| streetwalk | (verb) walk the streets in search of customers | Synonyms: street-walk |
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| streetwalker | (noun) a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets | Synonyms: floozie, floozy, hooker, hustler, slattern, street girl |
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| streetwise | (adjective) having the shrewd resourcefulness needed to survive in an urban environment | Synonyms: street smart, with-it |
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| subtweeting | (noun) the act of tweeting without tagging a user so that they will not see the post | - |
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| supertwister | (noun) the most powerful tornado which can create enormously devastating damage | - |
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| sweptwing | (adjective) (of an aircraft) having sweptback wings | - |
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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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| thwartwise | (adjective) extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis | Synonyms: cross, transversal, transverse |
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| tightwad | (noun) a miserly person | Synonyms: cheapskate |
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| trumpetwood | (noun) tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems | Synonyms: Cecropia peltata, imbauba, snake wood, trumpet-wood, trumpet tree |
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| trustworthiness | (noun) the trait of deserving trust and confidence | Synonyms: trustiness |
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| trustworthy | (adjective) worthy of trust or belief | Synonyms: trusty |
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| (adjective) taking responsibility for one's conduct and obligations | - |
| twaddle | (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh |
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| (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle |
| twaddler | (noun) someone who twaddles; someone who writes or talks twaddle | - |
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| twain | (noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: brace, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twosome, yoke |
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| twang | (noun) exaggerated nasality in speech (as in some regional dialects) | Synonyms: nasal twang |
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| (noun) a sharp vibrating sound (as of a plucked string) | - |
| (verb) pronounce with a nasal twang | - |
| (verb) pluck (strings of an instrument) | - |
| (verb) sound with a twang | - |
| (verb) cause to sound with a twang | - |
| (verb) twitch or throb with pain | - |
| twat | (noun) obscene terms for female genitals | Synonyms: cunt, puss, pussy, slit, snatch |
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| (noun) a man who is a stupid incompetent fool | Synonyms: bozo, cuckoo, fathead, goof, goofball, goose, jackass, zany |
| twayblade | (noun) orchid having a pair of ovate leaves and a long slender raceme of green flowers sometimes tinged red-brown; Europe to central Asia | Synonyms: Listera ovata |
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| (noun) an orchid of the genus Liparis having a pair of leaves | - |
| tweak | (noun) a squeeze with the fingers | Synonyms: pinch |
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| (verb) adjust finely | Synonyms: fine-tune |
| (verb) to be under the influence of methamphetamine | - |
| (verb) pull or pull out sharply | Synonyms: pick off, pluck, pull off |
| (verb) pinch or squeeze sharply | - |
| twee | (adjective) affectedly dainty or refined | Synonyms: mincing, niminy-piminy, prim |
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| tweed | (noun) thick woolen fabric used for clothing; originated in Scotland | - |
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| (noun) (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth | Synonyms: flannel, gabardine, white |
| tweediness | (noun) looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth) | Synonyms: coarseness, nubbiness |
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| (noun) an informal, homely, outdoor look characteristic of those who wear tweeds | - |
| tweedle | (verb) entice through the use of music | - |
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| (verb) play negligently on a musical instrument | - |
| (verb) sing in modulation | Synonyms: chirp |
| tweedy | (adjective) of textiles; having a rough surface | Synonyms: homespun, nubbly, nubby, slubbed |
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| (adjective) (of country gentry) informal, clannish and outdoorsy | - |
| tweegram | (noun) an Instagram post that is all words | - |
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| tweep | (noun) A person using Twitter | - |
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| tweet | (noun) A post on the social media site Twitter | - |
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| (noun) a weak chirping sound as of a small bird | - |
| (verb) To post a message on Twitter; post tweets, i.e. short text messages on the popular social media website Twitter | - |
| (verb) squeeze tightly between the fingers | Synonyms: nip, pinch, squeeze, twinge, twitch |
| (verb) make a weak, chirping sound | Synonyms: twirp |
| tweeter | (noun) a loudspeaker that reproduces higher audio frequency sounds | - |
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| tweeze | (verb) pluck with tweezers | - |
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| tweezer | (noun) a hand tool for holding consisting of a compound lever for grasping | Synonyms: pair of pincers, pair of tweezers, pincer |
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| twelfth | (adjective) coming next after the eleventh and just before the thirteenth in position | Synonyms: 12th |
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| (noun) one part in twelve equal parts | Synonyms: duodecimal, one-twelfth, twelfth part |
| (noun) position 12 in a countable series of things | - |
| twelve | (adjective) denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units | Synonyms: 12, dozen, xii |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one | Synonyms: 12, dozen, XII |
| twelvemonth | (noun) a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days | Synonyms: year, yr |
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| twenties | (noun) the time of life between 20 and 30 | Synonyms: mid-twenties |
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| (noun) the decade from 1920 to 1929 | Synonyms: 1920s |
| twentieth | (adjective) coming next after the nineteenth in position | Synonyms: 20th |
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| (noun) position 20 in a countable series of things | - |
| twenty | (adjective) denoting a quantity consisting of 20 items or units | Synonyms: 20, xx |
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| (noun) a United States bill worth 20 dollars | Synonyms: twenty dollar bill |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of nineteen and one | Synonyms: 20, XX |
| twerk | (verb) to dance with thrusting hip movements and a low squatting stance | - |
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| twerp | (noun) someone who is regarded as contemptible | Synonyms: twirp, twit |
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| twice | (adverb) two times | - |
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| (adverb) to double the degree | Synonyms: double, doubly |
| twiddle | (noun) a series of small (usually idle) twists or turns | - |
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| (verb) manipulate, as in a nervous or unconscious manner | Synonyms: fiddle with |
| (verb) turn in a twisting or spinning motion | Synonyms: swirl, twirl, whirl |
| 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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| (verb) branch out in a twiglike manner | - |
| (verb) understand, usually after some initial difficulty | Synonyms: catch on, cotton on, get it, get onto, get wise, latch on, tumble |
| twiggy | (adjective) thin as a twig | Synonyms: twiglike |
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| twiglike | (adjective) thin as a twig | Synonyms: twiggy |
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| twilight | (adjective) lighted by or as if by twilight | Synonyms: dusky, twilit |
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| (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 | - |
| (noun) a condition of decline following successes | - |
| (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall |
| twilit | (adjective) lighted by or as if by twilight | Synonyms: dusky, twilight |
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| 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 |
| (verb) weave diagonal lines into (textiles) | - |
| twilled | (adjective) of textiles; having parallel raised lines | Synonyms: corded |
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| twimbos | (noun) a pair of twins, who are sexually promiscuous | - |
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| twin | (adjective) being two identical | Synonyms: duplicate, matching, twinned |
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| (noun) a duplicate copy | Synonyms: counterpart, similitude |
| (noun) either of two offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy | - |
| (verb) give birth to twins | - |
| (verb) grow as twins | - |
| (verb) bring two objects, ideas, or people together | Synonyms: couple, match, mate, pair |
| (verb) duplicate or match | Synonyms: duplicate, parallel |
| 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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| (verb) spin, wind, or twist together | Synonyms: enlace, entwine, interlace, intertwine, lace |
| (verb) make by twisting together or intertwining | - |
| (verb) arrange or coil around | Synonyms: roll, wind, wrap |
| (verb) form into a spiral shape | Synonyms: distort, twist |
| 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 |
| (verb) squeeze tightly between the fingers | Synonyms: nip, pinch, squeeze, tweet, twitch |
| (verb) cause a stinging pain | Synonyms: prick, sting |
| (verb) feel a sudden sharp, local pain | - |
| 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 |
| (verb) gleam or glow intermittently | Synonyms: blink, flash, wink, winkle |
| (verb) emit or reflect light in a flickering manner | Synonyms: scintillate, winkle |
| twinkler | (noun) an object that emits or reflects light in an intermittent flickering manner | - |
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| twinkling | (adjective) shining intermittently with a sparkling light | - |
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| (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 |
| twinkly | (adjective) smiling with happiness or optimism | Synonyms: beamish, smiling |
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| twinned | (adjective) being two identical | Synonyms: duplicate, matching, twin |
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| twinning | (adjective) producing two offspring at a time | Synonyms: biparous |
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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 |
| (verb) turn in a twisting or spinning motion | Synonyms: swirl, twiddle, whirl |
| (verb) cause to spin | Synonyms: birl, spin, whirl |
| 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 |
| twirlingly | (adverb) doing twirls | - |
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| twirp | (noun) someone who is regarded as contemptible | Synonyms: twerp, twit |
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| (verb) make a weak, chirping sound | Synonyms: tweet |
| 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 |
| (verb) twist suddenly so as to sprain | Synonyms: rick, sprain, turn, wrench, wrick |
| (verb) form into twists | - |
| (verb) practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive | Synonyms: convolute, pervert, sophisticate, twist around |
| (verb) turn in the opposite direction | - |
| (verb) form into a spiral shape | Synonyms: distort, twine |
| (verb) cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form | Synonyms: bend, deform, flex, turn |
| (verb) twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates | Synonyms: wrench |
| (verb) to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling) | Synonyms: squirm, worm, wrestle, wriggle, writhe |
| (verb) do the twist | - |
| (verb) extend in curves and turns | Synonyms: curve, wind |
| twisted | (adjective) having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented | Synonyms: distorted, misrepresented, perverted |
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| 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 | (adjective) marked by repeated turns and bends | Synonyms: tortuous, twisty, voluminous, winding |
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| (noun) the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean | Synonyms: distortion, overrefinement, straining, torture |
| (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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| twisty | (adjective) marked by repeated turns and bends | Synonyms: tortuous, twisting, voluminous, winding |
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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 |
| (verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping | Synonyms: bait, cod, rag, rally, razz, ride, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease |
| twitch | (noun) a sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition | Synonyms: twitching, vellication |
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| (verb) make an uncontrolled, short, jerky motion | Synonyms: jerk |
| (verb) squeeze tightly between the fingers | Synonyms: nip, pinch, squeeze, tweet, twinge |
| (verb) move or pull with a sudden motion | - |
| (verb) toss with a sharp movement so as to cause to turn over in the air | Synonyms: flip |
| (verb) move with abrupt, seemingly uncontrolled motions | Synonyms: jerk |
| 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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| (verb) make high-pitched sounds, as of birds | Synonyms: chitter |
| twitterer | (noun) a bird that twitters | - |
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| twitterverse | (noun) the social sphere of the Twitter service | - |
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| two | (adjective) being one more than one | Synonyms: 2, ii |
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| (noun) one of the four playing cards in a deck that have two spots | Synonyms: deuce |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number | Synonyms: 2, deuce, II |
| twofer | (noun) an offer of two for the price of one | - |
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| (noun) a coupon that allows the holder to purchase two items (as two tickets to a play) for the price of one | - |
| twofold | (adjective) twice as great or many | Synonyms: double, doubled, two-fold |
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| (adjective) having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities | Synonyms: double, dual, three-fold, threefold, treble, two-fold |
| (adverb) by a factor of two | Synonyms: two times |
| twopence | (noun) a former United Kingdom silver coin; United Kingdom bronze decimal coin worth two pennies | Synonyms: tuppence |
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| twopenny | (adjective) of trifling worth | Synonyms: sixpenny, threepenny, tuppeny, two-a-penny, twopenny-halfpenny |
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| twoscore | (adjective) being ten more than thirty | Synonyms: 40, forty, xl |
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| twosome | (noun) a pair who associate with one another | Synonyms: couple, duet, duo |
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| (noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: brace, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, yoke |
| untrustworthiness | (noun) the trait of not deserving trust or confidence | Synonyms: untrustiness |
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| untrustworthy | (adjective) not worthy of trust or belief | Synonyms: untrusty |
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| untwine | (verb) undo what has been twined together | - |
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| untwist | (verb) cause to become untwisted | - |
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| untwisted | (adjective) not twisted; formerly twisted but now straight | - |
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| velvetweed | (noun) tall annual herb or subshrub of tropical Asia having velvety leaves and yellow flowers and yielding a strong fiber; naturalized in southeastern Europe and United States | Synonyms: Abutilon theophrasti, butter-print, China jute, Indian mallow, velvet-leaf, velvetleaf |
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| wartweed | (noun) not unattractive European weed whose flowers turn toward the sun | Synonyms: devil's milk, Euphorbia helioscopia, sun spurge, wartwort |
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| wartwort | (noun) not unattractive European weed whose flowers turn toward the sun | Synonyms: devil's milk, Euphorbia helioscopia, sun spurge, wartweed |
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| westward | (adjective) moving toward the west | Synonyms: westbound, westerly |
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| (noun) the cardinal compass point that is at 270 degrees | Synonyms: due west, W, west |
| (adverb) toward the west | Synonyms: westwards |
| westwards | (adverb) toward the west | Synonyms: westward |
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| wheatworm | (noun) small roundworm parasitic on wheat | Synonyms: Tylenchus tritici, wheat eel, wheat eelworm |
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| wristwatch | (noun) a watch that is worn strapped to the wrist | Synonyms: wrist watch |
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