| symmetry | (noun) (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane | Synonyms: balance, correspondence, symmetricalness |
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| (noun) (physics) the property of being isotropic; having the same value when measured in different directions | Synonyms: isotropy |
| (noun) balance among the parts of something | Synonyms: proportion |
| sympatry | (noun) the occurrence of organisms in overlapping geographical areas, but without interbreeding | - |
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| tannery | (noun) workplace where skins and hides are tanned | - |
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| tapestry | (noun) a wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric often with pictorial designs | Synonyms: arras |
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| (noun) a heavy textile with a woven design; used for curtains and upholstery | Synonyms: tapis |
| (noun) something that resembles a tapestry in its intricacy | - |
| tarry | (adjective) having the characteristics of pitch or tar | Synonyms: pitchy, resinous, resiny |
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| (verb) leave slowly and hesitantly | Synonyms: linger |
| (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around |
| tawdry | (adjective) made of inferior workmanship and materials | Synonyms: cheapjack, shoddy |
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| (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, trashy |
| teaberry | (noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil | Synonyms: boxberry, checkerberry, spiceberry, wintergreen |
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| (noun) creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil | Synonyms: checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, groundberry, mountain tea, wintergreen |
| teary | (adjective) with eyes full of tears | Synonyms: teary-eyed, watery-eyed |
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| telemetry | (noun) automatic transmission and measurement of data from remote sources by wire or radio or other means | - |
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| temporary | (adjective) not permanent; not lasting | Synonyms: impermanent |
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| (adjective) lacking continuity or regularity | Synonyms: irregular |
| (noun) a worker (especially in an office) hired on a temporary basis | Synonyms: temp, temporary worker |
| tenantry | (noun) tenants of an estate considered as a group | - |
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| tercentenary | (noun) the 300th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: tercentennial, triennial |
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| ternary | (adjective) having three units or components or elements | Synonyms: treble, triple, triplex |
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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, ternion, terzetto, three, threesome, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
| territory | (noun) an area of knowledge or interest | - |
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| (noun) a region marked off for administrative or other purposes | Synonyms: district, dominion, territorial dominion |
| (noun) the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state | Synonyms: soil |
| terry | (noun) a pile fabric (usually cotton) with uncut loops on both sides; used to make bath towels and bath robes | Synonyms: terry cloth, terrycloth |
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| tertiary | (adjective) coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position | Synonyms: 3rd, third |
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| testamentary | (adjective) of or relating to a will or testament or bequeathed by a will or testament | - |
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| thaumatolatry | (noun) the worship of miracles | Synonyms: miracle-worship |
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| theory | (noun) a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena | - |
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| (noun) a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena | Synonyms: hypothesis, possibility |
| (noun) a belief that can guide behavior | - |
| thermocautery | (noun) cautery (destruction of tissue) by heat | - |
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| thermochemistry | (noun) the branch of chemistry that studies the relation between chemical action and the amount of heat absorbed or generated | - |
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| thermogravimetry | (noun) the measurement of changes in weight as a function of changes in temperature used as a technique of chemically analyzing substances | - |
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| thermometry | (noun) the measurement of temperature | - |
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| thievery | (noun) the act of taking something from someone unlawfully | Synonyms: larceny, stealing, theft, thieving |
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| thimbleberry | (noun) raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit | Synonyms: black raspberry, blackcap, blackcap raspberry, Rubus occidentalis |
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| (noun) white-flowered raspberry of western North America and northern Mexico with thimble-shaped orange berries | Synonyms: Rubus parviflorus, salmon berry, salmonberry |
| (noun) shrubby raspberry of eastern North America having showy rose to purplish flowers and red or orange thimble-shaped fruit | Synonyms: flowering raspberry, purple-flowering raspberry, Rubus odoratus |
| thuggery | (noun) violent or brutal acts as of thugs | - |
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| thundery | (adjective) loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss | Synonyms: deafening, earsplitting, thunderous |
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| (adjective) accompanied with thunder | - |
| titulary | (adjective) of or relating to a legal title to something | Synonyms: titular |
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| toiletry | (noun) artifacts used in making your toilet (washing and taking care of your body) | Synonyms: toilet articles |
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| tomfoolery | (noun) foolish or senseless behavior | Synonyms: craziness, folly, foolery, indulgence, lunacy |
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| tonometry | (noun) the measurement of intraocular pressure by determining the amount of force needed to make a slight indentation in the cornea | - |
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| topiary | (noun) making decorative shapes by trimming shrubs or trees | - |
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| (noun) a garden having shrubs clipped or trimmed into decorative shapes especially of animals | - |
| topolatry | (noun) the worship of places | Synonyms: place-worship |
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| tottery | (adjective) unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age | Synonyms: tottering |
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| touristry | (noun) the business of providing services to tourists | Synonyms: tourism |
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| tracery | (noun) decoration consisting of an open pattern of interlacing ribs | - |
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| trajectory | (noun) the path followed by an object moving through space | Synonyms: flight |
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| transitory | (adjective) lasting a very short time | Synonyms: ephemeral, fugacious, passing, short-lived, transient |
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| translunary | (adjective) situated beyond the moon or its orbit around the earth | Synonyms: superlunar, superlunary, translunar |
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| (adjective) unworldly or ethereal | Synonyms: superlunar, superlunary, translunar |
| treachery | (noun) an act of deliberate betrayal | Synonyms: betrayal, perfidy, treason |
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| (noun) betrayal of a trust | Synonyms: perfidiousness, perfidy |
| treasury | (noun) a depository (a room or building) where wealth and precious objects can be kept safely | - |
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| (noun) the government department responsible for collecting and managing and spending public revenues | - |
| (noun) the funds of a government or institution or individual | Synonyms: exchequer |
| tributary | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributing, contributive, contributory |
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| (adjective) paying tribute | - |
| (adjective) (of a stream) flowing into a larger stream | - |
| (noun) a branch that flows into the main stream | Synonyms: affluent, confluent, feeder |
| tricentenary | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 300 years | Synonyms: tricentennial |
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| trickery | (noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | Synonyms: chicane, chicanery, guile, shenanigan, wile |
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| (noun) verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way | Synonyms: hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness |
| trigonometry | (noun) the mathematics of triangles and trigonometric functions | Synonyms: trig |
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| trinketry | (noun) trinkets and other ornaments of dress collectively | - |
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| trumpery | (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, folderal, frill, gimcrack, gimcrackery, nonsense |
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| (noun) nonsensical talk or writing | Synonyms: applesauce, codswallop, folderol, rubbish, trash, tripe, wish-wash |
| try | (noun) earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something | Synonyms: attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour |
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| (verb) put on a garment in order to see whether it fits and looks nice | Synonyms: try on |
| (verb) melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities | Synonyms: render |
| (verb) take a sample of | Synonyms: sample, taste, try out |
| (verb) test the limits of | Synonyms: strain, stress |
| (verb) give pain or trouble to | - |
| (verb) make an effort or attempt | Synonyms: assay, attempt, essay, seek |
| (verb) put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to | Synonyms: essay, examine, prove, test, try out |
| (verb) examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process | Synonyms: hear |
| (verb) put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of | Synonyms: adjudicate, judge |
| turnery | (noun) products made on a lathe | - |
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| (noun) workshop where objects are made on a lathe | - |
| tushery | (noun) writing of poor quality; characterized by affected choice of archaic words | - |
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| tutelary | (adjective) providing protective supervision; watching over or safeguarding | Synonyms: custodial, tutelar |
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| 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 |
| unangry | (adjective) not angry | - |
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| unarbitrary | (adjective) not subject to individual determination | Synonyms: nonarbitrary |
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| unary | (adjective) consisting of or involving a single element or component | - |
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| (noun) the bijective base-1 numeral system: in order to represent a number N, an arbitrarily chosen symbol representing 1 is repeated N times. | Synonyms: unary numeral system |
| uncomplimentary | (adjective) tending to (or intended to) detract or disparage | - |
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| (adjective) showing or representing unfavorably | Synonyms: unflattering |
| undersecretary | (noun) a secretary immediately subordinate to the head of a department of government | - |
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| undulatory | (adjective) resembling waves in form or outline or motion | Synonyms: undulant |
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| unexploratory | (adjective) not exploratory | Synonyms: nonexplorative, nonexploratory, unexplorative |
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| unitary | (adjective) characterized by or constituting a form of government in which power is held by one central authority | - |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to or involving the use of units | - |
| (adjective) relating to or characterized by or aiming toward unity | - |
| (adjective) having the indivisible character of a unit | Synonyms: one |
| unliterary | (adjective) marked by lack of affectation or pedantry | Synonyms: nonliterary |
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| unmercenary | (adjective) not mercenary; not influenced by financial gains | - |
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| unmilitary | (adjective) not associated with soldiers or the military | Synonyms: nonmilitary |
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| unnecessary | (adjective) not necessary | Synonyms: unneeded |
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| unparliamentary | (adjective) so rude and abusive as to be unsuitable for parliament | - |
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| unsanitary | (adjective) not sanitary or healthful | Synonyms: insanitary, unhealthful |
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| unsatisfactory | (adjective) not giving satisfaction | - |
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| unsavory | (adjective) morally offensive | Synonyms: offensive, unsavoury |
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| (adjective) not pleasing in odor or taste | Synonyms: distasteful, unsavoury |
| unsavoury | (adjective) morally offensive | Synonyms: offensive, unsavory |
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| (adjective) not pleasing in odor or taste | Synonyms: distasteful, unsavory |
| unvoluntary | (adjective) not subject to the control of the will | Synonyms: involuntary, nonvoluntary |
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| unwary | (adjective) not alert to danger or deception | - |
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| unweary | (adjective) with unreduced energy | Synonyms: untired, unwearied |
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| upcountry | (adjective) of or coming from the middle of a region or country | Synonyms: interior, midland |
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| (adverb) to or in the interior of a country or region | Synonyms: up-country |
| upholstery | (noun) the craft of upholstering | - |
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| (noun) covering (padding and springs and webbing and fabric) on a piece of furniture | - |
| urinary | (adjective) of or relating to the function or production or secretion of urine | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the urinary system of the body | - |
| usufructuary | (adjective) of or relating to the nature of a usufruct | - |
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| (noun) someone who holds property by usufruct | - |
| usury | (noun) the act of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest | - |
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| (noun) an exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest | Synonyms: vigorish |
| vagary | (noun) an unexpected and inexplicable change in something (in a situation or a person's behavior, etc.) | - |
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| vainglory | (noun) outspoken conceit | Synonyms: boastfulness |
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| valedictory | (adjective) of or relating to an occasion or expression of farewell | - |
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| (adjective) of a speech expressing leave-taking | - |
| (noun) a farewell oration (especially one delivered during graduation exercises by an outstanding member of a graduating class) | Synonyms: valediction, valedictory address, valedictory oration |
| valetudinary | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a person who is a valetudinarian | Synonyms: valetudinarian |
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| validatory | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, verificatory, verifying |
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| vary | (verb) become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence | Synonyms: alter, change |
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| (verb) make something more diverse and varied | Synonyms: motley, variegate |
| (verb) be at variance with; be out of line with | Synonyms: depart, deviate, diverge |
| (verb) be subject to change in accordance with a variable | - |
| veery | (noun) tawny brown North American thrush noted for its song | Synonyms: Hylocichla fuscescens, Wilson's thrush |
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| ventilatory | (adjective) provided with ventilation or involving pulmonary ventilation | - |
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| verbolatry | (noun) the worship of words | Synonyms: grammatolatry, word-worship |
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| verificatory | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verifying |
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| very | (adjective) precisely as stated | - |
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| (adjective) being the exact same one; not any other: | Synonyms: identical, selfsame |
| (adverb) used to give emphasis | Synonyms: rattling, real, really |
| (adverb) precisely so | - |
| vesicatory | (adjective) causing blisters | Synonyms: vesicant |
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| (noun) a chemical agent that causes blistering (especially mustard gas) | Synonyms: vesicant |
| vestiary | (adjective) relating to clothing (especially vestments) | - |
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| vestry | (noun) a room in a church where sacred vessels and vestments are kept or meetings are held | Synonyms: sacristy |
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| (noun) in the Protestant Episcopal Church: a committee elected by the congregation to work with the churchwardens in managing the temporal affairs of the church | - |
| veterinary | (adjective) of or relating to veterinarians or veterinary medicine | - |
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| (noun) a doctor who practices veterinary medicine | Synonyms: vet, veterinarian, veterinary surgeon |
| vibratory | (adjective) moving very rapidly to and fro or up and down | - |
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| vicenary | (adjective) of or relating to or based on 20 | - |
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| victory | (noun) a successful ending of a struggle or contest | Synonyms: triumph |
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| vindicatory | (adjective) providing justification | Synonyms: justificative, justificatory |
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| (adjective) given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts | Synonyms: retributive, retributory |
| (adjective) of or relating to or having the nature of retribution | Synonyms: retaliative, retaliatory, retributive, retributory |
| vinegary | (adjective) having a sour disposition; ill-tempered | Synonyms: vinegarish |
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| (adjective) tasting or smelling like vinegar | Synonyms: acetose, acetous, vinegarish |
| vinery | (noun) a farm of grapevines where wine grapes are produced | Synonyms: vineyard |
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| viscometry | (noun) the measurement of viscosity | Synonyms: viscosimetry |
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| viscosimetry | (noun) the measurement of viscosity | Synonyms: viscometry |
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