| terminology | (noun) a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline | Synonyms: language, nomenclature |
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| terminus | (noun) either end of a railroad or bus route | - |
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| (noun) station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods | Synonyms: depot, terminal |
| (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: term, terminal figure |
| (noun) the ultimate goal for which something is done | Synonyms: destination |
| (noun) a place where something ends or is complete | Synonyms: end point, endpoint, termination |
| termite | (noun) whitish soft-bodied ant-like social insect that feeds on wood | Synonyms: white ant |
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| terms | (noun) the amount of money needed to purchase something | Synonyms: damage, price |
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| (noun) status with respect to the relations between people or groups | Synonyms: footing |
| tern | (noun) small slender gull having narrow wings and a forked tail | - |
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| ternary | (adjective) having three units or components or elements | Synonyms: treble, triple, triplex |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, tercet, ternion, terzetto, three, threesome, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
| ternate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) consisting of three leaflets or sections | - |
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| ternion | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, tercet, ternary, terzetto, three, threesome, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
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| terpene | (noun) an unsaturated hydrocarbon obtained from plants | - |
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| terpinene | (noun) any of a group of isomeric hydrocarbons that are classified as terpenes. | - |
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| terpsichore | (noun) taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music | Synonyms: dance, dancing, saltation |
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| terpsichorean | (adjective) of or relating to dancing | - |
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| (noun) a performer who dances professionally | Synonyms: dancer, professional dancer |
| terrace | (noun) usually paved outdoor area adjoining a residence | Synonyms: patio |
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| (noun) a row of houses built in a similar style and having common dividing walls (or the street on which they face) | - |
| (noun) a level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below) | Synonyms: bench |
| (verb) make into terraces as for cultivation | - |
| (verb) provide (a house) with a terrace | Synonyms: terrasse |
| terracotta | (noun) a hard unglazed brownish-red earthenware | Synonyms: terra cotta |
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| terrain | (noun) a piece of ground having specific characteristics or military potential | - |
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| terrapin | (noun) any of various edible North American web-footed turtles living in fresh or brackish water | - |
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| terrarium | (noun) a vivarium in which selected living plants are kept and observed | - |
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| terrasse | (verb) provide (a house) with a terrace | Synonyms: terrace |
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| terrene | (adjective) of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air | Synonyms: tellurian, telluric, terrestrial |
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| (adjective) belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly | Synonyms: mundane |
| terreplein | (noun) level space where heavy guns can be mounted behind the parapet at the top of a rampart | - |
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| terrestrial | (adjective) operating or living or growing on land | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air | Synonyms: tellurian, telluric, terrene |
| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants | Synonyms: planetary |
| (adjective) of this earth | Synonyms: sublunar, sublunary |
| (adjective) concerned with the world or worldly matters | Synonyms: mundane |
| terrestrially | (adverb) to a land environment | - |
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| (adverb) in a worldly manner | Synonyms: mundanely |
| terrible | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific |
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| (adjective) extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact | Synonyms: awful, frightful, tremendous |
| (adjective) intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality | Synonyms: severe, wicked |
| (adjective) exceptionally bad or displeasing | Synonyms: abominable, atrocious, awful, dreadful, painful, unspeakable |
| terribleness | (noun) a quality of extreme unpleasantness | Synonyms: awfulness, dreadfulness, horridness |
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| terribly | (adverb) used as intensifiers | Synonyms: awful, awfully, frightfully |
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| (adverb) in a terrible manner | Synonyms: abominably, abysmally, atrociously, awfully, rottenly |
| terrier | (noun) any of several usually small short-bodied breeds originally trained to hunt animals living underground | - |
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| terrific | (adjective) causing extreme terror | Synonyms: terrifying |
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| (adjective) extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers | Synonyms: fantastic, grand, howling, marvellous, marvelous, phenomenal, rattling, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous |
| (adjective) very great or intense | - |
| terrifically | (adverb) (used as an intensifier) excellently | Synonyms: marvellously, marvelously, superbly, toppingly, wonderfully, wondrous, wondrously |
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| terrified | (adjective) thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation | Synonyms: frightened, panic-stricken, panic-struck, panicked, panicky |
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| terrify | (verb) fill with terror; frighten greatly | Synonyms: terrorise, terrorize |
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| terrifying | (adjective) causing extreme terror | Synonyms: terrific |
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| terrine | (noun) a pate or fancy meatloaf baked in an earthenware casserole | - |
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| territorial | (adjective) belonging to the territory of any state or ruler | - |
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| (adjective) displaying territoriality; defending a territory from intruders | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to a territory | - |
| (noun) a territorial military unit | Synonyms: territorial reserve |
| (noun) nonprofessional soldier member of a territorial military unit | - |
| territorialisation | (noun) the act of organizing as a territory | Synonyms: territorialization |
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| territorialise | (verb) extend by adding territory | Synonyms: territorialize |
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| (verb) place on a territorial basis | Synonyms: territorialize |
| (verb) organize as a territory | Synonyms: territorialize |
| territoriality | (noun) the behavior of a male animal that defines and defends its territory | - |
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| territorialization | (noun) the act of organizing as a territory | Synonyms: territorialisation |
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| territorialize | (verb) extend by adding territory | Synonyms: territorialise |
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| (verb) place on a territorial basis | Synonyms: territorialise |
| (verb) organize as a territory | Synonyms: territorialise |
| territorially | (adverb) with respect to territory | - |
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| territory | (noun) an area of knowledge or interest | - |
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| (noun) a region marked off for administrative or other purposes | Synonyms: district, dominion, territorial dominion |
| (noun) the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state | Synonyms: soil |
| terror | (noun) the use of extreme fear in order to coerce people (especially for political reasons) | - |
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| (noun) an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety | Synonyms: affright, panic |
| (noun) a very troublesome child | Synonyms: brat, holy terror, little terror |
| (noun) a person who inspires fear or dread | Synonyms: scourge, threat |
| terrorisation | (noun) the act of inspiring with fear | Synonyms: frightening, terrorization |
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| (noun) an act of terrorism | Synonyms: terrorization |
| terrorise | (verb) fill with terror; frighten greatly | Synonyms: terrify, terrorize |
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| (verb) coerce by violence or with threats | Synonyms: terrorize |
| terrorism | (noun) the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear | Synonyms: act of terrorism, terrorist act |
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| terrorist | (noun) a radical who employs terror as a political weapon; usually organizes with other terrorists in small cells; often uses religion as a cover for terrorist activities | - |
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| terrorization | (noun) the act of inspiring with fear | Synonyms: frightening, terrorisation |
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| (noun) an act of terrorism | Synonyms: terrorisation |
| terrorize | (verb) fill with terror; frighten greatly | Synonyms: terrify, terrorise |
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| (verb) coerce by violence or with threats | Synonyms: terrorise |
| terry | (noun) a pile fabric (usually cotton) with uncut loops on both sides; used to make bath towels and bath robes | Synonyms: terry cloth, terrycloth |
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| terrycloth | (noun) a pile fabric (usually cotton) with uncut loops on both sides; used to make bath towels and bath robes | Synonyms: terry, terry cloth |
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| terse | (adjective) brief and to the point; effectively cut short | Synonyms: crisp, curt, laconic |
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| tersely | (adverb) in a short and concise manner | Synonyms: telegraphically |
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| terseness | (noun) a neatly short and concise expressive style | - |
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| tertian | (adjective) relating to symptoms (especially malarial fever) that appear every other day | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a tonal system based on major thirds | - |
| tertiary | (adjective) coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position | Synonyms: 3rd, third |
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| tertigravida | (noun) a woman who is pregnant for the third time | Synonyms: gravida III |
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| terzetto | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, tercet, ternary, ternion, three, threesome, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
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| tesla | (noun) a unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter | - |
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| tessella | (noun) a small tessera | - |
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| tessellate | (verb) tile with tesserae | - |
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| (verb) fit together exactly, of identical shapes | - |
| tessellated | (adjective) decorated with small pieces of colored glass or stone fitted together in a mosaic | - |
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| (adjective) having a checkered or mottled appearance | - |
| tessellation | (noun) the act of adorning with mosaic | - |
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| (noun) the careful juxtaposition of shapes in a pattern | - |
| tessera | (noun) a small square tile of stone or glass used in making mosaics | - |
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| tesseract | (noun) the four-dimensional analogue of a cube | - |
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| test | (noun) the act of testing something | Synonyms: run, trial |
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| (noun) any standardized procedure for measuring sensitivity or memory or intelligence or aptitude or personality etc | Synonyms: mental test, mental testing, psychometric test |
| (noun) the act of undergoing testing | Synonyms: trial |
| (noun) a hard outer covering as of some amoebas and sea urchins | - |
| (noun) trying something to find out about it | Synonyms: trial, trial run, tryout |
| (noun) a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge | Synonyms: exam, examination |
| (verb) undergo a test | - |
| (verb) examine someone's knowledge of something | Synonyms: quiz |
| (verb) determine the presence or properties of (a substance) | - |
| (verb) achieve a certain score or rating on a test | - |
| (verb) put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to | Synonyms: essay, examine, prove, try, try out |
| (verb) test or examine for the presence of disease or infection | Synonyms: screen |
| (verb) show a certain characteristic when tested | - |
| testa | (noun) protective outer layer of seeds of flowering plants | Synonyms: episperm, seed coat |
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| testacean | (noun) any of various rhizopods of the order Testacea characterized by having a shell | - |
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| testaceous | (adjective) relating to or possessing a testa or hard shell | - |
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| testament | (noun) a profession of belief | - |
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| (noun) a legal document declaring a person's wishes regarding the disposal of their property when they die | Synonyms: will |
| (noun) strong evidence for something | - |
| testamentary | (adjective) of or relating to a will or testament or bequeathed by a will or testament | - |
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| testate | (adjective) having made a legally valid will before death | - |
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| (noun) a person who makes a will | Synonyms: testator |
| testator | (noun) a person who makes a will | Synonyms: testate |
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| testatrix | (noun) a female testator | - |
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| testcross | (noun) a cross between an organism whose genotype for a certain trait is unknown and an organism that is homozygous recessive for that trait so the unknown genotype can be determined from that of the offspring | Synonyms: test-cross |
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| tested | (adjective) tested and proved useful or correct | Synonyms: tried, well-tried |
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| (adjective) tested and proved to be reliable | Synonyms: time-tested, tried, tried and true |
| testee | (noun) someone who is tested (as by an intelligence test or an academic examination) | Synonyms: examinee |
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| tester | (noun) a flat canopy (especially one over a four-poster bed) | - |
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| (noun) someone who administers a test to determine your qualifications | Synonyms: examiner, quizzer |
| testicle | (noun) one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens | Synonyms: ball, ballock, bollock, egg, nut, orchis, testis |
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| testicular | (adjective) of or involving the testes | - |
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| testiere | (noun) medieval plate armor to protect a horse's head | Synonyms: chamfron, chanfron, front-stall, frontstall |
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| testifier | (noun) a person who testifies or gives a deposition | Synonyms: deponent, deposer |
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| testify | (verb) give testimony in a court of law | Synonyms: attest, bear witness, take the stand |
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| (verb) provide evidence for | Synonyms: bear witness, evidence, prove, show |
| testily | (adverb) in a petulant manner | Synonyms: irritably, pettishly, petulantly |
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| testimonial | (adjective) of or relating to or constituting testimony | - |
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| (adjective) expressing admiration or appreciation | - |
| (noun) something that recommends (or expresses commendation of) a person or thing as worthy or desirable | Synonyms: good word, recommendation |
| (noun) something given or done as an expression of esteem | Synonyms: tribute |
| (noun) something that serves as evidence | Synonyms: testimony |
| testimony | (noun) a solemn statement made under oath | - |
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| (noun) an assertion offering firsthand authentication of a fact | - |
| (noun) something that serves as evidence | Synonyms: testimonial |
| testiness | (noun) feeling easily irritated | Synonyms: tetchiness, touchiness |
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| testing | (noun) the act of subjecting to experimental test in order to determine how well something works | - |
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| (noun) the act of giving students or candidates a test (as by questions) to determine what they know or have learned | Synonyms: examination |
| (noun) an examination of the characteristics of something | - |
| testis | (noun) one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens | Synonyms: ball, ballock, bollock, egg, nut, orchis, testicle |
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| testosterone | (noun) a potent androgenic hormone produced chiefly by the testes; responsible for the development of male secondary sex characteristics | - |
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| testudo | (noun) a movable protective covering that provided protection from above; used by Roman troops when approaching the walls of a besieged fortification | - |
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| testy | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, tetchy |
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| tetanic | (adjective) of or relating to or causing tetanus | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or causing tetany | - |
| tetanilla | (noun) clinical neurological syndrome characterized by muscular twitching and cramps and (when severe) seizures; associated with calcium deficiency (hypoparathyroidism) or vitamin D deficiency or alkalosis | Synonyms: apyretic tetanus, intermittent cramp, intermittent tetanus, tetany |
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| tetanus | (noun) a sustained muscular contraction resulting from a rapid series of nerve impulses | - |
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| (noun) an acute and serious infection of the central nervous system caused by bacterial infection of open wounds; spasms of the jaw and laryngeal muscles may occur during the late stages | Synonyms: lockjaw |
| tetany | (noun) clinical neurological syndrome characterized by muscular twitching and cramps and (when severe) seizures; associated with calcium deficiency (hypoparathyroidism) or vitamin D deficiency or alkalosis | Synonyms: apyretic tetanus, intermittent cramp, intermittent tetanus, tetanilla |
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| tetartanopia | (noun) a form of dichromacy characterized by lowered sensitivity to yellow light; so rare that its existence has been questioned | Synonyms: yellow-blindness |
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| tetchily | (adverb) in an ill-natured and tetchy manner | - |
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| tetchiness | (noun) feeling easily irritated | Synonyms: testiness, touchiness |
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| tetchy | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy |
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| teth | (noun) the 9th letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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| tether | (noun) restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal | Synonyms: lead, leash |
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| (verb) tie with a tether | - |