| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| teaberry | noun | The checkerberry. |
| teaching | present participle & vb. noun | of Teach, The act or business of instructing; also, that which is taught; instruction. |
| teamster | noun | One who drives a team. |
| teamwork | noun | Work done by a team, as distinguished from that done by personal labor. |
| tearless | adjective | Shedding no tears; free from tears; unfeeling. |
| teaseled | imp. & past participle | of Teasel |
| teaseler | noun | One who uses teasels for raising a nap on cloth. |
| teaspoon | noun | A small spoon used in stirring and sipping tea, coffee, etc., and for other purposes. |
| technics | noun | The doctrine of arts in general; such branches of learning as respect the arts. |
| technism | noun | Technicality. |
| tectonic | adjective | Of or pertaining to building or construction; architectural. |
| teddered | imp. & past participle | of Tedder |
| tee iron | See T iron, under T. | |
| teelseed | noun | The seed of sesame. |
| teemless | adjective | Not fruitful or prolific; barren; as, a teemless earth. |
| teetered | imp. & past participle | of Teeter |
| teething | present participle & vb. noun | of Teeth, The process of the first growth of teeth, or the phenomena attending their issue through the gums; dentition. |
| teetotal | adjective | Entire; total. |
| teetotum | noun | A child’s toy, somewhat resembling a top, and twirled by the fingers. |
| tegmenta | plural | of Tegmentum |
| teguexin | noun | A large South American lizard (Tejus teguexin). It becomes three or four feet long, and is blackish above, marked with yellowish spots of various sizes. It feeds upon fruits, insects, reptiles, young birds, and birds’ eggs. The closely allied species Tejus rufescens is called red teguexin. |
| tegument | noun | A cover or covering; an integument., Especially, the covering of a living body, or of some part or organ of such a body; skin; hide. |
| teinland | noun | Land granted by the crown to a thane or lord. |
| teinture | noun | Color; tinge; tincture. |
| telegram | noun | A message sent by telegraph; a telegraphic dispatch. |
| telestic | adjective | Tending or relating to a purpose or an end. |
| tellable | adjective | Capable of being told. |
| telltale | adjective | Telling tales; babbling., One who officiously communicates information of the private concerns of others; one who tells that which prudence should suppress., A movable piece of ivory, lead, or other material, connected with the bellows of an organ, that gives notice, by its position, when the wind is exhausted., A mechanical attachment to the steering wheel, which, in the absence of a tiller, shows the position of the helm., A compass in the cabin of a vessel, usually placed where the captain can see it at all hours, and thus inform himself of the vessel’s course., A machine or contrivance for indicating or recording something, particularly for keeping a check upon employees, as factory hands, watchmen, drivers, check takers, and the like, by revealing to their employers what they have done or omitted., The tattler. See Tattler. |
| tellural | adjective | Of or pertaining to the earth. |
| telluret | noun | A telluride. |
| telluric | adjective | Of or pertaining to the earth; proceeding from the earth., Of or pertaining to tellurium; derived from, or resembling, tellurium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with tellurous compounds; as, telluric acid, which is analogous to sulphuric acid. |
| teloogoo | noun | See Telugu. |
| telotype | noun | An electric telegraph which prints the messages in letters and not in signs. |
| temerity | noun | Unreasonable contempt of danger; extreme venturesomeness; rashness; as, the temerity of a commander in war. |
| temerous | adjective | Temerarious. |
| tempered | imp. & past participle | of Temper, Brought to a proper temper; as, tempered steel; having (such) a temper; — chiefly used in composition; as, a good-tempered or bad-tempered man; a well-tempered sword. |
| temperer | noun | One who, or that which, tempers; specifically, a machine in which lime, cement, stone, etc., are mixed with water. |
| template | noun | Same as Templet. |
| temporal | adjective | Of or pertaining to the temple or temples; as, the temporal bone; a temporal artery., Of or pertaining to time, that is, to the present life, or this world; secular, as distinguished from sacred or eternal., Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical; as, temporal power; temporal courts., Anything temporal or secular; a temporality; — used chiefly in the plural. |
| temporo- | A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the temple, or temporal bone; as, temporofacial. | |
| tempting | present participle & vb. noun | of Tempt, Adapted to entice or allure; attractive; alluring; seductive; enticing; as, tempting pleasures. |
| temulent | adjective | Intoxicated; drunken. |
| tenacity | noun | The quality or state of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or retentiveness, of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of purpose., That quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force; cohesiveness; the effect of attraction; — as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc., That quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness; viscosity., The greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder, — usually expressed with reference to a unit area of the cross section of the substance, as the number of pounds per square inch, or kilograms per square centimeter, necessary to produce rupture. |
| tenacula | plural | of Tenaculum |
| tenaille | noun | An outwork in the main ditch, in front of the curtain, between two bastions. See Illust. of Ravelin. |
| tenacies | plural | of Tenancy |
| tenanted | imp. & past participle | of Tenant |
| tenantry | noun | The body of tenants; as, the tenantry of a manor or a kingdom., Tenancy. |
| tendance | noun | The act of attending or waiting; attendance., Persons in attendance; attendants. |
| tendence | noun | Tendency. |
| tendency | noun | Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result. |
| tendered | imp. & past participle | of Tender |
| tenderly | adverb | In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly. |
| tendment | noun | Attendance; care. |
| tenebrae | noun | The matins and lauds for the last three days of Holy Week, commemorating the sufferings and death of Christ, — usually sung on the afternoon or evening of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, instead of on the following days. |
| tenement | noun | That which is held of another by service; property which one holds of a lord or proprietor in consideration of some military or pecuniary service; fief; fee., Any species of permanent property that may be held, so as to create a tenancy, as lands, houses, rents, commons, an office, an advowson, a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, and the like; — called also free / frank tenements., A dwelling house; a building for a habitation; also, an apartment, or suite of rooms, in a building, used by one family; often, a house erected to be rented., Fig.: Dwelling; abode; habitation. |
| tenerity | adjective | Tenderness. |
| tenesmic | adjective | Of or pertaining to tenesmus; characterized by tenesmus. |
| tenesmus | noun | An urgent and distressing sensation, as if a discharge from the intestines must take place, although none can be effected; — always referred to the lower extremity of the rectum. |
| tenonian | adjective | Discovered or described by M. Tenon, a French anatomist. |
| tenotome | noun | A slender knife for use in the operation of tenotomy. |
| tenotomy | noun | The division of a tendon, or the act of dividing a tendon. |
| tenpenny | adjective | Valued or sold at ten pence; as, a tenpenny cake. See 2d Penny, n., Denoting a size of nails. See 1st Penny. |
| tensible | adjective | Capable of being extended or drawn out; ductile; tensible. |
| tensiled | adjective | Made tensile. |
| tentacle | noun | A more or less elongated process or organ, simple or branched, proceeding from the head or cephalic region of invertebrate animals, being either an organ of sense, prehension, or motion. |
| tentered | imp. & past participle | of Tenter |
| tentfuls | plural | of Tentful |
| tentifly | adverb | Attentively. |
| tentwort | noun | A kind of small fern, the wall rue. See under Wall. |
| tenuated | imp. & past participle | of Tenuate |
| tenuious | adjective | Rare or subtile; tenuous; — opposed to dense. |
| teocalli | noun | Literally, God’s house; a temple, usually of pyramidal form, such as were built by the aborigines of Mexico, Yucatan, etc. |
| teosinte | noun | A large grass (Euchlaena luxurians) closely related to maize. It is native of Mexico and Central America, but is now cultivated for fodder in the Southern United States and in many warm countries. Called also Guatemala grass. |
| tepefied | imp. & past participle | of Tepefy |
| tephrite | noun | An igneous rock consisting essentially of plagioclase and either leucite or nephelite, or both. |
| tepidity | noun | The quality or state of being tepid; moderate warmth; lukewarmness; tepidness. |
| teraphim | noun pl. | Images connected with the magical rites used by those Israelites who added corrupt practices to the patriarchal religion. Teraphim were consulted by the Israelites for oracular answers. |
| teratoid | adjective | Resembling a monster; abnormal; of a pathological growth, exceedingly complex or highly organized. |
| teratoma | noun | A tumor, sometimes found in newborn children, which is made up of a heterigenous mixture of tissues, as of bone, cartilage and muscle. |
| tercelet | noun | A male hawk or eagle; a tiercelet. |
| terebate | noun | A salt of terebic acid. |
| terebene | noun | A polymeric modification of terpene, obtained as a white crystalline camphorlike substance; — called also camphene. By extension, any one of a group of related substances. |
| terebras | plural | of Terebra |
| terebrae | plural | of Terebra |
| teredine | noun | A borer; the teredo. |
| teretial | adjective | Rounded; as, the teretial tracts in the floor of the fourth ventricle of the brain of some fishes. |
| teretous | adjective | Terete. |
| termites | plural | of Termes, of Termite |
| terminal | noun | Of or pertaining to the end or extremity; forming the extremity; as, a terminal edge., Growing at the end of a branch or stem; terminating; as, a terminal bud, flower, or spike., That which terminates or ends; termination; extremity., Either of the ends of the conducting circuit of an electrical apparatus, as an inductorium, dynamo, or electric motor, usually provided with binding screws for the attachment of wires by which a current may be conveyed into or from the machine; a pole. |
| terminer | noun | A determining; as, in oyer and terminer. See Oyer. |
| terminus | noun | Literally, a boundary; a border; a limit., The Roman divinity who presided over boundaries, whose statue was properly a short pillar terminating in the bust of a man, woman, satyr, or the like, but often merely a post or stone stuck in the ground on a boundary line., Hence, any post or stone marking a boundary; a term. See Term, 8., Either end of a railroad line; also, the station house, or the town or city, at that place. |
| termless | adjective | Having no term or end; unlimited; boundless; unending; as, termless time., Inexpressible; indescribable. |
| terpinol | noun | Any oil substance having a hyacinthine odor, obtained by the action of acids on terpin, and regarded as a related hydrate. |
| terraced | imp. & past participle | of Terrace |
| terrapin | noun | Any one of numerous species of tortoises living in fresh and brackish waters. Many of them are valued for food. |
| terreity | noun | Quality of being earthy; earthiness. |
| terreous | adjective | Consisting of earth; earthy; as, terreous substances; terreous particles. |
| terrible | adjective | Adapted or likely to excite terror, awe, or dread; dreadful; formidable., Excessive; extreme; severe. |
| terrific | adjective | Causing terror; adapted to excite great fear or dread; terrible; as, a terrific form; a terrific sight. |
| tertiary | adjective | Being of the third formation, order, or rank; third; as, a tertiary use of a word., Possessing some quality in the third degree; having been subjected to the substitution of three atoms or radicals; as, a tertiary alcohol, amine, or salt. Cf. Primary, and Secondary., Later than, or subsequent to, the Secondary., Growing on the innermost joint of a bird’s wing; tertial; — said of quills., A member of the Third Order in any monastic system; as, the Franciscan tertiaries; the Dominican tertiaries; the Carmelite tertiaries. See Third Order, under Third., The Tertiary era, period, or formation., One of the quill feathers which are borne upon the basal joint of the wing of a bird. See Illust. of Bird. |
| tertiate | verb t. | To do or perform for the third time., To examine, as the thickness of the metal at the muzzle of a gun; or, in general, to examine the thickness of, as ordnance, in order to ascertain its strength. |
| terutero | noun | The South American lapwing (Vanellus Cayennensis). Its wings are furnished with short spurs. Called also Cayenne lapwing. |
| terzetto | noun | A composition in three voice parts; a vocal (rarely an instrumental) trio. |
| tesselar | adjective | Formed of tesserae, as a mosaic. |
| tesserae | plural | of Tessera |
| tesseral | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or containing, tesserae., Isometric. |
| tessular | adjective | Tesseral. |
| testable | adjective | Capable of being tested or proved., Capable of being devised, or given by will. |
| testacea | noun pl. | Invertebrate animals covered with shells, especially mollusks; shellfish. |
| testamur | noun | A certificate of merit or proficiency; — so called from the Latin words, Ita testamur, with which it commences. |
| testator | noun | A man who makes and leaves a will, or testament, at death. |
| testicle | noun | One of the essential male genital glands which secrete the semen. |
| testiere | noun | A piece of plate armor for the head of a war horse; a tester. |
| tetanize | verb t. | To throw, as a muscle, into a state of permanent contraction; to cause tetanus in. See Tetanus, n., 2. |
| tetanoid | adjective | Resembling tetanus. |
| tethered | imp. & past participle | of Tether |
| tethydan | noun | A tunicate. |
| tetracid | adjective | Capable of neutralizing four molecules of a monobasic acid; having four hydrogen atoms capable of replacement ba acids or acid atoms; — said of certain bases; thus, erythrine, C4H6(OH)4, is a tetracid alcohol. |
| tetradic | adjective | Of or pertaining to a tetrad; possessing or having the characteristics of a tetrad; as, a carbon is a tetradic element. |
| tetradon | noun | See Tetrodon. |
| tetragon | noun | A plane figure having four sides and angles; a quadrangle, as a square, a rhombus, etc., An aspect of two planets with regard to the earth when they are distant from each other ninety degrees, or the fourth of a circle. |
| tetrapla | sing. | A Bible consisting of four different Greek versions arranged in four columns by Origen; hence, any version in four languages or four columns. |
| tetrapod | noun | An insect characterized by having but four perfect legs, as certain of the butterflies. |
| tetrarch | adjective | A Roman governor of the fourth part of a province; hence, any subordinate or dependent prince; also, a petty king or sovereign., Four. |
| tetrazo- | adjective | A combining form (also used adjectively), designating any one of a series of double derivatives of the azo and diazo compounds containing four atoms of nitrogen. |
| tetrical | adjective | Forward; perverse; harsh; sour; rugged. |
| tetrinic | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex ketonic acid, C5H6O3, obtained as a white crystalline substance; — so called because once supposed to contain a peculiar radical of four carbon atoms. Called also acetyl-acrylic acid. |
| tetrodon | noun | Any one of numerous species of plectognath fishes belonging to Tetrodon and allied genera. Each jaw is furnished with two large, thick, beaklike, bony teeth. |
| tetrolic | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C3H3.CO2H, of the acetylene series, homologous with propiolic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance. |
| tettered | imp. & past participle | of Tetter |
| teutones | plural | of Teuton |
| teutonic | adjective | Of or pertaining to the Teutons, esp. the ancient Teutons; Germanic., Of or pertaining to any of the Teutonic languages, or the peoples who speak these languages., The language of the ancient Germans; the Teutonic languages, collectively. |
| textrine | adjective | Of or pertaining to weaving, textorial; as, the textrine art. |
| textuary | adjective | Contained in the text; textual., Serving as a text; authoritative., One who is well versed in the Scriptures; a textman., One who adheres strictly or rigidly to the text. |
| textuist | noun | A textualist; a textman. |
| textural | adjective | Of or pertaining to texture. |
| textured | imp. & past participle | of Texture |