4-letter words containing ta
- talc — Also, talcum [tal-kuh m] /ˈtæl kəm/ (Show IPA). a green-to-gray, soft mineral, hydrous magnesium silicate, Mg 3 (Si 4 O 10)(OH) 2 , unctuous to the touch, and occurring usually in foliated or compact masses, used in making lubricants, talcum powder, electrical insulation, etc.
- tale — a narrative that relates the details of some real or imaginary event, incident, or case; story: a tale about Lincoln's dog.
- tali — the uppermost bone of the proximal row of bones of the tarsus; anklebone.
- talk — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- tall — having a relatively great height; of more than average stature: a tall woman; tall grass.
- tame — changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated: a tame bear.
- tamm — Igor Evgenievich [ee-guh r yiv-gye-nyi-vyich] /ˈi gər yɪvˈgyɛ nyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1895–1971, Russian physicist: Nobel prize 1958.
- tamo — the light, yellowish-brown wood of a Japanese ash, Fraxinus mandschurica, used for making furniture.
- tamp — to force in or down by repeated, rather light, strokes: He tamped the tobacco in his pipe.
- tana — a police station in India.
- tane — a Polynesian god of fertility.
- tang — a dynasty in China, a.d. 618–907, marked by territorial expansion, the invention of printing, and the high development of poetry.
- tanh — hyperbolic tangent; a hyperbolic function that is the ratio of sinh to cosh
- tank — to put or store in a tank.
- tans — to convert (a hide) into leather, especially by soaking or steeping in a bath prepared from tanbark or synthetically.
- taos — a Tanoan language spoken in two villages in New Mexico.
- tapa — the bark of the paper mulberry.
- tape — a long, narrow strip of linen, cotton, or the like, used for tying garments, binding seams or carpets, etc.
- tapi — Telephony Application Programming Interface
- taps — a cylindrical stick, long plug, or stopper for closing an opening through which liquid is drawn, as in a cask; spigot.
- tapu — sacred; forbidden
- tara — a village in the NE Republic of Ireland, NW of Dublin: home of the ancient Irish kings (Hill of Tara)
- tare — the act of tearing.
- tarn — a department in S France. 2232 sq. mi. (5780 sq. km). Capital: Albi.
- taro — a stemless plant, Colocasia esculenta, of the arum family, cultivated in tropical regions, in the Pacific islands and elsewhere, for the edible tuber.
- tarp — tarpaulin.
- tart — sharp to the taste; sour or acid: Tart apples are best for pie. Synonyms: astringent, acrid, piquant. Antonyms: sweet, sugary, bland, mellow.
- tase — (sometimes initial capital letter) to electrically stun (a living target) using a Taser or similar stun gun: She tased her stalker when he tried to force her into his car.
- task — a definite piece of work assigned to, falling to, or expected of a person; duty.
- tasm — Turbo Assembler. MS-DOS assembler from Borland.
- tass — a news-gathering agency of the former Soviet Union: merged with an alternative news service to form Itar-Tass (Russian Information Telegraph Agency).
- tate — Sir Henry, 1819–99, English merchant and philanthropist: founder of an art gallery (Tate Gallery) in London, England.
- tath — the dung of grazing animals, used as manure to fertilize land
- tati — Jacques (ʒak), real name Jacques Tatischeff. 1908–82, French film director, pantomimist, and comic actor, creator of the character Monsieur Hulot
- tatp — triacetone triperoxide: a highly unstable explosive, used esp by suicide bombers
- tatt — tired all the time: a term used to describe a set of symptoms often related to doctors by patients
- taut — tightly drawn; tense; not slack.
- tava — an Indian frying pan or griddle used for cooking chapattis
- tavr — Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve
- tavs — the 23rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- tawa — a tall timber tree, Beilschmiedia tawa, of New Zealand, having edible purple berries
- taws — a whip or leather thong used to drive a spinning top.
- taxa — plural of taxon.
- taxi — a taxicab.
- ttan — Teacher Training Agency
- utah — a state in the W United States. 84,916 sq. mi. (219,930 sq. km). Capital: Salt Lake City. Abbreviation: UT (for use with zip code), Ut.
- utas — the eighth day of a festival
- vita — curriculum vitae (def 1).
- vsta — (operating system) Valencia Simple Tasker.
- vtam — Virtual Telecommunications Access Method