Select a letter for some words
Tabacco
Tobacco.
Tabby
To water; to cause to look wavy, by the process of calendering; to calender;
Tachygrapher
One who writes shorthand; a stenographer; esp., an ancient Greek or Roman notary.
Tactual
Of or pertaining to the sense, or the organs, of touch; derived from touch.
Take
To take hold; to fix upon anything; to have the natural or intended effect; to accomplish a purpose; .
Tameness
The quality or state of being tame.
Tangent wheel
A worm or worm wheel; a tangent screw.
Tankia
See .
Tapish
To lie close to the ground, so as to be concealed; to squat; to crouch; hence, to hide one's self.
Tattoo
A beat of drum, or sound of a trumpet or bugle, at night, giving notice to soldiers to retreat, or to repair to their quarters in garrison, or to their tents in camp.
Taw
Tow.
Teacup
A small cup from which to drink tea.
Tel-el-Amarna
A station on the Nile in Egypt, midway between Thebes and Memphis, forming the site of the ancient city of Akhetaton, capital of (, or , of the 18th dynasty, king 1353-1336 B. C.), whose archive chamber was discovered there during extensive excavations in 1887-1888. A collection of about 300 clay tablets (called the ) was found here, forming the diplomatic correspondence () of and his father, , with the kings of Asiatic countries (such as Babylonia, Assyria, and Palestine), written in cuneiform characters. It is an important source of our knowledge of Asia from about 1400 to 1370 . The name of the site is also spelled , , and .
Teleostei
A subclass of fishes including all the ordinary bony fishes as distinguished from the ganoids.
Telford
Designating, or pert. to, a road pavement having a surface of small stone rolled hard and smooth, distinguished from macadam road by its firm foundation of large stones with fragments of stone wedged tightly, in the interstices;
Tellurian
Of or pertaining to the earth.
Temptation
The act of tempting, or enticing to evil; seduction.
Tender
Regard; care; kind concern.
Tenn
A tincture, rarely employed, which is considered as an orange color or bright brown. It is represented by diagonal lines from sinister to dexter, crossed by vertical lines.
Terce
See .
Terminological
Of or pertaining to terminology.
Test
To make a testament, or will.
Testamentize
To make a will.
Tetrakishexahedron
A tetrahexahedron.
Thearchic
Divinely sovereign or supreme.
Thematic
Of or pertaining to the theme of a word. See , , 4.
Thencefrom
From that place.
Thionaphthene
A double benzene and thiophene nucleus, , analogous to naphthalene, and like it the base of a large series of derivatives.
Thirteenth
Next in order after the twelfth; the third after the tenth; -- the ordinal of ; .
Throaty
Guttural; hoarse; having a guttural voice.
Throng
To crowd, or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings.
Throstling
A disease of bovine cattle, consisting of a swelling under the throat, which, unless checked, causes strangulation.
Through
From end to end of, or from side to side of; from one surface or limit of, to the opposite; into and out of at the opposite, or at another, point; .
Thrust
A violent push or driving, as with a pointed weapon moved in the direction of its length, or with the hand or foot, or with any instrument; a stab; -- a word much used as a term of fencing.
Ticketing
A periodical sale of ore in the English mining districts; -- so called from the tickets upon which are written the bids of the buyers.
Tiddledywinks
A game in which the object is to snap small disks of plastic, bone, ivory, or the like, from a flat surface, as of a table, into a small cup or basket; -- called also .
Tidy
Being in proper time; timely; seasonable; favorable; .
Tilbury
A kind of gig or two-wheeled carriage, without a top or cover.
Till
To; unto; up to; as far as; until; -- now used only in respect to time, but formerly, also, of place, degree, etc., and still so used in Scotland and in parts of England and Ireland;
Tokin
A tocsin.
Toll
A tax paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, or the like.
Toot
To stand out, or be prominent.
Torsion meter
An instrument for determining the torque on a shaft, and hence the horse power of an engine, esp. of a marine engine of high power, by measuring the amount of twist of a given length of the shaft. Called also , , .
Tosser
One who tosses.
Touch-me-not
See .
Touchy
Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire.
Towering
Very high; elevated; rising aloft; .
Trachenchyma
A vegetable tissue consisting of trache.
Tradespeople
People engaged in trade; shopkeepers.
Transcendently
In a transcendent manner.
Trash
To follow with violence and trampling.
Traulism
A stammering or stuttering.
Tret
of , for .
Triassic
Of the age of, or pertaining to, the .
Trickle
The act or state of trickling; also, that which trickles; a small stream; drip.
Trident
A kind of scepter or spear with three prongs, -- the common attribute of Neptune.
Trilobed
Same as .
Trimness
The quality or state of being trim; orderliness; compactness; snugness; neatness.
Trinal
Threefold.
Trioctile
An aspect of two planets with regard to the earth when they are three octants, or three eighths of a circle, that is, 135 degrees, distant from each other.
Tripetalous
Having three petals, or flower leaves; three-petaled.
Triplite
A mineral of a dark brown color, generally with a fibrous, massive structure. It is a fluophosphate of iron and manganese.
Triternate
Three times ternate; -- applied to a leaf whose petiole separates into three branches, each of which divides into three parts which each bear three leafiets.
Trod
of .
Troilus butterfly
A large American butterfly (). It is black, with yellow marginal spots on the front wings, and blue on the rear; -- also called .
Trustee stock
High-grade stock in which trust funds may be legally invested.
Trutination
The act of weighing.
Tube-nosed
Having the nostrils prolonged in the form of horny tubes along the sides of the beak; -- said of certain sea birds.
Tuff
Same as .
Tuffoon
See .
Tufthunting
The practice of seeking after, and hanging on, noblemen, or persons of quality, especially in English universities.
Turgescent
Becoming turgid or inflated; swelling; growing big.
Tusk-shell
See 2d , , 2.
Tweed
A soft and flexible fabric for men's wear, made wholly of wool except in some inferior kinds, the wool being dyed, usually in two colors, before weaving.
Twelvepence
A shilling sterling, being about twenty-four cents.
Twofold
Double; duplicate; multiplied by two; .