Words That End With: AIL

• grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes

• flesh of quail; suitable for roasting or broiling if young; otherwise must be braised

• small gallinaceous game birds

• draw back, as with fear or pain

• the sail above the royal on a square-rigger

• the skinned tail of cattle; used especially for soups

• be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance

• be valid, applicable, or true

• continue to exist

• prove superior

• use persuasion successfully

• a short nail with a thick head; used to protect the soles of boots

• supply with hobnails

• 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)

• lock up or confine, in or as in a jail

• a short or shortened tail of certain animals

• large sheepdog with a profuse shaggy bluish-grey-and-white coat and short tail; believed to trace back to the Roman occupation of Britain

• having a short or shortened tail

• Old World bird having a very long tail that jerks up and down as it walks