| trade | (noun) the skilled practice of a practical occupation | Synonyms: craft |
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| (noun) the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers | Synonyms: patronage |
| (noun) a particular instance of buying or selling | Synonyms: business deal, deal |
| (noun) an equal exchange | Synonyms: barter, swap, swop |
| (noun) the commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services | - |
| (noun) people who perform a particular kind of skilled work | Synonyms: craft |
| (noun) steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator | Synonyms: trade wind |
| tradecraft | (noun) skill acquired through experience in a trade; often used to discuss skill in espionage | - |
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| trademark | (noun) a distinctive characteristic or attribute of someone or something | Synonyms: earmark, hallmark, stylemark |
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| (noun) a formally registered symbol identifying the manufacturer or distributor of a product | - |
| tradeoff | (noun) an exchange that occurs as a compromise | Synonyms: trade-off |
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| trader | (noun) someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold | Synonyms: bargainer, dealer, monger |
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| tradesman | (noun) a merchant who owns or manages a shop | Synonyms: market keeper, shopkeeper, storekeeper |
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| tradespeople | (noun) people engaged in trade | - |
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| trading | (noun) buying or selling securities or commodities | - |
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| tradition | (noun) an inherited pattern of thought or action | - |
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| (noun) a specific practice of long standing | Synonyms: custom |
| traditionalism | (noun) adherence to tradition (especially in cultural or religious matters) | - |
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| (noun) strict adherence to traditional methods or teachings | Synonyms: traditionality |
| (noun) the doctrine that all knowledge was originally derived by divine revelation and that it is transmitted by traditions | - |
| traditionalist | (noun) one who adheres to traditional views | Synonyms: diehard |
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| traditionality | (noun) strict adherence to traditional methods or teachings | Synonyms: traditionalism |
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| traducement | (noun) a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions | Synonyms: calumniation, calumny, defamation, hatchet job, obloquy |
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| traducer | (noun) one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel | Synonyms: backbiter, defamer, libeler, maligner, slanderer, vilifier |
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| traffic | (noun) buying and selling; especially illicit trade | - |
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| (noun) social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with') | Synonyms: dealings |
| (noun) the amount of activity over a communication system during a given period of time | - |
| (noun) the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time | - |
| trafficator | (noun) a blinking light on a motor vehicle that indicates the direction in which the vehicle is about to turn | Synonyms: blinker, turn indicator, turn signal |
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| trafficker | (noun) someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money | Synonyms: marketer, seller, vender, vendor |
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| tragacanth | (noun) a gum used in pharmacy, adhesives, and textile printing | - |
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| tragedian | (noun) an actor who specializes in tragic roles | - |
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| (noun) a writer (especially a playwright) who writes tragedies | - |
| tragedienne | (noun) an actress who specializes in tragic roles | - |
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| tragedy | (noun) drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance; excites terror or pity | - |
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| (noun) an event resulting in great loss and misfortune | Synonyms: calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster |
| tragicomedy | (noun) a dramatic composition involving elements of both tragedy and comedy usually with the tragic predominating | - |
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| (noun) a comedy with serious elements or overtones | Synonyms: seriocomedy |
| tragifarce | (noun) an extreme form of tragicomedy. | - |
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| tragopan | (noun) brilliantly colored Asian pheasant having wattles and two fleshy processes on the head | - |
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| tragus | (noun) a small cartilaginous flap in front of the external opening of the ear | - |
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| trail | (noun) a path or track roughly blazed through wild or hilly country | - |
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| (noun) evidence pointing to a possible solution | Synonyms: lead, track |
| (noun) a track or mark left by something that has passed | - |
| trailblazer | (noun) someone who marks a trail by leaving blazes on trees | - |
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| (noun) someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art | Synonyms: groundbreaker, innovator, pioneer |
| trailer | (noun) a wheeled vehicle that can be pulled by a car or truck and is equipped for occupancy | Synonyms: house trailer |
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| (noun) a large transport conveyance designed to be pulled by a truck or tractor | - |
| (noun) an advertisement consisting of short scenes from a motion picture that will appear in the near future | Synonyms: preview, prevue |
| (noun) someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind | Synonyms: dawdler, drone, laggard, lagger, poke |
| trailhead | (noun) the beginning of a trail | Synonyms: trail head |
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| trailing | (noun) the pursuit (of a person or animal) by following tracks or marks they left behind | Synonyms: tracking |
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| train | (noun) public transport provided by a line of railway cars coupled together and drawn by a locomotive | Synonyms: railroad train |
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| (noun) wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed | Synonyms: gear, gearing, geartrain, power train |
| (noun) piece of cloth forming the long back section of a gown that is drawn along the floor | - |
| (noun) a series of consequences wrought by an event | - |
| (noun) a procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file | Synonyms: caravan, wagon train |
| (noun) a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding | Synonyms: string |
| trainband | (noun) a company of militia in England or America from the 16th century to the 18th century | - |
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| trainbandsman | (noun) a member of a trainband | - |
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| trainbearer | (noun) one who holds up the train of a gown or robe on a ceremonial occasion | - |
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| trainee | (noun) someone who is being trained | - |
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| traineeship | (noun) financial aid that enables you to get trained for a specified job | - |
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| trainer | (noun) simulator consisting of a machine on the ground that simulates the conditions of flying a plane | Synonyms: flight simulator |
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| (noun) one who trains other persons or animals | - |
| training | (noun) activity leading to skilled behavior | Synonyms: grooming, preparation |
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| (noun) the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior) | Synonyms: breeding, education |
| trainload | (noun) quantity that can be carried by a train | - |
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| trainman | (noun) an employee of a railroad | Synonyms: railroad man, railroader, railway man, railwayman |
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| trainmaster | (noun) a railroad employer who is in charge of a railway yard | Synonyms: train dispatcher, yardmaster |
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| trait | (noun) a distinguishing feature of your personal nature | - |
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| traitor | (noun) someone who betrays his country by committing treason | Synonyms: treasonist |
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| (noun) a person who says one thing and does another | Synonyms: betrayer, double-crosser, double-dealer, two-timer |
| traitorousness | (noun) disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior | Synonyms: subversiveness, treason |
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| traitress | (noun) female traitor | - |
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| trajectory | (noun) the path followed by an object moving through space | Synonyms: flight |
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| tram | (noun) a four-wheeled wagon that runs on tracks in a mine | Synonyms: tramcar |
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| (noun) a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity | Synonyms: streetcar, tramcar, trolley, trolley car |
| (noun) a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers | Synonyms: aerial tramway, cable tramway, ropeway, tramway |
| tramcar | (noun) a four-wheeled wagon that runs on tracks in a mine | Synonyms: tram |
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| (noun) a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity | Synonyms: streetcar, tram, trolley, trolley car |
| tramline | (noun) the track on which trams or streetcars run | Synonyms: streetcar track, tramway |
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| trammel | (noun) a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner) | Synonyms: bond, hamper, shackle |
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| (noun) a restraint that is used to teach a horse to amble | - |
| (noun) an adjustable pothook set in a fireplace | - |
| (noun) a fishing net with three layers; the outer two are coarse mesh and the loose inner layer is fine mesh | Synonyms: trammel net |
| tramontana | (noun) a cold dry wind that blows south out of the mountains into Italy and the western Mediterranean | Synonyms: tramontane |
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| tramontane | (noun) a cold dry wind that blows south out of the mountains into Italy and the western Mediterranean | Synonyms: tramontana |
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| tramp | (noun) a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure | Synonyms: hike, hiking |
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| (noun) a commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule | Synonyms: tramp steamer |
| (noun) a heavy footfall | - |
| (noun) a vagrant | Synonyms: bum, hobo |
| (noun) a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex | Synonyms: swinger |
| (noun) a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure) | Synonyms: hiker, tramper |
| tramper | (noun) someone who walks with a heavy noisy gait or who stamps on the ground | Synonyms: stamper, stomper, trampler |
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| (noun) a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure) | Synonyms: hiker, tramp |
| trample | (noun) the sound of heavy treading or stomping | Synonyms: trampling |
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| trampler | (noun) someone who walks with a heavy noisy gait or who stamps on the ground | Synonyms: stamper, stomper, tramper |
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| (noun) someone who injures by trampling | - |
| trampling | (noun) the sound of heavy treading or stomping | Synonyms: trample |
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| trampoline | (noun) gymnastic apparatus consisting of a strong canvas sheet attached with springs to a metal frame; used for tumbling | - |
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| tramway | (noun) the track on which trams or streetcars run | Synonyms: streetcar track, tramline |
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| (noun) a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers | Synonyms: aerial tramway, cable tramway, ropeway, tram |
| trance | (noun) a state of mind in which consciousness is fragile and voluntary action is poor or missing; a state resembling deep sleep | - |
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| (noun) A genre of electronic dance music with a fast tempo, repetitive phrasing, and often a hypnotic effect. | - |
| (noun) a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation | Synonyms: enchantment, spell |
| tranche | (noun) a portion of something (especially money) | - |
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| trandolapril | (noun) an ACE inhibiting drug (trade name Mavik) used in some patients after a heart attack or to treat hypertension | Synonyms: Mavik |
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| tranquility | (noun) a disposition free from stress or emotion | Synonyms: placidity, quiet, repose, serenity, tranquillity |
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| (noun) a state of peace and quiet | Synonyms: quietness, quietude, tranquillity |
| (noun) an untroubled state; free from disturbances | Synonyms: quiet, tranquillity |
| tranquilizer | (noun) a drug used to reduce stress or tension without reducing mental clarity | Synonyms: antianxiety agent, ataractic, ataractic agent, ataractic drug, tranquilliser, tranquillizer |
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| tranquilliser | (noun) a drug used to reduce stress or tension without reducing mental clarity | Synonyms: antianxiety agent, ataractic, ataractic agent, ataractic drug, tranquilizer, tranquillizer |
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| tranquillity | (noun) a disposition free from stress or emotion | Synonyms: placidity, quiet, repose, serenity, tranquility |
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| (noun) a state of peace and quiet | Synonyms: quietness, quietude, tranquility |
| (noun) an untroubled state; free from disturbances | Synonyms: quiet, tranquility |
| tranquillizer | (noun) a drug used to reduce stress or tension without reducing mental clarity | Synonyms: antianxiety agent, ataractic, ataractic agent, ataractic drug, tranquilizer, tranquilliser |
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| transactinide | (noun) any of the artificially produced elements with atomic numbers greater than 103 | - |
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| transaction | (noun) the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities) | Synonyms: dealing, dealings |
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| transactions | (noun) a written account of what transpired at a meeting | Synonyms: minutes, proceedings |
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| transactor | (noun) someone who conducts or carries on business or negotiations | - |
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| transalpine | (noun) one living on or coming from the other side of the Alps from Italy | - |
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| transaminase | (noun) a class of transferases that catalyze transamination (that transfer an amino group from an amino acid to another compound) | Synonyms: aminopherase, aminotransferase |
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| transamination | (noun) the process of transferring an amino group from one compound to another | - |
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| (noun) the process of transposing an amino group within a chemical compound | - |
| transcendence | (noun) a state of being or existence above and beyond the limits of material experience | Synonyms: transcendency |
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| (noun) the state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits | Synonyms: superiority, transcendency |
| transcendency | (noun) a state of being or existence above and beyond the limits of material experience | Synonyms: transcendence |
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| (noun) the state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits | Synonyms: superiority, transcendence |
| transcendentalism | (noun) any system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material | Synonyms: transcendental philosophy |
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| transcendentalist | (noun) advocate of transcendentalism | - |
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| transcriber | (noun) someone who makes a written version of spoken material | - |
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| (noun) someone who represents the sounds of speech in phonetic notation | - |
| (noun) a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance | Synonyms: adapter, arranger |
| (noun) a person who translates written messages from one language to another | Synonyms: translator |
| (noun) someone who rewrites in a different script | - |
| transcript | (noun) a reproduction of a written record (e.g. of a legal or school record) | Synonyms: copy |
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| (noun) something that has been transcribed; a written record (usually typewritten) of dictated or recorded speech | - |
| transcriptase | (noun) the enzyme that copies DNA into RNA | Synonyms: RNA polymerase |
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| transcription | (noun) the act of making a record (especially an audio record) | Synonyms: recording |
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| (noun) the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music | Synonyms: arrangement, arranging |
| (noun) a sound or television recording (e.g., from a broadcast to a tape recording) | - |
| (noun) something written, especially copied from one medium to another, as a typewritten version of dictation | Synonyms: written text |
| (noun) (genetics) the organic process whereby the DNA sequence in a gene is copied into mRNA; the process whereby a base sequence of messenger RNA is synthesized on a template of complementary DNA | - |
| transducer | (noun) an electrical device that converts one form of energy into another | - |
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| transduction | (noun) the process whereby a transducer accepts energy in one form and gives back related energy in a different form | - |
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| (noun) (genetics) the process of transferring genetic material from one cell to another by a plasmid or bacteriophage | - |
| transept | (noun) structure forming the transverse part of a cruciform church; crosses the nave at right angles | - |
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| transexual | (noun) a person whose sexual identification is entirely with the opposite sex | Synonyms: transsexual |
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| (noun) a person who has undergone a sex change operation | Synonyms: transgendered, transsexual |
| transfer | (noun) the act of moving something from one location to another | Synonyms: conveyance, transferral, transport, transportation |
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| (noun) transferring ownership | Synonyms: transference |
| (noun) the act of transferring something from one form to another | Synonyms: transference |
| (noun) application of a skill learned in one situation to a different but similar situation | Synonyms: carry-over, transfer of training |
| (noun) a ticket that allows a passenger to change conveyances | - |
| (noun) someone who transfers or is transferred from one position to another | Synonyms: transferee |
| transferability | (noun) the quality of being transferable or exchangeable | - |
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| transferase | (noun) any of various enzymes that move a chemical group from one compound to another compound | - |
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| transferee | (noun) someone who transfers or is transferred from one position to another | Synonyms: transfer |
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| (noun) (law) someone to whom a title or property is conveyed | - |
| transference | (noun) transferring ownership | Synonyms: transfer |
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| (noun) the act of transferring something from one form to another | Synonyms: transfer |
| (noun) (psychoanalysis) the process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another; during psychoanalysis the displacement of feelings toward others (usually the parents) is onto the analyst | - |
| transferer | (noun) someone who transfers something | Synonyms: transferrer |
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| transferor | (noun) (law) someone who conveys a title or property to another | - |
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| transferral | (noun) the act of moving something from one location to another | Synonyms: conveyance, transfer, transport, transportation |
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| transferrer | (noun) someone who transfers something | Synonyms: transferer |
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| transferrin | (noun) a globulin in blood plasma that carries iron | Synonyms: beta globulin, siderophilin |
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| transfiguration | (noun) the act of transforming so as to exalt or glorify | - |
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| (noun) a striking change in appearance or character or circumstances | Synonyms: metamorphosis |
| transformation | (noun) the act of changing in form or shape or appearance | Synonyms: translation |
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| (noun) (genetics) modification of a cell or bacterium by the uptake and incorporation of exogenous DNA | - |
| (noun) a rule describing the conversion of one syntactic structure into another related syntactic structure | - |
| (noun) a qualitative change | Synonyms: shift, transmutation |
| (noun) (mathematics) a function that changes the position or direction of the axes of a coordinate system | - |
| transformer | (noun) an electrical device by which alternating current of one voltage is changed to another voltage | - |
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| transfusion | (noun) the introduction of blood or blood plasma into a vein or artery | Synonyms: blood transfusion |
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| (noun) the action of pouring a liquid from one vessel to another | - |