twaddle | (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh |
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twaddler | (noun) someone who twaddles; someone who writes or talks twaddle | - |
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twain | (noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: brace, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twosome, yoke |
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twang | (noun) exaggerated nasality in speech (as in some regional dialects) | Synonyms: nasal twang |
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(noun) a sharp vibrating sound (as of a plucked string) | - |
twat | (noun) obscene terms for female genitals | Synonyms: cunt, puss, pussy, slit, snatch |
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(noun) a man who is a stupid incompetent fool | Synonyms: bozo, cuckoo, fathead, goof, goofball, goose, jackass, zany |
twayblade | (noun) orchid having a pair of ovate leaves and a long slender raceme of green flowers sometimes tinged red-brown; Europe to central Asia | Synonyms: Listera ovata |
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(noun) an orchid of the genus Liparis having a pair of leaves | - |
tweak | (noun) a squeeze with the fingers | Synonyms: pinch |
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tweed | (noun) thick woolen fabric used for clothing; originated in Scotland | - |
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(noun) (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth | Synonyms: flannel, gabardine, white |
tweediness | (noun) looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth) | Synonyms: coarseness, nubbiness |
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(noun) an informal, homely, outdoor look characteristic of those who wear tweeds | - |
tweegram | (noun) an Instagram post that is all words | - |
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tweep | (noun) A person using Twitter | - |
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tweet | (noun) A post on the social media site Twitter | - |
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(noun) a weak chirping sound as of a small bird | - |
tweeter | (noun) a loudspeaker that reproduces higher audio frequency sounds | - |
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tweezer | (noun) a hand tool for holding consisting of a compound lever for grasping | Synonyms: pair of pincers, pair of tweezers, pincer |
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twelfth | (noun) one part in twelve equal parts | Synonyms: duodecimal, one-twelfth, twelfth part |
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(noun) position 12 in a countable series of things | - |
twelve | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one | Synonyms: 12, dozen, XII |
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twelvemonth | (noun) a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days | Synonyms: year, yr |
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twenties | (noun) the time of life between 20 and 30 | Synonyms: mid-twenties |
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(noun) the decade from 1920 to 1929 | Synonyms: 1920s |
twentieth | (noun) position 20 in a countable series of things | - |
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twenty | (noun) a United States bill worth 20 dollars | Synonyms: twenty dollar bill |
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(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of nineteen and one | Synonyms: 20, XX |
twerp | (noun) someone who is regarded as contemptible | Synonyms: twirp, twit |
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twiddle | (noun) a series of small (usually idle) twists or turns | - |
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twiddler | (noun) someone who manipulates in a nervous or unconscious manner | Synonyms: fiddler |
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twig | (noun) a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year | Synonyms: branchlet, sprig |
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twilight | (noun) the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth | - |
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(noun) a condition of decline following successes | - |
(noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall |
twill | (noun) a cloth with parallel diagonal lines or ribs | - |
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(noun) a weave used to produce the effect of parallel diagonal ribs | Synonyms: twill weave |
twimbos | (noun) a pair of twins, who are sexually promiscuous | - |
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twin | (noun) a duplicate copy | Synonyms: counterpart, similitude |
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(noun) either of two offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy | - |
twinberry | (noun) shrubby honeysuckle with purple flowers; western North America | Synonyms: Lonicera involucrata |
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(noun) creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries | Synonyms: boxberry, Mitchella repens, partridgeberry |
twine | (noun) a lightweight cord | Synonyms: string |
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twiner | (noun) someone who intertwines (e.g. threads) or forms something by twisting or interlacing | - |
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twinflower | (noun) creeping evergreen subshrub of the northern parts of Europe and Asia with delicate fragrant tubular bell-shaped usually pink flowers borne in pairs | Synonyms: Linnaea borealis |
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twinge | (noun) a sharp stab of pain | - |
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(noun) a sudden sharp feeling | Synonyms: pang, stab |
twinjet | (noun) a jet plane propelled by two jet engines | - |
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twinkle | (noun) merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance | Synonyms: light, spark, sparkle |
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(noun) a rapid change in brightness; a brief spark or flash | Synonyms: scintillation, sparkling |
twinkler | (noun) an object that emits or reflects light in an intermittent flickering manner | - |
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twinkling | (noun) a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat) | Synonyms: blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, New York minute, split second, trice, wink |
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twins | (noun) (mineralogy) two interwoven crystals that are mirror images on each other | - |
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twirl | (noun) the act of rotating rapidly | Synonyms: spin, twist, twisting, whirl |
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(noun) a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight | Synonyms: kink, twist |
twirler | (noun) (baseball) the person who does the pitching | Synonyms: hurler, pitcher |
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(noun) someone who twirls a baton | Synonyms: baton twirler |
twirp | (noun) someone who is regarded as contemptible | Synonyms: twerp, twit |
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twist | (noun) social dancing in which couples vigorously twist their hips and arms in time to the music; was popular in the 1960s | - |
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(noun) any clever maneuver | Synonyms: device, gimmick |
(noun) the act of rotating rapidly | Synonyms: spin, twirl, twisting, whirl |
(noun) turning or twisting around (in place) | Synonyms: turn |
(noun) the act of winding or twisting | Synonyms: wind, winding |
(noun) a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair | Synonyms: braid, plait, tress |
(noun) an interpretation of a text or action | Synonyms: construction |
(noun) an unforeseen development | Synonyms: turn, turn of events |
(noun) a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself | Synonyms: eddy |
(noun) a jerky pulling movement | Synonyms: wrench |
(noun) a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight | Synonyms: kink, twirl |
(noun) a circular segment of a curve | Synonyms: bend, crook, turn |
(noun) a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments | Synonyms: pull, wrench |
twister | (noun) small friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried; richer than doughnuts | Synonyms: cruller |
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(noun) a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground | Synonyms: tornado |
twisting | (noun) the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean | Synonyms: distortion, overrefinement, straining, torture |
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(noun) the act of rotating rapidly | Synonyms: spin, twirl, twist, whirl |
twistwood | (noun) vigorous deciduous European treelike shrub common along waysides; red berries turn black | Synonyms: twist wood, Viburnum lantana, wayfaring tree |
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twit | (noun) aggravation by deriding or mocking or criticizing | Synonyms: taunt, taunting |
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(noun) someone who is regarded as contemptible | Synonyms: twerp, twirp |
twitch | (noun) a sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition | Synonyms: twitching, vellication |
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twitching | (noun) a sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition | Synonyms: twitch, vellication |
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twitter | (noun) a series of chirps | Synonyms: chirrup |
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twitterer | (noun) a bird that twitters | - |
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twitterverse | (noun) the social sphere of the Twitter service | - |
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two | (noun) one of the four playing cards in a deck that have two spots | Synonyms: deuce |
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(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number | Synonyms: 2, deuce, II |
twofer | (noun) an offer of two for the price of one | - |
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(noun) a coupon that allows the holder to purchase two items (as two tickets to a play) for the price of one | - |
twopence | (noun) a former United Kingdom silver coin; United Kingdom bronze decimal coin worth two pennies | Synonyms: tuppence |
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twosome | (noun) a pair who associate with one another | Synonyms: couple, duet, duo |
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(noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: brace, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, yoke |