tribadism | (noun) a form of lesbianism that simulates heterosexual intercourse | - |
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tribalisation | (noun) the act of making tribal; unification on a tribal basis | Synonyms: tribalization |
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tribalism | (noun) the beliefs of a tribal society | - |
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(noun) the state of living together in tribes | - |
tribalization | (noun) the act of making tribal; unification on a tribal basis | Synonyms: tribalisation |
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tribe | (noun) a social division of (usually preliterate) people | Synonyms: folk |
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(noun) a federation (as of American Indians) | Synonyms: federation of tribes |
(noun) group of people related by blood or marriage | Synonyms: clan, kin, kin group, kindred, kinship group |
(noun) (biology) a taxonomic category between a genus and a subfamily | - |
tribesman | (noun) someone who lives in a tribe | - |
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tribologist | (noun) a specialist in tribology | - |
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tribology | (noun) the branch of engineering that deals with the interaction of surfaces in relative motion (as in bearings or gears): their design and friction and wear and lubrication | - |
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tribromoethanol | (noun) an intravenous anesthetic | Synonyms: tribromoethyl alcohol |
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tribromomethane | (noun) colorless liquid haloform CHBr3 | Synonyms: bromoform |
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tribulation | (noun) an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event | Synonyms: trial, visitation |
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tribunal | (noun) an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business | Synonyms: court, judicature |
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tribune | (noun) the apse of a Christian church that contains the bishop's throne | - |
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(noun) (ancient Rome) an official elected by the plebeians to protect their interests | - |
tribuneship | (noun) the position of tribune | - |
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tributary | (noun) a branch that flows into the main stream | Synonyms: affluent, confluent, feeder |
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tribute | (noun) payment by one nation for protection by another | - |
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(noun) payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence | Synonyms: protection |
(noun) something given or done as an expression of esteem | Synonyms: testimonial |
tributyrin | (noun) a bitter oily triglyceride of butyric acid; a form of butyrin | - |
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trice | (noun) a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat) | Synonyms: blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, New York minute, split second, twinkling, wink |
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triceps | (noun) any skeletal muscle having three origins (but especially the triceps brachii) | - |
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triceratops | (noun) huge ceratopsian dinosaur having three horns and the neck heavily armored with a very solid frill | - |
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trichina | (noun) parasitic nematode occurring in the intestines of pigs and rats and human beings and producing larvae that form cysts in skeletal muscles | Synonyms: Trichinella spiralis |
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trichiniasis | (noun) infestation by trichina larvae that are transmitted by eating inadequately cooked meat (especially pork); larvae migrate from the intestinal tract to the muscles where they become encysted | Synonyms: myositis trichinosa, trichinosis |
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trichinosis | (noun) infestation by trichina larvae that are transmitted by eating inadequately cooked meat (especially pork); larvae migrate from the intestinal tract to the muscles where they become encysted | Synonyms: myositis trichinosa, trichiniasis |
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trichion | (noun) point where the hairline meets the midpoint of the forehead | Synonyms: crinion |
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trichloride | (noun) any compound containing three chlorine atoms in each molecule | - |
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trichlormethiazide | (noun) diuretic drug (trade name Naqua) used to treat hypertension | Synonyms: Naqua |
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trichloroethane | (noun) a heavy colorless highly toxic liquid used as a solvent to clean electronic components and for dry cleaning and as a fumigant; causes cancer and liver and lung damage | Synonyms: TCE, trichloroethylene |
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trichloroethylene | (noun) a heavy colorless highly toxic liquid used as a solvent to clean electronic components and for dry cleaning and as a fumigant; causes cancer and liver and lung damage | Synonyms: TCE, trichloroethane |
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trichloromethane | (noun) a volatile liquid haloform (CHCl3); formerly used as an anesthetic | Synonyms: chloroform |
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trichobezoar | (noun) a compact mass of hair that forms in the alimentary canal (especially in the stomach of animals as a result of licking fur) | Synonyms: hair ball, hairball |
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trichodesmium | (noun) large colonial bacterium common in tropical open-ocean waters; important in carbon and nitrogen fixation | - |
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trichomonad | (noun) cause of trichomoniasis in women and cattle and birds | - |
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trichomoniasis | (noun) infection of the vagina | - |
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trichopteran | (noun) caddis fly | Synonyms: trichopteron, trichopterous insect |
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trichopteron | (noun) caddis fly | Synonyms: trichopteran, trichopterous insect |
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trichotillomania | (noun) an irresistible urge to pull out your own hair | - |
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trichotomy | (noun) being threefold; a classification into three parts or subclasses | - |
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trichroism | (noun) pleochroism of a crystal so that it exhibits three different colors when viewed from three different directions | - |
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trichromacy | (noun) the normal ability to see colors | Synonyms: chromatic vision, color vision |
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trichuriasis | (noun) infestation by a roundworm; common in tropical areas with poor sanitation | - |
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trick | (noun) a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement | Synonyms: antic, caper, joke, prank, put-on |
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(noun) (card games) in a single round, the sequence of cards played by all the players; the high card is the winner | - |
(noun) an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers | Synonyms: conjuration, conjuring trick, deception, illusion, legerdemain, magic, magic trick, thaumaturgy |
(noun) an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent | - |
(noun) a cunning or deceitful action or device | Synonyms: fast one |
(noun) a prostitute's customer | Synonyms: john, whoremaster, whoremonger |
(noun) a period of work or duty | - |
tricker | (noun) someone who plays practical jokes on others | Synonyms: cut-up, hoaxer, practical joker, prankster, trickster |
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trickery | (noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | Synonyms: chicane, chicanery, guile, shenanigan, wile |
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(noun) verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way | Synonyms: hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness |
trickiness | (noun) the quality of being a slippery rascal | Synonyms: rascality, shiftiness, slipperiness |
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(noun) the quality of requiring skill or caution | - |
trickle | (noun) flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid | Synonyms: dribble, drip |
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trickster | (noun) someone who plays practical jokes on others | Synonyms: cut-up, hoaxer, practical joker, prankster, tricker |
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(noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker |
(noun) a mischievous supernatural being found in the folklore of many primitive people; sometimes distinguished by prodigious biological drives and exaggerated bodily parts | - |
triclinium | (noun) a dining table with couches along three sides in ancient Rome | - |
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(noun) a dining room (especially a dining room containing a dining table with couches along three sides) | - |
tricolor | (noun) a flag having three colored stripes (especially the French flag) | Synonyms: tricolour |
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tricolour | (noun) a flag having three colored stripes (especially the French flag) | Synonyms: tricolor |
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tricorn | (noun) cocked hat with the brim turned up to form three points | Synonyms: tricorne |
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tricorne | (noun) cocked hat with the brim turned up to form three points | Synonyms: tricorn |
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tricot | (noun) a knitted fabric or one resembling knitting | - |
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tricycle | (noun) a vehicle with three wheels that is moved by foot pedals | Synonyms: trike, velocipede |
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tricyclic | (noun) an antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of norepinephrine and serotonin and thus making more of those substances available to act on receptors in the brain | Synonyms: tricyclic antidepressant, tricyclic antidepressant drug |
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trident | (noun) a spear with three prongs | - |
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tridymite | (noun) a mineral form of silica | - |
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triennial | (noun) the 300th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: tercentenary, tercentennial |
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trier | (noun) one who tries | Synonyms: attempter, essayer |
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(noun) one (as a judge) who examines and settles a case | - |
trifle | (noun) something of small importance | Synonyms: small beer, trivia, triviality |
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(noun) a detail that is considered insignificant | Synonyms: triviality |
(noun) a cold pudding made of layers of sponge cake spread with fruit or jelly; may be decorated with nuts, cream, or chocolate | - |
trifler | (noun) one who behaves lightly or not seriously | - |
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trifling | (noun) the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working | Synonyms: dalliance, dawdling |
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trifluoromethane | (noun) colorless gas haloform CHF3 (similar to chloroform) | Synonyms: fluoroform |
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trifoliata | (noun) small fast-growing spiny deciduous Chinese orange tree bearing sweetly scented flowers and decorative but inedible fruit: used as a stock in grafting and for hedges | Synonyms: Poncirus trifoliata, trifoliate orange, wild orange |
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trifurcation | (noun) the act of splitting into three branches | - |
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trig | (noun) the mathematics of triangles and trigonometric functions | Synonyms: trigonometry |
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trigeminal | (noun) the main sensory nerve of the face and motor nerve for the muscles of mastication | Synonyms: fifth cranial nerve, nervus trigeminus, trigeminal nerve, trigeminus |
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trigeminus | (noun) the main sensory nerve of the face and motor nerve for the muscles of mastication | Synonyms: fifth cranial nerve, nervus trigeminus, trigeminal, trigeminal nerve |
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trigger | (noun) an act that sets in motion some course of events | Synonyms: induction, initiation |
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(noun) lever that activates the firing mechanism of a gun | Synonyms: gun trigger |
(noun) a device that activates or releases or causes something to happen | - |
triggerfish | (noun) any of numerous compressed deep-bodied tropical fishes with sandpapery skin and erectile spines in the first dorsal fin | - |
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triggerman | (noun) a professional killer who uses a gun | Synonyms: gun, gun for hire, gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, hit man, hitman, shooter, torpedo |
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triglyceride | (noun) glyceride occurring naturally in animal and vegetable tissues; it consists of three individual fatty acids bound together in a single large molecule; an important energy source forming much of the fat stored by the body | - |
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trigon | (noun) a triangular lyre of ancient Greece and Rome | - |
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(noun) (astrology) one of four groups of the zodiac where each group consists of three signs separated from each other by 120 degrees | Synonyms: triplicity |
(noun) a three-sided polygon | Synonyms: triangle, trilateral |
trigonometrician | (noun) a mathematician specializing in trigonometry | - |
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trigonometry | (noun) the mathematics of triangles and trigonometric functions | Synonyms: trig |
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trigram | (noun) a word that is written with three letters in an alphabetic writing system | - |
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triiodomethane | (noun) a yellowish crystalline solid with a penetrating odor; sometimes used as an antiseptic dressing | Synonyms: iodoform |
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triiodothyronine | (noun) thyroid hormone similar to thyroxine but with one less iodine atom per molecule and produced in smaller quantity; exerts the same biological effects as thyroxine but is more potent and briefer | Synonyms: liothyronine, T |
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trike | (noun) a vehicle with three wheels that is moved by foot pedals | Synonyms: tricycle, velocipede |
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trilateral | (noun) a three-sided polygon | Synonyms: triangle, trigon |
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trilby | (noun) a hat made of felt with a creased crown | Synonyms: fedora, felt hat, homburg, Stetson |
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trill | (noun) a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it | Synonyms: shake |
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(noun) the articulation of a consonant (especially the consonant `r') with a rapid flutter of the tongue against the palate or uvula | - |
trillion | (noun) the number that is represented as a one followed by 12 zeros | Synonyms: 1000000000000, one million million |
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(noun) the number that is represented as a one followed by 18 zeros in the UK | Synonyms: one million million million |
(noun) a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole) | Synonyms: bazillion, billion, gazillion, jillion, million, zillion |
trillionth | (noun) one part in a trillion equal parts | Synonyms: one-trillionth |
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trillium | (noun) any liliaceous plant of the genus Trillium having a whorl of three leaves at the top of the stem with a single three-petaled flower | Synonyms: wake-robin, wood lily |
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trilobite | (noun) an extinct arthropod that was abundant in Paleozoic times; had an exoskeleton divided into three parts | - |
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trilogy | (noun) a set of three literary or dramatic works related in subject or theme | - |
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trim | (noun) cutting down to the desired size or shape | Synonyms: clipping, trimming |
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(noun) a decoration or adornment typically on the edge of a garment | Synonyms: passementerie, trimming |
(noun) attitude of an aircraft in flight when allowed to take its own orientation | - |
(noun) a state of arrangement or appearance | Synonyms: trimness |
trimaran | (noun) a fast sailboat with 3 parallel hulls | - |
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trimer | (noun) a polymer (or a molecule of a polymer) consisting of three identical monomers | - |
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trimester | (noun) a period of three months; especially one of the three three-month periods into which human pregnancy is divided | - |
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(noun) one of three divisions of an academic year | - |
trimipramine | (noun) tricyclic antidepressant drug (trade name Surmontil) used to treat depression and anxiety and (sometimes) insomnia | Synonyms: Surmontil |
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trimmer | (noun) joist that receives the end of a header in floor or roof framing in order to leave an opening for a staircase or chimney etc. | Synonyms: trimmer joist |
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(noun) capacitor having variable capacitance; used for making fine adjustments | Synonyms: trimming capacitor |
(noun) a machine that trims timber | - |
(noun) a worker who thins out and trims trees and shrubs | Synonyms: pruner |
trimming | (noun) the act of adding decoration | - |
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(noun) cutting down to the desired size or shape | Synonyms: clipping, trim |
(noun) a decoration or adornment typically on the edge of a garment | Synonyms: passementerie, trim |
trimmings | (noun) the accessories that normally accompany (something or some activity) | Synonyms: fixings |
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trimness | (noun) a state of arrangement or appearance | Synonyms: trim |
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trine | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, tercet, ternary, ternion, terzetto, three, threesome, tierce, trey, triad, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
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trinitroglycerin | (noun) a heavy yellow poisonous oily explosive liquid obtained by nitrating glycerol; used in making explosives and medically as a vasodilator (trade names Nitrospan and Nitrostat) | Synonyms: glyceryl trinitrate, nitroglycerin, nitroglycerine, Nitrospan, Nitrostat |
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trinitrotoluene | (noun) explosive consisting of a yellow crystalline compound that is a flammable toxic derivative of toluene | Synonyms: TNT |
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trinity | (noun) three people considered as a unit | Synonyms: threesome, triad, trio |
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(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, tercet, ternary, ternion, terzetto, three, threesome, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trio, triplet, troika |
trinket | (noun) cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing | Synonyms: bangle, bauble, fallal, gaud, gewgaw, novelty |
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