Words starting with tan
3 letter words starting with tan
- tan — to convert (a hide) into leather, especially by soaking or steeping in a bath prepared from tanbark or synthetically.
- tan oak — tanbark oak.
- tan rot — a fungus, Pezizella lythri, that affects strawberries, taking the form of tan mold on the fruit.
- tan someone's hide — to convert (a hide) into leather, especially by soaking or steeping in a bath prepared from tanbark or synthetically.
4 letter words starting with tan
- tana — a police station in India.
- tane — a Polynesian god of fertility.
- tang — a dynasty in China, a.d. 618–907, marked by territorial expansion, the invention of printing, and the high development of poetry.
- tanh — hyperbolic tangent; a hyperbolic function that is the ratio of sinh to cosh
- tank — to put or store in a tank.
5 letter words starting with tan
- tandy — (company) A US company, the parent company of Radio Shack, makers of the TRS-80 and other early personal computers.
- taney — Roger Brooke, 1777–1864, U.S. jurist: chief justice of the U.S. 1836–64.
- tanga — a seaport in NE Tanzania.
- tange — Kenzo. 1913–2005, Japanese architect. His buildings include the Kurashiki city hall (1960) and St Mary's Cathedral in Tokyo (1962–64)
- tangi — a Māori funeral ceremony
6 letter words starting with tan
- tanach — the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament, comprising the Law or Torah, the Prophets or Neviim, and the Hagiographa or Ketuvim, taken as a whole.
- tanaka — Baron Giichi [gee-ee-chee] /giˈi tʃi/ (Show IPA), 1863–1929, Japanese military and political leader: prime minister 1927–29.
- tanana — a river flowing NW from E Alaska to the Yukon River. About 650 miles (1045 km) long.
- tanbur — tambura.
- tandem — one following or behind the other: to drive horses tandem.
7 letter words starting with tan
- tanadar — a revenue official of the East India company
- tanager — any of numerous songbirds of the New World family Thraupidae, the males of which are usually brightly colored.
- tanagra — a town in ancient Greece, in Boeotia: Spartan victory over the Athenians 457 b.c.
- tanaina — a member of a North American Indian people of the Cook Inlet area of Alaska.
- tanbark — the bark of certain trees, esp the oak and hemlock, used as a source of tannin
8 letter words starting with tan
- tan-tung — Dandong
- tanaiste — the vice-Taoiseach or deputy prime minister of the Republic of Ireland
- tanaquil — a legendary queen of Rome who prophesied the future greatness of Servius Tullius and helped him to gain the throne after the murder of her husband by a political faction.
- tandoori — baked or cooked in a tandoor: tandoori chicken.
- tangence — the act of touching
9 letter words starting with tan
- 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.
10 letter words starting with tan
- tananarive — former name of Antananarivo.
- tandemwise — in the manner of a tandem
- tanganyika — a former country in E Africa: formed the larger part of German East Africa; British trusteeship (Tanganyika Territory) 1946–61; became independent 1961; now the mainland part of Tanzania. 361,800 sq. mi. (937,062 sq. km).
- tangential — pertaining to or of the nature of a tangent; being or moving in the direction of a tangent.
- tanglefoot — a potent alcoholic drink
11 letter words starting with tan
- tanganyikan — a former country in E Africa: formed the larger part of German East Africa; British trusteeship (Tanganyika Territory) 1946–61; became independent 1961; now the mainland part of Tanzania. 361,800 sq. mi. (937,062 sq. km).
- tangentally — pertaining to or of the nature of a tangent; being or moving in the direction of a tangent.
- tangibility — capable of being touched; discernible by the touch; material or substantial.
- tangleberry — a huckleberry, Gaylussacia frondosa, of the eastern U.S.
- tankbusting — the practice of destroying tanks
12 letter words starting with tan
- tangentially — pertaining to or of the nature of a tangent; being or moving in the direction of a tangent.
- tanjungpriok — a port in Indonesia, on the NW coast of Java adjoining the capital, Jakarta: a major shipping and distributing centre for the whole archipelago
13 letter words starting with tan
- 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.
- 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.
15 letter words starting with tan
- tandem-compound — (of a compound engine or turbine) having high-pressure and low-pressure units in tandem.
19 letter words starting with tan
- tangential-velocity — the component of the linear motion of a star with respect to the sun, measured along a line perpendicular to its line of sight and expressed in miles or kilometers per second.
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