Words |
Parts of Speech |
Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
truancy |
noun |
The act of playing truant, or the state of being truant; as, addicted to truancy. |
trucked |
imp. & past participle |
of Truck |
trucker |
noun |
One who trucks; a trafficker. |
truckle |
noun |
A small wheel or caster., To yield or bend obsequiously to the will of another; to submit; to creep., To roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle. |
trudged |
imp. & past participle |
of Trudge |
truffle |
noun |
Any one of several kinds of roundish, subterranean fungi, usually of a blackish color. The French truffle (Tuber melanosporum) and the English truffle (T. aestivum) are much esteemed as articles of food. |
trumped |
imp. & past participle |
of Trump |
trumpet |
noun |
A wind instrument of great antiquity, much used in war and military exercises, and of great value in the orchestra. In consists of a long metallic tube, curved (once or twice) into a convenient shape, and ending in a bell. Its scale in the lower octaves is limited to the first natural harmonics; but there are modern trumpets capable, by means of valves or pistons, of producing every tone within their compass, although at the expense of the true ringing quality of tone., A trumpeter., One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it., A funnel, or short, fiaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine., To publish by, or as by, sound of trumpet; to noise abroad; to proclaim; as, to trumpet good tidings., To sound loudly, or with a tone like a trumpet; to utter a trumplike cry. |
trumpie |
noun |
The Richardson’s skua (Stercorarius parasiticus). |
truncal |
adjective |
Of or pertaining to the trunk, or body. |
truncus |
noun |
The thorax of an insect. See Trunk, n., 5. |
trundle |
verb i. |
A round body; a little wheel., A lind of low-wheeled cart; a truck., A motion as of something moving upon little wheels or rollers; a rolling motion., A lantern wheel. See under Lantern., One of the bars of a lantern wheel., To roll (a thing) on little wheels; as, to trundle a bed or a gun carriage., To cause to roll or revolve; to roll along; as, to trundle a hoop or a ball., To go or move on small wheels; as, a bed trundles under another., To roll, or go by revolving, as a hoop. |
trunked |
adjective |
Having (such) a trunk. |
trunnel |
noun |
A trundle., See Treenail. |
trusion |
noun |
The act of pushing or thrusting. |
trussed |
imp. & past participle |
of Truss |
trusted |
imp. & past participle |
of Trust |
trustee |
noun |
A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals, or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another; also, a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached in a trustee process., To commit (property) to the care of a trustee; as, to trustee an estate., To attach (a debtor’s wages, credits, or property in the hands of a third person) in the interest of the creditor. |
truster |
noun |
One who trusts, or credits., One who makes a trust; — the correlative of trustee. |