Tail Bone

  

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Tail Bone

Definition: Tail Bone

Tail Bone

Noun

1. 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 Bone

Synonym: coccyx (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Tail Bone

English words defined with "tail bone": conodont. (references)
Etymologies containing "tail bone": Urosteon. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tail Bone

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

tail bone

30

tail bone pain

26
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Tail Bone

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.

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Anagrams: Tail Bone

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Tail Bone


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 61 69 6C      42 6F 6E 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01100001 01101001 01101100 00100000 01000010 01101111 01101110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#97 &#105 &#108 &#32 &#66 &#111 &#110 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0061 0069 006C      0042 006F 006E 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54677578236818071

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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