Nail

Nail or Nails may refer to:

In biology

 * Nail (anatomy), toughened protective protein-keratin (known as alpha-keratin, also found in hair) at the end of an animal digit, such as fingernail
 * Nail (beak), a plate of hard horny tissue at the tip of some bird beaks

Objects

 * Nail (fastener), the pin-shaped fastener used in engineering, woodworking and construction
 * Nail (relic), used in the crucifixion of Christ
 * The Exchange nails, bronze tables outside of The Exchange, Bristol

Arts and entertainment

 * JLA: The Nail series, a 1998 three-issue comic book miniseries
 * Nail (album), by Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel (1985)
 * Nails (1979 film), a Canadian short documentary film
 * Nails (1992 film), an American TV film
 * Nails (2003 film), a Russian psychological horror film
 * Nails (2017 film), a horror film directed by Dennis Bartok
 * Nails (band), an American powerviolence band founded 2009
 * Nine Inch Nails, an American industrial rock band founded 1988
 * The Nails, an American new wave band founded 1976 as The Ravers (name change 1977)

People

 * Nail (given name), a list of people with the given name Nail
 * Nail (surname), a list of people with the surname Nail or Nails
 * Lenny Dykstra, a former Major League Baseball outfielder nicknamed "Nails"
 * Samuel Morton (1893–1923), an American mobster nicknamed "Nails"

Businesses

 * Nail Brewing, an Australian brewery
 * Nail Communications, an American advertising agency
 * Nails Inc., an English nail care chain

Other uses

 * Nail (unit), an archaic multiplier equal to one sixteenth of a base unit
 * Nail, Arkansas, an unincorporated community in the United States
 * Nail, project name for the Heirloom Project mailx Unix computer utility
 * Soil nailing, a soil-stabilization technique