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There are 16 nine-letter words ending with TAIL

BLACKTAIL	• blacktail n. A fish: the ruffe or pope (Gymnocephalus cernua). • blacktail n. A black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus), of California and Oregon. • blacktail n. A mule deer, of the Rocky Mountains.
BROADTAIL	• broadtail n. The hide or fur of a Persian lamb, formerly used in clothing etc. • broadtail n. (Dated) Any of various kinds of parakeets in the genus Platycercus. • BROADTAIL n. a karakul sheep; fur prepared from the skin of very young karakul lambs.
BROWNTAIL	• BROWNTAIL adj. as in browntail moth, a brown and white European moth.
DISENTAIL	• disentail v. (Law) To free from entailment. • disentail n. (Law) The act of freeing from entailment. • DISENTAIL v. to free from entailment.
HARESTAIL	• harestail n. Lagurus ovatus, an annual grass. • hare's-tail n. A kind of sedge (Eriophorum vaginatum). • HARESTAIL n. a species of cotton grass.
HORSETAIL	• horsetail n. (Literally) The tail of a horse. (Can we add an example for this sense?) • horsetail n. (Botany) Any of various simple vascular plants, of the order Equisetales, that have hollow stems and produce spores. • horsetail n. (Military) A Turkish standard denoting rank.
MOUSETAIL	• mousetail n. Any plant of the genus Ivesia, in the rose family. • mousetail n. Any plant of the genus Myosurus, in the buttercup family. • MOUSETAIL n. any of various temperate ranunculaceous plants of the genus Myosurus.
SCALETAIL	• scaletail n. Any of the scaly-tailed species of flying squirrel, especially the flightless Zenkerella insignis. • SCALETAIL n. a type of squirrel.
SHARPTAIL	• sharptail n. The pintail duck. • sharptail n. The pintail grouse, or prairie chicken. • SHARPTAIL n. a kind of grouse.
SHAVETAIL	• shavetail n. (US) An inexperienced person, especially a newly-commissioned military officer. • SHAVETAIL n. (US slang) a second lieutenant.
SHIRTTAIL	• shirttail n. The single or split (then rather plural) bottom part of a shirt, below the waist, especially in the… • shirttail n. (By extension) The tail-end or periphery of something. • shirttail n. A tenuous connection.
SPRIGTAIL	• sprigtail n. (US, dialect) The pintail duck. • sprigtail n. (US, dialect) The sharp-tailed grouse. • SPRIGTAIL n. a species of duck.
SWINGTAIL	• swingtail n. A hinged tail section on an airplane that can open up, providing access to the interior of the fuselage. • SWINGTAIL adj. as in swingtail cargo aircraft, an aircraft with tail that swings aside to give access to the full cross-section of the fuselage for rapid loading and unloading of cargo.
SWORDTAIL	• swordtail n. One of many species of freshwater fish, in genus Xiphophorus, others of which are called platyfish. • swordtail n. Any of various papilionid butterflies that have a long sword-like projection from the tornal section of each hindwing. • SWORDTAIL n. a small Central American freshwater fish.
THORNTAIL	• thorntail n. Any of various hummingbirds of the genus Discosura. • THORNTAIL n. a tropical American hummingbird with bright green plumage.
WHITETAIL	• whitetail n. A deer, Odocoileus virginianus, family Cervidae, perhaps the most popular game animal in North America. • WHITETAIL n. the Virginia deer.

Scrabble words — in black are valid world wide — in RED are not valid in North America — in GREEN are valid only in North America.
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