Words Ending With AIL
Explore the intriguing collection of words that conclude with the letter AIL. This section emphasizes how the final placement of AIL influences the tone and character of each word. Whether it's common vocabulary or less familiar terms, uncover the unique impact of ending with AIL in the world of words.
3 letter words
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| ail | 3 | cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed | - |
4 letter words
View all| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| jail | 11 | lock up or confine, in or as in a jail | - |
| 6 | cause to be directed or transmitted to another place | I'll mail you the paper when it's written | |
| fail | 7 | disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake | His sense of smell failed him this time |
| tail | 4 | a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements | - |
| hail | 7 | praise vociferously | The critics hailed the young pianist as a new Rubinstein |
| nail | 4 | hit hard | - |
| bail | 6 | (criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial | the judge set bail at $10,000 |
| sail | 4 | move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions | Shreds of paper sailed through the air |
| rail | 4 | a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports | - |
| wail | 7 | emit long loud cries | wail in self-pity |
| pail | 6 | the quantity contained in a pail | - |
| vail | 7 | - | - |
| kail | 8 | a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head | - |
5 letter words
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|---|---|---|---|
| trail | 5 | to lag or linger behind | - |
| 7 | communicate electronically on the computer | - | |
| snail | 5 | edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic | - |
| grail | 6 | (legend) chalice used by Christ at the Last Supper | - |
| frail | 8 | easily broken or damaged or destroyed | a frail craft |
| quail | 14 | draw back, as with fear or pain | - |
| avail | 8 | a means of serving | of no avail |
| flail | 8 | move like a flail; thresh about | Her arms were flailing |
| swail | 8 | - | - |
| spail | 7 | - | - |
| skail | 9 | - | - |
| scail | 7 | - | - |
| brail | 7 | a small net used to draw fish into a boat | - |
| drail | 6 | - | - |
6 letter words
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|---|---|---|---|
| detail | 7 | a small part that can be considered separately from the whole | it was perfect in all details |
| retail | 6 | be sold at the retail level | These gems retail at thousands of dollars each |
| derail | 7 | run off or leave the rails | the train derailed because a cow was standing on the tracks |
| entail | 6 | have as a logical consequence | - |
| oxtail | 13 | the skinned tail of cattle; used especially for soups | - |
| assail | 6 | attack in speech or writing | - |
| agnail | 7 | a loose narrow strip of skin near the base of a fingernail; tearing it produces a painful sore that is easily infected | - |
| bewail | 11 | regret strongly | - |
| camail | 10 | a medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck | - |
| aumail | 8 | - | - |
| embail | 10 | - | - |
| mesail | 8 | - | - |
| mezail | 17 | - | - |
| limail | 8 | - | - |
| jezail | 22 | - | - |
| unvail | 9 | - | - |
| unnail | 6 | - | - |
| squail | 15 | - | - |
| tenail | 6 | - | - |
| serail | 6 | living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household | - |
| resail | 6 | - | - |
| rerail | 6 | - | - |
| renail | 6 | - | - |
| remail | 8 | - | - |
7 letter words
View all| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| prevail | 12 | prove superior | The champion prevailed, though it was a hard fight |
| abigail | 10 | - | - |
| toenail | 7 | drive obliquely | - |
| curtail | 9 | terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent | Personal freedom is curtailed in many countries |
| pigtail | 10 | a plait of braided hair | - |
| topsail | 9 | a sail (or either of a pair of sails) immediately above the lowermost sail of a mast and supported by a topmast | - |
| travail | 10 | concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child | - |
| airmail | 9 | a system of conveying mail by aircraft | - |
| bobtail | 11 | a short or shortened tail of certain animals | - |
| foxtail | 17 | grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes | - |
| wassail | 10 | celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities | - |
| wagtail | 11 | Old World bird having a very long tail that jerks up and down as it walks | - |
| entrail | 7 | - | - |
| engrail | 8 | - | - |
| outsail | 7 | sail faster or better than | They outsailed the Roman fleet |
| reavail | 10 | - | - |
| rattail | 7 | deep-sea fish with a large head and body and long tapering tail | - |
| redtail | 8 | European songbird with a reddish breast and tail; related to Old World robins | - |
| pintail | 9 | long-necked river duck of the Old and New Worlds having elongated central tail feathers | - |
| pedrail | 10 | - | - |
| jeofail | 17 | - | - |
| lugsail | 8 | a sail with four corners that is hoisted from a yard that is oblique to the mast | - |
| fantail | 10 | an overhang consisting of the fan-shaped part of the deck extending aft of the sternpost of a ship | - |
| hobnail | 12 | a short nail with a thick head; used to protect the soles of boots | - |
| cattail | 9 | tall erect herbs with sword-shaped leaves; cosmopolitan in fresh and salt marshes | - |
| bedrail | 10 | - | - |
| ragtail | 8 | - | - |
| toprail | 9 | - | - |
| lobtail | 9 | - | - |
| dogtail | 9 | - | - |
| daysail | 11 | - | - |
| trysail | 10 | - | - |
| webmail | 14 | - | - |
| vitrail | 10 | - | - |
| ventail | 10 | a medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck | - |
| vassail | 10 | - | - |
| vessail | 10 | - | - |
| trenail | 7 | a wooden peg that is used to fasten timbers in shipbuilding; water causes the peg to swell and hold the timbers fast | - |
| skysail | 14 | the sail above the royal on a square-rigger | - |
8 letter words
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|---|---|---|---|
| cocktail | 16 | an appetizer served as a first course at a meal | - |
| ponytail | 13 | a hair style that draws the hair back so that it hangs down in back of the head like a pony's tail | - |
| doornail | 9 | a nail with a large head; formerly used to decorate doors | - |
| ringtail | 9 | North American raccoon | - |
| handrail | 12 | a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | - |
| mainsail | 10 | the lowermost sail on the mainmast | - |
| monorail | 10 | a railway having a single track | - |
| hightail | 15 | retreat at full speed | - |
| hangnail | 12 | a loose narrow strip of skin near the base of a fingernail; tearing it produces a painful sore that is easily infected | - |
| fishtail | 14 | slow down by moving the tail sideways | The airplane fishtailed on the runway |
| dovetail | 12 | a mortise joint formed by interlocking tenons and mortises | - |
| foresail | 11 | the lowest sail on the foremast of a square-rigged vessel | - |
| parasail | 10 | parachute that will lift a person up into the air when it is towed by a motorboat or a car | - |
| staysail | 11 | a fore-and-aft sail set on a stay (as between two masts) | - |
| hardtail | 12 | - | - |
| dogstail | 10 | - | - |
| plowtail | 13 | - | - |
| sangrail | 9 | - | - |
| contrail | 10 | 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 | - |
| coattail | 10 | the loose back flap of a coat that hangs below the waist | - |
| motorail | 10 | - | - |
| mocktail | 16 | - | - |
| moonsail | 10 | - | - |
| milltail | 10 | - | - |
| goldtail | 10 | - | - |
| landrail | 9 | - | - |
| horntail | 11 | - | - |
| headsail | 12 | any sail set forward of the foremast of a vessel | - |
| headrail | 12 | - | - |
| hairtail | 11 | long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth; closely related to snake mackerel | - |
| graymail | 14 | - | - |
| distrail | 9 | - | - |
| gaffsail | 15 | a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail suspended from a gaff | - |
| forktail | 15 | - | - |
| facemail | 15 | - | - |
| ducktail | 15 | - | - |
| bucktail | 16 | - | - |
| brantail | 10 | - | - |
| boattail | 10 | - | - |
| bangtail | 11 | a horse bred for racing | - |
| aventail | 11 | a medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck | - |
| oversail | 11 | - | - |
| reassail | 8 | assail again | Her old fears reassailed her |
| paravail | 13 | - | - |
| sliprail | 10 | - | - |
| silktail | 12 | - | - |
| treenail | 8 | a wooden peg that is used to fasten timbers in shipbuilding; water causes the peg to swell and hold the timbers fast | - |
| taffrail | 14 | the railing around the stern of a ship | - |
| stunsail | 8 | - | - |
| windsail | 12 | - | - |
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9 letter words
View all| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| blackmail | 19 | exert pressure on someone through threats | - |
| voicemail | 16 | a computerized system for answering and routing telephone calls; telephone messages can be recorded and stored and relayed | - |
| thumbnail | 16 | the nail of the thumb | - |
| guardrail | 11 | a railing placed alongside a stairway or road for safety | - |
| horsetail | 12 | 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 | - |
| chemtrail | 16 | - | - |
| browntail | 14 | small brown and white European moth introduced into eastern United States; pest of various shade and fruit trees | - |
| swingtail | 13 | - | - |
| thorntail | 12 | - | - |
| sharptail | 14 | - | - |
| lunchpail | 16 | - | - |
| checkrail | 20 | - | - |
| broadtail | 12 | hardy coarse-haired sheep of central Asia; lambs are valued for their soft curly black fur | - |
| blacktail | 17 | mule deer of western Rocky Mountains | - |
| harestail | 12 | - | - |
| greenmail | 12 | (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 | - |
| disentail | 10 | - | - |
| interrail | 9 | - | - |
| swordtail | 13 | freshwater fish of Central America having a long swordlike tail; popular aquarium fish | - |
| sprigtail | 12 | large grouse of prairies and open forests of western North America | - |
| spritsail | 11 | a fore-and-aft sail extended by a sprit | - |
| shirttail | 12 | a brief addendum at the end of a newspaper article | - |
| shavetail | 15 | - | - |
| scaletail | 11 | - | - |
| whitetail | 15 | common North American deer; tail has a white underside | - |
| mousetail | 11 | - | - |
10 letter words
View all| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| fingernail | 14 | the nail at the end of a finger | - |
| yellowtail | 16 | superior food fish of the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean with broad yellow stripe along the sides and on the tail | - |
| cottontail | 12 | 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) | - |
| disentrail | 11 | - | - |
| springtail | 13 | 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 | - |
| silvertail | 13 | - | - |
| ploughtail | 16 | - | - |
| tripletail | 12 | large food fish of warm waters worldwide having long anal and dorsal fins that with a caudal fin suggest a three-lobed tail | - |
| breastrail | 12 | - | - |
| beavertail | 15 | - | - |
