10-letter words starting with t
- truculency — fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.
- true basic — (language) A compiled BASIC, by John Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz, requiring no line numbers.
- true fruit — simple fruit.
- true level — an imaginary surface everywhere perpendicular to the plumb line, or line of gravity.
- true north — the direction of the north pole from a given point.
- true rhyme — full rhyme.
- true-crime — based on or describing an actual crime.
- trump card — Cards. trump1 (def 1a).
- trumped up — spuriously devised; fraudulent; fabricated: He was arrested on some trumped-up charge.
- trumped-up — spuriously devised; fraudulent; fabricated: He was arrested on some trumped-up charge.
- trumpeldor — Joseph, 1880–1920, Zionist leader, born in Russia.
- trumpeting — Music. any of a family of brass wind instruments with a powerful, penetrating tone, consisting of a tube commonly curved once or twice around on itself and having a cup-shaped mouthpiece at one end and a flaring bell at the other. an organ stop having a tone resembling that of a trumpet. a trumpeter.
- trumscheit — trumpet marine.
- truncating — the process of shortening a variable
- truncation — the act or process of truncating.
- trunk call — a long-distance phone call.
- trunk curl — another term for sit-up
- trunk hose — full, baglike breeches covering the body from the waist to the middle of the thigh or lower, sometimes having the stockings attached in one piece, worn by men in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- trunk line — a major long-distance transportation line.
- trunk road — A trunk road is a major road that has been specially built for travelling long distances. A trunk road is not as wide or as fast as a motorway.
- trunk show — a showing and sale in a retail store of an entire collection of clothing, jewelry, etc., from a particular designer.
- truss hoop — a hoop placed around the staves of a barrel to secure them in place.
- trust deed — law: conditions of trust
- trust fund — money, securities, property, etc., held in trust.
- trustiness — able to be trusted or relied on; trustworthy; reliable.
- truth drug — a drug, as the barbiturate thiopental, that induces in the subject a desire to talk or a state of heightened suggestibility, used in psychotherapy and in interrogation to discover repressed or consciously withheld information.
- truthfully — telling the truth, especially habitually: a truthful person.
- truthiness — the quality of seeming to be true according to one's intuition, opinion, or perception without regard to logic, factual evidence, or the like: the growing trend of truthiness as opposed to truth.
- try square — a device for testing the squareness of carpentry work or the like, or for laying out right angles, consisting of a pair of straightedges fixed at right angles to one another.
- tryptamine — a crystalline substance, C 10 H 12 N 2 , that is formed from tryptophan and is involved in various metabolic processes.
- tryptophan — an essential amino acid, (C 8 H 6 N)CH 2 CH(NH 2)COOH, colorless, crystalline, and aromatic, released from proteins by tryptic digestion and a precursor of serotonin. Symbol: W. Abbreviation: Trp;
- tsarevitch — the son of a czar.
- tsesarevna — (in Russian history) the wife of the tsesarevitch
- tsetse fly — any of several bloodsucking African flies of the genus Glossina, that act as a vector of sleeping sickness and other trypanosome infections of humans and domestic animals.
- tskhinvali — an autonomous region of the Georgian Republic, in the N part. 1428 sq. mi. (3900 sq. km). Capital: Tskhinvali.
- tsotsitaal — a type of street slang used by tsotsis
- tsvangirai — Morgan. born 1952, Zimbabwean trade unionist and politician; leader of the Movement for Democratic Change, the main opposition party to President Mugabe's Zanu-PF since 1999; prime minister (2009–2013)
- tsvetayeva — Maˈrina (Ivanovna) (məˈrinə ) ; mərēˈnə) 1892-1941; Russ. poet, essayist, & critic
- tubal-cain — the son of Lamech and Zillah: the progenitor of metalworkers. Gen. 4:22.
- tube sheet — A tube sheet is a plate which is used to support the tubes in a shell-and-tube heat exchanger.
- tube train — an underground train, esp in London
- tube-nosed — having a long, tubelike beak or snout.
- tuber fern — a tropical, erect fern, Nephrolepis cordifolia, having sharply toothed and numerously segmented fronds.
- tubercular — pertaining to tuberculosis; tuberculous.
- tuberculin — a sterile liquid prepared from cultures of the tubercle bacillus, used in the diagnosis and, formerly, in the treatment of tuberculosis.
- tuberculo- — tubercular
- tuberculum — a tubercle.
- tuberiform — in the form of a tuber
- tuberosity — a rough projection or protuberance of a bone, as for the attachment of a muscle.
- tubicolous — living in a self-constructed tube, as a marine worm.