| tam | (noun) a woolen cap of Scottish origin | Synonyms: tam-o'-shanter, tammy |
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| tamable | (adjective) capable of being tamed | Synonyms: tameable |
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| tamal | (noun) dough stuffed with a meat mixture and sometimes wrapped in corn husks and steamed | Synonyms: tamale |
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| tamale | (noun) dough stuffed with a meat mixture and sometimes wrapped in corn husks and steamed | Synonyms: tamal |
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| 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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| tamandua | (noun) small toothless anteater with prehensile tail and four-clawed forelimbs; of tropical South America and Central America | Synonyms: lesser anteater, tamandu, Tamandua tetradactyla |
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| tamanoir | (noun) large shaggy-haired toothless anteater with long tongue and powerful claws; of South America | Synonyms: ant bear, giant anteater, great anteater, Myrmecophaga jubata |
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| tamarack | (noun) medium-sized larch of Canada and northern United States including Alaska having a broad conic crown and rust-brown scaly bark | Synonyms: American larch, black larch, Larix laricina |
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| tamarao | (noun) small buffalo of Mindoro in the Philippines | Synonyms: Anoa mindorensis, Bubalus mindorensis, tamarau |
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| tamarau | (noun) small buffalo of Mindoro in the Philippines | Synonyms: Anoa mindorensis, Bubalus mindorensis, tamarao |
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| tamarillo | (noun) South American arborescent shrub having pale pink blossoms followed by egg-shaped reddish-brown edible fruit somewhat resembling a tomato | Synonyms: tree tomato |
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| tamarin | (noun) small South American marmoset with silky fur and long nonprehensile tail | Synonyms: leoncita, lion marmoset, lion monkey |
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| tamarind | (noun) large tropical seed pod with very tangy pulp that is eaten fresh or cooked with rice and fish or preserved for curries and chutneys | Synonyms: tamarindo |
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| (noun) long-lived tropical evergreen tree with a spreading crown and feathery evergreen foliage and fragrant flowers yielding hard yellowish wood and long pods with edible chocolate-colored acidic pulp | Synonyms: tamarind tree, tamarindo, Tamarindus indica |
| tamarindo | (noun) large tropical seed pod with very tangy pulp that is eaten fresh or cooked with rice and fish or preserved for curries and chutneys | Synonyms: tamarind |
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| (noun) long-lived tropical evergreen tree with a spreading crown and feathery evergreen foliage and fragrant flowers yielding hard yellowish wood and long pods with edible chocolate-colored acidic pulp | Synonyms: tamarind, tamarind tree, Tamarindus indica |
| tamarisk | (noun) any shrub or small tree of the genus Tamarix having small scalelike or needle-shaped leaves and feathery racemes of small white or pinkish flowers; of mostly coastal areas with saline soil | - |
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| tambac | (noun) an alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding | Synonyms: tombac, tombak |
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| tambala | (noun) 100 tambala equal 1 kwacha in Malawi | - |
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| tambour | (noun) a drum | - |
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| (noun) a frame made of two hoops; used for embroidering | Synonyms: embroidery frame, embroidery hoop |
| tambourine | (noun) a shallow drum with a single drumhead and with metallic disks in the sides | - |
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| tame | (adjective) brought from wildness into a domesticated state | Synonyms: tamed |
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| (adjective) very restrained or quiet | - |
| (adjective) very docile | Synonyms: meek |
| (adjective) flat and uninspiring | - |
| (verb) correct by punishment or discipline | Synonyms: chasten, subdue |
| (verb) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment | Synonyms: cultivate, domesticate, naturalise, naturalize |
| (verb) make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans | Synonyms: domesticate |
| (verb) overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable | Synonyms: domesticate, domesticise, domesticize, reclaim |
| (verb) make less strong or intense; soften | Synonyms: moderate, tone down |
| tameable | (adjective) capable of being tamed | Synonyms: tamable |
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| tamed | (adjective) brought from wildness into a domesticated state | Synonyms: tame |
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| (adjective) brought from wildness | - |
| tamely | (adverb) in a tame manner | - |
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| tameness | (noun) the attribute of having been domesticated | Synonyms: domestication |
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| (noun) the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated | Synonyms: jejuneness, jejunity, vapidity, vapidness |
| tamer | (noun) an animal trainer who tames wild animals | - |
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| tammy | (noun) plain-woven (often glazed) fabric of wool or wool and cotton used especially formerly for linings and garments and curtains | - |
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| (noun) a woolen cap of Scottish origin | Synonyms: tam-o'-shanter, tam |
| tamoxifen | (noun) an antagonist for estrogen that is used in the treatment of breast cancer | Synonyms: estrogen antagonist |
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| tamp | (noun) a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.) | Synonyms: tamper, tamping bar |
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| (verb) press down tightly | Synonyms: pack, tamp down |
| tamper | (noun) a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.) | Synonyms: tamp, tamping bar |
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| (verb) play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly | Synonyms: fiddle, monkey |
| (verb) intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly | Synonyms: meddle |
| tampering | (noun) the act of altering something secretly or improperly | Synonyms: meddling |
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| tampion | (noun) plug for the muzzle of a gun to keep out dust and moisture | Synonyms: tompion |
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| tampon | (noun) plug of cotton or other absorbent material; inserted into wound or body cavity to absorb exuded fluids (especially blood) | - |
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| (verb) plug with a tampon | - |
| tamponade | (noun) blockage or closure (as of a wound or body cavity) by (or as if by) a tampon (especially to stop bleeding) | Synonyms: tamponage |
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| tamponage | (noun) blockage or closure (as of a wound or body cavity) by (or as if by) a tampon (especially to stop bleeding) | Synonyms: tamponade |
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