| bathtub | (noun) a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body | Synonyms: bathing tub, tub |
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| bestubbled | (adjective) having a short growth of beard | Synonyms: stubbled, stubbly |
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| blowtube | (noun) a tube that directs air or gas into a flame to concentrate heat | Synonyms: blow tube, blowpipe |
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| (noun) a tube through which darts can be shot by blowing | Synonyms: blow tube, blowgun, blowpipe |
| intubate | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulate, cannulise, cannulize, canulate |
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| intubation | (noun) the insertion of a cannula or tube into a hollow body organ | Synonyms: cannulation, cannulisation, cannulization, canulation, canulisation, canulization |
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| microtubule | (noun) a microscopically small tubule | - |
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| nanotube | (noun) a fullerene molecule having a cylindrical or toroidal shape | Synonyms: carbon nanotube |
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| protuberance | (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, swelling |
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| (noun) the condition of being protuberant; the condition of bulging out | - |
| protuberant | (adjective) curving outward | Synonyms: bellied, bellying, bulbous, bulging, bulgy |
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| protuberate | (verb) form a rounded prominence | - |
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| (verb) cause to bulge out or project | - |
| stub | (noun) the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking) | Synonyms: butt |
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| (noun) a torn part of a ticket returned to the holder as a receipt | Synonyms: ticket stub |
| (noun) the part of a check that is retained as a record | Synonyms: check stub, counterfoil |
| (noun) a short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost | - |
| (noun) a small piece | Synonyms: nub |
| (verb) strike (one's toe) accidentally against an object | - |
| (verb) clear of weeds by uprooting them | - |
| (verb) extinguish by crushing | Synonyms: crush out, extinguish, press out, stub out |
| (verb) pull up (weeds) by their roots | - |
| stubbiness | (noun) the property of being short and broad | Synonyms: squatness |
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| stubble | (noun) short stiff hairs growing on a man's face when he has not shaved for a few days | - |
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| (noun) material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds | Synonyms: chaff, husk, shuck, stalk, straw |
| stubbled | (adjective) having a short growth of beard | Synonyms: bestubbled, stubbly |
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| stubbly | (adjective) having a short growth of beard | Synonyms: bestubbled, stubbled |
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| stubborn | (adjective) tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield | Synonyms: obstinate, unregenerate |
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| (adjective) not responding to treatment | Synonyms: refractory |
| stubbornly | (adverb) in a stubborn unregenerate manner | Synonyms: cussedly, mulishly, obdurately, obstinately, pig-headedly |
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| stubbornness | (noun) the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome | Synonyms: mulishness, obstinacy, obstinance |
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| (noun) resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires | Synonyms: bullheadedness, obstinacy, obstinance, pigheadedness, self-will |
| stubby | (adjective) short and blunt | - |
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| tub | (noun) a large open vessel for holding or storing liquids | Synonyms: vat |
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| (noun) a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body | Synonyms: bathing tub, bathtub |
| (noun) the amount that a tub will hold | Synonyms: tubful |
| tuba | (noun) the lowest brass wind instrument | Synonyms: bass horn, sousaphone |
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| tubal | (adjective) of or relating to occurring in a tube such as e.g. the Fallopian tube or Eustachian tube | - |
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| tubbiness | (noun) the property of having a plump and round body | Synonyms: chubbiness, pudginess, rolypoliness |
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| tubby | (adjective) short and plump | Synonyms: dumpy, podgy, pudgy, roly-poly |
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| tube | (noun) conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases | Synonyms: tubing |
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| (noun) an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city) | Synonyms: metro, subway, subway system, underground |
| (noun) electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope | Synonyms: electron tube, thermionic tube, thermionic vacuum tube, thermionic valve, vacuum tube |
| (noun) (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure | Synonyms: tube-shaped structure |
| (noun) a hollow cylindrical shape | Synonyms: pipe |
| (verb) place or enclose in a tube | - |
| (verb) convey in a tube | - |
| (verb) ride or float on an inflated tube | - |
| (verb) provide with a tube or insert a tube into | - |
| tubed | (adjective) of a tire; having an inner tube | - |
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| tubeless | (adjective) of a tire; not needing an inner tube | - |
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| (noun) pneumatic tire not needing an inner tube to be airtight | Synonyms: tubeless tire |
| tubelike | (adjective) constituting a tube; having hollow tubes (as for the passage of fluids) | Synonyms: cannular, tube-shaped, tubular, vasiform |
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| tuber | (noun) a fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage | - |
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| tubercle | (noun) a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament | Synonyms: eminence, tuberosity |
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| (noun) small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant | Synonyms: nodule |
| (noun) a swelling that is the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis | - |
| tubercular | (adjective) relating to tuberculosis or those suffering from it | - |
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| (adjective) pertaining to or of the nature of a normal tuberosity or tubercle | - |
| (adjective) characterized by the presence of tuberculosis lesions or tubercles | - |
| (adjective) constituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus | Synonyms: tuberculous |
| (noun) a person with pulmonary tuberculosis | Synonyms: consumptive, lunger |
| tuberculate | (adjective) covered with tubercles | - |
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| tuberculin | (noun) a sterile liquid containing a purified protein derivative of the tuberculosis bacterium; used in the diagnosis of tuberculosis | - |
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| tuberculoid | (adjective) resembling tuberculosis | - |
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| tuberculosis | (noun) infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages) | Synonyms: T.B., TB |
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| tuberculous | (adjective) constituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus | Synonyms: tubercular |
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| tuberose | (noun) a tuberous Mexican herb having grasslike leaves and cultivated for its spikes of highly fragrant lily-like waxy white flowers | Synonyms: Polianthes tuberosa |
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| tuberosity | (noun) a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament | Synonyms: eminence, tubercle |
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| tuberous | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a tuber | - |
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| tubful | (noun) the amount that a tub will hold | Synonyms: tub |
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| tubing | (noun) conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases | Synonyms: tube |
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| tubocurarine | (noun) a toxic alkaloid found in certain tropical South American trees that is a powerful relaxant for striated muscles | Synonyms: curare |
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| tubular | (adjective) constituting a tube; having hollow tubes (as for the passage of fluids) | Synonyms: cannular, tube-shaped, tubelike, vasiform |
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| tubule | (noun) a small tube | - |
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| washtub | (noun) a tub in which clothes or linens can be washed | - |
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| watertube | (noun) a boiler tube through which the water flows. | Synonyms: water tube |
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