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10-letter words starting with t

  • task force — Navy, Military. a temporary grouping of units under one commander, formed for the purpose of carrying out a specific operation or mission.
  • taskmaster — a person whose function it is to assign tasks, especially burdensome ones, to others.
  • tasman sea — a part of the Pacific Ocean between SE Australia and New Zealand.
  • taste buds — one of numerous small, flask-shaped bodies, chiefly in the epithelium of the tongue, which are the end organs for the sense of taste.
  • tastemaker — a person or thing that establishes or strongly influences what is considered to be stylish, acceptable, or worthwhile in a given sphere of interest, as the arts.
  • tatpurusha — a compound of two words in which the first is an attributive noun and the second a substantive, as bookcase, aircraft, or flowerpot.
  • tattersall — a pattern of squares formed by colored crossbars on a solid-color, usually light background.
  • tattletale — a talebearer or informer, especially among children.
  • tattlingly — in a tattling manner
  • tau lepton — an unstable lepton with a mass approximately 3500 times that of the electron. Symbol: T.
  • tauntingly — to reproach in a sarcastic, insulting, or jeering manner; mock.
  • tauromachy — the art or technique of bullfighting.
  • tautophony — the repetition of a sound
  • tawdriness — (of finery, trappings, etc.) gaudy; showy and cheap.
  • tawheowheo — a broadleaved evergreen, Quintinia serrata, of New Zealand's North Island
  • tawny port — a type of port that is aged in wood for at least 7 years, giving it a 'nutty' flavour; its colour is tawny, as opposed to the red of a ruby port
  • tax burden — the amount of tax paid by a person, company, or country in a specified period considered as a proportion of total income in that period.
  • tax credit — reduction in tax owed
  • tax evader — a person who reduces or minimizes their tax liability by illegal methods
  • tax rebate — repayment of money paid as tax
  • tax refund — rebate on overpaid tax
  • tax relief — finance: reduction
  • tax return — return (def 24).
  • tax-exempt — not subject or liable to taxation: tax-exempt imports.
  • taxability — capable of being taxed; subject to tax: a taxable gain.
  • taxflation — bracket creep.
  • taxi squad — (formerly) a group of players under contract to and practicing with a professional team who are not on the team's roster as playing members and therefore are ineligible to play in official games.
  • taxi stand — A taxi stand is the same as a taxi rank.
  • taxi strip — a narrow taxiway.
  • taxi truck — a truck with a driver that can be hired
  • taxidermic — the art of preparing and preserving the skins of animals and of stuffing and mounting them in lifelike form.
  • taxonomist — the science or technique of classification.
  • tcherepnin — Alexander (Aleksandr Nikolaevich) 1899–1977, Russian pianist and composer, in the U.S.
  • tchernosem — chernozem.
  • tchoukball — a non-contact, team-orientated, ballgame developed by the Swiss biologist Dr H. Brandt, the object of the game is to throw the ball at a frame mounted with a springy surface so that it rebounds without being caught by the defending team
  • tea basket — a lunch basket or picnic hamper.
  • tea family — the plant family Theaceae, characterized by shrubs and trees having simple, alternate leaves, often showy flowers, and capsular, berrylike, or dry fruit, and including the camellia, franklinia, and tea.
  • tea garden — a tea plantation.
  • tea-bagger — Slang. a person who tea-bags a sexual partner.
  • teabagging — to place one's scrotum in the mouth of (one's sexual partner).
  • teacherage — a building serving as a combination school and living quarters, as on certain government reservations and in remote, sparsely settled areas.
  • team games — games that in which teams play against each other
  • team sport — a sport in which teams play against each other
  • tear apart — rip to pieces
  • tear sheet — a sheet or page torn from a magazine, journal, or the like, as one containing an advertisement and sent to the advertiser as proof of publication.
  • tear shell — tear bomb.
  • tear strip — a strip or string that is pulled to open a can, box, candy wrapper, etc.
  • tearjerker — a pathetic story, play, movie, or the like; an excessively sentimental tale.
  • tearlessly — without shedding tears
  • teary-eyed — with tears welling up in one's eyes: teary-eyed mourners.
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