9-letter words starting with ta
- talk back — the act of talking; speech; conversation, especially of a familiar or informal kind.
- talk down — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- talk into — persuade
- talk over — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- talk shop — a retail store, especially a small one.
- talk show — a radio or television show in which a host interviews or chats with guests, especially celebrity guests.
- talk time — a prepaid amount of minutes or hours on a mobile phone bill agreement, etc
- talk-back — a communications system enabling those in the studio to hear control-room personnel through a loudspeaker or headphones.
- talkathon — an unusually long speech or discussion, especially on a matter of public interest, as a Congressional filibuster or a televised question-and-answer session with a political candidate.
- talkative — inclined to talk a great deal: One drink and she became very talkative.
- talkiness — the quality or condition of being talky; wordiness
- tall ship — type of large sailing ship
- tall tale — far-fetched story
- talladega — a city in central Alabama, E of Birmingham.
- tallchief — Maria, 1925–2013, U.S. ballet dancer.
- tallgrass — an area (esp a prairie) having long or tall grass
- talliable — subject to tallage, taxable
- tallmadge — a city in NE Ohio.
- tallowish — resembling tallow; tallow-like
- tallyshop — a store specializing in selling merchandise on the hire-purchase system.
- talmudist — a person versed in the Talmud.
- tamarillo — the edible, plumlike fruit of a tree, Cyphomandra betacea, of the nightshade family, native to the Peruvian Andes.
- tamazight — a Berber language spoken in Morocco.
- tambourer — someone who embroiders on a tambour
- tambourin — a long narrow drum of Provence.
- tamerlane — (Timur Lenk) 1336?–1405, Tartar conqueror in southern and western Asia: ruler of Samarkand 1369–1405.
- tamoxifen — an antineoplastic drug, C 26 H 29 NO, that blocks the estrogen receptors on cancer cells, used in the treatment of breast cancer.
- tampa bay — an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, in W Florida. About 27 miles (43 km) long.
- tampering — to meddle, especially for the purpose of altering, damaging, or misusing (usually followed by with): Someone has been tampering with the lock.
- tamponade — Medicine/Medical. the use of a tampon, as to stop a hemorrhage.
- tana-lake — a river in E Africa, in Kenya, flowing SE to the Indian Ocean. 500 miles (800 km) long.
- tanagrine — of or relating to the tanagers; belonging to the tanager family.
- tanalised — having been treated with the trademarked timber preservative Tanalith
- tanalized — having been treated with the trademarked timber preservative Tanalith
- tangental — pertaining to or of the nature of a tangent; being or moving in the direction of a tangent.
- tangerine — Also called mandarin, mandarin orange. any of several varieties of mandarin, cultivated widely, especially in the U.S.
- tanghinin — the active ingredient in tanghin
- tanginess — having a tang.
- tangle up — become knotted or intertwined
- tangolike — resembling or characteristic of tango music or dance
- tank farm — an area or expanse of land used for holding oil-storage tanks.
- tank suit — a simple one-piece bathing suit for women, having a scoop neck and shoulder straps and usually no lining or inner construction; maillot.
- tank town — a town where trains stop to take on a supply of water.
- tank trap — any obstacle, such as a number of concrete stumps set in the ground, designed to stop a military tank
- tankering — a ship, airplane, or truck designed for bulk shipment of liquids or gases.
- tannaitic — one of a group of Jewish scholars, active in Palestine during the 1st and 2nd centuries a.d., whose teachings are found chiefly in the Mishnah.
- tanorexic — obsessed with maintaining a permanent deep tan, esp through use of tanning machines
- tanstaafl — /tan'stah-fl/ (From Robert Heinlein's classic "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress") "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch". Often invoked when someone is balking at the prospect of using an unpleasantly heavyweight technique, or at the poor quality of some piece of free software, or at the signal-to-noise ratio of unmoderated Usenet newsgroups. "What? Don't tell me I have to implement a database back end to get my address book program to work!" "Well, TANSTAAFL you know." This phrase owes some of its popularity to the high concentration of science-fiction fans and political libertarians in hackerdom.
- tantalate — a salt of any tantalic acid.
- tantalise — to torment with, or as if with, the sight of something desired but out of reach; tease by arousing expectations that are repeatedly disappointed.