8-letter words containing ata
- datagram — a self-contained unit of data transmitted in a packet-switched network
- dataller — a worker paid by the day
- datapost — an express service offered by the Royal Mail that ensures a parcel reaches its destination either on the day of postage or the following morning
- datasets — Plural form of dataset.
- delicata — (North America) An heirloom variety of winter squash, oblong in shape and having a cream-colored skin with green stripes.
- dilatant — dilating; expanding.
- dilatate — dilated; broadened.
- donatary — the recipient of a donation
- eatables — edible.
- ecbatana — an ancient country in W Asia, S of the Caspian Sea, corresponding generally to NW Iran. Capital: Ecbatana.
- fast ata — Advanced Technology Attachment Interface with Extensions
- fatalism — the acceptance of all things and events as inevitable; submission to fate: Her fatalism helped her to face death with stoic calm.
- fatalist — the acceptance of all things and events as inevitable; submission to fate: Her fatalism helped her to face death with stoic calm.
- fatality — a disaster resulting in death.
- fermatas — Plural form of fermata.
- floatage — an act of floating.
- floatant — a substance used in fly-fishing to help dry flies to float
- frittata — an omelet resembling a large pancake and containing vegetables, seasonings, and often ricotta, Parmesan, or other cheese.
- heatable — Capable of being heated.
- hirakata — a city on S Honshu, in Japan, NE of Osaka.
- horchata — (in Spain and Latin American countries) a milky drink made from ground almonds, tiger nuts, or rice.
- insalata — An Italian-style salad.
- jaboatao — a city in E Brazil, W of Recife.
- jackatar — a Newfoundland native of mixed French and Amerindian descent.
- kalamata — Kalamata olive.
- katahdin — Mount, the highest peak in Maine, in the central part. 5273 feet (1607 meters).
- katakana — the more angular, less commonly used of the two Japanese syllabaries.
- katalase — catalase.
- katalyst — catalyst.
- katalyze — catalyze.
- kawabata — Yasunari [yah-soo-nah-ree] /ˈyɑ sʊˈnɑ ri/ (Show IPA), 1899–1972, Japanese novelist and short-story writer: Nobel Prize 1968.
- khatanga — a river in N central Siberian Russia, flowing SE and N to the Khatanga Gulf of the Laptev Sea. 715 miles (1150 km) long.
- krakatau — a volcano and small island in Indonesia, between Java and Sumatra: violent eruption 1883.
- la plata — a seaport in E Argentina.
- legatary — a legatee
- lipomata — a benign tumor consisting of fat tissue.
- lokayata — a materialistic school of philosophers in India that opposed Hinduism by regarding only matter as real, sense data as the only source of knowledge, and the gratification of the appetites as the only good.
- matabele — Ndebele (def 1).
- matachin — a 16th century dance performed by extravagantly dressed masked dancers carrying swords
- matadora — A female matador.
- matadore — Dated form of matador.
- matadors — Plural form of matador.
- matamata — A grotesque South American freshwater turtle that has a broad flat head and neck with irregular projections of skin resembling waterweed.
- matanzas — a seaport on the NW coast of Cuba.
- metadata — A set of data that describes and gives information about other data.
- miasmata — noxious exhalations from putrescent organic matter; poisonous effluvia or germs polluting the atmosphere.
- myxomata — Plural form of myxoma.
- nabataea — an ancient Arab kingdom of SW Asia, in the area of present-day Jordan, that became a Roman province in a.d. 106. Capital: Petra.
- naginata — A traditional Japanese halberd: a polearm historically used to cut down infantry and cavalry.
- natalian — a province in the E part of the Republic of South Africa. 35,284 sq. mi. (91,886 sq. km). Capital: Pietermaritzburg.