| technophilia | (noun) enthusiasm for new technology | - |
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| technophobe | (noun) a person who dislikes or avoids new technology | - |
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| technophobia | (noun) dislike for new technology | - |
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| tectonics | (noun) the branch of geology studying the folding and faulting of the earth's crust | Synonyms: plate tectonic theory, plate tectonics |
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| (noun) the science of architecture | Synonyms: architectonics |
| teddy | (noun) a woman's sleeveless undergarment | Synonyms: chemise, shift, shimmy, slip |
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| (noun) plaything consisting of a child's toy bear (usually plush and stuffed with soft materials) | Synonyms: teddy bear |
| tediousness | (noun) dullness owing to length or slowness | Synonyms: tedium, tiresomeness |
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| tedium | (noun) dullness owing to length or slowness | Synonyms: tediousness, tiresomeness |
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| (noun) the feeling of being bored by something tedious | Synonyms: boredom, ennui |
| tee | (noun) a short peg put into the ground to hold a golf ball off the ground | Synonyms: golf tee |
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| (noun) support holding a football on end and above the ground preparatory to the kickoff | Synonyms: football tee |
| (noun) the starting place for each hole on a golf course | Synonyms: teeing ground |
| teemingness | (noun) the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply | Synonyms: abundance, copiousness |
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| teen | (noun) a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity | Synonyms: adolescent, stripling, teenager |
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| teenager | (noun) a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity | Synonyms: adolescent, stripling, teen |
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| teens | (noun) all the numbers that end in -teen | - |
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| (noun) the time of life between the ages of 12 and 20 | - |
| teeoff | (noun) the act of hitting a golf ball from the teeing ground at the start of each hole | - |
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| teepee | (noun) a Native American tent; usually of conical shape | Synonyms: tepee, tipi |
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| teeter | (noun) a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end | Synonyms: dandle board, seesaw, teeter-totter, teeterboard, teetertotter, tilting board |
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| teeterboard | (noun) a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end | Synonyms: dandle board, seesaw, teeter-totter, teeter, teetertotter, tilting board |
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| teetertotter | (noun) a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end | Synonyms: dandle board, seesaw, teeter-totter, teeter, teeterboard, tilting board |
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| teeth | (noun) the kind and number and arrangement of teeth (collectively) in a person or animal | Synonyms: dentition |
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| teething | (noun) the eruption through the gums of baby teeth | Synonyms: dentition, odontiasis |
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| teetotaler | (noun) a total abstainer | Synonyms: teetotalist, teetotaller |
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| teetotaling | (noun) abstaining from alcohol | Synonyms: teetotalism |
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| teetotalism | (noun) abstaining from alcohol | Synonyms: teetotaling |
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| teetotalist | (noun) a total abstainer | Synonyms: teetotaler, teetotaller |
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| teetotaller | (noun) a total abstainer | Synonyms: teetotaler, teetotalist |
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| teetotum | (noun) a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin | Synonyms: spinning top, top, whirligig |
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| teff | (noun) an African grass economically important as a cereal grass (yielding white flour of good quality) as well as for forage and hay | Synonyms: Eragrostic abyssinica, Eragrostis tef, teff grass |
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| tefillin | (noun) (Judaism) either of two small leather cases containing texts from the Hebrew Scriptures (known collectively as tefillin); traditionally worn (on the forehead and the left arm) by Jewish men during morning prayer | Synonyms: phylactery |
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| teg | (noun) two-year-old sheep | - |
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| tegument | (noun) a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch | Synonyms: cutis, skin |
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| teiid | (noun) tropical New World lizard with a long tail and large rectangular scales on the belly and a long tail | Synonyms: teiid lizard |
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| teju | (noun) large (to 3 feet) blackish yellow-banded South American lizard; raid henhouses; used as food | - |
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| tekki | (noun) a technician who is highly proficient and enthusiastic about some technical field (especially computing) | Synonyms: techie |
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| tektite | (noun) thought to derive from meteorites | - |
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| telamon | (noun) a figure of a man used as a supporting column | Synonyms: atlas |
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| telco | (noun) a public utility that provides telephone service | Synonyms: phone company, phone service, telephone company, telephone service |
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| telecast | (noun) a television broadcast | - |
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| telecaster | (noun) a television broadcaster | - |
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| telecasting | (noun) broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects | Synonyms: television, TV, video |
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| telecom | (noun) (often plural) systems used in transmitting messages over a distance electronically | Synonyms: telecommunication |
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| telecommerce | (noun) the use of the telephone as an interactive medium for promotion and sales | Synonyms: telemarketing, teleselling |
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| telecommunication | (noun) (often plural) the branch of electrical engineering concerned with the technology of electronic communication at a distance | - |
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| (noun) (often plural) systems used in transmitting messages over a distance electronically | Synonyms: telecom |
| telecommuting | (noun) employment at home while communicating with the workplace by phone or fax or modem | Synonyms: teleworking |
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| teleconference | (noun) a conference of people who are in different locations that is made possible by the use of such telecommunications equipment as closed-circuit television | Synonyms: teleconferencing |
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| teleconferencing | (noun) a conference of people who are in different locations that is made possible by the use of such telecommunications equipment as closed-circuit television | Synonyms: teleconference |
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| telefilm | (noun) a movie that is made to be shown on television | - |
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| telegnosis | (noun) apparent knowledge of distant events without using sensory perceptions | - |
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| telegram | (noun) a message transmitted by telegraph | Synonyms: wire |
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| telegraph | (noun) apparatus used to communicate at a distance over a wire (usually in Morse code) | Synonyms: telegraphy |
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| telegrapher | (noun) someone who transmits messages by telegraph | Synonyms: telegraph operator, telegraphist |
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| telegraphese | (noun) language characterized by terseness and ellipsis as in telegrams | - |
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| telegraphist | (noun) someone who transmits messages by telegraph | Synonyms: telegraph operator, telegrapher |
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| telegraphy | (noun) apparatus used to communicate at a distance over a wire (usually in Morse code) | Synonyms: telegraph |
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| (noun) communicating at a distance by electric transmission over wire | - |
| telekinesis | (noun) the power to move something by thinking about it without the application of physical force | Synonyms: psychokinesis |
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| telemark | (noun) a turn made in skiing; the outside ski is placed ahead and turned gradually inwards | - |
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| telemarketing | (noun) the use of the telephone as an interactive medium for promotion and sales | Synonyms: telecommerce, teleselling |
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| telemeter | (noun) any scientific instrument for observing events at a distance and transmitting the information back to the observer | - |
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| telemetry | (noun) automatic transmission and measurement of data from remote sources by wire or radio or other means | - |
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| telencephalon | (noun) the anterior division of the forebrain; the cerebrum and related parts of the hypothalamus | - |
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| teleologist | (noun) advocate of teleology | - |
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| teleology | (noun) (philosophy) a doctrine explaining phenomena by their ends or purposes | - |
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| teleost | (noun) a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei | Synonyms: teleost fish, teleostan |
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| teleostan | (noun) a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei | Synonyms: teleost, teleost fish |
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| telepathist | (noun) someone with the power of communicating thoughts directly | Synonyms: mental telepathist, mind reader, thought-reader |
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| (noun) a magician who seems to discern the thoughts of another person (usually by clever signals from an accomplice) | Synonyms: mind reader, thought-reader |
| telepathy | (noun) apparent communication from one mind to another without using sensory perceptions | Synonyms: thought transference |
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| telephone | (noun) electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds | Synonyms: phone, telephone set |
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| (noun) transmitting speech at a distance | Synonyms: telephony |
| telephoner | (noun) the person initiating a telephone call | Synonyms: caller-up, caller, phoner |
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| telephonist | (noun) someone who helps callers get the person they are calling | Synonyms: switchboard operator, telephone operator |
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| telephony | (noun) transmitting speech at a distance | Synonyms: telephone |
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| telephoto | (noun) a photograph made with a telephoto lens | Synonyms: telephotograph |
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| telephotograph | (noun) a photograph made with a telephoto lens | Synonyms: telephoto |
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| (noun) a photograph transmitted and reproduced over a distance | - |
| telephotography | (noun) photography using a telephoto lens | - |
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| (noun) transmission and reproduction of photographs and charts and pictures over a distance | - |
| teleportation | (noun) a hypothetical mode of instantaneous transportation; matter is dematerialized at one place and recreated at another | - |
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| teleprinter | (noun) a character printer connected to a telegraph that operates like a typewriter | Synonyms: teletype machine, teletypewriter, telex, telex machine |
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| teleprocessing | (noun) data processing in which some of the functions are performed in different places and connected by transmission facilities | Synonyms: distributed data processing, remote-access data processing |
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| telerobotics | (noun) the area of robotics that is concerned with the control of robots from a distance | - |
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| telescope | (noun) a magnifier of images of distant objects | Synonyms: scope |
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| telescopy | (noun) the art of making and using telescopes | - |
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| teleselling | (noun) the use of the telephone as an interactive medium for promotion and sales | Synonyms: telecommerce, telemarketing |
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| telethermometer | (noun) a thermometer that registers the temperature at some distant point | - |
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| teletypewriter | (noun) a character printer connected to a telegraph that operates like a typewriter | Synonyms: teleprinter, teletype machine, telex, telex machine |
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| televangelism | (noun) evangelism at a distance by the use of television | - |
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| televangelist | (noun) an evangelist who conducts services on television | - |
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| television | (noun) a telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points | Synonyms: television system |
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| (noun) an electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen | Synonyms: boob tube, goggle box, idiot box, television receiver, television set, telly, tv, tv set |
| (noun) broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects | Synonyms: telecasting, TV, video |
| televisuality | (noun) Quality of being of, relating to, or being suitable for broadcast by television. | - |
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| teleworking | (noun) employment at home while communicating with the workplace by phone or fax or modem | Synonyms: telecommuting |
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| telex | (noun) a character printer connected to a telegraph that operates like a typewriter | Synonyms: teleprinter, teletype machine, teletypewriter, telex machine |
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| telfer | (noun) one of the conveyances (or cars) in a telpherage | Synonyms: telpher |
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| telferage | (noun) a transportation system in which cars (telphers) are suspended from cables and operated on electricity | Synonyms: telpherage |
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| teliospore | (noun) a chlamydospore that develops in the last stage of the life cycle of the rust fungus | - |
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| teller | (noun) an employee of a bank who receives and pays out money | Synonyms: bank clerk, cashier |
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| (noun) an official appointed to count the votes (especially in legislative assembly) | Synonyms: vote counter |
| (noun) someone who tells a story | Synonyms: narrator, storyteller |
| telling | (noun) informing by words | Synonyms: apprisal, notification |
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| (noun) an act of narration | Synonyms: recounting, relation |
| (noun) disclosing information or giving evidence about another | Synonyms: singing, tattle |
| telltale | (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: blabbermouth, talebearer, taleteller, tattler, tattletale |
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| tellurian | (noun) an inhabitant of the earth | Synonyms: earthling, earthman, worldling |
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| telluride | (noun) any binary compound of tellurium with other more electropositive elements | - |
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| tellurium | (noun) a brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur; it is used in alloys and as a semiconductor; occurs mainly as tellurides in ores of copper and nickel and silver and gold | Synonyms: atomic number 52, Te |
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| telly | (noun) an electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen | Synonyms: boob tube, goggle box, idiot box, television, television receiver, television set, tv, tv set |
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| telomerase | (noun) an enzyme in eukaryotic cells that can add telomeres to the ends of chromosomes after they divide | - |
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| telomere | (noun) either (free) end of a eukaryotic chromosome | - |
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| telophase | (noun) the final stage of mitosis | - |
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| (noun) the final stage of meiosis when the chromosomes move toward opposite ends of the nuclear spindle | - |
| telpher | (noun) one of the conveyances (or cars) in a telpherage | Synonyms: telfer |
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