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8-letter words starting with ta

  • taichung — a city in and the provincial capital of Taiwan, in the W part.
  • taiglach — a confection consisting of small balls of dough boiled in a syrup of honey, sugar, and spices.
  • tail end — the hinder or rear part of anything.
  • tail fan — the fanlike posterior appendage of crayfish and lobsters, consisting of a telson and two uropods, used for rapid backward propulsion.
  • tail fin — a membranous, winglike or paddlelike organ attached to any of various parts of the body of fishes and certain other aquatic animals, used for propulsion, steering, or balancing.
  • tail off — diminish gradually
  • tail out — to guide (timber) as it emerges from a power saw
  • tailback — the offensive back who lines up farthest behind the line of scrimmage, as in a single wingback or double wingback formation.
  • tailband — a band sewn or glued to the tail of a book. Compare headband (def 3).
  • tailbone — the coccyx.
  • tailcoat — A tailcoat is a man's coat which is short at the front with long pieces at the back. Tailcoats were popular in the 19th century and are now worn only for very formal occasions, such as weddings.
  • taileron — an aileron located on the tailplane of an aircraft
  • tailgate — a style of playing the trombone, especially in Dixieland jazz, distinguished especially by the use of melodic counterpoint and long glissandi.
  • tailings — the part of a projecting stone or brick tailed or inserted in a wall.
  • taillamp — the rear light of a motor vehicle
  • tailless — the limitation of an estate to a person and the person’s heirs or some particular class of such heirs.
  • tailleur — a tailored or tailor-made costume for women.
  • tailor's — a shop where clothes can be repaired or altered
  • tailored — (of a woman's garment) in a simple or plain style with fitted lines. Compare dressmaker (def 2).
  • tailpipe — an exhaust pipe located at the rear of a motor vehicle or aircraft powered by an internal-combustion engine.
  • tailrace — the race, flume, or channel leading away from a waterwheel or the like.
  • tailskid — a runner under the tail of an airplane.
  • tailspin — spin (def 23).
  • tailwind — a wind coming from directly behind a moving object, especially an aircraft or other vehicle (opposed to headwind).
  • tainaron — Cape, a cape in the Ionian Sea, S Greece, at the S tip of the Peloponnesus.
  • tainture — a taint or stain; contamination
  • taizhong — Taichung.
  • takasaki — a city in Gumma prefecture, central Honshu, Japan.
  • take aim — to position or direct (a firearm, ball, arrow, rocket, etc.) so that, on firing or release, the discharged projectile will hit a target or travel along a certain path.
  • take for — 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 ill — to be annoyed or offended at
  • take off — the act of taking.
  • take out — the act of taking.
  • take-all — a disease of wheat, rye, barley and oats, characterized by the blackening and decaying of the base of the stems, caused by a fungus, Ophiobolus graminis.
  • takeaway — something taken back or away, especially an employee benefit that is eliminated or substantially reduced by the terms of a union contract.
  • takeback — something taken back or withdrawn, especially an employee benefit previously gained in a union contract; takeaway.
  • takedown — made or constructed so as to be easily dismantled or disassembled.
  • takeover — the act of seizing, appropriating, or arrogating authority, control, management, etc.
  • taker-in — licker-in.
  • takoradi — the chief port of Ghana, in the southwest on the Gulf of Guinea: modern harbour opened in 1928. Pop (with Sekondi): 335 000 (2005 est)
  • talabani — Jalal. born 1933, Iraqi politician, a Kurd, president of Iraq (2005–2014)
  • talapoin — a small, yellowish guenon monkey, Micropithecus (Cercopithecus) talapoin, of western Africa.
  • talassio — a god invoked at ancient Roman weddings, especially in epithalamions.
  • talavera — a type of Mexican earthenware characterized by colorful, detailed patterns and a milky glaze.
  • taleggio — a square Italian soft cheese with a salt-covered rind
  • talented — having talent or special ability; gifted.
  • talesman — a person summoned as one of the tales.
  • taliesin — flourished a.d. c550, Welsh bard.
  • taligent — A company founded jointly by Apple and IBM in March 1992. HP announced in January, 1994 that it would buy a 15% stake in Taligent. They are working on an "object-oriented operating system", due to be finished sometime in 1995. However, various independent pieces of Taligent will likely appear to be used with other operating systems, e.g. IBM's WorkplaceOS. Pink is an older name for Taligent, dating back to work that Apple did before the formation of Taligent.
  • talionic — of or relating to the system or legal principle of talion
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