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.

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

Verb : (intransitive) To become 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.

Noun : (in Polynesia) Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred.

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

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 : Of a substance, slightly sticky.

Adjective : (colloquial) Of low quality.

Adjective : (colloquial) In poor taste.

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 : One thing made to suit another; a match; a mate.

tatty

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

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

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 : Infatuated; fond of or attracted to.

Adjective : (informal) In a serious romantic relationship.

tabby

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.

Noun : (uncountable) A mixture of lime with shells, gravel, or stones, in equal proportions, with an equal proportion of water. When dry, this becomes as hard as rock.

Noun : (countable) A brindled cat.

tardy

Adjective : Late; overdue or delayed.

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

Adjective : Ineffectual; slow-witted, slow to act, or dull.

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 : (dance) A Spanish flamenco dance with different steps from the Argentine.

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

talon

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

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

Noun : (architecture) A kind of moulding, concave at the bottom and convex at the top; an ogee. (When the concave part is at the top, it is called an inverted talon.)

tabor

Noun : 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 : A tapestry.

Noun : Carpeting.

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.

Noun : A knife blade shape/style comprising well-differentiated front and longitudinal edges, somewhat reminiscent of a chisel but with an angled front allowing for an acute-angle point.

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.

Adjective : (obsolete) Having or showing good taste; tasteful.

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 : (mining) Tailings; waste.

Noun : (alcohol production) Tailings, feints.

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

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

Adjective : of the Tamil script.

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

tatar

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.

Noun : (obsolete) Tartary.

Noun : A person belonging to one of several Turkic, Tatar-speaking ethnic groups in 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.

Noun : (medicine, colloquial) Tachypnoea.

Adjective : (medicine, colloquial) Tachycardic.

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 single action undertaken by a given agent.

tabid

Adjective : (medicine) Pertaining to tabes.

Adjective : Wasting away, declining.

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

tasto

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

Noun : (computing) key of a keyboard

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 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.

Noun : A tam o’shanter hat.

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 male given name from Japanese.

Noun : A surname 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 : (archaic) A talker; a teller

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

tanta

tarse

Noun : (archaic) The penis.

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

Noun : (falconry) A male falcon.

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) New cocoyam, yautia (Xanthosoma sagittifolium).

Noun : (rare) Taro.

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

Noun : A male given name from Ukrainian.

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 one of the species of large odd-toed ungulates of the taxonomic family Tapiridae with a long prehensile upper lip, of which all four surviving species are in genus Tapirus.

taffy

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

Noun : (informal) Flattery.

Noun : (slang, sometimes derogatory) A Welshman.

tarot

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

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

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

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

taxes

Noun : Money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services.

Noun : (figurative, uncountable) A burdensome demand.

Noun : A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.

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

Adjective : Somewhat tart.

tange

Noun : japanese architect (born in 1913

targa

Noun : a type of convertible sports ca

taluk

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

tap in

Noun : (golf) A simple, short putt very close to the hole.

Noun : (soccer) A simple shot into the goal from close range, and without opposition.

Verb : (soccer) To kick a simple shot, without opposition, from close range into the goal.

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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