| technocracy | (noun) a form of government in which scientists and technical experts are in control | - |
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| technocrat | (noun) an advocate of technocracy | - |
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| (noun) an expert who is a member of a highly skilled elite group | - |
| technological | (adjective) of or relating to a practical subject that is organized according to scientific principles | Synonyms: technical |
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| (adjective) based in scientific and industrial progress | - |
| technologically | (adverb) by means of technology | - |
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| technologist | (noun) a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems | Synonyms: applied scientist, engineer |
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| technology | (noun) the application of the knowledge and usage of tools (such as machines or utensils) and techniques to control one's environment | - |
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| (noun) machinery and equipment developed from engineering or other applied sciences | - |
| (noun) the discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems | Synonyms: applied science, engineering, engineering science |
| technophile | (noun) a person who is enthusiastic about new technology | - |
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| technophilia | (noun) enthusiasm for new technology | - |
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| technophilic | (adjective) of or relating to or showing technophilia | - |
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| technophobe | (noun) a person who dislikes or avoids new technology | - |
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| technophobia | (noun) dislike for new technology | - |
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| technophobic | (adjective) of or relating to or showing technophobia | - |
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| techy | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, testy, tetchy |
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| tectonic | (adjective) pertaining to the structure or movement of the earth's crust | - |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to construction or architecture | Synonyms: architectonic |
| tectonics | (noun) the branch of geology studying the folding and faulting of the earth's crust | Synonyms: plate tectonic theory, plate tectonics |
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| (noun) the science of architecture | Synonyms: architectonics |
| teddy | (noun) a woman's sleeveless undergarment | Synonyms: chemise, shift, shimmy, slip |
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| (noun) plaything consisting of a child's toy bear (usually plush and stuffed with soft materials) | Synonyms: teddy bear |
| tedious | (adjective) using or containing too many words | Synonyms: long-winded, verbose, windy, wordy |
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| (adjective) so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness | Synonyms: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tiresome, wearisome |
| tediously | (adverb) in a tedious manner | Synonyms: boringly, tiresomely |
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| tediousness | (noun) dullness owing to length or slowness | Synonyms: tedium, tiresomeness |
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| tedium | (noun) dullness owing to length or slowness | Synonyms: tediousness, tiresomeness |
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| (noun) the feeling of being bored by something tedious | Synonyms: boredom, ennui |
| tee | (noun) a short peg put into the ground to hold a golf ball off the ground | Synonyms: golf tee |
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| (noun) support holding a football on end and above the ground preparatory to the kickoff | Synonyms: football tee |
| (noun) the starting place for each hole on a golf course | Synonyms: teeing ground |
| (verb) place on a tee | Synonyms: tee up |
| (verb) connect with a tee | - |
| teem | (verb) move in large numbers | Synonyms: pour, pullulate, stream, swarm |
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| (verb) be teeming, be abuzz | Synonyms: pullulate, swarm |
| teeming | (adjective) abundantly filled with especially living things | - |
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| teemingness | (noun) the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply | Synonyms: abundance, copiousness |
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| teen | (adjective) being of the age 13 through 19 | Synonyms: adolescent, teenage, teenaged |
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| (noun) a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity | Synonyms: adolescent, stripling, teenager |
| teenage | (adjective) being of the age 13 through 19 | Synonyms: adolescent, teen, teenaged |
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| teenaged | (adjective) being of the age 13 through 19 | Synonyms: adolescent, teen, teenage |
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| teenager | (noun) a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity | Synonyms: adolescent, stripling, teen |
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| teens | (noun) all the numbers that end in -teen | - |
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| (noun) the time of life between the ages of 12 and 20 | - |
| teensy | (adjective) (used informally) little or tiny | Synonyms: bittie, bitty, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, teensy-weensy, teentsy, teeny-weeny, teeny, wee, weensy, weeny |
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| teentsy | (adjective) (used informally) little or tiny | Synonyms: bittie, bitty, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, teensy-weensy, teensy, teeny-weeny, teeny, wee, weensy, weeny |
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| teeny | (adjective) (used informally) little or tiny | Synonyms: bittie, bitty, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, teensy-weensy, teensy, teentsy, teeny-weeny, wee, weensy, weeny |
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| teeoff | (noun) the act of hitting a golf ball from the teeing ground at the start of each hole | - |
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| teepee | (noun) a Native American tent; usually of conical shape | Synonyms: tepee, tipi |
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| teeter | (noun) a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end | Synonyms: dandle board, seesaw, teeter-totter, teeterboard, teetertotter, tilting board |
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| (verb) move unsteadily, with a rocking motion | Synonyms: seesaw, totter |
| teeterboard | (noun) a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end | Synonyms: dandle board, seesaw, teeter-totter, teeter, teetertotter, tilting board |
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| teetertotter | (noun) a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end | Synonyms: dandle board, seesaw, teeter-totter, teeter, teeterboard, tilting board |
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| (verb) ride on a plank | Synonyms: seesaw, teeter-totter |
| teeth | (noun) the kind and number and arrangement of teeth (collectively) in a person or animal | Synonyms: dentition |
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| teethe | (verb) grow teeth; cut the baby teeth | - |
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| teething | (noun) the eruption through the gums of baby teeth | Synonyms: dentition, odontiasis |
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| teetotal | (adjective) practicing complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages | Synonyms: dry |
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| (verb) practice teetotalism and abstain from the consumption of alcoholic beverages | - |
| teetotaler | (noun) a total abstainer | Synonyms: teetotalist, teetotaller |
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| teetotaling | (noun) abstaining from alcohol | Synonyms: teetotalism |
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| teetotalism | (noun) abstaining from alcohol | Synonyms: teetotaling |
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| teetotalist | (noun) a total abstainer | Synonyms: teetotaler, teetotaller |
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| teetotaller | (noun) a total abstainer | Synonyms: teetotaler, teetotalist |
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| teetotum | (noun) a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin | Synonyms: spinning top, top, whirligig |
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| teff | (noun) an African grass economically important as a cereal grass (yielding white flour of good quality) as well as for forage and hay | Synonyms: Eragrostic abyssinica, Eragrostis tef, teff grass |
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| tefillin | (noun) (Judaism) either of two small leather cases containing texts from the Hebrew Scriptures (known collectively as tefillin); traditionally worn (on the forehead and the left arm) by Jewish men during morning prayer | Synonyms: phylactery |
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| teg | (noun) two-year-old sheep | - |
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| tegular | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a series of tiles | - |
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| tegument | (noun) a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch | Synonyms: cutis, skin |
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| teiid | (noun) tropical New World lizard with a long tail and large rectangular scales on the belly and a long tail | Synonyms: teiid lizard |
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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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| tekki | (noun) a technician who is highly proficient and enthusiastic about some technical field (especially computing) | Synonyms: techie |
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| tektite | (noun) thought to derive from meteorites | - |
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| telamon | (noun) a figure of a man used as a supporting column | Synonyms: atlas |
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| telco | (noun) a public utility that provides telephone service | Synonyms: phone company, phone service, telephone company, telephone service |
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| telecast | (noun) a television broadcast | - |
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| (verb) broadcast via television | Synonyms: televise |
| telecaster | (noun) a television broadcaster | - |
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| telecasting | (noun) broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects | Synonyms: television, TV, video |
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| telecom | (noun) (often plural) systems used in transmitting messages over a distance electronically | Synonyms: telecommunication |
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| telecommerce | (noun) the use of the telephone as an interactive medium for promotion and sales | Synonyms: telemarketing, teleselling |
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| telecommunicate | (verb) communicate over long distances, as via the telephone or e-mail | - |
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| telecommunication | (noun) (often plural) the branch of electrical engineering concerned with the technology of electronic communication at a distance | - |
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| (noun) (often plural) systems used in transmitting messages over a distance electronically | Synonyms: telecom |
| telecommuting | (noun) employment at home while communicating with the workplace by phone or fax or modem | Synonyms: teleworking |
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| teleconference | (noun) a conference of people who are in different locations that is made possible by the use of such telecommunications equipment as closed-circuit television | Synonyms: teleconferencing |
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| teleconferencing | (noun) a conference of people who are in different locations that is made possible by the use of such telecommunications equipment as closed-circuit television | Synonyms: teleconference |
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| telefax | (verb) send something via a facsimile machine | Synonyms: facsimile, fax |
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| telefilm | (noun) a movie that is made to be shown on television | - |
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| telegnosis | (noun) apparent knowledge of distant events without using sensory perceptions | - |
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| telegnostic | (adjective) obtaining knowledge of distant events allegedly without use of normal sensory mechanisms | - |
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| telegram | (noun) a message transmitted by telegraph | Synonyms: wire |
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| telegraph | (noun) apparatus used to communicate at a distance over a wire (usually in Morse code) | Synonyms: telegraphy |
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| (verb) send cables, wires, or telegrams | Synonyms: cable, wire |
| telegrapher | (noun) someone who transmits messages by telegraph | Synonyms: telegraph operator, telegraphist |
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| telegraphese | (noun) language characterized by terseness and ellipsis as in telegrams | - |
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| telegraphic | (adjective) of or relating to or transmitted by telegraph | - |
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| (adjective) having the style of a telegram with many short words left out | - |
| telegraphically | (adverb) in a short and concise manner | Synonyms: tersely |
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| telegraphist | (noun) someone who transmits messages by telegraph | Synonyms: telegraph operator, telegrapher |
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| telegraphy | (noun) apparatus used to communicate at a distance over a wire (usually in Morse code) | Synonyms: telegraph |
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| (noun) communicating at a distance by electric transmission over wire | - |
| telekinesis | (noun) the power to move something by thinking about it without the application of physical force | Synonyms: psychokinesis |
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| telemark | (noun) a turn made in skiing; the outside ski is placed ahead and turned gradually inwards | - |
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| telemarketing | (noun) the use of the telephone as an interactive medium for promotion and sales | Synonyms: telecommerce, teleselling |
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| telemeter | (noun) any scientific instrument for observing events at a distance and transmitting the information back to the observer | - |
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| telemetered | (adjective) of or pertaining to telemetry | - |
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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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| telencephalon | (noun) the anterior division of the forebrain; the cerebrum and related parts of the hypothalamus | - |
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| teleological | (adjective) of or relating to teleology | - |
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| teleologist | (noun) advocate of teleology | - |
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| teleology | (noun) (philosophy) a doctrine explaining phenomena by their ends or purposes | - |
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| teleost | (noun) a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei | Synonyms: teleost fish, teleostan |
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| teleostan | (noun) a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei | Synonyms: teleost, teleost fish |
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| telepathic | (adjective) communicating without apparent physical signals | - |
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| telepathise | (verb) communicate nonverbally by telepathy | Synonyms: telepathize |
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| telepathist | (noun) someone with the power of communicating thoughts directly | Synonyms: mental telepathist, mind reader, thought-reader |
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| (noun) a magician who seems to discern the thoughts of another person (usually by clever signals from an accomplice) | Synonyms: mind reader, thought-reader |
| telepathize | (verb) communicate nonverbally by telepathy | Synonyms: telepathise |
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| telepathy | (noun) apparent communication from one mind to another without using sensory perceptions | Synonyms: thought transference |
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| telephone | (noun) electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds | Synonyms: phone, telephone set |
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| (noun) transmitting speech at a distance | Synonyms: telephony |
| (verb) get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone | Synonyms: call, call up, phone, ring |
| telephoner | (noun) the person initiating a telephone call | Synonyms: caller-up, caller, phoner |
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| telephonic | (adjective) of or relating to telephony | - |
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