13-letter words starting with ta
- tangent plane — tangent (def 4).
- tangentiality — pertaining to or of the nature of a tangent; being or moving in the direction of a tangent.
- tangoreceptor — a receptor stimulated by touch.
- tanjungkarang — a city in Indonesia, in S Sumatra on the Sunda Strait; merged with Telukbetung to form the city of Bandar Lampung
- tanjungpandan — a town on NW Billiton, in central Indonesia.
- tansy ragwort — a European composite plant, Senecio jacobaea, naturalized in North America, having numerous yellow flowers.
- tantalic acid — an acid, HTaO 3 , that forms complex salts or tantalates.
- tantalization — to torment with, or as if with, the sight of something desired but out of reach; tease by arousing expectations that are repeatedly disappointed.
- tantalizingly — 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 loop jump — a jump in which the skater takes off from the back outer edge of one skate, makes one full rotation in the air, and lands on the back outer edge of the same skate.
- tape recorder — an electrical device for recording or playing back sound, video, or data on magnetic tape.
- tape streamer — A tape streamer is a piece of computer equipment that you use for copying data from a hard disk onto magnetic tape for security or storage.
- tapestry moth — carpet moth.
- taphrogenesis — the process of forming rifts, resulting in regional faulting and subsidence
- tapioca-plant — the cassava, Manihot esculenta.
- tapsal-teerie — topsy-turvy.
- taranaki gate — a rough-and-ready gate in a fence made from wire and battens
- taranaki wind — natural gas from Taranaki
- target market — intended customers
- tariff office — a company whose premiums are based on a tariff agreed with other insurance companies
- tariff reform — increase in import duties
- tariffication — the creation, fixing, or conversion of a tariff
- tarpeian rock — a rock on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, from which criminals and traitors were hurled.
- tartar emetic — antimony potassium tartrate, K(SbO)C4H4O6·1⁄2H2O, a poisonous, odorless, white salt used in medicine to cause expectoration, vomiting, and perspiration, and in dyeing as a mordant
- tartare sauce — a mayonnaise dressing for fish and seafood, usually with chopped pickles, onions, olives, capers, and green herbs added.
- tartaric acid — an organic compound, C 4 H 6 O 6 , existing in four isomeric forms, the common or dextrorotatory isomer being a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder or transparent crystals: used in effervescent beverages, baking powders, confections, photography, and tanning.
- task-mistress — a woman whose function it is to assign tasks, especially burdensome ones, to others.
- task-oriented — focusing on the completion of particular tasks as a measure of success
- tassel flower — love-lies-bleeding.
- tattie-peelin — (esp of speech) highfalutin, affected, or pretentious
- taunton deane — a city in Somersetshire, in SW England.
- tauromorphous — having the form of a bull
- tautochronism — the fact or quality of being a tautochrone
- tautochronous — having the character of a tautochrone
- tautosyllabic — occurring within the same syllable: The (s) and (t) are tautosyllabic in the word disturb, but not in distaste.
- tax allowance — amount of income left untaxed
- tax authority — the official body that administers and collects a country's taxes
- tax avoidance — Tax avoidance is the use of legal methods to pay the smallest possible amount of tax.
- tax collector — sb employed to gather taxes
- tax deduction — an expenditure that is deducted from taxable income.
- tax duplicate — the certification of real-estate assessments to the taxing authorities
- tax exemption — immunity from paying tax
- tax incentive — measure to encourage activity
- tax inspector — a government official whose job is to make sure that people and companies are paying the right amount of tax
- tax liability — legal responsibility to pay taxes
- tax schedules — the different ways of classifying income under tax law
- taxonomically — the science or technique of classification.
- taylor series — an approximation of a given function f at a particular point x, in terms of values of the function and its derivatives at a neighboring point x 0 , by a power series in which the terms are given by f (n) (x 0) (x−x 0) n/n !, where f (n) (x 0) is the derivative of order n evaluated at point x 0 .
- taylor's gold — a variety of pear from New Zealand