tableau | (noun) any dramatic scene | - |
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(noun) a group of people attractively arranged (as if in a painting) | Synonyms: tableau vivant |
tabu | (adjective) excluded from use or mention | Synonyms: forbidden, out, prohibited, proscribed, taboo, verboten |
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(adjective) forbidden to profane use especially in South Pacific islands | Synonyms: taboo |
(noun) an inhibition or ban resulting from social custom or emotional aversion | Synonyms: taboo |
(noun) a prejudice (especially in Polynesia and other South Pacific islands) that prohibits the use or mention of something because of its sacred nature | Synonyms: taboo |
tamandu | (noun) small toothless anteater with prehensile tail and four-clawed forelimbs; of tropical South America and Central America | Synonyms: lesser anteater, tamandua, Tamandua tetradactyla |
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tamarau | (noun) small buffalo of Mindoro in the Philippines | Synonyms: Anoa mindorensis, Bubalus mindorensis, tamarao |
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tatou | (noun) about three feet long exclusive of tail | Synonyms: giant armadillo, Priodontes giganteus, tatu |
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tatu | (noun) about three feet long exclusive of tail | Synonyms: giant armadillo, Priodontes giganteus, tatou |
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tau | (noun) the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet | - |
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teju | (noun) large (to 3 feet) blackish yellow-banded South American lizard; raid henhouses; used as food | - |
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thou | (noun) the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 | Synonyms: 1000, chiliad, G, grand, K, M, one thousand, thousand, yard |
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timucu | (noun) found in warm waters of western Atlantic | - |
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tinamou | (noun) heavy-bodied small-winged South American game bird resembling a gallinaceous bird but related to the ratite birds | Synonyms: partridge |
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tipu | (noun) semi-evergreen South American tree with odd-pinnate leaves and golden yellow flowers cultivated as an ornamental | Synonyms: pride of Bolivia, tipu tree, yellow jacaranda |
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tiramisu | (noun) an Italian dessert consisting of layers of sponge cake soaked with coffee and brandy or liqueur layered with mascarpone cheese and topped with grated chocolate | - |
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tofu | (noun) cheeselike food made of curdled soybean milk | Synonyms: bean curd |
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tolu | (noun) aromatic yellowish brown balsam from the tolu balsam tree used especially in cough syrups | Synonyms: balsam of tolu, tolu balsam |
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trousseau | (noun) the personal outfit of a bride; clothes and accessories and linens | - |
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turacou | (noun) large brightly crested bird of Africa | Synonyms: touraco, turaco, turakoo |
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tutu | (noun) very short skirt worn by ballerinas | Synonyms: ballet skirt |
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u | (adjective) (chiefly British) of or appropriate to the upper classes especially in language use | - |
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(noun) the 21st letter of the Roman alphabet | Synonyms: U |
unau | (noun) relatively small fast-moving sloth with two long claws on each front foot | Synonyms: Choloepus didactylus, two-toed sloth, unai |
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(noun) a sloth of Central America that has two long claws on each forefoot and three long claws on each hindfoot | Synonyms: Choloepus hoffmanni, two-toed sloth, unai |
veau | (noun) meat from a calf | Synonyms: veal |
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vertu | (noun) artistic quality | Synonyms: virtu |
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(noun) love of or taste for fine objects of art | Synonyms: connoisseurship, virtu |
virtu | (noun) objet d'art collectively (especially fine antiques) | - |
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(noun) artistic quality | Synonyms: vertu |
(noun) love of or taste for fine objects of art | Synonyms: connoisseurship, vertu |
waifu | (noun) a character in an anime or manga who one has romantic feelings for | - |
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zebu | (noun) domesticated ox having a humped back and long horns and a large dewlap; used chiefly as a draft animal in India and east Asia | - |
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