12-letter words containing ta
- antimetabole — the repetition of words in reverse order for emphasis
- antimilitant — opposing military power, especially its increase or development or the influence of military leaders.
- antimilitary — opposed to the military
- antinatalist — A supporter of antinatalism.
- antipetalous — standing before the petals of a plant
- antitakeover — opposed to or acting against a takeover
- apostatizing — Present participle of apostatize.
- appertaining — to belong as a part, right, possession, attribute, etc.; pertain or relate (usually followed by to): privileges that appertain to members of the royal family.
- apricot tart — a pastry case filled with apricots
- aquaintances — Plural form of aquaintance.
- armamentaria — the aggregate of equipment, methods, and techniques available to one for carrying out one's duties: The stethoscope is still an essential part of the physician's armamentarium.
- arson attack — an attack when property is set fire to
- artaxerxes i — died 425 bc, king of Persia (465–425): son of Xerxes I
- ascertaining — to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine: to ascertain the facts.
- assentaneous — having a tendency to agree, comply or acquiesce
- assertations — Plural form of assertation.
- astacologist — a person who investigates and analyses crayfish
- astanga yoga — a revived ancient form of yoga that involves a fast and powerful series of movements
- atactostelic — Of or possessing an atactostele.
- atorvastatin — a statin, (C 33 H 34 FN 2 O 5) 2 ·Ca 3 H 2 O, used in the prevention and treatment of heart disease.
- attache case — An attaché case is a flat case for holding documents.
- attawapiskat — a river in NE Ontario, Canada, flowing E and N to James Bay. 465 miles (748 km) long.
- attributable — If something is attributable to an event, situation, or person, it is likely that it was caused by that event, situation or person.
- augmentation — the act of augmenting or the state of being augmented
- augmentative — tending or able to augment
- auscultating — Present participle of auscultate.
- auscultation — the diagnostic technique in medicine of listening to the various internal sounds made by the body, usually with the aid of a stethoscope
- autapomorphy — (cladistics) A derived trait that is unique to a particular taxon.
- autarkically — In an autarkic way.
- autocatalyse — to cause an internal, self-produced, chemical reaction
- autocatalyze — To cause, or to undergo autocatalysis.
- autorotation — the continuous rotation of a body in an airflow, such as that of the rotor blades of a helicopter in an unpowered descent
- avitaminosis — any disease caused by a vitamin deficiency in the diet
- avitaminotic — of or relating to avitaminosis
- ayuntamiento — (in Spain) a municipal council
- back catalog — A musical performer's back catalog is the music that they recorded and released in the past rather than their latest recordings.
- back to taws — back to the beginning
- back-stabbed — to attempt to discredit (a person) by underhanded means, as innuendo, accusation, or the like.
- backstabbing — Backstabbing consists of unkind and disloyal actions or remarks that are likely to harm someone such as a friend or colleague.
- backstarting — a marketing technique in publishing, whereby new customers are sent back issues of magazines or journals as part of their subscription
- bacteriostat — any substance that arrests the growth or reproduction of bacteria but does not kill them
- badger state — any of various burrowing, carnivorous mammals of the family Mustelidae, as Taxidea taxus, of North America, and Meles meles, of Europe and Asia.
- baked potato — a large potato baked in its skin
- banbury tart — a tart filled with a lemon-flavored mixture of currants, raisins, or the like.
- bantamweight — A bantamweight is a boxer who weighs between 51 and 53.5 kilograms, or a wrestler who weighs between 52 and 57 kilograms. A bantamweight is heavier than a flyweight but lighter than a featherweight.
- baryta water — an aqueous solution of barium hydroxide, used chiefly as a reagent.
- base station — a fixed transmitter that forms part of an otherwise mobile radio network
- basse-taille — of or relating to an enameling technique in which transparent enamels are fused over a background carved in low relief, or to a piece, as of jewelry, so enameled.
- basset table — a card table of the early 18th century in England.
- bastard file — a file of the commercial grade of coarseness between coarse and second-cut.