards) of shedding their tail to escape a predator

Alternative form of tailskid.

Of a cursor: not closed when the end of the resultset is reached, but able to be used as further documents are added to the collection.

A pain or ache in the tail.

man (pejorative) (obsolete)

A line of motor vehicles causing or the result of traffic congestion or a traffic jam.

An endband attached to the bottom of the spine of a book.

The rhythmic beating of an animal's tail.

A hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle that can be lowered for loading and unloading; a tailgate.

The final fused vertebrae at the base of the spine; the coccyx.

The proliferating mass of cells found at the caudal end of an embryo.

To spin on the tail of the board while keeping the nose off the snow.

A formal evening jacket with an extended back panel; a dress coat.

Dressed in a tailcoat.

Synonym of tailgut.

A cuff, attached to the tail, used to measure blood pressure in small animals.

An American lupine, Lupinus caudatus

An aircraft with a wheel behind the main landing gear, underneath the tail.

simple past and past participle of tail

The condition of a distribution in having a specified form of tail

Alternative form of tail end.

One of the last four or five batsmen in the batting order, normally bowlers with limited batting ability; a member of the tail.

One who follows or tails surreptitiously, as an investigator.

A kind of tailplane or stabilator that can move differentially to perform the roll control function of an aileron.

The outer part of a bird's tail, farthest from the body.

Any of the feathers of a bird's tail.

A fin at the tail of a fish, caudal fin

With the tail in front.

A movement used by crustaceans to escape predators, involving rapid abdominal flexions that propel the creature backwards through the water.

The making of tailflips.

With the tail first or in front.

A hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle that can be lowered for loading and unloading.

One who tailgates (drives very close to the person ahead).

The act of driving dangerously close behind another vehicle.

A relatively long aliphatic tail or backbone of a molecule such as a surfactant

A cord which loops through the tailpiece and around the endpin of stringed musical instruments, and which is held at tension by a knot to secure the tailpiece to the body, traditionally made only of gut but now also made of nylon, wire and other synthetic materials.

The root of the tail, where it joins the rump, in cattle.

An opening in a garment for a tail to go through.

A device attached to the empennage of some military fixed-wing aircraft, used to achieve rapid deceleration during landings by catching the arresting gear of a runway or aircraft carrier.

The act of following someone.

The waste that remains after the minerals have been extracted from an ore by ore dressing; the waste from coal mining.

The practice of blindly following popular opinion.

A sexual act wherein the genitalia are stimulated by a tail.

A taillight.

A form of taxation levied on the land of peasants in pre-Revolutionary France.