| tanker | (noun) a cargo ship designed to carry crude oil in bulk | Synonyms: oil tanker, oiler, tank ship |
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| (noun) a motor vehicle designed to carry liquefied loads, dry bulk cargo or gases on roads. | Synonyms: tank truck, tanker truck |
| (noun) a soldier who drives a tank | Synonyms: tank driver |
| tankful | (noun) as much as a tank will hold | Synonyms: tank |
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| tanner | (noun) a craftsman who tans skins and hides | - |
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| (noun) a small coin of the United Kingdom worth six pennies; not minted since 1970 | Synonyms: sixpence |
| tannery | (noun) workplace where skins and hides are tanned | - |
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| tannia | (noun) tropical American aroid having edible tubers that are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes | Synonyms: malanga, spoonflower, Xanthosoma atrovirens, Xanthosoma sagittifolium, yautia |
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| tannin | (noun) any of various complex phenolic substances of plant origin; used in tanning and in medicine | Synonyms: tannic acid |
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| tanning | (noun) making leather from rawhide | - |
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| (noun) beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment | Synonyms: flagellation, flogging, lashing, whipping |
| (noun) process in which skin pigmentation darkens as a result of exposure to ultraviolet light | - |
| tannoy | (noun) a loudspeaker | - |
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| tansy | (noun) common perennial aromatic herb native to Eurasia having buttonlike yellow flower heads and bitter-tasting pinnate leaves sometimes used medicinally | Synonyms: golden buttons, scented fern, Tanacetum vulgare |
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| tantaliser | (noun) someone who tantalizes; a tormentor who offers something desirable but keeps it just out of reach | Synonyms: tantalizer |
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| tantalite | (noun) a mineral consisting of tantalum oxide of iron and manganese that occurs with niobite or in coarse granite; an ore of tantalum | - |
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| tantalization | (noun) the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances | Synonyms: ribbing, tease, teasing |
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| tantalizer | (noun) someone who tantalizes; a tormentor who offers something desirable but keeps it just out of reach | Synonyms: tantaliser |
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| tantalum | (noun) a hard grey lustrous metallic element that is highly resistant to corrosion; occurs in niobite and fergusonite and tantalite | Synonyms: atomic number 73, Ta |
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| tantra | (noun) any of a fairly recent class of Hindu or Buddhist religious literature concerned with ritual acts of body and speech and mind | - |
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| tantrum | (noun) a display of bad temper | Synonyms: conniption, fit, scene |
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| taoiseach | (noun) the prime minister of the Irish Republic | - |
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| tap | (noun) a light touch or stroke | Synonyms: dab, pat |
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| (noun) the act of tapping a telephone or telegraph line to get information | Synonyms: wiretap |
| (noun) a faucet for drawing water from a pipe or cask | Synonyms: hydrant, water faucet, water tap |
| (noun) a plug for a bunghole in a cask | Synonyms: spigot |
| (noun) a tool for cutting female (internal) screw threads | - |
| (noun) a small metal plate that attaches to the toe or heel of a shoe (as in tap dancing) | - |
| (noun) the sound made by a gentle blow | Synonyms: pat, rap |
| (noun) a gentle blow | Synonyms: rap, strike |
| tapa | (noun) a paperlike cloth made in the South Pacific by pounding tapa bark | Synonyms: tappa |
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| (noun) the thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus | Synonyms: tapa bark, tappa, tappa bark |
| tape | (noun) a long thin piece of cloth or paper as used for binding or fastening | - |
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| (noun) a recording made on magnetic tape | Synonyms: tape recording, taping |
| (noun) measuring instrument consisting of a narrow strip (cloth or metal) marked in inches or centimeters and used for measuring lengths | Synonyms: tape measure, tapeline |
| (noun) memory device consisting of a long thin plastic strip coated with iron oxide; used to record audio or video signals or to store computer information | Synonyms: mag tape, magnetic tape |
| (noun) the finishing line for a foot race | - |
| tapeline | (noun) measuring instrument consisting of a narrow strip (cloth or metal) marked in inches or centimeters and used for measuring lengths | Synonyms: tape, tape measure |
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| tapenade | (noun) a spread consisting of capers and black olives and anchovies made into a puree with olive oil | - |
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| taper | (noun) stick of wax with a wick in the middle | Synonyms: candle, wax light |
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| (noun) a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame | Synonyms: wick |
| (noun) the property possessed by a shape that narrows toward a point (as a wedge or cone) | - |
| (noun) a convex shape that narrows toward a point | - |
| tapering | (noun) the act of gradually lowering the size or amount | - |
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| tapestry | (noun) a wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric often with pictorial designs | Synonyms: arras |
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| (noun) a heavy textile with a woven design; used for curtains and upholstery | Synonyms: tapis |
| (noun) something that resembles a tapestry in its intricacy | - |
| tapeworm | (noun) ribbonlike flatworms that are parasitic in the intestines of humans and other vertebrates | Synonyms: cestode |
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| taphephobia | (noun) a morbid fear of being buried alive | - |
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| taphouse | (noun) tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms; often provides light meals | Synonyms: gin mill, pothouse, pub, public house, saloon |
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| taping | (noun) a recording made on magnetic tape | Synonyms: tape, tape recording |
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| tapinosis | (noun) (rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby something is given less importance by the name given it than it merits. | - |
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| tapioca | (noun) granular preparation of cassava starch used to thicken especially puddings | - |
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| tapir | (noun) large inoffensive chiefly nocturnal ungulate of tropical America and southeast Asia having a heavy body and fleshy snout | - |
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| tapis | (noun) a heavy textile with a woven design; used for curtains and upholstery | Synonyms: tapestry |
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| tapotement | (noun) massage in which the body is tapped rhythmically with the fingers or with short rapid movements of the sides of the hand; used to loosen mucus on the chest walls of patients with bronchitis | - |
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| tappa | (noun) a paperlike cloth made in the South Pacific by pounding tapa bark | Synonyms: tapa |
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| (noun) the thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus | Synonyms: tapa, tapa bark, tappa bark |
| tapper | (noun) someone who wiretaps a telephone or telegraph wire | Synonyms: phone tapper, wiretapper |
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| (noun) a tavern keeper who taps kegs or casks | Synonyms: tapster |
| (noun) a worker who uses a tap to cut screw threads | - |
| (noun) a dancer who sounds out rhythms by using metal taps on the toes and heels of the shoes | Synonyms: tap dancer |
| (noun) a person who strikes a surface lightly and usually repeatedly | - |
| tappet | (noun) a lever that is moved in order to tap something else | - |
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| tapping | (noun) the sound of light blow or knock | - |
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| taproom | (noun) a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter | Synonyms: bar, barroom, ginmill, saloon |
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| taproot | (noun) something that provides an important central source for growth or development | - |
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| (noun) (botany) main root of a plant growing straight downward from the stem | - |
| taps | (noun) (military) signal to turn the lights out | Synonyms: lights-out |
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| tapster | (noun) a tavern keeper who taps kegs or casks | Synonyms: tapper |
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| tar | (noun) a man who serves as a sailor | Synonyms: gob, Jack-tar, Jack, mariner, old salt, sea dog, seafarer, seaman |
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| (noun) any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue | Synonyms: pitch |
| taradiddle | (noun) a trivial lie | Synonyms: fib, story, tale, tarradiddle |
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| (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
| tarantella | (noun) a lively whirling Italian dance for two persons | Synonyms: tarantelle |
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| (noun) music composed in six-eight time for dancing the tarantella | - |
| tarantelle | (noun) a lively whirling Italian dance for two persons | Synonyms: tarantella |
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| tarantism | (noun) a nervous disorder characterized by an uncontrollable impulse to dance; popularly attributed to bite of the southern European tarantula or wolf spider | - |
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| tarantula | (noun) large hairy tropical spider with fangs that can inflict painful but not highly venomous bites | - |
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| (noun) large southern European spider once thought to be the cause of tarantism (uncontrollable bodily movement) | Synonyms: European wolf spider, Lycosa tarentula |
| tarboosh | (noun) a felt cap (usually red) for a man; shaped like a flat-topped cone with a tassel that hangs from the crown | Synonyms: fez |
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| tardigrade | (noun) an arthropod of the division Tardigrada | - |
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| tardiness | (noun) the quality or habit of not adhering to a correct or usual or expected time | - |
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| tare | (noun) (chemical analysis) a counterweight used in chemical analysis; consists of an empty container that counterbalances the weight of the container holding chemicals | - |
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| (noun) the weight of a motor vehicle, railroad car, or aircraft without its fuel or cargo | - |
| (noun) any of several weedy vetches grown for forage | - |
| (noun) weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous | Synonyms: bearded darnel, cheat, darnel, Lolium temulentum |
| (noun) an adjustment made for the weight of the packaging in order to determine the net weight of the goods | - |
| target | (noun) sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at | Synonyms: butt |
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| (noun) the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable) | Synonyms: aim, object, objective |
| (noun) a reference point to shoot at | Synonyms: mark |
| (noun) the location of the target that is to be hit | Synonyms: target area |
| (noun) a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence | Synonyms: fair game, prey, quarry |
| tariff | (noun) a government tax on imports or exports | Synonyms: duty |
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| tarmac | (noun) a paved surface having compressed layers of broken rocks held together with tar | Synonyms: macadam, tarmacadam |
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| (noun) a paving material of tar and broken stone; mixed in a factory and shaped during paving | Synonyms: tarmacadam |
| tarmacadam | (noun) a paved surface having compressed layers of broken rocks held together with tar | Synonyms: macadam, tarmac |
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| (noun) a paving material of tar and broken stone; mixed in a factory and shaped during paving | Synonyms: tarmac |
| tarn | (noun) a mountain lake (especially one formed by glaciers) | - |
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| tarnish | (noun) discoloration of metal surface caused by oxidation | - |
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| taro | (noun) tropical starchy tuberous root | Synonyms: cocoyam, dasheen, edda, taro root |
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| (noun) herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves | Synonyms: Colocasia esculenta, dalo, dasheen, taro plant |
| (noun) edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants | Synonyms: cocoyam, dasheen, eddo |
| tarot | (noun) any of a set of (usually 78) cards that include 22 cards representing virtues and vices and death and fortune etc.; used for playing card games and for divination by fortunetellers | Synonyms: tarot card |
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| tarp | (noun) waterproofed canvas | Synonyms: tarpaulin |
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| tarpan | (noun) European wild horse extinct since the early 20th century | Synonyms: Equus caballus gomelini |
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| tarpaulin | (noun) waterproofed canvas | Synonyms: tarp |
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| tarpon | (noun) large silvery game fish of warm Atlantic coastal waters especially off Florida | Synonyms: Tarpon atlanticus |
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| tarradiddle | (noun) a trivial lie | Synonyms: fib, story, tale, taradiddle |
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| (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
| tarragon | (noun) fresh leaves (or leaves preserved in vinegar) used as seasoning | Synonyms: estragon |
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| (noun) aromatic perennial of southeastern Russia | Synonyms: Artemisia dracunculus, estragon |
| tarriance | (noun) the act of tarrying | Synonyms: lingering |
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| tarsal | (noun) any bone of the tarsus | Synonyms: tarsal bone |
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| tarsier | (noun) nocturnal arboreal primate of Indonesia and the Philippines having huge eyes and digits ending in pads to facilitate climbing; the only primate that spurns all plant material as food living entirely on insects and small vertebrates | - |
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| tarsitis | (noun) inflammation of the eyelid | - |
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| tarsus | (noun) the part of the foot of a vertebrate between the metatarsus and the leg; in human beings the bones of the ankle and heel collectively | - |
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| tart | (noun) a small open pie with a fruit filling | - |
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| (noun) a pastry cup with a filling of fruit or custard and no top crust | - |
| (noun) a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money | Synonyms: bawd, cocotte, cyprian, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, whore, woman of the street, working girl |
| tartan | (noun) a cloth having a crisscross design | Synonyms: plaid |
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| tartar | (noun) an incrustation that forms on the teeth and gums | Synonyms: calculus, tophus |
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| (noun) a fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman | Synonyms: dragon |
| (noun) a salt used especially in baking powder | Synonyms: cream of tartar, potassium bitartrate, potassium hydrogen tartrate |
| tartlet | (noun) a small tart usually used as a canape | - |
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| tartness | (noun) a sharp sour taste | Synonyms: acerbity |
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| (noun) a rough and bitter manner | Synonyms: acerbity, acrimony, bitterness, jaundice, thorniness |
| (noun) the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: sour, sourness |
| tartrate | (noun) a salt or ester of tartaric acid | - |
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| tarweed | (noun) any of various resinous glandular plants of the genus Madia; of western North and South America | - |
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| (noun) any of various western American plants of the genus Grindelia having resinous leaves and stems formerly used medicinally; often poisonous to livestock | Synonyms: gum plant, gumweed, rosinweed |
| tarwood | (noun) New Zealand shrub | Synonyms: Dacrydium bidwilli, Halocarpus bidwilli, New Zealand mountain pine, tar-wood |
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| (noun) New Zealand silver pine of conical habit with long slender flexuous branches; adapted to cold wet summers and high altitudes | Synonyms: Dacrydium colensoi, tar-wood |
| task | (noun) a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee | Synonyms: chore, job |
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| (noun) any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted | Synonyms: labor, labour, project, undertaking |
| taskmaster | (noun) someone who imposes hard or continuous work | - |
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| taskmistress | (noun) a woman taskmaster | - |
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| tasse | (noun) one of two pieces of armor plate hanging from the fauld to protect the upper thighs | Synonyms: tasset |
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| tassel | (noun) adornment consisting of a bunch of cords fastened at one end | - |
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| tasset | (noun) one of two pieces of armor plate hanging from the fauld to protect the upper thighs | Synonyms: tasse |
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| taste | (noun) a kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds | Synonyms: tasting |
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| (noun) delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values) | Synonyms: appreciation, discernment, perceptiveness |
| (noun) the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus | Synonyms: gustatory perception, gustatory sensation, taste perception, taste sensation |
| (noun) the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth | Synonyms: gustation, gustatory modality, sense of taste |
| (noun) a brief experience of something | - |
| (noun) a strong liking | Synonyms: penchant, predilection, preference |
| (noun) a small amount eaten or drunk | Synonyms: mouthful |
| tastebud | (noun) an oval sensory end organ on the surface of the tongue | Synonyms: gustatory organ, taste bud |
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| tastefulness | (noun) elegance indicated by good taste | - |
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| tastelessness | (noun) inelegance indicated by a lack of good taste | - |
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| (noun) the property of having no flavor | Synonyms: flavorlessness, flavourlessness, savorlessness, savourlessness |
| taster | (noun) someone who samples food or drink for its quality | Synonyms: sampler, taste-tester, taste tester |
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| tastiness | (noun) a pleasing palatability | - |
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| tasting | (noun) a kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds | Synonyms: taste |
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| (noun) taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality | Synonyms: degustation, relishing, savoring, savouring |
| (noun) a small amount (especially of food or wine) | - |
| tat | (noun) tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar | Synonyms: cheapness, sleaze, tackiness |
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| tater | (noun) an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland | Synonyms: Irish potato, murphy, potato, spud, white potato |
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| tatou | (noun) about three feet long exclusive of tail | Synonyms: giant armadillo, Priodontes giganteus, tatu |
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| tatouay | (noun) naked-tailed armadillo of tropical South America | Synonyms: cabassous, Cabassous unicinctus |
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| tatter | (noun) a small piece of cloth | Synonyms: rag, shred, tag, tag end |
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| tatterdemalion | (noun) a dirty shabbily clothed urchin | Synonyms: ragamuffin |
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| tatting | (noun) the act or art of making handmade lace | Synonyms: lace making |
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| (noun) needlework consisting of handmade lace made by looping and knotting a single thread on a small shuttle | - |
| tattle | (noun) disclosing information or giving evidence about another | Synonyms: singing, telling |
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