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  • treasury bench — (in Britain) the front bench to the right of the Speaker in the House of Commons, traditionally reserved for members of the Government
  • treasury bills — an obligation of the U.S. government represented by promissory notes in denominations ranging from $1000 to $1,000,000, with a maturity of about 90 days but bearing no interest, and sold periodically at a discount on the market.
  • treasury stock — outstanding shares of stock reacquired and held by the issuing corporation.
  • treinta y tres — a city in E Uruguay.
  • trepidatiously — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
  • trial attorney — a lawyer who is involved in court cases
  • trimethylamine — a colourless, flammable liquid with a strong, fishy odour
  • tripersonality — the state or condition of being tripersonal; existence in three persons, as the Godhead.
  • triphenylamine — a molecule consisting of a nitrogen atom with three phenyl groups attached to it
  • trumpet player — a person who plays the trumpet
  • try one's hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • trysting place — a place for a meeting, especially a secret meeting of lovers; rendezvous.
  • tunny emulator — (hardware, cryptography)   A special-purpose computer designed at Bletchley Park (UK) based upon the reverse engineering of the Lorenz Cypher. The Lorenz Cypher was used by the German army to encrypt high command orders for transmission via teleprinter (the Enigma was a field-use cypher). Once the key to a message was discovered (by the computer Colossus) the Tunny machine would be set to decrypt the message. The process took about four days from intercept to printout. The original Tunny machine was built about 1943 and scrapped after the war. In 2011 a working model was re-built at Bletchley Park where it is on display.
  • turbomachinery — machinery consisting of, incorporating, or constituting a turbine
  • turkey buzzard — turkey vulture.
  • two-way street — an arrangement or a situation involving reciprocal obligation or mutual action
  • tymshare, inc. — (company)   The US company that created the TYMNET network.
  • tyrrhenian sea — a part of the Mediterranean, bounded by W Italy, Corsica, Sardinia, and Sicily.
  • unalterability — the state or quality of not being alterable or not being able to be changed
  • unattractively — in an unattractive manner
  • uncontemporary — outmoded
  • uncrystallized — lacking a final form
  • undeliberately — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
  • under-activity — insufficiently active: an underactive thyroid gland.
  • undersecretary — an official who is subordinate to a principal secretary, as in the U.S. cabinet: Under Secretary of the Treasury.
  • understandably — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
  • undespairingly — in an undespairing manner
  • undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
  • undistractedly — in an undistracted manner
  • unflatteringly — in an unflattering manner
  • unhysterically — in a way that does not show or suggest any hysteria; calmly; rationally
  • universal city — a city in S central Texas.
  • unlawful entry — clandestine, forced, or fraudulent entry into a premises, without the permission of its owner or occupant
  • unpraiseworthy — not worthy of praise
  • unrecognizably — in an unrecognizable or unidentifiable manner
  • unreconcilably — in an unreconcilable manner
  • upgradeability — an incline going up in the direction of movement.
  • urban clearway — a stretch of road in an urban area on which motorists may stop only in an emergency
  • urinary tubule — any of the long, winding tubules of the vertebrate kidney in which urine is formed
  • urine analysis — urinalysis.
  • ursine dasyure — Tasmanian devil.
  • utility player — a player who is capable of playing competently in any of several positions
  • van der weyden — Rogier (roːˈxiːr). ?1400–64, Flemish painter, esp of religious works and portraits
  • vandyke collar — a wide collar of lace and linen with the edge formed into scallops or deep points.
  • vapour density — the ratio of the density of a gas or vapour to that of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure
  • venus' flytrap — a white-flowered swamp plant (Dionaea muscipula) of the sundew family, native to the Carolinas, having sensitive leaves with two hinged blades that snap shut, often trapping insects
  • verbena family — the plant family Verbenaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having opposite or whorled leaves, clusters of irregular, sometimes fragrant flowers, and fleshy or dry fruit, and including the beautyberry, lantana, teak, verbena, and vervain.
  • vestmannaeyjar — a group of 14 small Icelandic islands off the S coast of Iceland.
  • victory garden — a vegetable garden, especially a home garden, cultivated to increase food production during a war or period of shortages.
  • virtual memory — a system whereby addressable memory is extended beyond main storage through the use of secondary storage managed by system software in such a way that programs can treat all of the designated storage as addressable main storage.
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