22-letter words containing ta
- quantitative character — a character or trait that is transmitted by quantitative inheritance.
- recruitment consultant — A recruitment consultant is a person or service that helps professional people to find work by introducing them to potential employers.
- rectangular coordinate — Usually, rectangular coordinates. either of two Cartesian coordinates in which the axes meet at right angles.
- reliable data protocol — (protocol) (RDP) A protocol designed to provide a reliable data transport service for packet-based applications such as remote loading and debugging. RDP is intended to be simple to implement but still be efficient in environments where there may be long transmission delays and loss or non-sequential delivery of message segments. RDP is defined in RFC 908.
- remote database access — (database, standard) (RDBA) A standard permitting the exchange of information between different DBMS systems.
- research establishment — an establishment or institution where research or investigation into a subject, topic, etc, can be conducted
- resistance thermometer — an instrument for measuring the temperature of a metal, utilizing the principle that the electrical resistance of the metal varies with the temperature.
- rocky mountain bighorn — bighorn.
- rocky mountain juniper — a juniper, Juniperus scopulorum, of western North America, that yields a soft, reddish wood used for making fences, pencils, etc., and that is also grown as an ornamental.
- rocky mountain oysters — mountain oyster.
- round-table discussion — a discussion held at a meeting of parties or people on equal terms
- santa cruz de tenerife — a seaport on NE Tenerife island, in the W Canary Islands.
- secretary to the board — the secretary to the board of directors; company secretary
- self-sustaining growth — economic growth that maintains itself without intervention
- simultaneous broadcast — a programme, etc, broadcast simultaneously on radio and television
- simultaneous equations — a set of two or more equations, each containing two or more variables whose values can simultaneously satisfy both or all the equations in the set, the number of variables being equal to or less than the number of equations in the set.
- slender-tailed meerkat — the animal Suricata suricata
- special delivery stamp — a stamp of special design, having a value indicating an extra fee in addition to the regular postage, and affixed to an item of mail to ensure its special delivery.
- spontaneous combustion — the ignition of a substance or body from the rapid oxidation of its own constituents without heat from any external source.
- spontaneous generation — abiogenesis.
- stand the test of time — last, endure
- standard scratch score — the number of strokes a scratch player would need to go round a particular course, based on the length of each hole to the green and allowing 36 putts for the round
- start the ball rolling — to open or initiate (an action, discussion, movement, etc)
- state registered nurse — (formerly in Britain) a nurse who had extensive training and passed examinations enabling him or her to perform all nursing services
- statistical dependence — a condition in which two random variables are not independent. X and Y are positively dependent if the conditional probability, P(X|Y), of X given Y is greater than the probability, P(X), of X, or equivalently if P(X&Y) > P(X).P(Y). They are negatively dependent if the inequalities are reversed
- statute of limitations — a statute defining the period within which legal action may be taken.
- statute of westminster — the act of Parliament (1931) that formally recognized the independence of the dominions within the Empire
- substantive agreements — collective agreements that regulate jobs, pay, and conditions
- supplementary question — a question asked in Parliament by an MP during Questions to the Prime Minister
- syntactic construction — a construction that has no bound forms among its immediate constituents. Compare morphologic construction.
- tactile user interface — (interface) (TUI) Hardware and software to provide access to computer-based graphical[?] information using touch, often intended for blind people. See also haptics.
- take a fancy to sb/sth — If you take a fancy to someone or something, you start liking them, usually for no understandable reason.
- take cognizance of sth — If you take cognizance of something, you take notice of it or acknowledge it.
- take in (one's) stride — to cope with easily and without undue effort or hesitation
- take one's breath away — the air inhaled and exhaled in respiration.
- take someone's measure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- take something as read — to take something for granted as a fact; understand or presume
- take the mickey out of — to deflate (a person)
- take/tickle sb's fancy — If something takes your fancy or tickles your fancy, you like it a lot when you see it or think of it.
- talk someone's arm off — to talk to someone at great length or without pause
- talk through one's hat — a shaped covering for the head, usually with a crown and brim, especially for wear outdoors.
- tapered roller bearing — a rolling bearing that uses tapered rollers running in coned races and is able to accept axial thrust as well as providing shaft location
- targa graphics adaptor — (graphics, file format) (TGA) The Truevision Targa Graphics Adaptor file format. The TGA format is a common bitmap file format for storage of 24-bit images. It supports colourmaps, alpha channels, compression and comments. More information is available from Truevision and The Graphics File Format Page.
- the continental system — Napoleon's plan in 1806 to blockade Britain by excluding her ships from ports on the mainland of Europe
- the ouachita mountains — a mountain range in the United States, located in W Arkansas, S E Oklahoma, and N E Texas
- to be taken for a ride — If you say that someone has been taken for a ride, you mean that they have been deceived or cheated.
- total allergy syndrome — a condition in which a person suffers from a large number of symptoms that are claimed to be caused by allergies to various substances used or encountered in modern life
- tripotassium phosphate — any of the three orthophosphates of potassium ((potassium monophosphate) (K 2 HPO 4), (potassium diphosphate) (KH 2 PO 4), and (tripotassium phosphate) (K 3 PO 4) )
- under no circumstances — not for any reason
- under starter's orders — (of horses in a race) awaiting the start signal