These are the meanings of the letters IETNDLA when you unscramble them.
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Denial (n.)
The act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation; -- the contrary of affirmation.
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Denial (n.)
A refusal to admit the truth of a statement, charge, imputation, etc.; assertion of the untruth of a thing stated or maintained; a contradiction.
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Denial (n.)
A refusal to grant; rejection of a request.
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Denial (n.)
A refusal to acknowledge; disclaimer of connection with; disavowal; -- the contrary of confession; as, the denial of a fault charged on one; a denial of God.
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Dental (a.)
Of or pertaining to the teeth or to dentistry; as, dental surgery.
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Dental (a.)
Formed by the aid of the teeth; -- said of certain articulations and the letters representing them; as, d t are dental letters.
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Dental (a.)
An articulation or letter formed by the aid of the teeth.
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Dental (a.)
A marine mollusk of the genus Dentalium, with a curved conical shell resembling a tooth. See Dentalium.
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Dentil (n.)
A small square block or projection in cornices, a number of which are ranged in an ornamental band; -- used particularly in the Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite orders.
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Detail (n.)
A minute portion; one of the small parts; a particular; an item; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the details of a scheme or transaction.
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Detail (n.)
A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.
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Detail (n.)
The selection for a particular service of a person or a body of men; hence, the person or the body of men so selected.
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Detail (n.)
To relate in particulars; to particularize; to report minutely and distinctly; to enumerate; to specify; as, he detailed all the facts in due order.
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Detail (n.)
To tell off or appoint for a particular service, as an officer, a troop, or a squadron.
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Detain (v. t.)
To keep back or from; to withhold.
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Detain (v. t.)
To restrain from proceeding; to stay or stop; to delay; as, we were detained by an accident.
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Detain (v. t.)
To hold or keep in custody.
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Detain (n.)
Detention.
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Dilate (v. t.)
To expand; to distend; to enlarge or extend in all directions; to swell; -- opposed to contract; as, the air dilates the lungs; air is dilated by increase of heat.
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Dilate (v. t.)
To enlarge upon; to relate at large; to tell copiously or diffusely.
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Dilate (v. i.)
To grow wide; to expand; to swell or extend in all directions.
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Dilate (v. i.)
To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; -- with on or upon.
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Dilate (a.)
Extensive; expanded.
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Entail (n.)
That which is entailed.
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Entail (n.)
An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
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Entail (n.)
The rule by which the descent is fixed.
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Entail (n.)
Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.
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Entail (n.)
To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as an heritage.
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Entail (n.)
To appoint hereditary possessor.
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Entail (n.)
To cut or carve in a ornamental way.
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Nailed (imp. & p. p.)
of Nail
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Tailed (a.)
Having a tail; having (such) a tail or (so many) tails; -- chiefly used in composition; as, bobtailed, longtailed, etc.