| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| teacupfuls | plural | of Teacupful |
| tear-thumb | noun | A name given to several species of plants of the genus Polygonum, having angular stems beset with minute reflexed prickles. |
| tea-saucer | noun | A small saucer in which a teacup is set. |
| teaselling | of Teasel | |
| teaze-hole | noun | The opening in the furnaces through which fuel is introduced. |
| technicals | noun pl. | Those things which pertain to the practical part of an art, science, or profession; technical terms; technics. |
| technicist | noun | One skilled in technics or in one or more of the practical arts. |
| technology | noun | Industrial science; the science of systematic knowledge of the industrial arts, especially of the more important manufactures, as spinning, weaving, metallurgy, etc. |
| teetotaler | noun | One pledged to entire abstinence from all intoxicating drinks. |
| teetotally | adverb | Entirely; totally. |
| teinoscope | noun | An instrument formed by combining prisms so as to correct the chromatic aberration of the light while linear dimensions of objects seen through the prisms are increased or diminished; — called also prism telescope. |
| telegraphy | noun | The science or art of constructing, or of communicating by means of, telegraphs; as, submarine telegraphy. |
| teleophore | noun | Same as Gonotheca. |
| teleostean | adjective | Of or pertaining to the teleosts., A teleostean fish. |
| teleostomi | noun pl. | An extensive division of fishes including the ordinary fishes (Teleostei) and the ganoids. |
| telephonic | adjective | Conveying sound to a great distance., Of or pertaining to the telephone; by the telephone. |
| telerythin | noun | A red crystalline compound related to, or produced from, erythrin. So called because regarded as the end of the series of erythrin compounds. |
| telescoped | imp. & past participle | of Telescope |
| telescopic | adjective | Alt. of Telescopical |
| telesmatic | adjective | Alt. of Telesmatical |
| tellership | noun | The office or employment of a teller. |
| tellureted | noun | Combined or impregnated with tellurium; tellurized. |
| telotrocha | noun | An annelid larva having telotrochal bands of cilia. |
| telpherage | noun | The conveyance of vehicles or loads by means of electricity. |
| temeration | noun | Temerity. |
| temperable | adjective | Capable of being tempered. |
| temperance | verb t. | Habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence; moderation; as, temperance in eating and drinking; temperance in the indulgence of joy or mirth; specifically, moderation, and sometimes abstinence, in respect to using intoxicating liquors., Moderation of passion; patience; calmness; sedateness., State with regard to heat or cold; temperature. |
| temperancy | noun | Temperance. |
| tempestive | adjective | Seasonable; timely; as, tempestive showers. |
| temporally | adverb | In a temporal manner; secularly. |
| temporalty | noun | The laity; secular people., A secular possession; a temporality. |
| temporized | imp. & past participle | of Temporize |
| temporizer | noun | One who temporizes; one who yields to the time, or complies with the prevailing opinions, fashions, or occasions; a trimmer. |
| temptation | noun | The act of tempting, or enticing to evil; seduction., The state of being tempted, or enticed to evil., That which tempts; an inducement; an allurement, especially to something evil. |
| tenability | noun | The quality or state of being tenable; tenableness. |
| tenaculums | plural | of Tenaculum |
| tenantable | adjective | Fit to be rented; in a condition suitable for a tenant. |
| tenantless | adjective | Having no tenants; unoccupied; as, a tenantless mansion. |
| tenant saw | See Tenon saw, under Tenon. | |
| tendencies | plural | of Tendency |
| tenderfoot | noun | A delicate person; one not inured to the hardship and rudeness of pioneer life. |
| tenderling | noun | One made tender by too much kindness; a fondling., One of the first antlers of a deer. |
| tenderloin | noun | A strip of tender flesh on either side of the vertebral column under the short ribs, in the hind quarter of beef and pork. It consists of the psoas muscles. |
| tenderness | noun | The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). |
| tendrilled | adjective | Furnished with tendrils, or with such or so many, tendrils. |
| tenebrific | adjective | Rendering dark or gloomy; tenebrous; gloomy. |
| tenebrious | adjective | Tenebrous. |
| tenemental | adjective | Of or pertaining to a tenement; capable of being held by tenants. |
| tennantite | noun | A blackish lead-gray mineral, closely related to tetrahedrite. It is essentially a sulphide of arsenic and copper. |
| ten-strike | noun | A knocking down of all ten pins at one delivery of the ball., Any quick, decisive stroke or act. |
| tentacular | adjective | Of or pertaining to a tentacle or tentacles. |
| tentaculum | noun | A tentacle., One of the stiff hairs situated about the mouth, or on the face, of many animals, and supposed to be tactile organs; a tactile hair. |
| tenthmeter | noun | Alt. of Tenthmetre |
| tenthmetre | noun | A unit for the measurement of many small lengths, such that 1010 of these units make one meter; the ten millionth part of a millimeter. |
| teracrylic | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the acrylic series, obtained by the distillation of terpenylic acid, as an only substance having a peculiar cheesy odor. |
| teratogeny | noun | The formation of monsters. |
| teratology | noun | That branch of biological science which treats of monstrosities, malformations, or deviations from the normal type of structure, either in plants or animals., Affectation of sublimity; bombast. |
| tercellene | noun | A small male hawk. |
| tergeminal | adjective | Alt. of Tergeminate |
| termagancy | noun | The quality or state of being termagant; turbulence; tumultuousness; as, a violent termagancy of temper. |
| terminable | adjective | Capable of being terminated or bounded; limitable. |
| terminalia | noun pl. | A festival celebrated annually by the Romans on February 23 in honor of Terminus, the god of boundaries. |
| terminated | imp. & past participle | of Terminate |
| terminator | noun | One who, or that which, terminates., The dividing line between the illuminated and the unilluminated part of the moon. |
| terneplate | adjective | Thin iron sheets coated with an alloy of lead and tin; — so called because made up of three metals. |
| terpenylic | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C8H12O4 (called also terpentic acid), homologous with terebic acid, and obtained as a white crystalline substance by the oxidation of oil of turpentine with chromic acid. |
| terreplein | noun | The top, platform, or horizontal surface, of a rampart, on which the cannon are placed. See Illust. of Casemate. |
| terricolae | noun pl. | A division of annelids including the common earthworms and allied species. |
| terrifical | adjective | Terrific. |
| terrifying | present participle & vb. noun | of Terrify |
| terrorless | adjective | Free from terror. |
| tersanctus | noun | An ancient ascription of praise (containing the word “Holy” — in its Latin form, “Sanctus” — thrice repeated), used in the Mass of the Roman Catholic Church and before the prayer of consecration in the communion service of the Church of England and the Protestant Episcopal Church. Cf. Trisagion. |
| ter-tenant | noun | See Terre-tenant. |
| tertiaries | plural | of Tertiary |
| terza rima | A peculiar and complicated system of versification, borrowed by the early Italian poets from the Troubadours. | |
| tessellata | noun pl. | A division of Crinoidea including numerous fossil species in which the body is covered with tessellated plates. |
| tessellate | verb t. | To form into squares or checkers; to lay with checkered work., Tessellated. |
| testaceous | adjective | Of or pertaining to shells; consisted of a hard shell, or having a hard shell., Having a dull red brick color or a brownish yellow color. |
| testicular | adjective | Of or pertaining to the testicle. |
| testifying | present participle & vb. noun | of Testify |
| testudinal | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tortoise. |
| testudines | plural | of Testudo |
| tetchiness | noun | See Techiness. |
| tetrabasic | adjective | Capable of neutralizing four molecules of a monacid base; having four hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by bases; quadribasic; — said of certain acids; thus, normal silicic acid, Si(OH)4, is a tetrabasic acid. |
| tetraboric | adjective | Same as Pyroboric. |
| tetrachord | noun | A scale series of four sounds, of which the extremes, or first and last, constituted a fourth. These extremes were immutable; the two middle sounds were changeable. |
| tetracolon | noun | A stanza or division in lyric poetry, consisting of four verses or lines. |
| tetragonal | adjective | Of or pertaining to a tetragon; having four angles or sides; thus, the square, the parallelogram, the rhombus, and the trapezium are tetragonal fingers., Having four prominent longitudinal angles., Designating, or belonging to, a certain system of crystallization; dimetric. See Tetragonal system, under Crystallization. |
| tetragynia | noun pl. | A Linnaean order of plants having four styles. |
| tetrameter | noun | A verse or line consisting of four measures, that is, in iambic, trochaic, and anapestic verse, of eight feet; in other kinds of verse, of four feet. |
| tetramorph | noun | The union of the four attributes of the Evangelists in one figure, which is represented as winged, and standing on winged fiery wheels, the wings being covered with eyes. The representations of it are evidently suggested by the vision of Ezekiel (ch. i.) |
| tetrandria | noun pl. | A Linnaean class of plants having four stamens. |
| tetraptote | noun | A noun that has four cases only. |
| tetraspore | noun | A nonsexual spore, one of a group of four regularly occurring in red seaweeds. |
| tetrastich | noun | A stanza, epigram, or poem, consisting of four verses or lines. |
| tetrastyle | adjective | Having four columns in front; — said of a temple, portico, or colonnade., A tetrastyle building. |
| tetratomic | adjective | Consisting of four atoms; having four atoms in the molecule, as phosphorus and arsenic., Having a valence of four; quadrivalent; tetravalent; sometimes, in a specific sense, having four hydroxyl groups, whether acid or basic. |
| tetterwort | noun | A plant used as a remedy for tetter, — in England the calendine, in America the bloodroot. |
| textualist | noun | A textman; a textuary. |
| textuarist | noun | A textuary. |