10-letter words starting with t
- tensegrity — the property of skeleton structures that employ continuous tension members and discontinuous compression members in such a way that each member operates with the maximum efficiency and economy.
- tensimeter — manometer.
- tensioning — the act of stretching or straining.
- tent dress — a loose-fitting dress that gradually flares outward or grows fuller from the shoulder to the hem and has no waistline.
- tentacular — Zoology. any of various slender, flexible processes or appendages in animals, especially invertebrates, that serve as organs of touch, prehension, etc.; feeler.
- tentaculum — a tentacle
- tentations — a method of making mechanical adjustments or the like by a succession of trials.
- tenterhook — one of the hooks or bent nails that hold cloth stretched on a tenter.
- tepe gawra — an archaeological site in N Iraq, near Mosul: excavations have revealed that numerous settlements have occupied this site since c5000 b.c.
- tepidarium — a warm room in Roman baths
- teratogeny — the production or induction of malformations or monstrosities, especially of a developing embryo or fetus.
- teratology — the science or study of monstrosities or abnormal formations in organisms.
- terengganu — Trengganu.
- tereshkova — Valentina Vladimirovna [vuh-lyin-tyee-nuh vluh-dyi-myee-ruh v-nuh] /və lyɪnˈtyi nə vlə dyɪˈmyi rəv nə/ (Show IPA), born 1937, Soviet cosmonaut: first woman in space 1963.
- term limit — Often, term limits. a statutory limit on the number of terms an official may serve: the Twenty-second Amendment, which imposed term limits on U.S. presidents.
- term paper — a long essay, report, or the like, written by a student as an assignment over the course of a term or semester.
- term sheet — business contract document
- terminable — capable of being terminated.
- terminally — situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
- terminator — a person or thing that terminates.
- terneplate — steel plate coated with terne metal.
- terpolymer — a polymer consisting of three different monomers, as ABS resin.
- terra alba — any of various white, earthy or powdery substances, as pipe clay, gypsum, kaolin, or magnesia.
- terracette — a naturally occurring terrace
- terrachlor — pentachloronitrobenzene.
- terracotta — a hard, fired clay, brownish-red in color when unglazed, that is used for architectural ornaments and facings, structural units, pottery, and as a material for sculpture.
- terramycin — a broad-spectrum antibiotic, oxytetracycline, used in treating various infections
- terrebonne — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal.
- terreplein — the top platform or horizontal surface of a rampart where guns are mounted.
- terrifying — to fill with terror or alarm; make greatly afraid.
- tersanctus — Sanctus (def 1).
- tertullian — (Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus) a.d. c160–c230, Carthaginian theologian.
- terza rima — an Italian form of iambic verse consisting of eleven-syllable lines arranged in tercets, the middle line of each tercet rhyming with the first and last lines of the following tercet.
- teschenite — a coarse-grained igneous rock consisting of plagioclase, olivine, and augite.
- tesla coil — an air-core transformer used to produce high voltages of high-frequency alternating currents.
- tesselated — of, relating to, or like a mosaic.
- tessellate — to form of small squares or blocks, as floors or pavements; form or arrange in a checkered or mosaic pattern.
- test blank — a typed or printed test form containing questions or tasks to be responded to.
- test drive — If you test drive a car or other vehicle, you drive it for a short period in order to assess its performance before deciding whether to buy it.
- test gauge — a measuring instrument that is used in the testing of equipment and in laboratory testing
- test match — a group of cricket games played between all-star teams of Australia and England to determine the champion.
- test paper — the paper bearing a student's answers on an examination.
- test piece — a piece of music played in an exam in order to test the abilities of the player
- test pilot — a pilot employed to test-fly newly-built aircraft.
- test stand — a device that restrains a missile or rocket during a captive test.
- test strip — a strip of reactive paper that has been impregnated with an indicator for use in chemical tests
- test-drill — to drill a test hole (in)
- test-drive — to drive (a vehicle) on the highway or a special track or route in order to evaluate performance and reliability.
- testaceous — of, relating to, or derived from shells.
- testicular — of or relating to the testes.