| transcendence | (noun) a state of being or existence above and beyond the limits of material experience | Synonyms: transcendency |
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| (noun) the state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits | Synonyms: superiority, transcendency |
| transcendency | (noun) a state of being or existence above and beyond the limits of material experience | Synonyms: transcendence |
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| (noun) the state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits | Synonyms: superiority, transcendence |
| transcendentalism | (noun) any system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material | Synonyms: transcendental philosophy |
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| transcendentalist | (noun) advocate of transcendentalism | - |
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| transcriber | (noun) someone who makes a written version of spoken material | - |
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| (noun) someone who represents the sounds of speech in phonetic notation | - |
| (noun) a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance | Synonyms: adapter, arranger |
| (noun) a person who translates written messages from one language to another | Synonyms: translator |
| (noun) someone who rewrites in a different script | - |
| transcript | (noun) a reproduction of a written record (e.g. of a legal or school record) | Synonyms: copy |
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| (noun) something that has been transcribed; a written record (usually typewritten) of dictated or recorded speech | - |
| transcriptase | (noun) the enzyme that copies DNA into RNA | Synonyms: RNA polymerase |
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| transcription | (noun) the act of making a record (especially an audio record) | Synonyms: recording |
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| (noun) the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music | Synonyms: arrangement, arranging |
| (noun) a sound or television recording (e.g., from a broadcast to a tape recording) | - |
| (noun) something written, especially copied from one medium to another, as a typewritten version of dictation | Synonyms: written text |
| (noun) (genetics) the organic process whereby the DNA sequence in a gene is copied into mRNA; the process whereby a base sequence of messenger RNA is synthesized on a template of complementary DNA | - |
| transducer | (noun) an electrical device that converts one form of energy into another | - |
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| transduction | (noun) the process whereby a transducer accepts energy in one form and gives back related energy in a different form | - |
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| (noun) (genetics) the process of transferring genetic material from one cell to another by a plasmid or bacteriophage | - |
| transept | (noun) structure forming the transverse part of a cruciform church; crosses the nave at right angles | - |
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| transexual | (noun) a person whose sexual identification is entirely with the opposite sex | Synonyms: transsexual |
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| (noun) a person who has undergone a sex change operation | Synonyms: transgendered, transsexual |
| transfer | (noun) the act of moving something from one location to another | Synonyms: conveyance, transferral, transport, transportation |
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| (noun) transferring ownership | Synonyms: transference |
| (noun) the act of transferring something from one form to another | Synonyms: transference |
| (noun) application of a skill learned in one situation to a different but similar situation | Synonyms: carry-over, transfer of training |
| (noun) a ticket that allows a passenger to change conveyances | - |
| (noun) someone who transfers or is transferred from one position to another | Synonyms: transferee |
| transferability | (noun) the quality of being transferable or exchangeable | - |
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| transferase | (noun) any of various enzymes that move a chemical group from one compound to another compound | - |
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| transferee | (noun) someone who transfers or is transferred from one position to another | Synonyms: transfer |
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| (noun) (law) someone to whom a title or property is conveyed | - |
| transference | (noun) transferring ownership | Synonyms: transfer |
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| (noun) the act of transferring something from one form to another | Synonyms: transfer |
| (noun) (psychoanalysis) the process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another; during psychoanalysis the displacement of feelings toward others (usually the parents) is onto the analyst | - |
| transferer | (noun) someone who transfers something | Synonyms: transferrer |
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| transferor | (noun) (law) someone who conveys a title or property to another | - |
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| transferral | (noun) the act of moving something from one location to another | Synonyms: conveyance, transfer, transport, transportation |
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| transferrer | (noun) someone who transfers something | Synonyms: transferer |
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| transferrin | (noun) a globulin in blood plasma that carries iron | Synonyms: beta globulin, siderophilin |
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| transfiguration | (noun) the act of transforming so as to exalt or glorify | - |
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| (noun) a striking change in appearance or character or circumstances | Synonyms: metamorphosis |
| transformation | (noun) the act of changing in form or shape or appearance | Synonyms: translation |
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| (noun) (genetics) modification of a cell or bacterium by the uptake and incorporation of exogenous DNA | - |
| (noun) a rule describing the conversion of one syntactic structure into another related syntactic structure | - |
| (noun) a qualitative change | Synonyms: shift, transmutation |
| (noun) (mathematics) a function that changes the position or direction of the axes of a coordinate system | - |
| transformer | (noun) an electrical device by which alternating current of one voltage is changed to another voltage | - |
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| transfusion | (noun) the introduction of blood or blood plasma into a vein or artery | Synonyms: blood transfusion |
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| (noun) the action of pouring a liquid from one vessel to another | - |
| transgendered | (noun) a person who has undergone a sex change operation | Synonyms: transexual, transsexual |
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| transgene | (noun) an exogenous gene introduced into the genome of another organism | - |
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| transgression | (noun) the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle | Synonyms: evildoing |
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| (noun) the action of going beyond or overstepping some boundary or limit | - |
| (noun) the spreading of the sea over land as evidenced by the deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata | - |
| transgressor | (noun) someone who transgresses; someone who violates a law or command | - |
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| transience | (noun) an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying | Synonyms: transiency, transitoriness |
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| (noun) the attribute of being brief or fleeting | Synonyms: brevity, briefness |
| transiency | (noun) an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying | Synonyms: transience, transitoriness |
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| transient | (noun) (physics) a short-lived oscillation in a system caused by a sudden change of voltage or current or load | - |
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| (noun) one who stays for only a short time | - |
| transistor | (noun) a semiconductor device capable of amplification | Synonyms: electronic transistor, junction transistor |
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| transit | (noun) a journey usually by ship | Synonyms: passage |
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| (noun) a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod | Synonyms: theodolite |
| (noun) a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods | Synonyms: transportation, transportation system |
| transition | (noun) the act of passing from one state or place to the next | Synonyms: passage |
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| (noun) a passage that connects a topic to one that follows | - |
| (noun) a musical passage moving from one key to another | Synonyms: modulation |
| (noun) an event that results in a transformation | Synonyms: changeover, conversion |
| (noun) a change from one place or state or subject or stage to another | - |
| transitive | (noun) a verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical | Synonyms: transitive verb, transitive verb form |
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| transitiveness | (noun) the grammatical relation created by a transitive verb | Synonyms: transitivity |
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| transitivity | (noun) the grammatical relation created by a transitive verb | Synonyms: transitiveness |
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| (noun) (logic and mathematics) a relation between three elements such that if it holds between the first and second and it also holds between the second and third it must necessarily hold between the first and third | - |
| transitoriness | (noun) an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying | Synonyms: transience, transiency |
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| translation | (noun) the act of uniform movement | Synonyms: displacement |
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| (noun) the act of changing in form or shape or appearance | Synonyms: transformation |
| (noun) a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language | Synonyms: interlingual rendition, rendering, version |
| (noun) rewording something in less technical terminology | - |
| (noun) a uniform movement without rotation | - |
| (noun) (genetics) the process whereby genetic information coded in messenger RNA directs the formation of a specific protein at a ribosome in the cytoplasm | - |
| (noun) (mathematics) a transformation in which the origin of the coordinate system is moved to another position but the direction of each axis remains the same | - |
| translator | (noun) a program that translates one programming language into another | Synonyms: translating program |
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| (noun) someone who mediates between speakers of different languages | Synonyms: interpreter |
| (noun) a person who translates written messages from one language to another | Synonyms: transcriber |
| transliteration | (noun) a transcription from one alphabet to another | - |
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| translocation | (noun) (genetics) an exchange of chromosome parts | - |
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| (noun) the transport of dissolved material within a plant | - |
| translucence | (noun) the quality of allowing light to pass diffusely | Synonyms: semitransparency, translucency |
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| translucency | (noun) the quality of allowing light to pass diffusely | Synonyms: semitransparency, translucence |
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| transmigrante | (noun) a Latin American who buys used goods in the United States and takes them to Latin America to sell | - |
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| transmigration | (noun) the passing of a soul into another body after death | - |
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| transmission | (noun) the act of sending a message; causing a message to be transmitted | Synonyms: transmittal, transmitting |
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| (noun) the gears that transmit power from an automobile engine via the driveshaft to the live axle | Synonyms: transmission system |
| (noun) communication by means of transmitted signals | - |
| (noun) an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted | Synonyms: contagion, infection |
| (noun) the fraction of radiant energy that passes through a substance | Synonyms: transmittance |
| transmittal | (noun) the act of sending a message; causing a message to be transmitted | Synonyms: transmission, transmitting |
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| transmittance | (noun) the fraction of radiant energy that passes through a substance | Synonyms: transmission |
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| transmitter | (noun) set used to broadcast radio or tv signals | Synonyms: sender |
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| (noun) any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease | Synonyms: vector |
| (noun) someone who transmits a message | Synonyms: sender |
| transmitting | (noun) the act of sending a message; causing a message to be transmitted | Synonyms: transmission, transmittal |
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| transmogrification | (noun) the act of changing into a different form or appearance (especially a fantastic or grotesque one) | - |
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| transmutability | (noun) the quality of being commutable | Synonyms: commutability |
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| transmutation | (noun) an act that changes the form or character or substance of something | Synonyms: transubstantiation |
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| (noun) a qualitative change | Synonyms: shift, transformation |
| (noun) (physics) the change of one chemical element into another (as by nuclear decay or radioactive bombardment) | - |
| transom | (noun) a horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door from a window over it | Synonyms: traverse |
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| (noun) a window above a door that is usually hinged to a horizontal crosspiece over the door | Synonyms: fanlight, transom window |
| transparence | (noun) the quality of being clear and transparent | Synonyms: transparency, transparentness |
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| (noun) permitting the free passage of electromagnetic radiation | Synonyms: transparency |
| transparency | (noun) picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector | Synonyms: foil |
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| (noun) the quality of being clear and transparent | Synonyms: transparence, transparentness |
| (noun) permitting the free passage of electromagnetic radiation | Synonyms: transparence |
| transparentness | (noun) the quality of being clear and transparent | Synonyms: transparence, transparency |
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| transpiration | (noun) the emission of water vapor from the leaves of plants | - |
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| (noun) the passage of gases through fine tubes because of differences in pressure or temperature | - |
| (noun) the process of giving off or exhaling water vapor through the skin or mucous membranes | - |
| transplant | (noun) the act of removing something from one location and introducing it in another location | Synonyms: transplantation, transplanting |
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| (noun) an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient) | Synonyms: organ transplant, transplantation |
| (noun) (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient | Synonyms: graft |
| transplantation | (noun) the act of removing something from one location and introducing it in another location | Synonyms: transplant, transplanting |
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| (noun) an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient) | Synonyms: organ transplant, transplant |
| transplanter | (noun) a gardener who moves plants to new locations | - |
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| transplanting | (noun) the act of removing something from one location and introducing it in another location | Synonyms: transplant, transplantation |
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| transponder | (noun) electrical device designed to receive a specific signal and automatically transmit a specific reply | - |
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| transport | (noun) the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials | Synonyms: shipping, transportation |
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| (noun) the act of moving something from one location to another | Synonyms: conveyance, transfer, transferral, transportation |
| (noun) something that serves as a means of transportation | Synonyms: conveyance |
| (noun) a mechanism that transports magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder | Synonyms: tape drive, tape transport |
| (noun) an exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes | - |
| (noun) a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion | Synonyms: ecstasy, exaltation, rapture, raptus |
| transportation | (noun) the act of moving something from one location to another | Synonyms: conveyance, transfer, transferral, transport |
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| (noun) the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials | Synonyms: shipping, transport |
| (noun) the act of expelling a person from their native land | Synonyms: deportation, exile, expatriation |
| (noun) a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods | Synonyms: transit, transportation system |
| (noun) the sum charged for riding in a public conveyance | Synonyms: fare |
| transporter | (noun) a moving belt that transports objects (as in a factory) | Synonyms: conveyer, conveyer belt, conveyor, conveyor belt |
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| (noun) a crane for moving material with dispatch as in loading and unloading ships | - |
| (noun) a long truck for carrying motor vehicles | Synonyms: car transporter |
| transposability | (noun) ability to change sequence | Synonyms: permutability, permutableness |
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| transpose | (noun) a matrix formed by interchanging the rows and columns of a given matrix | - |
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| transposition | (noun) the act of reversing the order or place of | Synonyms: reversal |
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| (noun) (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards | - |
| (noun) (mathematics) the transfer of a quantity from one side of an equation to the other along with a change of sign | - |
| (noun) (electricity) a rearrangement of the relative positions of power lines in order to minimize the effects of mutual capacitance and inductance | - |
| (noun) (genetics) a kind of mutation in which a chromosomal segment is transfered to a new position on the same or another chromosome | - |
| (noun) an event in which one thing is substituted for another | Synonyms: permutation, replacement, substitution, switch |
| (noun) any abnormal position of the organs of the body | Synonyms: heterotaxy |
| transposon | (noun) a segment of DNA that can become integrated at many different sites along a chromosome (especially a segment of bacterial DNA that can be translocated as a whole) | Synonyms: jumping gene |
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| transsexual | (noun) a person whose sexual identification is entirely with the opposite sex | Synonyms: transexual |
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| (noun) a person who has undergone a sex change operation | Synonyms: transexual, transgendered |
| transsexualism | (noun) condition in which a person identifies with a gender different from his or her physical gender | - |
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| transshipment | (noun) the transfer from one conveyance to another for shipment | - |
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| transubstantiation | (noun) an act that changes the form or character or substance of something | Synonyms: transmutation |
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| (noun) the Roman Catholic doctrine that the whole substance of the bread and the wine changes into the substance of the body and blood of Christ when consecrated in the Eucharist | - |
| transudate | (noun) a substance that transudes | Synonyms: transudation |
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| transudation | (noun) the process of exuding; the slow escape of liquids from blood vessels through pores or breaks in the cell membranes | Synonyms: exudation |
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| (noun) a substance that transudes | Synonyms: transudate |
| transvestism | (noun) the practice of adopting the clothes or the manner or the sexual role of the opposite sex | Synonyms: cross dressing, transvestitism |
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| transvestite | (noun) someone who adopts the dress or manner or sexual role of the opposite sex | Synonyms: cross-dresser |
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| transvestitism | (noun) the practice of adopting the clothes or the manner or the sexual role of the opposite sex | Synonyms: cross dressing, transvestism |
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| tranylcypromine | (noun) an antidepressant drug that is a monoamine oxidase inhibitor; administered as a sulfate | - |
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| trap | (noun) the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise | Synonyms: ambuscade, ambush, lying in wait |
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| (noun) a device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned | - |
| (noun) a light two-wheeled carriage | - |
| (noun) a hazard on a golf course | Synonyms: bunker, sand trap |
| (noun) a device to hurl clay pigeons into the air for trapshooters | - |
| (noun) drain consisting of a U-shaped section of drainpipe that holds liquid and so prevents a return flow of sewer gas | - |
| (noun) informal terms for the mouth | Synonyms: cakehole, gob, hole, maw, yap |
| (noun) something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares | Synonyms: snare |
| trapeze | (noun) a swing used by circus acrobats | - |
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| trapezium | (noun) the wrist bone on the thumb side of the hand that articulates with the 1st and 2nd metacarpals | Synonyms: os trapezium, trapezium bone |
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| (noun) a quadrilateral with no parallel sides | - |
| trapezius | (noun) either of two flat triangular muscles of the shoulder and upper back that are involved in moving the shoulders and arms | Synonyms: cowl muscle, musculus trapezius, trapezius muscle |
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| trapezohedron | (noun) a polyhedron whose faces are trapeziums | - |
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| trapezoid | (noun) the wrist bone between the trapezium and the capitate bones | Synonyms: os trapezoideum, trapezoid bone |
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| (noun) a quadrilateral with two parallel sides | - |
| trapper | (noun) someone who sets traps for animals (usually to obtain their furs) | - |
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| trapping | (noun) stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse | Synonyms: caparison, housing |
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| trappings | (noun) (usually plural) accessory wearing apparel | Synonyms: furnishing |
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| trapshooter | (noun) a person who engages in shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled into the air by a trap | - |
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| trapshooting | (noun) the sport of shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled upward in such a way as to simulate the flight of a bird | Synonyms: skeet, skeet shooting |
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| trash | (noun) an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant | Synonyms: chalk, chicken feed, crank, deoxyephedrine, glass, ice, meth, methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, shabu |
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| (noun) nonsensical talk or writing | Synonyms: applesauce, codswallop, folderol, rubbish, tripe, trumpery, wish-wash |
| (noun) worthless people | Synonyms: scum |
| (noun) worthless material that is to be disposed of | Synonyms: rubbish, scrap |
| trashiness | (noun) the quality of being cheaply imitative of something better | Synonyms: shoddiness |
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| trauma | (noun) an emotional wound or shock often having long-lasting effects | Synonyms: psychic trauma |
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| (noun) any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury | Synonyms: harm, hurt, injury |
| traumatology | (noun) the branch of medicine that deals with the surgical repair of injuries and wounds arising from accidents | Synonyms: accident surgery |
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| traumatophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of battle or physical injury | - |
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| travail | (noun) use of physical or mental energy; hard work | Synonyms: effort, elbow grease, exertion, sweat |
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| (noun) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child | Synonyms: childbed, confinement, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency |