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- tableau
- n. An arrangement of inanimate figures representing a scene from real life.
- tacit
- adj. Understood.
- taciturn
- adj. Disinclined to conversation.
- tack
- n. A small sharp-pointed nail.
- tact
- n. Fine or ready mental discernment shown in saying or doing the proper thing.
- tactician
- n. One who directs affairs with skill and shrewdness.
- tactics
- n. Any maneuvering or adroit management for effecting an object.
- tangency
- n. The state of touching.
- tangent
- adj. Touching.
- tangible
- adj. Perceptible by touch.
- tannery
- n. A place where leather is tanned.
- tantalize
- v. To tease.
- tantamount
- adj. Having equal or equivalent value, effect, or import.
- tapestry
- n. A fabric to which a pattern is applied with a needle, designed for ornamental hangings.
- tarnish
- v. To lessen or destroy the luster of in any way.
- taut
- adj. Stretched tight.
- taxation
- n. A levy, by government, of a fixed contribution.
- taxidermy
- n. The art or process of preserving dead animals or parts of them.
- technic
- adj. Technical.
- technicality
- n. Something peculiar to a particular art, trade, or the like.
- technique
- n. Manner of performance.
- technography
- n. The scientific description or study of human arts and industries in their historic development.
- technology
- n. The knowledge relating to industries and manufactures.
- teem
- v. To be full to overflowing.
- telepathy
- n. Thought-transference.
- telephony
- n. The art or process of communicating by telephone.
- telescope
- v. To drive together so that one slides into the another like the sections of a spy-glass.
- telltale
- adj. That gives warning or information.
- temerity
- n. Recklessness.
- temporal
- adj. Pertaining to or concerned with the affairs of the present life.
- temporary
- adj. Lasting for a short time only.
- temporize
- v. To pursue a policy of delay.
- tempt
- v. To offer to (somebody) an inducement to do wrong.
- tempter
- n. An allurer or enticer to evil.
- tenacious
- adj. Unyielding.
- tenant
- n. An occupant.
- tendency
- n. Direction or inclination, as toward some objector end.
- tenet
- n. Any opinion, principle, dogma, or doctrine that a person believes or maintains as true.
- tenor
- n. A settled course or manner of progress.
- tense
- adj. Strained to stiffness.
- tentative
- adj. Done as an experiment.
- tenure
- n. The term during which a thing is held.
- tercentenary
- adj. Pertaining to a period of 300 years.
- termagant
- adj. Violently abusive and quarrelsome.
- terminal
- adj. Pertaining to or creative of a boundary, limit.
- terminate
- v. To put an end or stop to.
- termination
- n. The act of ending or concluding.
- terminus
- n. The final point or goal.
- terrify
- v. To fill with extreme fear.
- territorial
- adj. Pertaining to the domain over which a sovereign state exercises jurisdiction.
- terse
- adj. Pithy.
- testament
- n. A will.
- testator
- n. The maker of a will.
- testimonial
- n. A formal token of regard, often presented in public.
- thearchy
- n. Government by a supreme deity.
- theism
- n. Belief in God.
- theocracy
- n. A government administered by ecclesiastics.
- theocrasy
- n. The mixed worship of polytheism.
- theologian
- n. A professor of divinity.
- theological
- adj. Based on or growing out of divine revelation.
- theology
- n. The branch of theological science that treats of God.
- theoretical
- adj. Directed toward knowledge for its own sake without respect to applications.
- theorist
- n. One given to speculating.
- theorize
- v. To speculate.
- thereabout
- adv. Near that number, quantity, degree, place, or time, approximately.
- therefor
- adv. For that or this.
- thermal
- adj. Of or pertaining to heat.
- thermoelectric
- adj. Denoting electricity produced by heat.
- thermoelectricity
- n. Electricity generated by differences of temperature,
- thesis
- n. An essay or treatise on a particular subject.
- thoroughbred
- adj. Bred from the best or purest blood or stock.
- thoroughfare
- n. A public street or road.
- thrall
- n. One controlled by an appetite or a passion.
- tilth
- n. Cultivation.
- timbre
- n. The quality of a tone, as distinguished from intensity and pitch.
- timorous
- adj. Lacking courage.
- tincture
- n. A solution, usually alcoholic, of some principle used in medicine.
- tinge
- n. A faint trace of color.
- tipsy
- adj. Befuddled with drinks.
- tirade
- n. Harangue.
- tireless
- adj. Untiring.
- tiresome
- adj. Wearisome.
- Titanic
- adj. Of vast size or strength.
- toilsome
- adj. Laborious.
- tolerable
- adj. Moderately good.
- tolerance
- n. Forbearance in judging of the acts or opinions of others.
- tolerant
- adj. Indulgent.
- tolerate
- v. To passively permit or put up with.
- toleration
- n. A spirit of charitable leniency.
- topography
- n. The art of representing on a map the physical features of any locality or region with accuracy.
- torpor
- n. Apathy.
- torrid
- adj. Excessively hot.
- tortious
- adj. Wrongful.
- tortuous
- adj. Abounding in irregular bends or turns.
- torturous
- adj. Marked by extreme suffering.
- tractable
- adj. Easily led or controlled.
- trait
- n. A distinguishing feature or quality.
- trajectory
- n. The path described by a projectile moving under given forces.
- trammel
- n. An impediment.
- tranquil
- adj. Calm.
- tranquilize
- v. To soothe.
- tranquility
- n. Calmness.
- transalpine
- adj. Situated on the other side of the Alps.
- transact
- v. To do business.
- transatlantic
- adj. Situated beyond or on the other side of the Atlantic.
- transcend
- v. To surpass.
- transcendent
- adj. Surpassing.
- transcontinental
- adj. Extending or passing across a continent.
- transcribe
- v. To write over again (something already written)
- transcript
- n. A copy made directly from an original.
- transfer
- v. To convey, remove, or cause to pass from one person or place to another.
- transferable
- adj. Capable of being conveyed from one person or place to another.
- transferee
- n. The person to whom a transfer is made.
- transference
- n. The act of conveying from one person or place to another.
- transferrer
- n. One who or that which conveys from one person or place to another.
- transfigure
- v. To give an exalted meaning or glorified appearance to.
- transfuse
- v. To pour or cause to pass, as a fluid, from one vessel to another.
- transfusible
- adj. Capable of being poured from one vessel to another.
- transfusion
- n. The act of pouring from one vessel to another.
- transgress
- v. To break a law.
- transience
- n. Something that is of short duration.
- transient
- n. One who or that which is only of temporary existence.
- transition
- n. Passage from one place, condition, or action to another.
- transitory
- adj. Existing for a short time only.
- translate
- v. To give the sense or equivalent of in another language or dialect.
- translator
- n. An interpreter.
- translucence
- n. The property or state of allowing the passage of light.
- translucent
- adj. Allowing the passage of light.
- transmissible
- adj. That may e sent through or across.
- transmission
- n. The act of sending through or across.
- transmit
- v. To send trough or across.
- transmute
- v. To change in nature, substance, or form.
- transparent
- adj. Easy to see through or understand.
- transpire
- v. To come to pass.
- transplant
- v. To remove and plant in another place.
- transposition
- n. The act of reversing the order or changing the place of.
- transverse
- adj. Lying or being across or in a crosswise direction.
- travail
- n. Hard or agonizing labor.
- travesty
- n. A grotesque imitation.
- treacherous
- adj. Perfidious.
- treachery
- n. Violation of allegiance, confidence, or plighted faith.
- treasonable
- adj. Of the nature of betrayal, treachery, or breech of allegiance.
- treatise
- n. An elaborate literary composition presenting a subject in all its parts.
- treble
- adj. Multiplied by three.
- trebly
- adv. Triply.
- tremendous
- adj. Awe-inspiring.
- tremor
- n. An involuntary trembling or shivering.
- tremulous
- adj. Characterized by quivering or unsteadiness.
- trenchant
- adj. Cutting deeply and quickly.
- trepidation
- n. Nervous uncertainty of feeling.
- trestle
- n. An open braced framework for supporting the horizontal stringers of a railway-bridge.
- triad
- n. A group of three persons of things.
- tribune
- n. Any champion of the rights and liberties of the people: often used as the name for a newspaper.
- trickery
- n. Artifice.
- tricolor
- adj. Of three colors.
- tricycle
- n. A three-wheeled vehicle.
- trident
- n. The three-pronged fork that was the emblem of Neptune.
- triennial
- adj. Taking place every third year.
- trimness
- n. Neatness.
- trinity
- n. A threefold personality existing in the one divine being or substance.
- trio
- n. Three things grouped or associated together.
- triple
- adj. Threefold.
- triplicate
- adj. Composed of or pertaining to three related things or parts.
- triplicity
- n. The state of being triple or threefold.
- tripod
- n. A three-legged stand, usually hinged near the top, for supporting some instrument.
- trisect
- v. To divide into three parts, especially into three equal parts.
- trite
- adj. Made commonplace by frequent repetition.
- triumvir
- n. One of three men united coordinately in public office or authority.
- trivial
- adj. Of little importance or value.
- troublesome
- adj. Burdensome.
- truculence
- n. Ferocity.
- truculent
- adj. Having the character or the spirit of a savage.
- truism
- n. A statement so plainly true as hardly to require statement or proof.
- truthful
- adj. Veracious.
- turgid
- adj. Swollen.
- turpitude
- n. Depravity.
- tutelage
- n. The act of training or the state of being under instruction.
- tutelar
- adj. Protective.
- tutorship
- n. The office of a guardian.
- twinge
- n. A darting momentary local pain.
- typical
- adj. Characteristic.
- typify
- v. To serve as a characteristic example of.
- typographical
- adj. Pertaining to typography or printing.
- typography
- n. The arrangement of composed type, or the appearance of printed matter.
- tyrannical
- adj. Despotic.
- tyranny
- n. Absolute power arbitrarily or unjustly administrated.
- tyro
- n. One slightly skilled in or acquainted with any trade or profession.