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14-letter words containing ta

  • resultant tone — a musical sound sometimes heard when two loud notes are sounded together, either lower in pitch than either (differential tone) or higher (summational tone)
  • retail banking — banking for individual customers
  • retail theater — A retail theater is a display in a store that is very theatrical, artistic and creative, and deliberately designed to make shopping entertaining.
  • retail therapy — Retail therapy is the activity of shopping for clothes and other things in order to make yourself feel happier.
  • retaining wall — a wall for holding in place a mass of earth or the like, as at the edge of a terrace or excavation.
  • retaliationist — a retaliator
  • retractability — to withdraw (a statement, opinion, etc.) as inaccurate or unjustified, especially formally or explicitly; take back.
  • revenue tariff — a tariff or duty imposed on imports primarily to produce public revenue.
  • revitalization — to give new life to.
  • richard tawney — Richard Henry, 1880–1962, English historian, born in Calcutta.
  • rictal bristle — a bristlelike feather growing from the base of a bird's bill.
  • rna synthetase — an enzyme that catalyzes the synthesis of RNA in cells infected with RNA viruses, allowing production of copies of the viral RNA.
  • road stability — the extent to which a motor vehicle is stable and does not skid, esp at high speeds, or on sharp bends or wet roads
  • robusta coffee — a coffee tree, Coffea canephora, native to western tropical Africa and cultivated in warm regions of the Old World.
  • root vegetable — edible starchy tuber
  • rotary printer — a machine for printing from a revolving cylinder, or a plate attached to one, usually onto a continuous strip of paper
  • rotary shutter — a camera shutter consisting of a rotating disk pierced with a slit that passes in front of the lens to expose the film or plate.
  • rotating stock — Rotating stock is a system used especially in food stores and to reduce wastage, in which the oldest stock is moved to the front of shelves and new stock is added at the back.
  • roulette table — surface marked out for roulette
  • royal standard — a flag bearing the arms of the British sovereign, flown only when she (or he) is present
  • ruby-tail wasp — any of various brightly coloured wasps of the family Chrysididae, having a metallic sheen, which parasitize bees and other solitary wasps
  • rufflette tape — a kind of heading tape for curtains
  • sacramentalism — a belief in or emphasis on the importance and efficacy of the sacraments for achieving salvation and conferring grace.
  • sacramentality — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
  • sacramentarian — a person who maintains that the Eucharistic elements have only symbolic significance and are not corporeal manifestations of Christ.
  • safety curtain — a sheet of asbestos or other fireproof material that can be lowered just inside the proscenium arch in case of fire, sealing off the backstage area from the auditorium.
  • saigo takamori — 1828–77, Japanese samurai, who led (1868) the coup that restored imperial government. In 1877 he reluctantly led a samurai rebellion, committing suicide when it failed
  • salva veritate — without affecting truth-value
  • sand stargazer — a fish of the family Dactyloscopidae, especially Dactyloscopus tridigitatus, of Atlantic waters from Bermuda to Brazil, having tiny, tubular eyes on top of the head, and capable of emitting electric discharges.
  • sanitary towel — sanitary napkin.
  • sanitation man — a man who collects and disposes of refuse for the sanitation department of local government
  • santa catalina — an island off the SW coast of California, opposite Long Beach: resort. 132 sq. mi. (342 sq. km).
  • santa catarina — a state in S Brazil. 36,856 sq. mi. (95,455 sq. km). Capital: Florianópolis.
  • santa fe trail — an important trade route going between Independence, Missouri, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, used from about 1821 to 1880.
  • secretary bird — a large, long-legged, raptorial bird, Sagittarius serpentarius, of Africa, that feeds on reptiles.
  • segmental arch — a shallow arch not including a complete semicircle
  • self-contained — containing in oneself or itself all that is necessary; independent.
  • self-important — having or showing an exaggerated opinion of one's own importance; pompously conceited or haughty.
  • self-stability — the state or quality of being stable.
  • semistarvation — the state of being nearly starved.
  • semivegetarian — a person who eats mostly plant foods, dairy products, and eggs, and occasionally chicken, fish, and red meat.
  • sentimentalism — sentimental tendency or character; predominance of sentiment over reason.
  • sentimentalist — one given to sentiment or sentimentality.
  • sentimentality — the quality or state of being sentimental or excessively sentimental.
  • sentimentalize — to indulge in sentiment.
  • sharptail mola — a fish, Masturus lanceolatus, related to the ocean sunfish but having a pointed tail.
  • shop assistant — a store clerk.
  • shower curtain — waterproof sheet around a shower
  • simultaneously — existing, occurring, or operating at the same time; concurrent: simultaneous movements; simultaneous translation.
  • sitting target — A sitting target is the same as a sitting duck.
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