11-letter words containing ta
- bedroom tax — a reduction in housing benefit for occupants of council housing who have more rooms than they are deemed to require
- belowstairs — (formerly) at or in the basement of a large house, considered as the place where the servants live and work
- bench table — a course of masonry forming a bench at the foot of a wall.
- benzonatate — a nonnarcotic substance, C 30 H 53 NO 11 , used as a cough suppressant.
- beta crucis — a star of the first magnitude in the constellation Southern Cross.
- beta rhythm — the normal electrical activity of the cerebral cortex, occurring at a frequency of 13 to 30 hertz and detectable with an electroencephalograph
- betting tax — a tax on gambling
- bidialectal — fluent in two dialects of a language
- bimetallism — the use of two metals, esp gold and silver, in fixed relative values as the standard of value and currency
- bimetallist — the use of two metals, ordinarily gold and silver, at a fixed relative value, as the monetary standard.
- binary data — binary file
- binary star — a double star system comprising two stars orbiting around their common centre of mass. A visual binary can be seen through a telescope. A spectroscopic binary can only be observed by the spectroscopic Doppler shift as each star moves towards or away from the earth
- biocatalyst — a chemical, esp an enzyme, that initiates or increases the rate of a biochemical reaction
- black metal — a type of heavy-metal music characterized by extremely nihilistic and satanic lyrics, a repetitive drum beat rapidly alternating betweeen the snare and bass drum (a blast beat), and the ghoulish make-up worn by performers (corpse paint)
- black volta — a river in W Africa, rising in SW Burkina Faso and flowing northeast, then south into Lake Volta: forms part of the border of Ghana with Burkina-Faso and with Côte d'Ivoire. Length: about 800 km (500 miles)
- blind-stamp — to emboss or impress (the cover or spine of a book) without using ink or foil.
- boost-start — jump-start.
- borstal boy — (formerly) a boy sent to borstal
- botanically — Also, botanic. of, pertaining to, made from, or containing plants: botanical survey; botanical drugs.
- botanomancy — a form of divination in which tree branches or leaves are burnt
- botany wool — a fine wool from the merino sheep
- bowie state — Arkansas (used as a nickname).
- brace table — a table giving the lengths of the hypotenuses of right isosceles triangles of varying sizes: used especially for calculating the lengths of diagonal braces.
- brass tacks — basic realities; hard facts (esp in the phrase get down to brass tacks)
- bristletail — any primitive wingless insect of the orders Thysanura and Diplura, such as the silverfish and firebrat, having a flattened body and long tail appendages
- bronze star — a U.S. military decoration awarded for heroism or achievement in military operations other than those involving aerial flights.
- brown-state — (of linen and lace fabrics) undyed
- buena vista — a village in NE Mexico, near Saltillo: site of the defeat of the Mexicans by US forces (1847)
- bungstarter — a mallet for loosening or removing the bung of a cask.
- bus station — a place incorporating waiting areas, stands for buses, and ticket offices from which buses or coaches depart
- butter tart — a kind of tart made with butter, brown sugar, and raisins
- cabaret tax — a tax levied on entertainment, dancing, floor shows, etc., at places where liquor is served, as at cabarets and nightclubs.
- can't stand — find intolerable
- candlestand — a slender stand or table, often with a tripod base, for holding a candlestick or candelabrum.
- cantaloupes — Plural form of cantaloupe.
- capacitance — the property of a system that enables it to store electric charge
- capacitated — Simple past tense and past participle of capacitate.
- capacitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of capacitate.
- capital sum — an amount of money paid to an insured person or paid as an initial fee or investment
- capitalised — to write or print in capital letters letters or with an initial capital letter.
- capitalists — Plural form of capitalist.
- capitalized — Simple past tense and past participle of capitalize.
- capitalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of capitalize.
- capitations — Plural form of capitation.
- caprolactam — a white crystalline cyclic imine used in the manufacture of nylon. Formula: C5H10NHCO
- capstan bar — a lever, often wooden, for turning a capstan
- captainship — captaincy.
- carburetant — a substance, as gasoline or benzene, added to air or gas to carburet it
- carbutamide — An antidiabetic drug.
- carcinomata — Plural form of carcinoma.