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Definitions: Tail Fin |
Tail FinNoun1. A stabilizer that is part of the vertical tail structure of an airplane. 2. One of a pair of decorations projecting above the rear fenders of an automobile. 3. The tail of fishes and some other aquatic vertebrates. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Aerospace | A fin at the rear of a rocket or other body. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: Tail FinSynonyms: caudal fin (n), fin (n), tailfin (n), vertical fin (n), vertical stabilizer (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Tail Fin |
| English words defined with "tail fin": Diphycercal ♦ heterocercal fin, homocercal fin, Hypural ♦ Seriola dorsalis ♦ tripletail ♦ yellowtail. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "tail fin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | Kielflosse (ventral fin). (various references) | |
Hungarian | függõleges vezérsík (fin). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | テーベ物語 (beefsteak, project, tail, tail end, tail lamp, tailcoat, taillight, tailor, tailored, tailored suit, tailor-made, take, taste, Taylor system, tea, teeing ground, teenage, teen-age, teenager, teen-ager, Tegafur, tequila, Texas, Texas hit, Texas leaguer, text, text book, text file, textbook, textile, texture, Thebais, theme, Theme campaign, Theme music, theme park, Theme promotion, Theme song, tilapia, timpani, tissue, tissue paper, tissues, topic, TROFF, tympany, typical, tyranny). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | テールフィン . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ailtay infay.(various references) | |
Turkish | kuyruk yüzgeci, kuyruk (breech, brush, caudal, cue, line, queue, scut, tail, together, trail, train). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-i-i-l-n-t" | |
-1 letter: finial. | |
-2 letters: faint, final, flint, litai. | |
-3 letters: alif, alit, anil, anti, fail, fain, fiat, fila, flan, flat, flit, ilia, inia, inti, lain, lati, lift, lint, naif, nail, tail, tain, tali. | |
-4 letters: aft, ail, ain, ait, alt, ani, ant, fan, fat, fil, fin, fit, lat, lin, lit, nil, nit, tan, til, tin. | |
-5 letters: ai, al, an, at, fa, if, in, it, la, li, na, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-i-i-l-n-t" | |
+1 letter: antilife, finalist, finality. | |
+2 letters: fictional, filiating, filiation, finalists, foliating, foliation, hifalutin, infantile, inflating, inflation, plaintiff. | |
+3 letters: afflicting, affliction, airlifting, antifamily, filiations, filtrating, filtration, finalities, flatlining, flirtation, floriation, foliations, frictional, infibulate, infiltrate, inflations, latifundia, latifundio, notifiable, plaintiffs, pontifical, unifoliate. | |
+4 letters: affiliating, affiliation, afflictions, antifouling, deadlifting, defoliating, defoliation, exfoliating, exfoliation, facelifting, fatiguingly, fictionally, filtrations, fishtailing, flirtations, floriations, franklinite, fulminating, fulmination, highfalutin, infantilism, infantility, infantilize, inferential, infibulated, infibulates, infiltrated, infiltrates, infiltrator, infinitival, influential, informality, interfacial, interfamily, latifundios, latifundium, pontificals, reinflating, reinflation, trifluralin. | |
+5 letters: affiliations, bifunctional, confidential, definitional, defoliations, differential, difunctional, disinflation, exfoliations, facilitating, facilitation, factionalism, faultfinding, felicitating, felicitation, fibrillating, fibrillation, fictionalise, fictionality, fictionalize, finalization, fluidization, fluoridating, fluoridation, fluorinating, fluorination, focalization, frangibility, franklinites, frictionally, frontalities, fulminations, futilitarian, gratifyingly, identifiable, identifiably, ineffability, infanticidal, infantilisms, infantilized, infantilizes, infibulating, infibulation, infiltrating, infiltration, infiltrative, infiltrators, inflammation, inflationary, inflationism, inflationist, inflectional, influentials, insufflating, insufflation, interfluvial, liquefaction, nonfictional, pontifically, quantifiable, reinflations, satisfyingly, semifinalist, trifluralins, uglification, unaffiliated, unifoliolate, vilification. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 61 69 6C      46 69 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100001 01101001 01101100 00100000 01000110 01101001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T a i l   F i n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0061 0069 006C      0046 0069 006E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)546775782407580 |
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