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15-letter words containing ta

  • bank acceptance — a bill of exchange or draft drawn on and endorsed by a bank
  • barium titanate — a crystalline ceramic used in capacitors and piezoelectric devices. Formula: BaTiO3
  • barry mountains — a mountain range in SE Australia, in E Victoria: part of the Australian Alps
  • basic statement — protocol (def 6).
  • battle stations — the places to which soldiers, sailors, warships, etc. are assigned for a battle or an emergency
  • bayeux tapestry — an 11th- or 12th-century embroidery in Bayeux, nearly 70.5 m (231 ft) long by 50 cm (20 inches) high, depicting the Norman conquest of England
  • beta conversion — (theory)   A term from lambda-calculus for beta reduction or beta abstraction.
  • beta-adrenergic — pertaining to or involving beta receptors
  • binary notation — a number system having a base of two, numbers being expressed by sequences of the digits 0 and 1: used in computing, as 0 and 1 can be represented electrically as off and on
  • biostatistician — someone who studies or works professionally in the field of biostatistics
  • black mountains — a mountain range running from N Monmouthshire and SE Powys (Wales) to SW Herefordshire (England). Highest peak: Waun Fach, 811 m (2660 ft)
  • bluegrass state — Kentucky (used as a nickname).
  • boiled potatoes — potatoes, usually peeled, cooked in boiling water
  • break statement — (programming)   A statement in the C programming language that transfers control out of the innermost enclosing switch, while, do, or for statement. The statement also exists in languages derived from C, such as C++ and Java.
  • breakfast table — You refer to a table as the breakfast table when it is being used for breakfast.
  • britannia metal — an alloy of low melting point consisting of tin with 5–10 per cent antimony, 1–3 per cent copper, and sometimes small quantities of zinc, lead, or bismuth: used for decorative purposes and for bearings
  • brown-tail moth — a white moth, Nygmia phaerrhoea, having a brown tuft at the end of the abdomen, the larvae of which feed on the foliage of various shade and fruit trees.
  • burt l standish — Burt L. pseudonym of Gilbert Patten.
  • butterfly table — a small occasional table, usually having a round or oval top, with drop leaves supported by swinging brackets pivoted to the stretchers and to the underside of the top.
  • calcined baryta — baryta (def 1).
  • calcined-baryta — Also called calcined baryta, barium oxide, barium monoxide, barium protoxide. a white or yellowish-white poisonous solid, BaO, highly reactive with water: used chiefly as a dehydrating agent and in the manufacture of glass.
  • calcium lactate — a salt of lactic acid. Formula: Ca(C3H5O3)2·5H2O
  • capital account — A country's capital account is the part of its balance of payments that is concerned with the movement of capital.
  • capital expense — A capital expense is the cost of acquiring or making improvements to fixed assets.
  • capital gearing — the ratio of a company's debt capital to its equity capital
  • capital letters — a letter of the alphabet that usually differs from its corresponding lowercase letter in form and height, as A, B, Q, and R as distinguished from a, b, q, and r : used as the initial letter of a proper name, the first word of a sentence, etc.
  • capital offence — a crime for which the death penalty is used
  • capital surplus — any surplus of a business firm not derived from direct earnings or profits
  • capitalizations — Plural form of capitalization.
  • captain's chair — a hardwood armchair having a low, curved back, formed of a single rail supported by spindles, and a saddle seat
  • carl xvi gustaf — born 1946, king of Sweden from 1973
  • carpometacarpal — Anatomy. of or relating to the carpus and the metacarpus.
  • carpometacarpus — a bone in the wing of a bird that consists of the metacarpal bones and some of the carpal bones fused together
  • castanospermine — a substance obtained from the Australian chestnut or black bean tree
  • castrametations — Plural form of castrametation.
  • cat-o'-mountain — catamountain
  • cataclysmically — of, relating to, or resulting from a cataclysm.
  • catalina island — Santa Catalina.
  • catallactically — by or in the manner of exchange
  • catarrhal fever — bluetongue.
  • catastrophising — Present participle of catastrophise.
  • catastrophizing — Present participle of catastrophize.
  • channel captain — the most powerful member, and often the one that decides specifications, in a channel for distributing goods (which usually consists of a manufacturer, wholesaler, and retailer). The channel captain is sometimes the manufacturer but in the case of a chain store it may be the retailer
  • charlatanically — In a charlatanic manner.
  • chemoattractant — a chemical substance that provokes chemotaxis, esp one that causes a bacterium to move in the direction in which its concentration is increasing
  • chemotaxonomist — a specialist in the field of chemotaxonomy
  • chief assistant — the most important or top-ranking assistant to an official
  • chief constable — A Chief Constable is the officer who is in charge of the police force in a particular county or area in Britain.
  • chief secretary — (in Britain) the second most senior Treasury post, after the Chancellor of the Exchequer
  • child-resistant — that resists being opened, tampered with, or damaged by a child; childproof: a child-resistant medicine cabinet.
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