13-letter words containing ta
- cassette tape — a recording made on magnetic tape inside a plastic container, to be inserted into a tape deck
- cassette-tape — Also called cassette tape. a compact case containing a length of magnetic tape that runs between two small reels: used for recording or playback of audio or video in a tape recorder, cassette deck, video camera, or VCR, and for storage of data by some small computer systems. See also audiocassette, videocassette.
- catabolically — In terms of catabolism.
- catalog verse — verse made by compiling long lists of everyday objects, names, or events, united by a common theme and often didactic in tone.
- catalytically — Chemistry. the causing or accelerating of a chemical change by the addition of a catalyst.
- catastrophise — Alt form catastrophize.
- catastrophism — an old doctrine, now discarded, that the earth was created and has subsequently been shaped by sudden divine acts which have no logical connection with each other rather than by gradual evolutionary processes
- catastrophist — the doctrine that certain vast geological changes in the earth's history were caused by catastrophes rather than gradual evolutionary processes.
- catastrophize — (obsolete) To end a comedy.
- catatonically — in a catatonic or exceedingly rigid manner
- cd-rewritable — Compact Disc Rewritable
- centripetally — Towards a centre or axis.
- cerium metals — the metals lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, and samarium, forming a sub-group of the lanthanides
- cerynean stag — a stag living in Arcadia, captured by Hercules as one of his labors.
- cetane number — a measure of the quality of a diesel fuel expressed as the percentage of cetane in a mixture of cetane and 1-methylnapthalene of the same quality as the given fuel
- charitability — Charitableness.
- charlatanical — of or relating to a charlatan, pretentious
- charlatanries — Plural form of charlatanry.
- chattahoochee — river flowing from N Ga. southward along the Ga.-Ala. border into the Apalachicola: 436 mi (702 km)
- chemotaxonomy — the taxonomy of species of organisms based on biochemical characteristics
- chieftainship — the chief of a clan or a tribe.
- chimney stack — A chimney stack is the brick or stone part of a chimney that is above the roof of a building.
- chloroplastal — of or like a chloroplast
- choripetalous — polypetalous
- circumagitate — (transitive) To agitate on all sides.
- circumorbital — (anatomy) Around the eye.
- circumstanced — simple past tense and past participle of circumstance.
- circumstances — someone's financial situation
- citation form — the spoken form a word has when produced in isolation, such as when cited for purposes of illustration, as distinguished from the form it would have when produced in the normal stream of speech.
- civitavecchia — a city on the Tyrrhenian Sea in W central Italy: chief port of Rome.
- clear a table — When you clear a table, you remove things from it that you do not want to be there.
- closed stance — a batting stance in which the front foot is positioned closer to the inside of the batter's box than the back foot.
- coach station — A coach station is an area or a building which coaches leave from or arrive at on regular journeys.
- coastal plain — a plain extending along a coast.
- cocktail hour — the interval before the evening meal during which cocktails and other alcoholic beverages are often served.
- coinheritance — joint inheritance
- comfortablest — Superlative form of comfortable.
- commentations — Plural form of commentation.
- common tannin — Chemistry. any of a group of astringent vegetable principles or compounds, chiefly complex glucosides of catechol and pyrogallol, as the reddish compound that gives the tanning properties to oak bark or the whitish compound that occurs in large quantities in nutgalls (common tannin, tannic acid)
- communautaire — supporting the principles of the European Community (now the European Union)
- communitarian — a member of a communist community
- commutability — The quality of being commutable.
- commutatively — of or relating to commutation, exchange, substitution, or interchange.
- commutativity — the property of being commutative
- compartmental — divided into compartments: a compartmental office; a compartmental agency.
- compatability — Misspelling of compatibility.
- complementary — Complementary things are different from each other but make a good combination.
- complimentary — If you are complimentary about something, you express admiration for it.
- computability — (computing theory) The property of being computable by purely mechanical means.
- computational — Computational means using computers.