8-letter words containing tap
- cataphor — a word that refers to or stands for another word used later
- catapult — A catapult is a device for shooting small stones. It is made of a Y-shaped stick with a piece of elastic tied between the two top parts.
- cenotaph — A cenotaph is a structure that is built in honour of soldiers who died in a war.
- datapost — an express service offered by the Royal Mail that ensures a parcel reaches its destination either on the day of postage or the following morning
- epitaphs — Plural form of epitaph.
- griptape — a rough tape for sticking to a surface to provide a greater grip
- heel-tap — a layer of leather, metal, or the like in a shoe heel; a lift.
- heeltaps — Plural form of heeltap.
- inchtape — a measuring tape marked out in inches
- linctape — (storage) A formatted, block-oriented, high-reliability, random access tape system used on the Laboratory Instrument Computer. The tape was 3/4" wide. The funny DECtape is actually a variant of the original LINCtape. According to Wesley Clark, DEC tried to "improve" the LINCtape system, which mechanically, was wonderfully simple and elegant. The DEC version had pressure fingers and tape guides to force alignment as well as huge DC servo motors and complex control circuitry. These literally shredded the tape to bits if not carefully adjusted, and required frequent cleaning to remove all the shedded tape oxide. That was amazing, because the tape had a micro-thin plastic layer OVER the oxide to protect it. What happened was that all the forced alignment stuff caused shredding at the edge. An independent company, Computer Operations[?], built LINCtape drives for use in nuclear submarines. This was based on the tape system's high reliability. Correspondent Brian Converse has a picture of himself holding a LINCtape punched full of 1/4" holes. It still worked!
- mag tape — a magnetic tape used for recording data.
- metaphor — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- mix tape — a recording on a cassette tape, CD, or digital medium, consisting of music or songs selected by a single person: My boyfriend made me the greatest mixtape for my birthday.
- mixtapes — Plural form of mixtape.
- nametape — a fabric tape on which a person's name is written, woven, or printed: for affixing to garments and other personal belongings to identify ownership.
- octapody — (in poetic metre) a line, stanza, or piece of poetic writing that contains eight feet
- rataplan — a sound of or as of the beating of a drum.
- red tape — excessive formality and routine required before official action can be taken.
- sex tape — a recording of a sexual encounter, esp one involving a celebrity
- stapelia — any of various plants of the genus Stapelia, of the milkweed family, native to southern Africa, having short, fleshy, leafless stems, and flowers that are oddly colored or mottled and in most species emit a fetid, carrionlike odor.
- stapling — a principal raw material or commodity grown or manufactured in a locality.
- tap bell — a signal bell giving a single ring, as one announcing the approach to a certain floor of an elevator.
- tap bolt — a bolt for driving into a tapped hole in metal and that can be held in place without a nut.
- tap-root — a main root descending downward from the radicle and giving off small lateral roots.
- tapaculo — a small passeriform bird, Pteroptochus albicollis (megapodius), with short wings and cocked tail, native to South America
- tapadera — Southwestern U.S. a hoodlike piece of heavy leather around the front of the stirrup of a stock or range saddle to protect the rider's foot.
- tapadero — tapadera.
- tapeable — capable of being taped
- tapeless — without tape
- tapenade — a savoury paste made from capers, olives, and anchovies, with olive oil and lemon juice
- tapering — to become smaller or thinner toward one end.
- tapestry — a fabric consisting of a warp upon which colored threads are woven by hand to produce a design, often pictorial, used for wall hangings, furniture coverings, etc.
- tapeworm — any of various flat or tapelike worms of the class Cestoidea, lacking an alimentary canal, and parasitic when adult in the alimentary canal of humans and other vertebrates: the larval and adult stages are usually in different hosts.
- taphouse — an inn or tavern where liquor for sale is kept on tap.
- tapiroid — of or resembling a tapir
- untapped — not being made use of
- wiretaps — Plural form of wiretap.
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