Words |
Parts of Speech |
Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
tolerabolity |
noun |
The quality or state of being tolerable. |
tongue-shell |
noun |
Any species of Lingula. |
tonquin bean |
|
See Tonka bean. |
top-draining |
noun |
The act or practice of drining the surface of land. |
top-dressing |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Top-dress, The act of applying a dressing of manure to the surface of land; also, manure so applied. |
topographist |
noun |
A topographer. |
torchon lace |
|
a simple thread lace worked upon a pillow with coarse thread; also, a similar lace made by machinery. |
torrefaction |
noun |
The act or process of torrefying, or the state of being torrefied. |
torricellian |
adjective |
Of or pertaining to Torricelli, an Italian philosopher and mathematician, who, in 1643, discovered that the rise of a liquid in a tube, as in the barometer, is due to atmospheric pressure. See Barometer. |
totipresence |
noun |
Omnipresence. |
touch-me-not |
noun |
See Impatiens., Squirting cucumber. See under Cucumber. |
touch-needle |
noun |
A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, for trying the purity of articles of gold or silver by comparison of the streaks made by the article and the bar on a touchstone. |
towardliness |
noun |
The quality or state of being towardly; docility; tractableness. |
toxicologist |
noun |
One versed in toxicology; the writer of a treatise on poisons. |