16-letter words containing ta
- transcontinental — passing or extending across a continent: a transcontinental railroad.
- transcrystalline — situated within or passing through the crystals of a substance.
- transfer station — a place where residential garbage and commercial wastes are compressed, baled, and loaded on vehicles for moving to disposal sites, as for landfill.
- transubstantiate — to change from one substance into another; transmute.
- triacetate fiber — a textile fiber made of cellulose triacetate.
- tristan da cunha — a group of four volcanic islands in the S Atlantic, belonging to St. Helena. 40 sq. mi. (104 sq. km).
- turntable ladder — a power-operated extending ladder mounted on a fire engine
- two-tailed pasha — a distinctive vanessid butterfly of S Europe, Charaxes jasius, having mottled brown wings with a yellow-orange margin and frilled hind edges
- uncircumstantial — of pertaining to, or derived from circumstances: a circumstantial result.
- uncoincidentally — happening by or resulting from coincidence; by chance: a coincidental meeting.
- uncontradictable — to assert the contrary or opposite of; deny directly and categorically.
- uncountable noun — An uncountable noun is the same as an uncount noun.
- uncountable-noun — a noun, as water, electricity, or happiness, that typically refers to an indefinitely divisible substance or an abstract notion, and that in English cannot be used, in such a sense, with the indefinite article or in the plural.
- undercapitalized — having insufficient capital for the efficient operation of a commercial enterprise
- undersecretariat — a department or section of a ministry of which an under secretary is in charge.
- uninhabitability — to live or dwell in (a place), as people or animals: Small animals inhabited the woods.
- unissued capital — authorized capital that has not yet been issued as shares
- unitarian church — the Protestant denomination that rejects the doctrine of the Trinity
- unostentatiously — (of a person) in a manner that is not trying to impress people with one's wealth or importance
- unpredictability — not predictable; not to be foreseen or foretold: an unpredictable occurrence.
- unrepresentative — a person or thing that represents another or others.
- ununderstandable — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
- vegetable butter — any of various fixed vegetable fats resembling butter in consistency, as cocoa butter.
- vegetable cellar — a usually underground storage room where fresh vegetables can be stored at normally cool temperatures for later use.
- vegetable garden — allotment
- vegetable marrow — any of various summer squashes, as the cocozelle and zucchini.
- vegetable oyster — salsify.
- vegetable slicer — a device with a sharp blade for slicing vegetables finely;
- vegetable sponge — loofah (def 2).
- vegetable tallow — any of several tallowlike substances of vegetable origin, used in making candles, soap, etc., and as lubricants.
- vertical tasting — a tasting of different vintages of one particular wine.
- vital statistics — The vital statistics of a population are statistics such as the number of births, deaths, or marriages which take place in it.
- vitamin-enriched — having had vitamins added
- voluntary helper — a person who aids or assists in a specified function of one's own accord and without compulsion or promise of remuneration
- voluntary muscle — muscle whose action is normally controlled by an individual's will; mainly skeletal muscle, composed of parallel bundles of striated, multinucleate fibers.
- voluntary school — a school that promotes specific religious beliefs and which is funded by a local education authority but was not established by the authority
- voluntary sector — the part of the economy that consists of non-profit-making organizations, as opposed to the public and private sectors
- voluntary worker — a person who serves or acts in a specified function of their own accord and without compulsion or promise of remuneration
- walking distance — distance that can easily be walked
- walrus moustache — a long thick moustache drooping at the ends
- washington state — the state of Washington, especially as distinguished from Washington, D.C.
- well-established — permanently founded; settled; firmly set: a well-established business; a well-established habit.
- whiptail wallaby — a wallaby of NE Australia, Macropus parryi, with a long slender tail
- willow ptarmigan — a ptarmigan, Lagopus lagopus, of arctic and subarctic regions of the New and Old Worlds, having brown, mottled plumage in summer and white plumage in winter.
- woolly manzanita — a tree or shrub, Arctostaphylos tomentosa, of the heath family, common from British Columbia to California, having broad leaves, with the underside covered with white hairs, and white flowers.
- yachting regatta — a sailing competition
- zagros mountains — a mountain range in S Iran: has Iran's main oilfields in its W central foothills. Highest peak: Zard Kuh, 4548 m (14 920 ft)
- ziegler catalyst — any of a group of catalysts, such as titanium trichloride (TiCl3) and aluminium alkyl (Al(CH3)3), that produce stereospecific polymers