| anteater | (noun) any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites | Synonyms: New World anteater |
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| (noun) nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata | Synonyms: aardvark, ant bear, Orycteropus afer |
| (noun) a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to Australia | Synonyms: echidna, spiny anteater |
| (noun) a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to New Guinea | Synonyms: echidna, spiny anteater |
| (noun) toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites | Synonyms: pangolin, scaly anteater |
| (noun) small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites; nearly extinct | Synonyms: banded anteater, Myrmecobius fasciatus, numbat |
| bracteate | (adjective) having bracts | Synonyms: bracted |
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| ebracteate | (adjective) without bracts | - |
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| steatite | (noun) a soft heavy compact variety of talc having a soapy feel; used to make hearths and tabletops and ornaments | Synonyms: soap-rock, soaprock, soapstone |
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| steatocystoma | (noun) a common cyst of the skin; filled with fatty matter (sebum) that is secreted by a sebaceous gland that has been blocked | Synonyms: pilar cyst, sebaceous cyst, wen |
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| steatopygia | (noun) an extreme accumulation of fat on the buttocks | - |
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| steatorrhea | (noun) the presence of greater than normal amounts of fat in the feces which are frothy and foul smelling and floating; a symptom of disorders of fat metabolism and malabsorption syndrome | - |
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| teat | (noun) the small projection of a mammary gland | Synonyms: mamilla, mammilla, nipple, pap, tit |
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| teatime | (noun) a light midafternoon meal of tea and sandwiches or cakes | Synonyms: afternoon tea, tea |
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