10-letter words starting with t
- testudinal — pertaining to or resembling a tortoise or tortoise shell.
- testudines — (among the ancient Romans) a movable shelter with a strong and usually fireproof arched roof, used for protection of soldiers in siege operations.
- tetchiness — irritable; touchy.
- tete-beche — of or relating to a pair of stamps that have been printed with one stamp inverted.
- tetherball — a game for two persons, in which each player, standing on each side of a post from the top of which a ball is suspended by a cord, hits the ball with the hand or a paddle in a direction opposite to that in which the other player hits it, the object being to coil the cord completely around the post.
- tetrabasic — (of an acid) having four atoms of hydrogen replaceable by basic atoms or groups.
- tetrabrach — a metrical foot or word of four short syllables.
- tetracaine — a white, water-soluble, crystalline solid, C 15 H 24 N 2 O 2 , used chiefly as an anesthetic.
- tetrachord — a diatonic series of four tones, the first and last separated by a perfect fourth.
- tetraethyl — containing four ethyl groups.
- tetragonal — pertaining to or having the form of a tetragon.
- tetrahedra — Geometry. a solid contained by four plane faces; a triangular pyramid.
- tetrameral — possessing parts in groups of four
- tetrameric — of or related to a tetramer
- tetrameter — Prosody. a verse of four feet.
- tetraploid — having a chromosome number that is four times the basic or haploid number.
- tetrapolis — a conglomeration of four cities
- tetraptote — a noun having four cases
- tetrapylon — a structure having four gateways as features of an architectural composition.
- tetrasemic — equal to four short syllables
- tetraspore — one of the four asexual spores produced within a tetrasporangium.
- tetrastich — a strophe, stanza, or poem consisting of four lines.
- tetrastyle — having four columns.
- tetrathlon — a contest featuring four sporting disciplines
- tetratomic — having four atoms per molecule, especially of a specified kind.
- tetrazzini — Luisa [loo-ee-zah] /luˈi zɑ/ (Show IPA), 1874–1940, Italian operatic soprano.
- tetterbush — an evergreen shrub, Lyonia lucida, of the southeastern U.S., having leathery leaves and white to pink flowers.
- tewkesbury — a town in N Gloucestershire, in W England: final defeat of the Lancastrians in the Wars of the Roses 1471.
- texas city — a city in SE Texas, on Galveston Bay.
- texas deck — the uppermost deck of an inland or western river steamer.
- texas sage — a slightly woody, hairy plant, Salvia coccinea, of the mint family, native to the southeastern U.S. and tropical America, having elongated clusters of scarlet flowers.
- text-speak — a form of written language as used in text messages and other digital communications, characterized by many abbreviations and typically not following standard grammar, spelling, punctuation, and style.
- textualism — strict adherence to a text, especially of the Scriptures.
- textualist — a person who adheres closely to a text, especially of the Scriptures.
- texturally — the visual and especially tactile quality of a surface: rough texture.
- texturized — that has been given a particular texture; specif., designating a synthetic fabric, as polyester, whose filaments have been processed to give them added bulk and resilience
- thai stick — a cigar-shaped stick of highly potent marijuana from Thailand.
- thailander — Also called Thailander [tahy-lan-der, -luh n-] /ˈtaɪˌlæn dər, -lən-/ (Show IPA). a native or descendant of a native of Thailand.
- thalassian — a sea turtle
- thalliform — resembling a thallus
- thanatosis — (of an animal) the ability to fake death in order to evade a predator or any other unwelcome intrusion
- thanatotic — an ancient Greek personification of death.
- thankfully — feeling or expressing gratitude; appreciative.
- that is it — You use that's it to indicate that nothing more needs to be done or that the end has been reached.
- that's all — You can say that's all at the end of a sentence when you are explaining something and want to emphasize that nothing more happens or is the case.
- thaumasite — a colourless or white silicate mineral, Ca3Si(CO3)(SO4)(OH)6·12(H2O)
- the absurd — the conception of the world, esp in Existentialist thought, as neither designed nor predictable but irrational and meaningless
- the animal — animal nature; animality
- the archer — the constellation Sagittarius, the ninth sign of the zodiac
- the arctic — the regions north of the Arctic Circle