10-letter words starting with t
- tier table — a stand having a number of round shelves, one on top of the other.
- tiers etat — third estate.
- tiger balm — a mentholated ointment widely used as a panacea
- tiger lily — a lily, Lilium lancifolium (or tigrinum), having dull-orange flowers spotted with black and small bulbs or bulbils in the axils of the leaves.
- tiger moth — any of numerous moths of the family Arctiidae, many of which have conspicuously striped or spotted wings.
- tiger team — a group of highly skilled workers assigned to tasks of special importance and urgency
- tight five — the combined front and second rows of a rugby union scrum
- tight head — the prop on the hooker's right in the front row of a scrum
- tight ship — an institution, business, etc. that is highly organized and efficiently run, like a naval vessel on which discipline is strictly enforced
- tight shot — a shot in which the camera appears to be very close to the subject, as in an extreme closeup.
- tight spot — a serious, difficult, or dangerous situation
- tight-arse — an inhibited or excessively self-controlled person
- tight-knit — well-organized and integrated.
- tighten up — fasten more securely
- tightening — (of a part of the body) tensing or stiffening
- tightishly — in a tightish manner
- tile field — a system of unconnected drain tiles distributing septic tank effluent over an absorption area or providing drainage in wet areas.
- tile forth — (language) A Forth interpreter in C for Unix by Mikael Patel <[email protected]>. TILE Forth comes with many Forth libraries. It conforms to the Forth83 standard and is distributed under GPL. Availalbe via FTP from a GNU archive site.
- tiliaceous — belonging to the Tiliaceae, the linden family of plants.
- till money — money set aside for use by a teller, as distinguished from money kept in the vault.
- tillandsia — any of numerous, chiefly epiphytic bromeliads of the genus Tillandsia, including Spanish moss and many species cultivated as ornamentals.
- tilt board — a seesaw.
- tilt-rotor — an aircraft with rotors that can be switched from spinning horizontally, usually during takeoffs and landings, to spinning vertically, as during regular flight
- timberhead — the top end of a timber, rising above the deck and serving for belaying ropes.
- timberjack — a person whose occupation is logging; logger.
- timberlake — Justin. born 1981, US pop singer; a member of the boy band NSYNC, he later found success with the bestselling solo album Justified (2002)
- timberland — land covered with timber-producing forests.
- timberline — the altitude above sea level at which timber ceases to grow.
- timberwork — structural work formed of timbers.
- timberyard — an establishment where timber and sometimes other building materials are stored or sold
- timbrelled — sung to a timbrel's sound
- timbrology — philately or the study of postage stamps
- time about — alternately; turn and turn about
- time chart — a chart indicating the standard times of certain parts of the world corresponding to a given time at a specific place.
- time check — (in racing sports, such as motor racing, cycling, etc) an instance of checking the time taken to cover a specific distance. Time checks occur at prearranged points in a race
- time clock — a clock with an attachment that may be manually activated to stamp or otherwise record the exact time on a card or tape, used to keep a record of the time of something, as of the arrival and departure of employees.
- time delay — a delay that separates the occurrence of two events
- time draft — a draft payable within a specified number of days after it is presented.
- time flies — time passes quickly
- time frame — a period of time during which something has taken or will take place: We're talking about a time frame of five minutes for the president's visit.
- time limit — a period of time within which an action or procedure must be done or completed.
- time money — funds loaned or available to be loaned for repayment within a designated period of time, usually in installments.
- time sheet — a sheet or card recording the hours worked by an employee, made especially for payroll purposes.
- time slice — the period of time for which a process is allowed to run uninterrupted in a pre-emptive multitasking operating system
- time stamp — a device for stamping the date and time of day that letters, packages, etc., are received or mailed.
- time study — time and motion study.
- time trial — a race in which competitors are timed individually on a set distance over a course or track, especially to qualify for a successive event.
- time value — the duration of a given printed note relative to other notes in a composition or section and considered in relation to the basic tempo
- time-lapse — done by means of time-lapse photography: a time-lapse study of the blooming of a flower.
- time-share — to use or occupy by time-sharing.