9-letter words starting with ta
- taikonaut — an astronaut from the People's Republic of China
- tail away — When a person's voice tails away or tails off, it gradually becomes quieter and then silent.
- tail back — When traffic tails back, a long line of it forms along a road, and moves very slowly or not at all, for example because of road works or an accident.
- tail coat — a man's fitted coat, cut away over the hips and descending in a pair of tapering skirts behind, usually black and worn as part of full evening dress.
- tail cone — a cone-shaped component at the rear of a jet engine, rocket, or missile, usually serving as an exhaust pipe.
- tail skid — a runner under the tail of an airplane.
- tail wind — a wind blowing in the same direction as the course of a ship or aircraft
- tail-spin — spin (def 23).
- tailboard — the tailgate, especially of a wagon or truck.
- tailender — a person at the tail end, esp (in cricket) the batter or batters last in the batting order
- tailfirst — with the tail or rear part foremost.
- tailgater — a musician who plays trombone in tailgate style.
- taillight — a light, usually red, at the rear of an automobile, train, etc.
- tailoress — a female tailor
- tailoring — a person whose occupation is the making, mending, or altering of clothes, especially suits, coats, and other outer garments.
- tailpiece — a piece added at the end; an end piece or appendage.
- tailplane — horizontal stabilizer.
- tailslide — the backward descent of an aeroplane after stalling or losing speed while in an upward trajectory
- tailstock — a movable or sliding support for the dead center of a lathe or grinder.
- tailwater — the water in a tailrace.
- tailwheel — a wheel fitted to the rear of a vehicle, esp the landing wheel under the tail of an aircraft
- taintless — free from or without taint; pure; innocent.
- taiwanese — of or relating to Taiwan or its people.
- taj mahal — a white marble mausoleum built at Agra, India, by the Mogul emperor Shah Jahan (fl. 1628–58) for his favorite wife.
- takamatsu — a seaport on NE Shikoku, in SW Japan.
- takatsuki — a city on S Honshu, in Japan: a suburb of Osaka.
- take arms — go to war
- take away — something taken back or away, especially an employee benefit that is eliminated or substantially reduced by the terms of a union contract.
- take back — 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 care — a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern: He was never free from care.
- take down — made or constructed so as to be easily dismantled or disassembled.
- take fire — to begin to burn
- take five — a cardinal number, four plus one.
- take form — be shaped
- take hold — become established
- take life — to kill
- take note — pay careful attention
- take odds — to accept such a bet
- take over — the act of taking.
- take part — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- take root — a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
- take silk — to become a Queen's (or King's) Counsel
- take vows — to enter a religious order and commit oneself to its rule of life by the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, which may be taken for a limited period as simple vows or as a perpetual and still more solemn commitment as solemn vows
- take wing — either of the two forelimbs of most birds and of bats, corresponding to the human arms, that are specialized for flight.
- take-away — something taken back or away, especially an employee benefit that is eliminated or substantially reduced by the terms of a union contract.
- taki-taki — Sranan.
- talbotype — calotype.
- talegalla — a member of a genus of megapod birds native to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Australia
- taligrade — walking on the outer side of the foot.
- talk away — to pass (a period of time) by talking