Words that rhyme with retail

• ail 0
  n 1: aromatic bulb used as seasoning [syn: garlic, ail] v 1: be ill or unwell 2: cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed [syn: trouble, ail, pain]
• ale 0
  n 1: a general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the United States an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume
• assail 0
  v 1: attack someone physically or emotionally; "The mugger assaulted the woman"; "Nightmares assailed him regularly" [syn: assail, assault, set on, attack] 2: launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with; "Hitler attacked Poland on September 1, 1939 and started World War II"; "Serbian forces assailed Bosnian towns all week" [syn: attack, assail] [ant: defend] 3: attack in speech or writing; "The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker" [syn: attack, round, assail, lash out, snipe, assault]
• avail 0
  n 1: a means of serving; "of no avail"; "there's no help for it" [syn: avail, help, service] v 1: use to one's advantage; "He availed himself of the available resources" 2: be of use to, be useful to; "It will avail them to dispose of their booty" 3: take or use; "She helped herself to some of the office supplies" [syn: avail, help]
• bail 0
  n 1: (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"; "a $10,000 bond was furnished by an alderman" [syn: bail, bail bond, bond] 2: the legal system that allows an accused person to be temporarily released from custody (usually on condition that a sum of money guarantees their appearance at trial); "he is out on bail" v 1: release after a security has been paid 2: deliver something in trust to somebody for a special purpose and for a limited period 3: secure the release of (someone) by providing security 4: empty (a vessel) by bailing 5: remove (water) from a vessel with a container
• bale 0
  n 1: a large bundle bound for storage or transport 2: a city in northwestern Switzerland [syn: Basel, Basle, Bale] v 1: make into a bale; "bale hay"
• bangtail 0
  n 1: a horse bred for racing [syn: racehorse, race horse, bangtail]
• bewail 0
  v 1: regret strongly; "I deplore this hostile action"; "we lamented the loss of benefits" [syn: deplore, lament, bewail, bemoan]
• bobtail 0
  adj 1: having a short or shortened tail; "bobtail mare" [syn: bobtail, bobtailed] n 1: a short or shortened tail of certain animals [syn: bobtail, bob, dock] 2: large sheepdog with a profuse shaggy bluish-grey-and-white coat and short tail; believed to trace back to the Roman occupation of Britain [syn: Old English sheepdog, bobtail]
• braille 0
  n 1: French educator who lost his sight at the age of three and who invented a system of writing and printing for sightless people (1809-1852) [syn: Braille, Louis Braille] 2: a point system of writing in which patterns of raised dots represent letters and numerals v 1: transcribe in braille
• bristletail 0
  n 1: small wingless insect with a long bristlelike tail
• cattail 0
  n 1: tall erect herbs with sword-shaped leaves; cosmopolitan in fresh and salt marshes
• cocktail 0
  n 1: a short mixed drink 2: an appetizer served as a first course at a meal
• cottontail 0
  n 1: 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) [syn: wood rabbit, cottontail, cottontail rabbit]
• curtail 0
  v 1: place restrictions on; "curtail drinking in school" [syn: restrict, curtail, curb, cut back] 2: terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent; "My speech was cut short"; "Personal freedom is curtailed in many countries" [syn: clip, curtail, cut short]
• dale 0
  n 1: an open river valley (in a hilly area)
• detail 0
  n 1: an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole; "several of the details are similar"; "a point of information" [syn: detail, item, point] 2: a small part that can be considered separately from the whole; "it was perfect in all details" [syn: detail, particular, item] 3: extended treatment of particulars; "the essay contained too much detail" 4: a crew of workers selected for a particular task; "a detail was sent to remove the fallen trees" 5: a temporary military unit; "the peacekeeping force includes one British contingent" [syn: contingent, detail] v 1: provide details for 2: assign to a specific task; "The ambulances were detailed to the fire station"
• dovetail 0
  n 1: a mortise joint formed by interlocking tenons and mortises [syn: dovetail, dovetail joint] v 1: fit together tightly, as if by means of a dovetail
• entail 0
  n 1: land received by fee tail 2: the act of entailing property; the creation of a fee tail from a fee simple v 1: have as a logical consequence; "The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers" [syn: entail, imply, mean] 2: impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result; "What does this move entail?" [syn: entail, implicate] 3: limit the inheritance of property to a specific class of heirs [syn: fee-tail, entail]
• fail 0
  v 1: fail to do something; leave something undone; "She failed to notice that her child was no longer in his crib"; "The secretary failed to call the customer and the company lost the account" [syn: fail, neglect] 2: be unsuccessful; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably" [syn: fail, go wrong, miscarry] [ant: bring home the bacon, come through, deliver the goods, succeed, win] 3: disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake; "His sense of smell failed him this time"; "His strength finally failed him"; "His children failed him in the crisis" [syn: fail, betray] 4: stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident" [syn: fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down] 5: be unable; "I fail to understand your motives" [ant: bring off, carry off, manage, negociate, pull off] 6: judge unacceptable; "The teacher failed six students" [ant: pass] 7: fail to get a passing grade; "She studied hard but failed nevertheless"; "Did I fail the test?" [syn: fail, flunk, bomb, flush it] [ant: make it, pass] 8: fall short in what is expected; "She failed in her obligations as a good daughter-in-law"; "We must not fail his obligation to the victims of the Holocaust" 9: become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close; "The toy company went bankrupt after the competition hired cheap Mexican labor"; "A number of banks failed that year" 10: prove insufficient; "The water supply for the town failed after a long drought" [syn: fail, run out, give out] 11: get worse; "Her health is declining"
• fantail 0
  n 1: an overhang consisting of the fan-shaped part of the deck extending aft of the sternpost of a ship
• fishtail 0
  v 1: slow down by moving the tail sideways; "The airplane fishtailed on the runway"
• folktale 0
  n 1: a tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk [syn: folktale, folk tale]
• foxtail 0
  n 1: grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes [syn: foxtail, foxtail grass]
• horsetail 0
  n 1: 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
• jail 0
  n 1: a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence) [syn: jail, jailhouse, gaol, clink, slammer, poky, pokey] v 1: lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life" [syn: imprison, incarcerate, lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, put away, remand]
• mail 0
  n 1: the bags of letters and packages that are transported by the postal service 2: the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office; "the mail handles billions of items every day"; "he works for the United States mail service"; "in England they call mail `the post'" [syn: mail, mail service, postal service, post] 3: a conveyance that transports the letters and packages that are conveyed by the postal system 4: any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered; "your mail is on the table"; "is there any post for me?"; "she was opening her post" [syn: mail, post] 5: (Middle Ages) flexible armor made of interlinked metal rings [syn: chain mail, ring mail, mail, chain armor, chain armour, ring armor, ring armour] v 1: send via the postal service; "I'll mail you the check tomorrow" [syn: mail, get off] 2: cause to be directed or transmitted to another place; "send me your latest results"; "I'll mail you the paper when it's written" [syn: mail, post, send]
• nail 0
  n 1: horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits 2: a thin pointed piece of metal that is hammered into materials as a fastener 3: a former unit of length for cloth equal to 1/16 of a yard v 1: attach something somewhere by means of nails; "nail the board onto the wall" 2: take into custody; "the police nabbed the suspected criminals" [syn: collar, nail, apprehend, arrest, pick up, nab, cop] 3: hit hard; "He smashed a 3-run homer" [syn: smash, nail, boom, blast] 4: succeed in obtaining a position; "He nailed down a spot at Harvard" [syn: nail down, nail, peg] 5: succeed at easily; "She sailed through her exams"; "You will pass with flying colors"; "She nailed her astrophysics course" [syn: breeze through, ace, pass with flying colors, sweep through, sail through, nail] 6: locate exactly; "can you pinpoint the position of the enemy?"; "The chemists could not nail the identity of the chromosome" [syn: pinpoint, nail] 7: complete a pass [syn: complete, nail]
• oxtail 0
  n 1: the skinned tail of cattle; used especially for soups
• pigtail 0
  n 1: a plait of braided hair
• pintail 0
  n 1: long-necked river duck of the Old and New Worlds having elongated central tail feathers [syn: pintail, pin- tailed duck, Anas acuta]
• ponytail 0
  n 1: a hair style that draws the hair back so that it hangs down in back of the head like a pony's tail
• prevail 0
  v 1: be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance; "Money reigns supreme here"; "Hispanics predominate in this neighborhood" [syn: predominate, dominate, rule, reign, prevail] 2: be valid, applicable, or true; "This theory still holds" [syn: prevail, hold, obtain] 3: continue to exist; "These stories die hard"; "The legend of Elvis endures" [syn: prevail, persist, die hard, run, endure] 4: prove superior; "The champion prevailed, though it was a hard fight" [syn: prevail, triumph] 5: use persuasion successfully; "He prevailed upon her to visit his parents"
• ringtail 0
  n 1: raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings [syn: bassarisk, cacomistle, cacomixle, coon cat, raccoon fox, ringtail, ring- tailed cat, civet cat, miner's cat, Bassariscus astutus] 2: North American raccoon [syn: common raccoon, common racoon, coon, ringtail, Procyon lotor] 3: monkey of Central America and South America having thick hair on the head that resembles a monk's cowl [syn: capuchin, ringtail, Cebus capucinus] 4: an immature golden eagle
• shirttail 0
  n 1: a brief addendum at the end of a newspaper article 2: fabric forming the tail of a shirt
• sprigtail 0
  n 1: large grouse of prairies and open forests of western North America [syn: sharp-tailed grouse, sprigtail, sprig tail, Pedioecetes phasianellus]
• springtail 0
  n 1: 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 [syn: collembolan, springtail]
• swallowtail 0
  n 1: a man's full-dress jacket with two long tapering tails at the back [syn: swallow-tailed coat, swallowtail, morning coat]
• tail 0
  n 1: the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body 2: the time of the last part of something; "the fag end of this crisis-ridden century"; "the tail of the storm" [syn: fag end, tail, tail end] 3: any projection that resembles the tail of an animal [syn: tail, tail end] 4: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass] 5: a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements [syn: tail, shadow, shadower] 6: (usually plural) the reverse side of a coin that does not bear the representation of a person's head [ant: head] 7: the rear part of an aircraft [syn: tail, tail assembly, empennage] 8: the rear part of a ship [syn: stern, after part, quarter, poop, tail] v 1: go after with the intent to catch; "The policeman chased the mugger down the alley"; "the dog chased the rabbit" [syn: chase, chase after, trail, tail, tag, give chase, dog, go after, track] 2: remove or shorten the tail of an animal [syn: dock, tail, bob] 3: remove the stalk of fruits or berries
• tale 0
  n 1: a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program; "his narrative was interesting"; "Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children" [syn: narrative, narration, story, tale] 2: a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?" [syn: fib, story, tale, tarradiddle, taradiddle]
• telltale 0
  adj 1: disclosing unintentionally; "a telling smile"; "a telltale panel of lights"; "a telltale patch of oil on the water marked where the boat went down" [syn: revealing, telling, telltale(a)] n 1: someone who gossips indiscreetly [syn: tattletale, tattler, taleteller, talebearer, telltale, blabbermouth]
• wagtail 0
  n 1: Old World bird having a very long tail that jerks up and down as it walks
• whitetail 0
  n 1: common North American deer; tail has a white underside [syn: Virginia deer, white tail, whitetail, white- tailed deer, whitetail deer, Odocoileus Virginianus]
• dail 0
  n 1: the lower house of the parliament of the Irish Republic [syn: Dail Eireann, Dail]
• disentail 0
• baile 0
• balle 0
• bayle 0
• beyl 0
• cail 0
• cale 0
• calle 0
• crail 0
• daile 0
• dayle 0
• averell 0
• ducktail 0
• shavetail 0
• thorntail 0

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