| 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) | - |
| (verb) make a long and difficult journey | - |
| (verb) journey on foot, especially in the mountains | - |
| 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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| (verb) train on a trellis, as of a vine | - |
| 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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| (verb) move or jerk quickly and involuntarily up and down or sideways | - |
| 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 | (adjective) vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze | Synonyms: shaky, shivering |
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| (noun) a shaky motion | Synonyms: palpitation, quiver, quivering, shakiness, shaking, vibration |
| tremendismo | (noun) post-war Spanish literary style marked by a tendency to emphasize violence and grotesque imagery. | - |
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| tremendous | (adjective) extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers | Synonyms: fantastic, grand, howling, marvellous, marvelous, phenomenal, rattling, terrific, wonderful, wondrous |
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| (adjective) extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree | Synonyms: enormous |
| (adjective) extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact | Synonyms: awful, frightful, terrible |
| tremendously | (adverb) vastly | Synonyms: enormously, hugely, staggeringly |
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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) | - |
| (verb) shake with seismic vibrations | Synonyms: quake |
| tremulous | (adjective) (of the voice) quivering as from weakness or fear | Synonyms: quavering |
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| tremulously | (adverb) in a tremulous manner | - |
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| 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 |
| (verb) cut or carve deeply into | - |
| (verb) dig a trench or trenches | - |
| (verb) cut a trench in, as for drainage | Synonyms: ditch |
| (verb) fortify by surrounding with trenches | - |
| (verb) set, plant, or bury in a trench | - |
| (verb) impinge or infringe upon | Synonyms: encroach, entrench, impinge |
| trenchancy | (noun) keenness and forcefulness of thought or expression or intellect | Synonyms: incisiveness |
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| trenchant | (adjective) clearly or sharply defined to the mind | Synonyms: clear-cut, distinct |
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| (adjective) characterized by or full of force and vigor | Synonyms: hard-hitting |
| (adjective) having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect | Synonyms: searching |
| trenchantly | (adverb) in a vigorous and effective manner | - |
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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 |
| (verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: curve, cut, sheer, slew, slue, swerve, veer |
| (verb) to be temporarily popular | - |
| trendsetting | (adjective) initiating or popularizing a trend | Synonyms: trend-setting |
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| trendy | (adjective) in accord with the latest fad | Synonyms: voguish |
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| 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 |
| (verb) cut a hole with a trepan, as in surgery | - |
| 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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| (verb) operate on with a trephine | - |
| trepid | (adjective) timid by nature or revealing timidity | Synonyms: fearful, timorous |
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| trepidation | (noun) a feeling of alarm or dread | - |
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| trepidly | (adverb) in a timorous and trepid manner | Synonyms: timorously |
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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 | - |
| (verb) pass beyond (limits or boundaries) | Synonyms: overstep, transgress |
| (verb) break the law | - |
| (verb) enter unlawfully on someone's property | Synonyms: intrude |
| (verb) commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law | Synonyms: sin, transgress |
| (verb) make excessive use of | Synonyms: take advantage |
| trespasser | (noun) someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission | Synonyms: interloper, intruder |
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| trespassing | (adjective) gradually intrusive without right or permission | Synonyms: encroaching, invasive |
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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 |
| unstressed | (adjective) not bearing a stress or accent | - |
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| untreated | (adjective) not subjected to chemical or physical treatment | - |
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| (adjective) not given medical care or treatment | - |
| (adjective) (of a specimen for study under a microscope) not treated with a reagent or dye | - |
| upstream | (adjective) in the direction against a stream's current | - |
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| (adverb) toward the source or against the current | Synonyms: upriver |
| vitrectomy | (noun) a surgical procedure that removes the vitreous humor and replace it with saline solution | - |
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| vitreous | (adjective) relating to or resembling or derived from or containing glass | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or constituting the vitreous humor of the eye | - |
| (adjective) (of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it | Synonyms: glassy, vitrified |
| waitress | (noun) a woman waiter | - |
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| (verb) serve as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant | Synonyms: wait |
| wastrel | (noun) someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently | Synonyms: waster |
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| whiffletree | (noun) a crossbar that is attached to the traces of a draft horse and to the vehicle or implement that the horse is pulling | Synonyms: swingletree, whippletree |
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| whippletree | (noun) a crossbar that is attached to the traces of a draft horse and to the vehicle or implement that the horse is pulling | Synonyms: swingletree, whiffletree |
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