16-letter words containing tat

pentatonic scale — a scale having five tones to an octave, as one having intervals that correspond to the five black keys of a piano octave.
policy statement — a declaration of the plans and intentions of an organization or government
postfix notation — (language) (Or "Reverse Polish Notation", RPN) One of the possible orderings of functions and operands: in postfix notation the functions are preceded by all their operands. For example, what may normally be written as "1+2" becomes "1 2 +". Postfix notation is well suited for stack based architectures but modern compilers reduced this advantage considerably. The best-known language with postfix syntax is FORTH. Some Hewlett-Packard calculators use it, e.g. HP-25, HP-29C, HP-41C, HP-23SII. Compare: infix notation, prefix notation.
potato tuberworm — the larva of the potato moth.
pre-solicitation — the act of soliciting.
precinct station — a police station for police responsible for a district of a city
presentation box — a specially designed and attractive box to hold a product, and make it look more impressive
prestidigitation — sleight of hand; legerdemain.
quantitativeness — The state or quality of being quantitative.
quasi-stationary — a person or thing that is stationary.
railroad station — railway station, train stop
re-accreditation — to ascribe or attribute to (usually followed by with): He was accredited with having said it.
real-time mentat — An extension of C++. "Real-Time Mentat: A Data-Driven Object-Oriented System", A.S. Grimshaw et al, Proc IEEE Globecom, Nov 1989 pp.232-241.
reasons of state — political justifications for an immoral act
reinterpretation — the act of interpreting; elucidation; explication: This writer's work demands interpretation.
representational — of or relating to representation.
representatively — a person or thing that represents another or others.
rotation of axes — a process of replacing the axes in a Cartesian coordinate system with a new set of axes making a specified angle with and having the same origin as the original axes.
saorstat eireann — Irish name of Irish Free State.
savage's station — a locality in E Virginia, near Richmond: Civil War battle in 1862.
semiquantitative — partially quantitative.
solid state disk — (SSD) Any kind of solid-state storage device that appears to the system as a disk drive. SSDs are more expensive that the same capacity of magnetic disk but have much shorter access time.
somatic mutation — a mutation occurring in a somatic cell, resulting in a change in the morphology or some other aspect of one part of an organism (usually a plant). It may be maintained by vegetative propagation but not by sexual reproduction
sony playstation — Playstation
state apartments — the most impressive rooms in a palace or mansion, used by royalty, or to receive visiting dignitaries
state capitalism — a form of capitalism in which the central government controls most of the capital, industry, natural resources, etc.
state department — state (def 12).
state of affairs — situation
state of the art — the latest and most sophisticated or advanced stage of a technology, art, or science.
state university — a university maintained by the government of a state.
state's attorney — (in judicial proceedings) the legal representative of the state.
state's evidence — evidence given by an accomplice in a crime who becomes a voluntary witness against the other defendants: The defendants' case was lost when one of them turned state's evidence.
state-controlled — controlled by the government
state-maintained — publicly funded
state-of-the-art — the latest and most sophisticated or advanced stage of a technology, art, or science.
state-subsidized — partly paid for by the state; subsidized by the state
static character — a literary or dramatic character who undergoes little or no inner change; a character who does not grow or develop.
static discharge — Static discharge is the release of static electricity when two objects touch each other.
stationary front — a front between warm and cold air masses that is moving very slowly or not at all.
stationary orbit — an orbit lying in, or approximately in, the plane of the equator for which the orbital period is equal to the spin period of the central body
stationary point — a point on a curve at which the tangent is either horizontal or vertical, such as a maximum, a minimum, or a point of inflection
stationary state — any of several energy states an atom may occupy without emitting electromagnetic radiation.
statutory change — a change in the law
styralyl acetate — methylphenylcarbinyl acetate.
succession state — any of a number of usually new states that are established in or expand over the territory formerly ruled by one large state
sugar plantation — a large area of land where sugar is grown
the beaver state — a name for the state of Oregon
the cotton state — a nickname for Alabama
the creole state — a nickname for Louisiana
the silver state — the nickname of the US state of Nevada, which comes from the large amount of silver discovered and mined there

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