16-letter words containing ta
- frontal lobotomy — Surgery. a psychosurgical procedure in which the frontal lobes are separated from the rest of the brain by cutting the connecting nerve fibers.
- frontier orbital — the highest-energy occupied orbital or lowest-energy unoccupied orbital in a molecule. Such orbitals have a large influence on chemical properties
- fundamental bass — a bass consisting of the roots of the chords employed.
- fundamental star — one of a number of stars with positions that have been determined accurately and that are used as reference stars for the determination of positions of other celestial objects.
- fundamental unit — one of a set of unrelated units that form the basis of a system of units. For example, the metre, kilogram, and second are fundamental units of the SI system
- fundamentalistic — Fundamentalist.
- gastro-resistant — A gastro-resistant tablet is designed to temporarily withstand attack by stomach acid.
- general hospital — A general hospital is a hospital that does not specialize in the treatment of particular illnesses or patients.
- go into the tank — a large receptacle, container, or structure for holding a liquid or gas: tanks for storing oil.
- gold star mother — an American woman whose son or daughter has died while serving in the United States Armed Forces
- governmentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of governmentalize.
- grant-maintained — funded by national government
- green vegetables — green edible plants
- ground substance — Also called matrix. the homogeneous substance in which the fibers and cells of connective tissue are embedded.
- growth substance — any substance, produced naturally by a plant or manufactured commercially, that, in very low concentrations, affects plant growth; a plant hormone
- gulf of martaban — an inlet of the Bay of Bengal in Myanmar
- hailing distance — the distance within which the human voice can be heard: They sailed within hailing distance of the island.
- hamming distance — (data) The minimum number of bits that must be changed in order to convert one bit string into another. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming.
- happenstantially — (rare) By happenstance; occurring due to random chance.
- have a talk with — discuss
- hematocrystallin — (biology, archaic) hemoglobin.
- herpes genitalis — genital herpes.
- hesitation waltz — a waltz based on the frequent use of a step that consists of a pause and glide.
- heterometabolism — insect development in which the young hatch in a form very similar to the adult and then mature without a pupal stage
- heterometabolous — undergoing development in which the young are born adultlike in form, often maturing without a pupal stage.
- horizon distance — Television. the distance of the farthest point on the earth's surface visible from a transmitting antenna.
- horizontal plane — flat surface parallel to the horizon
- horizontal union — a labor union organized by skills or trades of its members rather than by industries.
- horsetail agaric — the shaggy-mane.
- hospital corners — a fold on a bed sheet or blanket made by tucking the foot or head of the sheet straight under the mattress with the ends protruding and then making a diagonal fold at the side corner of the sheet and tucking this under to produce a triangular corner.
- hospital service — the whole organization of government funded hospitals, their staff, and the services they provide
- hospitalizations — Plural form of hospitalization.
- hostile takeover — a takeover that is not approved by the management of the corporation being acquired or that is accomplished through the secret purchase of stock.
- housing shortage — a deficiency or lack in the number of houses needed to accommodate the population of an area
- hydrostatic head — The hydrostatic head is the vertical height of a column of fluid.
- hyperperistalsis — the progressive wave of contraction and relaxation of a tubular muscular system, especially the alimentary canal, by which the contents are forced through the system.
- hyperpituitarism — overactivity of the pituitary gland.
- hypervitaminosis — an abnormal condition caused by an excessive intake of vitamins.
- hypnagogic state — the drowsy period between wakefulness and sleep, during which fantasies and hallucinations often occur.
- hypoalimentation — insufficient or inadequate nourishment.
- hypostatic union — (In Cristianity) Christ's condition of being, at the same time, both human and divine
- image consultant — imagemaker.
- imperfectability — The quality of not being perfectable; of being forever imperfect.
- incidental music — music intended primarily to point up or accompany parts of the action of a play or to serve as transitional material between scenes.
- income statement — an accounting of income and expenses that indicates a firm's net profit or loss over a certain period of time, usually one year.
- incontestability — incapable of being contested; not open to dispute; incontrovertible: incontestable proof.
- incontravertable — Misspelling of incontrovertible.
- indisputableness — The property of being indisputable.
- infant mortality — death during infancy
- inhospitableness — The quality of being inhospitable.