tailwort | (noun) hairy blue-flowered European annual herb long used in herbal medicine and eaten raw as salad greens or cooked like spinach | Synonyms: borage, Borago officinalis |
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taint | (noun) the state of being contaminated | Synonyms: contamination |
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taipan | (noun) large highly venomous snake of northeastern Australia | Synonyms: Oxyuranus scutellatus |
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taira | (noun) long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central America and South America | Synonyms: Eira barbara, tayra |
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taka | (noun) the basic unit of money in Bangladesh; equal to 100 paisa | - |
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takahe | (noun) flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules | Synonyms: notornis, Notornis mantelli |
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take | (noun) the act of photographing a scene or part of a scene without interruption | - |
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(noun) the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property | Synonyms: issue, payoff, proceeds, return, takings, yield |
takeaway | (noun) the act of taking the ball or puck away from the team on the offense (as by the interception of a pass) | - |
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(noun) a concession made by a labor union to a company that is trying to lower its expenditures | - |
(noun) prepared food that is intended to be eaten off of the premises | Synonyms: takeout, takeout food |
takedown | (noun) a crushing remark | Synonyms: put-down, squelch, squelcher |
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(noun) (amateur wrestling) being brought to the mat from a standing position | - |
takeoff | (noun) a departure; especially of airplanes | - |
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(noun) humorous or satirical mimicry | Synonyms: mockery, parody |
(noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: burlesque, lampoon, mockery, parody, pasquinade, put-on, send-up, sendup, spoof, travesty |
(noun) the initial ascent of an airplane as it becomes airborne | - |
takeout | (noun) (bridge) a bid that asks your partner to bid another suit | - |
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(noun) prepared food that is intended to be eaten off of the premises | Synonyms: takeaway, takeout food |
takeover | (noun) a change by sale or merger in the controlling interest of a corporation | - |
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(noun) a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force | Synonyms: coup, coup d'etat, putsch |
taker | (noun) one who takes a bet or wager | - |
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(noun) one who accepts an offer | - |
takin | (noun) large heavily built goat antelope of eastern Himalayan area | Synonyms: Budorcas taxicolor, gnu goat |
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taking | (noun) the act of someone who picks up or takes something | Synonyms: pickings |
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takings | (noun) the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property | Synonyms: issue, payoff, proceeds, return, take, yield |
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takoyaki | (noun) a ball-shaped Japanese snack made of a wheat flour-based batter and cooked in a special moulded pan | - |
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tala | (noun) the basic unit of money in Western Samoa | - |
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talapoin | (noun) smallest guenon monkey; of swampy central and west African forests | Synonyms: Cercopithecus talapoin |
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talaria | (noun) a winged sandal (as worn by Hermes in Greco-Roman art) | - |
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talc | (noun) a fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate; used in a variety of products including talcum powder | Synonyms: talcum |
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talcum | (noun) a toilet powder made of purified talc and usually scented; absorbs excess moisture | Synonyms: talcum powder |
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(noun) a fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate; used in a variety of products including talcum powder | Synonyms: talc |
tale | (noun) a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program | Synonyms: narration, narrative, story |
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(noun) a trivial lie | Synonyms: fib, story, taradiddle, tarradiddle |
talebearer | (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: blabbermouth, taleteller, tattler, tattletale, telltale |
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talent | (noun) natural abilities or qualities | Synonyms: endowment, gift, natural endowment |
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(noun) a person who possesses unusual innate ability in some field or activity | - |
talentlessness | (noun) a lack of talent | - |
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taleteller | (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: blabbermouth, talebearer, tattler, tattletale, telltale |
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talipes | (noun) congenital deformity of the foot usually marked by a curled shape or twisted position of the ankle and heel and toes | Synonyms: clubfoot |
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talipot | (noun) tall palm of southern India and Sri Lanka with gigantic leaves used as umbrellas and fans or cut into strips for writing paper | Synonyms: Corypha umbraculifera, talipot palm |
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talisman | (noun) a trinket or piece of jewelry usually hung about the neck and thought to be a magical protection against evil or disease | Synonyms: amulet |
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talk | (noun) the act of giving a talk to an audience | - |
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(noun) an exchange of ideas via conversation | Synonyms: talking |
(noun) idle gossip or rumor | Synonyms: talk of the town |
(noun) a speech that is open to the public | Synonyms: lecture, public lecture |
(noun) discussion; (`talk about' is a less formal alternative for `discussion of') | - |
talkativeness | (noun) the quality of being wordy and talkative | Synonyms: garrulity, garrulousness, loquaciousness, loquacity |
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talker | (noun) someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous) | Synonyms: speaker, utterer, verbaliser, verbalizer |
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talkie | (noun) a movie with synchronized speech and singing | Synonyms: talking picture |
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talking | (noun) an exchange of ideas via conversation | Synonyms: talk |
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talks | (noun) a discussion intended to produce an agreement | Synonyms: dialogue, negotiation |
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tall | (noun) a garment size for a tall person | - |
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tallboy | (noun) a tall chest of drawers divided into two sections and supported on four legs | Synonyms: highboy |
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tallgrass | (noun) any of various grasses that are tall and that flourish with abundant moisture | Synonyms: tall-grass |
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tallis | (noun) (Judaism) a shawl with a ritually knotted fringe at each corner; worn by Jews at morning prayer | Synonyms: prayer shawl, tallith |
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tallith | (noun) (Judaism) a shawl with a ritually knotted fringe at each corner; worn by Jews at morning prayer | Synonyms: prayer shawl, tallis |
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tallness | (noun) the vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top | Synonyms: height |
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(noun) the property of being taller than average stature | - |
tallow | (noun) obtained from suet and used in making soap, candles and lubricants | - |
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tally | (noun) the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order | Synonyms: count, counting, enumeration, numeration, reckoning |
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(noun) a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely | Synonyms: run |
(noun) a bill for an amount due | Synonyms: reckoning |
tallyman | (noun) one who keeps a tally of quantity or weight of goods produced or shipped or received | Synonyms: tally clerk |
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(noun) one who sells goods on the installment plan | - |
talon | (noun) a sharp hooked claw especially on a bird of prey | - |
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talus | (noun) the bone in the ankle that articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle joint | Synonyms: anklebone, astragal, astragalus |
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(noun) a sloping mass of loose rocks at the base of a cliff | Synonyms: scree |
tam | (noun) a woolen cap of Scottish origin | Synonyms: tam-o'-shanter, tammy |
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tamal | (noun) dough stuffed with a meat mixture and sometimes wrapped in corn husks and steamed | Synonyms: tamale |
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tamale | (noun) dough stuffed with a meat mixture and sometimes wrapped in corn husks and steamed | Synonyms: tamal |
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tamandu | (noun) small toothless anteater with prehensile tail and four-clawed forelimbs; of tropical South America and Central America | Synonyms: lesser anteater, tamandua, Tamandua tetradactyla |
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tamandua | (noun) small toothless anteater with prehensile tail and four-clawed forelimbs; of tropical South America and Central America | Synonyms: lesser anteater, tamandu, Tamandua tetradactyla |
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tamanoir | (noun) large shaggy-haired toothless anteater with long tongue and powerful claws; of South America | Synonyms: ant bear, giant anteater, great anteater, Myrmecophaga jubata |
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tamarack | (noun) medium-sized larch of Canada and northern United States including Alaska having a broad conic crown and rust-brown scaly bark | Synonyms: American larch, black larch, Larix laricina |
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tamarao | (noun) small buffalo of Mindoro in the Philippines | Synonyms: Anoa mindorensis, Bubalus mindorensis, tamarau |
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tamarau | (noun) small buffalo of Mindoro in the Philippines | Synonyms: Anoa mindorensis, Bubalus mindorensis, tamarao |
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tamarillo | (noun) South American arborescent shrub having pale pink blossoms followed by egg-shaped reddish-brown edible fruit somewhat resembling a tomato | Synonyms: tree tomato |
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tamarin | (noun) small South American marmoset with silky fur and long nonprehensile tail | Synonyms: leoncita, lion marmoset, lion monkey |
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tamarind | (noun) large tropical seed pod with very tangy pulp that is eaten fresh or cooked with rice and fish or preserved for curries and chutneys | Synonyms: tamarindo |
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(noun) long-lived tropical evergreen tree with a spreading crown and feathery evergreen foliage and fragrant flowers yielding hard yellowish wood and long pods with edible chocolate-colored acidic pulp | Synonyms: tamarind tree, tamarindo, Tamarindus indica |
tamarindo | (noun) large tropical seed pod with very tangy pulp that is eaten fresh or cooked with rice and fish or preserved for curries and chutneys | Synonyms: tamarind |
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(noun) long-lived tropical evergreen tree with a spreading crown and feathery evergreen foliage and fragrant flowers yielding hard yellowish wood and long pods with edible chocolate-colored acidic pulp | Synonyms: tamarind, tamarind tree, Tamarindus indica |
tamarisk | (noun) any shrub or small tree of the genus Tamarix having small scalelike or needle-shaped leaves and feathery racemes of small white or pinkish flowers; of mostly coastal areas with saline soil | - |
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tambac | (noun) an alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding | Synonyms: tombac, tombak |
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tambala | (noun) 100 tambala equal 1 kwacha in Malawi | - |
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tambour | (noun) a drum | - |
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(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 | - |
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tameness | (noun) the attribute of having been domesticated | Synonyms: domestication |
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(noun) the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated | Synonyms: jejuneness, jejunity, vapidity, vapidness |
tamer | (noun) an animal trainer who tames wild animals | - |
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tammy | (noun) plain-woven (often glazed) fabric of wool or wool and cotton used especially formerly for linings and garments and curtains | - |
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(noun) a woolen cap of Scottish origin | Synonyms: tam-o'-shanter, tam |
tamoxifen | (noun) an antagonist for estrogen that is used in the treatment of breast cancer | Synonyms: estrogen antagonist |
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tamp | (noun) a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.) | Synonyms: tamper, tamping bar |
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tamper | (noun) a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.) | Synonyms: tamp, tamping bar |
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tampering | (noun) the act of altering something secretly or improperly | Synonyms: meddling |
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tampion | (noun) plug for the muzzle of a gun to keep out dust and moisture | Synonyms: tompion |
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tampon | (noun) plug of cotton or other absorbent material; inserted into wound or body cavity to absorb exuded fluids (especially blood) | - |
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tamponade | (noun) blockage or closure (as of a wound or body cavity) by (or as if by) a tampon (especially to stop bleeding) | Synonyms: tamponage |
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tamponage | (noun) blockage or closure (as of a wound or body cavity) by (or as if by) a tampon (especially to stop bleeding) | Synonyms: tamponade |
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tan | (noun) a light brown the color of topaz | Synonyms: topaz |
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(noun) ratio of the opposite to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle | Synonyms: tangent |
(noun) a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun | Synonyms: suntan |
tanager | (noun) any of numerous New World woodland birds having brightly colored males | - |
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tanbark | (noun) bark rich in tannin; bruised and cut in pieces to use for tanning; spent tanbark used as a ground covering | - |
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tandem | (noun) a bicycle with two sets of pedals and two seats | Synonyms: bicycle-built-for-two, tandem bicycle |
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(noun) an arrangement of two or more objects or persons one behind another | - |
tandoor | (noun) a clay oven used in northern India and Pakistan | - |
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tanekaha | (noun) medium tall celery pine of New Zealand | Synonyms: Phyllocladus trichomanoides |
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tang | (noun) any of various kelps especially of the genus Laminaria | Synonyms: sea tangle |
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(noun) any of various coarse seaweeds | Synonyms: sea tang |
(noun) brown algae seaweed with serrated edges | Synonyms: Fucus serratus, serrated wrack |
(noun) a common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure | Synonyms: black rockweed, bladder fucus, bladderwrack, Fucus vesiculosus |
(noun) a tart spicy quality | Synonyms: nip, piquance, piquancy, piquantness, tanginess, zest |
(noun) the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: flavor, flavour, nip, relish, sapidity, savor, savour, smack |
tanga | (noun) 100 tanga equal 1 Tajikistani ruble | - |
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tangelo | (noun) large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin | Synonyms: ugli, ugli fruit |
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(noun) hybrid between grapefruit and mandarin orange; cultivated especially in Florida | Synonyms: Citrus tangelo, tangelo tree, ugli fruit |
tangency | (noun) (electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact | Synonyms: contact |
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(noun) the state of being tangent; having contact at a single point or along a line without crossing | - |
tangent | (noun) ratio of the opposite to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle | Synonyms: tan |
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(noun) a straight line or plane that touches a curve or curved surface at a point but does not intersect it at that point | - |
tangerine | (noun) a reddish to vivid orange color | - |
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(noun) any of various deep orange mandarins grown in the United States and southern Africa | - |
(noun) a variety of mandarin orange, known in Telugu and Portugal as kamala kaya and in Australia as a mandarin | Synonyms: tangerine tree |
tangibility | (noun) the quality of being perceivable by touch | Synonyms: palpability, tangibleness |
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tangibleness | (noun) the quality of being perceivable by touch | Synonyms: palpability, tangibility |
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tanginess | (noun) a tart spicy quality | Synonyms: nip, piquance, piquancy, piquantness, tang, zest |
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tangle | (noun) something jumbled or confused | Synonyms: maze, snarl |
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(noun) a twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven | - |
tanglebush | (noun) spiny branching deciduous shrub of southwestern United States having clusters of insignificant yellow-white flowers appearing before leaves followed by attractive black berrylike fruits | Synonyms: desert olive, Forestiera neomexicana |
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tango | (noun) a ballroom dance of Latin-American origin | - |
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(noun) music written in duple time for dancing the tango | - |
tangor | (noun) large citrus tree having large sweet deep orange fruit that is easily peeled; widely cultivated in Florida | Synonyms: Citrus nobilis, king orange, temple orange, temple orange tree |
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tangram | (noun) a Chinese puzzle consisting of a square divided into seven pieces that must be arranged to match particular designs | - |
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tank | (noun) a large (usually metallic) vessel for holding gases or liquids | Synonyms: storage tank |
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(noun) an enclosed armored military vehicle; has a cannon and moves on caterpillar treads | Synonyms: armored combat vehicle, armoured combat vehicle, army tank |
(noun) a freight car that transports liquids or gases in bulk | Synonyms: tank car |
(noun) a cell for violent prisoners | Synonyms: cooler |
(noun) as much as a tank will hold | Synonyms: tankful |
tanka | (noun) a Tibetan religious painting on fabric | - |
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(noun) a form of Japanese poetry; the 1st and 3rd lines have five syllables and the 2nd, 4th, and 5th have seven syllables | - |
tankage | (noun) the act of storing in tanks | - |
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(noun) the charge for storing something in tanks | - |
(noun) the quantity contained in (or the capacity of) a tank or tanks | - |
tankard | (noun) large drinking vessel with one handle | - |
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