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Definition: Tail Bone |
Tail BoneNoun1. The end of the vertebral column in humans and tailless apes. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Tail BoneSynonym: coccyx (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Tail Bone |
| English words defined with "tail bone": conodont. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "tail bone": Urosteon. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tail bone | 30 |
tail bone pain | 26 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tail bone"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Finnish | häntänikama (caudal vertebrae). (various references) | |
French | vertèbres coccygiennes, vertèbres caudales. (various references) | |
Greek | κοκκυγικοί σπόνδυλοι (caudal vertebrae), ουραίοι σπόνδυλοι (caudal vertebrae). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ailtay onebay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: tailbone. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-i-l-n-o-t" | |
-1 letter: elation, niobate, notable, toenail. | |
-2 letters: albeit, albino, albite, binate, boatel, boleti, bonita, entail, entoil, eolian, etalon, latino, lobate, obelia, oblate, obtain, talion, tenail, tineal, tolane. | |
-3 letters: aboil, alien, aline, aloin, alone, anile, anole, atone, baton, beano, beton, binal, biont, biota, blain, blate, bleat, blent, blite, bloat, boite, botel, elain, elint, eloin, entia, inlet, laten, leant, lento, liane, noble, notal, oaten, obeli, olein, table, talon, telia, teloi, tenia, tinea, toile, tolan, tonal. | |
-4 letters: abet, able, aeon, alit, aloe, alto, anil, ante, anti, bail, bait, bale, bane, bani, bate, bean, beat, belt, bent, beta, bile, bine, bint, bite, blae, blat, blet, blin, blot, boat, boil, bola, bole, bolt, bone, bota, ebon, elan, enol, etna, ilea, into, iota, lain, lane, late, lati, lean, leno, lent, lien, line, lino, lint, lion, lite, loan, lobe, loin, lone, lota, loti, nabe, nail, naoi, neat, nite, noel, noil, nota, note, obia, obit, olea, tael, tail, tain, tale, tali, teal, tela, tile, tine, toea, toil, tola, tole, tone. | |
-5 letters: abo, ail, ain, ait, alb, ale, alt, ane, ani, ant, ate, bal, ban, bat, bel, ben, bet, bin, bio, bit, boa, bot, eat, eon, eta, ion, lab, lat, lea, lei, let, lib, lie, lin, lit, lob, lot, nab, nae, neb, net, nib, nil, nit, nob, not, oat, obe, obi, oil, ole, one, tab, tae, tan, tao, tea, tel, ten, tie, til, tin, toe, ton. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-i-l-n-o-t" | |
+1 letter: cobaltine, tailbones. | |
+2 letters: actionable, cobaltines, liberation, negotiable, noticeable, noticeably, notifiable, obeisantly, obnubilate, obtainable. | |
+3 letters: abolishment, amblygonite, bisectional, celebration, containable, elaborating, elaboration, indomitable, intolerable, intolerably, labiodental, liberations, mentionable, obnubilated, obnubilates, obstinately, openability, outbleating, prelibation. | |
+4 letters: aberrational, abolishments, ambitionless, amblygonites, balletomania, biotechnical, bipropellant, bloodstained, celebrations, contractible, debilitation, deliberation, detonability, discountable, elaborations, elucubration, embolization, exorbitantly, geobotanical, hypnotizable, incommutable, incompatible, incomputable, inhospitable, interlobular, interorbital, jettisonable, labiodentals, metabolizing, nebulization, nonbacterial, notabilities, obliterating, obliteration, paleobotanic, prelibations, questionable, questionably, renegotiable, sanctionable, unnegotiable, unnoticeable, unobtainable, unprofitable. | |
+5 letters: abnormalities, antimetabolic, apportionable, balletomanias, bidirectional, bipropellants, bisectionally, conditionable, confiscatable, debilitations, deliberations, elucubrations, embolizations, equilibration, exceptionable, exceptionably, gubernatorial, incompatibles, incontestable, incontestably, inexorability, insupportable, interoperable, liberationist, nebulizations, negotiability, nonalphabetic, noncompatible, nondeliberate, nonfilterable, nonnegotiable, objectionable, objectionably, obliterations, observational, openabilities, paleobotanies, paleobotanist, pentobarbital, perambulation, phenobarbital, polybutadiene, reasonability, recalibration, relubrication, republication, subordinately, thiabendazole, troublemaking, uncontainable, unmentionable, unmetabolized, unproblematic, verbalization, vibrationless. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 61 69 6C      42 6F 6E 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100001 01101001 01101100 00100000 01000010 01101111 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T a i l   B o n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0061 0069 006C      0042 006F 006E 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54677578236818071 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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