14-letter words containing ta
- to one's taste — pleasing to one
- to stand trial — If someone stands trial, they are tried in court for a crime they are accused of.
- toga praetexta — (in ancient Rome) a toga with a broad purple border worn by certain magistrates and priests and by boys until they assumed the toga virilis
- torpedo attack — an attack launched from aircraft, ships, or submarines, using a bomb that is shaped like a tube and travels under water
- total fighting — a combat sport in which very few restrictions are placed on the type of blows or tactics that may be used
- total football — an attacking style of play, popularized by the Dutch national team of the 1970s, in which there are no fixed positions and every outfield player can join in the attack
- total pressure — Total pressure is the total of static pressure p, dynamic pressure q, and gravitational head.
- trading estate — industrial area
- training table — a table in a dining hall, as at a college, where athletes are provided with special meals to aid their conditioning.
- transcendental — transcendent, surpassing, or superior.
- transcutaneous — by way of or through the skin.
- transplacental — across or passing through the placenta.
- transplanetary — farther from the sun than a given planet.
- transportation — the act of transporting.
- travel-stained — dirty or soiled as a result of travelling
- treasure state — Montana (used as a nickname).
- treinta y tres — a city in E Uruguay.
- triconsonantal — having three consonants
- trinitarianism — the belief in, or doctrine of, the Trinity.
- tripolitan war — a war (1801–05) that Tripoli declared on the United States because of American refusal to pay tribute for the safe passage of shipping in Barbary Coastal waters.
- trisoctahedron — a solid bounded by 24 identical faces in groups of three, each group corresponding to one face of an octahedron.
- trucial states — an independent federation in E Arabia, formed in 1971, now comprising seven emirates on the S coast (formerly, Pirate Coast or Trucial Coast) of the Persian Gulf, formerly under British protection: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al-Qaiwain, Ras al-Khaimah (joined 1972), and Fujairah. About 32,300 sq. mi. (83,657 sq. km). Capital: Abu Dhabi. Abbreviation: U.A.E.
- trust hospital — a hospital that is run by an NHS trust which competes with other trusts for government funding
- tuckaway table — a table having a support folding into one plane and a tilting or drop-leaf top.
- turing tar-pit — A place where anything is possible but nothing of interest is practical. Alan M. Turing helped lay the foundations of computer science by showing that all machines and languages capable of expressing a certain very primitive set of operations are logically equivalent in the kinds of computations they can carry out, and in principle have capabilities that differ only in speed from those of the most powerful and elegantly designed computers. However, no machine or language exactly matching Turing's primitive set has ever been built (other than possibly as a classroom exercise), because it would be horribly slow and far too painful to use. A "Turing tar-pit" is any computer language or other tool that shares this property. That is, it's theoretically universal but in practice, the harder you struggle to get any real work done, the deeper its inadequacies suck you in. Compare bondage-and-discipline language. A tar pit is a geological occurence where subterranean tar leaks to the surface, creating a large puddle (or pit) of tar. Animals wandering or falling in get stuck, being unable to extricate themselves from the tar. La Brea, California, has a museum built around the fossilized remains of mammals and birds found in such a tar pit.
- ultra-distance — covering a distance in excess of 30 miles, often as part of a longer race or competition
- ultramontanism — the policy of the party in the Roman Catholic Church that favors increasing and enhancing the power and authority of the pope.
- umbrella stand — an upright rack or stand for umbrellas
- unaccidentally — happening by chance or accident; not planned; unexpected: an accidental meeting.
- unacquaintance — the state of being unaware or ignorant
- unattributable — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
- uncollectables — things that are not collectable
- uncontaminated — to make impure or unsuitable by contact or mixture with something unclean, bad, etc.: to contaminate a lake with sewage.
- uncrystallized — lacking a final form
- uncultivatable — unsuitable for cultivation
- undersecretary — an official who is subordinate to a principal secretary, as in the U.S. cabinet: Under Secretary of the Treasury.
- understandable — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
- understandably — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
- understandings — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
- understatement — the act or an instance of understating, or representing in a weak or restrained way that is not borne out by the facts: The journalist wrote that the earthquake had caused some damage. This turned out to be a massive understatement of the devastation.
- unentertaining — not entertaining or amusing
- unhesitatingly — without hesitation; not delayed by uncertainty: an unhesitating decision.
- unhumanitarian — having concern for or helping to improve the welfare and happiness of people.
- uniformitarian — supporting, conforming to, or derived from a theory or doctrine about uniformity, especially on the subject of geology.
- unitary matrix — a square matrix that is the inverse of its Hermitian conjugate
- universitarian — an institution of learning of the highest level, having a college of liberal arts and a program of graduate studies together with several professional schools, as of theology, law, medicine, and engineering, and authorized to confer both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Continental European universities usually have only graduate or professional schools.
- unmaintainable — to keep in existence or continuance; preserve; retain: to maintain good relations with neighboring countries.
- unmerchantable — (of goods) not suitable for trading
- unmetaphorical — not used, viewed, or intended as a metaphor
- unmetaphysical — (of a statement or theory) not metaphysical or abstract