8-letter words containing ail
- dog nail — a nail having a head projecting to one side.
- doornail — a large-headed nail formerly used for strengthening or ornamenting doors.
- dovetail — a tenon broader at its end than at its base; pin.
- ducktail — DA.
- e-tailer — the selling of goods and services on the Internet or through email solicitation.
- emailers — Plural form of emailer.
- emailing — Present participle of email.
- engrails — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of engrail.
- entailed — Simple past tense and past participle of entail.
- entrails — A person or animal's intestines or internal organs, especially when removed or exposed.
- etailing — Etailing is the business of selling products on the Internet.
- facemail — a computer program which uses an electronically generated face to deliver messages on screen
- failback — failover
- failings — Plural form of failing.
- failover — A method of protecting computer systems from failure, in which standby equipment automatically takes over when the main system fails.
- failsafe — Electronics. pertaining to or noting a mechanism built into a system, as in an early warning system or a nuclear reactor, for insuring safety should the system fail to operate properly.
- failures — Plural form of failure.
- fan mail — fan letters collectively.
- fantails — Plural form of fantail.
- fat tail — a tail on a probability distribution that indicates a high level of risk
- fee tail — a charge or payment for professional services: a doctor's fee.
- fishtail — to swerve or skid from side to side, as the rear end of a car.
- flailing — an instrument for threshing grain, consisting of a staff or handle to one end of which is attached a freely swinging stick or bar.
- fly rail — Furniture. a horizontally swinging bracket for supporting a drop leaf.
- foresail — the lowermost sail on a foremast.
- forhaile — to distress
- forktail — Any of various small insectivorous birds in the genus Enicurus.
- foxtails — Plural form of foxtail.
- frailero — an armchair of the Renaissance, having a leather seat and a leather back stretched between plain wooden members and having a broad front stretcher.
- frailest — Superlative form of frail.
- frailish — reasonably frail
- freetail — a free-tailed bat.
- gaffsail — an iron hook with a handle for landing large fish.
- gaillard — a spirited dance for two dancers in triple rhythm, common in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- gangnail — a particular arrangement of nails on a metal plate, used as a connecting piece in strong timber joints
- graymail — a means of preventing prosecution, as for espionage, by threatening to disclose government secrets during trial.
- hailshot — small pellets of ammunition resembling hail when it is discharged and broadcast in all directions
- hailwood — Mike, full name Stanley Michael Bailey Hailwood. 1940–81, English racing motorcyclist: world champion (250 cc.) 1961 and 1966–67; (350 cc.) 1966–67; and (500 cc.) 1962–65
- hairtail — any marine spiny-finned fish of the family Trichiuridae, most common in warm seas, having a long whiplike scaleless body and long sharp teeth
- handrail — a rail serving as a support or guard at the side of a stairway, platform, etc.
- hangnail — a small piece of partly detached skin at the side or base of the fingernail.
- hardtail — blue runner.
- headrail — a railing on a sailing vessel, extending forward from abaft the bow to the back of the figurehead.
- headsail — any of various jibs or staysails set forward of the foremost mast of a vessel.
- hightail — to go away or leave rapidly: Last we saw of him, he was hightailing down the street.
- hobnails — Plural form of hobnail.
- horntail — any of various wasplike insects of the family Siricidae, the females of which have a hornlike ovipositor.
- intailed — Simple past tense and past participle of intail.
- ismailia — a city and seaport at the midpoint of the Suez Canal, in NE Egypt.
- jailable — a prison, especially one for the detention of persons awaiting trial or convicted of minor offenses.