| ti | (noun) the syllable naming the seventh (subtonic) note of any musical scale in solmization | Synonyms: si, te |
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| (noun) shrub with terminal tufts of elongated leaves used locally for thatching and clothing; thick sweet roots are used as food; tropical southeastern Asia, Australia and Hawaii | Synonyms: Cordyline terminalis |
| tiara | (noun) a jeweled headdress worn by women on formal occasions | - |
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| tibia | (noun) the inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle | Synonyms: shin, shin bone, shinbone |
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| tibialis | (noun) either of two skeletal muscle in each leg arising from the tibia; provides for movement of the foot | Synonyms: musculus tibialis, tibialis muscle |
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| tic | (noun) a local and habitual twitching especially in the face | - |
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| tical | (noun) the basic unit of money in Thailand | Synonyms: baht |
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| tichodrome | (noun) crimson-and-grey songbird that inhabits town walls and mountain cliffs of southern Eurasia and northern Africa | Synonyms: Tichodroma muriaria, wall creeper |
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| tick | (noun) any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals | - |
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| (noun) a light mattress | - |
| (noun) a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc. | Synonyms: check, check mark |
| (noun) a metallic tapping sound | Synonyms: ticking |
| ticker | (noun) a character printer that automatically prints stock quotations on ticker tape | Synonyms: stock ticker |
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| (noun) a small portable timepiece | Synonyms: watch |
| (noun) the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body | Synonyms: heart, pump |
| ticket | (noun) the appropriate or desirable thing | Synonyms: just the ticket |
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| (noun) a summons issued to an offender (especially to someone who violates a traffic regulation) | - |
| (noun) a commercial document showing that the holder is entitled to something (as to ride on public transportation or to enter a public entertainment) | - |
| (noun) a list of candidates nominated by a political party to run for election to public offices | Synonyms: slate |
| (noun) a label written or printed on paper, cardboard, or plastic that is attached to something to indicate its owner, nature, price, etc. | Synonyms: tag |
| ticking | (noun) a strong fabric used for mattress and pillow covers | - |
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| (noun) a metallic tapping sound | Synonyms: tick |
| tickle | (noun) the act of tickling | Synonyms: tickling, titillation |
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| (noun) a cutaneous sensation often resulting from light stroking | - |
| tickler | (noun) a file of memoranda or notices that remind of things to be done | Synonyms: tickler file |
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| tickling | (noun) the act of tickling | Synonyms: tickle, titillation |
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| tickseed | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Coreopsis having a profusion of showy usually yellow daisylike flowers over long periods; North and South America | Synonyms: coreopsis, tick-weed, tickweed |
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| ticktack | (noun) system of signalling by hand signs used by bookmakers at racetracks | - |
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| ticktacktoe | (noun) a game in which two players alternately put crosses and circles in one of the compartments of a square grid of nine spaces; the object is to get a row of three crosses or three circles before the opponent does | Synonyms: noughts and crosses, tic-tac-toe, tick-tack-toe, ticktacktoo, tit-tat-toe |
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| ticktacktoo | (noun) a game in which two players alternately put crosses and circles in one of the compartments of a square grid of nine spaces; the object is to get a row of three crosses or three circles before the opponent does | Synonyms: noughts and crosses, tic-tac-toe, tick-tack-toe, ticktacktoe, tit-tat-toe |
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| ticktock | (noun) steady recurrent ticking sound as made by a clock | Synonyms: tictac, tocktact |
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| tickweed | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Coreopsis having a profusion of showy usually yellow daisylike flowers over long periods; North and South America | Synonyms: coreopsis, tick-weed, tickseed |
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| tictac | (noun) steady recurrent ticking sound as made by a clock | Synonyms: ticktock, tocktact |
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| tidbit | (noun) a small tasty bit of food | Synonyms: choice morsel, titbit |
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| tiddler | (noun) a young person of either sex | Synonyms: child, fry, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, shaver, small fry, tike, tyke, youngster |
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| tiddlywinks | (noun) a game in which players try to flip plastic disks into a cup by pressing them on the side sharply with a larger disk | - |
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| tide | (noun) the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon | - |
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| (noun) something that may increase or decrease (like the tides of the sea) | - |
| (noun) there are usually two high and two low tides each day | Synonyms: lunar time period |
| tideland | (noun) land near the sea that is overflowed by the tide | - |
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| tidemark | (noun) indicator consisting of a line at the highwater or low-water limits of the tides | - |
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| tidewater | (noun) low-lying coastal land drained by tidal streams | - |
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| tideway | (noun) a channel in which a tidal current runs | - |
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| tidiness | (noun) the trait of being neat and orderly | Synonyms: neatness |
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| (noun) the habit of being tidy | - |
| tidings | (noun) information about recent and important events | Synonyms: intelligence, news, word |
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| tidy | (noun) receptacle that holds odds and ends (as sewing materials) | - |
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| tidytips | (noun) California annual having flower heads with yellow rays tipped with white | Synonyms: Layia platyglossa, tidy tips |
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| tie | (noun) a cord (or string or ribbon or wire etc.) with which something is tied | - |
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| (noun) neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front | Synonyms: necktie |
| (noun) a horizontal beam used to prevent two other structural members from spreading apart or separating | Synonyms: tie beam |
| (noun) one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track | Synonyms: crosstie, railroad tie, sleeper |
| (noun) a fastener that serves to join or connect | Synonyms: link, linkup, tie-in |
| (noun) (music) a slur over two notes of the same pitch; indicates that the note is to be sustained for their combined time value | - |
| (noun) the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided | Synonyms: draw, standoff |
| (noun) equality of score in a contest | - |
| (noun) a social or business relationship | Synonyms: affiliation, association, tie-up |
| tieback | (noun) a device (as a decorative loop of cord or fabric) for holding or drawing something back | Synonyms: pullback |
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| tiebreaker | (noun) overtime play in order to break a tie; e.g. tennis and soccer | - |
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| tiepin | (noun) a pin used to hold the tie in place | Synonyms: scarfpin, tie tack |
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| tier | (noun) one of two or more layers one atop another | - |
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| (noun) any one of two or more competitors who tie one another | - |
| (noun) a relative position or degree of value in a graded group | Synonyms: grade, level |
| (noun) something that is used for tying | - |
| (noun) a worker who ties something | Synonyms: tier up |
| tierce | (noun) one of three equal parts of a divisible whole | Synonyms: one-third, third |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, tercet, ternary, ternion, terzetto, three, threesome, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
| (noun) the third canonical hour; about 9 a.m. | Synonyms: terce |
| tiercel | (noun) male hawk especially male peregrine or gyrfalcon | Synonyms: tercel, tercelet |
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| tiff | (noun) a quarrel about petty points | Synonyms: bicker, bickering, fuss, pettifoggery, spat, squabble |
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| tiffin | (noun) a midday meal | Synonyms: dejeuner, lunch, luncheon |
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| tiger | (noun) large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes; endangered | Synonyms: Panthera tigris |
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| (noun) a fierce or audacious person | - |
| tightening | (noun) the act of making something tighter | - |
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| tightfistedness | (noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightness |
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| tightness | (noun) lack of movement or room for movement | Synonyms: tautness |
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| (noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness |
| (noun) the spatial property of being crowded together | Synonyms: compactness, concentration, denseness, density |
| (noun) a tight feeling in some part of the body | Synonyms: constriction |
| (noun) a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit | Synonyms: stringency |
| tightrope | (noun) tightly stretched rope or wire on which acrobats perform high above the ground | - |
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| tights | (noun) skintight knit hose covering the body from the waist to the feet worn by acrobats and dancers and as stockings by women and girls | Synonyms: leotards |
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| tightwad | (noun) a miserly person | Synonyms: cheapskate |
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| tiglon | (noun) offspring of a male tiger and a female lion | Synonyms: tigon |
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| tigon | (noun) offspring of a male tiger and a female lion | Synonyms: tiglon |
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| tigress | (noun) a female tiger | - |
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| tike | (noun) a young person of either sex | Synonyms: child, fry, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tyke, youngster |
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| (noun) a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement | Synonyms: barbarian, boor, churl, Goth, peasant, tyke |
| tilde | (noun) a diacritical mark (~) placed over the letter n in Spanish to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel in Portuguese to indicate nasalization | - |
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| tile | (noun) a flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces | - |
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| (noun) game equipment consisting of a flat thin piece marked with characters and used in board games like Mah-Jong, Scrabble, etc. | - |
| (noun) a thin flat slab of fired clay used for roofing | Synonyms: roofing tile |
| tilefish | (noun) yellow-spotted violet food fish of warm deep waters | Synonyms: Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps |
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| (noun) important marine food fishes | Synonyms: blanquillo |
| tiler | (noun) a worker who lays tile | - |
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| tiling | (noun) the application of tiles to cover a surface | - |
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| till | (noun) a strongbox for holding cash | Synonyms: cashbox, money box |
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| (noun) a treasury for government funds | Synonyms: public treasury, trough |
| (noun) unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together | Synonyms: boulder clay |
| tillage | (noun) the cultivation of soil for raising crops | - |
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| (noun) arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops | Synonyms: cultivated land, farmland, ploughland, plowland, tilled land, tilth |
| tiller | (noun) lever used to turn the rudder on a boat | - |
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| (noun) a farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture) | Synonyms: cultivator |
| (noun) someone who tills land (prepares the soil for the planting of crops) | - |
| (noun) a shoot that sprouts from the base of a grass | - |
| tilling | (noun) cultivation of the land in order to raise crops | - |
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| tilt | (noun) pitching dangerously to one side | Synonyms: careen, rock, sway |
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| (noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical | Synonyms: inclination, lean, leaning, list |
| (noun) a slight but noticeable partiality | - |
| (noun) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | Synonyms: arguing, argument, contention, contestation, controversy, disceptation, disputation |
| (noun) a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances | Synonyms: joust |
| tilter | (noun) a device for emptying a cask by tilting it without disturbing the dregs | - |
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| (noun) someone who engages in a tilt or joust | - |
| tilth | (noun) arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops | Synonyms: cultivated land, farmland, ploughland, plowland, tillage, tilled land |
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| (noun) the state of aggregation of soil and its condition for supporting plant growth | - |
| tiltyard | (noun) (formerly) an enclosed field for tilting contests | - |
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| timbale | (noun) individual serving of minced e.g. meat or fish in a rich creamy sauce baked in a small pastry mold or timbale shell | - |
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| (noun) small pastry shell for creamy mixtures of minced foods | Synonyms: timbale case |
| timber | (noun) a beam made of wood | - |
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| (noun) a post made of wood | - |
| (noun) (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound) | Synonyms: quality, timbre, tone |
| (noun) land that is covered with trees and shrubs | Synonyms: forest, timberland, woodland |
| (noun) the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material | Synonyms: lumber |
| timberland | (noun) land that is covered with trees and shrubs | Synonyms: forest, timber, woodland |
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| timberline | (noun) line marking the upper limit of tree growth in mountains or northern latitudes | Synonyms: timber line, tree line |
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| timberman | (noun) an owner or manager of a company that is engaged in lumbering | - |
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| timbre | (noun) (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound) | Synonyms: quality, timber, tone |
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| timbrel | (noun) small hand drum similar to a tambourine; formerly carried by itinerant jugglers | - |
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| time | (noun) the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past | - |
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| (noun) rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration | Synonyms: meter, metre |
| (noun) an instance or single occasion for some event | Synonyms: clip |
| (noun) a person's experience on a particular occasion | - |
| (noun) an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities) | - |
| (noun) the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned | Synonyms: prison term, sentence |
| (noun) a reading of a point in time as given by a clock | Synonyms: clock time |
| (noun) the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event | Synonyms: fourth dimension |
| (noun) a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something | - |
| (noun) a suitable moment | - |
| timecard | (noun) a card used with a time clock to record an employee's starting and quitting times each day | - |
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| (noun) a card recording an employee's starting and quitting times each work day | - |
| timekeeper | (noun) a measuring instrument or device for keeping time | Synonyms: horologe, timepiece |
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| (noun) a clerk who keeps track of the hours worked by employees | - |
| (noun) (sports) an official who keeps track of the time elapsed | Synonyms: timer |
| timekeeping | (noun) the act or process of determining the time | - |
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| timelessness | (noun) The property of not being restricted to a particular time or date. | - |
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| (noun) a state of eternal existence believed in some religions to characterize the afterlife | Synonyms: eternity, timeless existence |
| timeline | (noun) a sequence of related events arranged in chronological order and displayed along a line (usually drawn left to right or top to bottom) | - |
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| timeliness | (noun) timely convenience | Synonyms: opportuneness, patness |
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| (noun) being at the right time | Synonyms: seasonableness |
| timepiece | (noun) a measuring instrument or device for keeping time | Synonyms: horologe, timekeeper |
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| timer | (noun) a timepiece that measures a time interval and signals its end | - |
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| (noun) a regulator that activates or deactivates a mechanism at set times | - |
| (noun) (sports) an official who keeps track of the time elapsed | Synonyms: timekeeper |
| times | (noun) an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division; the product of two numbers is computed | Synonyms: multiplication |
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| (noun) a more or less definite period of time now or previously present | - |
| timeserver | (noun) one who conforms to current ways and opinions for personal advantage | - |
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| timetable | (noun) a schedule of times of arrivals and departures | - |
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| (noun) a schedule listing events and the times at which they will take place | - |
| timework | (noun) work paid for at a rate per unit of time | - |
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| timid | (noun) people who are fearful and cautious | Synonyms: cautious |
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| timidity | (noun) fearfulness in venturing into new and unknown places or activities | Synonyms: timorousness |
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| (noun) fear of the unknown or unfamiliar or fear of making decisions | Synonyms: timidness, timorousness |
| timidness | (noun) fear of the unknown or unfamiliar or fear of making decisions | Synonyms: timidity, timorousness |
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| timing | (noun) the regulation of occurrence, pace, or coordination to achieve a desired effect (as in music, theater, athletics, mechanics) | - |
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| (noun) the time when something happens | - |
| timolol | (noun) a beta blocker (trade name Blocadren) administered after heart attacks | Synonyms: Blocadren |
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| timorousness | (noun) fearfulness in venturing into new and unknown places or activities | Synonyms: timidity |
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| (noun) fear of the unknown or unfamiliar or fear of making decisions | Synonyms: timidity, timidness |
| timothy | (noun) a grass grown for hay | - |
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| (noun) grass with long cylindrical spikes grown in northern United States and Europe for hay | Synonyms: herd's grass, Phleum pratense |
| timpani | (noun) a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it | Synonyms: kettle, kettledrum, tympani, tympanum |
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| timpanist | (noun) a person who plays the kettledrums | Synonyms: tympanist |
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| timucu | (noun) found in warm waters of western Atlantic | - |
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| tin | (noun) airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc. | Synonyms: can, tin can |
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| (noun) metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour | Synonyms: canister, cannister |
| (noun) a vessel (box, can, pan, etc.) made of tinplate and used mainly in baking | - |
| (noun) a silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion; used in many alloys and to coat other metals to prevent corrosion; obtained chiefly from cassiterite where it occurs as tin oxide | Synonyms: atomic number 50, Sn |
| tinamou | (noun) heavy-bodied small-winged South American game bird resembling a gallinaceous bird but related to the ratite birds | Synonyms: partridge |
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| tincture | (noun) (pharmacology) a medicine consisting of an extract in an alcohol solution | - |
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| (noun) a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color | Synonyms: shade, tint, tone |
| (noun) an indication that something has been present | Synonyms: shadow, trace, vestige |
| (noun) a substance that colors or dyes | - |
| tinder | (noun) material for starting a fire | Synonyms: kindling, punk, spunk, touchwood |
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