Word Chain Redux

[Former English Colony]

I have missed this thread, so here it goes.

You are allowed to either add, take away or change a letter in the word, but only ONE letter at a time. And your new word needs to be an actual word, not gibberish.

First word:
Rain

 

[Mr. Freeze]

Don't you have a smaller word for begining?

Raid

 

[Cove]

Rail.

 

[Former English Colony]

Pail

 

[Mr. Freeze]

Pain

 

[Former English Colony]

paint

 

[Blackshear]

Taint

 

[mcmasterdonia]

Faint

 

[Former English Colony]

saint

 

[mcmasterdonia]

saints

 

[Former English Colony]

paints

(please take us back to sanity) >_>

 

[mcmasterdonia]

pants

 

[Former English Colony]

rants!

 

[mcmasterdonia]

rats

 

[Former English Colony]

rates

 

[Borndisaster]

mates

 

[IndieGirl]

mated

 

[mcmasterdonia]

gated

 

[Former English Colony]

gamed

 

[mcmasterdonia]

Famed

 

[Former English Colony]

fated

 

[IndieGirl]

fared

 

[Former English Colony]

bared

 

[mcmasterdonia]

bare

 

[Former English Colony]

mare

 

[mcmasterdonia]

hare

 

[Former English Colony]

hale

 

[mcmasterdonia]

gale

 

[Former English Colony]

gal

 

[mcmasterdonia]

pal

 

[IndieGirl]

pall

 

[mcmasterdonia]

ball

 

[IndieGirl]

balls

 

[Former English Colony]

bails

 

[IndieGirl]

basils

 

[Former English Colony]

basil

 

[Blackshear]

Basic

 

[mcmasterdonia]

Basis

 

[Former English Colony]

bass

 

[mcmasterdonia]

pass