| thievery | (noun) the act of taking something from someone unlawfully | Synonyms: larceny, stealing, theft, thieving |
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| thieving | (adjective) given to thievery | Synonyms: thievish |
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| (noun) the act of taking something from someone unlawfully | Synonyms: larceny, stealing, theft, thievery |
| thievish | (adjective) given to thievery | Synonyms: thieving |
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| thievishly | (adverb) in a manner characteristic of a thief | - |
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| thievishness | (noun) having a disposition to steal | Synonyms: larcenous |
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| thigh | (noun) the part of the leg between the hip and the knee | - |
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| (noun) the upper joint of the leg of a fowl | Synonyms: second joint |
| thighbone | (noun) the longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton; extends from the pelvis to the knee | Synonyms: femoris, femur |
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| thill | (noun) one of two shafts extending from the body of a cart or carriage on either side of the animal that pulls it | - |
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| thimble | (noun) a small metal cap to protect the finger while sewing; can be used as a small container | - |
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| (noun) as much as a thimble will hold | Synonyms: thimbleful |
| thimbleberry | (noun) raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit | Synonyms: black raspberry, blackcap, blackcap raspberry, Rubus occidentalis |
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| (noun) white-flowered raspberry of western North America and northern Mexico with thimble-shaped orange berries | Synonyms: Rubus parviflorus, salmon berry, salmonberry |
| (noun) shrubby raspberry of eastern North America having showy rose to purplish flowers and red or orange thimble-shaped fruit | Synonyms: flowering raspberry, purple-flowering raspberry, Rubus odoratus |
| thimbleful | (noun) as much as a thimble will hold | Synonyms: thimble |
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| thimblerig | (noun) a swindling sleight-of-hand game; victim guesses which of three things a pellet is under | Synonyms: shell game |
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| thimbleweed | (noun) a common North American anemone with cylindrical fruit clusters resembling thimbles | Synonyms: Anemone cylindrica |
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| thimerosal | (noun) a light-colored crystalline powder (trade name Merthiolate) used as a surgical antiseptic | Synonyms: Merthiolate, sodium ethylmercurithiosalicylate |
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| thin | (adjective) of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section | - |
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| (adjective) relatively thin in consistency or low in density; not viscous | - |
| (adjective) lacking excess flesh | Synonyms: lean |
| (adjective) (of sound) lacking resonance or volume | - |
| (adjective) not dense | Synonyms: sparse |
| (adjective) very narrow | Synonyms: slender |
| (adjective) lacking spirit or sincere effort | - |
| (adjective) lacking substance or significance | Synonyms: flimsy, fragile, slight, tenuous |
| (adverb) without viscosity | Synonyms: thinly |
| (verb) take off weight | Synonyms: melt off, reduce, slenderize, slim, slim down |
| (verb) lose thickness; become thin or thinner | - |
| (verb) make thin or thinner | - |
| (verb) lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture | Synonyms: cut, dilute, reduce, thin out |
| thing | (noun) a separate and self-contained entity | - |
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| (noun) an action | - |
| (noun) an artifact | - |
| (noun) an entity that is not named specifically | - |
| (noun) any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence | - |
| (noun) a special abstraction | - |
| (noun) a special objective | - |
| (noun) a vaguely specified concern | Synonyms: affair, matter |
| (noun) a statement regarded as an object | - |
| (noun) an event | - |
| (noun) a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion | - |
| (noun) a special situation | - |
| thingamabob | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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| thingamajig | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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| thingmabob | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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| thingmajig | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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| things | (noun) any movable possession (especially articles of clothing) | - |
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| thingumabob | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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| thingumajig | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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| thingummy | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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| think | (noun) an instance of deliberate thinking | - |
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| (verb) bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation | - |
| (verb) use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments | Synonyms: cerebrate, cogitate |
| (verb) judge or regard; look upon; judge | Synonyms: believe, conceive, consider |
| (verb) recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection | Synonyms: call back, call up, recall, recollect, remember, retrieve |
| (verb) expect, believe, or suppose | Synonyms: guess, imagine, opine, reckon, suppose |
| (verb) have in mind as a purpose | Synonyms: intend, mean |
| (verb) be capable of conscious thought | - |
| (verb) focus one's attention on a certain state | - |
| (verb) decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting | - |
| (verb) ponder; reflect on, or reason about | - |
| (verb) have or formulate in the mind | - |
| (verb) dispose the mind in a certain way | - |
| (verb) imagine or visualize | - |
| thinkable | (adjective) capable of being conceived or imagined or considered | - |
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| thinker | (noun) an important intellectual | Synonyms: creative thinker, mind |
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| (noun) someone who exercises the mind (usually in an effort to reach a decision) | - |
| thinking | (adjective) endowed with the capacity to reason | Synonyms: intelligent, reasoning |
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| (noun) the process of using your mind to consider something carefully | Synonyms: cerebration, intellection, mentation, thought, thought process |
| thinly | (adverb) without viscosity | Synonyms: thin |
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| (adverb) in a small quantity or extent | Synonyms: lightly |
| (adverb) in a widely distributed manner | - |
| (adverb) without force or sincere effort | - |
| thinned | (adjective) mixed with water | Synonyms: cut, weakened |
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| thinner | (noun) a diluting agent | Synonyms: diluent, dilutant |
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| thinness | (noun) the property of having little body fat | Synonyms: leanness, spareness |
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| (noun) relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width | Synonyms: slenderness, tenuity |
| (noun) a consistency of low viscosity | - |
| (noun) the property of being very narrow or thin | Synonyms: fineness |
| (noun) the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness | Synonyms: spareness, sparseness, sparsity |
| (noun) The property of lacking substance or strength. | - |
| thinning | (noun) the act of diluting something | Synonyms: cutting |
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| thiobacillus | (noun) small rod-shaped bacteria living in sewage or soil and oxidizing sulfur | - |
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| thiobacteria | (noun) any bacterium of the genus Thiobacillus | Synonyms: sulfur bacteria, sulphur bacteria |
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| thiocyanate | (noun) a salt of thiocyanic acid; formed when alkaline cyanides are fused with sulfur | - |
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| thiodiphenylamine | (noun) a compound used primarily in veterinary medicine to rid farm animals of internal parasites | Synonyms: phenothiazine |
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| thioguanine | (noun) an antineoplastic drug used to treat acute leukemias | - |
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| thiopental | (noun) barbiturate that is a hygroscopic powder (trade name Pentothal) that is a strong barbiturate that acts rapidly; induces a relaxed state when injected as a general anesthetic | Synonyms: Pentothal, thiopental sodium, thiopentobarbital sodium |
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| thioridazine | (noun) a tranquilizer (trade name Mellaril) used to treat schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders | Synonyms: Mellaril |
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| thiotepa | (noun) an antineoplastic drug used to treat certain malignancies | - |
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| thiothixene | (noun) a tranquilizer (trade name Navane) used to treat schizophrenia | Synonyms: Navane |
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| thiouracil | (noun) depresses the function of the thyroid gland | - |
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| third | (adjective) coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position | Synonyms: 3rd, tertiary |
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| (noun) the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the third of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate) | Synonyms: third base |
| (noun) the third from the lowest forward ratio gear in the gear box of a motor vehicle | Synonyms: third gear |
| (noun) the base that must be touched third by a base runner in baseball | Synonyms: third base |
| (noun) the musical interval between one note and another three notes away from it | - |
| (noun) one of three equal parts of a divisible whole | Synonyms: one-third, tierce |
| (noun) following the second position in an ordering or series | - |
| (adverb) in the third place | Synonyms: thirdly |
| thirdhand | (adjective) derived from what is primary or original by two intermediate steps | - |
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| (adverb) by doubly indirect means | - |
| thirdly | (adverb) in the third place | Synonyms: third |
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| thirst | (noun) strong desire for something (not food or drink) | Synonyms: hunger, hungriness, thirstiness |
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| (noun) a physiological need to drink | Synonyms: thirstiness |
| (verb) have a craving, appetite, or great desire for | Synonyms: crave, hunger, lust, starve |
| (verb) feel the need to drink | - |
| thirster | (noun) a person with a strong desire for something | Synonyms: longer, yearner |
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| thirstily | (adverb) in a thirsty manner | - |
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| (adverb) with eagerness; in an eager manner | Synonyms: eagerly |
| thirstiness | (noun) strong desire for something (not food or drink) | Synonyms: hunger, hungriness, thirst |
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| (noun) a physiological need to drink | Synonyms: thirst |
| (noun) a deficiency of moisture (especially when resulting from a permanent absence of rainfall) | Synonyms: aridity, aridness |
| thirsty | (adjective) feeling a need or desire to drink | - |
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| (adjective) able to take in large quantities of moisture | - |
| (adjective) (usually followed by `for') extremely desirous | Synonyms: athirst, hungry |
| (adjective) needing moisture | - |
| thirteen | (adjective) being one more than twelve | Synonyms: 13, xiii |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of twelve and one | Synonyms: 13, baker's dozen, long dozen, XIII |
| thirteenth | (adjective) coming next after the twelfth in position | Synonyms: 13th |
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| (noun) position 13 in a countable series of things | - |
| thirties | (noun) the time of life between 30 and 40 | Synonyms: mid-thirties, thirty-something |
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| (noun) the decade from 1930 to 1939 | Synonyms: 1930s |
| thirtieth | (adjective) coming next after the twenty-ninth in position | Synonyms: 30th |
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| (noun) position 30 in a countable series of things | - |
| thirty | (adjective) being ten more than twenty | Synonyms: 30, xxx |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the product of ten and three | Synonyms: 30, XXX |
| thistle | (noun) any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves | - |
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| thistledown | (noun) pappus of a thistle consisting of silky featherlike hairs attached to the seed-like fruit of a thistle | - |
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| thistlelike | (adjective) resembling a thistle | - |
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| thither | (adverb) to or toward that place; away from the speaker | Synonyms: there |
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| thole | (noun) a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing | Synonyms: oarlock, peg, pin, rowlock, tholepin |
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| tholepin | (noun) a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing | Synonyms: oarlock, peg, pin, rowlock, thole |
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| thong | (noun) leather strip that forms the flexible part of a whip | Synonyms: lash |
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| (noun) a thin strip of leather; often used to lash things together | - |
| (noun) a backless sandal held to the foot by a thong between the big toe and the second toe | Synonyms: flip-flop |
| (noun) minimal clothing worn by stripteasers; a narrow strip of fabric that covers the pubic area, passes between the thighs, and is supported by a waistband | Synonyms: G-string |
| (noun) underpants resembling a G-string; worn by women especially under very tight pants | - |
| thoracentesis | (noun) removal of fluid from the chest by centesis for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes | Synonyms: thoracocentesis |
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| thoracic | (adjective) of or relating to the chest or thorax | Synonyms: pectoral |
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| thoracocentesis | (noun) removal of fluid from the chest by centesis for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes | Synonyms: thoracentesis |
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| thoracotomy | (noun) surgical incision into the chest walls opening up the pleural cavity | - |
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| thorax | (noun) part of an insect's body that bears the wings and legs | - |
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| (noun) the part of the human torso between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates | Synonyms: chest, pectus |
| (noun) the middle region of the body of an arthropod between the head and the abdomen | - |
| thoriate | (verb) impregnate with thorium oxide to increase thermionic emission | - |
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| thoriated | (adjective) being or sounding of nervous or suppressed laughter | Synonyms: tittering |
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| thorite | (noun) a radioactive mineral consisting of thorium silicate; it is a source of thorium that is found in coarse granite | - |
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| thorium | (noun) a soft silvery-white tetravalent radioactive metallic element; isotope 232 is used as a power source in nuclear reactors; occurs in thorite and in monazite sands | Synonyms: atomic number 90, Th |
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| thorn | (noun) something that causes irritation and annoyance | Synonyms: irritant |
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| (noun) a Germanic character of runic origin | - |
| (noun) a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf | Synonyms: pricker, prickle, spikelet, spine, sticker |
| thornbill | (noun) any of various South American hummingbirds with a sharp pointed bill | - |
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| thorniness | (noun) the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines | Synonyms: bristliness, prickliness, spininess |
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| (noun) a rough and bitter manner | Synonyms: acerbity, acrimony, bitterness, jaundice, tartness |
| (noun) The property of being full of difficulties, complexities, or controversial points. | - |
| thornless | (adjective) lacking thorns | Synonyms: spineless |
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| thorny | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny |
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| (adjective) bristling with perplexities | - |
| thorough | (adjective) painstakingly careful and accurate | - |
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| (adjective) performed comprehensively and completely; not superficial or partial | Synonyms: exhaustive, thoroughgoing |
| (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
| thoroughbred | (adjective) having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal | Synonyms: pedigree, pedigreed, pureblood, pureblooded |
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| (noun) a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses | Synonyms: pureblood, purebred |
| (noun) a racehorse belonging to a breed that originated from a cross between Arabian stallions and English mares | - |
| (noun) a well-bred person | - |
| thoroughfare | (noun) a public road from one place to another | - |
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| thoroughgoing | (adjective) performed comprehensively and completely; not superficial or partial | Synonyms: exhaustive, thorough |
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| (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, unadulterated, utter |
| thoroughly | (adverb) in an exhaustive manner | Synonyms: exhaustively |
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| (adverb) completely and absolutely (`good' is sometimes used informally for `thoroughly') | Synonyms: good, soundly |
| thoroughness | (noun) conscientiousness in performing all aspects of a task | - |
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| (noun) property of being marked by full detail, complete in all respects. | - |
| thoroughwort | (noun) perennial herb of southeastern United States having white-rayed flower heads; formerly used as in folk medicine | Synonyms: agueweed, boneset, Eupatorium perfoliatum |
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| thortveitite | (noun) a mineral consisting of scandium yttrium silicate; a source of scandium | - |
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| thou | (noun) the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 | Synonyms: 1000, chiliad, G, grand, K, M, one thousand, thousand, yard |
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| though | (adverb) (postpositive) however | - |
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| thought | (noun) the process of using your mind to consider something carefully | Synonyms: cerebration, intellection, mentation, thinking, thought process |
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| (noun) the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about | Synonyms: idea |
| (noun) the organized beliefs of a period or group or individual | - |
| (noun) a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty | Synonyms: opinion, persuasion, sentiment, view |
| thoughtful | (adjective) exhibiting or characterized by careful thought | - |
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| (adjective) taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention | Synonyms: attentive, heedful, paying attention |
| (adjective) considerate of the feelings or well-being of others | - |
| (adjective) having intellectual depth | - |
| (adjective) characterized by solemn, sincere manner | Synonyms: serious-minded |
| thoughtfully | (adverb) showing consideration and thoughtfulness | - |
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| (adverb) in a thoughtful manner | - |
| thoughtfulness | (noun) a considerate and thoughtful act | Synonyms: consideration |
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| (noun) the trait of thinking carefully before acting | - |
| (noun) kind and considerate regard for others | Synonyms: considerateness, consideration |
| (noun) a calm, lengthy, intent consideration | Synonyms: contemplation, musing, reflection, reflexion, rumination |
| thoughtless | (adjective) showing lack of careful thought | - |
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| (adjective) without care or thought for others | Synonyms: uncaring, unthinking |
| thoughtlessly | (adverb) showing thoughtlessness | - |
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| (adverb) in a thoughtless manner | Synonyms: unthinking, unthinkingly |
| thoughtlessness | (noun) the trait of not thinking carefully before acting | Synonyms: unthoughtfulness |
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| (noun) the quality of failing to be considerate of others | Synonyms: inconsiderateness, inconsideration |
| thousand | (adjective) denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units | Synonyms: 1000, k, m, one thousand |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 | Synonyms: 1000, chiliad, G, grand, K, M, one thousand, thou, yard |
| thousandth | (adjective) the ordinal number of one thousand in counting order | Synonyms: 1000th |
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| (noun) one part in a thousand equal parts | Synonyms: one-thousandth |
| (noun) position 1,000 in a countable series of things | - |
| thraldom | (noun) the state of being under the control of another person | Synonyms: bondage, slavery, thrall, thralldom |
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| thrall | (noun) someone held in bondage | - |
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| (noun) the state of being under the control of another person | Synonyms: bondage, slavery, thraldom, thralldom |
| thralldom | (noun) the state of being under the control of another person | Synonyms: bondage, slavery, thraldom, thrall |
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| thrash | (noun) a swimming kick used while treading water | - |
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| (verb) give a thrashing to; beat hard | Synonyms: flail, lam, thresh |
| (verb) beat the seeds out of a grain | Synonyms: thresh |
| (verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: bat, clobber, cream, drub, lick |
| (verb) dance the slam dance | Synonyms: mosh, slam, slam dance |
| (verb) move or stir about violently | Synonyms: convulse, jactitate, slash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss |
| (verb) beat so fast that (the heart's) output starts dropping until (it) does not manage to pump out blood at all | - |
| (verb) move data into and out of core rather than performing useful computation | - |