12-letter words starting with t
- turn a trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
- turn against — become hostile to
- turn of mind — If someone is of a particular turn of mind, they have that kind of mind or character.
- turn over to — If you turn something over to a different function or use, you change its function or use.
- turned comma — quotation mark.
- turret lathe — a lathe fitted with a turret.
- turtlenecked — having a turtleneck
- tussock moth — any of several moths of the family Lymantriidae, the larvae of which have characteristic tufts of hair on the body and feed on the leaves of various deciduous trees.
- tutor period — (in British secondary schools) a school period for which a tutor group comes together with their tutor
- tutti-frutti — a preserve of chopped mixed fruits, often with brandy syrup.
- twenty-eight — a cardinal number, 20 plus 8.
- twenty-fifth — next after the twenty-fourth; being the ordinal number for 25.
- twenty-first — next after the twentieth; being the ordinal number for 21.
- twenty-ninth — next after the twenty-eighth; being the ordinal number for 29.
- twenty-seven — a cardinal number, 20 plus 7.
- twenty-sixer — a liquor bottle of around 26 ounces (0.750 litre) capacity
- twenty-sixth — next after the twenty-fifth; being the ordinal number for 26.
- twenty-third — next after the twenty-second; being the ordinal number for 23.
- twenty-three — a cardinal number, 20 plus 3.
- twig girdler — a person or thing that girdles.
- twin killing — double play.
- twin paradox — a phenomenon predicted by relativity. One of a pair of identical twins is supposed to live normally in an inertial system whilst the other is accelerated to a high speed in a spaceship, travels for a long time, and finally returns to rest beside his twin. The travelled twin will be found to be younger than his brother
- twin-engined — (of an aircraft) having two engines
- twisted pair — A twisted pair is a pair of wires that are twisted together to reduce interference.
- twitch grass — couch grass.
- twitteringly — in a twittering manner
- twitterpated — excited or overcome by romantic feelings; smitten.
- twitterverse — the social networking site Twitter and its users
- two sicilies — Two Sicilies.
- two-base hit — a base hit that enables a batter to reach second base safely.
- two-cylinder — (of an engine) having two cylinders
- two-pin plug — a plug that has two pins for inserting into a socket
- tyndall beam — the visible path of light produced by the scattering action (Tyndall effect) of the particles in a colloidal solution on a beam of light passed through it.
- type founder — a person engaged in the making of metallic types for printers.
- type i error — the error made in the statistical testing of a hypothesis by rejecting the null hypothesis when it is actually true.
- type section — the sequence of strata referred to in establishing a stratigraphic unit, as a member or formation.
- type species — the species of a genus that is regarded as the best example of the generic characters of the genus; the species from which a genus was originally named.
- typhoid mary — Mary ("Typhoid Mary") 1869?–1938, U.S. cook, born in Ireland: known immune carrier of typhoid fever who infected many with the disease, institutionalized in 1914.
- typhus-fever — an acute, infectious disease caused by several species of Rickettsia, transmitted by lice and fleas, and characterized by acute prostration, headache, and a peculiar eruption of reddish spots on the body.
- typicalities — of the nature of or serving as a type or representative specimen.
- typification — to serve as a typical example of; exemplify.
- typing error — an error made while using a keyboard to write something
- typing paper — paper for typing on
- typing speed — the number of words someone can accurately type in one minute
- typographist — a person skilled in the art of typography
- tyrannically — of or characteristic of a tyrant.
- tyrolean hat — a man's soft felt hat with a somewhat conical crown that is flat and creased at the top, a narrow brim partially turned up, and, usually, a feather for decoration