| tambala | (noun) 100 tambala equal 1 kwacha in Malawi | - |
|---|
| tambour | (noun) a drum | - |
|---|
| (noun) a frame made of two hoops; used for embroidering | Synonyms: embroidery frame, embroidery hoop |
| tambourine | (noun) a shallow drum with a single drumhead and with metallic disks in the sides | - |
|---|
| temblor | (noun) shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane or from volcanic activity | Synonyms: earthquake, quake, seism |
|---|
| thimble | (noun) a small metal cap to protect the finger while sewing; can be used as a small container | - |
|---|
| (noun) as much as a thimble will hold | Synonyms: thimbleful |
| thimbleberry | (noun) raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit | Synonyms: black raspberry, blackcap, blackcap raspberry, Rubus occidentalis |
|---|
| (noun) white-flowered raspberry of western North America and northern Mexico with thimble-shaped orange berries | Synonyms: Rubus parviflorus, salmon berry, salmonberry |
| (noun) shrubby raspberry of eastern North America having showy rose to purplish flowers and red or orange thimble-shaped fruit | Synonyms: flowering raspberry, purple-flowering raspberry, Rubus odoratus |
| thimbleful | (noun) as much as a thimble will hold | Synonyms: thimble |
|---|
| thimblerig | (noun) a swindling sleight-of-hand game; victim guesses which of three things a pellet is under | Synonyms: shell game |
|---|
| thimbleweed | (noun) a common North American anemone with cylindrical fruit clusters resembling thimbles | Synonyms: Anemone cylindrica |
|---|
| thrombasthenia | (noun) a rare autosomal recessive disease in which the platelets do not produce clots in the normal way and hemorrhage results | - |
|---|
| thrombectomy | (noun) surgical removal of a blood clot (thrombus) from a blood vessel | - |
|---|
| thrombin | (noun) an enzyme that acts on fibrinogen in blood causing it to clot | - |
|---|
| thrombocyte | (noun) tiny bits of protoplasm found in vertebrate blood; essential for blood clotting | Synonyms: blood platelet, platelet |
|---|
| thrombocytopenia | (noun) a blood disease characterized by an abnormally small number of platelets in the blood | Synonyms: thrombopenia |
|---|
| thrombocytosis | (noun) increase in the number of platelets in the blood which tends to cause clots to form; associated with many neoplasms and chronic infections and other diseases | - |
|---|
| thromboembolism | (noun) occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus that has broken away from a thrombus | - |
|---|
| thrombokinase | (noun) an enzyme liberated from blood platelets that converts prothrombin into thrombin as blood starts to clot | Synonyms: factor III, thromboplastin |
|---|
| thrombolysis | (noun) the process of breaking up and dissolving blood clots | - |
|---|
| thrombolytic | (noun) a kind of pharmaceutical that can break up clots blocking the flow of blood to the heart muscle | Synonyms: clot buster, thrombolytic agent |
|---|
| thrombopenia | (noun) a blood disease characterized by an abnormally small number of platelets in the blood | Synonyms: thrombocytopenia |
|---|
| thrombophlebitis | (noun) phlebitis in conjunction with the formation of a blood clot (thrombus) | - |
|---|
| thromboplastin | (noun) an enzyme liberated from blood platelets that converts prothrombin into thrombin as blood starts to clot | Synonyms: factor III, thrombokinase |
|---|
| thrombosis | (noun) the formation or presence of a thrombus (a clot of coagulated blood attached at the site of its formation) in a blood vessel | - |
|---|
| thrombus | (noun) a blood clot formed within a blood vessel and remaining attached to its place of origin | - |
|---|
| thumb | (noun) the part of a glove that provides a covering for the thumb | - |
|---|
| (noun) a convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse | Synonyms: ovolo, quarter round |
| (noun) the thick short innermost digit of the forelimb | Synonyms: pollex |
| thumbhole | (noun) a finger hole made to fit the thumb (as in a bowling ball) | - |
|---|
| (noun) the hole in a woodwind that is closed and opened with the thumb | - |
| thumbnail | (noun) the nail of the thumb | - |
|---|
| thumbnut | (noun) a threaded nut with winglike projections for thumb and forefinger leverage in turning | Synonyms: butterfly nut, wing-nut, wing nut, wing screw |
|---|
| thumbprint | (noun) fingerprint made by the thumb (especially by the pad of the thumb) | - |
|---|
| thumbscrew | (noun) screw designed to be turned with the thumb and fingers | - |
|---|
| (noun) instrument of torture that crushes the thumb | - |
| thumbstall | (noun) protective covering for an injured thumb | - |
|---|
| thumbtack | (noun) a tack for attaching papers to a bulletin board or drawing board | Synonyms: drawing pin, pushpin |
|---|
| timbale | (noun) individual serving of minced e.g. meat or fish in a rich creamy sauce baked in a small pastry mold or timbale shell | - |
|---|
| (noun) small pastry shell for creamy mixtures of minced foods | Synonyms: timbale case |
| timber | (noun) a beam made of wood | - |
|---|
| (noun) a post made of wood | - |
| (noun) (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound) | Synonyms: quality, timbre, tone |
| (noun) land that is covered with trees and shrubs | Synonyms: forest, timberland, woodland |
| (noun) the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material | Synonyms: lumber |
| timberland | (noun) land that is covered with trees and shrubs | Synonyms: forest, timber, woodland |
|---|
| timberline | (noun) line marking the upper limit of tree growth in mountains or northern latitudes | Synonyms: timber line, tree line |
|---|
| timberman | (noun) an owner or manager of a company that is engaged in lumbering | - |
|---|
| timbre | (noun) (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound) | Synonyms: quality, timber, tone |
|---|
| timbrel | (noun) small hand drum similar to a tambourine; formerly carried by itinerant jugglers | - |
|---|
| tomb | (noun) a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone) | Synonyms: grave |
|---|
| tombac | (noun) an alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding | Synonyms: tambac, tombak |
|---|
| tombak | (noun) an alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding | Synonyms: tambac, tombac |
|---|
| tombola | (noun) a lottery in which tickets are drawn from a revolving drum | - |
|---|
| tomboy | (noun) a girl who behaves in a boyish manner | Synonyms: hoyden, romp |
|---|
| tomboyishness | (noun) masculinity in women (especially in girls and young women) | Synonyms: hoydenism |
|---|
| tombstone | (noun) a stone that is used to mark a grave | Synonyms: gravestone, headstone |
|---|
| tremble | (noun) a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement | Synonyms: shake, shiver |
|---|
| trembler | (noun) one who quakes and trembles with (or as with) fear | Synonyms: quaker |
|---|
| trembles | (noun) disease of livestock and especially cattle poisoned by eating certain kinds of snakeroot | Synonyms: milk sickness |
|---|
| trembling | (noun) a shaky motion | Synonyms: palpitation, quiver, quivering, shakiness, shaking, vibration |
|---|
| trombiculiasis | (noun) infestation with chiggers | - |
|---|
| trombiculid | (noun) mite that as nymph and adult feeds on early stages of small arthropods but whose larvae are parasitic on terrestrial vertebrates | - |
|---|
| trombidiid | (noun) mite that in all stages feeds on other arthropods | - |
|---|
| trombone | (noun) a brass instrument consisting of a long tube whose length can be varied by a U-shaped slide | - |
|---|
| trombonist | (noun) a musician who plays the trombone | Synonyms: trombone player |
|---|
| tumble | (noun) an acrobatic feat of rolling or turning end over end | - |
|---|
| (noun) a sudden drop from an upright position | Synonyms: fall, spill |
| tumblebug | (noun) any of various dung beetles | - |
|---|
| tumbler | (noun) pigeon that executes backward somersaults in flight or on the ground | Synonyms: roller, tumbler pigeon |
|---|
| (noun) a glass with a flat bottom but no handle or stem; originally had a round bottom | - |
| (noun) a movable obstruction in a lock that must be adjusted to a given position (as by a key) before the bolt can be thrown | - |
| (noun) a gymnast who performs rolls and somersaults and twists etc. | - |
| tumbleweed | (noun) any plant that breaks away from its roots in autumn and is driven by the wind as a light rolling mass | - |
|---|
| (noun) bushy annual weed of central North America having greenish flowers and winged seeds | Synonyms: Cycloloma atriplicifolium, winged pigweed |
| (noun) bushy plant of western United States | Synonyms: Amaranthus albus, Amaranthus graecizans |
| (noun) prickly bushy Eurasian plant; a troublesome weed in central and western United States | Synonyms: Russian cactus, Russian thistle, Russian tumbleweed, Salsola kali tenuifolia |
| tumbling | (noun) the gymnastic moves of an acrobat | Synonyms: acrobatics |
|---|
| tumbrel | (noun) a farm dumpcart for carrying dung; carts of this type were used to carry prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution | Synonyms: tumbril |
|---|
| tumbril | (noun) a farm dumpcart for carrying dung; carts of this type were used to carry prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution | Synonyms: tumbrel |
|---|
| twimbos | (noun) a pair of twins, who are sexually promiscuous | - |
|---|
| umbel | (noun) flat-topped or rounded inflorescence characteristic of the family Umbelliferae in which the individual flower stalks arise from about the same point; youngest flowers are at the center | - |
|---|
| umbellifer | (noun) any of numerous aromatic herbs of the family Umbelliferae | Synonyms: umbelliferous plant |
|---|
| umber | (noun) a medium brown to dark-brown color | Synonyms: burnt umber, chocolate, coffee, deep brown |
|---|
| (noun) an earth pigment | - |
| umbilical | (noun) membranous duct connecting the fetus with the placenta | Synonyms: umbilical cord |
|---|
| umbilicus | (noun) a scar where the umbilical cord was attached | Synonyms: belly button, bellybutton, navel, omphalos, omphalus |
|---|
| umbo | (noun) a slight rounded elevation where the malleus attaches to the eardrum | - |
|---|
| umbra | (noun) a region of complete shadow resulting from total obstruction of light | - |
|---|
| umbrage | (noun) a feeling of anger caused by being offended | Synonyms: offence, offense |
|---|
| umbrella | (noun) a formation of military planes maintained over ground operations or targets | - |
|---|
| (noun) having the function of uniting a group of similar things | - |
| (noun) a lightweight handheld collapsible canopy | - |
| umbrellawort | (noun) a plant of the genus Mirabilis | - |
|---|
| unambiguity | (noun) clarity achieved by the avoidance of ambiguity | Synonyms: unequivocalness |
|---|
| vambrace | (noun) cannon of plate armor protecting the forearm | Synonyms: lower cannon |
|---|
| wimble | (noun) hand tool for boring holes | Synonyms: auger, gimlet, screw auger |
|---|
| womb | (noun) a hollow muscular organ in the pelvic cavity of females; contains the developing fetus | Synonyms: uterus |
|---|
| wombat | (noun) burrowing herbivorous Australian marsupials about the size of a badger | - |
|---|
| zamboorak | (noun) a camel cavalry used in the early modern era by Arab, Afghan, Persian, and Indian armies | Synonyms: camel cavalry, zamburak, zamburek, zumbooruck, zumbooruk |
|---|
| zamburak | (noun) a camel cavalry used in the early modern era by Arab, Afghan, Persian, and Indian armies | Synonyms: camel cavalry, zamboorak, zamburek, zumbooruck, zumbooruk |
|---|
| zamburek | (noun) a camel cavalry used in the early modern era by Arab, Afghan, Persian, and Indian armies | Synonyms: camel cavalry, zamboorak, zamburak, zumbooruck, zumbooruk |
|---|
| zombi | (noun) several kinds of rum with fruit juice and usually apricot liqueur | Synonyms: zombie |
|---|
| (noun) a dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force | Synonyms: living dead, zombie |
| (noun) someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way | Synonyms: automaton, zombie |
| (noun) a god of voodoo cults of African origin worshipped especially in West Indies | Synonyms: snake god, zombie |
| (noun) (voodooism) a spirit or supernatural force that reanimates a dead body | Synonyms: zombi spirit, zombie, zombie spirit |
| zombie | (noun) several kinds of rum with fruit juice and usually apricot liqueur | Synonyms: zombi |
|---|
| (noun) a dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force | Synonyms: living dead, zombi |
| (noun) someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way | Synonyms: automaton, zombi |
| (noun) a god of voodoo cults of African origin worshipped especially in West Indies | Synonyms: snake god, zombi |
| (noun) (voodooism) a spirit or supernatural force that reanimates a dead body | Synonyms: zombi, zombi spirit, zombie spirit |
| zumbooruck | (noun) a camel cavalry used in the early modern era by Arab, Afghan, Persian, and Indian armies | Synonyms: camel cavalry, zamboorak, zamburak, zamburek, zumbooruk |
|---|
| zumbooruk | (noun) a camel cavalry used in the early modern era by Arab, Afghan, Persian, and Indian armies | Synonyms: camel cavalry, zamboorak, zamburak, zamburek, zumbooruck |
|---|