| treacherousness | (noun) The characteristic of providing insecure footing or support; of being marked by hidden dangers, hazards, or perils. | - |
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| treachery | (noun) an act of deliberate betrayal | Synonyms: betrayal, perfidy, treason |
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| (noun) betrayal of a trust | Synonyms: perfidiousness, perfidy |
| treacle | (noun) writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental | Synonyms: glop, mush, slop |
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| (noun) a pale cane syrup | Synonyms: golden syrup |
| tread | (noun) a step in walking or running | Synonyms: pace, stride |
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| (noun) structural member consisting of the horizontal part of a stair or step | - |
| (noun) the part (as of a wheel or shoe) that makes contact with the ground | - |
| (noun) the grooved surface of a pneumatic tire | - |
| treadle | (noun) a lever that is operated with the foot | Synonyms: foot lever, foot pedal, pedal |
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| treadmill | (noun) a job involving drudgery and confinement | Synonyms: salt mine |
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| (noun) a mill that is powered by men or animals walking on a circular belt or climbing steps | Synonyms: tread-wheel, treadwheel |
| (noun) an exercise device consisting of an endless belt on which a person can walk or jog without changing place | - |
| treadwheel | (noun) a mill that is powered by men or animals walking on a circular belt or climbing steps | Synonyms: tread-wheel, treadmill |
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| treason | (noun) a crime that undermines the offender's government | Synonyms: high treason, lese majesty |
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| (noun) an act of deliberate betrayal | Synonyms: betrayal, perfidy, treachery |
| (noun) disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior | Synonyms: subversiveness, traitorousness |
| treasonist | (noun) someone who betrays his country by committing treason | Synonyms: traitor |
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| treasure | (noun) art highly prized for its beauty or perfection | Synonyms: gem |
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| (noun) a collection of precious things | - |
| (noun) accumulated wealth in the form of money or jewels etc. | Synonyms: hoarded wealth |
| (noun) any possession that is highly valued by its owner | - |
| treasurer | (noun) an officer charged with receiving and disbursing funds | Synonyms: financial officer |
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| treasurership | (noun) the position of treasurer | - |
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| treasury | (noun) a depository (a room or building) where wealth and precious objects can be kept safely | - |
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| (noun) the government department responsible for collecting and managing and spending public revenues | - |
| (noun) the funds of a government or institution or individual | Synonyms: exchequer |
| treat | (noun) an occurrence that causes special pleasure or delight | - |
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| (noun) something considered choice to eat | Synonyms: dainty, delicacy, goody, kickshaw |
| treater | (noun) someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to reach a settlement) | Synonyms: negotiant, negotiator |
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| treatise | (noun) a formal exposition | - |
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| treatment | (noun) care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury) | Synonyms: intervention |
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| (noun) the management of someone or something | Synonyms: handling |
| (noun) (medicine) the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.) | Synonyms: therapy |
| (noun) a manner of dealing with something artistically | - |
| (noun) an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic | Synonyms: discourse, discussion |
| treaty | (noun) a written agreement between two states or sovereigns | Synonyms: accord, pact |
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| treble | (noun) the pitch range of the highest female voice | Synonyms: soprano |
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| trebuchet | (noun) catapult that uses a swinging arm to throw a projectile | Synonyms: trebucket |
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| trebucket | (noun) catapult that uses a swinging arm to throw a projectile | Synonyms: trebuchet |
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| tree | (noun) a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms | - |
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| (noun) a figure that branches from a single root | Synonyms: tree diagram |
| treehopper | (noun) small leaping insect that sucks juices of branches and twigs | - |
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| treelet | (noun) a small tree | - |
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| treenail | (noun) a wooden peg that is used to fasten timbers in shipbuilding; water causes the peg to swell and hold the timbers fast | Synonyms: trenail, trunnel |
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| treetop | (noun) the upper branches and leaves of a tree or other plant | Synonyms: crown |
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| trefoil | (noun) an architectural ornament in the form of three arcs arranged in a circle | - |
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| (noun) a plant of the genus Trifolium | Synonyms: clover |
| (noun) any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves | Synonyms: medic, medick |
| treillage | (noun) latticework used to support climbing plants | Synonyms: trellis |
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| trek | (noun) any long and difficult trip | - |
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| (noun) a journey by ox wagon (especially an organized migration by a group of settlers) | - |
| trekker | (noun) a traveler who makes a long arduous journey (as hiking through mountainous country) | - |
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| trellis | (noun) latticework used to support climbing plants | Synonyms: treillage |
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| trematode | (noun) parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to a host | Synonyms: fluke, trematode worm |
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| tremble | (noun) a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement | Synonyms: shake, shiver |
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| trembler | (noun) one who quakes and trembles with (or as with) fear | Synonyms: quaker |
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| trembles | (noun) disease of livestock and especially cattle poisoned by eating certain kinds of snakeroot | Synonyms: milk sickness |
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| trembling | (noun) a shaky motion | Synonyms: palpitation, quiver, quivering, shakiness, shaking, vibration |
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| tremendismo | (noun) post-war Spanish literary style marked by a tendency to emphasize violence and grotesque imagery. | - |
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| tremolite | (noun) a white or pale green mineral (calcium magnesium silicate) of the amphibole group used as a form of asbestos | - |
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| tremolo | (noun) vocal vibrato especially an excessive or poorly controlled one | - |
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| (noun) (music) a tremulous effect produced by rapid repetition of a single tone or rapid alternation of two tones | - |
| tremor | (noun) an involuntary vibration (as if from illness or fear) | Synonyms: shudder |
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| (noun) a small earthquake | Synonyms: earth tremor, microseism |
| (noun) shaking or trembling (usually resulting from weakness or stress or disease) | - |
| trenail | (noun) a wooden peg that is used to fasten timbers in shipbuilding; water causes the peg to swell and hold the timbers fast | Synonyms: treenail, trunnel |
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| trench | (noun) a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth | - |
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| (noun) any long ditch cut in the ground | - |
| (noun) a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor | Synonyms: deep, oceanic abyss |
| trenchancy | (noun) keenness and forcefulness of thought or expression or intellect | Synonyms: incisiveness |
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| trencher | (noun) a wooden board or platter on which food is served or carved | - |
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| (noun) someone who digs trenches | - |
| trencherman | (noun) a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess | Synonyms: glutton, gourmand, gourmandizer |
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| trend | (noun) a general tendency to change (as of opinion) | Synonyms: drift, movement |
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| (noun) the popular taste at a given time | Synonyms: style, vogue |
| (noun) general line of orientation | Synonyms: course |
| (noun) a general direction in which something tends to move | Synonyms: tendency |
| trepan | (noun) a drill for cutting circular holes around a center | - |
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| (noun) a surgical instrument used to remove sections of bone from the skull | Synonyms: trephine |
| trepang | (noun) of warm coasts from Australia to Asia; used as food especially by Chinese | Synonyms: Holothuria edulis |
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| trephination | (noun) an operation that removes a circular section of bone from the skull | - |
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| trephine | (noun) a surgical instrument used to remove sections of bone from the skull | Synonyms: trepan |
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| trepidation | (noun) a feeling of alarm or dread | - |
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| treponema | (noun) spirochete that causes disease in humans (e.g. syphilis and yaws) | - |
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| trespass | (noun) entry to another's property without right or permission | Synonyms: encroachment, intrusion, usurpation, violation |
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| (noun) a wrongful interference with the possession of property (personal property as well as realty), or the action instituted to recover damages | - |
| trespasser | (noun) someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission | Synonyms: interloper, intruder |
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| tress | (noun) a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair | Synonyms: braid, plait, twist |
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| trestle | (noun) sawhorses used in pairs to support a horizontal tabletop | - |
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| (noun) a supporting tower used to support a bridge | - |
| trestlework | (noun) a supporting structure composed of a system of connected trestles; for a bridge or pier or scaffold e.g. | - |
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| trews | (noun) (used in the plural) tight-fitting trousers; usually of tartan | - |
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| trey | (noun) one of four playing cards in a deck having three pips | Synonyms: three |
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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, tierce, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |