| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| tables d’hote | plural | of Table d’hote |
| tablespoonful | noun | As much as a tablespoon will hold; enough to fill a tablespoon. It is usually reckoned as one half of a fluid ounce, or four fluid drams. |
| tampico fiber | Alt. of fibre | |
| tantalization | noun | The act of tantalizing, or state of being tantalized. |
| tantalizingly | adverb | In a tantalizing or teasing manner. |
| tautochronous | adjective | Occupying the same time; pertaining to, or having the properties of, a tautochrone. |
| tautologizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Tautologize |
| tautophonical | adjective | Pertaining to, or characterized by, tautophony; repeating the same sound. |
| teachableness | noun | Willingness to be taught. |
| technicalness | noun | The quality or state of being technical; technicality. |
| technological | adjective | Of or pertaining to technology. |
| tectibranchia | noun pl. | Same as Tectibranchiata. |
| telangiectasy | noun | Telangiectasis. |
| telegraphical | adjective | Telegraphic. |
| temperamental | adjective | Of or pertaining to temperament; constitutional. |
| temperateness | noun | The quality or state of being temperate; moderateness; temperance. |
| temporalities | plural | of Temporality |
| temporariness | noun | The quality or state of being temporary; — opposed to perpetuity. |
| temporization | noun | The act of temporizing. |
| temporizingly | adverb | In a temporizing or yielding manner. |
| temporofacial | adjective | Of or pertaining to both the temple and the face. |
| tender-hefted | adjective | Having great tenderness; easily moved. |
| tenebrificous | adjective | Tenebrific. |
| tenosynovitis | noun | Inflammation of the synovial sheath enveloping a tendon. |
| tentaculifera | noun pl. | Same as Suctoria, 1. |
| tentaculiform | adjective | Shaped like a tentacle. |
| tentaculocyst | noun | One of the auditory organs of certain medusae; — called also auditory tentacle. |
| teratological | adjective | Of or pertaining to teratology; as, teratological changes. |
| terephthalate | noun | A salt of terephthalic acid. |
| tergiversator | noun | One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion. |
| terminational | adjective | Of or pertaining to termination; forming a termination. |
| terpsichorean | adjective | Of or pertaining to Terpsichore; of or pertaining to dancing. |
| territorially | adverb | In regard to territory; by means of territory. |
| testicardines | noun pl. | A division of brachiopods including those which have a calcareous shell furnished with a hinge and hinge teeth. Terebratula and Spirifer are examples. |
| testification | noun | The act of testifying, or giving testimony or evidence; as, a direct testification of our homage to God. |
| tetartohedral | adjective | Having one fourth the number of planes which are requisite to complete symmetry. |
| tetes-de-pont | plural | of Tete-de-pont |
| tetradecapoda | noun pl. | Same as Arthrostraca. |
| tetradynamian | noun | A plant of the order Tetradynamia., Alt. of Tetradynamous |
| tetradynamous | adjective | Belonging to the order Tetradynamia; having six stamens, four of which are uniformly longer than the others. |
| tetrahedrally | adverb | In a tetrahedral manner. |
| tetrapetalous | adjective | Containing four distinct petals, or flower leaves; as, a tetrapetalous corolla. |
| tetraphyllous | adjective | Having four leaves; consisting of four distinct leaves or leaflets. |
| tetraschistic | adjective | Characterized by division into four parts. |
| tetrasepalous | adjective | Having four sepals. |
| tetraspermous | adjective | Having four seeds. |
| tetrasyllabic | adjective | Alt. of Tetrasyllabical |
| terrasyllable | noun | A word consisting of four syllables; a quadrisyllable. |
| tetrathionate | noun | A salt of tetrathionic acid. |
| tetter-totter | noun | A certain game of children; seesaw; — called also titter-totter, and titter-cum-totter. |
| thalamifloral | adjective | Alt. of Thalamiflorous |
| thaumatolatry | noun | Worship or undue admiration of wonderful or miraculous things. |
| thaumaturgics | noun | Feats of legerdemain, or magical performances. |
| thaumaturgist | noun | One who deals in wonders, or believes in them; a wonder worker. |
| theanthropism | noun | A state of being God and man., The ascription of human atributes to the Deity, or to a polytheistic deity; anthropomorphism. |
| theanthropist | noun | One who advocates, or believes in, theanthropism. |
| thenceforward | adverb | From that time onward; thenceforth. |
| theorematical | adjective | Of or pertaining to a theorem or theorems; comprised in a theorem; consisting of theorems. |
| theosophizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Theosophize |
| therapeutical | adjective | Of or pertaining to the healing art; concerned in discovering and applying remedies for diseases; curative. |
| thermetograph | noun | A self-registering thermometer, especially one that registers the maximum and minimum during long periods. |
| thermobattery | noun | A thermoelectric battery; a thermopile. |
| thermocautery | noun | Cautery by the application of heat. |
| thermocurrent | noun | A current, as of electricity, developed, or set in motion, by the action of heat. |
| thermodynamic | adjective | Relating to thermodynamics; caused or operated by force due to the application of heat. |
| thermotension | noun | A process of increasing the strength of wrought iron by heating it to a determinate temperature, and giving to it, while in that state, a mechanical strain or tension in the direction in which the strength is afterward to be exerted. |
| thermotropism | noun | The phenomenon of turning towards a source of warmth, seen in the growing parts of some plants. |
| thermovoltaic | adjective | Of or relating to heat and electricity; especially, relating to thermal effects produced by voltaic action. |
| thick-skinned | adjective | Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse. |
| thick-skulled | adjective | Having a thick skull; hence, dull; heavy; stupid; slow to learn. |
| thimblerigged | imp. & past participle | of Thimblerig |
| thimblerigger | noun | One who cheats by thimblerigging, or tricks of legerdemain. |
| thiocarbonate | noun | A sulphocarbonate. |
| thionaphthene | noun | A double benzene and thiophene nucleus, C8H6S, analogous to naphthalene, and like it the base of a large series of derivatives. |
| thiosulphuric | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or designating, an unstable acid, H2S2O3, analogous to sulphuric acid, and formerly called hyposulphurous acid. |
| third-borough | noun | An under constable. |
| thirty-second | adjective | Being one of thirty-two equal parts into which anything is divided. |
| thomsonianism | noun | An empirical system which assumes that the human body is composed of four elements, earth, air, fire, and water, and that vegetable medicines alone should be used; — from the founder, Dr. Samuel Thomson, of Massachusetts. |
| thoracentesis | noun | The operation of puncturing the chest wall so as to let out liquids contained in the cavity of the chest. |
| thoracoplasty | noun | A remodeling or reshaping of the thorax; especially, the operation of removing the ribs, so as to obliterate the pleural cavity in cases of empyema. |
| thoracostraca | adjective | An extensive division of Crustacea, having a dorsal shield or carapec/ //niting all, or nearly all, of the thoracic somites to the head. It includes the crabs, lobsters, shrimps, and similar species. |
| thorough bass | The representation of chords by figures placed under the base; figured bass; basso continuo; — sometimes used as synonymous with harmony. | |
| thoroughgoing | adjective | Going through, or to the end or bottom; very thorough; complete., Going all lengths; extreme; thoroughplaced; — less common in this sense. |
| thoroughpaced | adjective | Perfect in what is undertaken; complete; going all lengths; as, a thoroughplaced Tory or Whig. |
| thousand legs | A millepid, or galleyworm; — called also thousand-legged worm. | |
| thread-shaped | adjective | Having the form of a thread; filiform. |
| three-pointed | adjective | Having three acute or setigerous points; tricuspidate. |
| three-quarter | adjective | Measuring thirty inches by twenty-five; — said of portraitures. |
| thundershower | noun | A shower accompanied with lightning and thunder. |
| thunderstruck | imp. | of Thunderstrike, of Thunderstrike |
| thunderstrike | verb t. | To strike, blast, or injure by, or as by, lightning., To astonish, or strike dumb, as with something terrible; — rarely used except in the past participle. |
| thurification | noun | The act of fuming with incense, or the act of burning incense. |
| thysanopteran | noun | One of the Thysanoptera. |
| tickle-footed | adjective | Uncertain; inconstant; slippery. |
| timothy grass | A kind of grass (Phleum pratense) with long cylindrical spikes; — called also herd’s grass, in England, cat’s-tail grass, and meadow cat’s-tail grass. It is much prized for fodder. See Illustration in Appendix. | |
| tintinnabular | adjective | Alt. of Tintinnabulary |
| titanotherium | noun | A large American Miocene mammal, allied to the rhinoceros, and more nearly to the extinct Brontotherium. |
| titter-totter | verb i. | See Teeter. |
| tittle-tattle | noun | Idle, trifling talk; empty prattle., An idle, trifling talker; a gossip., To talk idly; to prate. |
| tongue-shaped | adjective | Shaped like a tongue; specifically (Bot.), linear or oblong, and fleshy, blunt at the end, and convex beneath; as, a tongue-shaped leaf. |
| topographical | Of or pertaining to topography; descriptive of a place. | |
| toreumatology | noun | The art or the description of scupture such as bas-relief in metal; toreumatography. |
| tous-les-mois | noun | A kind of starch with very large, oval, flattened grains, often sold as arrowroot, and extensively used for adulterating cocoa. It is made from the rootstocks of a species of Canna, probably C. edulis, the tubers of which are edible every month in the year. |
| tout-ensemble | noun | All together; hence, in costume, the fine arts, etc., the general effect of a work as a whole, without regard to the execution of the separate perts. |
| toxicological | adjective | Of or pertaining to toxicology. |
| tracheophonae | noun pl. | A group of passerine birds having the syrinx at the lower end of the trachea. |
| trachycarpous | adjective | Rough-fruited. |
| trachymedusae | noun pl. | A division of acalephs in which the development is direct from the eggs, without a hydroid stage. Some of the species are parasitic on other medusae. |
| trachystomata | noun pl. | An order of tailed aquatic amphibians, including Siren and Pseudobranchus. They have anterior legs only, are eel-like in form, and have no teeth except a small patch on the palate. The external gills are persistent through life. |
| tractarianism | noun | The principles of the Tractarians, or of those persons accepting the teachings of the “Tracts for the Times.” |
| traditionlism | noun | A system of faith founded on tradition; esp., the doctrine that all religious faith is to be based solely upon what is delivered from competent authority, exclusive of rational processes. |
| traditionally | adverb | In a traditional manner. |
| tragi-comical | adjective | Of or pertaining to tragi-comedy; partaking of grave and comic scenes. |
| tranquilizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Tranquillize, Alt. of Tranquillizing |
| tranquillizer | noun | One who, or that which, tranquilizes. |
| transanimated | imp. & past participle | of Transanimate |
| transatlantic | adjective | Lying or being beyond the Atlantic Ocean., Crossing the Atlantic Ocean. |
| transcendence | Alt. of Transcendency | |
| transcendency | The quality or state of being transcendent; superior excellence; supereminence., Elevation above truth; exaggeration. | |
| trancscendent | noun | That which surpasses or is supereminent; that which is very excellent. |
| transcolating | present participle & vb. noun | of Transcolate |
| transcolation | noun | Act of transcolating, or state of being transcolated. |
| transcribbler | noun | A transcriber; — used in contempt. |
| transcription | noun | The act or process of transcribing, or copying; as, corruptions creep into books by repeated transcriptions., A copy; a transcript., An arrangement of a composition for some other instrument or voice than that for which it was originally written, as the translating of a song, a vocal or instrumental quartet, or even an orchestral work, into a piece for the piano; an adaptation; an arrangement; — a name applied by modern composers for the piano to a more or less fanciful and ornate reproduction on their own instrument of a song or other piece not originally intended for it; as, Liszt’s transcriptions of songs by Schubert. |
| transcriptive | adjective | Done as from a copy; having the style or appearance of a transcription. |
| transcurrence | noun | A roving hither and thither. |
| transfeminate | verb t. | To change into a woman, as a man. |
| transferrence | noun | See Transference. |
| transferrible | adjective | Capable of being transferred; transferable. |
| transfigurate | verb t. | To transfigure; to transform. |
| transfiguring | present participle & vb. noun | of Transfigure |
| transformable | adjective | Capable of being transformed or changed. |
| transfugitive | noun | One who flees from one side to another; hence, a deserter; a turncoat; an apostate. |
| transgressing | present participle & vb. noun | of Transgress |
| transgression | noun | The act of transgressing, or of passing over or beyond any law, civil or moral; the violation of a law or known principle of rectitude; breach of command; fault; offense; crime; sin. |
| transgressive | adjective | Disposed or tending to transgress; faulty; culpable. – |
| transhumanize | verb t. | To make more than human; to purity; to elevate above humanity. |
| transitionary | adjective | Transitional. |
| translavation | noun | A laving or lading from one vessel to another. |
| transliterate | verb t. | To express or represent in the characters of another alphabet; as, to transliterate Sanskrit words by means of English letters. |
| translocation | noun | removal of things from one place to another; substitution of one thing for another. |
| translucently | adverb | In a translucent manner. |
| transmeatable | adjective | Capable of being passed over or traversed; passable. |
| transmigrated | imp. & past participle | of Transmigrate |
| transmigrator | noun | One who transmigrates. |
| transmissible | adjective | Capable of being transmitted from one to another; capable of being passed through any body or substance. |
| transmittance | noun | Transmission. |
| transmittible | adjective | Capable of being transmitted; transmissible. |
| transmutation | noun | The act of transmuting, or the state of being transmuted; as, the transmutation of metals., The change or reduction of one figure or body into another of the same area or solidity, but of a different form, as of a triangle into a square., The change of one species into another, which is assumed to take place in any development theory of life; transformism. |
| transnatation | noun | The act of swimming across, as a river. |
| transpalatine | adjective | Situated beyond or outside the palatine bone; — said of a bone in the skull of some reptiles. |
| transpassable | adjective | Capable of being transpassed, or crossed over. |
| transpiercing | present participle & vb. noun | of Transpierce |
| transpiration | noun | The act or process of transpiring or excreting in the form of vapor; exhalation, as through the skin or other membranes of the body; as, pulmonary transpiration, or the excretion of aqueous vapor from the lungs. Perspiration is a form of transpiration., The evaporation of water, or exhalation of aqueous vapor, from cells and masses of tissue., The passing of gases through fine tubes, porous substances, or the like; as, transpiration through membranes. |
| transpiratory | adjective | Of or relating to transpiration. |
| transplanting | present participle & vb. noun | of Transplant |
| transplendent | adjective | Resplendent in the highest degree. |
| transportable | adjective | Capable of being transported., Incurring, or subject to, the punishment of transportation; as, a transportable offense. |
| transportance | noun | Transportation. |
| transportment | noun | The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; transportation. |
| transposition | noun | The act of transposing, or the state of being transposed., The bringing of any term of an equation from one side over to the other without destroying the equation., A change of the natural order of words in a sentence; as, the Latin and Greek languages admit transposition, without inconvenience, to a much greater extent than the English., A change of a composition into another key. |
| transpositive | adjective | Made by transposing; consisting in transposition; transposable. |
| transshipment | noun | The act of transshipping, or transferring, as goods, from one ship or conveyance to another. |
| transvasation | noun | The act or process of pouring out of one vessel into another. |
| transvertible | adjective | Capable of being transverted. |
| transvolation | noun | The act of flying beyond or across. |
| trapezohedral | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a trapezohedron. |
| trapezohedron | noun | A solid bounded by twenty-four equal and similar trapeziums; a tetragonal trisoctahedron. See the Note under Trisoctahedron., A tetartohedral solid of the hexagonal system, bounded by six trapezoidal planes. The faces of this form are common on quartz crystals. |
| treasurership | noun | The office of treasurer. |
| trench-plough | verb t. | To plow with deep furrows, for the purpose of loosening the land to a greater depth than usual. |
| triangularity | noun | The quality or state of being triangular. |
| triangulating | present participle & vb. noun | of Triangulate |
| triangulation | noun | The series or network of triangles into which the face of a country, or any portion of it, is divided in a trigonometrical survey; the operation of measuring the elements necessary to determine the triangles into which the country to be surveyed is supposed to be divided, and thus to fix the positions and distances of the several points connected by them. |
| triarticulate | adjective | Having three joints. |
| tributariness | noun | The quality or state of being tributary. |
| tricennarious | adjective | Of or pertaining to thirty years; tricennial. |
| trichinoscope | noun | An apparatus for the detection of trichinae in the flesh of animals, as of swine. |
| trichiuriform | adjective | Like or pertaining to the genus Trichiurus or family Trichiuridae, comprising the scabbard fishes and hairtails. |
| trichopterous | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or characterizing, the Trichoptera. |
| trichromatism | noun | The quality, state, or phenomenon of being trichromatic. |
| tridecatylene | noun | A hydrocarbon, C13H26, of the ethylene series, corresponding to tridecane, and obtained from Burmah petroleum as a light colorless liquid; — called also tridecylene, and tridecene. |
| trierarchises | plural | of Trierarchy |
| triethylamine | noun | A tertiary amine analogous to trimethylamine. |
| trigonocerous | adjective | Having horns with three angles, like those of some species of goats. |
| trigonometric | Alt. of Trigonometrical | |
| triliteralism | noun | Same as Triliterality. |
| triliterality | noun | Alt. of Triliteralness |
| trionychoidea | noun pl. | A division of chelonians which comprises Trionyx and allied genera; — called also Trionychoides, and Trionychina. |
| tripinnatifid | adjective | Thrice pinnately cleft; — said of a pinnatifid leaf when its segments are pinnatifid, and the subdivisions of these also are pinnatifid. |
| triple-headed | adjective | Having three heads; three-headed; as, the triple-headed dog Cerberus. |
| triplicostate | adjective | Three-ribbed. |
| triploblastic | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or designating, that condition of the ovum in which there are three primary germinal layers, or in which the blastoderm splits into three layers. |
| triquadrantal | adjective | Having three quadrants; thus, a triquadrantal triangle is one whose three sides are quadrants, and whose three angles are consequently right angles. |
| trirhomboidal | adjective | Having three rhombic faces or sides. |
| trisplanchnic | adjective | Of or pertaining to the three great splanchnic cavities, namely, that of the head, the chest, and the abdomen; — applied to the sympathetic nervous system. |
| tristigmatose | adjective | Having, or consisting of, three stigmas. |
| trisyllabical | adjective | Of or pertaining to a trisyllable; consisting of three syllables; as, “syllable” is a trisyllabic word. |
| tritheistical | adjective | Of or pertaining to tritheism. |
| troglodytical | adjective | Of or pertaining to a troglodyte, or dweller in caves. |
| trothplighted | adjective | Having fidelity pledged. |
| trous-de-loup | plural | of Trou-de-loup |
| trout-colored | adjective | White, with spots of black, bay, or sorrel; as, a trout-colored horse. |
| tubulidentate | adjective | Having teeth traversed by canals; — said of certain edentates. |
| turioniferous | adjective | Producing shoots, as asparagus. |
| turtle-footed | adjective | Slow-footed. |
| twelfth-night | noun | The evening of Epiphany, or the twelfth day after Christmas, observed as a festival by various churches. |
| twenty-fourmo | adjective | Having twenty-four leaves to a sheet; as, a twenty-fourmo form, book, leaf, size, etc., A book composed of sheets, each of which is folded into twenty-four leaves; hence, indicating more or less definitely a size of book whose sheets are so folded; — usually written 24mo, or 24ยก. |
| tyburn ticket | A certificate given to one who prosecutes a felon to conviction, exempting him from certain parish and ward offices. | |
| typhomalarial | adjective | Pertaining to typhoid fever and malaria; as, typhomalarial fever, a form of fever having symptoms both of malarial and typhoid fever. |
| typographical | adjective | Of or pertaining to the act or act of representing by types or symbols; emblematic; figurative; typical., Of or pertaining to typography or printing; as, the typographic art. |