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11-letter words starting with t

  • take flight — an act or instance of fleeing or running away; hasty departure.
  • take fright — be scared off
  • take notice — listen, heed
  • take office — come to power
  • take out of — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
  • take out on — If you take something out on someone, you behave in an unpleasant way towards them because you feel angry or upset, even though this is not their fault.
  • take strike — (of a batsman) to prepare to play a ball delivered by the bowler
  • take-charge — able or seemingly able to take charge: She is a take-charge management type.
  • taken aback — toward the back.
  • taking lens — a camera in which the image appears on a ground-glass viewer (focusing screen) after being reflected by a mirror or after passing through a prism or semitransparent glass; in one type (single-lens reflex camera) light passes through the same lens to both the ground glass and the film, while in another type (twin-lens reflex camera) light passes through one lens (viewing lens) to the ground glass and through a second lens (taking lens) to the film, the lenses being mechanically coupled for focusing.
  • takoma park — a city in central Maryland.
  • talent show — a theatrical show in which a series of usually amateur or aspiring singers, dancers, comedians, instrumentalists, etc., perform in the hope of gaining recognition.
  • taletelling — the act of telling stories
  • talk around — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
  • talk out of — dissuade
  • talk turkey — a large, gallinaceous bird of the family Meleagrididae, especially Meleagris gallopavo, of America, that typically has green, reddish-brown, and yellowish-brown plumage of a metallic luster and that is domesticated in most parts of the world.
  • talkability — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
  • tallahassee — a state in the SE United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. 58,560 sq. mi. (151,670 sq. km). Capital: Tallahassee. Abbreviation: FL (for use with zip code), Fla.
  • tallow tree — a small tree, Sapium sebiferum, of the spurge family, cultivated in China and the tropics, having popcorn-shaped seeds with a waxy coating that is used for soap, candles, and oil.
  • tallow wood — a tall eucalyptus tree, Eucalyptus microcorys, of coastal regions, having soft fibrous bark and conical fruits and yielding a greasy timber
  • tally clerk — a person, esp on a wharf or dock or in an airport, who checks the count of goods being loaded or unloaded
  • tally sheet — a sheet for checking, counting, or scoring, as of cargo loaded or unloaded.
  • tally-woman — a mistress
  • tamburlaine — Tamerlane.
  • tamil eelam — the separate Tamil state that the Tamil Tigers have sought to establish in northern Sri Lanka
  • tamper with — to meddle, especially for the purpose of altering, damaging, or misusing (usually followed by with): Someone has been tampering with the lock.
  • tamperproof — that cannot be tampered with; impervious to tampering: a tamper-proof lock.
  • tanbark oak — any oak that yields tanbark, especially an evergreen oak, Lithocarpus densiflora, of the Pacific coast of North America.
  • tanganyikan — a former country in E Africa: formed the larger part of German East Africa; British trusteeship (Tanganyika Territory) 1946–61; became independent 1961; now the mainland part of Tanzania. 361,800 sq. mi. (937,062 sq. km).
  • tangentally — pertaining to or of the nature of a tangent; being or moving in the direction of a tangent.
  • tangibility — capable of being touched; discernible by the touch; material or substantial.
  • tangle with — get involved with
  • tangleberry — a huckleberry, Gaylussacia frondosa, of the eastern U.S.
  • tank engine — locomotive train
  • tankbusting — the practice of destroying tanks
  • tannic acid — Chemistry. any of a group of astringent vegetable principles or compounds, chiefly complex glucosides of catechol and pyrogallol, as the reddish compound that gives the tanning properties to oak bark or the whitish compound that occurs in large quantities in nutgalls (common tannin, tannic acid)
  • tanniferous — containing much tannin; yielding tannin.
  • tanning bed — a boxlike bed having a hinged cover and equipped with sunlamps to produce a suntan.
  • tantalising — to torment with, or as if with, the sight of something desired but out of reach; tease by arousing expectations that are repeatedly disappointed.
  • tantalizing — having or exhibiting something that provokes or arouses expectation, interest, or desire, especially that which remains unobtainable or beyond one's reach: a tantalizing taste of success.
  • tap dancing — dancing with clicking shoes
  • tape player — a small device for playing magnetic tape recordings.
  • tape-record — to record (speech, music, etc.) on magnetic tape.
  • taphephobia — an abnormal fear of being buried alive.
  • taphonomist — a specialist in taphonomy
  • tardis-like — having an interior that is more spacious than could be imagined from looking at the outside
  • target area — an area that has been designated for attack
  • target date — the date set or aimed at for the commencement, fulfillment, or completion of some effort: The target date for the book is next May.
  • târgu mureş — a city in central Romania.
  • targu-mures — a city in central Romania.
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