| te | (noun) the syllable naming the seventh (subtonic) note of any musical scale in solmization | Synonyms: si, ti |
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| tea | (noun) a beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water | - |
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| (noun) a light midafternoon meal of tea and sandwiches or cakes | Synonyms: afternoon tea, teatime |
| (noun) dried leaves of the tea shrub; used to make tea | Synonyms: tea leaf |
| (noun) a tropical evergreen shrub or small tree extensively cultivated in e.g. China and Japan and India; source of tea leaves | Synonyms: Camellia sinensis |
| teaberry | (noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil | Synonyms: boxberry, checkerberry, spiceberry, wintergreen |
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| (noun) creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil | Synonyms: checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, groundberry, mountain tea, wintergreen |
| teacake | (noun) any of various small cakes or cookies often served with tea | - |
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| (noun) flat semisweet cookie or biscuit usually served with tea | Synonyms: tea biscuit |
| teacart | (noun) serving cart for serving tea or light refreshments | Synonyms: tea cart, tea trolley, tea wagon |
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| teacher | (noun) a personified abstraction that teaches | - |
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| (noun) a person whose occupation is teaching | Synonyms: instructor |
| teachership | (noun) the position of teacher | - |
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| teaching | (noun) the profession of a teacher | Synonyms: instruction, pedagogy |
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| (noun) the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill | Synonyms: didactics, education, educational activity, instruction, pedagogy |
| (noun) a doctrine that is taught | Synonyms: commandment, precept |
| teacup | (noun) a cup from which tea is drunk | - |
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| (noun) as much as a teacup will hold | Synonyms: teacupful |
| teacupful | (noun) as much as a teacup will hold | Synonyms: teacup |
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| teahouse | (noun) a restaurant where tea and light meals are available | Synonyms: tea parlor, tea parlour, tearoom, teashop |
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| teak | (noun) tall East Indian timber tree now planted in western Africa and tropical America for its hard durable wood | Synonyms: Tectona grandis |
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| (noun) hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees; resistant to insects and to warping; used for furniture and in shipbuilding | Synonyms: teakwood |
| teakettle | (noun) kettle for boiling water to make tea | - |
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| teakwood | (noun) hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees; resistant to insects and to warping; used for furniture and in shipbuilding | Synonyms: teak |
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| teal | (noun) any of various small short-necked dabbling river ducks of Europe and America | - |
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| (noun) a blue-green color or pigment | Synonyms: blue green, bluish green |
| team | (noun) a cooperative unit (especially in sports) | Synonyms: squad |
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| (noun) two or more draft animals that work together to pull something | - |
| teammate | (noun) a fellow member of a team | Synonyms: mate |
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| teamster | (noun) someone who drives a truck as an occupation | Synonyms: truck driver, trucker |
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| (noun) the driver of a team of horses doing hauling | - |
| teamwork | (noun) cooperative work done by a team (especially when it is effective) | - |
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| teapot | (noun) pot for brewing tea; usually has a spout and handle | - |
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| tear | (noun) a drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands | Synonyms: teardrop |
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| (noun) the act of tearing | - |
| (noun) an occasion for excessive eating or drinking | Synonyms: binge, bout, bust |
| (noun) an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart | Synonyms: rent, rip, snag, split |
| tearaway | (noun) a reckless and impetuous person | - |
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| teardrop | (noun) a drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands | Synonyms: tear |
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| (noun) anything shaped like a falling drop (as a pendant gem on an earring) | - |
| tearfulness | (noun) sadness expressed by weeping | Synonyms: weepiness |
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| teargas | (noun) a gas that makes the eyes fill with tears but does not damage them; used in dispersing crowds | Synonyms: lachrymator, lacrimator, tear gas |
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| tearing | (noun) shedding tears | Synonyms: lachrymation, lacrimation, watering |
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| tearjerker | (noun) an excessively sentimental narrative | - |
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| tearoom | (noun) a restaurant where tea and light meals are available | Synonyms: tea parlor, tea parlour, teahouse, teashop |
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| tears | (noun) the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds) | Synonyms: crying, weeping |
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| tease | (noun) the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances | Synonyms: ribbing, tantalization, teasing |
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| (noun) someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity) | Synonyms: annoyer, teaser, vexer |
| (noun) a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men | Synonyms: coquette, flirt, minx, prickteaser, vamp, vamper |
| teasel | (noun) any of several herbs of the genus Dipsacus native to the Old World having flower heads surrounded by spiny bracts | Synonyms: teasle, teazel |
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| teaser | (noun) a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings | Synonyms: tormenter, tormentor |
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| (noun) a device for teasing wool | - |
| (noun) a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution | Synonyms: mystifier, puzzle, puzzler |
| (noun) an advertisement that offers something free in order to arouse customers' interest | - |
| (noun) an attention-getting opening presented at the start of a television show | - |
| (noun) someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity) | Synonyms: annoyer, tease, vexer |
| (noun) a worker who teases wool | - |
| teashop | (noun) a restaurant where tea and light meals are available | Synonyms: tea parlor, tea parlour, teahouse, tearoom |
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| teasing | (noun) the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances | Synonyms: ribbing, tantalization, tease |
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| (noun) playful vexation | - |
| (noun) the act of removing tangles from you hair with a comb | Synonyms: comb-out |
| teasle | (noun) any of several herbs of the genus Dipsacus native to the Old World having flower heads surrounded by spiny bracts | Synonyms: teasel, teazel |
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| teaspoon | (noun) a small spoon used for stirring tea or coffee; holds about one fluid dram | - |
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| (noun) as much as a teaspoon will hold | Synonyms: teaspoonful |
| teaspoonful | (noun) as much as a teaspoon will hold | Synonyms: teaspoon |
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| teat | (noun) the small projection of a mammary gland | Synonyms: mamilla, mammilla, nipple, pap, tit |
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| teatime | (noun) a light midafternoon meal of tea and sandwiches or cakes | Synonyms: afternoon tea, tea |
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| teazel | (noun) any of several herbs of the genus Dipsacus native to the Old World having flower heads surrounded by spiny bracts | Synonyms: teasel, teasle |
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| tebibit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 gibibits or 2^40 (1,099,511,627,776) bits | Synonyms: Tibit |
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| tebibyte | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 gibibytes or 2^40 (1,099,511,627,776) bytes | Synonyms: TB, terabyte, TiB |
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| tec | (noun) a police officer who investigates crimes | Synonyms: detective, investigator, police detective |
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| tech | (noun) a school teaching mechanical and industrial arts and the applied sciences | Synonyms: technical school |
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| techie | (noun) a technician who is highly proficient and enthusiastic about some technical field (especially computing) | Synonyms: tekki |
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| technetium | (noun) a crystalline metallic element not found in nature; occurs as one of the fission products of uranium | Synonyms: atomic number 43, Tc |
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| technical | (noun) (basketball) a foul that can be assessed on a player or a coach or a team for unsportsmanlike conduct; does not usually involve physical contact during play | Synonyms: technical foul |
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| (noun) a pickup truck with a gun mounted on it | - |
| technicality | (noun) a specific detail in a set of rules or terms belonging to a particular field | - |
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| (noun) the state of being technical as in the use of technical terms or methods | - |
| technician | (noun) someone whose occupation involves training in a specific technical process | - |
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| (noun) someone known for high skill in some intellectual or artistic technique | - |
| technicolor | (noun) a trademarked method of making color motion pictures | - |
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| technique | (noun) a practical method or art applied to some particular task | - |
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| (noun) skillfulness in the command of fundamentals deriving from practice and familiarity | Synonyms: proficiency |
| techno | (noun) a style of fast heavy electronic dance music usually without vocals | - |
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| technobabble | (noun) technical jargon from computing and other high-tech subjects | - |
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| technocracy | (noun) a form of government in which scientists and technical experts are in control | - |
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| technocrat | (noun) an advocate of technocracy | - |
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| (noun) an expert who is a member of a highly skilled elite group | - |
| technologist | (noun) a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems | Synonyms: applied scientist, engineer |
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| technology | (noun) the application of the knowledge and usage of tools (such as machines or utensils) and techniques to control one's environment | - |
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| (noun) machinery and equipment developed from engineering or other applied sciences | - |
| (noun) the discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems | Synonyms: applied science, engineering, engineering science |
| technophile | (noun) a person who is enthusiastic about new technology | - |
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| 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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