| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| the gapes | A fit of yawning., A disease of young poultry and other birds, attended with much gaping. It is caused by a parasitic nematode worm (Syngamus trachealis), in the windpipe, which obstructs the breathing. See Gapeworm. | |
| thalassic | adjective | Of or pertaining to the sea; — sometimes applied to rocks formed from sediments deposited upon the sea bottom. |
| thaliacea | noun pl. | A division of Tunicata comprising the free-swimming species, such as Salpa and Doliolum. |
| thallious | adjective | See Thallous. |
| thallogen | noun | One of a large class or division of the vegetable kingdom, which includes those flowerless plants, such as fungi, algae, and lichens, that consist of a thallus only, composed of cellular tissue, or of a congeries of cells, or even of separate cells, and never show a distinction into root, stem, and leaf. |
| thanatoid | adjective | Deathlike; resembling death. |
| thanehood | noun | The character or dignity of a thane; also, thanes, collectively. |
| thaneship | noun | The state or dignity of a thane; thanehood; also, the seignioralty of a thane. |
| thankless | adjective | Not acknowledging favors; not expressing thankfulness; unthankful; ungrateful., Not obtaining or deserving thanks; unacceptable; as, a thankless task. |
| thatching | present participle & vb. noun | of Thatch, The act or art of covering buildings with thatch; so as to keep out rain, snow, etc., The materials used for this purpose; thatch. |
| theandric | adjective | Relating to, or existing by, the union of divine and human operation in Christ, or the joint agency of the divine and human nature. |
| thearchic | adjective | Divinely sovereign or supreme. |
| thecodont | adjective | Having the teeth inserted in sockets in the alveoli of the jaws., Of or pertaining to the thecodonts., One of the Thecodontia. |
| theftbote | noun | The receiving of a man’s goods again from a thief, or a compensation for them, by way of composition, with the intent that the thief shall escape punishment. |
| thegnhood | noun | Thanehood. |
| thenadays | adverb | At that time; then; in those days; — correlative to nowadays. |
| theobroma | noun | A genus of small trees. See Cacao. |
| theocracy | noun | Government of a state by the immediate direction or administration of God; hence, the exercise of political authority by priests as representing the Deity., The state thus governed, as the Hebrew commonwealth before it became a kingdom. |
| theocrasy | noun | A mixture of the worship of different gods, as of Jehovah and idols., An intimate union of the soul with God in contemplation, — an ideal of the Neoplatonists and of some Oriental mystics. |
| theogonic | adjective | Of or relating to theogony. |
| theologer | noun | A theologian. |
| theologic | adjective | Theological. |
| theologue | noun | A theologian., A student in a theological seminary. |
| theomachy | noun | A fighting against the gods, as the battle of the gaints with the gods., A battle or strife among the gods., Opposition to God or the divine will. |
| theomancy | noun | A kind of divination drawn from the responses of oracles among heathen nations. |
| theopathy | noun | Capacity for religious affections or worship. |
| theophany | noun | A manifestation of God to man by actual appearance, usually as an incarnation. |
| theorbist | noun | One who plays on a theorbo. |
| theoremic | adjective | Theorematic. |
| theoretic | adjective | Alt. of Theoretical |
| theorical | adjective | Theoretic. |
| theorized | imp. & past participle | of Theorize |
| theorizer | noun | One who theorizes or speculates; a theorist. |
| theosophy | noun | Any system of philosophy or mysticism which proposes to attain intercourse with God and superior spirits, and consequent superhuman knowledge, by physical processes, as by the theurgic operations of some ancient Platonists, or by the chemical processes of the German fire philosophers; also, a direct, as distinguished from a revealed, knowledge of God, supposed to be attained by extraordinary illumination; especially, a direct insight into the processes of the divine mind, and the interior relations of the divine nature. |
| therefore | adverb | For that or this reason, referring to something previously stated; for that., Consequently; by consequence. |
| therefrom | adverb | From this or that. |
| thereinto | adverb | Into that or this, or into that place. |
| thereunto | adverb | Unto that or this; thereto; besides. |
| thereupon | adverb | Upon that or this; thereon., On account, or in consequence, of that; therefore., Immediately; at once; without delay. |
| therewith | adverb | With that or this., In addition; besides; moreover., At the same time; forthwith. |
| theriacal | adjective | Of or pertaining to theriac; medicinal. |
| thermally | adverb | In a thermal manner. |
| thermidor | noun | The eleventh month of the French republican calendar, — commencing July 19, and ending August 17. See the Note under Vendemiaire. |
| thermogen | noun | Caloric; heat; regarded as a material but imponderable substance. |
| thermotic | adjective | Alt. of Thermotical |
| theropoda | noun pl. | An order of carnivorous dinosaurs in which the feet are less birdlike, and hence more like those of an ordinary quadruped, than in the Ornithopoda. It includes the rapacious genera Megalosaurus, Creosaurus, and their allies. |
| thesaurus | noun | A treasury or storehouse; hence, a repository, especially of knowledge; — often applied to a comprehensive work, like a dictionary or cyclopedia. |
| theurgist | noun | One who pretends to, or is addicted to, theurgy. |
| thialdine | noun | A weak nitrogenous sulphur base, C6H13NS2. |
| thibetian | adjective & noun | Same as Thibetan. |
| thickbill | noun | The bullfinch. |
| thickened | imp. & past participle | of Thicken |
| thickhead | noun | A thick-headed or stupid person., Any one of several species of Australian singing birds of the genus Pachycephala. The males of some of the species are bright-colored. Some of the species are popularly called thrushes. |
| thickness | noun | The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective). |
| thickskin | noun | A coarse, gross person; a person void of sensibility or sinsitiveness; a dullard. |
| thinkable | adjective | Capable of being thought or conceived; cogitable. |
| thinolite | noun | A calcareous tufa, in part crystalline, occurring on a large scale as a shore deposit about the Quaternary lake basins of Nevada. |
| thiophene | noun | A sulphur hydrocarbon, C4H4S, analogous to furfuran and benzene, and acting as the base of a large number of substances which closely resemble the corresponding aromatic derivatives. |
| thirdings | noun pl. | The third part of the corn or grain growing on the ground at the tenant’s death, due to the lord for a heriot, as within the manor of Turfat in Herefordshire. |
| thirsting | present participle & vb. noun | of Thirst |
| thirstily | adverb | In a thirsty manner. |
| thirtieth | adjective | Next in order after the twenty-ninth; the tenth after the twentieth; — the ordinal of thirty; as, the thirtieth day of the month., Constituting or being one of thirty equal parts into which anything is divided., The quotient of a unit divided by thirty; one of thirty equal parts. |
| thitherto | adverb | To that point; so far. |
| thoracica | noun pl. | A division of cirripeds including those which have six thoracic segments, usually bearing six pairs of cirri. The common barnacles are examples. |
| thornback | noun | A European skate (Raia clavata) having thornlike spines on its back., The large European spider crab or king crab (Maia squinado). |
| thornbill | noun | Any one of several species of small, brilliantly colored American birds of the genus Rhamphomicron. They have a long, slender, sharp bill, and feed upon honey, insects, and the juice of the sugar cane. |
| thornbird | noun | A small South American bird (Anumbius anumbii) allied to the ovenbirds of the genus Furnarius). It builds a very large and complex nest of twigs and thorns in a bush or tree. |
| thornless | adjective | Destitute of, or free from, thorns. |
| thorntail | noun | A beautiful South American humming bird (Gouldia Popelairii), having the six outer tail feathers long, slender, and pointed. The head is ornamented with a long, pointed crest. |
| thralldom | noun | Thraldom. |
| thrashing | present participle & vb. noun | of Thresh, a. & n. from Thrash, v. |
| threading | present participle & vb. noun | of Thread |
| threadfin | noun | Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Polynemus and allied genera. They have numerous long pectoral filaments. |
| threaping | present participle & vb. noun | of Threap |
| threatful | adjective | Full of threats; having a menacing appearance. |
| threefold | adjective | Consisting of three, or thrice repeated; triple; as, threefold justice. |
| three-ply | adjective | Consisting of three distinct webs inwrought together in weaving, as cloth or carpeting; having three strands; threefold. |
| three-way | adjective | Connected with, or serving to connect, three channels or pipes; as, a three-way cock or valve. |
| threnetic | adjective | Alt. of Threnetical |
| threshing | present participle & vb. noun | of Thresh |
| threshold | noun | The plank, stone, or piece of timber, which lies under a door, especially of a dwelling house, church, temple, or the like; the doorsill; hence, entrance; gate; door., Fig.: The place or point of entering or beginning, entrance; outset; as, the threshold of life. |
| thretteen | adjective | Thirteen. |
| thridding | present participle & vb. noun | of Thrid |
| thriftily | adverb | In a thrifty manner., Carefully; properly; becomingly. |
| thrilling | present participle & vb. noun | of Thrill, Causing a thrill; causing tremulous excitement; deeply moving; as, a thrilling romance. |
| thrillant | adjective | Piercing; sharp; thrilling. |
| thrittene | adjective | Thirteen. |
| throating | noun | A drip, or drip molding. |
| throbbing | present participle & vb. noun | of Throb |
| thronging | present participle & vb. noun | of Throng |
| throttled | imp. & past participle | of Throttle |
| throttler | noun | One who, or that which, throttles, or chokes., See Flasher, 3 (b). |
| throughly | adverb | Thoroughly. |
| throw-off | noun | A start in a hunt or a race. |
| throwster | noun | One who throws or twists silk; a thrower. |
| thrumming | present participle & vb. noun | of Thrum |
| thrumwort | noun | A kind of amaranth (Amarantus caudatus). |
| thrusting | present participle & vb. noun | of Thrust, The act of pushing with force., The act of squeezing curd with the hand, to expel the whey., The white whey, or that which is last pressed out of the curd by the hand, and of which butter is sometimes made. |
| thumbbird | noun | The goldcrest. |
| thumbless | adjective | Without a thumb. |
| thundered | imp. & past participle | of Thunder |
| thunderer | noun | One who thunders; — used especially as a translation of L. tonans, an epithet applied by the Romans to several of their gods, esp. to Jupiter. |
| thundrous | adjective | Thunderous; sonorous. |
| thwacking | present participle & vb. noun | of Thwack |
| thwarting | present participle & vb. noun | of Thwart |
| thylacine | noun | The zebra wolf. See under Wolf. |
| thyrohyal | noun | One of the lower segments in the hyoid arch, often consolidated with the body of the hyoid bone and forming one of its great horns, as in man. |
| thyrotomy | noun | The operation of cutting into the thyroid cartilage. |
| thysanura | noun pl. | An order of wingless hexapod insects which have setiform caudal appendages, either bent beneath the body to form a spring, or projecting as bristles. It comprises the Cinura, or bristletails, and the Collembola, or springtails. Called also Thysanoura. See Lepisma, and Podura. |