Hard Riddles

What word in the English language does the following: the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four letters signify a great, while the entire world signifies a great woman. What is the word?

What word in the English language uses all five vowels plus Y in alphabetical order, and uses each only once?

What word is a plural, but when you add an “S” to the end, it becomes singular?

What word looks the same upside down and backwards?

What zips through the sky with a tail of fire and dust. It could be an omen, its origin to discuss?

What’s a place you have left but didn’t enter?

What’s as small as a mouse but guards a house like a lion?

When can someone truthfully tell someone “well done” but think they did a bad job?

When does Christmas come before Thanksgiving?

When I get closer my tail grows longer, but when I go away my tail leads the way.

When I live I cry, If you don’t kill me I’ll die.

When I’m born I fly. When I’m alive I lay. When I’m dead I run.

When it comes in, From sea to shore, Twenty paces you’ll see, No less, no more.

When it is alive we sing, when it is dead we clap our hands. What is it?