| thumbtack | (noun) a tack for attaching papers to a bulletin board or drawing board | Synonyms: drawing pin, pushpin |
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| thunk | (noun) a dull hollow sound | - |
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| thwack | (noun) a hard blow with a flat object | - |
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| tick | (noun) any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals | - |
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| (noun) a light mattress | - |
| (noun) a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc. | Synonyms: check, check mark |
| (noun) a metallic tapping sound | Synonyms: ticking |
| ticktack | (noun) system of signalling by hand signs used by bookmakers at racetracks | - |
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| ticktock | (noun) steady recurrent ticking sound as made by a clock | Synonyms: tictac, tocktact |
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| tidemark | (noun) indicator consisting of a line at the highwater or low-water limits of the tides | - |
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| tieback | (noun) a device (as a decorative loop of cord or fabric) for holding or drawing something back | Synonyms: pullback |
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| timework | (noun) work paid for at a rate per unit of time | - |
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| tintack | (noun) tack or small nail of tinned iron | - |
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| titlark | (noun) a songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country; has streaky brown plumage | Synonyms: lark, pipit |
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| toastrack | (noun) a rack for holding slices of toast | - |
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| tokamak | (noun) a doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research; a plasma is heated and confined in a magnetic bottle | - |
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| tomahawk | (noun) weapon consisting of a fighting ax; used by North American Indians | Synonyms: hatchet |
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| tombak | (noun) an alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding | Synonyms: tambac, tombac |
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| toothpick | (noun) pick consisting of a small strip of wood or plastic; used to pick food from between the teeth | - |
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| torsk | (noun) large edible marine fish of northern coastal waters; related to cod | Synonyms: Brosme brosme, cusk |
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| touchback | (noun) (American football) a play in which the opposing team has kicked the football into your end zone | - |
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| townsfolk | (noun) the people living in a municipality smaller than a city | Synonyms: town, townspeople |
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| track | (noun) the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track | Synonyms: running |
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| (noun) any road or path affording passage especially a rough one | Synonyms: cart track, cartroad |
| (noun) a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll | Synonyms: rail, rails, runway |
| (noun) a pair of parallel rails providing a runway for wheels | - |
| (noun) a groove on a phonograph recording | - |
| (noun) (computer science) one of the circular magnetic paths on a magnetic disk that serve as a guide for writing and reading data | Synonyms: data track |
| (noun) a course over which races are run | Synonyms: racecourse, racetrack, raceway |
| (noun) an endless metal belt on which tracked vehicles move over the ground | Synonyms: caterpillar track, caterpillar tread |
| (noun) evidence pointing to a possible solution | Synonyms: lead, trail |
| (noun) a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc | Synonyms: cut |
| (noun) a line or route along which something travels or moves | Synonyms: course, path |
| 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 | - |
| trek | (noun) any long and difficult trip | - |
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| (noun) a journey by ox wagon (especially an organized migration by a group of settlers) | - |
| trestlework | (noun) a supporting structure composed of a system of connected trestles; for a bridge or pier or scaffold e.g. | - |
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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 | - |
| trojniak | (noun) a Polish mead, made using two units of water for each unit of honey. | - |
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| truck | (noun) an automotive vehicle suitable for hauling | Synonyms: motortruck |
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| (noun) a handcart that has a frame with two low wheels and a ledge at the bottom and handles at the top; used to move crates or other heavy objects | Synonyms: hand truck |
| trunk | (noun) a long flexible snout as of an elephant | Synonyms: proboscis |
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| (noun) luggage consisting of a large strong case used when traveling or for storage | - |
| (noun) compartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools | Synonyms: automobile trunk, boot, luggage compartment |
| (noun) the body excluding the head and neck and limbs | Synonyms: body, torso |
| (noun) the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber | Synonyms: bole, tree trunk |
| tuck | (noun) a narrow flattened pleat or fold that is stitched in place | - |
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| (noun) a straight sword with a narrow blade and two edges | Synonyms: rapier |
| (noun) (sports) a bodily position adopted in some sports (such as diving or skiing) in which the knees are bent and the thighs are drawn close to the chest | - |
| (noun) eatables (especially sweets) | - |
| tughrik | (noun) the basic unit of money in Mongolia | Synonyms: tugrik |
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| tugrik | (noun) the basic unit of money in Mongolia | Synonyms: tughrik |
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| tupek | (noun) tent that is an Eskimo summer dwelling | Synonyms: sealskin tent, tupik |
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| tupik | (noun) tent that is an Eskimo summer dwelling | Synonyms: sealskin tent, tupek |
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| turncock | (noun) faucet consisting of a rotating device for regulating flow of a liquid | Synonyms: cock, stopcock |
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| (noun) one employed to control water supply by turning water mains on and off | - |
| turtleneck | (noun) a sweater or jersey with a high close-fitting collar | Synonyms: polo-neck, turtle |
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| tusk | (noun) a long pointed tooth specialized for fighting or digging; especially in an elephant or walrus or hog | - |
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| (noun) a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses | Synonyms: ivory |
| tussock | (noun) a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass | Synonyms: tuft |
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| tweak | (noun) a squeeze with the fingers | Synonyms: pinch |
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| uplink | (noun) a transmission from Earth to a spacecraft or the path of such a transmission | - |
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| uptick | (noun) a transaction in the stock market at a price above the price of the preceding transaction | - |
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| videodisk | (noun) a digital recording (as of a movie) on an optical disk that can be played on a computer or a television set | Synonyms: DVD, videodisc |
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| walk | (noun) the act of traveling by foot | Synonyms: walking |
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| (noun) (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls | Synonyms: base on balls, pass |
| (noun) a slow gait of a horse in which two feet are always on the ground | - |
| (noun) the act of walking somewhere | - |
| (noun) careers in general | Synonyms: walk of life |
| (noun) a path set aside for walking | Synonyms: paseo, walkway |
| (noun) manner of walking | Synonyms: manner of walking |
| walkingstick | (noun) any of various mostly tropical insects having long twiglike bodies | Synonyms: stick insect, walking stick |
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| wank | (noun) slang for masturbation | Synonyms: hand job, jacking off, jerking off |
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| warlock | (noun) a male witch or demon | - |
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| waterbuck | (noun) any of several large African antelopes of the genus Kobus having curved ridged horns and frequenting e.g. swamps and rivers | - |
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| watermark | (noun) a distinguishing mark impressed on paper during manufacture; visible when paper is held up to the light | - |
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| (noun) a line marking the level reached by a body of water | Synonyms: water line |
| waxwork | (noun) an effigy (usually of a famous person) made of wax | Synonyms: wax figure |
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| (noun) twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds | Synonyms: American bittersweet, bittersweet, Celastrus scandens, climbing bittersweet, false bittersweet, shrubby bittersweet, staff vine |
| weathercock | (noun) weathervane with a vane in the form of a rooster | - |
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| wedlock | (noun) the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce) | Synonyms: marriage, matrimony, spousal relationship, union |
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| week | (noun) any period of seven consecutive days | Synonyms: hebdomad |
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| (noun) hours or days of work in a calendar week | Synonyms: workweek |
| (noun) a period of seven consecutive days (usually reckoned to be from Sunday to Saturday, or from Monday to Sunday) | Synonyms: calendar week |
| wetback | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Mexican descent | Synonyms: greaser, taco |
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| whack | (noun) the act of hitting vigorously | Synonyms: belt, knock, rap, whang |
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| (noun) the sound made by a sharp swift blow | - |
| wheelwork | (noun) mechanical device including an arrangement of wheel in a machine (especially a train of gears) | - |
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| whelk | (noun) large carnivorous marine gastropods of coastal waters and intertidal regions having a strong snail-like shell | - |
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| (noun) large marine snail much used as food in Europe | - |
| whisk | (noun) a small short-handled broom used to brush clothes | Synonyms: whisk broom |
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| (noun) a mixer incorporating a coil of wires; used for whipping eggs or cream | - |
| wick | (noun) a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame | Synonyms: taper |
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| (noun) any piece of cord that conveys liquid by capillary action | - |
| wickerwork | (noun) work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches) | Synonyms: caning, wicker |
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| windbreak | (noun) hedge or fence of trees designed to lessen the force of the wind and reduce erosion | Synonyms: shelterbelt |
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| windsock | (noun) a truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind | Synonyms: air-sleeve, air sock, drogue, sock, wind cone, wind sleeve, wind sock |
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| wingback | (noun) (American football) the position of the offensive back who lines up behind or outside the end | - |
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| (noun) (football) the person who plays wingback | - |
| wink | (noun) a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly | Synonyms: blink, blinking, eye blink, nictation, nictitation, winking |
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| (noun) closing one eye quickly as a signal | - |
| (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, trice, twinkling |
| wirework | (noun) mesh netting made of wires | Synonyms: grillwork |
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| wisecrack | (noun) witty remark | Synonyms: crack, quip, sally |
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| wok | (noun) pan with a convex bottom; used for frying in Chinese cooking | - |
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| wonk | (noun) an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious | Synonyms: dweeb, grind, nerd, swot |
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| woodchuck | (noun) reddish brown North American marmot | Synonyms: groundhog, Marmota monax |
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| woodcock | (noun) game bird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe | - |
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| woodwork | (noun) the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood | Synonyms: carpentry, woodworking |
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| (noun) work made of wood; especially moldings or stairways or furniture | - |
| wordbook | (noun) a reference book containing words (usually with their meanings) | - |
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| work | (noun) activity directed toward making or doing something | - |
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| (noun) the occupation for which you are paid | Synonyms: employment |
| (noun) a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing | Synonyms: piece of work |
| (noun) a place where work is done | Synonyms: workplace |
| (noun) the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it) | Synonyms: body of work, oeuvre |
| (noun) applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading) | Synonyms: study |
| (noun) (physics) a manifestation of energy; the transfer of energy from one physical system to another expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which it moves a body in the direction of that force | - |
| workbook | (noun) a student's book or booklet containing problems with spaces for solving them | - |
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| workweek | (noun) hours or days of work in a calendar week | Synonyms: week |
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| wrack | (noun) dried seaweed especially that cast ashore | - |
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| (noun) growth of marine vegetation especially of the large forms such as rockweeds and kelp | Synonyms: sea wrack |
| (noun) the destruction or collapse of something | Synonyms: rack |
| wreck | (noun) a ship that has been destroyed at sea | - |
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| (noun) a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles) | Synonyms: crash |
| (noun) an accident that destroys a ship at sea | Synonyms: shipwreck |
| (noun) something or someone that has suffered ruin or dilapidation | - |
| wrick | (noun) a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) | Synonyms: crick, kink, rick |
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| wryneck | (noun) Old World woodpecker with a peculiar habit of twisting the neck | - |
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| (noun) an unnatural condition in which the head leans to one side because the neck muscles on that side are contracted | Synonyms: torticollis |
| yack | (noun) noisy talk | Synonyms: cackle, chatter, yak, yakety-yak |
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| yak | (noun) large long-haired wild ox of Tibet often domesticated | Synonyms: Bos grunniens |
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| (noun) noisy talk | Synonyms: cackle, chatter, yack, yakety-yak |
| yardstick | (noun) a ruler or tape that is three feet long | Synonyms: yard measure |
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| (noun) a measure or standard used for comparison | - |
| yashmak | (noun) the face veil worn by Muslim women | Synonyms: yashmac |
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| yearbook | (noun) a reference book that is published regularly once every year | Synonyms: annual, yearly |
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| (noun) a book published annually by the graduating class of a high school or college usually containing photographs of faculty and graduating students | - |
| yolk | (noun) nutritive material of an ovum stored for the nutrition of an embryo (especially the yellow mass of a bird or reptile egg) | Synonyms: vitellus |
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| (noun) the yellow spherical part of an egg that is surrounded by the albumen | Synonyms: egg yolk |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| zwieback | (noun) slice of sweet raised bread baked again until it is brown and hard and crisp | Synonyms: Brussels biscuit, rusk, twice-baked bread |
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