10-letter words starting with t
- tangential — pertaining to or of the nature of a tangent; being or moving in the direction of a tangent.
- tanglefoot — a potent alcoholic drink
- tanglement — to bring together into a mass of confusedly interlaced or intertwisted threads, strands, or other like parts; snarl.
- tanglesome — tangled
- tanglewood — a town in W Massachusetts, in the Berkshire Hills: a former estate (Tanglewood) in the area is the site of annual summer music festivals.
- tanglingly — in a tangling or tangled manner
- tank truck — a truck with a tank body, suitable for transporting gases or liquids, as oil, gasoline, or milk, in bulk.
- tank wagon — a form of railway wagon carrying a tank for the transport of liquids
- tankbuster — an aircraft, missile, etc designed to destroy tanks
- tannenbaum — a Christmas tree.
- tannenberg — a village formerly in East Prussia, now in N Poland: major German victory over the Russians 1914.
- tannhauser — a German lyric poet of the 13th century: a well-known legend tells of his stay with Venus in the Venusberg and his later repentance.
- tannu-tuva — an autonomous republic in the Russian Federation in Asia: formerly an independent republic in Mongolia. 65,810 sq. mi. (170,500 sq. km). Capital: Kyzyl.
- tant mieux — so much the better
- tantalised — to torment with, or as if with, the sight of something desired but out of reach; tease by arousing expectations that are repeatedly disappointed.
- tantalized — to torment with, or as if with, the sight of something desired but out of reach; tease by arousing expectations that are repeatedly disappointed.
- tantamount — equivalent, as in value, force, effect, or signification: His angry speech was tantamount to a declaration of war.
- tap dancer — to perform a tap dance.
- tape drive — a program-controlled device that reads data from or writes data on a magnetic tape which moves past a read-write head.
- tape grass — a freshwater plant, Vallisneria spiralis, that has long, ribbonlike leaves and grows under water.
- taper jack — a device for melting sealing wax, having a waxed wick fed through a plate from a reel.
- taperstick — a candlestick designed to hold tapers.
- tapescript — a recording of the spoken word on tape or a transcript of this
- tapestried — furnished or covered with tapestries.
- tapis vert — an unbroken expanse of lawn used as a major element of a landscape design.
- tapotement — the use of various light, quick chopping, slapping, or beating strokes on the body during massage.
- tappan zee — a widening section of the Hudson River in SE New York, between Tarrytown and Nyack: bridged 1955. About 3 miles (5 km) wide.
- tapped out — having no ready money; broke
- tapping up — (esp of a professional soccer club) the illicit practice of attempting to recruit a player while he is still bound by contract to another team
- tappit-hen — a hen with a crest or topknot.
- taradiddle — a small lie; fib.
- tarahumara — a member of an American Indian people of the Sierra Madre region of the state of Chihuahua, Mexico.
- tarantella — a rapid, whirling southern Italian dance in very quick sextuple, originally quadruple, meter, usually performed by a single couple, and formerly supposed to be a remedy for tarantism.
- tardigrade — Also called bear animalcule, water bear. any microscopic, chiefly herbivorous invertebrate of the phylum Tardigrada, living in water, on mosses, lichens, etc.
- tardy slip — a slip of paper given to students who are late for school
- target man — an attacking player to whom high crosses and centres are played, esp a tall forward
- targetable — an object, usually marked with concentric circles, to be aimed at in shooting practice or contests.
- targetitis — the setting of more targets than is strictly necessary for the effective functioning of an organization, esp when it leads to an increase in bureaucracy
- targetless — an object, usually marked with concentric circles, to be aimed at in shooting practice or contests.
- tarkington — (Newton) Booth, 1869–1946, U.S. novelist and playwright.
- tarmacadam — a paving material consisting of coarse crushed stone covered with a mixture of tar and bitumen.
- tarot card — one of a special pack of cards, now used mainly for fortune-telling, consisting of 78 cards (4 suits of 14 cards each (the minor arcana), and 22 other cards (the major arcana))
- tarquinius — (Lucius Tarquinius Priscus) died 578 b.c, king of Rome 616–578.
- tartanalia — a collective term for pieces of art, literature, etc, viewed as hackneyed representations of Scottishness
- tartarated — tartrated.
- tartareous — resembling, of the nature of, or relating to tartar
- tartrazine — Yellow No. 5.
- tartuffery — behavior or character of a Tartuffe, especially hypocritical piety.
- taseometer — an instrument for measuring stresses within structures
- tashi lama — any of a succession of Tibetan monks and spiritual leaders, second in importance only to the Dalai Lama.