7-letter words starting with t
- talking — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- tallage — Medieval History. a tax paid by peasants to the lord of their manor.
- tallboy — English Furniture. a chest of drawers supported by a low stand. Compare highboy. a chest-on-chest.
- tallent — abundance; plenty
- tallest — having a relatively great height; of more than average stature: a tall woman; tall grass.
- tallied — an account or reckoning; a record of debit and credit, of the score of a game, or the like.
- tallier — an account or reckoning; a record of debit and credit, of the score of a game, or the like.
- tallinn — a republic in N Europe, on the Baltic, S of the Gulf of Finland: an independent republic 1918–40; annexed by the Soviet Union 1940; regained independence 1991. 17,413 sq. mi. (45,100 sq. km). Capital: Tallinn.
- tallish — rather tall.
- tallith — a shawllike garment of wool, silk, or the like, with fringes, or zizith, at the four corners, worn around the shoulders by Orthodox and Conservative (sometimes also Reform) Jews, as during the morning service.
- tallowy — resembling tallow in consistency, color, etc.; fatty: a tallowy mass of moistened powder; tallowy skin.
- tallyho — Chiefly British. a mail coach or a four-in-hand pleasure coach.
- taloned — a claw, especially of a bird of prey.
- talooka — a hereditary estate.
- tam-tam — a gong with indefinite pitch.
- tamable — able to be tamed.
- tamarac — a city in SE Florida.
- tamarao — tamarau.
- tamarau — a small wild buffalo, Bubalus (Anoa) mindorensis, of Mindoro in the Philippines, having thick, brown hair and short, massive horns.
- tamarin — any South American marmoset of the genera Saguinus and Leontopithecus (Leontideus), having silky fur and a nonprehensile tail: several species are threatened or endangered.
- tamasha — (in the East Indies) a spectacle; entertainment.
- tamasic — See under guna.
- tambala — a bronze coin and monetary unit of Malawi, the 100th part of a kwacha.
- tambora — an active volcano in Indonesia, on N Sumbawa: eruption 1815. 9042 feet (2756 meters).
- tambour — Music. a drum.
- tambura — an Asian musical instrument of the lute family having a small, round body and a long neck.
- tamiflu — an oral antiviral drug that attacks the influenza virus and prevents it spreading inside the body
- tammany — pertaining to, involving, or characteristic of the membership or methods of Tammany Hall.
- tampala — a branching tropical plant, Amaranthus tricolor, of the amaranth family, cultivated in Asia as a green vegetable.
- tampere — a city in SW Finland.
- tampico — a seaport in SE Tamaulipas, in E Mexico.
- tamping — to force in or down by repeated, rather light, strokes: He tamped the tobacco in his pipe.
- tampion — a plug or stopper placed in the muzzle of a piece of ordnance when not in use, to keep out dampness and dust.
- tan oak — tanbark oak.
- tan rot — a fungus, Pezizella lythri, that affects strawberries, taking the form of tan mold on the fruit.
- tanadar — a revenue official of the East India company
- tanager — any of numerous songbirds of the New World family Thraupidae, the males of which are usually brightly colored.
- tanagra — a town in ancient Greece, in Boeotia: Spartan victory over the Athenians 457 b.c.
- tanaina — a member of a North American Indian people of the Cook Inlet area of Alaska.
- tanbark — the bark of certain trees, esp the oak and hemlock, used as a source of tannin
- tancred — 1078?–1112, Norman leader in the first Crusade.
- tandoor — a cylindrical clay oven, fired to a high heat by wood or charcoal, in which foods, especially meats, are cooked and bread is baked.
- taneyev — Sergei Ivanovich [syir-gey yi-vah-nuh-vyich] /syɪrˈgeɪ yɪˈvɑ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1856–1915, Russian composer and pianist.
- tangelo — a hybrid citrus fruit, Citrus tangelo, that is a cross between the grapefruit and the tangerine and is cultivated in several varieties.
- tangent — in immediate physical contact; touching.
- tanghin — a strong poison obtained from the fruit of the shrub Tanghinia venenifera, formerly used in Madagascar to determine the guilt or otherwise of crime suspects
- tangier — a seaport in N Morocco, on the W Strait of Gibraltar: capital of the former Tangier Zone.
- tangled — snarled, interlaced, or mixed up: tangled thread.
- tangler — to bring together into a mass of confusedly interlaced or intertwisted threads, strands, or other like parts; snarl.
- tangoed — a ballroom dance of Latin-American origin, danced by couples, and having many varied steps, figures, and poses.