| thrombus | (noun) a blood clot formed within a blood vessel and remaining attached to its place of origin | - |
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| throne | (noun) the position and power of an exalted person (a sovereign or bishop) who is entitled to sit in a chair of state on ceremonial occasions | - |
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| (noun) the chair of state for a monarch, bishop, etc. | - |
| (noun) a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination | Synonyms: can, commode, crapper, pot, potty, stool, toilet |
| throng | (noun) a large gathering of people | Synonyms: concourse, multitude |
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| throstle | (noun) common Old World thrush noted for its song | Synonyms: mavis, song thrush, Turdus philomelos |
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| (noun) a spinning machine formerly used to twist and wind fibers of cotton or wool continuously | - |
| throttle | (noun) a valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine | Synonyms: accelerator, throttle valve |
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| (noun) a pedal that controls the throttle valve | Synonyms: accelerator, accelerator pedal, gas, gas pedal, gun |
| throttlehold | (noun) complete power over a person or situation | Synonyms: chokehold, stranglehold |
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| throttler | (noun) someone who kills by strangling | Synonyms: choker, garroter, garrotter, strangler |
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| throttling | (noun) the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe | Synonyms: choking, strangling, strangulation |
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| throughput | (noun) output relative to input; the amount passing through a system from input to output (especially of a computer program over a period of time) | - |
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| throughway | (noun) a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic | Synonyms: expressway, freeway, motorway, pike, state highway, superhighway, thruway |
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| throw | (noun) the act of throwing (propelling something with a rapid movement of the arm and wrist) | - |
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| (noun) casting an object in order to determine an outcome randomly | - |
| (noun) bedclothes consisting of a lightweight cloth covering (an afghan or bedspread) that is casually thrown over something | - |
| (noun) the maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam | Synonyms: cam stroke, stroke |
| (noun) a single chance or instance | - |
| throwaway | (noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution | Synonyms: bill, broadsheet, broadside, circular, flier, flyer, handbill |
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| (noun) words spoken in a casual way with conscious under-emphasis | - |
| (noun) (sometimes offensive) a homeless boy who has been abandoned and roams the streets | Synonyms: gamin, street arab |
| throwback | (noun) a reappearance of an earlier characteristic | Synonyms: atavism, reversion |
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| (noun) an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism | Synonyms: atavist |
| thrower | (noun) someone who projects something (especially by a rapid motion of the arm) | - |
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| (noun) a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them in a kiln | Synonyms: ceramicist, ceramist, potter |
| (noun) a person who twists silk or rayon filaments into a thread or yarn | Synonyms: throwster |
| throwster | (noun) a person who twists silk or rayon filaments into a thread or yarn | Synonyms: thrower |
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| thrum | (noun) a thrumming sound | - |
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| thrush | (noun) songbirds characteristically having brownish upper plumage with a spotted breast | - |
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| (noun) a woman who sings popular songs | - |
| (noun) candidiasis of the oral cavity; seen mostly in infants or debilitated adults | - |
| thrust | (noun) the act of applying force to propel something | Synonyms: drive, driving force |
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| (noun) a strong blow with a knife or other sharp pointed instrument | Synonyms: knife thrust, stab |
| (noun) a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow) | Synonyms: jab, jabbing, poke, poking, thrusting |
| (noun) verbal criticism | - |
| (noun) the force used in pushing | Synonyms: push |
| thruster | (noun) a small rocket engine that provides the thrust needed to maneuver a spacecraft | - |
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| (noun) one who intrudes or pushes himself forward | Synonyms: pusher |
| thrusting | (noun) a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow) | Synonyms: jab, jabbing, poke, poking, thrust |
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| thruway | (noun) a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic | Synonyms: expressway, freeway, motorway, pike, state highway, superhighway, throughway |
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| thud | (noun) a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects) | Synonyms: clump, clunk, thump, thumping |
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| thug | (noun) an aggressive and violent young criminal | Synonyms: goon, hood, hoodlum, punk, strong-armer, tough, toughie |
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| thuggee | (noun) murder and robbery by thugs | - |
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| thuggery | (noun) violent or brutal acts as of thugs | - |
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| thulium | (noun) a soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group; isotope 170 emits X-rays and is used in small portable X-ray machines; it occurs in monazite and apatite and xenotime | Synonyms: atomic number 69, Tm |
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| thumb | (noun) the part of a glove that provides a covering for the thumb | - |
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| (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) | - |
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| (noun) the hole in a woodwind that is closed and opened with the thumb | - |
| thumbnail | (noun) the nail of the thumb | - |
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| thumbnut | (noun) a threaded nut with winglike projections for thumb and forefinger leverage in turning | Synonyms: butterfly nut, wing-nut, wing nut, wing screw |
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| thumbprint | (noun) fingerprint made by the thumb (especially by the pad of the thumb) | - |
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| thumbscrew | (noun) screw designed to be turned with the thumb and fingers | - |
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| (noun) instrument of torture that crushes the thumb | - |
| thumbstall | (noun) protective covering for an injured thumb | - |
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| thumbtack | (noun) a tack for attaching papers to a bulletin board or drawing board | Synonyms: drawing pin, pushpin |
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| thump | (noun) a heavy blow with the hand | - |
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| (noun) a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects) | Synonyms: clump, clunk, thud, thumping |
| thumping | (noun) a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects) | Synonyms: clump, clunk, thud, thump |
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| thunder | (noun) street names for heroin | Synonyms: big H, hell dust, nose drops, scag, skag, smack |
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| (noun) a deep prolonged loud noise | Synonyms: boom, roar, roaring |
| (noun) a booming or crashing noise caused by air expanding along the path of a bolt of lightning | - |
| thunderbird | (noun) (mythology) the spirit of thunder and lightning believed by some Native Americans to take the shape of a great bird | - |
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| thunderbolt | (noun) a shocking surprise | Synonyms: bombshell, thunderclap |
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| (noun) a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder | Synonyms: bolt, bolt of lightning |
| thunderclap | (noun) a single sharp crash of thunder | - |
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| (noun) a shocking surprise | Synonyms: bombshell, thunderbolt |
| thundercloud | (noun) a dark cloud of great vertical extent charged with electricity; associated with thunderstorms | Synonyms: cumulonimbus, cumulonimbus cloud |
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| thunderer | (noun) a noisemaker that makes a sound like thunder | - |
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| thunderhead | (noun) a rounded projecting mass of a cumulus cloud with shining edges; often appears before a thunderstorm | - |
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| thunderousness | (noun) The state or condition of being very loud, suggestive of thunder; booming loudness. | - |
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| thundershower | (noun) a short rainstorm accompanied by thunder and lightning | - |
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| thunderstorm | (noun) a storm resulting from strong rising air currents; heavy rain or hail along with thunder and lightning | Synonyms: electric storm, electrical storm |
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| thunk | (noun) a dull hollow sound | - |
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| thurible | (noun) a container for burning incense (especially one that is swung on a chain in a religious ritual) | Synonyms: censer |
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| thurifer | (noun) an acolyte who carries a thurible | - |
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| thus | (noun) an aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees; formerly valued for worship and for embalming and fumigation | Synonyms: frankincense, gum olibanum, olibanum |
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| thwack | (noun) a hard blow with a flat object | - |
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| thwart | (noun) a crosspiece spreading the gunnels of a boat; used as a seat in a rowboat | Synonyms: cross thwart |
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| thwarter | (noun) someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take | Synonyms: obstructer, obstructionist, obstructor, resister |
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| thwarting | (noun) an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts | Synonyms: foiling, frustration |
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| thylacine | (noun) rare doglike carnivorous marsupial of Tasmania having stripes on its back; probably extinct | Synonyms: Tasmanian tiger, Tasmanian wolf, Thylacinus cynocephalus |
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| thyme | (noun) leaves can be used as seasoning for almost any meat and stews and stuffings and vegetables | - |
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| (noun) any of various mints of the genus Thymus | - |
| thymidine | (noun) a nucleoside component of DNA; composed of thymine and deoxyribose | Synonyms: deoxythymidine |
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| thymine | (noun) a base found in DNA (but not in RNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine | Synonyms: T |
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| thymol | (noun) a colorless crystalline solid used in perfume or preserving biological specimens or in embalming or medically as a fungicide or antiseptic | Synonyms: thyme camphor, thymic acid |
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| thymosin | (noun) hormone secreted by the thymus; stimulates immunological activity of lymphoid tissue | - |
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| thymus | (noun) a ductless glandular organ at the base of the neck that produces lymphocytes and aids in producing immunity; atrophies with age | Synonyms: thymus gland |
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| thyreophoran | (noun) armored dinosaurs: stegosaurs and ankylosaurs | Synonyms: suborder Thyreophora, Thyreophora |
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| thyrocalcitonin | (noun) thyroid hormone that tends to lower the level of calcium in the blood plasma and inhibit resorption of bone | Synonyms: calcitonin |
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| thyroglobulin | (noun) an iodine containing protein that is obtained from the thyroid gland and exhibits the general properties of the globulins | - |
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| thyroid | (noun) located near the base of the neck | Synonyms: thyroid gland |
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| thyroidectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the thyroid gland | - |
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| thyroiditis | (noun) inflammation of the thyroid gland | - |
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| thyromegaly | (noun) abnormally enlarged thyroid gland; can result from underproduction or overproduction of hormone or from a deficiency of iodine in the diet | Synonyms: goiter, goitre, struma |
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| thyronine | (noun) a phenolic amino acid of which thyroxine is a derivative | - |
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| thyroprotein | (noun) a preparation made from iodinated protein and having an action similar to thyroxine | - |
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| thyrotoxicosis | (noun) an overactive thyroid gland; pathologically excessive production of thyroid hormones or the condition resulting from excessive production of thyroid hormones | Synonyms: hyperthyroidism |
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| thyrotrophin | (noun) anterior pituitary hormone that stimulates the function of the thyroid gland | Synonyms: thyroid-stimulating hormone, thyrotrophic hormone, thyrotropic hormone, thyrotropin, TSH |
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| thyrotropin | (noun) anterior pituitary hormone that stimulates the function of the thyroid gland | Synonyms: thyroid-stimulating hormone, thyrotrophic hormone, thyrotrophin, thyrotropic hormone, TSH |
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| thyroxin | (noun) hormone produced by the thyroid glands to regulate metabolism by controlling the rate of oxidation in cells | Synonyms: T, tetraiodothyronine, thyroxine |
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| thyroxine | (noun) hormone produced by the thyroid glands to regulate metabolism by controlling the rate of oxidation in cells | Synonyms: T, tetraiodothyronine, thyroxin |
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| thyrse | (noun) a dense flower cluster (as of the lilac or horse chestnut) in which the main axis is racemose and the branches are cymose | Synonyms: thyrsus |
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| thyrsopteris | (noun) a terrestrial tree fern of South America | Synonyms: Thyrsopteris elegans |
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| thyrsus | (noun) a dense flower cluster (as of the lilac or horse chestnut) in which the main axis is racemose and the branches are cymose | Synonyms: thyrse |
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| thysanopter | (noun) an insect of the order Thysanoptera | Synonyms: thysanopteron, thysanopterous insect |
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| thysanopteron | (noun) an insect of the order Thysanoptera | Synonyms: thysanopter, thysanopterous insect |
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| thysanuron | (noun) primitive wingless insects: bristletail | Synonyms: thysanuran insect |
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| ti | (noun) the syllable naming the seventh (subtonic) note of any musical scale in solmization | Synonyms: si, te |
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| (noun) shrub with terminal tufts of elongated leaves used locally for thatching and clothing; thick sweet roots are used as food; tropical southeastern Asia, Australia and Hawaii | Synonyms: Cordyline terminalis |
| tiara | (noun) a jeweled headdress worn by women on formal occasions | - |
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| tibia | (noun) the inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle | Synonyms: shin, shin bone, shinbone |
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| tibialis | (noun) either of two skeletal muscle in each leg arising from the tibia; provides for movement of the foot | Synonyms: musculus tibialis, tibialis muscle |
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| tic | (noun) a local and habitual twitching especially in the face | - |
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| tical | (noun) the basic unit of money in Thailand | Synonyms: baht |
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| tichodrome | (noun) crimson-and-grey songbird that inhabits town walls and mountain cliffs of southern Eurasia and northern Africa | Synonyms: Tichodroma muriaria, wall creeper |
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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 |
| ticker | (noun) a character printer that automatically prints stock quotations on ticker tape | Synonyms: stock ticker |
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| (noun) a small portable timepiece | Synonyms: watch |
| (noun) the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body | Synonyms: heart, pump |
| ticket | (noun) the appropriate or desirable thing | Synonyms: just the ticket |
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| (noun) a summons issued to an offender (especially to someone who violates a traffic regulation) | - |
| (noun) a commercial document showing that the holder is entitled to something (as to ride on public transportation or to enter a public entertainment) | - |
| (noun) a list of candidates nominated by a political party to run for election to public offices | Synonyms: slate |
| (noun) a label written or printed on paper, cardboard, or plastic that is attached to something to indicate its owner, nature, price, etc. | Synonyms: tag |
| ticking | (noun) a strong fabric used for mattress and pillow covers | - |
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| (noun) a metallic tapping sound | Synonyms: tick |
| tickle | (noun) the act of tickling | Synonyms: tickling, titillation |
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| (noun) a cutaneous sensation often resulting from light stroking | - |
| tickler | (noun) a file of memoranda or notices that remind of things to be done | Synonyms: tickler file |
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| tickling | (noun) the act of tickling | Synonyms: tickle, titillation |
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| tickseed | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Coreopsis having a profusion of showy usually yellow daisylike flowers over long periods; North and South America | Synonyms: coreopsis, tick-weed, tickweed |
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| ticktack | (noun) system of signalling by hand signs used by bookmakers at racetracks | - |
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| ticktacktoe | (noun) a game in which two players alternately put crosses and circles in one of the compartments of a square grid of nine spaces; the object is to get a row of three crosses or three circles before the opponent does | Synonyms: noughts and crosses, tic-tac-toe, tick-tack-toe, ticktacktoo, tit-tat-toe |
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| ticktacktoo | (noun) a game in which two players alternately put crosses and circles in one of the compartments of a square grid of nine spaces; the object is to get a row of three crosses or three circles before the opponent does | Synonyms: noughts and crosses, tic-tac-toe, tick-tack-toe, ticktacktoe, tit-tat-toe |
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| ticktock | (noun) steady recurrent ticking sound as made by a clock | Synonyms: tictac, tocktact |
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