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Susceptibility
  • (n.) Specifically, capacity for deep feeling or emotional excitement

    Susceptible
  • (a.) Capable of admitting anything additional, or any change, affection, or influence

    Susceptive
  • (a.) Susceptible.

    Suslik
  • (n.) A ground squirrel (Spermophilus citillus) of Europe and Asia. It has large cheek pouches.

    Suspect
  • (a.) One who, or that which, is suspected
  • (v. i.) To imagine guilt
  • (v. t.) To hold to be uncertain

    Suspend
  • (n.) To attach to something above
  • (v. i.) To cease from operation or activity

    Suspense
  • (a.) A temporary cessation of one's right

    Suspension
  • (n.) A conditional withholding, interruption, or delay

    Suspensive
  • (a.) Tending to suspend, or to keep in suspense

    Suspensory
  • (a.) Fitted or serving to suspend
  • (n.) a bandage or bag for supporting the scrotum.

    Suspicion
  • (n.) Slight degree
  • (v. t.) To view with suspicion

    Suspicious
  • (a.) Inclined to suspect

    Suspire
  • (n.) A long, deep breath
  • (v. i.) To fetch a long, deep breath

    Sustain
  • (n.) One who, or that which, upholds or sustains
  • (v. t.) Hence, to keep from sinking, as in despondence, or the like

    Sustenance
  • (n.) That which supports life

    Sustentacular
  • (a.) Supporting

    Sustentation
  • (n.) The act of sustaining, or the state of being sustained

    Susurrus
  • (n.) The act of whispering

    Sutler
  • (n.) A person who follows an army, and sells to the troops provisions, liquors, and the like.

    Sutra
  • (n.) A body of Hindoo literature containing aphorisms on grammar, meter, law, and philosophy, and forming a connecting link between the Vedic and later Sanscrit literature

    Suttee
  • (n.) A Hindoo widow who immolates herself, or is immolated, on the funeral pile of her husband

    Suture
  • (n.) A line resembling a seam

    Suzerain
  • (n.) A superior lord, to whom fealty is due

    Swa
  • (adv.) So.

    Swab
  • (n.) A bit of sponge, cloth, or the like, fastened to a handle, for cleansing the mouth of a sick person, applying medicaments to deep-seated parts, etc

    Swaddle
  • (n.) Anything used to swaddle with, as a cloth or band
  • (v. t.) To beat

    Swag
  • (n.) A burglar's or thief's booty
  • (v. i.) To hang or move, as something loose and heavy

    Swain
  • (n.) A servant.

    Swale
  • (n.) A gutter in a candle.
  • (v. i. & t.) To melt and waste away

    Swallow
  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked
  • (v. i.) To perform the act of swallowing
  • (v. t.) To draw into an abyss or gulf

    Swam
  • (imp.) of Swim

    Swan
  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of large aquatic birds belonging to Cygnus, Olor, and allied genera of the subfamily Cygninae

    Swap
  • (n.) A blow
  • (v. i.) To exchange (usually two things of the same kind)
  • (v. t.) To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise

    Sward
  • (n.) Skin
  • (v. t. & i.) To produce sward upon

    Swarf
  • (n.) The grit worn away from grindstones in grinding cutlery wet.
  • (v. i.) To grow languid

    Swarm
  • (n.) A large number or mass of small animals or insects, especially when in motion.
  • (v. i.) To abound
  • (v. t.) To crowd or throng.

    Swart
  • (a.) Gloomy
  • (n.) Sward.
  • (v. t.) To make swart or tawny

    Swash
  • (n.) A blustering noise
  • (v. i.) To bluster
  • (v. t.) An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work.

    Swatch
  • (n.) A piece, pattern, or sample, generally of cloth.

    Swath
  • (v. t.) A band or fillet

    Sway
  • (n.) A switch or rod used by thatchers to bind their work.
  • (v. i.) To bear sway

    Swear
  • (v. i.) To affirm or utter a solemn declaration, with an appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed
  • (v. t.) To appeal to by an oath.

    Sweat
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Sweat
  • (v. i.) A short run by a race horse in exercise.
  • (v. t.) To cause to excrete moisture from the skin

    Swede
  • (n.) A native or inhabitant of Sweden.

    Swedish
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Sweden or its inhabitants.
  • (n.) The language of Swedes.

    Sweep
  • (n.) A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
  • (v. i.) To brush against or over

    Sweet
  • (adv.) Sweetly.
  • (n.) Confectionery, sweetmeats, preserves, etc.
  • (superl.) Fresh
  • (v. t.) To sweeten.

    Swell
  • (a.) Having the characteristics of a person of rank and importance
  • (n.) A gradual ascent, or rounded elevation, of land
  • (v. i.) To act in a pompous, ostentatious, or arrogant manner
  • (v. t.) To aggravate

    Swelter
  • (v. i.) To be overcome and faint with heat
  • (v. t.) To exude, like sweat.

    Swept
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Sweep

    Swerve
  • (v. i.) To bend
  • (v. t.) To turn aside.

    Swift
  • (adv.) Swiftly.
  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of small, long-winged, insectivorous birds of the family Micropodidae
  • (v. i.) Moving a great distance in a short time

    Swig
  • (n.) A beverage consisting of warm beer flavored with spices, lemon, etc.
  • (v. t.) To castrate, as a ram, by binding the testicles tightly with a string, so that they mortify and slough off

    Swill
  • (n.) Large draughts of liquor
  • (v. i.) To drink greedily or swinishly
  • (v. t.) To wash

    Swim
  • (n.) A part of a stream much frequented by fish.
  • (v. t.) To cause or compel to swim

    Swindle
  • (n.) The act or process of swindling
  • (v. t.) To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice

    Swine
  • (n.) Any animal of the hog kind, especially one of the domestical species. Swine secrete a large amount of subcutaneous fat, which, when extracted, is known as lard

    Swing
  • (n.) A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing
  • (v. i.) To move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air
  • (v. t.) To admit or turn (anything) for the purpose of shaping it

    Swipe
  • (n.) A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat or club.
  • (v. t.) To give a swipe to

    Swirl
  • (n.) A whirling motion

    Swiss
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Switzerland, or the people of Switzerland.
  • (n.sing. & pl.) A native or inhabitant of Switzerland

    Switch
  • (n.) A device for shifting an electric current to another circuit, or for making and breaking a circuit
  • (v. i.) To walk with a jerk.
  • (v. t.) To shift to another circuit.

    Switzer
  • (n.) A native or inhabitant of Switzerland

    Swivel
  • (a.) A piece, as a ring or hook, attached to another piece by a pin, in such a manner as to permit rotation about the pin as an axis
  • (v. i.) To swing or turn, as on a pin or pivot.

    Swizzle
  • (n.) Ale and beer mixed
  • (v. t.) To drink

    Swollen
  • (a.) Enlarged by swelling

    Swoon
  • (n.) A fainting fit
  • (v. i.) To sink into a fainting fit, in which there is an apparent suspension of the vital functions and mental powers

    Swoop
  • (n.) A falling on and seizing, as the prey of a rapacious bird
  • (v. i.) To descend with closed wings from a height upon prey, as a hawk

    Sword
  • (n.) An offensive weapon, having a long and usually sharp/pointed blade with a cutting edge or edges

    Swore
  • (imp.) of Swear

    Sworn
  • (p. p.) of Swear

    Swum
  • (p. p.) of Swim

    Swung
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Swing

    Sybarite
  • (n.) A person devoted to luxury and pleasure

    Sycamore
  • (n.) A large European species of maple (Acer Pseudo-Platanus).

    Syce
  • (n.) A groom.

    Sycophancy
  • (n.) False accusation

    Sycophant
  • (n.) A base parasite
  • (v. i.) To play the sycophant.
  • (v. t.) To inform against

    Sycosis
  • (n.) A pustular eruption upon the scalp, or the beared part of the face, whether due to ringworm, acne, or impetigo

    Syenite
  • (n.) A granular, crystalline, ingeous rock composed of orthoclase and hornblende, the latter often replaced or accompanied by pyroxene or mica

    Syllabary
  • (n.) A table of syllables

    Syllabify
  • (v. t.) To form or divide into syllables.

    Syllabism
  • (n.) The expressing of the sounds of a language by syllables, rather than by an alphabet or by signs for words

    Syllable
  • (n.) An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, uttered together, or with a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or a part of a word
  • (v. t.) To pronounce the syllables of

    Syllabus
  • (n.) A compendium containing the heads of a discourse, and the like

    Syllepsis
  • (n.) A figure of speech by which a word is used in a literal and metaphorical sense at the same time

    Syllogism
  • (n.) The regular logical form of every argument, consisting of three propositions, of which the first two are called the premises, and the last, the conclusion

    Syllogize
  • (v. i.) To reason by means of syllogisms.

    Sylph
  • (n.) An imaginary being inhabiting the air

    Sylvan
  • (a.) Abounding in forests or in trees
  • (n.) A liquid hydrocarbon obtained together with furfuran (tetrol) by the distillation of pine wood

    Sylvatic
  • (a.) Sylvan.

    Sylviculture
  • (n.) The cultivation of forest trees for timber or other purposes

    Sylvite
  • (n.) Native potassium chloride.

    Symbiosis
  • (n.) The living together in more or less imitative association or even close union of two dissimilar organisms

    Symbol
  • (n.) An abbreviation standing for the name of an element and consisting of the initial letter of the Latin or New Latin name, or sometimes of the initial letter with a following one
  • (v. t.) To symbolize.

    Symmetrical
  • (a.) Having a common measure

    Symmetrize
  • (v. t.) To make proportional in its parts

    Symmetry
  • (n.) A due proportion of the several parts of a body to each other

    Sympathetic
  • (a.) Inclined to sympathy

    Sympathize
  • (v. i.) To agree
  • (v. t.) To ansew to

    Sympathy
  • (n.) An agreement of affections or inclinations, or a conformity of natural temperament, which causes persons to be pleased, or in accord, with one another

    Symphonic
  • (a.) Relating to, or in the manner of, symphony

    Symphonious
  • (a.) Agreeing in sound

    Symphonist
  • (n.) A composer of symphonies.

    Symphony
  • (n.) A consonance or harmony of sounds, agreeable to the ear, whether the sounds are vocal or instrumental, or both

    Symphysis
  • (n.) An articulation formed by intervening cartilage

    Sympodium
  • (n.) An axis or stem produced by dichotomous branching in which one of the branches is regularly developed at the expense of the other, as in the grapevine

    Symposiarch
  • (n.) The master of a feast.

    Symposiast
  • (n.) One engaged with others at a banquet or merrymaking.

    Symposium
  • (n.) A collection of short essays by different authors on a common topic

    Symptom
  • (n.) Any affection which accompanies disease

    Synagogue
  • (n.) A congregation in the early Christian church.

    Synalepha
  • (n.) A contraction of syllables by suppressing some vowel or diphthong at the end of a word, before another vowel or diphthong

    Synarchy
  • (n.) Joint rule or sovereignity.

    Synarthrosis
  • (n.) Immovable articulation by close union, as in sutures. It sometimes includes symphysial articulations also

    Syncarpous
  • (a.) Composed of several carpels consolidated into one ovary.

    Syncategorematic
  • (a.) Not capable of being used as a term by itself

    Synchondrosis
  • (n.) An immovable articulation in which the union is formed by cartilage.

    Synchronal
  • (a.) Happening at, or belonging to, the same time
  • (n.) A synchronal thing or event.

    Synchronism
  • (n.) A representation, in the same picture, of two or events which occured at different times

    Synchronize
  • (v. i.) To agree in time
  • (v. t.) To assign to the same date or period of time

    Synchronous
  • (a.) Happening at the same time

    Synchrony
  • (n.) The concurrence of events in time

    Syncline
  • (n.) A synclinal fold.

    Syncopate
  • (v. t.) To commence, as a tone, on an unaccented part of a measure, and continue it into the following accented part, so that the accent is driven back upon the weak part and the rhythm drags

    Syncopation
  • (n.) The act of syncopating

    Syncope
  • (n.) A fainting, or swooning.

    Syncretism
  • (n.) Attempted union of principles or parties irreconcilably at variance with each other.

    Syncytium
  • (n.) The ectoderm of a sponge.

    Syndesmosis
  • (n.) An articulation formed by means of ligaments.

    Syndic
  • (n.) An agent of a corporation, or of any body of men engaged in a business enterprise

    Syndrome
  • (n.) A group of symptoms occurring together that are characteristic and indicative of some underlying cause, such as a disease

    Syne
  • (adv.) Afterwards
  • (conj.) Since

    Syngenesis
  • (n.) A theory of generation in which each germ is supposed to contain the germs of all subsequent generations

    Synod
  • (n.) A conjunction of two or more of the heavenly bodies.

    Synoecious
  • (a.) Having stamens and pistil in the same head, or, in mosses, having antheridia and archegonia on the same receptacle

    Synonym
  • (n.) An incorrect or incorrectly applied scientific name, as a new name applied to a species or genus already properly named, or a specific name preoccupied by that of another species of the same genus

    Synopsis
  • (n.) A general view, or a collection of heads or parts so arranged as to exhibit a general view of the whole

    Synoptic
  • (n.) One of the first three Gospels of the New Testament.

    Synoptist
  • (n.) Any one of the authors of the three synoptic Gospels, which give a history of our Lord's life and ministry, in distinction from the writer of John's Gospel, which gives a fuller record of his teachings

    Synovia
  • (n.) A transparent, viscid, lubricating fluid which contains mucin and secreted by synovial membranes

    Synovitis
  • (n.) Inflammation of the synovial membrane.

    Synsepalous
  • (a.) Having united sepals

    Syntax
  • (n.) Connected system or order

    Synthesis
  • (n.) Composition, or the putting of two or more things together, as in compounding medicines

    Synthesize
  • (v. t.) To combine by synthesis

    Syntonic
  • (a.) Of or pert. to syntony

    Syphilis
  • (n.) The pox, or venereal disease

    Syphiloid
  • (a.) Resembling syphilis.

    Syriac
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Syria, or its language
  • (n.) The language of Syria

    Syringa
  • (n.) A genus of plants

    Syringe
  • (n.) A kind of small hand-pump for throwing a stream of liquid, or for purposes of aspiration. It consists of a small cylindrical barrel and piston, or a bulb of soft elastic material, with or without valves, and with a nozzle which is sometimes at the end of a flexible tube
  • (v. t.) To inject by means of a syringe

    Syrinx
  • (n.) A wind instrument made of reeds tied together

    Syrup
  • (n.) A thick and viscid liquid made from the juice of fruits, herbs, etc., boiled with sugar.

    Systaltic
  • (a.) Capable of, or taking place by, alternate contraction and dilatation

    System
  • (n.) An assemblage of objects arranged in regular subordination, or after some distinct method, usually logical or scientific

    Systole
  • (n.) The contraction of the heart and arteries by which the blood is forced onward and the circulation kept up

    Syzygy
  • (n.) Any one of the segments of an arm of a crinoid composed of two joints so closely united that the line of union is obliterated on the outer, though visible on the inner, side

    Ta
  • (v. t.) To take.

    Tab
  • (n.) A border of lace or other material, worn on the inner front edge of ladies' bonnets.

    Tabard
  • (n.) A sort of tunic or mantle formerly worn for protection from the weather. When worn over the armor it was commonly emblazoned with the arms of the wearer, and from this the name was given to the garment adopted for heralds

    Tabaret
  • (n.) A stout silk having satin stripes

    Tabernacle
  • (n.) A boxlike step for a mast with the after side open, so that the mast can be lowered to pass under bridges, etc
  • (v. i.) To dwell or reside for a time

    Tabes
  • (n.) Progressive emaciation of the body, accompained with hectic fever, with no well-marked logical symptoms

    Tablature
  • (n.) An ancient mode of indicating musical sounds by letters and other signs instead of by notes

    Table
  • (n.) A circular plate of crown glass.
  • (v. i.) To live at the table of another
  • (v. t.) In parliamentary usage, to lay on the table

    Tabloid
  • (a.) Compressed or condensed, as into a tabloid
  • (n.) A compressed portion of one or more drugs or chemicals, or of food, etc.

    Taboo
  • (a.) Set apart or sacred by religious custom among certain races of Polynesia, New Zealand, etc., and forbidden to certain persons or uses
  • (n.) A total prohibition of intercourse with, use of, or approach to, a given person or thing under pain of death
  • (v. t.) To put under taboo

    Tabor
  • (n.) A small drum used as an accompaniment to a pipe or fife, both being played by the same person
  • (v. i.) To play on a tabor, or little drum.
  • (v. t.) To make (a sound) with a tabor.

    Tabouret
  • (n.) An embroidery frame.

    Tabular
  • (a.) Arranged in a schedule

    Tabulate
  • (v. t.) To form into a table or tables

    Tac
  • (n.) A kind of customary payment by a tenant

    Tacet
  • (v.impers.) It is silent

    Tachistoscope
  • (n.) An apparatus for exposing briefly to view a screen bearing letters or figures. It is used in studying the range of attention, or the power of distinguishing separate objects in a single impression

    Tachograph
  • (n.) A recording or registering tachometer

    Tachometer
  • (n.) An instrument for measuring the velocity, or indicating changes in the velocity, of a moving body or substance

    Tachygraphy
  • (n.) The art or practice of rapid writing

    Tachymeter
  • (n.) An instrument, esp. a transit or theodolite with stadia wires, for determining quickly the distances, bearings, and elevations of distant objects

    Tachymetry
  • (n.) The science or use of the tachymeter.

    Tacit
  • (a.) Done or made in silence

    Tack
  • (n.) A peculiar flavor or taint
  • (v. i.) To change the direction of a vessel by shifting the position of the helm and sails
  • (v. t.) A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire

    Tact
  • (n.) Sensitive mental touch

    Tadpole
  • (n.) The hooded merganser.

    Tael
  • (n.) A denomination of money, in China, worth nearly six shillings sterling, or about a dollar and forty cents

    Taenia
  • (n.) A band

    Taffrail
  • (n.) The upper part of a ship's stern, which is flat like a table on the top, and sometimes ornamented with carved work

    Taffy
  • (n.) A kind of candy made of molasses or brown sugar boiled down and poured out in shallow pans.

    Tag
  • (n.) A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
  • (v.) A child's play in which one runs after and touches another, and then runs away to avoid being touched
  • (v. i.) To follow closely, as it were an appendage
  • (v. t.) To fit with, or as with, a tag or tags.

    Tagalog
  • (n.) Any member of a certain tribe which is one of the leading and most civilized of those native of the Philippine Islands

    Tagger
  • (n.) A device for removing taglocks from sheep.

    Taguan
  • (n.) A large flying squirrel (Pteromys petuarista). Its body becomes two feet long, with a large bushy tail nearly as long

    Tai
  • (a.) Designating, or pertaining to, the chief linguistic stock of Indo-China, including the peoples of Siamese and Shan speech
  • (n.) A member of one of the tribes of the Tai stock.

    Tailing
  • (n.) A prolongation of current in a telegraph line, due to capacity in the line and causing signals to run together

    Taille
  • (n.) Any imposition levied by the king, or any other lord, upon his subjects.

    Tailor
  • (n.) One whose occupation is to cut out and make men's garments
  • (v. i.) To practice making men's clothes

    Tailpiece
  • (n.) An ornament placed at the bottom of a short page to fill up the space, or at the end of a book

    Tailstock
  • (n.) The sliding block or support, in a lathe, which carries the dead spindle, or adjustable center

    Taint
  • (n.) A blemish on reputation
  • (v. i.) To be affected with incipient putrefaction
  • (v. t.) Aphetic form of Attaint.

    Take
  • (n.) That which is taken
  • (p. p.) Taken.
  • (v. i.) To admit of being pictured, as in a photograph
  • (v. t.) In an active sense

    Taking
  • (a.) Apt to take
  • (n.) Agitation

    Talapoin
  • (n.) A Buddhist monk or priest.

    Talaria
  • (n. pl.) Small wings or winged shoes represented as fastened to the ankles

    Talbot
  • (n.) A sort of dog, noted for quick scent and eager pursuit of game.

    Talc
  • (n.) A soft mineral of a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or grayish color, usually occurring in foliated masses

    Tale
  • (v. i.) A count or declaration.

    Talion
  • (n.) Retaliation.

    Talipes
  • (n.) The deformity called clubfoot.

    Talipot
  • (n.) A beautiful tropical palm tree (Corypha umbraculifera), a native of Ceylon and the Malabar coast

    Talisman
  • (n.) A magical figure cut or engraved under certain superstitious observances of the configuration of the heavens, to which wonderful effects are ascribed

    Talk
  • (n.) Report
  • (v. t.) To cause to be or become by talking.

    Tall
  • (superl.) Brave

    Talmud
  • (n.) The body of the Jewish civil and canonical law not comprised in the Pentateuch.

    Talon
  • (n.) A kind of molding, concave at the bottom and convex at the top

    Taluk
  • (n.) A large estate

    Talus
  • (n.) A slope

    Tamale
  • (n.) A Mexican dish made of crushed maize mixed with minced meat, seasoned with red pepper, dipped in oil, and steamed

    Tamarack
  • (n.) The American larch

    Tamarin
  • (n.) Any one of several species of small squirrel-like South American monkeys of the genus Midas, especially M

    Tamarisk
  • (n.) Any shrub or tree of the genus Tamarix, the species of which are European and Asiatic. They have minute scalelike leaves, and small flowers in spikes

    Tambour
  • (n.) A kind of small flat drum
  • (v. t.) To embroider on a tambour.

    Tame
  • (a.) To reduce from a wild to a domestic state
  • (superl.) Crushed
  • (v. t.) To broach or enter upon

    Tamil
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Tamils, or to their language.
  • (n.) One of a Dravidian race of men native of Northern Ceylon and Southern India.

    Tamis
  • (n.) A sieve, or strainer, made of a kind of woolen cloth.

    Tammuz
  • (n.) A deity among the ancient Syrians, in honor of whom the Hebrew idolatresses held an annual lamentation

    Tammy
  • (n.) A kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed

    Tamp
  • (v. t.) In blasting, to plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock, in order to prevent the force of the explosion from being misdirected

    Tamworth
  • (n.) One of a long-established English breed of large pigs. They are red, often spotted with black, with a long snout and erect or forwardly pointed ears, and are valued as bacon producers

    Tan
  • (a.) Of the color of tan
  • (n.) A brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun
  • (v. i.) To get or become tanned.
  • (v. t.) To thrash or beat

    Tanager
  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of bright-colored singing birds belonging to Tanagra, Piranga, and allied genera

    Tandem
  • (adv. & a.) One after another
  • (n.) A tandem bicycle or other vehicle.

    Tang
  • (n.) A coarse blackish seaweed (Fuscus nodosus).
  • (v. i.) To make a ringing sound
  • (v. t.) To cause to ring or sound loudly

    Tanistry
  • (n.) In Ireland, a tenure of family lands by which the proprietor had only a life estate, to which he was admitted by election

    Tank
  • (n.) A large basin or cistern

    Tannage
  • (n.) A tanning

    Tannate
  • (n.) A salt of tannic acid.

    Tanner
  • (n.) A sixpence.

    Tannic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to tan

    Tanning
  • (n.) The art or process of converting skins into leather.

    Tansy
  • (n.) A dish common in the seventeenth century, made of eggs, sugar, rose water, cream, and the juice of herbs, baked with butter in a shallow dish

    Tantalic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to tantalum

    Tantalite
  • (n.) A heavy mineral of an iron-black color and submetallic luster. It is essentially a tantalate of iron

    Tantalize
  • (v. t.) To tease or torment by presenting some good to the view and exciting desire, but continually frustrating the expectations by keeping that good out of reach

    Tantalum
  • (n.) A rare nonmetallic element found in certain minerals, as tantalite, samarskite, and fergusonite, and isolated as a dark powder which becomes steel-gray by burnishing

    Tantalus
  • (n.) A genus of wading birds comprising the wood ibises.

    Tantamount
  • (a.) Equivalent in value, signification, or effect.
  • (v. i.) To be tantamount or equivalent

    Tantivy
  • (adv.) Swiftly
  • (n.) A rapid, violent gallop
  • (v. i.) To go away in haste.

    Tantra
  • (n.) A ceremonial treatise related to Puranic and magic literature

    Tantrism
  • (n.) The system of doctrines and rites taught in the tantras.

    Tantrum
  • (n.) A whim, or burst of ill-humor

    Taoism
  • (n.) One of the popular religions of China, sanctioned by the state.

    Tap
  • (n.) A gentle or slight blow
  • (v. i.) To strike a gentle blow.
  • (v. t.) Hence, to draw from (anything) in any analogous way

    Tapa
  • (n.) A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry

    Tape
  • (n.) A narrow fillet or band of cotton or linen
  • (v. t.) to cover (a wire) with insulating tape.

    Taphouse
  • (n.) A house where liquors are retailed.

    Tapioca
  • (n.) A coarsely granular substance obtained by heating, and thus partly changing, the moistened starch obtained from the roots of the cassava

    Tapir
  • (n.) Any one of several species of large odd-toed ungulates belonging to Tapirus, Elasmognathus, and allied genera

    Tapis
  • (n.) Tapestry
  • (v. t.) To cover or work with figures like tapestry.

    Tappet
  • (n.) A lever or projection moved by some other piece, as a cam, or intended to tap or touch something else, with a view to produce change or regulate motion

    Taproom
  • (n.) A room where liquors are kept on tap

    Taproot
  • (n.) The root of a plant which penetrates the earth directly downward to a considerable depth without dividing

    Tapster
  • (n.) One whose business is to tap or draw ale or other liquor.

    Tar
  • (n.) A sailor
  • (v. t.) To smear with tar, or as with tar

    Tarantass
  • (n.) A low four-wheeled carriage used in Russia. The carriage box rests on two long, springy poles which run from the fore to the hind axletree

    Tarantella
  • (n.) A rapid and delirious sort of Neapolitan dance in 6-8 time, which moves in whirling triplets

    Tarantism
  • (n.) A nervous affection producing melancholy, stupor, and an uncontrollable desire to dance

    Tarantula
  • (n.) Any one of several species of large spiders, popularly supposed to be very venomous, especially the European species (Tarantula apuliae)

    Tarboosh
  • (n.) A red cap worn by Turks and other Eastern nations, sometimes alone and sometimes swathed with linen or other stuff to make a turban

    Tardigrade
  • (a.) Moving or stepping slowly
  • (n.) One of the Tardigrada.

    Tardy
  • (superl.) Criminal
  • (v. t.) To make tardy.

    Tare
  • (imp.) Tore.
  • (n.) A name of several climbing or diffuse leguminous herbs of the genus Vicia
  • (v. t.) To ascertain or mark the tare of (goods).

    Targe
  • (n.) A shield or target.

    Targum
  • (n.) A translation or paraphrase of some portion of the Old Testament Scriptures in the Chaldee or Aramaic language or dialect

    Tariff
  • (n.) Any schedule or system of rates, changes, etc.
  • (v. t.) To make a list of duties on, as goods.

    Tarlatan
  • (n.) A kind of thin, transparent muslin, used for dresses.

    Tarn
  • (n.) A mountain lake or pool.

    Taro
  • (n.) A name for several aroid plants (Colocasia antiquorum, var. esculenta, Colocasia macrorhiza, etc

    Tarpan
  • (n.) A wild horse found in the region of the Caspian Sea.

    Tarpaulin
  • (n.) A hat made of, or covered with, painted or tarred cloth, worn by sailors and others.

    Tarragon
  • (n.) A plant of the genus Artemisa (A. dracunculus), much used in France for flavoring vinegar

    Tarriance
  • (n.) The act or time of tarrying

    Tarry
  • (n.) Consisting of, or covered with, tar
  • (v. i.) To delay
  • (v. t.) To delay

    Tarsometatarsus
  • (n.) The large bone next the foot in the leg of a bird. It is formed by the union of the distal part of the tarsus with the metatarsus

    Tarsus
  • (n.) A plate of dense connective tissue or cartilage in the eyelid of man and many animals

    Tart
  • (n.) A species of small open pie, or piece of pastry, containing jelly or conserve

    Tarweed
  • (n.) A name given to several resinous-glandular composite plants of California, esp. to the species of Grindelia, Hemizonia, and Madia

    Tas
  • (n.) A heap.
  • (v. t.) To tassel.

    Task
  • (v.) Business
  • (v. t.) To charge

    Tasse
  • (n.) A piece of armor for the thighs, forming an appendage to the ancient corselet.

    Taste
  • (n.) A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.
  • (v. i.) To have a smack
  • (v. t.) To become acquainted with by actual trial

    Tasty
  • (n.) Being in conformity to the principles of good taste
  • (superl.) Having a good taste


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