Tail-cone
noun, Rocketry.
1.
a cone-shaped component at the rear of a jet engine, rocket, or missile, usually serving as an exhaust pipe.
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noun 1. any of the feathers concealing the bases of a bird’s tail feathers. noun 1. any of the covert feathers of a bird covering the bases of the tail feathers
- Tailed
adjective 1. having a tail. 2. having a tail of a specified kind (usually used in combination): a ring-tailed monkey. noun 1. the hindmost part of an animal, especially that forming a distinct, flexible appendage to the trunk. 2. something resembling or suggesting this in shape or position: the tail of a kite. 3. Astronomy. […]
- Tailed-frog
noun 1. a frog, Ascaphus truei, of the northwestern U.S. and adjacent Canada, the male of which has its cloaca modified into a taillike copulatory organ.
- Tail-end
noun 1. the hinder or rear part of anything. 2. the concluding or final part or section; tag end: the tail end of a lecture. noun 1. the last, endmost, or final part 1. The rear or hindmost part, as in Douglas was at the tail end of the academic procession. [ Mid-1700s ] 2. […]
- Tailer
noun 1. the hindmost part of an animal, especially that forming a distinct, flexible appendage to the trunk. 2. something resembling or suggesting this in shape or position: the tail of a kite. 3. Astronomy. the luminous stream extending from the head of a comet. 4. the reverse of a coin (opposed to head). 5. […]