| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| tobine | noun | A stout twilled silk used for dresses. |
| tocher | noun | Dowry brought by a bride to her husband. |
| tockay | noun | A spotted lizard native of India. |
| tocsin | noun | An alarm bell, or the ringing of a bell for the purpose of alarm. |
| to-day | preposition | On this day; on the present day., The present day. |
| toddle | verb i. | To walk with short, tottering steps, as a child., A toddling walk. |
| toeing | present participle & vb. noun | of Toe |
| toffee | noun | Alt. of Toffy |
| tofore | preposition | Alt. of Toforn |
| toforn | preposition | Before. |
| toggle | noun | A wooden pin tapering toward both ends with a groove around its middle, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope to be secured to any other loop or bight or ring; a kind of button or frog capable of being readily engaged and disengaged for temporary purposes., Two rods or plates connected by a toggle joint. |
| toiled | imp. & past participle | of Toil |
| toiler | noun | One who toils, or labors painfully. |
| toilet | noun | A covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread over a table in a chamber or a dressing room., A dressing table., Act or mode of dressing, or that which is arranged in dressing; attire; dress; as, her toilet is perfect. |
| tolane | noun | A hydrocarbon, C14H10, related both to the acetylene and the aromatic series, and produced artificially as a white crystalline substance; — called also diphenyl acetylene. |
| toling | present participle & vb. noun | of Tole |
| toledo | noun | A sword or sword blade made at Toledo in Spain, which city was famous in the 16th and 17th centuries for the excellence of its weapons. |
| tolled | imp. & past participle | of Toll |
| toller | noun | A toll gatherer., One who tolls a bell. |
| tolmen | noun | See Dolmen. |
| tolsey | noun | A tollbooth; also, a merchants’ meeting place, or exchange. |
| toltec | noun | One of a race which formerly occupied Mexico. |
| toluic | adjective | Pertaining to, or designating, one of three metameric acids, CH3.C6H4.CO2H, which are related to toluene and analogous to benzoic acids. They are white crystalline substances, and are called respectively orthotoluic acid, metatoluic acid, and paratoluic acid. |
| toluid | noun | A complex double tolyl and toluidine derivative of glycocoll, obtained as a white crystalline substance. |
| toluol | noun | Alt. of Toluole |
| toluyl | noun | Any one of the three hypothetical radicals corresponding to the three toluic acids. |
| tomato | noun | The fruit of a plant of the Nightshade family (Lycopersicum esculentun); also, the plant itself. The fruit, which is called also love apple, is usually of a rounded, flattened form, but often irregular in shape. It is of a bright red or yellow color, and is eaten either cooked or uncooked. |
| tombed | imp. & past participle | of Tomb |
| tombac | noun | An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling brass, and containing about 84 per cent of copper; — called also German, / Dutch, brass. It is very malleable and ductile, and when beaten into thin leaves is sometimes called Dutch metal. The addition of arsenic makes white tombac. |
| tomboy | noun | A romping girl; a hoiden. |
| tomcat | noun | A male cat, especially when full grown or of large size. |
| tomcod | noun | A small edible American fish (Microgadus tomcod) of the Codfish family, very abundant in autumn on the Atlantic coast of the Northen United States; — called also frostfish. See Illust. under Frostfish., The kingfish. See Kingfish (a)., The jack. See 2d Jack, 8. (c). |
| tomium | noun | The cutting edge of the bill of a bird. |
| tomorn | adverb | To-morrow. |
| tompon | noun | An inking pad used in lithographic printing. |
| tomrig | noun | A rude, wild, wanton girl; a hoiden; a tomboy. |
| tomtit | noun | A titmouse, esp. the blue titmouse., The wren. |
| toning | present participle & vb. noun | of Tone |
| tongue | noun | an organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch., The power of articulate utterance; speech., Discourse; fluency of speech or expression., Honorable discourse; eulogy., A language; the whole sum of words used by a particular nation; as, the English tongue., Speech; words or declarations only; — opposed to thoughts or actions., A people having a distinct language., The lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk., The proboscis of a moth or a butterfly., The lingua of an insect., Any small sole., That which is considered as resembing an animal’s tongue, in position or form., A projection, or slender appendage or fixture; as, the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance., A projection on the side, as of a board, which fits into a groove., A point, or long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or a lake., The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked., The clapper of a bell., A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also. the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces., Same as Reed, n., 5., To speak; to utter., To chide; to scold., To modulate or modify with the tongue, as notes, in playing the flute and some other wind instruments., To join means of a tongue and grove; as, to tongue boards together., To talk; to prate., To use the tongue in forming the notes, as in playing the flute and some other wind instruments. |
| tonguy | adjective | Ready or voluble in speaking; as, a tonguy speaker. |
| tonite | noun | An explosive compound; a preparation of gun cotton. |
| tonous | adjective | Abounding in tone or sound. |
| tonsil | noun | One of the two glandular organs situated in the throat at the sides of the fauces. The tonsils are sometimes called the almonds, from their shape. |
| tonsor | noun | A barber. |
| tonies | plural | of Tony |
| tooled | imp. & past participle | of Tool |
| tooted | imp. & past participle | of Toot |
| tooter | noun | One who toots; one who plays upon a pipe or horn. |
| toothy | adjective | Toothed; with teeth. |
| toozoo | noun | The ringdove. |
| topped | imp. & past participle | of Top |
| toping | present participle & vb. noun | of Tope |
| topful | adjective | Full to the top, ore brim; brimfull. |
| tophet | noun | A place lying east or southeast of Jerusalem, in the valley of Hinnom. |
| tophin | noun | Same as Toph. |
| tophus | noun | One of the mineral concretions about the joints, and in other situations, occurring chiefly in gouty persons. They consist usually of urate of sodium; when occurring in the internal organs they are also composed of phosphate of calcium., Calcareous tufa. |
| topmem | plural | of Topman |
| topman | noun | See Topsman, 2., A man stationed in the top. |
| topple | verb i. | To fall forward; to pitch or tumble down., To throw down; to overturn. |
| toquet | noun | See Toque, 1. |
| torace | verb t. | Alt. of Torase |
| torase | verb t. | To scratch to pieces. |
| torose | adjective | Cylindrical with alternate swellings and contractions; having the surface covered with rounded prominences. |
| torous | adjective | Torose. |
| torpid | adjective | Having lost motion, or the power of exertion and feeling; numb; benumbed; as, a torpid limb., Dull; stupid; sluggish; inactive. |
| torpor | noun | Loss of motion, or of the motion; a state of inactivity with partial or total insensibility; numbness., Dullness; sluggishness; inactivity; as, a torpor of the mental faculties. |
| torque | noun | A collar or neck chain, usually twisted, especially as worn by ancient barbaric nations, as the Gauls, Germans, and Britons., That which tends to produce torsion; a couple of forces., A turning or twisting; tendency to turn, or cause to turn, about an axis. |
| torrid | adjective | Parched; dried with heat; as, a torrid plain or desert., Violenty hot; drying or scorching with heat; burning; parching. |
| torril | noun | A worthless woman; also, a worthless horse. |
| torsal | noun | A torsel. |
| torsel | noun | A plate of timber for the end of a beam or joist to rest on. |
| torsos | plural | of Torso |
| torula | noun | A chain of special bacteria. (b) A genus of budding fungi. Same as Saccharomyces. Also used adjectively. |
| torved | adjective | Stern; grim. See Torvous. |
| tories | plural | of Tory |
| tossed | imp. & past participle | of Toss |
| tossel | noun | See Tassel. |
| tosser | noun | Ohe who tosser. |
| toting | present participle & vb. noun | of Tote |
| totear | verb t. | To tear or rend in pieces. |
| totter | verb i. | To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age., To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver. |
| toucan | noun | Any one of numerous species of fruit-eating birds of tropical America belonging to Ramphastos, Pteroglossus, and allied genera of the family Ramphastidae. They have a very large, but light and thin, beak, often nearly as long as the body itself. Most of the species are brilliantly colored with red, yellow, white, and black in striking contrast., A modern constellation of the southern hemisphere. |
| touchy | adjective | Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire. |
| touite | noun | The wood warbler. |
| toupee | noun | Alt. of Toupet |
| toupet | noun | A little tuft; a curl or artificial lock of hair., A small wig, or a toppiece of a wig. |
| toured | imp. & past participle | of Tour |
| toused | imp. & past participle | of Touze |
| tousel | verb t. | Same as Tousle. |
| touser | noun | One who touses. |
| tousle | verb t. | To put into disorder; to tumble; to touse. |
| touter | noun | One who seeks customers, as for an inn, a public conveyance, shops, and the like: hence, an obtrusive candidate for office. |
| towing | present participle & vb. noun | of Tow |
| towage | verb | The act of towing., The price paid for towing. |
| towall | noun | A towel. |
| toward | preposition | Alt. of Towards, Alt. of Towards, Approaching; coming near., Readly to do or learn; compliant with duty; not froward; apt; docile; tractable; as, a toward youth., Ready to act; forward; bold; valiant. |
| towery | adjective | Having towers; adorned or defended by towers. |
| towhee | noun | The chewink. |
| towned | adjective | Having towns; containing many towns. |
| towser | noun | A familiar name for a dog. |
| toxine | noun | A poisonous product formed by pathogenic bacteria, as a toxic proteid or poisonous ptomaine. |
| toying | present participle & vb. noun | of Toy |
| toyear | adverb | This year. |
| toyful | adjective | Full of trifling play. |
| toyish | adjective | Sportive; trifling; wanton., Resembling a toy. |
| toyman | noun | One who deals in toys. |