8-letter words containing ail
- jailbait — a girl with whom sexual intercourse is punishable as statutory rape because she is under the legal age of consent.
- jailbird — a person who is or has been confined in jail; convict or ex-convict.
- jailings — Plural form of jailing.
- kailyard — a kitchen garden.
- kicktail — The upwards-bent tip of the deck of a skateboard.
- landrail — The corncrake, Crex crex.
- longtail — A common designation for an animal that has an unusually long tail relative to similar species.
- lugsails — Plural form of lugsail.
- mail car — a railroad car for carrying mail.
- mail hub — mail server
- mail out — If someone mails out things such as letters, leaflets, or bills, they send them to a large number of people at the same time.
- mail van — a small or medium-sized road vehicle that is used to transport letters, packages, etc
- mail-out — an act or instance of mailing out a quantity of letters, circulars, or the like; mailing.
- mailable — legally acceptable as mail, as in terms of content, size, or weight.
- mailbags — Plural form of mailbag.
- mailboat — a boat for transporting mail.
- mailbomb — Alternative form of mail bomb.
- mailclad — Protected by a coat of mail; clad in armour.
- maildrop — A place where postal mail is received and then forwarded to another address, used for anonymity or as a fixed address for somebody who is travelling.
- mailgram — a telegram sent to a post office and subsequently printed and delivered by the post office to the addressee
- mailings — Plural form of mailing.
- maillart — Robert [raw-ber] /rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), 1872–1940, Swiss engineer.
- maillots — Plural form of maillot.
- mailouts — an act or instance of mailing out a quantity of letters, circulars, or the like; mailing.
- mailroom — Also, mail room. a room used for handling incoming and outgoing mail, as in a large organization.
- mailshot — Bulk advertising sent through the post/mail.
- mainsail — the lowermost sail on a mainmast.
- mci mail — (messaging) The first commercial Internet electronic mail service, launched by MCI in about 1981. Vint Cerf was the chief engineer. Reading mail was free but you had to pay to send. Users discovered you could communicate for free by sharing an account. One user would save a message as a draft and the other would read it and replace it with his response.
- milltail — the channel carrying water that has flown through the mill wheel away from the mill
- mocktail — a nonalcoholic cocktail.
- monorail — a single rail functioning as a track for wheeled vehicles, as railroad or other cars, balanced upon or suspended from it.
- moonsail — a small sail carried high on the mast above the skysail
- motorail — a rail service carrying cars and their drivers as well as ordinary passengers
- nail bar — a type of beauty salon specializing in manicure and the decoration of, esp women's, fingernails
- nail bed — the dermis and epidermis under a fingernail or toenail.
- nail set — a short rod of steel used to drive a nail below or flush with a surface.
- nailfile — a small file of metal or cardboard, for trimming, smoothing, or shaping the fingernails and sometimes having a point for removing dirt from under them.
- nailfold — the fold of skin at the base of the fingernail
- nailhead — the enlarged top of a nail, usually flattened but sometimes rounded.
- oversail — a projection
- oz-email — (company) An Internet access provider. Address: Sydney, Australia.
- paillard — a scallop, especially of veal or chicken, that is pounded flat and grilled or sautéed quickly.
- parasail — a special parachute, kept open with wing-tip holders to help provide lift, used in parasailing.
- paravail — being below or inferior to all others; specifically, being a tenant of one who holds land of another who is also a tenant: a tenant paravail.
- pin rail — Theater. a rail on a fly gallery, wall, etc., holding two rows of pins or cleats for securing lines attached to scenery.
- ponytail — an arrangement of the hair in a long lock drawn tightly against the back of the head and cinched so as to hang loosely.
- quailing — to lose heart or courage in difficulty or danger; shrink with fear.
- rail gun — a weapon consisting of a pair of parallel conductive rails, using a magnetic field and electric current to launch projectiles at very high velocity.
- railbird — a horse-racing fan who watches races or workouts from the railing along the track.
- railcard — pre-paid pass for train travel