| tenement | (noun) a run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards | Synonyms: tenement house |
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| tenesmus | (noun) painful spasm of the anal sphincter along with an urgent desire to defecate without the significant production of feces; associated with irritable bowel syndrome | - |
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| tenet | (noun) a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof | Synonyms: dogma |
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| tenfold | (adjective) containing ten or ten parts | Synonyms: denary, ten-fold |
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| (adverb) by ten times as much | - |
| tenge | (noun) the basic unit of money in Kazakhstan | - |
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| (noun) 100 tenge equal 1 manat in Turkmenistan | - |
| tenia | (noun) a narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband | Synonyms: fillet, taenia |
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| tenner | (noun) a United States bill worth 10 dollars | Synonyms: ten dollar bill |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system | Synonyms: 10, decade, ten, X |
| tennis | (noun) a game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a ball back and forth over a net that divides the court | Synonyms: lawn tennis |
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| tenno | (noun) the emperor of Japan; when regarded as a religious leader the emperor is called tenno | Synonyms: mikado |
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| tenon | (noun) a projection at the end of a piece of wood that is shaped to fit into a mortise and form a mortise joint | - |
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| tenonitis | (noun) inflammation of a tendon | Synonyms: tendinitis, tendonitis |
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| tenor | (adjective) of or close in range to the highest natural adult male voice | - |
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| (adjective) (of a musical instrument) intermediate between alto and baritone or bass | - |
| (noun) the pitch range of the highest male voice | - |
| (noun) the general meaning or substance of an utterance | Synonyms: strain |
| (noun) a settled or prevailing or habitual course of a person's life | - |
| (noun) the adult male singing voice above baritone | Synonyms: tenor voice |
| (noun) an adult male with a tenor voice | - |
| tenorist | (noun) a musician who plays the tenor saxophone | Synonyms: tenor saxophonist |
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| tenoroon | (noun) a tenor bassoon; pitched a fifth higher than the ordinary bassoon | - |
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| tenosynovitis | (noun) inflammation of a tendon and its enveloping sheath | Synonyms: tendonous synovitis, tendosynovitis |
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| tenpence | (noun) a decimal coin worth ten pennies | - |
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| tenpin | (noun) one of the bottle-shaped pins used in bowling | - |
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| tenpins | (noun) bowling down an alley at a target of ten wooden pins | Synonyms: tenpin bowling |
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| tenpounder | (noun) game fish resembling the tarpon but smaller | Synonyms: Elops saurus, ladyfish |
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| tenrec | (noun) small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar; resembles a hedgehog | Synonyms: tendrac |
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| tense | (adjective) taut or rigid; stretched tight | - |
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| (adjective) pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat') | - |
| (adjective) in or of a state of physical or nervous tension | - |
| (noun) a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time | - |
| (verb) cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious | Synonyms: strain, tense up |
| (verb) become tense, nervous, or uneasy | Synonyms: tense up |
| (verb) increase the tension on | - |
| (verb) become stretched or tense or taut | Synonyms: strain |
| tensed | (adjective) having inflections to indicate tense | - |
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| tensely | (adverb) in a tense manner | - |
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| tenseness | (noun) the physical condition of being stretched or strained | Synonyms: tautness, tension, tensity |
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| (noun) (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense | Synonyms: stress, tension |
| tensile | (adjective) of or relating to tension | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out | Synonyms: ductile, malleable, pliable, pliant, tractile |
| tensimeter | (noun) a manometer for measuring vapor pressure | - |
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| tensiometer | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring the surface tension of a liquid | - |
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| (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring the tension in a wire or fiber or beam | - |
| (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring the moisture content of soil | - |
| tension | (noun) the action of stretching something tight | - |
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| (noun) (physics) a stress that produces an elongation of an elastic physical body | - |
| (noun) feelings of hostility that are not manifest | Synonyms: latent hostility |
| (noun) the physical condition of being stretched or strained | Synonyms: tautness, tenseness, tensity |
| (noun) a balance between and interplay of opposing elements or tendencies (especially in art or literature) | - |
| (noun) (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense | Synonyms: stress, tenseness |
| tensional | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by tension | - |
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| tensionless | (adjective) free from tension | - |
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| tensity | (noun) the physical condition of being stretched or strained | Synonyms: tautness, tenseness, tension |
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| tensor | (noun) any of several muscles that cause an attached structure to become tense or firm | - |
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| (noun) a generalization of the concept of a vector | - |
| tent | (noun) a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs) | Synonyms: collapsible shelter |
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| (noun) a web that resembles a tent or carpet | - |
| (verb) live in or as if in a tent | Synonyms: bivouac, camp, camp out, encamp |
| tentacle | (noun) any of various elongated tactile or prehensile flexible organs that occur on the head or near the mouth in many animals; used for feeling or grasping or locomotion | - |
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| (noun) something that acts like a tentacle in its ability to grasp and hold | - |
| tentacled | (adjective) having tentacles | - |
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| tentacular | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling tentacles | - |
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| tentative | (adjective) under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon | Synonyms: probationary, provisional, provisionary |
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| (adjective) unsettled in mind or opinion | Synonyms: doubtful |
| tentatively | (adverb) in a tentative manner | - |
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| tenter | (noun) a framework with hooks used for stretching and drying cloth | - |
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| tenterhook | (noun) one of a series of hooks used to hold cloth on a tenter | - |
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| tenth | (adjective) coming next after the ninth and just before the eleventh in position | Synonyms: 10th |
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| (noun) a tenth part; one part in ten equal parts | Synonyms: one-tenth, ten percent, tenth part |
| (noun) position ten in a countable series of things | - |
| tenthly | (adverb) (in enumerating something, such as topics or points of discussion) in the tenth place | - |
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| tenting | (noun) the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp | Synonyms: bivouacking, camping, encampment |
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| tentmaker | (noun) someone who makes or repairs tents | - |
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| tentorium | (noun) (anatomy) a fold of dura mater that covers the cerebellum and supports the occipital lobes of the cerebrum | - |
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| tenuity | (noun) a rarified quality | Synonyms: low density, rarity |
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| (noun) the quality of lacking intensity or substance | Synonyms: feebleness |
| (noun) relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width | Synonyms: slenderness, thinness |
| tenuous | (adjective) lacking substance or significance | Synonyms: flimsy, fragile, slight, thin |
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| (adjective) very thin in gauge or diameter | - |
| (adjective) having thin consistency | - |
| tenuously | (adverb) in a tenuous manner | - |
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| tenure | (noun) the right to hold property; part of an ancient hierarchical system of holding lands | Synonyms: land tenure |
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| (noun) the term during which some position is held | Synonyms: incumbency, term of office |
| (verb) give life-time employment to | - |
| tenured | (adjective) appointed for life and not subject to dismissal except for a grave crime | - |
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| tepal | (noun) an undifferentiated part of a perianth that cannot be distinguished as a sepal or a petal (as in lilies and tulips) | - |
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| tepee | (noun) a Native American tent; usually of conical shape | Synonyms: teepee, tipi |
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| tepid | (adjective) feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm | Synonyms: half-hearted, halfhearted, lukewarm |
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| (adjective) moderately warm | Synonyms: lukewarm |
| tepidity | (noun) a warmness resembling the temperature of the skin | Synonyms: lukewarmness, tepidness |
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| tepidly | (adverb) in an unenthusiastically lukewarm manner | Synonyms: lukewarmly |
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| tepidness | (noun) a warmness resembling the temperature of the skin | Synonyms: lukewarmness, tepidity |
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| (noun) lack of passion, force or animation | Synonyms: lukewarmness |
| tequila | (noun) Mexican liquor made from fermented juices of an agave plant | - |
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| terabit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 gigabits or 10^12 (1,000,000,000,000) bits | Synonyms: Tb, Tbit |
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| terabyte | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 gibibytes or 2^40 (1,099,511,627,776) bytes | Synonyms: TB, tebibyte, TiB |
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| (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 gigabytes or 10^12 (1,000,000,000,000) bytes | Synonyms: TB |
| teraflop | (noun) (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system, with 1 teraflop being one trillion floating point operations per second | Synonyms: trillion floating point operations per second |
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| terahertz | (noun) one trillion periods per second | Synonyms: THz |
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| teras | (noun) (medicine) a grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus | Synonyms: monster |
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| teratogen | (noun) any agent that interferes with normal embryonic development: alcohol or thalidomide or X-rays or rubella are examples | - |
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| teratogenesis | (noun) the development of defects in an embryo | - |
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| teratogenic | (adjective) of or relating to substances or agents that can interfere with normal embryonic development | - |
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| teratology | (noun) the branch of biology concerned with the development of malformations or serious deviations from the normal type of organism | - |
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| teratoma | (noun) a tumor consisting of a mixture of tissues not normally found at that site | - |
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| teraton | (noun) a measure of the strength of an explosion or a bomb based on how many trillion tons of TNT would be needed to produce the same energy. | - |
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| terazosin | (noun) antihypertensive drug (trade name Hytrin) used to treat high blood pressure | Synonyms: Hytrin |
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| terbinafine | (noun) an oral antifungal drug (trade name Lamisil) used to treat cases of fungal nail disease | Synonyms: Lamisil |
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| terbium | (noun) a metallic element of the rare earth group; used in lasers; occurs in apatite and monazite and xenotime and ytterbite | Synonyms: atomic number 65, Tb |
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| terce | (noun) the third canonical hour; about 9 a.m. | Synonyms: tierce |
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| tercel | (noun) male hawk especially male peregrine or gyrfalcon | Synonyms: tercelet, tiercel |
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| tercelet | (noun) male hawk especially male peregrine or gyrfalcon | Synonyms: tercel, tiercel |
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| tercentenary | (noun) the 300th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: tercentennial, triennial |
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| tercentennial | (noun) the 300th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: tercentenary, triennial |
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| tercet | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, ternary, ternion, terzetto, three, threesome, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
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| terebinth | (noun) a Mediterranean tree yielding Chian turpentine | Synonyms: Pistacia terebinthus |
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| teredinid | (noun) wormlike marine bivalve that bores into wooden piers and ships by means of drill-like shells | Synonyms: shipworm |
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| teredo | (noun) typical shipworm | - |
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| terefah | (adjective) not conforming to dietary laws | Synonyms: nonkosher, tref |
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| teres | (noun) either of two muscles in the shoulder region that move the shoulders and arms | Synonyms: teres muscle |
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| terete | (adjective) especially of plant parts; cylindrical and tapering | - |
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| tergiversate | (verb) abandon one's beliefs or allegiances | Synonyms: apostatise, apostatize |
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| (verb) be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information | Synonyms: beat around the bush, equivocate, palter, prevaricate |
| tergiversation | (noun) falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language | Synonyms: equivocation |
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| (noun) the act of abandoning a party for cause | Synonyms: apostasy |
| tergiversator | (noun) a respondent who avoids giving a clear direct answer | Synonyms: equivocator, hedger |
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| teriyaki | (noun) beef or chicken or seafood marinated in spicy soy sauce and grilled or broiled | - |
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| term | (noun) (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome | Synonyms: terminal figure, terminus |
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| (noun) any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial | - |
| (noun) a word or expression used for some particular thing | - |
| (noun) one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition | - |
| (noun) (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement | Synonyms: condition, strings |
| (noun) a limited period of time | - |
| (noun) the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent | Synonyms: full term |
| (verb) name formally or designate with a term | - |
| termagant | (noun) a scolding nagging bad-tempered woman | Synonyms: shrew |
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| termer | (noun) a person who serves a specified term | - |
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| terminable | (adjective) capable of being terminated after a designated time | - |
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| terminal | (adjective) being or situated at an end | Synonyms: endmost |
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| (adjective) relating to or occurring in a term or fixed period of time | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to or situated at the ends of a delivery route | - |
| (adjective) occurring at or forming an end or termination | Synonyms: concluding, final, last |
| (adjective) causing or ending in or approaching death | - |
| (noun) station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods | Synonyms: depot, terminus |
| (noun) a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves | Synonyms: pole |
| (noun) electronic equipment consisting of a device providing access to a computer; has a keyboard and display | - |
| (noun) either extremity of something that has length | Synonyms: end |
| terminality | (noun) The quality or state of being fatal, of resulting in death. | - |
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| terminally | (adverb) at the end | - |
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| terminate | (verb) bring to an end or halt | Synonyms: end |
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| (verb) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position | Synonyms: can, dismiss, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away |
| (verb) have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical | Synonyms: cease, end, finish, stop |
| (verb) be the end of; be the last or concluding part of | Synonyms: end |
| terminated | (adjective) (of e.g. a contract or term of office) having come to an end | - |
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| (adjective) having come or been brought to a conclusion | Synonyms: all over, complete, concluded, ended, over |
| termination | (noun) the act of ending something | Synonyms: conclusion, ending |
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| (noun) the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme) | Synonyms: ending |
| (noun) something that results | Synonyms: final result, outcome, result, resultant |
| (noun) a place where something ends or is complete | Synonyms: end point, endpoint, terminus |
| (noun) a coming to an end of a contract period | Synonyms: expiration, expiry |
| terminative | (adjective) coming to an end | - |
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| terminator | (noun) someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects) | Synonyms: eradicator, exterminator |
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| terminological | (adjective) of or concerning terminology | - |
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