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12-letter words containing ta

  • bastard wing — a tuft of feathers attached to the first digit of a bird, distinct from the wing feathers attached to the other digits and the ulna
  • bastardizing — Present participle of bastardize.
  • bastardsword — Alternative spelling of bastard sword.
  • beaumontague — a cement-like substance used to fill in and hide cracks and holes in woodwork and metalwork
  • beaver state — Oregon (used as a nickname).
  • bell captain — a person in charge of a group of bellhops
  • below stairs — People sometimes use below stairs to refer to the servants in a rich household and the things that are connected with them.
  • bespectacled — Someone who is bespectacled is wearing glasses.
  • beta blocker — A beta blocker is a drug which is used to treat people who have high blood pressure or heart problems.
  • beta emitter — a radioactive element, either natural or artificial, which changes into another element by emitting a beta particle
  • beta orionis — Rigel
  • beta testing — (programming)   Evaluation of a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software (or possibly hardware) by making it available to selected users ("beta testers") before it goes on general distribution. Beta testign aims to discover bugs that only occur in certain environments or under certain patterns of use, while reducing the volume of feedback to a manageable level. The testers benefit by having earlier access to new products, features and fixes. Beta testing may be preceded by "alpha testing", performed in-house by a handful of users (e.g. other developers or friends), who can be expected to give rapid, high quality feedback on design and usability. Once the product is considered to be usable for its intended purpose it then moves on to "beta testing" by a larger, but typically still limited, number of ordinary users, who may include external customers. Some companies such as Google or Degree Jungle stretch the definition, claiming their products are "in beta" for many months by millions of users. The term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the industry. "Alpha test" was the unit test, module test or component test phase; "Beta Test" was initial system test. These themselves came from earlier A- and B-tests for hardware. The A-test was a feasibility and manufacturability evaluation done before any commitment to design and development. The B-test was a demonstration that the engineering model functioned as specified. The C-test (corresponding to today's beta) was the B-test performed on early samples of the production design.
  • beta version — beta testing
  • beta-blocker — any of various substances that interfere with the action of the beta receptors: used primarily to reduce the heart rate or force in the prevention, management, or treatment of angina, hypertension, or arrythmias.
  • betacarotene — the most important form of the plant pigment carotene, which occurs in milk, vegetables, and other foods and, when eaten by man and animals, is converted in the body to vitamin A
  • betanaphthol — a colorless, crystalline isomer of naphthol, C10H8O, used as an antiseptic and parasiticide
  • bhutatathata — Tathata.
  • biparentally — from a biparental point of view
  • biting stage — the second part of the oral phase of psychosexual development, approximately 8 to18 months of age, during which a child has the urge to bite or chew objects.
  • blazing star — a North American liliaceous plant, Chamaelirium luteum, with a long spike of small white flowers
  • bloodstained — Someone or something that is bloodstained is covered with blood.
  • blues guitar — blues guitar music
  • bog-standard — If you describe something as bog-standard you mean that is an ordinary example of its kind, with no exciting or interesting features.
  • boomer state — Oklahoma
  • border state — a state adjacent to a border
  • border taxes — taxes payable on goods taken across a border
  • born-digital — relating to or noting documents, images, etc., that are created and managed in electronic form: electronic preservation of born-digital content; a born-digital e-book that will not be available in print.
  • breathtaking — If you say that something is breathtaking, you are emphasizing that it is extremely beautiful or amazing.
  • bridge table — a square card table with folding legs.
  • brittle star — any echinoderm of the class Ophiuroidea, having the body composed of a central, rounded disk from which radiate long, slender, fragile arms.
  • brittle-star — any echinoderm of the class Ophiuroidea, occurring on the sea bottom and having five long slender arms radiating from a small central disc
  • bud mutation — a variation produced by a genetic alteration in the bud such that the seeds produced by the resulting growth perpetuate the change in succeeding generations.
  • buffer state — A buffer state is a peaceful country situated between two or more larger hostile countries.
  • burro's tail — a succulent Mexican plant, Sedum morganianum, of the stonecrop family, bearing small, rose-colored flowers and long, hanging, nearly cylindrical stems with closely packed whitish-green leaves.
  • bushy-tailed — bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, fresh, alert, eager, and lively
  • cafe curtain — a short curtain suspended directly downward from a series of rings sliding on a horizontal rod so as to cover the lower and sometimes upper portions of a window.
  • calculatable — Able to be calculated; calculable.
  • calcutta cup — a trophy competed for annually by England and Scotland since 1879
  • cantabrigian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Cambridge or Cambridge University, or of Cambridge, Massachusetts, or Harvard University
  • cantankerous — Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
  • capacitances — Plural form of capacitance.
  • capacitating — Present participle of capacitate.
  • capacitation — to make capable; enable.
  • cape matapan — a cape in S Greece, at the S central tip of the Peloponnese: the southern point of the mainland of Greece
  • capital city — the seat of government of a country or other political unit
  • capital cost — a cost incurred on the purchase of land, buildings, construction and equipment to be used in the production of goods or the rendering of services
  • capital gain — the amount by which the selling price of a financial asset exceeds its cost
  • capital levy — a tax on capital or property as contrasted with a tax on income
  • capital loss — A capital loss is a loss on investment property.
  • capital ship — one of the largest and most heavily armed ships in a naval fleet
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