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Tat
  • (n.) A pony.

    Tatter
  • (n.) A rag, or a part torn and hanging
  • (v. t.) To rend or tear into rags

    Tatting
  • (n.) A kind of lace made from common sewing thread, with a peculiar stitch.

    Tattle
  • (n.) Idle talk or chat
  • (v. i.) To prate

    Tattoo
  • (n.) 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
  • (v. t.) To color, as the flesh, by pricking in coloring matter, so as to form marks or figures which can not be washed out

    Tatty
  • (n.) A mat or screen of fibers, as of the kuskus grass, hung at a door or window and kept wet to moisten and cool the air as it enters

    Tau
  • (n.) The common American toadfish

    Taught
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Teach

    Taunt
  • (a.) Very high or tall
  • (n.) Upbraiding language
  • (v. t.) To reproach with severe or insulting words

    Taurine
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the genus Taurus, or cattle.
  • (n.) A body occurring in small quantity in the juices of muscle, in the lungs, and elsewhere, but especially in the bile, where it is found as a component part of taurocholic acid, from which it can be prepared by decomposition of the acid

    Taurus
  • (n.) A genus of ruminants comprising the common domestic cattle.

    Taut
  • (a.) Snug

    Tavern
  • (n.) A public house where travelers and other transient guests are accomodated with rooms and meals

    Taw
  • (n.) A large marble to be played with
  • (v. t.) To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, and the like, by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them

    Tawdry
  • (n.) A necklace of a rural fashion, bought at St. Audrey's fair
  • (superl.) Bought at the festival of St. Audrey.

    Tawny
  • (n.) Of a dull yellowish brown color, like things tanned, or persons who are sunburnt

    Tax
  • (n.) A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed by authority.

    Taxable
  • (a.) Capable of being taxed

    Taxation
  • (n.) Charge

    Taxidermy
  • (v. t.) The art of preparing, preserving, and mounting the skins of animals so as to represent their natural appearance, as for cabinets

    Taxis
  • (n.) In technical uses, as in architecture, biology, grammar, etc., arrangement

    Taxonomy
  • (n.) That division of the natural sciences which treats of the classification of animals and plants

    Taxpayer
  • (n.) One who is assessed and pays a tax.

    Tayra
  • (n.) A South American carnivore (Galera barbara) allied to the grison. The tail is long and thick

    Tazza
  • (n.) An ornamental cup or vase with a large, flat, shallow bowl, resting on a pedestal and often having handles

    Tea
  • (n.) A decoction or infusion of tea leaves in boiling water
  • (v. i.) To take or drink tea.

    Teaberry
  • (n.) The checkerberry.

    Teach
  • (v. i.) To give instruction
  • (v. t.) To accustom

    Teacup
  • (n.) A small cup from which to drink tea.

    Teak
  • (n.) A tree of East Indies (Tectona grandis) which furnishes an extremely strong and durable timber highly valued for shipbuilding and other purposes

    Teal
  • (n.) Any one of several species of small fresh-water ducks of the genus Anas and the subgenera Querquedula and Nettion

    Team
  • (n.) A flock of wild ducks.
  • (v. i.) To engage in the occupation of driving a team of horses, cattle, or the like, as in conveying or hauling lumber, goods, etc
  • (v. t.) To convey or haul with a team

    Teapot
  • (n.) A vessel with a spout, in which tea is made, and from which it is poured into teacups.

    Teapoy
  • (n.) An ornamental stand, usually with three legs, having caddies for holding tea.

    Tearful
  • (a.) Abounding with tears

    Teary
  • (a.) Consisting of tears, or drops like tears.

    Tease
  • (n.) One who teases or plagues.
  • (v. t.) To comb or card, as wool or flax.

    Teaspoon
  • (n.) A small spoon used in stirring and sipping tea, coffee, etc., and for other purposes.

    Teat
  • (n.) A small protuberance or nozzle resembling the teat of an animal.

    Technic
  • (a.) Technical.

    Technology
  • (n.) Industrial science

    Techy
  • (a.) Peevish

    Tectonic
  • (a.) Of, pert. to, or designating, the rock structures and external forms resulting from the deformation of the earth's crust

    Ted
  • (v. t.) To spread, or turn from the swath, and scatter for drying, as new-mowed grass

    Tedder
  • (n.) A machine for stirring and spreading hay, to expedite its drying.

    Tedious
  • (a.) Involving tedium

    Tedium
  • (n.) Irksomeness

    Tee
  • (n.) A short piece of pipe having a lateral outlet, used to connect a line of pipe with a pipe at a right angle with the line
  • (v. t.) To place (the ball) on a tee.

    Teem
  • (a.) To think fit.
  • (v. i.) To be full, or ready to bring forth
  • (v. t.) To pour, as steel, from a melting pot

    Teen
  • (n.) Grief
  • (v. t.) To hedge or fence in

    Teeter
  • (v. i. & t.) To move up and down on the ends of a balanced plank, or the like, as children do for sport

    Teeth
  • (n.) pl. of Tooth.
  • (v. i.) To breed, or grow, teeth.

    Teetotal
  • (a.) Entire

    Teetotum
  • (n.) A child's toy, somewhat resembling a top, and twirled by the fingers.

    Tegmen
  • (n.) A tegument or covering.

    Tegular
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a tile

    Tegument
  • (n.) A cover or covering

    Teledu
  • (n.) An East Indian carnivore (Mydaus meliceps) allied to the badger, and noted for the very offensive odor that it emits, somewhat resembling that of a skunk

    Telegony
  • (n.) The supposed influence of a father upon offspring subsequent to his own, begotten of the same mother by another father

    Telegram
  • (n.) A message sent by telegraph

    Telegraph
  • (n.) An apparatus, or a process, for communicating intelligence rapidly between distant points, especially by means of preconcerted visible or audible signals representing words or ideas, or by means of words and signs, transmitted by electrical action
  • (v. t.) To convey or announce by telegraph.

    Telemeter
  • (n.) An apparatus for recording at a distant station the indications of physical instruments such as the thermometer, galvanometer, etc

    Teleological
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to teleology, or the doctrine of design.

    Teleology
  • (n.) the doctrine of design, which assumes that the phenomena of organic life, particularly those of evolution, are explicable only by purposive causes, and that they in no way admit of a mechanical explanation or one based entirely on biological science

    Teleost
  • (n.) One of the Teleosti. Also used adjectively.

    Telepathy
  • (n.) The sympathetic affection of one mind by the thoughts, feelings, or emotions of another at a distance, without communication through the ordinary channels of sensation

    Telephone
  • (n.) An instrument for reproducing sounds, especially articulate speech, at a distance.
  • (v. t.) To convey or announce by telephone.

    Telephony
  • (n.) The art or process of reproducing sounds at a distance, as with the telephone.

    Telephoto
  • (a.) Telephotographic

    Telescope
  • (a.) Capable of being extended or compacted, like a telescope, by the sliding of joints or parts one within the other
  • (n.) An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies.
  • (v. t.) To cause to come into collision, so as to telescope.

    Telescopy
  • (n.) The art or practice of using or making telescopes.

    Telestereoscope
  • (n.) A stereoscope adapted to view distant natural objects or landscapes

    Telestich
  • (n.) A poem in which the final letters of the lines, taken consequently, make a name. Cf. Acrostic

    Teleutospore
  • (n.) The thick-celled winter or resting spore of the rusts (order Uredinales), produced in late summer

    Telic
  • (a.) Denoting the final end or purpose, as distinguished from ecbatic.

    Tell
  • (n.) A hill or mound.
  • (v. i.) To give an account
  • (v. t.) To discern so as to report

    Telpher
  • (n.) A contrivance for the conveyance of vehicles or loads by means of electricity.

    Telson
  • (n.) The terminal joint or movable piece at the end of the abdomen of Crustacea and other articulates

    Telugu
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Telugu language, or the Telugus.
  • (n.) A Darvidian language spoken in the northern parts of the Madras presidency. In extent of use it is the next language after Hindustani (in its various forms) and Bengali

    Temblor
  • (n.) An earthquake.

    Temerity
  • (n.) Unreasonable contempt of danger

    Temper
  • (n.) Calmness of mind
  • (v. i.) To accord
  • (v. t.) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.

    Tempest
  • (n.) A fashionable assembly
  • (v. i.) To storm.
  • (v. t.) To disturb as by a tempest.

    Templar
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a temple.
  • (n.) A student of law, so called from having apartments in the Temple at London, the original buildings having belonged to the Knights Templars

    Temple
  • (n.) A building dedicated to the administration of ordinances.
  • (v. t.) To build a temple for

    Tempo
  • (n.) The rate or degree of movement in time.

    Tempt
  • (v. t.) To endeavor to accomplish or reach

    Ten
  • (a.) One more than nine
  • (n.) A symbol representing ten units, as 10, x, or X.

    Tenable
  • (a.) Capable of being held, naintained, or defended, as against an assailant or objector, or againts attempts to take or process

    Tenace
  • (n.) The holding by the fourth hand of the best and third best cards of a suit led

    Tenacious
  • (a.) Apt to adhere to another substance

    Tenaculum
  • (n.) An instrument consisting of a fine, sharp hook attached to a handle, and used mainly for taking up arteries, and the like

    Tenancy
  • (n.) A holding, or a mode of holding, an estate

    Tenant
  • (n.) One who has possession of any place
  • (v. t.) To hold, occupy, or possess as a tenant.

    Tench
  • (n.) A European fresh-water fish (Tinca tinca, or T. vulgaris) allied to the carp. It is noted for its tenacity of life

    Tend
  • (a.) To be directed, as to any end, object, or purpose
  • (v. i.) To await
  • (v. t.) To accompany as an assistant or protector

    Tenebrae
  • (n.) The matins and lauds for the last three days of Holy Week, commemorating the sufferings and death of Christ

    Tenebrious
  • (a.) Tenebrous.

    Tenebrous
  • (a.) Dark

    Tenement
  • (n.) A dwelling house

    Tenesmus
  • (n.) An urgent and distressing sensation, as if a discharge from the intestines must take place, although none can be effected

    Tenet
  • (n.) Any opinion, principle, dogma, belief, or doctrine, which a person holds or maintains as true

    Tenfold
  • (a. & adv.) In tens

    Tennis
  • (n.) A play in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racket or with the open hand
  • (v. t.) To drive backward and forward, as a ball in playing tennis.

    Tenon
  • (n.) A projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it, and made to insert into a mortise, and in this way secure together the parts of a frame
  • (v. t.) To cut or fit for insertion into a mortise, as the end of a piece of timber.

    Tenor
  • (n.) An exact copy of a writing, set forth in the words and figures of it. It differs from purport, which is only the substance or general import of the instrument

    Tenosynovitis
  • (n.) Inflammation of the synovial sheath enveloping a tendon.

    Tenotomy
  • (n.) The division of a tendon, or the act of dividing a tendon.

    Tenpenny
  • (a.) Denoting a size of nails.

    Tenrec
  • (n.) A small insectivore (Centetes ecaudatus), native of Madagascar, but introduced also into the islands of Bourbon and Mauritius

    Tense
  • (a.) Stretched tightly
  • (n.) One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indicate the time of the action or event signified

    Tensile
  • (a.) Capable of extension

    Tension
  • (a.) A device for checking the delivery of the thread in a sewing machine, so as to give the stitch the required degree of tightness

    Tensity
  • (n.) The quality or state of being tense, or strained to stiffness

    Tensive
  • (a.) Giving the sensation of tension, stiffness, or contraction.

    Tensor
  • (n.) A muscle that stretches a part, or renders it tense.

    Tent
  • (n.) A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain
  • (v. i.) To lodge as a tent
  • (v. t.) To attend to

    Tenuis
  • (n.) One of the three surd mutes /, /, /

    Tenuous
  • (a.) Lacking substance, as a tenuous argument.

    Tenure
  • (n.) Manner of holding, in general

    Teocalli
  • (n.) Literally, God's house

    Teosinte
  • (n.) 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

    Tepal
  • (n.) A division of a perianth.

    Tepee
  • (n.) An Indian wigwam or tent.

    Tepid
  • (a.) Moderately warm

    Tequila
  • (n.) An intoxicating liquor made from the maguey in the district of Tequila, Mexico.

    Teratoid
  • (a.) Resembling a monster

    Teratology
  • (n.) Affectation of sublimity

    Teratoma
  • (n.) A tumor, sometimes found in newborn children, which is made up of a heterigenous mixture of tissues, as of bone, cartilage and muscle

    Terbium
  • (n.) A rare metallic element, of uncertain identification, supposed to exist in certain minerals, as gadolinite and samarskite, with other rare ytterbium earth

    Tercentenary
  • (a.) Including, or relating to, an interval of three hundred years.
  • (n.) The three hundredth anniversary of any event

    Tercet
  • (n.) A triplet.

    Terebinth
  • (n.) The turpentine tree.

    Teredo
  • (n.) A genus of long, slender, wormlike bivalve mollusks which bore into submerged wood, such as the piles of wharves, bottoms of ships, etc

    Terete
  • (a.) Cylindrical and slightly tapering

    Tergiversate
  • (v. i.) To shift

    Tergum
  • (n.) One of the dorsal plates of the operculum of a cirriped.

    Term
  • (n.) A fixed period of time

    Tern
  • (a.) That which consists of, or pertains to, three things or numbers together
  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of long-winged aquatic birds, allied to the gulls, and belonging to Sterna and various allied genera

    Terpene
  • (n.) Any one of a series of isomeric hydrocarbons of pleasant aromatic odor, occurring especially in coniferous plants and represented by oil of turpentine, but including also certain hydrocarbons found in some essential oils

    Terpsichore
  • (n.) The Muse who presided over the choral song and the dance, especially the latter.

    Terra
  • (n.) The earth

    Terrene
  • (a.) Earthy
  • (n.) A tureen.

    Terreplein
  • (n.) An embankment of earth with a broad level top, which is sometimes excavated to form a continuation of an elevated canal across a valley

    Terrestrial
  • (a.) Adapted for the observation of objects on land and on the earth
  • (n.) An inhabitant of the earth.

    Terret
  • (n.) One of the rings on the top of the saddle of a harness, through which the reins pass.

    Terrible
  • (a.) Adapted or likely to excite terror, awe, or dread

    Terrier
  • (n.) An auger or borer.

    Terrific
  • (a.) Causing terror

    Terrify
  • (v. t.) To alarm or shock with fear

    Terrigenous
  • (a.) Earthborn

    Terrine
  • (n.) A dish or pan, originally of earthenware, such as those in which various dishes are cooked and served

    Territorial
  • (a.) Limited to a certain district

    Territory
  • (n.) A large extent or tract of land

    Terror
  • (n.) Extreme fear

    Terry
  • (n.) A kind of heavy colored fabric, either all silk, or silk and worsted, or silk and cotton, often called terry velvet, used for upholstery and trimmings

    Terse
  • (superl.) Appearing as if rubbed or wiped off

    Tertian
  • (a.) Occurring every third day
  • (n.) A disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day

    Tertiary
  • (a.) Being of the third formation, order, or rank
  • (n.) A member of the Third Order in any monastic system

    Terzetto
  • (n.) A composition in three voice parts

    Tessellate
  • (a.) Tessellated.
  • (v. t.) To form into squares or checkers

    Tessera
  • (n.) A small piece of marble, glass, earthenware, or the like, having a square, or nearly square, face, used by the ancients for mosaic, as for making pavements, for ornamenting walls, and like purposes

    Test
  • (n.) A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
  • (v. i.) To make a testament, or will.
  • (v. t.) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent

    Tetanic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to tetanus
  • (n.) A substance (notably nux vomica, strychnine, and brucine) which, either as a remedy or a poison, acts primarily on the spinal cord, and which, when taken in comparatively large quantity, produces tetanic spasms or convulsions

    Tetanize
  • (v. t.) To throw, as a muscle, into a state of permanent contraction

    Tetanus
  • (n.) A painful and usually fatal disease, resulting generally from a wound, and having as its principal symptom persistent spasm of the voluntary muscles

    Tetany
  • (n.) A morbid condition resembling tetanus, but distinguished from it by being less severe and having intermittent spasms

    Tether
  • (n.) A long rope or chain by which an animal is fastened, as to a stake, so that it can range or feed only within certain limits
  • (v. t.) To confine, as an animal, with a long rope or chain, as for feeding within certain limits

    Tethys
  • (n.) A genus of a large naked mollusks having a very large, broad, fringed cephalic disk, and branched dorsal gills

    Tetrabasic
  • (a.) Capable of neutralizing four molecules of a monacid base

    Tetrachord
  • (n.) A scale series of four sounds, of which the extremes, or first and last, constituted a fourth

    Tetracid
  • (a.) Capable of neutralizing four molecules of a monobasic acid

    Tetrad
  • (n.) A tetravalent or quadrivalent atom or radical

    Tetragon
  • (n.) 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

    Tetragrammaton
  • (n.) The mystic number four, which was often symbolized to represent the Deity, whose name was expressed by four letters among some ancient nations

    Tetrahedrite
  • (n.) A sulphide of antimony and copper, with small quantities of other metals. It is a very common ore of copper, and some varieties yield a considerable presentage of silver

    Tetrahedron
  • (n.) A solid figure inclosed or bounded by four triangles.

    Tetralogy
  • (n.) A group or series of four dramatic pieces, three tragedies and one satyric, or comic, piece (or sometimes four tragedies), represented consequently on the Attic stage at the Dionysiac festival

    Tetramerous
  • (a.) Having four joints in each of the tarsi

    Tetrameter
  • (n.) A verse or line consisting of four measures, that is, in iambic, trochaic, and anapestic verse, of eight feet

    Tetrapod
  • (n.) An insect characterized by having but four perfect legs, as certain of the butterflies.

    Tetrapterous
  • (a.) Having four wings.

    Tetrarch
  • (a.) A Roman governor of the fourth part of a province

    Tetraspore
  • (n.) A nonsexual spore, one of a group of four regularly occurring in red seaweeds.

    Tetrastich
  • (n.) A stanza, epigram, or poem, consisting of four verses or lines.

    Tetratomic
  • (a.) Consisting of four atoms

    Tetravalent
  • (a.) Having a valence of four

    Tetroxide
  • (n.) An oxide having four atoms of oxygen in the molecule

    Tetryl
  • (n.) Butyl

    Teuton
  • (n.) A member of the Teutonic branch of the Indo-European, or Aryan, family.

    Text
  • (n.) A discourse or composition on which a note or commentary is written
  • (v. t.) To write in large characters, as in text hand.

    Thalamus
  • (n.) A mass of nervous matter on either side of the third ventricle of the brain

    Thalassic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the sea

    Thaler
  • (n.) A German silver coin worth about three shillings sterling, or about 73 cents.

    Thalia
  • (n.) One of the Nereids.

    Thallic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to thallium

    Thallium
  • (n.) A rare metallic element of the aluminium group found in some minerals, as certain pyrites, and also in the lead-chamber deposit in the manufacture of sulphuric acid

    Thallophyte
  • (n.) A plant belonging to the Thallophyta.

    Thallous
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to thallium

    Thallus
  • (n.) A solid mass of cellular tissue, consisting of one or more layers, usually in the form of a flat stratum or expansion, but sometimes erect or pendulous, and elongated and branching, and forming the substance of the thallogens

    Thalweg
  • (n.) A line following the lowest part of a valley, whether under water or not.

    Than
  • (adv.) Then.
  • (conj.) A particle expressing comparison, used after certain adjectives and adverbs which express comparison or diversity, as more, better, other, otherwise, and the like

    Thar
  • (n.) A goatlike animal (Capra Jemlaica) native of the Himalayas. It has small, flattened horns, curved directly backward
  • (v. impersonal, pres.) It needs

    That
  • (pron., a., conj., & adv.) As a conjunction, that retains much of its force as a demonstrative pronoun

    Thaumatrope
  • (n.) An optical instrument or toy for showing the presistence of an impression upon the eyes after the luminous object is withdrawn

    Thaumaturge
  • (n.) A magician

    Thaumaturgy
  • (n.) The act or art of performing something wonderful

    Thaw
  • (n.) The melting of ice, snow, or other congealed matter
  • (v. t.) To cause (frozen things, as earth, snow, ice) to melt, soften, or dissolve.

    The
  • (adv.) By that
  • (definite article.) A word placed before nouns to limit or individualize their meaning.

    Theanthropism
  • (n.) A state of being God and man.

    Thearchy
  • (n.) Government by God

    Theatre
  • (n.) An edifice in which dramatic performances or spectacles are exhibited for the amusement of spectators

    Theatrical
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a theater, or to the scenic representations

    Thebaine
  • (n.) A poisonous alkaloid, C19H21NO3, found in opium in small quantities, having a sharp, astringent taste, and a tetanic action resembling that of strychnine

    Theca
  • (n.) A sheath

    Thecodont
  • (a.) Having the teeth inserted in sockets in the alveoli of the jaws.
  • (n.) One of the Thecodontia.

    Thee
  • (a.) To thrive
  • (pron.) The objective case of thou.

    Theft
  • (n.) The act of stealing

    Their
  • (pron. & a.) The possessive case of the personal pronoun they

    Theism
  • (n.) The belief or acknowledgment of the existence of a God, as opposed to atheism, pantheism, or polytheism

    Them
  • (pron.) The objective case of they.

    Then
  • (adv.) At another time
  • (conj.) In that case

    Theobromine
  • (n.) An alkaloidal ureide, C7H8N4O2, homologous with and resembling caffeine, produced artificially, and also extracted from cacao and chocolate (from Theobroma Cacao) as a bitter white crystalline substance

    Theocracy
  • (n.) Government of a state by the immediate direction or administration of God

    Theodicy
  • (n.) A vindication of the justice of God in ordaining or permitting natural and moral evil.

    Theodolite
  • (n.) An instrument used, especially in trigonometrical surveying, for the accurate measurement of horizontal angles, and also usually of vertical angles

    Theogony
  • (n.) The generation or genealogy of the gods

    Theologian
  • (n.) A person well versed in theology

    Theological
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to theology, or the science of God and of divine things

    Theologize
  • (v. i.) To frame a system of theology
  • (v. t.) To render theological

    Theology
  • (n.) The science of God or of religion

    Theophany
  • (n.) A manifestation of God to man by actual appearance, usually as an incarnation.

    Theorbo
  • (n.) An instrument made like large lute, but having two necks, with two sets of pegs, the lower set holding the strings governed by frets, while to the upper set were attached the long bass strings used as open notes

    Theorem
  • (n.) A statement of a principle to be demonstrated.
  • (v. t.) To formulate into a theorem.

    Theoretical
  • (a.) Pertaining to theory

    Theoretics
  • (n.) The speculative part of a science

    Theorist
  • (n.) One who forms theories

    Theorize
  • (v. i.) To form a theory or theories

    Theory
  • (n.) A doctrine, or scheme of things, which terminates in speculation or contemplation, without a view to practice

    Theosophy
  • (n.) 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

    Therapeutic
  • (n.) One of the Therapeutae.

    Therapy
  • (n.) Therapeutics.

    There
  • (pron.) In or at that place.

    Thermae
  • (n. pl.) Springs or baths of warm or hot water.

    Thermal
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to heat

    Thermic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to heat

    Thermidor
  • (n.) The eleventh month of the French republican calendar

    Thermobarometer
  • (n.) An instrument for determining altitudes by the boiling point of water.

    Thermocautery
  • (n.) Cautery by the application of heat.

    Thermochemistry
  • (n.) That branch of chemical science which includes the investigation of the various relations existing between chemical action and that manifestation of force termed heat, or the determination of the heat evolved by, or employed in, chemical actions

    Thermocouple
  • (n.) A thermoelectric couple.

    Thermodynamic
  • (a.) Relating to thermodynamics

    Thermoelectric
  • (a.) Pertaining to thermoelectricity

    Thermogram
  • (n.) The trace or record made by means of a thermograph.

    Thermograph
  • (n.) An instrument for automatically recording indications of the variation of temperature

    Thermojunction
  • (n.) A junction of two dissimilar conductors used to produce a thermoelectric current, as in one form of pyrometer

    Thermoluminescence
  • (n.) Luminescence exhibited by a substance on being moderately heated. It is shown esp

    Thermolysis
  • (n.) The resolution of a compound into parts by heat

    Thermometer
  • (n.) An instrument for measuring temperature, founded on the principle that changes of temperature in bodies are accompained by proportional changes in their volumes or dimensions

    Thermometry
  • (n.) The estimation of temperature by the use of a thermometric apparatus.

    Thermopile
  • (n.) An instrument of extreme sensibility, used to determine slight differences and degrees of heat

    Thermoscope
  • (n.) An instrument for indicating changes of temperature without indicating the degree of heat by which it is affected

    Thermostable
  • (a.) Capable of being heated to or somewhat above 55¡ C. without loss of special properties

    Thermostat
  • (n.) A self-acting apparatus for regulating temperature by the unequal expansion of different metals, liquids, or gases by heat, as in opening or closing the damper of a stove, or the like, as the heat becomes greater or less than is desired

    Thermotaxis
  • (n.) Determination of the direction of locomotion by heat.

    Thermotherapy
  • (n.) Treatment of disease by heat, esp. by hot air.

    Thermotropism
  • (n.) The phenomenon of turning towards a source of warmth, seen in the growing parts of some plants

    Thesaurus
  • (n.) A treasury or storehouse

    These
  • (pron.) The plural of this.

    Thesis
  • (n.) An affirmation, or distinction from a supposition or hypothesis.

    Thespian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Thespis
  • (n.) An actor.

    Thessalonian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Thessalonica, a city of Macedonia.
  • (n.) A native or inhabitant of Thessalonica.

    Theta
  • (n.) A letter of the Greek alphabet corresponding to th in English

    Theurgy
  • (n.) A divine work

    Thew
  • (n.) Manner

    They
  • (obj.) The plural of he, she, or it. They is never used adjectively, but always as a pronoun proper, and sometimes refers to persons without an antecedent expressed

    Thick
  • (adv.) Closely
  • (n.) A thicket
  • (superl.) Abundant, close, or crowded in space
  • (v. t. & i.) To thicken.

    Thief
  • (n.) A waster in the snuff of a candle.

    Thieve
  • (v. t. & i.) To practice theft

    Thigh
  • (n.) The coxa, or femur, of an insect.

    Thigmotaxis
  • (n.) The property possessed by living protoplasm of contracting, and thus moving, when touched by a solid or fluid substance

    Thill
  • (n.) One of the two long pieces of wood, extending before a vehicle, between which a horse is hitched

    Thimble
  • (n.) A fixed or movable ring, tube, or lining placed in a hole.

    Thin
  • (adv.) Not thickly or closely
  • (superl.) Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite
  • (v. i.) To grow or become thin
  • (v. t.) To make thin (in any of the senses of the adjective).

    Thionic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to sulphur

    Thionyl
  • (n.) The hypothetical radical SO, regarded as an essential constituent of certain sulphurous compounds

    Third
  • (a.) Constituting or being one of three equal parts into which anything is divided
  • (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by three

    Thirst
  • (n.) A sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause (as fear, excitement, etc
  • (v. t.) To have a thirst for.

    Thirteen
  • (a.) One more than twelve
  • (n.) A symbol representing thirteen units, as 13 or xiii.

    Thirtieth
  • (a.) Constituting or being one of thirty equal parts into which anything is divided.
  • (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by thirty

    Thirty
  • (a.) Being three times ten
  • (n.) A symbol expressing thirty, as 30, or XXX.

    This
  • (pron. & a.) As a demonstrative pronoun, this denotes something that is present or near in place or time, or something just mentioned, or that is just about to be mentioned

    Thither
  • (a.) Applied to time: On the thither side of, older than
  • (adv.) To that place

    Tho
  • (adv.) Then.
  • (conj.) Though.
  • (def. art.) The.
  • (pron. pl.) Those.

    Thole
  • (n.) A wooden or metal pin, set in the gunwale of a boat, to serve as a fulcrum for the oar in rowing
  • (v. i.) To wait.
  • (v. t.) To bear

    Thong
  • (n.) A strap of leather

    Thor
  • (n.) The god of thunder, and son of Odin.

    Those
  • (pron.) The plural of that.

    Thoth
  • (n.) The Egyptian sacred baboon.

    Thou
  • (obj.) The second personal pronoun, in the singular number, denoting the person addressed
  • (v. i.) To use the words thou and thee in discourse after the manner of the Friends.
  • (v. t.) To address as thou, esp. to do so in order to treat with insolent familiarity or contempt

    Thracian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Thrace, or its people.
  • (n.) A native or inhabitant of Thrace.

    Thraldom
  • (n.) The condition of a thrall

    Thrall
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a thrall
  • (n.) A shelf
  • (v. t.) To enslave.

    Thrasonical
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Thraso

    Thread
  • (n.) A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark
  • (v. t.) To form a thread, or spiral rib, on or in

    Threat
  • (n.) The expression of an intention to inflict evil or injury on another

    Three
  • (a.) One more than two
  • (n.) A symbol representing three units, as 3 or iii.

    Threnody
  • (n.) A song of lamentation

    Thresh
  • (v. t.) Hence, to labor

    Threw
  • (imp.) of Throw

    Thrice
  • (adv.) In a threefold manner or degree

    Thrift
  • (n.) A thriving state

    Thrill
  • (n.) A drill.
  • (v. i.) To feel a sharp, shivering, tingling, or exquisite sensation, running through the body.
  • (v. t.) A breathing place or hole

    Thrips
  • (n.) Any one of numerous small species of Thysanoptera, especially those which attack useful plants, as the grain thrips (Thrips cerealium)

    Thrive
  • (v. i.) To increase in bulk or stature

    Throat
  • (n.) A contracted portion of a vessel, or of a passage way
  • (v. t.) To mow, as beans, in a direction against their bending.

    Throb
  • (n.) A beat, or strong pulsation, as of the heart and arteries
  • (v. i.) To beat, or pulsate, with more than usual force or rapidity

    Throe
  • (n.) A tool for splitting wood into shingles
  • (v. i.) To struggle in extreme pain
  • (v. t.) To put in agony.

    Thrombin
  • (n.) The fibrin ferment which produces the formation of fibrin from fibrinogen.

    Thrombosis
  • (n.) The obstruction of a blood vessel by a clot formed at the site of obstruction

    Thrombus
  • (n.) A clot of blood formed of a passage of a vessel and remaining at the site of coagulation

    Throne
  • (n.) A chair of state, commonly a royal seat, but sometimes the seat of a prince, bishop, or other high dignitary
  • (v. i.) To be in, or sit upon, a throne
  • (v. t.) To place in an elevated position

    Throng
  • (a.) Thronged
  • (imp.) of Thring
  • (n.) A great multitude
  • (v. i.) To crowd together
  • (v. t.) To crowd, or press, as persons

    Throstle
  • (n.) A machine for spinning wool, cotton, etc., from the rove, consisting of a set of drawing rollers with bobbins and flyers, and differing from the mule in having the twisting apparatus stationary and the processes continuous

    Throttle
  • (n.) The throttle valve.
  • (v. i.) To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.
  • (v. t.) To compress the throat of

    Through
  • (a.) Going or extending through
  • (adv.) From beginning to end
  • (prep.) Among or in the midst of

    Throve
  • (imp.) of Thrive

    Throw
  • (n.) A cast of dice
  • (v. i.) To perform the act of throwing or casting
  • (v. t.) To bring forth

    Thru
  • (prep., adv. & a.) Through.


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