| taichi | (noun) a Chinese system of slow meditative physical exercise designed for relaxation and balance and health | Synonyms: t'ai chi, t'ai chi chuan, tai chi, tai chi chuan, taichichuan |
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| taichichuan | (noun) a Chinese system of slow meditative physical exercise designed for relaxation and balance and health | Synonyms: t'ai chi, t'ai chi chuan, tai chi, tai chi chuan, taichi |
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| tail | (noun) the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body | - |
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| (noun) the rear part of a ship | Synonyms: after part, poop, quarter, stern |
| (noun) the rear part of an aircraft | Synonyms: empennage, tail assembly |
| (noun) (usually plural) the reverse side of a coin that does not bear the representation of a person's head | - |
| (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail end, tooshie, tush |
| (noun) a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements | Synonyms: shadow, shadower |
| (noun) any projection that resembles the tail of an animal | Synonyms: tail end |
| (noun) the time of the last part of something | Synonyms: fag end, tail end |
| tailback | (noun) (American football) the position of the offensive back on a football team who lines up farthest from the line of scrimmage | - |
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| (noun) (American football) the person who plays tailback | - |
| tailband | (noun) an endband along the bottom edge of the book (as a book is standing upright). | - |
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| tailboard | (noun) a gate at the rear of a vehicle; can be lowered for loading | Synonyms: tailgate |
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| tailcoat | (noun) formalwear consisting of full evening dress for men | Synonyms: dress suit, full dress, tail coat, tails, white tie, white tie and tails |
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| tailfin | (noun) a stabilizer that is part of the vertical tail structure of an airplane | Synonyms: tail fin, vertical fin, vertical stabiliser, vertical stabilizer |
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| (noun) one of a pair of decorations projecting above the rear fenders of an automobile | Synonyms: fin, tail fin |
| tailflower | (noun) any of various tropical American plants cultivated for their showy foliage and flowers | Synonyms: anthurium, tail-flower |
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| tailgate | (noun) a gate at the rear of a vehicle; can be lowered for loading | Synonyms: tailboard |
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| tailgater | (noun) a driver who follows too closely behind another motor vehicle | - |
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| tailing | (noun) the act of following someone secretly | Synonyms: shadowing |
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| taillight | (noun) lamp (usually red) mounted at the rear of a motor vehicle | Synonyms: rear lamp, rear light, tail lamp |
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| tailor | (noun) a person whose occupation is making and altering garments | Synonyms: sartor, seamster |
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| tailorbird | (noun) tropical Asian warbler that stitches leaves together to form and conceal its nest | Synonyms: Orthotomus sutorius |
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| tailoring | (noun) the occupation of a tailor | - |
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| tailpiece | (noun) appendage added to extend the length of something | - |
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| tailpipe | (noun) a pipe carrying fumes from the muffler to the rear of a car | - |
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| tailplane | (noun) the horizontal airfoil of an aircraft's tail assembly that is fixed and to which the elevator is hinged | Synonyms: horizontal stabiliser, horizontal stabilizer |
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| tailrace | (noun) a watercourse that carries water away from a mill or water wheel or turbine | - |
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| tails | (noun) formalwear consisting of full evening dress for men | Synonyms: dress suit, full dress, tail coat, tailcoat, white tie, white tie and tails |
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| tailspin | (noun) rapid descent of an aircraft in a steep spiral | Synonyms: spin |
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| (noun) loss of emotional control often resulting in emotional collapse | - |
| tailstock | (noun) support consisting of the movable part of a lathe that slides along the bed in alignment with the headstock and is locked into position to support the free end of the workpiece | - |
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| tailwind | (noun) wind blowing in the same direction as the path of a ship or aircraft | - |
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| 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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