tattletale | (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: blabbermouth, talebearer, taleteller, tattler, telltale |
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tattoo | (noun) the practice of making a design on the skin by pricking and staining | - |
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(noun) a design on the skin made by tattooing | - |
(noun) a drumbeat or bugle call that signals the military to return to their quarters | - |
tatu | (noun) about three feet long exclusive of tail | Synonyms: giant armadillo, Priodontes giganteus, tatou |
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tau | (noun) the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet | - |
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taunt | (noun) aggravation by deriding or mocking or criticizing | Synonyms: taunting, twit |
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taunting | (noun) aggravation by deriding or mocking or criticizing | Synonyms: taunt, twit |
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tauon | (noun) a lepton of very great mass | Synonyms: tau-minus particle |
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taupe | (noun) a greyish brown | - |
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taurine | (noun) a colorless crystalline substance obtained from the bile of mammals | - |
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tauromachy | (noun) the activity at a bullfight | Synonyms: bullfighting |
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tautness | (noun) lack of movement or room for movement | Synonyms: tightness |
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(noun) the physical condition of being stretched or strained | Synonyms: tenseness, tension, tensity |
tautog | (noun) large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America | Synonyms: blackfish, Tautoga onitis |
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tautology | (noun) useless and pointless repetition | - |
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(noun) (logic) a statement that is necessarily true | - |
tavern | (noun) a building with a bar that is licensed to sell alcoholic drinks | Synonyms: tap house |
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taw | (noun) a large marble used for shooting in the game of marbles | Synonyms: shooter |
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(noun) the 23rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
tawdriness | (noun) tasteless showiness | Synonyms: brashness, flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, glitz, loudness, meretriciousness |
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tawniness | (noun) the quality or state of being the color of tanned leather | - |
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tawse | (noun) a leather strap for punishing children | - |
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tax | (noun) charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government | Synonyms: revenue enhancement, taxation |
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taxability | (noun) liability to taxation | - |
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taxation | (noun) the imposition of taxes; the practice of the government in levying taxes on the subjects of a state | - |
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(noun) charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government | Synonyms: revenue enhancement, tax |
(noun) government income due to taxation | Synonyms: revenue, tax income, tax revenue |
taxer | (noun) a bureaucrat who levies taxes | - |
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taxi | (noun) a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money | Synonyms: cab, hack, taxicab |
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taxicab | (noun) a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money | Synonyms: cab, hack, taxi |
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taxidermist | (noun) a craftsman who stuffs and mounts the skins of animals for display | Synonyms: animal stuffer, stuffer |
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taxidermy | (noun) the art of mounting the skins of animals so that they have lifelike appearance | - |
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taxidriver | (noun) someone who drives a taxi for a living | Synonyms: cabby, cabdriver, cabman, hack-driver, hack driver, livery driver, taximan |
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taximan | (noun) someone who drives a taxi for a living | Synonyms: cabby, cabdriver, cabman, hack-driver, hack driver, livery driver, taxidriver |
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taximeter | (noun) a meter in a taxi that registers the fare (based on the length of the ride) | - |
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taxis | (noun) a locomotor response toward or away from an external stimulus by a motile (and usually simple) organism | - |
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(noun) the surgical procedure of manually restoring a displaced body part | - |
taxistand | (noun) a place where taxis park while awaiting customers | Synonyms: cabstand, taxi rank |
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taxiway | (noun) a paved surface in the form of a strip; used by planes taxiing to or from the runway at an airport | Synonyms: taxi strip |
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taxman | (noun) someone who collects taxes for the government | Synonyms: collector of internal revenue, exciseman, internal revenue agent, tax collector |
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taxon | (noun) animal or plant group having natural relations | Synonyms: taxonomic category, taxonomic group |
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taxonomer | (noun) a biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior | Synonyms: systematist, taxonomist |
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taxonomist | (noun) a biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior | Synonyms: systematist, taxonomer |
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taxonomy | (noun) practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships | - |
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(noun) (biology) study of the general principles of scientific classification | - |
(noun) a classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin etc | - |
taxpayer | (noun) someone who pays taxes | - |
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tayra | (noun) long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central America and South America | Synonyms: Eira barbara, taira |
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