10-letter words starting with t
- tonguefish — any of several flatfishes of the family Cynoglossidae, having the tail tapered to a point.
- tongueless — Anatomy. the usually movable organ in the floor of the mouth in humans and most vertebrates, functioning in eating, in tasting, and, in humans, in speaking.
- tonguester — a person who talks endlessly or who gossips
- tonic wine — a wine, usually fortified, generally consumed for its supposed invigorating effects
- tonishness — the quality or state of being tonish
- tonka bean — the fragrant, black almond-shaped seed of a tall tree belonging to the genus Dipteryx (or Coumarouna), of the legume family, especially D. odorata, of tropical South America, used in perfumes, as a source of coumarin, and as a substitute for vanilla.
- tony hoare — Anthony Hoare
- tool maker — a person who specializes in the production or reconditioning of precision tools, cutters, etc
- tool steel — any of various high-carbon steels capable of being hardened and tempered to meet special requirements for machining, etc.
- tool-maker — a machinist skilled in the building and reconditioning of tools, jigs, and related devices used in a machine shop.
- toolholder — a device for holding a tool or tools.
- toolpusher — a foreman who supervises drilling operations on an oil rig
- tooth rash — strophulus.
- toothbrush — a small brush with a long handle, for cleaning the teeth.
- toothpaste — a dentifrice in the form of paste.
- toothy-peg — a word for tooth used in speaking to young children
- top banana — a leading comedian in musical comedy, burlesque, vaudeville, etc.: For many years he was top banana on the circuit.
- top dollar — the maximum amount being or likely to be paid: to pay top dollar for the jewelry.
- top drawer — the highest level in rank, excellence, or importance: a musician strictly out of the top drawer.
- top flight — the highest or most outstanding level, as in achievement or development: students in the top flight of their class.
- top loader — a machine or appliance, as a washing machine, loaded and unloaded through an opening in the top (distinguished from front loader).
- top secret — highly confidential, restricted
- top thirty — the thirty most important or successful items in a particular list
- top timber — a timber forming the upper, straighter portion of a frame in a wooden hull.
- top twenty — the twenty most important or successful items in a particular list
- top-drawer — the highest level in rank, excellence, or importance: a musician strictly out of the top drawer.
- top-flight — the highest or most outstanding level, as in achievement or development: students in the top flight of their class.
- top-hamper — the light upper sails and their gear and spars, sometimes used to refer to all spars and gear above the deck.
- top-hatted — wearing a top hat
- top-loader — a washing machine with a horizontal door in its top rather than a vertical one in its front
- top-ranked — A top-ranked sports player or team is the most successful player or team in a particular sport.
- top-secret — bearing the classification top-secret, the highest level of classified information.
- top-to-toe — involving the whole of the body
- topagnosia — a symptom of disease of or damage to the brain in which a person cannot identify a part of the body that has been touched
- topazolite — a greenish yellow variety of andradite garnet.
- topgallant — a sail or either of two sails set on the yard or yards of a topgallant mast.
- tophaceous — a calcareous concretion formed in the soft tissue about a joint, in the pinna of the ear, etc., especially in gout; a gouty deposit.
- topicality — the state or quality of being topical.
- topicalize — to introduce as, convert into, or mark as the topic of a sentence.
- topknotted — (of hair) tied up on top of the head
- topography — the detailed mapping or charting of the features of a relatively small area, district, or locality.
- toponymics — the study of place-names
- toponymist — a person who studies place names
- topophilia — the love of or emotional connections with place or physical environment
- torbernite — a mineral, hydrated copper uranium phosphate, CuU 2 P 2 O 12 ⋅12H 2 O, occurring in square tabular crystals of a bright-green color: a minor ore of uranium; copper uranite.
- torch lily — tritoma.
- torch song — a popular song concerned with unhappiness or failure in love.
- torchlight — the light of a torch or torches.
- toric lens — a lens used to correct astigmatism, having one of its surfaces shaped like part of a torus so that its focal lengths are different in different meridians
- tormenting — to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain: to be tormented with violent headaches.