10-letter words starting with t
- trekschuit — a horse-drawn boat, literally a tugboat, specific to the Netherlands
- tremendous — extraordinarily great in size, amount, or intensity: a tremendous ocean liner; tremendous talent.
- tremolando — (of a piece of music) to be played with tremulous effect
- tremolitic — relating to tremolite
- trenchancy — incisive or keen, as language or a person; caustic; cutting: trenchant wit.
- trend line — a line on a graph or chart that shows a statistical trend
- trendiness — of, in, or pertaining to the latest trend or style.
- trephining — a small circular saw with a center pin mounted on a strong hollow metal shaft to which is attached a transverse handle: used in surgery to remove circular disks of bone from the skull.
- treponemal — any of several anaerobic spirochetes of the genus Treponema, certain species of which are parasitic in and pathogenic for humans and warm-blooded animals.
- trespasser — Law. an unlawful act causing injury to the person, property, or rights of another, committed with force or violence, actual or implied. a wrongful entry upon the lands of another. the action to recover damages for such an injury.
- treta yuga — the second Yuga, not as good as the Satya Yuga but better than the Dvapara Yuga.
- trevithick — Richard, 1771–1833, English engineer.
- triacetate — an acetate containing three acetate groups.
- triaconter — (in ancient Greece) a Greek galley with thirty oars
- trial jury — petty jury.
- triandrian — with three stamens
- triangular — pertaining to or having the form of a triangle; three-cornered.
- triangulum — a small triangular constellation in the N hemisphere, close to Perseus and Aries
- triapsidal — having three apses.
- triathlete — a competitor in a triathlon.
- tribometer — an instrument used to estimate rubbing friction
- tribromide — a bromide containing three atoms of bromine.
- tricameral — having three branches, chambers, or houses, as a legislative body.
- trichiasis — a condition in which the eyelashes grow inwardly.
- trichinize — to infect with trichinae.
- trichinose — to infest with parasitic worms (trichinae)
- trichinous — pertaining to or of the nature of trichinosis.
- trichocyst — an organ of offense and defense embedded in the outer cytoplasm of certain protozoans, consisting of a small elongated sac containing a fine, hairlike filament capable of being ejected.
- trichogyne — a hairlike prolongation of a carpogonium, serving as a receptive organ for the spermatium.
- trichology — the science dealing with the study of the hair and its diseases.
- trichotomy — division into three parts, classes, categories, etc.
- trichroism — pleochroism of a biaxial crystal such that it exhibits three different colors when viewed from three different directions under transmitted light.
- trichromat — any person with normal colour vision, who can therefore see the three primary colours
- trick knee — a condition of the knee in which the joint suddenly stiffens or abandons its support.
- trickiness — given to or characterized by deceitful tricks; crafty; wily.
- trickishly — in a crafty manner
- trickle-up — noting or pertaining to the theory that monetary benefits directed toward small businesses and the poor will gradually pass up to big business and the rich.
- tricktrack — a variety of backgammon.
- triclinium — a couch extending along three sides of a table, for reclining on at meals.
- tricolette — a knitted fabric made of silk or synthetic yarn, used in the manufacture of wearing apparel.
- tricolored — having three colours
- tricostate — having three ribs, costae, or raised lines.
- tricoteuse — a woman who knits, with reference to women who sat and witnessed the public executions taking place during the French Revolution
- tridentate — having three teeth or toothlike parts or processes.
- tridentine — of or relating to the city of Trent.
- trierarchy — the office of a trierarch.
- trifarious — facing in three different directions
- triffidian — resembling a triffid
- trifoliate — having three leaflets, lobes, or foils; trefoil.
- trifurcate — to divide into three forks or branches.