Words that rhyme with springtail

  • ail
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    n 1: a horse bred for racing [syn: racehorse, race horse, bangtail]
  • bobtail
    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]
  • bristletail
    n 1: small wingless insect with a long bristlelike tail
  • cattail
    n 1: tall erect herbs with sword-shaped leaves; cosmopolitan in fresh and salt marshes
  • cocktail
    n 1: a short mixed drink 2: an appetizer served as a first course at a meal
  • cottontail
    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
    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]
  • detail
    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
    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
    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]
  • fantail
    n 1: an overhang consisting of the fan-shaped part of the deck extending aft of the sternpost of a ship
  • fishtail
    v 1: slow down by moving the tail sideways; "The airplane fishtailed on the runway"
  • folktale
    n 1: a tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk [syn: folktale, folk tale]
  • foxtail
    n 1: grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes [syn: foxtail, foxtail grass]
  • horsetail
    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
  • oxtail
    n 1: the skinned tail of cattle; used especially for soups
  • pigtail
    n 1: a plait of braided hair
  • pintail
    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
    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
  • retail
    adv 1: at a retail price; "I'll sell it to you retail only" [ant: wholesale] n 1: the selling of goods to consumers; usually in small quantities and not for resale [ant: wholesale] v 1: be sold at the retail level; "These gems retail at thousands of dollars each" 2: sell on the retail market [ant: wholesale]
  • ringtail
    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
    n 1: a brief addendum at the end of a newspaper article 2: fabric forming the tail of a shirt
  • sprigtail
    n 1: large grouse of prairies and open forests of western North America [syn: sharp-tailed grouse, sprigtail, sprig tail, Pedioecetes phasianellus]
  • swallowtail
    n 1: a man's full-dress jacket with two long tapering tails at the back [syn: swallow-tailed coat, swallowtail, morning coat]
  • telltale
    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
    n 1: Old World bird having a very long tail that jerks up and down as it walks
  • whitetail
    n 1: common North American deer; tail has a white underside [syn: Virginia deer, white tail, whitetail, white- tailed deer, whitetail deer, Odocoileus Virginianus]
  • disentail
  • ducktail
  • shavetail
  • thorntail

See also springtail definition and springtail synonyms