| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| tabernacling | present participle & vb. noun | of Tabernacle |
| tabernacular | adjective | Of or pertaining to a tabernacle, especially the Jewish tabernacle., Formed in latticework; latticed., Of or pertaining to huts or booths; hence, common; low. |
| table d’hote | A common table for guests at a hotel; an ordinary. | |
| tabularizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Tabularize |
| tachygraphic | adjective | Alt. of Tachygraphical |
| taenioglossa | noun pl. | An extensive division of gastropod mollusks in which the odontophore is long and narrow, and usually bears seven rows of teeth. It includes a large number of families both marine and fresh-water. |
| tagliacotain | adjective | Of or pertaining to Tagliacozzi, a Venetian surgeon; as, the Tagliacotian operation, a method of rhinoplasty described by him. |
| talismanical | adjective | Of or pertaining to a talisman; having the properties of a talisman, or preservative against evils by occult influence; magical. |
| tallow-faced | adjective | Having a sickly complexion; pale. |
| tangentially | adverb | In the direction of a tangent. |
| taphrenchyma | noun | Same as Bothrenchyma. |
| tarantulated | adjective | Bitten by a tarantula; affected with tarantism. |
| tardigradous | adjective | Moving slowly; slow-paced. |
| tarsorrhaphy | noun | An operation to diminish the size of the opening between eyelids when enlarged by surrounding cicatrices. |
| tauricornous | adjective | Having horns like those of a bull. |
| taurocholate | noun | A salt of taurocholic acid; as, sodium taurocholate, which occurs in human bile. |
| tauromachian | adjective | Of or pertaining to bullfights., A bullfighter. |
| tautegorical | adjective | Expressing the same thing with different words; — opposed to allegorical. |
| tautological | adjective | Involving tautology; having the same signification; as, tautological expression. |
| tautologized | imp. & past participle | of Tautologize |
| tautoousious | adjective | Having the same essence; being identically of the same nature. |
| tear-falling | adjective | Shedding tears; tender. |
| teaspoonfuls | plural | of Teaspoonful |
| technicality | noun | The quality or state of being technical; technicalness., That which is technical, or peculiar to any trade, profession, sect, or the like. |
| technicology | noun | Technology. |
| technologist | noun | One skilled in technology; one who treats of arts, or of the terms of arts. |
| telegraphing | present participle & vb. noun | of Telegraph |
| telegraphist | noun | One skilled in telegraphy; a telegrapher. |
| teleocephial | noun pl. | An extensive order of bony fishes including most of the common market species, as bass, salmon, cod, perch, etc. |
| teleological | adjective | Of or pertaining to teleology, or the doctrine of design. |
| telescopical | adjective | Of or pertaining to a telescope; performed by a telescope., Seen or discoverable only by a telescope; as, telescopic stars., Able to discern objects at a distance; farseeing; far-reaching; as, a telescopic eye; telescopic vision., Having the power of extension by joints sliding one within another, like the tube of a small telescope or a spyglass; especially (Mach.), constructed of concentric tubes, either stationary, as in the telescopic boiler, or movable, as in the telescopic chimney of a war vessel, which may be put out of sight by being lowered endwise. |
| telesmatical | adjective | Of or pertaining to telesms; magical. |
| teleutospore | noun | The thick-celled winter or resting spore of the rusts (order Uredinales), produced in late summer. See Illust. of Uredospore. |
| tellurhydric | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or designating, hydrogen telluride, which is regarded as an acid, especially when in solution. |
| telotrochous | adjective | Having both a preoral and a posterior band of cilla; — applied to the larvae of certain annelids. |
| tempestivily | noun | The quality, or state, of being tempestive; seasonableness. |
| temporalness | noun | Worldliness. |
| temporaneous | adjective | Temporarity. |
| temporomalar | adjective | Of or pertaining to both the temple and the region of the malar bone; as, the temporomalar nerve. |
| temptability | noun | The quality or state of being temptable; lability to temptation. |
| tentaculated | adjective | Having tentacles, or organs like tentacles; tentacled. |
| tenuifolious | adjective | Having thin or narrow leaves. |
| tenuirosters | plural | of Tenuiroster |
| tenuirostral | adjective | Thin-billed; — applied to birds with a slender bill, as the humming birds. |
| tenuirostres | noun pl. | An artificial group of passerine birds having slender bills, as the humming birds. |
| tercentenary | adjective | Including, or relating to, an interval of three hundred years., The three hundredth anniversary of any event; also, a celebration of such an anniversary. |
| terebenthene | noun | Oil of turpentine. See Turpentine. |
| terebinthine | adjective | Of or pertaining to turpentine; consisting of turpentine, or partaking of its qualities. |
| terebratulae | plural | of Terebratula |
| terebratulid | noun | Any species of Terebratula or allied genera. Used also adjectively. |
| terephthalic | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or designating, a dibasic acid of the aromatic series, metameric with phthalic acid, and obtained, as a tasteless white crystalline powder, by the oxidation of oil of turpentine; — called also paraphthalic acid. Cf. Phthalic. |
| tergiversate | verb i. | To shift; to practice evasion; to use subterfuges; to shuffle. |
| terraculture | noun | Cultivation on the earth; agriculture. |
| terrestrious | adjective | Terrestrial. |
| terre-tenant | noun | One who has the actual possession of land; the occupant. |
| terrifically | adverb | In a terrific manner. |
| tersulphuret | noun | A trisulphide. |
| tessellating | present participle & vb. noun | of Tessellate |
| tessellation | noun | The act of tessellating; also, the mosaic work so formed. |
| testaceology | noun | The science of testaceous mollusks; conchology. |
| testamentary | adjective | Of or pertaining to a will, or testament; as, letters testamentary., Bequeathed by will; given by testament., Done, appointed by, or founded on, a testament, or will; as, a testamentary guardian of a minor, who may be appointed by the will of a father to act in that capacity until the child becomes of age. |
| testamentize | verb i. | To make a will. |
| testificator | noun | A testifier. |
| testudinated | adjective | Resembling a tortoise shell in appearance or structure; roofed; arched; vaulted. |
| testudineous | adjective | Resembling the shell of a tortoise. |
| tetanization | noun | The production or condition of tetanus. |
| tete-de-pont | noun | A work thrown up at the end of a bridge nearest the enemy, for covering the communications across a river; a bridgehead. |
| tetracoccous | adjective | Having four cocci, or carpels. |
| tetracoralla | noun pl. | Same as Rugosa. |
| tetradactyle | adjective | Tetradactylous. |
| tetradrachma | noun | A silver coin among the ancient Greeks, of the value of four drachms. |
| tetradynamia | noun pl. | A Linnaean class of plants having six stamens, four of which are longer than the others. |
| tetrahedrite | noun | A sulphide of antimony and copper, with small quantities of other metals. It is a very common ore of copper, and some varieties yield a considerable presentage of silver. Called also gray copper ore, fahlore, and panabase. |
| tetraneumona | noun pl. | A division of Arachnida including those spiders which have four lungs, or pulmonary sacs. It includes the bird spiders (Mygale) and the trapdoor spiders. See Mygale. |
| tetrapterous | adjective | Having four wings. |
| tetrarchical | adjective | Of or pertaining to a tetrarch or tetrarchy. |
| tetraspaston | noun | A machine in which four pulleys act together. |
| tetrathionic | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or designating, a thionic derivative, H/S/O/, of sulphuric acid, obtained as a colorless, odorless liquid. |
| tetravalence | noun | The quality or state of being tetravalent; quadrivalence. |
| thalamocoele | noun | The cavity or ventricle of the thalamencephalon; the third ventricle. |
| thalamophora | noun pl. | Same as Foraminifera. |
| thalassinian | noun | Any species of Thalaassinidae, a family of burrowing macrurous Crustacea, having a long and soft abdomen. |
| thanksgiving | noun | The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies., A public acknowledgment or celebration of divine goodness; also, a day set apart for religious services, specially to acknowledge the goodness of God, either in any remarkable deliverance from calamities or danger, or in the ordinary dispensation of his bounties. |
| thaumaturgic | adjective | Alt. of Thaumaturgical |
| thaumaturgus | noun | A miracle worker; — a title given by the Roman Catholics to some saints. |
| theanthropic | adjective | Alt. of Theanthropical |
| thecasporous | adjective | Having the spores in thecae, or cases. |
| theochristic | adjective | Anointed by God. |
| theocratical | adjective | Of or pertaining to a theocracy; administred by the immediate direction of God; as, the theocratical state of the Israelites. |
| theologaster | noun | A pretender or quack in theology. |
| theologizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Theologize |
| theopathetic | adjective | Alt. of Theopathic |
| theopneusted | adjective | Divinely inspired; theopneustic. |
| theopneustic | adjective | Given by the inspiration of the Spirit of God. |
| theorematist | noun | One who constructs theorems. |
| theorization | noun | The act or product of theorizing; the formation of a theory or theories; speculation. |
| theosophical | adjective | Of or pertaining to theosophy. |
| theosophized | imp. & past participle | of Theosophize |
| therapeutics | noun | That part of medical science which treats of the discovery and application of remedies for diseases. |
| therapeutist | noun | One versed in therapeutics, or the discovery and application of remedies. |
| theriodontia | noun pl. | An extinct order of reptiles found in the Permian and Triassic formations in South Africa. In some respects they resembled carnivorous mammals. Called also Theromorpha. |
| thermifugine | noun | An artificial alkaloid of complex composition, resembling thalline and used as an antipyretic, — whence its name. |
| thermochemic | adjective | Alt. of Thermochemical |
| thermochrosy | noun | The property possessed by heat of being composed, like light, of rays of different degrees of refrangibility, which are unequal in rate or degree of transmission through diathermic substances. |
| thermogenous | adjective | Producing heat; thermogenic. |
| thermometric | adjective | Alt. of Thermometrical |
| thermoscopic | adjective | Of or pertaining to the thermoscope; made by means of the thermoscope; as, thermoscopic observations. |
| thermostatic | adjective | Of or pertaining to the thermostat; made or effected by means of the thermostat. |
| thermotropic | adjective | Manifesting thermotropism. |
| thessalonian | adjective | Of or pertaining to Thessalonica, a city of Macedonia., A native or inhabitant of Thessalonica. |
| thibet cloth | A fabric made of coarse goat’s hair; a kind of camlet., A kind of fine woolen cloth, used for dresses, cloaks, etc. | |
| thick-headed | adjective | Having a thick skull; stupid. |
| thick-winded | adjective | Affected with thick wind. |
| thimbleberry | noun | A kind of black raspberry (Rubus occidentalis), common in America. |
| thin-skinned | adjective | Having a thin skin; hence, sensitive; irritable. |
| thiocarbonic | adjective | Same as Sulphocarbonic. |
| thiosulphate | noun | A salt of thiosulphuric acid; — formerly called hyposulphite. |
| thomsenolite | noun | A fluoride of aluminium, calcium, and sodium occurring with the cryolite of Greenland. |
| thoracometer | noun | Same as Stethometer. |
| thorn-headed | adjective | Having a head armed with thorns or spines. |
| thoroughbred | adjective | Bred from the best blood through a long line; pure-blooded; — said of stock, as horses. Hence, having the characteristics of such breeding; mettlesome; courageous; of elegant form, or the like., A thoroughbred animal, especially a horse. |
| thoroughfare | noun | A passage through; a passage from one street or opening to another; an unobstructed way open to the public; a public road; hence, a frequented street., A passing or going through; passage. |
| thoroughness | noun | The quality or state of being thorough; completeness. |
| thoroughsped | adjective | Fully accomplished; thoroughplaced. |
| thoroughwort | noun | Same as Boneset. |
| thousandfold | adjective | Multiplied by a thousand. |
| three-decker | noun | A vessel of war carrying guns on three decks. |
| three-handed | adjective | Said of games or contests where three persons play against each other, or two against one; as, a three-handed game of cards. |
| three-leafed | adjective | Alt. of Three-leaved |
| three-leaved | adjective | Producing three leaves; as, three-leaved nightshade., Consisting of three distinct leaflets; having the leaflets arranged in threes. |
| three-nerved | adjective | Having three nerves. |
| three-parted | adjective | Divided into, or consisting of, three parts; tripartite. |
| three-square | adjective | Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; — said especially of a kind of file. |
| three-valved | adjective | Consisting of, or having, three valves; opening with three valves; as, a three-valved pericarp. |
| thrivingness | noun | The quality or condition of one who thrives; prosperity; growth; increase. |
| thunderburst | noun | A burst of thunder. |
| thundercloud | noun | A cloud charged with electricity, and producing lightning and thunder. |
| thunderproof | adjective | Secure against the effects of thunder or lightning. |
| thunderstone | noun | A thunderbolt, — formerly believed to be a stone., A belemnite. See Belemnite. |
| thunderstorm | noun | A storm accompanied with lightning and thunder. |
| thymiatechny | noun | The art of employing perfumes in medicine. |
| thysanoptera | noun pl. | A division of insects, considered by some writers a distinct order, but regarded by others as belonging to the Hemiptera. They are all of small size, and have narrow, broadly fringed wings with rudimentary nervures. Most of the species feed upon the juices of plants, and some, as those which attack grain, are very injurious to crops. Called also Physopoda. See Thrips. |
| tierce-major | noun | See Tierce, 4. |
| tiger-footed | adjective | Hastening to devour; furious. |
| tiger’s-foot | noun | A name given to some species of morning-glory (Ipomoea) having the leaves lobed in pedate fashion. |
| time-honored | adjective | Honored for a long time; venerable, and worthy of honor, by reason of antiquity, or long continuance. |
| tiring-house | noun | A tiring-room. |
| titaniferous | adjective | Containing or affording titanium; as, titaniferous magnetite. |
| tithonometer | noun | An instrument or apparatus for measuring or detecting tithonicity; an actinometer. |
| tolerabolity | noun | The quality or state of being tolerable. |
| tongue-shell | noun | Any species of Lingula. |
| tonquin bean | See Tonka bean. | |
| top-draining | noun | The act or practice of drining the surface of land. |
| top-dressing | present participle & vb. noun | of Top-dress, The act of applying a dressing of manure to the surface of land; also, manure so applied. |
| topographist | noun | A topographer. |
| torchon lace | a simple thread lace worked upon a pillow with coarse thread; also, a similar lace made by machinery. | |
| torrefaction | noun | The act or process of torrefying, or the state of being torrefied. |
| torricellian | adjective | Of or pertaining to Torricelli, an Italian philosopher and mathematician, who, in 1643, discovered that the rise of a liquid in a tube, as in the barometer, is due to atmospheric pressure. See Barometer. |
| totipresence | noun | Omnipresence. |
| touch-me-not | noun | See Impatiens., Squirting cucumber. See under Cucumber. |
| touch-needle | noun | A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, for trying the purity of articles of gold or silver by comparison of the streaks made by the article and the bar on a touchstone. |
| towardliness | noun | The quality or state of being towardly; docility; tractableness. |
| toxicologist | noun | One versed in toxicology; the writer of a treatise on poisons. |
| trachelipoda | nounpl. | An extensive artificial group of gastropods comprising all those which have a spiral shell and the foot attached to the base of the neck. |
| trachenchyma | noun | A vegetable tissue consisting of tracheae. |
| tracheoscopy | noun | Examination of the interior of the trachea by means of a mirror. |
| tractability | noun | The quality or state of being tractable or docile; docility; tractableness. |
| tractoration | noun | See Perkinism. |
| tradescantia | noun | A genus including spiderwort and Wandering Jew. |
| tradespeople | noun | People engaged in trade; shopkeepers. |
| trades union | Alt. of Trade union | |
| traditionary | adjective | Traditional., One, among the Jews, who acknowledges the authority of traditions, and explains the Scriptures by them. |
| traditionist | noun | One who adheres to tradition. |
| traducianism | noun | The doctrine that human souls are produced by the act of generation; — opposed to creationism, and infusionism. |
| tragi-comedy | noun | A kind of drama representing some action in which serious and comic scenes are blended; a composition partaking of the nature both of tragedy and comedy. |
| trajectories | plural | of Trajectory |
| tralatitious | adjective | Passed along; handed down; transmitted., Metaphorical; figurative; not literal. |
| tranquilized | imp. & past participle | of Tranquillize |
| tranquillize | verb t. | To render tranquil; to allay when agitated; to compose; to make calm and peaceful; as, to tranquilize a state disturbed by factions or civil commotions; to tranquilize the mind. |
| tranquilizer | noun | Alt. of Tranquillizer |
| tranquillity | noun | The quality or state of being tranquil; calmness; composure. |
| tranquilness | noun | Quality or state of being tranquil. |
| transanimate | verb t. | To animate with a soul conveyed from another body. |
| transaudient | adjective | Permitting the passage of sound. |
| transcalency | noun | The quality or state of being transcalent. |
| transcending | present participle & vb. noun | of Transcend |
| transcendent | adjective | Very excellent; superior or supreme in excellence; surpassing others; as, transcendent worth; transcendent valor., Transcending, or reaching beyond, the limits of human knowledge; — applied to affirmations and speculations concerning what lies beyond the reach of the human intellect. |
| transcension | noun | The act of transcending, or surpassing; also, passage over. |
| transcolated | imp. & past participle | of Transcolate |
| transcribing | present participle & vb. noun | of Transcribe |
| transcursion | noun | A rambling or ramble; a passage over bounds; an excursion. |
| transdialect | verb t. | To change or translate from one dialect into another. |
| transduction | noun | The act of conveying over. |
| transelement | verb t. | Alt. of Transelementate |
| transferring | present participle & vb. noun | of Transfer |
| transferable | adjective | Capable of being transferred or conveyed from one place or person to another., Negotiable, as a note, bill of exchange, or other evidence of property, that may be conveyed from one person to another by indorsement or other writing; capable of being transferred with no loss of value; as, the stocks of most public companies are transferable; some tickets are not transferable. |
| transference | noun | The act of transferring; conveyance; passage; transfer. |
| transfigured | imp. & past participle | of Transfigure |
| transforming | present participle & vb. noun | of Transform |
| transformism | noun | The hypothesis, or doctrine, that living beings have originated by the modification of some other previously existing forms of living matter; — opposed to abiogenesis. |
| transfreight | verb i. | To transfrete. |
| transfusible | adjective | Capable of being transfused; transferable by transfusion. |
| transgressed | imp. & past participle | of Transgress |
| transgressor | noun | One who transgresses; one who breaks a law, or violates a command; one who violates any known rule or principle of rectitude; a sinner. |
| transhipment | noun | Same as Transshipment. |
| transilience | noun | Alt. of Transiliency |
| transiliency | noun | A leap across or from one thing to another. |
| transitional | adjective | Of or pertaining to transition; involving or denoting transition; as, transitional changes; transitional stage. |
| transitorily | adverb | In a transitory manner; with brief continuance. |
| translatable | adjective | Capable of being translated, or rendered into another language. |
| translatress | noun | A woman who translates. |
| translucence | noun | Alt. of Translucency |
| translucency | noun | The quality or state of being translucent; clearness; partial transparency. |
| transmeation | noun | The act of transmeating; a passing through or beyond. |
| transmigrant | adjective | Migrating or passing from one place or state to another; passing from one residence to another., One who transmigrates. |
| transmigrate | verb i. | To pass from one country or jurisdiction to another for the purpose of residence, as men or families; to migrate., To pass from one body or condition into another. |
| transmission | noun | The act of transmitting, or the state of being transmitted; as, the transmission of letters, writings, papers, news, and the like, from one country to another; the transmission of rights, titles, or privileges, from father to son, or from one generation to another., The right possessed by an heir or legatee of transmitting to his successor or successors any inheritance, legacy, right, or privilege, to which he is entitled, even if he should die without enjoying or exercising it. |
| transmissive | adjective | Capable of being transmitted; derived, or handed down, from one to another. |
| transmitting | present participle & vb. noun | of Transmit |
| transmogrify | verb t. | To change into a different shape; to transform. |
| transmutable | adjective | Capable of being transmuted or changed into a different substance, or into into something of a different form a nature; transformable. |
| transparence | noun | The quality or state of being transparent; transparency. |
| transparency | noun | The quality or condition of being transparent; transparence., That which is transparent; especially, a picture painted on thin cloth or glass, or impressed on porcelain, or the like, to be viewed by natural or artificial light, which shines through it. |
| transpeciate | verb t. | To change from one species to another; to transform. |
| transpicuous | adjective | Transparent; pervious to the sight. |
| transpierced | imp. & past participle | of Transpierce |
| transpirable | adjective | Capable of being transpired, or of transpiring. |
| transplacing | present participle & vb. noun | of Transplace |
| transplanted | imp. & past participle | of Transplant |
| transplanter | noun | One who transplants; also, a machine for transplanting trees. |
| transporting | present participle & vb. noun | of Transport, That transports; fig., ravishing. |
| transportant | adjective | Transporting; /avishing; as, transportant love. |
| transposable | adjective | That may transposed; as, a transposable phrase. |
| transshaping | present participle & vb. noun | of Transshape |
| transudation | noun | The act or process of transuding., Same as Exosmose. |
| transudatory | adjective | Of or pertaining to transudation; passing by transudation. |
| transumption | noun | Act of taking from one place to another. |
| transumptive | adjective | Taking from one to another; metaphorical. |
| transvection | noun | The act of conveying or carrying over. |
| transversing | present participle & vb. noun | of Transverse |
| transversely | adverb | In a transverse manner. |
| transversion | noun | The act of changing from prose into verse, or from verse into prose. |
| tread-softly | noun | Spurge nettle. See under Nettle. |
| trencher-men | plural | of Trencher-man |
| trencher-man | noun | A feeder; a great eater; a gormandizer., A cook., A table companion; a trencher mate. |
| triadelphous | adjective | Having stamens joined by filaments into three bundles. See Illust. under Adelphous. |
| triangulares | noun pl. | The triangular, or maioid, crabs. See Illust. under Maioid, and Illust. of Spider crab, under Spider. |
| triangularly | adverb | In a triangular manner; in the form of a triangle. |
| triangulated | imp. & past participle | of Triangulate |
| tribracteate | adjective | Having three bracts. |
| tribunitious | adjective | Tribunician; tribunitial. |
| tricarbimide | noun | See under Cyanuric. |
| tricentenary | adjective | Including, or relating to, the interval of three hundred years; tercentenary., A period of three centuries, or three hundred years, also, the three-hundredth anniversary of any event; a tercentenary. |
| trichiniasis | noun | Trichinosis. |
| trichomatose | adjective | Affected with a disease which causes agglutination and matting together; — said of the hair when affected with plica. See Plica, 1. |
| trichopteran | One of the Trichoptera. | |
| trichotomous | adjective | Divided into three parts, or into threes; three-forked; as, a trichotomous stem. |
| trichromatic | adjective | Having or existing in three different phases of color; having three distinct color varieties; — said of certain birds and insects. |
| tricorporate | adjective | Represented with three bodies conjoined to one head, as a lion. |
| tricuspidate | adjective | Three-pointed; ending in three points; as, a tricuspidate leaf. |
| tridactylous | adjective | Tridactyl. |
| trifallowing | present participle & vb. noun | of Trifallow |
| trifasciated | adjective | Having, or surrounded by, three fasciae, or bands. |
| trifistulary | adjective | Having three pipes. |
| trifoliolate | adjective | Having three leaflets. |
| triglyceride | noun | A glyceride formed by the replacement of three hydrogen atoms in glycerin by acid radicals. |
| triglyphical | adjective | Consisting of, or pertaining to, triglyphs., Containing three sets of characters or sculptures. |
| trigonometry | noun | That branch of mathematics which treats of the relations of the sides and angles of triangles, which the methods of deducing from certain given parts other required parts, and also of the general relations which exist between the trigonometrical functions of arcs or angles., A treatise in this science. |
| trigrammatic | adjective | Containing three letters or characters, or three sets of letters or characters. |
| trimaculated | adjective | Marked with three spots, or maculae. |
| trimethylene | noun | A gaseous hydrocarbon, C3H6, isomeric with propylene and obtained from it indirectly. It is the base of a series of compounds analogous to the aromatic hydrocarbons. |
| tripalmitate | noun | A palmitate derived from three molecules of palmitic acid. |
| tripartitely | adverb | In a tripartite manner. |
| tripartition | noun | A division by threes, or into three parts; the taking of a third part of any number or quantity. |
| triphthongal | adjective | Of or pertaining to a triphthong; consisting of three vowel sounds pronounced together in a single syllable. |
| triplication | noun | The act of tripling, or making threefold, or adding three together., Same as Surrejoinder. |
| tripudiation | noun | The act of dancing. |
| tristigmatic | adjective | Alt. of Tristigmatose |
| triumphantly | adverb | In a triumphant manner. |
| trivialities | plural | of Triviality |
| trochanteric | adjective | Of or pertaining to one or both of the trochanters. |
| trochilidist | noun | One who studies, or is versed in, the nature and habits of humming birds, or the Trochilidae. |
| trochosphere | noun | A young larval form of many annelids, mollusks, and bryozoans, in which a circle of cilia is developed around the anterior end. |
| trollmydames | noun | The game of nineholes. |
| tropological | adjective | Characterized by tropes; varied by tropes; tropical. |
| trou-de-loup | noun | A pit in the form of an inverted cone or pyramid, constructed as an obstacle to the approach of an enemy, and having a pointed stake in the middle. The pits are called also trapholes. |
| trough-shell | noun | Any bivalve shell of the genus Mactra. See Mactra. |
| trucebreaker | noun | One who violates a truce, covenant, or engagement. |
| true-hearted | adjective | Of a faithful heart; honest; sincere; not faithless or deceitful; as, a truhearted friend. |
| trullization | noun | The act of laying on coats of plaster with a trowel. |
| truncheoneer | noun | A person armed with a truncheon. |
| truth-teller | noun | One who tells the truth. |
| tuberculated | adjective | Tubercled; tubercular. |
| tuberculosis | noun | A constitutional disease characterized by the production of tubercles in the internal organs, and especially in the lungs, where it constitutes the most common variety of pulmonary consumption. |
| tuberiferous | adjective | Producing or bearing tubers. |
| tuberosities | plural | of Tuberosity |
| tulipomaniac | noun | One who is affected with tulipomania. |
| tumultuarily | adverb | In a tumultuary manner. |
| tumultuation | noun | Irregular or disorderly movement; commotion; as, the tumultuation of the parts of a fluid. |
| turacoverdin | noun | A green pigment found in the feathers of the turacou. See Turacin. |
| turban-shell | noun | A sea urchin when deprived of its spines; — popularly so called from a fancied resemblance to a turban. |
| turbellarian | noun | One of the Turbellaria. Also used adjectively. |
| turbinaceous | adjective | Of or pertaining to peat, or turf; of the nature of peat, or turf; peaty; turfy. |
| turnip-shell | noun | Any one of several large, thick, spiral marine shells belonging to Rapa and allied genera, somewhat turnip-shaped. |
| turriculated | adjective | Furnished with, or formed like, a small turret or turrets; somewhat turreted. |
| turritelloid | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the turritellas. |
| turtle-shell | noun | The turtle cowrie. |
| tussac grass | Tussock grass. | |
| twelfth-cake | noun | An ornamented cake distributed among friends or visitors on the festival of Twelfth-night. |
| twifallowing | present participle & vb. noun | of Twifallow |
| twitch grass | See Quitch grass. | |
| two-capsuled | adjective | Having two distinct capsules; bicapsular. |
| typification | noun | The act of typifying, or representing by a figure. |
| tyrannicidal | adjective | Of or pertaining to tyrannicide, or the murder of a tyrant. |