8-letter words containing ta
- detassel — to remove the upper, pollen-bearing part (the tassel) of a corn (maize) plant and place it on the ground. This is done to one variety of corn in a plantation containing two varieties, so that all the corn will be pollinated by a single variety, thus producing fertile hybrids
- detrital — rock in small particles or other material worn or broken away from a mass, as by the action of water or glacial ice.
- diastase — any of a group of enzymes that hydrolyse starch to maltose. They are present in germinated barley and in the pancreas
- dictated — to say or read (something) aloud for another person to transcribe or for a machine to record: to dictate some letters to a secretary.
- dictates — authoritative commands or rules
- dictator — A dictator is a ruler who has complete power in a country, especially power which was obtained by force and is used unfairly or cruelly.
- digitals — Plural form of digital.
- digitate — Zoology. having digits or digitlike processes.
- dilatant — dilating; expanding.
- dilatate — dilated; broadened.
- dilutant — A diluting agent; a diluent, or thinner.
- dioptase — a mineral, hydrous copper silicate, CuSiO 3 ⋅H 2 O, occurring in emerald-green crystals.
- distally — situated away from the point of origin or attachment, as of a limb or bone; terminal. Compare proximal.
- distance — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
- distaste — dislike; disinclination.
- ditactic — (chemistry) Describing a tactic polymer that contains two sites of defined stereoisomerism in each repeat unit.
- djakarta — a seaport in and the capital of Indonesia, on the NW coast of Java.
- dog star — the bright star Sirius, in Canis Major.
- dog tags — a small disk or strip attached to a dog's harness or collar stating owner, home, etc.
- donatary — the recipient of a donation
- dotation — an endowment.
- dovetail — a tenon broader at its end than at its base; pin.
- downtake — a pipe or passage for conducting smoke, a current of air, or the like downward from a furnace, opening, etc.
- driftage — the action or an amount of drifting.
- dubitate — to doubt or be uncertain
- ducktail — DA.
- duo-tang — a type of folder with flexible metal fasteners
- dupattas — Plural form of dupatta.
- dystaxia — (pathology, rare) ataxia.
- dystaxic — relating to or affected by dystaxia
- e-tailer — the selling of goods and services on the Internet or through email solicitation.
- eatables — edible.
- ecbatana — an ancient country in W Asia, S of the Caspian Sea, corresponding generally to NW Iran. Capital: Ecbatana.
- ecostate — (of a leaf) having neither ribs nor nerves
- ecstatic — of, relating to, or characterized by ecstasy or a state of sudden, intense, overpowering emotion: an ecstatic frenzy; ecstatic cheering for the winning team.
- edentate — belonging or pertaining to the Edentata, an order of New World mammals characterized by the absence of incisors and canines in the arrangement of teeth and comprising the armadillos, the sloths, and the South American anteaters.
- editable — (of text or software) in a format that can be edited by the user.
- elastane — An elastic polyurethane material, used for hosiery, underwear, and other close-fitting clothing.
- elastase — An endopeptidase enzyme involved in the breakdown of elastin.
- elmameta — A Fortran extension, written at the Tallinn Poly Inst in 1978, used for lexical, syntactic and semantic sepecification in the ELMA compiler writer. This system was widely used in the Soviet Union, and produced an Ada to Diana compiler.
- enstated — Simple past tense and past participle of enstate.
- entailed — Simple past tense and past participle of entail.
- entameba — any of a genus (Entamoeba) of amoebas parasitic in vertebrates, esp. a species (E. histolytica) causing amoebic dysentery
- entangle — Cause to become twisted together with or caught in.
- entastic — characterized by spasms
- epitaphs — Plural form of epitaph.
- epitases — Plural form of epitasis.
- epitasis — (ancient drama) The second part of a play, in which the action begins.
- epitaxic — relating to epitaxy
- equiseta — Plural form of equisetum.