| taproom | (noun) a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter | Synonyms: bar, barroom, ginmill, saloon |
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| taproot | (noun) something that provides an important central source for growth or development | - |
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| (noun) (botany) main root of a plant growing straight downward from the stem | - |
| taps | (noun) (military) signal to turn the lights out | Synonyms: lights-out |
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| tapster | (noun) a tavern keeper who taps kegs or casks | Synonyms: tapper |
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| tar | (noun) a man who serves as a sailor | Synonyms: gob, Jack-tar, Jack, mariner, old salt, sea dog, seafarer, seaman |
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| (noun) any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue | Synonyms: pitch |
| (verb) coat with tar | - |
| taradiddle | (noun) a trivial lie | Synonyms: fib, story, tale, tarradiddle |
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| (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
| tarantella | (noun) a lively whirling Italian dance for two persons | Synonyms: tarantelle |
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| (noun) music composed in six-eight time for dancing the tarantella | - |
| tarantelle | (noun) a lively whirling Italian dance for two persons | Synonyms: tarantella |
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| tarantism | (noun) a nervous disorder characterized by an uncontrollable impulse to dance; popularly attributed to bite of the southern European tarantula or wolf spider | - |
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| tarantula | (noun) large hairy tropical spider with fangs that can inflict painful but not highly venomous bites | - |
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| (noun) large southern European spider once thought to be the cause of tarantism (uncontrollable bodily movement) | Synonyms: European wolf spider, Lycosa tarentula |
| tarboosh | (noun) a felt cap (usually red) for a man; shaped like a flat-topped cone with a tassel that hangs from the crown | Synonyms: fez |
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| tardigrade | (noun) an arthropod of the division Tardigrada | - |
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| tardily | (adverb) without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly') | Synonyms: easy, slow, slowly |
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| (adverb) later than usual or than expected | Synonyms: belatedly, late |
| tardiness | (noun) the quality or habit of not adhering to a correct or usual or expected time | - |
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| tardive | (adjective) late-occurring (especially with reference to symptoms of a disease) | - |
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| tardy | (adjective) after the expected or usual time; delayed | Synonyms: belated, late |
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| tare | (noun) (chemical analysis) a counterweight used in chemical analysis; consists of an empty container that counterbalances the weight of the container holding chemicals | - |
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| (noun) the weight of a motor vehicle, railroad car, or aircraft without its fuel or cargo | - |
| (noun) any of several weedy vetches grown for forage | - |
| (noun) weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous | Synonyms: bearded darnel, cheat, darnel, Lolium temulentum |
| (noun) an adjustment made for the weight of the packaging in order to determine the net weight of the goods | - |
| target | (noun) sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at | Synonyms: butt |
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| (noun) the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable) | Synonyms: aim, object, objective |
| (noun) a reference point to shoot at | Synonyms: mark |
| (noun) the location of the target that is to be hit | Synonyms: target area |
| (noun) a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence | Synonyms: fair game, prey, quarry |
| (verb) intend (something) to move towards a certain goal | Synonyms: aim, direct, place, point |
| tariff | (noun) a government tax on imports or exports | Synonyms: duty |
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| (verb) charge a tariff | - |
| tarmac | (noun) a paved surface having compressed layers of broken rocks held together with tar | Synonyms: macadam, tarmacadam |
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| (noun) a paving material of tar and broken stone; mixed in a factory and shaped during paving | Synonyms: tarmacadam |
| (verb) surface with macadam | Synonyms: macadam, macadamise, macadamize |
| tarmacadam | (noun) a paved surface having compressed layers of broken rocks held together with tar | Synonyms: macadam, tarmac |
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| (noun) a paving material of tar and broken stone; mixed in a factory and shaped during paving | Synonyms: tarmac |
| tarn | (noun) a mountain lake (especially one formed by glaciers) | - |
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| tarnish | (noun) discoloration of metal surface caused by oxidation | - |
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| (verb) make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically | Synonyms: defile, maculate, stain, sully |
| taro | (noun) tropical starchy tuberous root | Synonyms: cocoyam, dasheen, edda, taro root |
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| (noun) herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves | Synonyms: Colocasia esculenta, dalo, dasheen, taro plant |
| (noun) edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants | Synonyms: cocoyam, dasheen, eddo |
| tarot | (noun) any of a set of (usually 78) cards that include 22 cards representing virtues and vices and death and fortune etc.; used for playing card games and for divination by fortunetellers | Synonyms: tarot card |
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| tarp | (noun) waterproofed canvas | Synonyms: tarpaulin |
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| tarpan | (noun) European wild horse extinct since the early 20th century | Synonyms: Equus caballus gomelini |
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| tarpaulin | (noun) waterproofed canvas | Synonyms: tarp |
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| tarpon | (noun) large silvery game fish of warm Atlantic coastal waters especially off Florida | Synonyms: Tarpon atlanticus |
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| tarradiddle | (noun) a trivial lie | Synonyms: fib, story, tale, taradiddle |
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| (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
| tarragon | (noun) fresh leaves (or leaves preserved in vinegar) used as seasoning | Synonyms: estragon |
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| (noun) aromatic perennial of southeastern Russia | Synonyms: Artemisia dracunculus, estragon |
| tarriance | (noun) the act of tarrying | Synonyms: lingering |
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| 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 |
| tarsal | (adjective) of or relating to or near the tarsus of the foot | - |
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| (noun) any bone of the tarsus | Synonyms: tarsal bone |
| tarsier | (noun) nocturnal arboreal primate of Indonesia and the Philippines having huge eyes and digits ending in pads to facilitate climbing; the only primate that spurns all plant material as food living entirely on insects and small vertebrates | - |
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| tarsitis | (noun) inflammation of the eyelid | - |
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| tarsus | (noun) the part of the foot of a vertebrate between the metatarsus and the leg; in human beings the bones of the ankle and heel collectively | - |
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| tart | (adjective) tasting sour like a lemon | Synonyms: lemonlike, lemony, sourish, tangy |
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| (adjective) harsh | Synonyms: sharp-worded, sharp |
| (noun) a small open pie with a fruit filling | - |
| (noun) a pastry cup with a filling of fruit or custard and no top crust | - |
| (noun) a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money | Synonyms: bawd, cocotte, cyprian, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, whore, woman of the street, working girl |
| tartan | (noun) a cloth having a crisscross design | Synonyms: plaid |
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| tartar | (noun) an incrustation that forms on the teeth and gums | Synonyms: calculus, tophus |
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| (noun) a fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman | Synonyms: dragon |
| (noun) a salt used especially in baking powder | Synonyms: cream of tartar, potassium bitartrate, potassium hydrogen tartrate |
| tartaric | (adjective) relating to or derived from or resembling tartar | - |
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| tartlet | (noun) a small tart usually used as a canape | - |
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| tartly | (adverb) in a tart manner | - |
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| tartness | (noun) a sharp sour taste | Synonyms: acerbity |
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| (noun) a rough and bitter manner | Synonyms: acerbity, acrimony, bitterness, jaundice, thorniness |
| (noun) the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: sour, sourness |
| tartrate | (noun) a salt or ester of tartaric acid | - |
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| tarweed | (noun) any of various resinous glandular plants of the genus Madia; of western North and South America | - |
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| (noun) any of various western American plants of the genus Grindelia having resinous leaves and stems formerly used medicinally; often poisonous to livestock | Synonyms: gum plant, gumweed, rosinweed |
| tarwood | (noun) New Zealand shrub | Synonyms: Dacrydium bidwilli, Halocarpus bidwilli, New Zealand mountain pine, tar-wood |
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| (noun) New Zealand silver pine of conical habit with long slender flexuous branches; adapted to cold wet summers and high altitudes | Synonyms: Dacrydium colensoi, tar-wood |
| task | (noun) a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee | Synonyms: chore, job |
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| (noun) any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted | Synonyms: labor, labour, project, undertaking |
| (verb) use to the limit | Synonyms: tax |
| (verb) assign a task to | - |
| taskmaster | (noun) someone who imposes hard or continuous work | - |
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| taskmistress | (noun) a woman taskmaster | - |
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| tasse | (noun) one of two pieces of armor plate hanging from the fauld to protect the upper thighs | Synonyms: tasset |
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| tassel | (noun) adornment consisting of a bunch of cords fastened at one end | - |
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| tasseled | (adjective) fringed or adorned with tassels | Synonyms: tasselled |
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| tasselled | (adjective) fringed or adorned with tassels | Synonyms: tasseled |
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| tasset | (noun) one of two pieces of armor plate hanging from the fauld to protect the upper thighs | Synonyms: tasse |
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| taste | (noun) a kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds | Synonyms: tasting |
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| (noun) delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values) | Synonyms: appreciation, discernment, perceptiveness |
| (noun) the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus | Synonyms: gustatory perception, gustatory sensation, taste perception, taste sensation |
| (noun) the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth | Synonyms: gustation, gustatory modality, sense of taste |
| (noun) a brief experience of something | - |
| (noun) a strong liking | Synonyms: penchant, predilection, preference |
| (noun) a small amount eaten or drunk | Synonyms: mouthful |
| (verb) experience briefly | - |
| (verb) take a sample of | Synonyms: sample, try, try out |
| (verb) perceive by the sense of taste | - |
| (verb) distinguish flavors | - |
| (verb) have flavor; taste of something | Synonyms: savor, savour |
| (verb) have a distinctive or characteristic taste | Synonyms: smack |
| tastebud | (noun) an oval sensory end organ on the surface of the tongue | Synonyms: gustatory organ, taste bud |
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| tasteful | (adjective) having or showing or conforming to good taste | - |
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| tastefully | (adverb) with taste; in a tasteful manner | Synonyms: tastily |
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| tastefulness | (noun) elegance indicated by good taste | - |
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| tasteless | (adjective) lacking flavor | - |
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| (adjective) lacking aesthetic or social taste | - |
| tastelessly | (adverb) without taste or in poor taste; in a tasteless manner | - |
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| tastelessness | (noun) inelegance indicated by a lack of good taste | - |
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| (noun) the property of having no flavor | Synonyms: flavorlessness, flavourlessness, savorlessness, savourlessness |
| taster | (noun) someone who samples food or drink for its quality | Synonyms: sampler, taste-tester, taste tester |
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| tastily | (adverb) in a tasty manner | - |
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| (adverb) with taste; in a tasteful manner | Synonyms: tastefully |
| tastiness | (noun) a pleasing palatability | - |
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| tasting | (noun) a kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds | Synonyms: taste |
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| (noun) taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality | Synonyms: degustation, relishing, savoring, savouring |
| (noun) a small amount (especially of food or wine) | - |
| tasty | (adjective) pleasing to the sense of taste | - |
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| tat | (noun) tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar | Synonyms: cheapness, sleaze, tackiness |
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| (verb) make lacework by knotting or looping | Synonyms: intertwine |
| tater | (noun) an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland | Synonyms: Irish potato, murphy, potato, spud, white potato |
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| tatou | (noun) about three feet long exclusive of tail | Synonyms: giant armadillo, Priodontes giganteus, tatu |
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| tatouay | (noun) naked-tailed armadillo of tropical South America | Synonyms: cabassous, Cabassous unicinctus |
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| tatted | (adjective) having many tattooes | - |
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| tatter | (noun) a small piece of cloth | Synonyms: rag, shred, tag, tag end |
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| tatterdemalion | (adjective) worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing | Synonyms: tattered |
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| (adjective) in deplorable condition | Synonyms: bedraggled, broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tumble-down |
| (noun) a dirty shabbily clothed urchin | Synonyms: ragamuffin |
| tattered | (adjective) ruined or disrupted | Synonyms: shattered |
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| (adjective) worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing | Synonyms: tatterdemalion |
| tattily | (adverb) in a cheap manner | Synonyms: cheaply, inexpensively |
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| tatting | (noun) the act or art of making handmade lace | Synonyms: lace making |
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| (noun) needlework consisting of handmade lace made by looping and knotting a single thread on a small shuttle | - |
| tattle | (noun) disclosing information or giving evidence about another | Synonyms: singing, telling |
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| (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
| (verb) divulge confidential information or secrets | Synonyms: babble, babble out, blab, blab out, let the cat out of the bag, peach, sing, spill the beans, talk |
| tattler | (noun) any of several long-legged shorebirds having a loud whistling cry | - |
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| (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: blabbermouth, talebearer, taleteller, tattletale, telltale |
| tattletale | (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: blabbermouth, talebearer, taleteller, tattler, telltale |
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| tattling | (adjective) prone to communicate confidential information | Synonyms: blabbermouthed, leaky, talebearing |
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| tattoo | (noun) the practice of making a design on the skin by pricking and staining | - |
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| (noun) a design on the skin made by tattooing | - |
| (noun) a drumbeat or bugle call that signals the military to return to their quarters | - |
| (verb) stain (skin) with indelible color | - |
| tatty | (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tawdry, trashy |
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| (adjective) showing signs of wear and tear | Synonyms: moth-eaten, ratty, shabby |
| 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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| taunt | (noun) aggravation by deriding or mocking or criticizing | Synonyms: taunting, twit |
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| (verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping | Synonyms: bait, cod, rag, rally, razz, ride, tantalise, tantalize, tease, twit |
| taunting | (adjective) abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule | Synonyms: derisive, gibelike, jeering, mocking |
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| (noun) aggravation by deriding or mocking or criticizing | Synonyms: taunt, twit |
| tauntingly | (adverb) in a playfully teasing manner | Synonyms: teasingly |
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| tauon | (noun) a lepton of very great mass | Synonyms: tau-minus particle |
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| taupe | (adjective) of something having a dusky brownish grey color | Synonyms: fuscous |
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| (noun) a greyish brown | - |
| taurine | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a bull | - |
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| (noun) a colorless crystalline substance obtained from the bile of mammals | - |
| tauromachy | (noun) the activity at a bullfight | Synonyms: bullfighting |
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| taut | (adjective) pulled or drawn tight | Synonyms: tight |
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| (adjective) subjected to great tension; stretched tight | - |
| tauten | (verb) become taut or tauter | Synonyms: firm |
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| (verb) make taut or tauter | Synonyms: firm |
| tautly | (adverb) in a taut manner | - |
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| tautness | (noun) lack of movement or room for movement | Synonyms: tightness |
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| (noun) the physical condition of being stretched or strained | Synonyms: tenseness, tension, tensity |
| tautog | (noun) large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America | Synonyms: blackfish, Tautoga onitis |
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| tautologic | (adjective) repetition of same and identical sense with different and non-identical words | Synonyms: pleonastic, redundant, tautological |
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| tautological | (adjective) repetition of same and identical sense with different and non-identical words | Synonyms: pleonastic, redundant, tautologic |
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