Crossword-Solution: TAIL 4 letters, 503 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Tail	n.	Limitation; abridgment.
Tail	a.	Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed; as, estate tail.
Tail	n.	The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal.
Tail	n.	Any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles, in shape or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin.
Tail	n.	Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything, -- as opposed to the head, or the superior part.
Tail	n.	A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
Tail	n.	The side of a coin opposite to that which bears the head, effigy, or date; the reverse; -- rarely used except in the expression "heads or tails," employed when a coin is thrown up for the purpose of deciding some point by its fall.
Tail	n.	The distal tendon of a muscle.
Tail	n.	A downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes. It is formed of the permanent elongated style.
Tail	n.	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.
Tail	n.	One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
Tail	n.	A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
Tail	n.	The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
Tail	n.	Same as Tailing, 4.
Tail	n.	The bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate or tile.
Tail	n.	See Tailing, n., 5.
Tail	v. t.	To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
Tail	v. t.	To pull or draw by the tail.
Tail	v. i.	To hold by the end; -- said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; -- with in or into.
Tail	v. i.	To swing with the stern in a certain direction; -- said of a vessel at anchor; as, this vessel tails down stream.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
TAIL	anagram	ALIT, ALTI, ATLI, ITAL, LAIT, LATI, LIAT, LITA, TALI, TIAL, TILA

We have 503 clues for the answer “TAIL”

Clue	Answers
Animal's appendage often wagged	1 answer
"Prehensile" part	1 answer
Comet feature stretching behind	1 answer
A cat's may twitch while playing	1 answer
A dog wags it	1 answer
A sea horse has a prehensile one	1 answer
A suspect might have one	1 answer
Abate, with "off"	1 answer
Act the P.I.	1 answer
Act the private eye	1 answer
Aft part of a plane	1 answer
Aircraft's rear part	1 answer
Alkaline Trio "Nose Over ___"	1 answer
Almost all of a polliwog.	1 answer
An ape doesn't have one	1 answer
Angling attachment	1 answer
Animal feature	1 answer
Animal's appendage	1 answer
Appendage lacked by an unusual feline	1 answer
Dog's expressive part	1 answer
Apt rhyme for "surveil"	1 answer
Attribute of the "talking Francis."	1 answer
Suffix or caboose	1 answer
Back of a comet	1 answer
Back part of a plane	1 answer
Bad place to hold a tiger	1 answer
Barbary ape's lack	1 answer
Be just behind	1 answer
Beaver's useful appendage.	1 answer
Bedog	1 answer
Beginning of the end	1 answer
Best part of the lobster	1 answer
Bob or cat	1 answer
Bob or scut	1 answer
Body part that a Manx cat lacks	1 answer
Body part that a human lacks	1 answer
Body part that might wag	1 answer
Box kite's lack	1 answer
Built-in fly swatter for cows	1 answer
Bushy part of a squirrel	1 answer
Business end of a stingray	1 answer
Capybara's lack	1 answer
Cat costume part	1 answer
Cat's body part that aids in balance	1 answer
Cauda	1 answer
Caudal apendage	1 answer
Caudal extremity	1 answer
Coat or cat	1 answer
Comet appendage	1 answer
Comet dust	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.

Hint 2 anagram

CEMAZE

Hint 3 another clue

eruption

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Sentences with TAIL (5)

When playing Follow my Leader, Peter would fly close to the water and touch each shark’s tail in passing, just as in the street you may run your finger along an iron railing.

Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991

The next day, when it came out of its hole for food, he took up his axe, but by swinging too hastily, missed its head and cut off only the end of its tail.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

The idea of such a slight wind catching it.” The cow standing erect was of the Devon breed, and was encased in a tight warm hide of rich Indian red, as absolutely uniform from eyes to tail as if the animal had been dipped in a dye of that colour, her long back being mathematically level.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

The Man and the Serpent A Countryman’s son by accident trod upon a Serpent’s tail, which turned and bit him so that he died.

The Fables of Aesop Aesop 1992

She seized a live horse-shoe by the tail, and made prize of several five-fingers, and laid out a jelly-fish to melt in the warm sun.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

Quotes with TAIL (3)

Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Look, it's easy to outsmart a werewolf or a vampire," Jace said. "They're no smarter than anyone else. But faeries live for hundreds of years and they're as cunning as snakes. They can't lie, but they love to engage in creative truth-telling. They'll find out whatever it is you want most in the world and give it to you — with a sting in the tail of the gift that will make you regret you ever wanted it in the first place." He sighed. "They're not really about helping people. M…

Cassandra Clare City of Ashes

In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy... to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.

Josh Billings

Where this answer appears

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

Used 756 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).