| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| turacin | noun | A red or crimson pigment obtained from certain feathers of several species of turacou; whence the name. It contains nearly six per cent of copper. |
| turacou | noun | Any one of several species of plantain eaters of the genus Turacus, native of Africa. They are remarkable for the peculiar green and red pigments found in their feathers. |
| turband | noun | A turban. |
| turbant | noun | A turban. |
| turbary | noun | A right of digging turf on another man’s land; also, the ground where turf is dug. |
| turbeth | noun | See Turpeth. |
| turbine | noun | A water wheel, commonly horizontal, variously constructed, but usually having a series of curved floats or buckets, against which the water acts by its impulse or reaction in flowing either outward from a central chamber, inward from an external casing, or from above downward, etc.; — also called turbine wheel. |
| turbite | noun | A fossil turbo. |
| turbith | noun | See Turpeth. |
| turcism | noun | A mode of speech peculiar to the Turks; a Turkish idiom or expression; also, in general, a Turkish mode or custom. |
| turfing | present participle & vb. noun | of Turf, The act or process of providing or covering with turf. |
| turfite | noun | A votary of the turf, or race course; hence, sometimes, a blackleg. |
| turfmen | plural | of Turfman |
| turfman | noun | A turfite; a votary of the turf, or race course. |
| turgent | adjective | Rising into a tumor, or a puffy state; swelling; tumid; as, turgent humors., Inflated; bombastic; turgid; pompous. |
| turiole | noun | The golden oriole. |
| turkeis | adjective | Turkish. |
| turkeys | plural | of Turkey, Turkish. |
| turkish | adjective | Of or pertaining to Turkey or the Turks., The language spoken by Turks, esp. that of the people of Turkey. |
| turkism | noun | Same as Turcism. |
| turkois | noun & adjective | Turquoise. |
| turmoil | noun | Harassing labor; trouble; molestation by tumult; disturbance; worrying confusion., To harass with commotion; to disquiet; to worry., To be disquieted or confused; to be in commotion. |
| turning | present participle & vb. noun | of Turn, The act of one who, or that which, turns; also, a winding; a bending course; a fiexure; a meander., The place of a turn; an angle or corner, as of a road., Deviation from the way or proper course., Turnery, or the shaping of solid substances into various by means of a lathe and cutting tools., The pieces, or chips, detached in the process of turning from the material turned., A maneuver by which an enemy or a position is turned. |
| turnery | noun | The art of fashioning solid bodies into cylindrical or other forms by means of a lathe., Things or forms made by a turner, or in the lathe. |
| turnkey | noun | A person who has charge of the keys of a prison, for opening and fastening the doors; a warder., An instrument with a hinged claw, — used for extracting teeth with a twist. |
| turpeth | noun | The root of Ipom/a Turpethum, a plant of Ceylon, Malabar, and Australia, formerly used in medicine as a purgative; — sometimes called vegetable turpeth., A heavy yellow powder, Hg3O2SO4, which consists of a basic mercuric sulphate; — called also turpeth mineral. |
| turtler | noun | One who catches turtles or tortoises. |