5 Letter Words That Start With TA

tacit

Adjective : Implied, but not made explicit, especially through silence.

Adjective : (logic) Not derived from formal principles of reasoning; based on induction rather than deduction.

tawny

Adjective : Of a light brown to brownish orange colour; orangey brown tinged with gold.

Noun : A light brown to brownish orange colour.

Verb : (transitive) To cause (someone or something) to have a light brown to brownish orange colour; to tan, to tawn.

taunt

Verb : (transitive) To make fun of (someone); to goad (a person) into responding, often in an aggressive manner.

Noun : A scornful or mocking remark; a jeer or mockery.

Adjective : (obsolete, nautical) Very high or tall.

tarry

Verb : (intransitive) To delay; to be late or tardy in beginning or doing anything.

Verb : (intransitive) To linger in expectation of something or until something is done or happens.

Verb : (intransitive) To abide, stay or wait somewhere, especially if longer than planned.

taboo

Noun : An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion.

Adjective : Excluded or forbidden from use, approach or mention.

Adjective : Culturally forbidden.

taint

Noun : A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food.

Noun : A tinge, trace or touch.

Noun : A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish.

taupe

Noun : A dark brownish-grey colour, the colour of moleskin.

Adjective : Of a dark brownish-grey colour.

taper

Noun : A slender wax candle.

Noun : (by extension) A small light.

Noun : A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness and/or cross section in an elongated object.

tacky

Adjective : (colloquial) Of low quality.

Adjective : (colloquial) In poor taste.

Adjective : Gaudy or flashy.

tally

Noun : (by extension) One of two books, sheets of paper, etc., on which corresponding accounts were kept.

Noun : (by extension) Any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book, especially one kept in duplicate.

Noun : A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as, to make or earn a score or tally in a game.

tatty

Adjective : Tattered; dilapidated, distressed, worn-out, torn

Noun : (Scotland, Northern England, Geordie) A potato.

Noun : (India) A woven mat or screen hung at a door or window and kept wet to moisten and cool the air as it enters.

targe

Noun : (archaic) A small shield.

Noun : (archaic) A pendant or tassel.

taken

Adjective : (informal) In a serious romantic relationship.

Adjective : Infatuated; fond of or attracted to.

tabby

Noun : (countable) A brindled cat.

Noun : (chiefly Australia, slang) A woman, irrespective of age, but often used for a young, attractive woman.

Noun : (countable, uncountable) A kind of waved silk, usually called watered silk, manufactured like taffeta, but thicker and stronger. The watering is given to it by calendering.

tardy

Adjective : Late; overdue or delayed.

Adjective : Moving with a slow pace or motion; not swift.

Noun : (US) A piece of paper given to students who are late to class.

tangy

Adjective : Having a sharp, pungent flavor.

table

Noun : (countable) Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.

Noun : An item of furniture with a flat top surface raised above the ground, usually on one or more legs.

Noun : The board or table-like furniture on which a game is played, such as snooker, billiards, or draughts.

taste

Noun : One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation.

Noun : The sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation.

Noun : A small sample of food, drink, or recreational drugs.

tamed

Adjective : domesticated; made tame

talus

Noun : (anatomy) The bone of the ankle.

Noun : (geology) A sloping heap of fragments of rock lying at the foot of a precipice.

Noun : (architecture) The slope of an embankment wall, which is thicker at the bottom than at the top.

tango

Noun : (dance) A standard ballroom dance in 4/4 time; or a social dance, the Argentine tango.

Noun : (music) A piece of music suited to such a dance.

Verb : To dance the tango.

talon

Noun : A sharp, hooked claw of a bird of prey or other predatory animal.

Noun : (card games) The remaining stock of undealt cards.

Noun : (zoology) One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth.

tabor

Noun : (music) A small drum.

Noun : In traditional music, a small drum played with a single stick, leaving the player's other hand free to play a melody on a three-holed pipe.

Verb : (transitive) To make (a sound) with a tabor.

tapis

Noun : Carpeting.

Noun : A tapestry.

Noun : (historical) The cover of a council table.

talar

Adjective : (anatomy) Relating to the talus

Noun : An ankle-length robe.

tanto

Noun : (weaponry) A traditional Japanese small sword or knife; often used as a secondary weapon to a katana.

Verb : (music) So much; too much.

talik

Noun : An area of permanently unfrozen waterlogged soil surrounded by permafrost

Noun : Alternative form of taliq.

taxon

Noun : (taxonomy) A group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit.

tasty

Adjective : Having a pleasant or satisfying flavor.

Noun : (informal) Something tasty; a delicious article of food.

Adjective : (slang) Appealing; when applied to persons, sexually appealing.

tanka

Noun : A form of Japanese verse in five lines of 5, 7, 5, 7, and 7 morae.

Noun : A kind of boat used in Guangdong, about 25 feet long and often rowed by Tanka women; junk.

Noun : (historical) A coin and unit of currency of varying value, formerly used in parts of India and Central Asia.

tails

Noun : The side of a coin that doesn't bear the picture of the head of state or similar.

Noun : (alcohol production) Tailings, feints.

Noun : (mining) Tailings; waste.

tales

Noun : (law) A person available to fill vacancies in a jury.

Noun : (law) A book or register of people available to fill jury vacancies.

Noun : (law) A writ to summon people to court to fill vacancies in a jury.

tamil

Noun : A Dravidian language spoken in the state of Tamil Nadu, India and in Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia.

Adjective : Of or pertaining to the Tamil people, culture, or language.

Noun : A person who originates from Tamil Nadu, India or Sri Lanka or has tamil origins.

tatar

Noun : A person belonging to one of several Turkic ethnic groups identifying as "Tatar" in Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia.

Adjective : Of or relating to the people or culture of Tatars.

Noun : An agglutinative language belonging to the Altai group of Turkic languages. It is an official language of Tatarstan. There are some eight million speakers spread across Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia.

tater

Noun : (informal) A potato.

Noun : (US, baseball, slang) A home run.

tasse

Noun : (chiefly in the plural) A piece of armor for the hips and thighs: one of a set of plates (each being of one piece or segmented) hanging from the bottom of the breastplate or from faulds.

tachy

Noun : (medicine, colloquial) Tachycardia.

Adjective : (medicine, colloquial) Tachycardic.

Noun : (medicine, colloquial) Tachypnoea.

takes

Verb : (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.

Verb : (transitive) To seize or capture.

Verb : (transitive) To catch or get possession of (fish or game).

tasks

Noun : A piece of work done as part of one’s duties.

Noun : Any piece of work done.

Noun : A difficult or tedious undertaking.

tabid

Adjective : Wasting away, declining.

Adjective : (medicine) Pertaining to tabes.

Noun : A barangay of Ozamiz, Misamis Occidental, Philippines.

tasto

Noun : (computing) key of a keyboard

Noun : (music) A key or similar part of a musical instrument that is touched to produce a sound

talea

Noun : (music) A repeated rhythmic pattern used in isorhythm.

tasis

Noun : (prosody) Extending the sound of an utterance for the pleasure of saying or hearing it.

Noun : (usually in combination, medicine) A stretching.

tansy

Noun : A herbaceous plant with yellow flowers, of the genus Tanacetum, especially Tanacetum vulgare.

Noun : (uncountable, obsolete) A dish common in the seventeenth century, made of eggs, sugar, rose water, cream, and the juice of herbs (including tansy), baked with butter in a shallow dish. "Originally flavoured with tansy, but by Pepys's time generally having spinach as its predominant flavouring."

Noun : A female given name from English.

taiga

Noun : A subarctic zone of evergreen coniferous forests situated south of the tundras and north of the steppes in the Northern Hemisphere.

Noun : A lake in Alaska.

Noun : Alternative spelling of Tayga. [A town in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia.]

tammy

Noun : A tam o’shanter hat.

Noun : A kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc.

Verb : (cooking, transitive) To strain through a tammy.

tagus

Noun : A major river in Spain and Portugal, the longest in Iberia.

tasso

Noun : (Louisiana) A Cajun-seasoned, cured pork.

Noun : A surname from Italian.

talky

Adjective : (of a person) Talkative or loquacious

Adjective : (of a book etc.) Containing a great deal of dialogue or talking in general

taira

Noun : A surname from Japanese.

Noun : A male given name from Japanese.

Noun : Alternative form of tayra. [A South American omnivore, Eira barbara, allied to the grison, with a long thick tail.]

tawse

Noun : (chiefly Scotland) A leather strap or thong which is split into (typically three) tails, used for corporal punishment in schools, applied to the palm of the hands or buttocks.

Verb : (transitive, chiefly Scotland) To beat with a tawse.

tazza

Noun : A shallow saucer-like dish, mounted either on a stem and foot or on a foot alone.

taler

Noun : (historical) A Germanic unit of currency used between the 15th and 19th centuries.

Noun : (archaic) A talker; a teller

tanta

Noun : A city in Egypt, between Cairo and Alexandria.

tarse

Noun : The tarsus (seven bones in the ankle).

Noun : (falconry) A male falcon.

Noun : (archaic) The penis.

talma

Noun : (dated) A kind of large cape, or short, full cloak.

tania

Noun : A diminutive of the female given names Tatiana or Tetyana.

Noun : (rare) Taro.

Noun : (rare) New cocoyam, yautia (Xanthosoma sagittifolium).

tapet

Noun : (obsolete) A decorative wall-hanging; a hanging cloth or piece of tapestry.

tarre

Verb : (obsolete) To incite; to provoke; to spur on.

Noun : Obsolete form of tar. [(usually uncountable) A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organic materials such as wood, peat, or coal.]

tante

Noun : (usually in forms of address) A Jewish aunt.

taras

Noun : A male given name from Ukrainian.

Noun : (historical) Synonym of Tarentum, former name of Taranto: a city in Italy.

tamal

Noun : Alternative form of tamale (Mexican food dish). [A Mexican dish of cornmeal dough shell filled with various ingredients (e.g. chopped beef, pork, sweet filling) then steamed in corn husks.]

taman

taine

tarai

Noun : Alternative form of terai. [A belt of marshy land, which lies between the foothills of the Himalayas and the plains.]

tachi

Noun : A pre-katana style Japanese sword, characterized by a longer blade with more curvature.

tages

Noun : claimed as a founding prophet of Etruscan religion who is known from reports by Latin authors of the late Roman Republic and Roman Empire.

Noun : a Swedish rock band formed in Gothenburg in 1963.

Noun : the debut studio album by the Swedish rock band Tages, released on 3 November 1965 on Platina Records.

tanos

tabet

taish

Noun : Alternative form of taisch. [second sight; the involuntary ability of seeing the future or distant events.]

tamid

Noun : (biblical) The twice-daily sacrifice of two male lambs by the priesthood.

talud

Noun : An inward-sloping surface or panel, in talud-tablero architecture.

tawiz

Noun : An amulet or locket containing verses from the Qur'an or other Islamic prayers and symbols.

Noun : A structure of brickwork over a tomb.

tatee

Noun : (Southern US) aunt; auntie.

Noun : (Southern US) a person having the qualities of a trusted and honest confidant (without intimate interactions implied).

tapir

Noun : Any species of large odd-toed ungulates of the genus Tapirus with a long prehensile upper lip.

taffy

Noun : (US) A soft, chewy candy made from boiled sugar, molasses, or corn syrup and butter.

Noun : (informal) Flattery.

Noun : (chiefly UK, usually derogatory) Welsh person.

tarot

Noun : Any of the set of 78 playing cards (divided into five suits, including one of permanent trumps), often used for mystical divination.

Noun : (singular or plural) A card game played in various different variations.

taker

Noun : One who takes something.

Noun : A person or thing that takes or receives, often more than he or she gives.

Noun : One who is willing to participate in, or buy, something.

tache

Noun : (informal) Moustache, mustache.

Noun : Something used for taking hold or holding; a catch; a loop; a button.

Noun : (now rare) A spot, stain, or blemish.

taxes

Noun : Money or goods collected by a government (or an entity to whom the government has delegated this power, e.g. in tax farming) to fund itself and its services, for example by levying a charge on income, purchases (sales), property or harvest, other than that money which is collected by the government in exchange for specific goods (e.g. the purchase of surplus vehicles).

Noun : A charge (of money, food, labor, etc) collected by a person, organization, etc; something required (exacted) from someone who is (really or notionally) under the control of the taxer, such as a contribution or service.

Verb : (transitive) To impose and collect a tax from (a person or company).

tamer

Noun : One who tames or subdues.

Noun : A surname from Arabic.

tabla

Noun : (music) A pair of tuned hand drums, used in various musical genres of the Indian subcontinent, that are similar to bongos.

Noun : A barangay of Calubian, Leyte, Philippines.

tabun

Noun : (organic chemistry, military) An extremely toxic nerve gas; a clear, tasteless liquid, molecular formula C₅H₁₁N₂O₂P.

Noun : A clay oven, shaped like a truncated cone, with an opening at the bottom for stoking the fire.

talks

Noun : a discussion intended to produce an agreemen

tapas

Noun : A variety of Spanish small savoury food items or snacks such as croquettes, cured meat, potato salad, and seafood, originally served with sherry and now often with other alcoholic beverages as well.

Noun : (Hinduism, Jainism) (The practice of) asceticism and self-discipline.

taser

Noun : A Taser, a handheld device made by Taser International intended to immobilize another by delivering an electric shock.

Noun : (by extension) Any electroshock stun gun.

Verb : To shock a person, thing, individual, or animal with a handheld device with the electric shock that it delivers; to stun with a stun gun.

taegu

Noun : Dated form of Daegu. [A city in South Korea.]

tatou

Noun : The giant armadillo (Priodontes maximus)

taxed

Adjective : Subject to taxation.

talpa

Noun : (medicine, obsolete) An encysted tumour on the head; a wen.

Noun : A number of places, including:

Noun : A settlement in Taos County, New Mexico, United States.

tardo

Noun : (archaic) A sloth (animal).

taino

Noun : A member of a group of pre-Columbian indigenous inhabitants of the Bahamas, Greater Antilles, and some of the Lesser Antilles.

Noun : Their Arawakan language, now extinct.

Noun : A municipality in Lombardy, Italy.

tappa

Noun : Alternative form of tapa (“cloth made from mulberry bark”). [A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry.]

tarty

Adjective : Somewhat tart.

Adjective : (British, slang) Like a tart (promiscuous woman); slutty, whorish.

tange

Noun : japanese architect (born in 1913

targa

Noun : A locality in the City of Launceston, northern Tasmania, Australia.

taluk

Noun : A hereditary estate in parts of India; subsequently, an administrative subdivision of a district.

tap in

Verb : To enter a public transport system (especially the London Underground) by tapping a travelcard on the card-reader

Verb : (African-American Vernacular, slang, transitive) To contact (someone); to call (someone) on the phone.

Verb : (slang) To switch places with someone.

tahoe

Noun : A mountain freshwater lake on the border of northern California and Nevada, United States.

tagma

Noun : (morphology of segmented Metazoa) A specialized, structured, grouping of functionally related segments, or analogous subunits, into units such as the head, the thorax, and the abdomen, particularly in various Arthropoda and Vertebrata.

Noun : (physiology, dated) A specialized, structured, grouping of functionally related molecules, forming the basis the physiology and structure of larger units such as cells and tissues.

Noun : (historical) A military unit of battalion or regiment size, in the Byzantine empire of the 8th - 11th centuries.

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