Crossword-Solution: NAIL 4 letters, 500 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Nail	n.	the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes.
Nail	n.	The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.
Nail	n.	The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds.
Nail	n.	A slender, pointed piece of metal, usually with a head, used for fastening pieces of wood or other material together, by being driven into or through them.
Nail	a.	A measure of length, being two inches and a quarter, or the sixteenth of a yard.
Nail	n.	To fasten with a nail or nails; to close up or secure by means of nails; as, to nail boards to the beams.
Nail	n.	To stud or boss with nails, or as with nails.
Nail	n.	To fasten, as with a nail; to bind or hold, as to a bargain or to acquiescence in an argument or assertion; hence, to catch; to trap.
Nail	n.	To spike, as a cannon.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
NAIL	anagram	ALIN, ANIL, ANLI, ILAN, INLA, LAIN, LANI, LINA

We have 500 clues for the answer “NAIL”

Clue	Answers
"Ammunition" for a carpenter's gun	1 answer
"For want of a ___ the . . . "	1 answer
"For want of a ___ the shoe is lost"	1 answer
"For want of a ___, the shoe ...."	1 answer
2¼ inches.	1 answer
A carpenter can drive it	1 answer
A sixpenny or tenpenny.	1 answer
A stud.	1 answer
Accomplish flawlessly	1 answer
Ace, as a test	1 answer
Ace, like a test	1 answer
Adjunct of a horseshoe.	1 answer
Apprehend, so to speak	1 answer
At one's fingertip.	1 answer
Attach with a hammer	1 answer
BUILDING spike	1 answer
Bit of carpenter's gun ammo	1 answer
Biter's target	1 answer
Body part that gets clipped	1 answer
Brad or spike	1 answer
Brad that gets it perfectly?	1 answer
Brad's cousin	1 answer
Brad's kin	1 answer
Brad; spike.	1 answer
Buffed object	1 answer
Buffing target	1 answer
Cabinetmaker's need	1 answer
Capture: Colloq.	1 answer
Carpenter's gun insert	1 answer
Carpenter's gun projectile	1 answer
Carpenter's spike	1 answer
Carpentry unit	1 answer
Carpeter's need	1 answer
Carry out perfectly	1 answer
Catch a baserunner.	1 answer
Catch but good	1 answer
Catch, and how!	1 answer
Catch, slangily	1 answer
Certain striker's target	1 answer
Certain stud	1 answer
Claw or talon	1 answer
Claw, e.g.	1 answer
Clip-and-file item	1 answer
Cobbler's sparable	1 answer
Coffin closer	1 answer
Common board member?	1 answer
Companion of tooth.	1 answer
Cuticle neighbor	1 answer
Cuticle oil goes around it	1 answer
Detect and expose	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ARTEE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with NAIL (5)

She praised them equally, and shuddered delightfully when Michael showed her the place where he had killed one; and then she took them into Hook’s cabin and pointed to his watch which was hanging on a nail.

Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991

Maybe Emil will come out an’ have a look at it wid me.” He pushed back his chair, took his hat from the nail, and marched out with Emil, who, with his university ideas, was supposed to have instigated the silo.

O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

Standing up in her lodge, Thea could with her thumb nail dislodge flakes of carbon from the rock roof—the cooking-smoke of the Ancient People.

The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992

Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail.

A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 1992

Packard didn’t take no notice of that, but hung up his lantern on a nail and started towards where I was there in the dark, and motioned Bill to come.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

Quotes with NAIL (3)

And sometimes I believe your relentless analysis of June leaves something out, which is your feeling for her beyond knowledge, or in spite of knowledge. I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you do stop, and then a moment later you are at it again with a knife, like a surgeon. What will you do after you have revealed all there is to know about June? Truth. What ferocity in your quest of it. You destroy and you suffer. In som…

Anais Nin Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin

Under the fresco of the Savior on the south wall, with his only eye slanted and his face scratched, a certain scoundrel atheist was having a discussion with the Savior himself. Noseless and eyeless, how can I believe in you, Lord?! - A Komsomol atheist. This is how the author of the poem signed his name. A little lower down was the Lord's answer, also scratched with a nail: Komsomol, if you do not believe in the Gospel and God, please do not climb to this height again! - Jesu…

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Our assholes will be clean but we must never wash our hands. Our immune systems will be strengthened by our being dirty. Not filthy. Just mildly grimy. Filthy fingernails have always been a favorite fashion accessory of mine. Especially when you place your hands in the prayer positions. Matter of fact, I urge all my followers to forgo nail polish permanently and replace it with expertly applied soot. The nonexistent gods above will ignore our prayers better this way.

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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, Three Across, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 849 times in crossword archives (1944–2025).