| 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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