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Treacherous
  • (a.) Like a traitor

    Treachery
  • (n.) Violation of allegiance or of faith and confidence

    Treacle
  • (n.) A remedy against poison.

    Treacly
  • (a.) Like, or composed of, treacle.

    Tread
  • (n.) A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes.
  • (v. i.) To copulate
  • (v. t.) To beat or press with the feet

    Treason
  • (n.) Loosely, the betrayal of any trust or confidence

    Treasure
  • (n.) A great quantity of anything collected for future use
  • (v. t.) To collect and deposit, as money or other valuable things, for future use

    Treasury
  • (n.) A place or building in which stores of wealth are deposited

    Treat
  • (n.) An entertainment given as an expression of regard.
  • (v. i.) To discourse
  • (v. t.) To care for medicinally or surgically

    Treble
  • (a.) Acute
  • (adv.) Trebly
  • (n.) The highest of the four principal parts in music
  • (v. i.) To become threefold.
  • (v. t.) To make thrice as much

    Trecento
  • (n. & a.) The fourteenth century, when applied to Italian art, literature, etc. It marks the period of Dante, Petrarch, and boccaccio in literature, and of Giotto in painting

    Tree
  • (n.) A cross or gallows
  • (v. t.) To drive to a tree

    Tref
  • (a.) Ceremonially unclean, according to the Jewish law

    Trehala
  • (n.) An amorphous variety of manna obtained from the nests and cocoons of a Syrian coleopterous insect (Larinus maculatus, L

    Trehalose
  • (n.) Mycose

    Treillage
  • (n.) Latticework for supporting vines, etc.

    Trek
  • (n.) The act of trekking

    Trellis
  • (n.) A structure or frame of crossbarred work, or latticework, used for various purposes, as for screens or for supporting plants

    Trematode
  • (n.) One of the Trematodea. Also used adjectively.

    Tremble
  • (n.) An involuntary shaking or quivering.
  • (v. i.) To quaver or shake, as sound

    Tremendous
  • (a.) Fitted to excite fear or terror

    Tremolite
  • (n.) A white variety of amphibole, or hornblende, occurring in long, bladelike crystals, and coarsely fibrous masses

    Tremolo
  • (n.) A certain contrivance in an organ, which causes the notes to sound with rapid pulses or beats, producing a tremulous effect

    Tremor
  • (v.) A trembling

    Tremulous
  • (a.) Affected with fear or timidity

    Trench
  • (v. i.) To encroach
  • (v. t.) A long, narrow cut in the earth

    Trend
  • (n.) Clean wool.
  • (v. i.) To have a particular direction
  • (v. t.) To cause to turn

    Trepan
  • (n.) A crown-saw or cylindrical saw for perforating the skull, turned, when used, like a bit or gimlet
  • (v. t.) To insnare
  • (v. t. & i.) To perforate (the skull) with a trepan, so as to remove a portion of the bone, and thus relieve the brain from pressure or irritation

    Trephine
  • (n.) An instrument for trepanning, being an improvement on the trepan. It is a circular or cylindrical saw, with a handle like that of a gimlet, and a little sharp perforator called the center pin
  • (v. t.) To perforate with a trephine

    Trepidation
  • (n.) A libration of the starry sphere in the Ptolemaic system

    Trespass
  • (v.) An action for injuries accompanied with force.
  • (v. i.) To commit any offense, or to do any act that injures or annoys another

    Tress
  • (n.) A braid, knot, or curl, of hair

    Trestle
  • (n.) A movable frame or support for anything, as scaffolding, consisting of three or four legs secured to a top piece, and forming a sort of stool or horse, used by carpenters, masons, and other workmen

    Trews
  • (n. pl.) Trowsers

    Trey
  • (n.) Three, at cards, dice, or dominoes

    Triable
  • (a.) Fit or possible to be tried

    Triacid
  • (a.) Capable of neutralizing three molecules of a monobasic acid or the equivalent

    Triad
  • (n.) A chord of three notes.

    Trial
  • (n.) Any effort or exertion of strength for the purpose of ascertaining what can be done or effected

    Triangle
  • (n.) A draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle.

    Triangular
  • (a.) Having three angles

    Triangulate
  • (v. t.) To divide into triangles

    Triangulation
  • (n.) The series or network of triangles into which the face of a country, or any portion of it, is divided in a trigonometrical survey

    Triarchy
  • (n.) Government by three persons

    Triassic
  • (a.) Of the age of, or pertaining to, the Trias.
  • (n.) The Triassic formation.

    Triatomic
  • (a.) Having a valence of three

    Tribalism
  • (n.) The state of existing in tribes

    Tribasic
  • (a.) Capable of neutralizing three molecules of a monacid base, or their equivalent

    Tribe
  • (n.) A division, class, or distinct portion of a people, from whatever cause that distinction may have originated
  • (v. t.) To distribute into tribes or classes.

    Tribrach
  • (n.) A poetic foot of three short syllables, as, meblius.

    Tribulation
  • (n.) That which occasions distress, trouble, or vexation

    Tribunal
  • (n.) Hence, a court or forum

    Tribunate
  • (n.) The state or office of a tribune

    Tribune
  • (n.) Anciently, a bench or elevated place, from which speeches were delivered

    Tributary
  • (a.) Hence, subject
  • (n.) A ruler or state that pays tribute, or a stated sum, to a conquering power, for the purpose of securing peace and protection, or as an acknowledgment of submission, or for the purchase of security

    Tribute
  • (n.) A certain proportion of the ore raised, or of its value, given to the miner as his recompense
  • (v. i.) To pay as tribute.

    Trice
  • (n.) A very short time
  • (v. t.) To haul and tie up by means of a rope.

    Trichiasis
  • (n.) A disease of the eye, in which the eyelashes, being turned in upon the eyeball, produce constant irritation by the motion of the lids

    Trichina
  • (n.) A small, slender nematoid worm (Trichina spiralis) which, in the larval state, is parasitic, often in immense numbers, in the voluntary muscles of man, the hog, and many other animals

    Trichinize
  • (v. t.) To render trichinous

    Trichinosis
  • (n.) The disease produced by the presence of trichinae in the muscles and intestinal track

    Trichite
  • (n.) A delicate, hairlike siliceous spicule, found in certain sponges.

    Trichloride
  • (n.) A chloride having three atoms of chlorine in the molecule.

    Trichocyst
  • (n.) A lasso cell.

    Trichogyne
  • (n.) The slender, hairlike cell which receives the fertilizing particles, or antherozoids, in red seaweeds

    Trichome
  • (n.) A hair on the surface of leaf or stem, or any modification of a hair, as a minute scale, or star, or gland

    Trichotomy
  • (n.) Division into three parts.

    Trichromatic
  • (a.) Having or existing in three different phases of color

    Trick
  • (a.) A knot, braid, or plait of hair.
  • (v. t.) To deceive by cunning or artifice

    Triclinic
  • (a.) Having, or characterized by, three unequal axes intersecting at oblique angles.

    Triclinium
  • (n.) A couch for reclining at meals, extending round three sides of a table, and usually in three parts

    Tricolor
  • (n.) Hence, any three-colored flag.

    Tricot
  • (n.) A fabric of woolen, silk, or cotton knitted, or women to resemble knitted work.

    Tricuspid
  • (a.) Having three cusps, or points

    Tricycle
  • (n.) A three-wheeled velocipede.

    Trident
  • (a.) Having three teeth or prongs
  • (n.) A curve of third order, having three infinite branches in one direction and a fourth infinite branch in the opposite direction

    Tridimensional
  • (a.) Having three dimensions

    Tried
  • (adj.) Proved

    Triennial
  • (a.) Continuing three years
  • (n.) Something which takes place or appears once in three years.

    Trier
  • (n.) A person appointed according to law to try challenges of jurors

    Trifid
  • (a.) Cleft to the middle, or slightly beyond the middle, into three parts

    Trifle
  • (n.) A dish composed of sweetmeats, fruits, cake, wine, etc., with syllabub poured over it.
  • (v. t.) To make of no importance

    Trifling
  • (a.) Being of small value or importance

    Triforium
  • (n.) The gallery or open space between the vaulting and the roof of the aisles of a church, often forming a rich arcade in the interior of the church, above the nave arches and below the clearstory windows

    Triform
  • (a.) Having a triple form or character.

    Trig
  • (a.) Full
  • (n.) A stone, block of wood, or anything else, placed under a wheel or barrel to prevent motion
  • (v. t.) To fill

    Trihedral
  • (a.) Having three sides or faces

    Trihedron
  • (n.) A figure having three sides.

    Trilateral
  • (a.) Having three sides

    Trilinear
  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or included by, three lines

    Trilingual
  • (a.) Containing, or consisting of, three languages

    Triliteral
  • (a.) Consisting of three letters
  • (n.) A triliteral word.

    Trilithon
  • (n.) A monument consisting of three stones

    Trill
  • (n.) A shake or quaver of the voice in singing, or of the sound of an instrument, produced by the rapid alternation of two contiguous tones of the scale
  • (v. i.) To flow in a small stream, or in drops rapidly succeeding each other
  • (v. t.) To impart the quality of a trill to

    Trilobate
  • (a.) Having three lobes.

    Trilobite
  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of extinct arthropods belonging to the order Trilobita. Trilobites were very common in the Silurian and Devonian periods, but became extinct at the close of the Paleozoic

    Trilocular
  • (a.) Having three cells or cavities

    Trilogy
  • (n.) A series of three dramas which, although each of them is in one sense complete, have a close mutual relation, and form one historical and poetical picture

    Trim
  • (n.) Dress
  • (v. i.) To balance
  • (v. t.) Fitly adjusted

    Trinal
  • (a.) Threefold.

    Trine
  • (a.) Threefold
  • (n.) A triad
  • (v. t.) To put in the aspect of a trine.

    Trinitarian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Trinity, the doctrine of the Trinity, or believers in that doctrine
  • (n.) One of a monastic order founded in Rome in 1198 by St. John of Matha, and an old French hermit, Felix of Valois, for the purpose of redeeming Christian captives from the Mohammedans

    Trinity
  • (n.) Any symbol of the Trinity employed in Christian art, especially the triangle.

    Trinket
  • (n.) A three-cornered sail formerly carried on a ship's foremast, probably on a lateen yard.
  • (v. i.) To give trinkets
  • (v. t.) A knife

    Trinomial
  • (a.) Consisting of, or involving the use of, three terms
  • (n.) A quantity consisting of three terms, connected by the sign + or -

    Trio
  • (n.) A composition for three parts or three instruments.

    Trip
  • (n.) A brief or rapid journey

    Triquetrous
  • (a.) Three sided, the sides being plane or concave

    Trireme
  • (n.) An ancient galley or vessel with tree banks, or tiers, of oars.

    Trisect
  • (v. t.) To cut or divide into three equal parts.

    Trismus
  • (n.) The lockjaw.

    Trisoctahedron
  • (n.) A solid of the isometric system bounded by twenty-four equal faces, three corresponding to each face of an octahedron

    Triste
  • (imp.) of Trist
  • (n.) A cattle fair.

    Tristichous
  • (a.) Arranged in three vertical rows.

    Trisyllable
  • (n.) A word consisting of three syllables only

    Trite
  • (a.) Worn out

    Tritheism
  • (n.) The opinion or doctrine that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three distinct Gods.

    Triton
  • (n.) A fabled sea demigod, the son of Neptune and Amphitrite, and the trumpeter of Neptune. He is represented by poets and painters as having the upper part of his body like that of a man, and the lower part like that of a fish

    Triturate
  • (v. t.) To rub, grind, bruise, or thrash.

    Trituration
  • (n.) The act of triturating, or reducing to a fine or impalpable powder by grinding, rubbing, bruising, etc

    Triumph
  • (n.) A magnificent and imposing ceremonial performed in honor of a general who had gained a decisive victory over a foreign enemy
  • (v. t.) To obtain a victory over

    Triumvir
  • (n.) One of tree men united in public office or authority.

    Triune
  • (a.) Being three in one

    Triunity
  • (n.) The quality or state of being triune

    Trivalent
  • (a.) Having a valence of three

    Trivet
  • (n.) A tree-legged stool, table, or other support

    Trivial
  • (a.) Found anywhere
  • (n.) One of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.

    Trivium
  • (n.) The three " liberal" arts, grammar, logic, and rhetoric

    Triweekly
  • (a.) Occurring or appearing three times a week
  • (adv.) Three times a week.
  • (n.) A triweekly publication.

    Trocar
  • (n.) A stylet, usually with a triangular point, used for exploring tissues or for inserting drainage tubes, as in dropsy

    Trochaic
  • (n.) A trochaic verse or measure.

    Trochal
  • (a.) Resembling a wheel.

    Trochanter
  • (n.) One of two processes near the head of the femur, the outer being called the great trochanter, and the inner the small trochanter

    Troche
  • (n.) A medicinal tablet or lozenge

    Trochlea
  • (n.) A pulley, or a structure resembling a pulley

    Trochoid
  • (a.) Admitting of rotation on an axis
  • (n.) The curve described by any point in a wheel rolling on a line

    Trod
  • (imp.) of Tread

    Troglodyte
  • (n.) An anthropoid ape, as the chimpanzee.

    Trogon
  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of beautiful tropical birds belonging to the family Trogonidae

    Troilite
  • (n.) Native iron protosulphide, FeS. It is known only in meteoric irons, and is usually in imbedded nodular masses of a bronze color

    Troilus
  • (n.) A large, handsome American butterfly (Euph/ades, / Papilio, troilus). It is black, with yellow marginal spots on the front wings, and blue spots on the rear wings

    Trojan
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to ancient Troy or its inhabitants.
  • (n.) A native or inhabitant of Troy.

    Troll
  • (n.) A song the parts of which are sung in succession
  • (v. i.) To fish with a rod whose line runs on a reel
  • (v. t.) To angle for with a trolling line, or with a book drawn along the surface of the water

    Trombone
  • (n.) A powerful brass instrument of the trumpet kind, thought by some to be the ancient sackbut, consisting of a tube in three parts, bent twice upon itself and ending in a bell

    Trommel
  • (n.) A revolving buddle or sieve for separating, or sizing, ores.

    Tromp
  • (n.) A blowing apparatus, in which air, drawn into the upper part of a vertical tube through side holes by a stream of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace

    Trona
  • (n.) A native double salt, consisting of a combination of neutral and acid sodium carbonate, Na2CO3

    Troop
  • (n.) A collection of people
  • (v. i.) To march on

    Troostite
  • (n.) Willemite.

    Trope
  • (n.) The use of a word or expression in a different sense from that which properly belongs to it

    Trophic
  • (a.) Of or connected with nutrition

    Tropic
  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from atropine and certain other alkaloids, as a white crystalline substance slightly soluble in water
  • (n.) One of the two parallels of terrestrial latitude corresponding to the celestial tropics, and called by the same names

    Tropine
  • (n.) A white crystalline alkaloid, C8H15NO, produced by decomposing atropine.

    Tropism
  • (n.) Modification of the direction of growth.

    Tropology
  • (n.) A rhetorical mode of speech, including tropes, or changes from the original import of the word

    Troppo
  • (adv.) Too much

    Trot
  • (v. t.) To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot

    Troubadour
  • (n.) One of a school of poets who flourished from the eleventh to the thirteenth century, principally in Provence, in the south of France, and also in the north of Italy

    Trouble
  • (a.) Troubled
  • (v. t.) A fault or interruption in a stratum.

    Troublous
  • (a.) Full of trouble

    Trough
  • (n.) A long, hollow vessel, generally for holding water or other liquid, especially one formed by excavating a log longitudinally on one side

    Trounce
  • (v. t.) To punish or beat severely

    Troupe
  • (n.) A company or troop, especially the company pf performers in a play or an opera.

    Troupial
  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of bright-colored American birds belonging to Icterus and allied genera, especially Icterus icterus, a native of the West Indies and South America

    Trousers
  • (n. pl.) A garment worn by men and boys, extending from the waist to the knee or to the ankle, and covering each leg separately

    Trousseau
  • (n.) The collective lighter equipments or outfit of a bride, including clothes, jewelry, and the like

    Trout
  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of fishes belonging to Salmo, Salvelinus, and allied genera of the family Salmonidae

    Trover
  • (n.) An action to recover damages against one who found goods, and would not deliver them to the owner on demand

    Trow
  • (n.) A boat with an open well amidships. It is used in spearing fish.
  • (v. i. & t.) To believe

    Troy
  • (n.) Troy weight.

    Truancy
  • (n.) The act of playing truant, or the state of being truant

    Truant
  • (a.) Wandering from business or duty
  • (n.) One who stays away from business or any duty
  • (v. i.) To idle away time
  • (v. t.) To idle away

    Truce
  • (n.) A suspension of arms by agreement of the commanders of opposing forces

    Truck
  • (n.) Commodities appropriate for barter, or for small trade
  • (v. i.) A frame on low wheels or rollers
  • (v. t.) To exchange

    Truculent
  • (a.) Cruel

    Trudge
  • (v. i.) To walk or march with labor

    True
  • (a.) Genuine
  • (adv.) In accordance with truth
  • (n.) Actual

    Truffle
  • (n.) Any one of several kinds of roundish, subterranean fungi, usually of a blackish color. The French truffle (Tuber melanosporum) and the English truffle (T

    Trug
  • (n.) A concubine

    Truism
  • (n.) An undoubted or self-evident truth

    Trull
  • (n.) A drab

    Truly
  • (adv.) Conformably to law

    Trump
  • (n.) A good fellow
  • (v. i.) To blow a trumpet.
  • (v. t.) To impose unfairly

    Truncate
  • (a.) Appearing as if cut off at the tip
  • (v. t.) To cut off

    Truncheon
  • (n.) A baton, or military staff of command.
  • (v. t.) To beat with a truncheon.

    Trundle
  • (v. i.) A lantern wheel.
  • (v. t.) To cause to roll or revolve

    Trunk
  • (n.) A box or chest usually covered with leather, metal, or cloth, or sometimes made of leather, hide, or metal, for containing clothes or other goods
  • (v. t.) To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk.

    Trunnion
  • (n.) A cylindrical projection on each side of a piece, whether gun, mortar, or howitzer, serving to support it on the cheeks of the carriage

    Truss
  • (n.) A bandage or apparatus used in cases of hernia, to keep up the reduced parts and hinder further protrusion, and for other purposes

    Trust
  • (a.) Held in trust
  • (n.) A business organization or combination consisting of a number of firms or corporations operating, and often united, under an agreement creating a trust (in sense 1), esp
  • (v. i.) To be confident, as of something future

    Truth
  • (n.) A true thing
  • (v. t.) To assert as true

    Try
  • (n.) Act of trying
  • (v. i.) To do
  • (v. t.) Refined

    Trying
  • (a.) Adapted to try, or put to severe trial

    Tryout
  • (n.) A test by which the fitness of a player or contestant to remain in a certain class is determined

    Trypsin
  • (n.) A proteolytic ferment, or enzyme, present in the pancreatic juice. Unlike the pepsin of the gastric juice, it acts in a neutral or alkaline fluid, and not only converts the albuminous matter of the food into soluble peptones, but also, in part, into leucin and tyrosin

    Trysail
  • (n.) A fore-and-aft sail, bent to a gaff, and hoisted on a lower mast or on a small mast, called the trysail mast, close abaft a lower mast

    Tryst
  • (n.) An appointment to meet
  • (v. i.) To mutually agree to meet at a certain place.

    Tsar
  • (n.) The title of the emperor of Russia.

    Tuatara
  • (n.) A large iguanalike reptile (Sphenodon punctatum) formerly common in New Zealand, but now confined to certain islets near the coast

    Tub
  • (i.) To make use of a bathing tub
  • (n.) A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft
  • (v. t.) To plant or set in a tub

    Tuba
  • (n.) An ancient trumpet.

    Tube
  • (n.) A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a tube

    Tubing
  • (n.) A series of tubes

    Tubular
  • (a.) Having the form of a tube, or pipe

    Tubulate
  • (a.) Tubular

    Tubule
  • (n.) A minute tube lined with glandular epithelium

    Tubulous
  • (a.) Containing, or consisting of, small tubes

    Tuck
  • (n.) A horizontal sewed fold, such as is made in a garment, to shorten it
  • (v. i.) To contract
  • (v. t.) To draw up

    Tudor
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a royal line of England, descended from Owen Tudor of Wales, who married the widowed queen of Henry V

    Tue
  • (n.) The parson bird.

    Tuesday
  • (n.) The third day of the week, following Monday and preceding Wednesday.

    Tuft
  • (n.) A cluster
  • (v. i.) To grow in, or form, a tuft or tufts.
  • (v. t.) To adorn with tufts or with a tuft.

    Tug
  • (n.) An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed.
  • (v. i.) To labor
  • (v. t.) To pull

    Tuition
  • (n.) Especially, the act, art, or business of teaching

    Tule
  • (n.) A large bulrush (Scirpus lacustris, and S. Tatora) growing abundantly on overflowed land in California and elsewhere

    Tulip
  • (n.) Any plant of the liliaceous genus Tulipa. Many varieties are cultivated for their beautiful, often variegated flowers

    Tulle
  • (n.) A kind of silk lace or light netting, used for veils, etc.

    Tullibee
  • (n.) A whitefish (Coregonus tullibee) found in the Great Lakes of North America

    Tumble
  • (n.) Act of tumbling, or rolling over
  • (v. i.) To play tricks by various movements and contortions of the body
  • (v. t.) To disturb

    Tumefacient
  • (a.) Producing swelling

    Tumefaction
  • (n.) The act or process of tumefying, swelling, or rising into a tumor

    Tumefy
  • (v. i.) To rise in a tumor
  • (v. t.) To swell

    Tumescent
  • (a.) Slightly tumid

    Tumid
  • (a.) Rising above the level

    Tumor
  • (n.) Affected pomp

    Tump
  • (n.) A little hillock
  • (v. t.) To draw or drag, as a deer or other animal after it has been killed.

    Tumular
  • (a.) Consisting in a heap

    Tumulose
  • (a.) Tumulous.

    Tumult
  • (n.) Irregular or confused motion
  • (v. i.) To make a tumult

    Tumulus
  • (n.) An artificial hillock, especially one raised over a grave, particularly over the graves of persons buried in ancient times

    Tun
  • (n.) A certain measure for liquids, as for wine, equal to two pipes, four hogsheads, or 252 gallons
  • (v. i.) To put into tuns, or casks.

    Tuna
  • (n.) The bonito, 2.

    Tundra
  • (n.) A rolling, marshy, mossy plain of Northern Siberia.

    Tune
  • (n.) A rhythmical, melodious, symmetrical series of tones for one voice or instrument, or for any number of voices or instruments in unison, or two or more such series forming parts in harmony
  • (v. i.) To form one sound to another
  • (v. t.) To give tone to

    Tungstate
  • (n.) A salt of tungstic acid

    Tungsten
  • (n.) A rare element of the chromium group found in certain minerals, as wolfram and scheelite, and isolated as a heavy steel-gray metal which is very hard and infusible

    Tungstic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to tungsten

    Tungstite
  • (n.) The oxide of tungsten, a yellow mineral occurring in a pulverulent form. It is often associated with wolfram

    Tungusic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Tunguses

    Tunic
  • (n.) A membrane, or layer of tissue, especially when enveloping an organ or part, as the eye.

    Tunnel
  • (n. .) A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach
  • (v. t.) To catch in a tunnel net.

    Tunny
  • (n.) Any one of several species of large oceanic fishes belonging to the Mackerel family, especially the common or great tunny (Orcynus / Albacora thynnus) native of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean

    Tup
  • (n.) A ram.
  • (v. t. & i.) To butt, as a ram does.

    Tupelo
  • (n.) A North American tree (Nyssa multiflora) of the Dogwood family, having brilliant, glossy foliage and acid red berries

    Tupi
  • (n.) An Indian of the tribe from which the Tupian stock takes its name, dwelling, at the advent of the Portuguese, about the mouth of the Amazon

    Tuque
  • (n.) A kind of warm cap winter wear, made from a knit bag with closed tapered ends by pushing one end within the other, thus making a conical cap of double thickness

    Tur
  • (n.) The urus.

    Turanian
  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an extensive family of languages of simple structure and low grade (called also Altaic, Ural-Altaic, and Scythian), spoken in the northern parts of Europe and Asia and Central Asia
  • (n.) One of the Turanians.

    Turban
  • (n.) A headdress worn by men in the Levant and by most Mohammedans of the male sex, consisting of a cap, and a sash, scarf, or shawl, usually of cotton or linen, wound about the cap, and sometimes hanging down the neck

    Turbary
  • (n.) A right of digging turf on another man's land

    Turbellarian
  • (n.) One of the Turbellaria. Also used adjectively.

    Turbid
  • (a.) Disturbed

    Turbinate
  • (v. i.) To revolve or spin like a top

    Turbine
  • (n.) A form of steam engine analogous in construction and action to the water turbine. There are practically only two distinct kinds, and they are typified in the de Laval and the Parsons and Curtis turbines

    Turbit
  • (n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon, remarkable for its short beak.

    Turbo
  • (n.) Any one of numerous marine gastropods of the genus Turbo or family Turbinidae, usually having a turbinate shell, pearly on the inside, and a calcareous operculum

    Turbulence
  • (n.) The quality or state of being turbulent

    Turbulent
  • (a.) Disposed to insubordination and disorder

    Turcoman
  • (n.) A member of a tribe of Turanians inhabiting a region east of the Caspian Sea.

    Tureen
  • (n.) A large, deep vessel for holding soup, or other liquid food, at the table.

    Turf
  • (n.) Peat, especially when prepared for fuel.
  • (v. t.) To cover with turf or sod

    Turgescent
  • (a.) Becoming turgid or inflated

    Turgid
  • (a.) Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent or expansive force

    Turk
  • (n.) A member of any of numerous Tartar tribes of Central Asia, etc.

    Turmeric
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to turmeric
  • (n.) An East Indian plant of the genus Curcuma, of the Ginger family.

    Turmoil
  • (n.) Harassing labor
  • (v. i.) To be disquieted or confused
  • (v. t.) To harass with commotion

    Turn
  • (n.) A change of condition
  • (v. i.) Hence, to revolve as if upon a point of support
  • (v. t.) Hence, to give form to

    Turpentine
  • (n.) A semifluid or fluid oleoresin, primarily the exudation of the terebinth, or turpentine, tree (Pistacia Terebinthus), a native of the Mediterranean region

    Turpitude
  • (n.) Inherent baseness or vileness of principle, words, or actions

    Turquoise
  • (a.) Having a fine light blue color, like that of choice mineral turquoise.

    Turret
  • (n.) A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the angles of a larger structure

    Turtle
  • (n.) Any one of the numerous species of Testudinata, especially a sea turtle, or chelonian.

    Tuscan
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Tuscany in Italy
  • (n.) A native or inhabitant of Tuscany.

    Tush
  • (interj.) An exclamation indicating check, rebuke, or contempt
  • (n.) A long, pointed tooth

    Tusk
  • (n.) A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets
  • (v. i.) To bare or gnash the teeth.

    Tussis
  • (n.) A cough.

    Tussle
  • (n.) A struggle
  • (v. i. & t.) To struggle, as in sport

    Tussock
  • (n.) A caterpillar of any one of numerous species of bombycid moths. The body of these caterpillars is covered with hairs which form long tufts or brushes

    Tut
  • (n.) A hassock.

    Tutelage
  • (n.) The act of guarding or protecting

    Tutelary
  • (a.) Having the guardianship or charge of protecting a person or a thing

    Tutor
  • (n.) An instructor of a lower rank than a professor.
  • (v. t.) To have the guardianship or care of

    Tutti
  • (n. pl.) All

    Tuxedo
  • (n.) A kind of black coat for evening dress made without skirts

    Twaddle
  • (n.) Silly talk
  • (v. i. & t.) To talk in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed

    Twain
  • (a. & n.) Two

    Twang
  • (n.) A harsh, quick sound, like that made by a stretched string when pulled and suddenly let go
  • (v. i.) To sound with a quick, harsh noise
  • (v. t.) To make to sound, as by pulling a tense string and letting it go suddenly.

    Twayblade
  • (n.) Any one of several orchidaceous plants which have only two leaves, as the species of Listera and of Liparis

    Tweak
  • (n.) A prostitute.
  • (v. t.) To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist

    Tweed
  • (n.) 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

    Tweeze
  • (n.) A surgeon's case of instruments.

    Twelfth
  • (a.) Consisting, or being one of, twelve equal parts into which anything is divided.
  • (n.) An interval comprising an octave and a fifth.

    Twelve
  • (a.) One more that eleven
  • (n.) A symbol representing twelve units, as 12, or xii.

    Twentieth
  • (a.) Consisting, or being, one of twenty equal parts into which anything is divided.
  • (n.) The next in order after the nineteen

    Twenty
  • (a.) An indefinite number more or less that twenty.
  • (n.) A symbol representing twenty units, as 20, or xx.


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