These are the meanings of the letters FATIL when you unscramble them.
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Alit ()
of Alight
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Fail (v. i.)
To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expected manner, or to be altogether cut off from supply; to be lacking; as, streams fail; crops fail.
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Fail (v. i.)
To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; -- used with of.
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Fail (v. i.)
To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
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Fail (v. i.)
To deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker; as, a sick man fails.
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Fail (v. i.)
To perish; to die; -- used of a person.
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Fail (v. i.)
To be found wanting with respect to an action or a duty to be performed, a result to be secured, etc.; to miss; not to fulfill expectation.
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Fail (v. i.)
To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired ; to be baffled or frusrated.
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Fail (v. i.)
To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
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Fail (v. i.)
To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.
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Fail (v. t.)
To be wanting to ; to be insufficient for; to disappoint; to desert.
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Fail (v. t.)
To miss of attaining; to lose.
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Fail (v. i.)
Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; -- mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail.
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Fail (v. i.)
Death; decease.
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Fiat (n.)
An authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree.
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Fiat (n.)
A warrant of a judge for certain processes.
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Fiat (n.)
An authority for certain proceedings given by the Lord Chancellor's signature.
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Flat (superl.)
Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane.
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Flat (superl.)
Lying at full length, or spread out, upon the ground; level with the ground or earth; prostrate; as, to lie flat on the ground; hence, fallen; laid low; ruined; destroyed.
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Flat (superl.)
Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest.
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Flat (superl.)
Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste.
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Flat (superl.)
Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition.
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Flat (superl.)
Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat.
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Flat (superl.)
Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright.
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Flat (superl.)
Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A flat.
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Flat (superl.)
Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.
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Flat (superl.)
Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant.
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Flat (adv.)
In a flat manner; directly; flatly.
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Flat (adv.)
Without allowance for accrued interest.
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Flat (n.)
A level surface, without elevation, relief, or prominences; an extended plain; specifically, in the United States, a level tract along the along the banks of a river; as, the Mohawk Flats.
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Flat (n.)
A level tract lying at little depth below the surface of water, or alternately covered and left bare by the tide; a shoal; a shallow; a strand.
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Flat (n.)
Something broad and flat in form
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Flat (n.)
A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
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Flat (n.)
A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
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Flat (n.)
A car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without sides; a platform car.
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Flat (n.)
A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions.
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Flat (n.)
The flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a blade, as distinguished from its edge.
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Flat (n.)
A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself.
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Flat (n.)
A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
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Flat (n.)
A dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull.
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Flat (n.)
A character [/] before a note, indicating a tone which is a half step or semitone lower.
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Flat (n.)
A homaloid space or extension.
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Flat (v. t.)
To make flat; to flatten; to level.
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Flat (v. t.)
To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
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Flat (v. t.)
To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
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Flat (v. i.)
To become flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
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Flat (v. i.)
To fall form the pitch.
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Flit (v. i.)
To move with celerity through the air; to fly away with a rapid motion; to dart along; to fleet; as, a bird flits away; a cloud flits along.
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Flit (v. i.)
To flutter; to rove on the wing.
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Flit (v. i.)
To pass rapidly, as a light substance, from one place to another; to remove; to migrate.
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Flit (v. i.)
To remove from one place or habitation to another.
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Flit (v. i.)
To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.
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Flit (a.)
Nimble; quick; swift. [Obs.] See Fleet.
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Lift (n.)
The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.
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Lift (v. t.)
To move in a direction opposite to that of gravitation; to raise; to elevate; to bring up from a lower place to a higher; to upheave; sometimes implying a continued support or holding in the higher place; -- said of material things; as, to lift the foot or the hand; to lift a chair or a burden.
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Lift (v. t.)
To raise, elevate, exalt, improve, in rank, condition, estimation, character, etc.; -- often with up.
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Lift (v. t.)
To bear; to support.
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Lift (v. t.)
To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
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Lift (v. t.)
To steal; to carry off by theft (esp. cattle); as, to lift a drove of cattle.
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Lift (v. i.)
To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
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Lift (v. i.)
To rise; to become or appear raised or elevated; as, the fog lifts; the land lifts to a ship approaching it.
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Lift (v. t.)
To live by theft.
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Lift (n.)
Act of lifting; also, that which is lifted.
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Lift (n.)
The space or distance through which anything is lifted; as, a long lift.
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Lift (n.)
Help; assistance, as by lifting; as, to give one a lift in a wagon.
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Lift (n.)
That by means of which a person or thing lifts or is lifted
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Lift (n.)
A hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter.
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Lift (n.)
A handle.
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Lift (n.)
An exercising machine.
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Lift (n.)
A rise; a degree of elevation; as, the lift of a lock in canals.
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Lift (n.)
A lift gate. See Lift gate, below.
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Lift (n.)
A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below; -- used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
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Lift (n.)
One of the steps of a cone pulley.
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Lift (n.)
A layer of leather in the heel.
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Lift (n.)
That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
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Tail (n.)
Limitation; abridgment.
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Tail (a.)
Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed; as, estate tail.
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Tail (n.)
The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal.
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Tail (n.)
Any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles, in shape or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin.
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Tail (n.)
Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything, -- as opposed to the head, or the superior part.
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Tail (n.)
A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
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Tail (n.)
The side of a coin opposite to that which bears the head, effigy, or date; the reverse; -- rarely used except in the expression \"heads or tails,\" employed when a coin is thrown up for the purpose of deciding some point by its fall.
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Tail (n.)
The distal tendon of a muscle.
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Tail (n.)
A downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes. It is formed of the permanent elongated style.
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Tail (n.)
A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; -- called also tailing.
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Tail (n.)
One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
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Tail (n.)
A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
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Tail (n.)
The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
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Tail (n.)
Same as Tailing, 4.
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Tail (n.)
The bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate or tile.
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Tail (n.)
See Tailing, n., 5.
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Tail (v. t.)
To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
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Tail (v. t.)
To pull or draw by the tail.
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Tail (v. i.)
To hold by the end; -- said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; -- with in or into.
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Tail (v. i.)
To swing with the stern in a certain direction; -- said of a vessel at anchor; as, this vessel tails down stream.
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Tali (pl. )
of Talus