Tailspin

Definitions: Tailspin

Tailspin

Noun

1. Loss of emotional control often resulting in emotional collapse.

2. Rapid descent of an aircraft in a steep spiral spin.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Tailspin

Tailspin Tommy in The Great Air Mystery (1935)

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

Books

• Mayday! Mayday! Eastern Airlines In A Tailspin! (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Economic History

Vietnam

But the country also fought the French, the Chinese, and the Khmer Rouge at different times from 1954 until 1989. Following unification of the country in 1975, the economy fell into a tailspin as it rushed to implement socialist policies in the south, including collectivization. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Arabic 

‏هبوط لولبي (spin), ‏إنهيار بالذيل, ‏دوار الطائرة. (various references)

Chinese 

飞机尾旋. (various references)

French

vrille. (various references)

Hebrew 

צליל�" לולי� ית. (various references)

Hungarian

örvényvonal, lapos dugóhúzó (flat spin), farok dugóhúzó. (various references)

Italian

avvitamento di coda. (various references)

Pig Latin

ailspintay.(various references)

Russian 

штопор (bottle-screw, corkscrew, spin, tail spin, tail-spin). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

kovit (spin, tail spin). (various references)

Spanish

caída en barrena. (various references)

Swedish

spinn. (various references)

Thai

การควบคุมของหางเครื่องบิน. (various references)

Turkish

panik (alarmed, panic, panic stricken, panic struck, panicky, stampede), kargaşa (anarchism, anarchy, Babel, broil, chaos, coil, commotion, confusion, disarray, disorder, disturbance, earthquake, grab bag, hurly burly, moil, muss, pell mell, pellmell, rag bag, riot, rough and tumble, roughhouse, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, shemozzle, snarl, sound and fury, squall, storm, tempest, tumult, turbulence, uproar, welter), hengâme (ballup, jungle, rat race, rout, ruckus, ruction, shambles, tumult, turmoil, uproar), döne döne düşme. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "tailspin": tailspins. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: alpinist, antislip, pintails.

-1 letter: pianist, pintail, plaints.

-2 letters: instal, instil, isatin, lapins, lipins, paints, pastil, patins, pintas, pistil, plains, plaint, plaits, plants, pliant, ptisan, spinal, spital, splint.

-3 letters: alist, anils, antis, inapt, intis, lapin, lapis, lints, lipin, litai, litas, nails, nipas, pails, pains, paint, pants, patin, pians, pilis, pinas, pinta, pints, pitas, plain, plait, plans, plant, plats, saint, satin, slain, slant, slipt, snail, spail, spait, spilt, splat, split, stain, tails, tains, tapis, tipis.

-4 letters: ails, ains, aits, alit, alps, alts, anil, anis, anti, ants, ilia, inia, inti, lain, laps, last, lati, lats, lins, lint, lipa, lips, lisp, list, lits, nail, naps, nils, nipa, nips, nisi, nits, pail, pain, pals, pans, pant, past, pats, pial, pian, pias, pili, pina, pins, pint, pita, pits, plan, plat, sail, sain, salp, salt, sati, sial, silt, slap, slat, slip, slit, snap, snip, snit, span, spat, spin, spit, tail, tain, tali, tans, taps, tils, tins, tipi, tips.

-5 letters: ail, ain, ais, ait, alp, als, alt, ani, ant, apt, asp, ins, its, lap, las, lat, lin, lip, lis, lit, nap, nil, nip, nit, pal, pan, pas, pat, pia, pin, pis, pit, psi, sal, sap, sat, sin, sip, sit, spa, tan, tap, tas, til, tin, tip, tis.

+1 letter: alpinists, cisplatin, palmitins, plaitings, tailspins.

+2 letters: cisplatins, epilations, penalities, plaintiffs, plasticine, platinizes, plications, positional, reptilians, sincipital, spoliating, spoliation, springtail.

+3 letters: depilations, displanting, malposition, misplanting, palletising, palliations, pixilations, plaistering, planarities, plasticines, pleinairist, politicians, pontificals, salpingitis, spiculation, spoliations, springtails, staphylinid, stipulating, stipulation, unspiritual.

+4 letters: antiepilepsy, antipolitics, applications, appositional, aspirational, capitalising, compilations, depositional, despoliation, duplications, earsplitting, encephalitis, explications, expositional, implications, inappositely, inculpations, indisputable, indisputably, inhospitable, inhospitably, lilliputians, malpositions, nuptialities, oppositional, palindromist, palpitations, pestilential, pitiableness, plasticizing, playwritings, pleinairists, pollinations, positionally, postdiluvian, prelibations, presidential, publications, relationship, replications, speciational, spiculations, staphylinids, stipulations, supplicating, supplication, trampolinist, vespertilian.

+5 letters: angioplasties, antiparticles, capitulations, complications, compositional, coplanarities, despoliations, dilapidations, dispositional, elephantiasis, expansibility, exploitations, hairsplitting, hospitalising, hospitalizing, hypersalinity, impersonality, implantations, incompatibles, inhospitality, inscriptional, inspirational, lymphadenitis, manipulations, multiplicands, neoplasticism, neoplasticist, noncapitalist, nonspecialist, openabilities, optionalities, ovipositional, painstakingly, painterliness, palindromists, pantheistical, paternalistic, penalizations, pentaploidies, personalistic, personalities, pianistically, pictorialness, plaintiveness, platitudinous, podsolization, polarizations, postdiluvians, postisolation, preindustrial, prepositional, propositional, provincialist, punctualities, punishability, pusillanimity, relationships, rhinoplasties, salpingitises, sexploitation, slipstreaming, spiritualness, supermilitant, supplications, suppositional, trampolinings, trampolinists, triplications.

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