9-letter words starting with to
- tomatillo — a plant, Physalis ixocarpa, of the nightshade family, native to Mexico, having yellow flowers with five blackish spots in the throat and bluish, sticky berries in a purple-veined calyx.
- tombigbee — a river flowing S through NE Mississippi and SW Alabama to the Mobile River. 525 miles (845 km) long.
- tomboyish — an energetic, sometimes boisterous girl whose behavior and pursuits, especially in games and sports, are considered more typical of boys than of girls.
- tombstone — a stone marker, usually inscribed, on a tomb or grave.
- tomentose — closely covered with down or matted hair.
- tomlinson — Henry Major, 1873–1958, English journalist and novelist.
- tommasini — Vicenzo [vee-chen-dzaw] /viˈtʃɛn dzɔ/ (Show IPA), 1880–1950, Italian composer.
- tommy bar — a short bar used as a lever to provide torque for tightening a box spanner or key
- tommy gun — Thompson submachine gun.
- tomograph — a machine for making an x-ray of a selected plane of the body.
- ton-force — two thousand pound-force. Abbreviation: tonf.
- tonalitic — relating to or consisting of tonalite
- tonawanda — a city in NW New York, near Buffalo.
- tonbridge — a market town in SE England, in SW Kent on the River Medway. Pop: 35 833 (2001)
- tone down — any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.: shrill tones.
- tone poem — an instrumental composition intended to portray a particular story, scene, mood, etc.
- tone-deaf — unable to distinguish differences in pitch in musical sounds when producing or hearing them.
- tonguelet — a small tongue
- tonically — a medicine that invigorates or strengthens: a tonic of sulphur and molasses.
- tonkinese — a breed of medium-sized cat with almond-shaped aqua-coloured eyes and a soft silky coat
- tonle sap — a lake in W Cambodia, draining into the Mekong River.
- tonometer — an instrument for measuring the frequencies of tones, as a tuning fork or a graduated set of tuning forks.
- tonoplast — a membrane separating a vacuole from the surrounding cytoplasm in a plant cell.
- tonsillar — a prominent oval mass of lymphoid tissue on each side of the throat.
- tonsorial — of or relating to a barber or barbering: the tonsorial shop.
- too right — an exclamation of agreement
- toodle-oo — goodbye
- tool post — an upright for holding a lathe tool.
- tool shed — a small building where tools are stored, often in the backyard of a house.
- toolchest — a chest in which tools are kept
- tooled up — an implement, especially one held in the hand, as a hammer, saw, or file, for performing or facilitating mechanical operations.
- toolhouse — toolshed.
- toolmaker — a machinist skilled in the building and reconditioning of tools, jigs, and related devices used in a machine shop.
- tooth mug — a mug used to hold toothbrushes and toothpaste in a bathroom
- toothache — a pain in or about a tooth.
- toothcomb — a comb with fine teeth
- toothless — lacking teeth.
- toothpick — a small pointed piece of wood, plastic, etc., for removing substances, especially food particles, from between the teeth.
- toothsome — pleasing to the taste; palatable: a toothsome dish.
- toothwash — a tooth-cleaning liquid
- toothwort — a European plant, Lathraea squamaria, of the broomrape family, having a rootstock covered with toothlike scales.
- toowoomba — a city in SE Queensland, in E Australia.
- top boots — high boots, often with decorative or contrasting upper sections
- top brass — brass (def 5).
- top floor — highest storey of a building
- top fruit — fruit that grows on trees
- top quark — a type of quark with a mass of c. 176 to 199 GeV/c2, a positive charge 2⁄3 that of an electron, zero charm, and zero strangeness
- top round — a cut of beef taken from inside the round, which is below the rump and above the upper leg.
- top shelf — of highest quality
- top story — headline news item