| forthrightness | (noun) the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech | Synonyms: candidness, candor, candour, directness, frankness |
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| goldthread | (noun) low-growing perennial of North America woodlands having trifoliate leaves and yellow rootstock and white flowers | Synonyms: Coptis groenlandica, Coptis trifolia groenlandica, golden thread |
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| hearthrug | (noun) a rug spread out in front of a fireplace | - |
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| heartthrob | (noun) an object of infatuation | - |
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| hydrarthrosis | (noun) inflammation and swelling of a movable joint because of excess synovial fluid | - |
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| hypaethral | (adjective) partly or entirely open to the sky | Synonyms: hypethral |
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| hypethral | (adjective) partly or entirely open to the sky | Synonyms: hypaethral |
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| hypothrombinemia | (noun) a low level of prothrombin (factor II) in the circulating blood; results in long clotting time and poor clot formation and sometimes excessive bleeding; can result from vitamin K deficiency | - |
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| lycanthrope | (noun) a monster able to change appearance from human to wolf and back again | Synonyms: loup-garou, werewolf, wolfman |
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| lycanthropy | (noun) (folklore) the magical ability of a person to assume the characteristics of a wolf | - |
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| misanthrope | (noun) someone who dislikes people in general | Synonyms: misanthropist |
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| misanthropic | (adjective) believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others | Synonyms: cynical, misanthropical |
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| (adjective) hating mankind in general | Synonyms: misanthropical |
| misanthropical | (adjective) believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others | Synonyms: cynical, misanthropic |
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| (adjective) hating mankind in general | Synonyms: misanthropic |
| misanthropist | (noun) someone who dislikes people in general | Synonyms: misanthrope |
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| misanthropy | (noun) a disposition to dislike and mistrust other people | - |
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| (noun) hatred of mankind | - |
| mithraic | (adjective) of or relating to Mithraism or its god | Synonyms: mithraistic |
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| mithraistic | (adjective) of or relating to Mithraism or its god | Synonyms: mithraic |
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| mithramycin | (noun) an antineoplastic drug (trade name Mithracin) used to treat cancer of the testes | Synonyms: Mithracin |
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| osteoarthritis | (noun) chronic breakdown of cartilage in the joints; the most common form of arthritis occurring usually after middle age | Synonyms: degenerative arthritis, degenerative joint disease |
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| outthrust | (noun) an outcropping of rock that extends outward | - |
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| overthrow | (noun) the termination of a ruler or institution (especially by force) | - |
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| (noun) the act of disturbing the mind or body | Synonyms: derangement, upset |
| (verb) rule against | Synonyms: override, overrule, overturn, reverse |
| (verb) cause the downfall of; of rulers | Synonyms: bring down, overturn, subvert |
| packthread | (noun) a strong three-ply twine used to sew or tie packages | - |
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| palaeoanthropology | (noun) the scientific study of human fossils | Synonyms: human palaeontology, human paleontology, paleoanthropology |
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| paleoanthropological | (adjective) of or concerned with the scientific study of human fossils | - |
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| paleoanthropology | (noun) the scientific study of human fossils | Synonyms: human palaeontology, human paleontology, palaeoanthropology |
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| pentaerythritol | (noun) a coronary vasodilator (trade name Peritrate) used to treat angina pectoris | Synonyms: Peritrate |
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| philanthropic | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by philanthropy | - |
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| (adjective) generous in assistance to the poor | Synonyms: beneficent, benevolent, eleemosynary |
| philanthropically | (adverb) in a philanthropic manner | - |
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| philanthropist | (noun) someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being | Synonyms: altruist |
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| philanthropy | (noun) voluntary promotion of human welfare | Synonyms: philanthropic gift |
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| phlebothrombosis | (noun) thrombosis of a vein without prior inflammation of the vein; associated with sluggish blood flow (as in prolonged bedrest or pregnancy or surgery) or with rapid coagulation of the blood | Synonyms: venous thrombosis |
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| phycoerythrin | (noun) red pigment in red algae | - |
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| prothrombin | (noun) a protein in blood plasma that is the inactive precursor of thrombin | Synonyms: factor II |
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| prothrombinase | (noun) coagulation factor that is converted to an enzyme that converts prothrombin to thrombin in a reaction that depends on calcium ions and other coagulation factors | Synonyms: factor X |
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| protoanthropology | (noun) the study of humans prior to the invention of writing | Synonyms: protohistory |
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| pyrethrum | (noun) spring-flowering garden perennial of Asiatic origin having finely divided aromatic leaves and white to pink-purple flowers; source of an insecticide; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum | Synonyms: Chrysanthemum coccineum, painted daisy, Tanacetum coccineum |
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| (noun) white-flowered pyrethrum of Balkan area whose pinnate leaves are white and silky-hairy below; source of an insecticide; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum | Synonyms: Chrysanthemum cinerariifolium, Dalmatia pyrethrum, Dalmatian pyrethrum, Tanacetum cinerariifolium |
| (noun) made of dried flower heads of pyrethrum plants | - |
| seithr | (noun) an Old Norse term for a type of sorcery which was practiced in Norse society during the Late Scandinavian Iron Age. | Synonyms: seid, seidh, seidhr, seidr, seith |
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| spendthrift | (adjective) recklessly wasteful | Synonyms: extravagant, prodigal, profligate |
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| (noun) someone who spends money prodigally | Synonyms: scattergood, spend-all, spender |
| spondylarthritis | (noun) arthritis that affects one or more of the intervertebral joints in the spine | - |
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| streptothricin | (noun) a basic antibiotic derived from a soil actinomycete | - |
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| theanthropism | (noun) (theology) the doctrine that Jesus was a union of the human and the divine | - |
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| (noun) the representation of objects (especially a god) as having human form or traits | Synonyms: anthropomorphism |
| thraldom | (noun) the state of being under the control of another person | Synonyms: bondage, slavery, thrall, thralldom |
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| thrall | (noun) someone held in bondage | - |
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| (noun) the state of being under the control of another person | Synonyms: bondage, slavery, thraldom, thralldom |
| thralldom | (noun) the state of being under the control of another person | Synonyms: bondage, slavery, thraldom, thrall |
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| thrash | (noun) a swimming kick used while treading water | - |
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| (verb) give a thrashing to; beat hard | Synonyms: flail, lam, thresh |
| (verb) beat the seeds out of a grain | Synonyms: thresh |
| (verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: bat, clobber, cream, drub, lick |
| (verb) dance the slam dance | Synonyms: mosh, slam, slam dance |
| (verb) move or stir about violently | Synonyms: convulse, jactitate, slash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss |
| (verb) beat so fast that (the heart's) output starts dropping until (it) does not manage to pump out blood at all | - |
| (verb) move data into and out of core rather than performing useful computation | - |
| thrasher | (noun) thrush-like American songbird able to mimic other birdsongs | Synonyms: mocking thrush |
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| (noun) large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed | Synonyms: Alopius vulpinus, fox shark, thresher, thresher shark |
| (noun) a farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw | Synonyms: thresher, threshing machine |
| thrashing | (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: beating, drubbing, lacing, licking, trouncing, whacking |
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| (noun) a sound defeat | Synonyms: debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, walloping, whipping |
| thread | (noun) a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving | Synonyms: yarn |
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| (noun) the raised helical rib going around a screw | Synonyms: screw thread |
| (noun) the connections that link the various parts of an event or argument together | Synonyms: train of thought |
| (noun) any long object resembling a thin line | Synonyms: ribbon |
| (verb) pass a thread through | - |
| (verb) thread on or as if on a string | Synonyms: draw, string |
| (verb) remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string | - |
| (verb) pass through or into | - |
| (verb) to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course | Synonyms: meander, wander, weave, wind |
| threadbare | (adjective) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | Synonyms: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn |
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| (adjective) having the nap worn away so that the threads show through | - |
| threaded | (adjective) (of bolts or screws) having screw threads | - |
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| threader | (noun) a blunt needle for threading ribbon through loops | Synonyms: bodkin |
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| threadfin | (noun) mullet-like tropical marine fishes having pectoral fins with long threadlike rays | - |
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| threadfish | (noun) fish having greatly elongated front rays on dorsal and anal fins | Synonyms: Alectis ciliaris, thread-fish |
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| threadiness | (noun) The state or quality of consisting of or bearing fibers or filaments. | - |
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| threadlike | (adjective) thin in diameter; resembling a thread | Synonyms: filamentlike, filamentous, filiform, thready |
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| threads | (noun) informal terms for clothing | Synonyms: duds, togs |
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| threadworm | (noun) small threadlike worm infesting human intestines and rectum especially in children | Synonyms: Enterobius vermicularis, pinworm |
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| thready | (adjective) forming viscous or glutinous threads | Synonyms: ropey, ropy, stringy |
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| (adjective) thin in diameter; resembling a thread | Synonyms: filamentlike, filamentous, filiform, threadlike |
| threat | (noun) a warning that something unpleasant is imminent | - |
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| (noun) declaration of an intention or a determination to inflict harm on another | - |
| (noun) a person who inspires fear or dread | Synonyms: scourge, terror |
| (noun) something that is a source of danger | Synonyms: menace |
| threaten | (verb) to utter intentions of injury or punishment against | - |
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| (verb) to be a menacing indication of something | - |
| (verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to | Synonyms: endanger, imperil, jeopardise, jeopardize, menace, peril |
| threatened | (adjective) (of flora or fauna) likely in the near future to become endangered | - |
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| threatening | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister |
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| (adjective) darkened by clouds | Synonyms: heavy, lowering, sullen |
| threateningly | (adverb) in a menacing manner | Synonyms: menacingly |
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| three | (adjective) being one more than two | Synonyms: 3, iii |
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| (noun) one of four playing cards in a deck having three pips | Synonyms: trey |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, tercet, ternary, ternion, terzetto, threesome, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
| threefold | (adjective) three times as great or many | Synonyms: three-fold, treble, triple |
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| (adjective) having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities | Synonyms: double, dual, three-fold, treble, two-fold, twofold |
| (adverb) by a factor of three | Synonyms: three times |
| threepence | (noun) former cupronickel coin of the United Kingdom equal to three pennies | - |
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| threepenny | (adjective) of trifling worth | Synonyms: sixpenny, tuppeny, two-a-penny, twopenny-halfpenny, twopenny |
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| (adjective) used of nail size; 1 1/4 in long | - |
| threescore | (adjective) being ten more than fifty | Synonyms: 60, lx, sixty |
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| (noun) a set with 3 times 20 members | - |
| threesome | (noun) three people considered as a unit | Synonyms: triad, trinity, trio |
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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, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
| threnody | (noun) a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person | Synonyms: coronach, dirge, lament, requiem |
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| threonine | (noun) a colorless crystalline amino acid found in protein; occurs in the hydrolysates of certain proteins; an essential component of human nutrition | - |
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| thresh | (verb) give a thrashing to; beat hard | Synonyms: flail, lam, thrash |
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| (verb) beat the seeds out of a grain | Synonyms: thrash |
| (verb) move or stir about violently | Synonyms: convulse, jactitate, slash, thrash, thrash about, thresh about, toss |
| (verb) move like a flail; thresh about | Synonyms: flail |
| thresher | (noun) large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed | Synonyms: Alopius vulpinus, fox shark, thrasher, thresher shark |
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| (noun) a farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw | Synonyms: thrasher, threshing machine |
| threshing | (noun) the separation of grain or seeds from the husks and straw | - |
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| threshold | (noun) the sill of a door; a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offers support when passing through a doorway | Synonyms: doorsill, doorstep |
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| (noun) the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close | Synonyms: door, doorway, room access |
| (noun) the smallest detectable sensation | Synonyms: limen |
| (noun) a region marking a boundary | Synonyms: brink, verge |
| (noun) the starting point for a new state or experience | - |
| thrice | (adverb) three times | - |
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| thrift | (noun) extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily | Synonyms: parsimoniousness, parsimony, penny-pinching |
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| (noun) any of numerous sun-loving low-growing evergreens of the genus Armeria having round heads of pink or white flowers | - |
| thriftily | (adverb) in a thrifty manner | - |
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| thriftiness | (noun) frugality in the expenditure of money or resources | Synonyms: economy |
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| thriftless | (adjective) careless of the future | - |
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| thriftlessly | (adverb) in a thriftless manner | - |
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| thriftlessness | (noun) the trait of wasting resources | Synonyms: waste, wastefulness |
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| thriftshop | (noun) a shop that sells secondhand goods at reduced prices | Synonyms: second-hand store |
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| thrifty | (adjective) careful and diligent in the use of resources | - |
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| (adjective) mindful of the future in spending money | Synonyms: careful |
| thrill | (noun) something that causes you to experience a sudden intense feeling or sensation | - |
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| (noun) the swift release of a store of affective force | Synonyms: bang, boot, charge, flush, kick, rush |
| (noun) an almost pleasurable sensation of fright | Synonyms: chill, frisson, quiver, shiver, shudder, tingle |
| (verb) fill with sublime emotion | Synonyms: beatify, exalt, exhilarate, inebriate, tickle pink |
| (verb) feel sudden intense sensation or emotion | Synonyms: tickle, vibrate |
| (verb) tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement | Synonyms: shiver, shudder, throb |
| (verb) cause to be thrilled by some perceptual input | - |
| thrilled | (adjective) feeling intense pleasurable excitement | - |
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| thriller | (noun) a suspenseful adventure story or play or movie | - |
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| thrillful | (adjective) full of excitement; thrilled | - |
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| thrilling | (adjective) causing a surge of emotion or excitement | Synonyms: electrifying |
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| (adjective) causing quivering or shivering as by cold or fear or electric shock | - |
| thrip | (noun) any of various small to minute sucking insects with narrow feathery wings if any; they feed on plant sap and many are destructive | Synonyms: thripid, thrips |
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| thripid | (noun) any of various small to minute sucking insects with narrow feathery wings if any; they feed on plant sap and many are destructive | Synonyms: thrip, thrips |
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| thrips | (noun) any of various small to minute sucking insects with narrow feathery wings if any; they feed on plant sap and many are destructive | Synonyms: thrip, thripid |
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| thrive | (verb) grow vigorously | Synonyms: boom, expand, flourish |
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| (verb) make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance | Synonyms: flourish, fly high, prosper |
| thriving | (adjective) very lively and profitable | Synonyms: booming, burgeoning, flourishing, palmy, prospering, prosperous, roaring |
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| throat | (noun) the part of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's throat | - |
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| (noun) a passage resembling a throat in shape or function | - |
| (noun) an opening in the vamp of a shoe at the instep | - |
| (noun) the passage to the stomach and lungs; in the front part of the neck below the chin and above the collarbone | Synonyms: pharynx |
| throated | (adjective) having a throat as specified | - |
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| throatwort | (noun) European bellflower with blue-purple to lilac flowers formerly used to treat sore throat | Synonyms: Campanula trachelium, nettle-leaved bellflower |
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| throaty | (adjective) sounding as if pronounced low in the throat | - |
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| throb | (noun) an instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart) | Synonyms: pounding, throbbing |
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| (noun) a deep pulsating type of pain | - |
| (verb) tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement | Synonyms: shiver, shudder, thrill |
| (verb) expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically | Synonyms: pulsate, pulse |
| (verb) pulsate or pound with abnormal force | - |
| throbbing | (adjective) pounding or beating strongly or violently | - |
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| (noun) an instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart) | Synonyms: pounding, throb |
| (noun) a sound with a strong rhythmic beat | - |