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.
- 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.
- tantalism — a form of punishment similar to or as severe as that suffered by Tantalus
- tantalite — a black, crystalline mineral, iron tantalate, (Fe, Mn) Ta 2 O 6 , the principal ore of tantalum and an end member of a series of solid solutions in which manganese and niobium combine to form columbite.
- tantalize — to torment with, or as if with, the sight of something desired but out of reach; tease by arousing expectations that are repeatedly disappointed.
- tantalous — containing trivalent tantalum.
- tanzanian — a republic in E Africa formed in 1964 by the merger of the republic of Tanganyika and the former island sultanate of Zanzibar (including Pemba and adjacent small islands). 364,881 sq. mi. (945,037 sq. km). Capital: Dodoma.
- tanzanite — Mineralogy. a variety of zoisite valued as a gem for its purplish-blue color and strong pleochroism.
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