| tilde | (noun) a diacritical mark (~) placed over the letter n in Spanish to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel in Portuguese to indicate nasalization | - |
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| tile | (noun) a flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces | - |
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| (noun) game equipment consisting of a flat thin piece marked with characters and used in board games like Mah-Jong, Scrabble, etc. | - |
| (noun) a thin flat slab of fired clay used for roofing | Synonyms: roofing tile |
| (verb) cover with tiles | - |
| tiled | (adjective) covered or furnished with tiles | - |
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| tilefish | (noun) yellow-spotted violet food fish of warm deep waters | Synonyms: Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps |
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| (noun) important marine food fishes | Synonyms: blanquillo |
| tiler | (noun) a worker who lays tile | - |
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| tiling | (noun) the application of tiles to cover a surface | - |
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| till | (noun) a strongbox for holding cash | Synonyms: cashbox, money box |
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| (noun) a treasury for government funds | Synonyms: public treasury, trough |
| (noun) unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together | Synonyms: boulder clay |
| (verb) work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation | - |
| tillable | (adjective) (of farmland) capable of being farmed productively | Synonyms: arable, cultivable, cultivatable |
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| tillage | (noun) the cultivation of soil for raising crops | - |
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| (noun) arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops | Synonyms: cultivated land, farmland, ploughland, plowland, tilled land, tilth |
| tilled | (adjective) turned or stirred by plowing or harrowing or hoeing | - |
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| tiller | (noun) lever used to turn the rudder on a boat | - |
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| (noun) a farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture) | Synonyms: cultivator |
| (noun) someone who tills land (prepares the soil for the planting of crops) | - |
| (noun) a shoot that sprouts from the base of a grass | - |
| (verb) grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers | Synonyms: stool |
| tilling | (noun) cultivation of the land in order to raise crops | - |
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| tilt | (noun) pitching dangerously to one side | Synonyms: careen, rock, sway |
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| (noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical | Synonyms: inclination, lean, leaning, list |
| (noun) a slight but noticeable partiality | - |
| (noun) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | Synonyms: arguing, argument, contention, contestation, controversy, disceptation, disputation |
| (noun) a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances | Synonyms: joust |
| (verb) charge with a tilt | - |
| (verb) to incline or bend from a vertical position | Synonyms: angle, lean, slant, tip |
| (verb) heel over | Synonyms: cant, cant over, pitch, slant |
| (verb) move sideways or in an unsteady way | Synonyms: careen, shift, wobble |
| tilted | (adjective) departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal | Synonyms: atilt, canted, leaning, tipped |
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| tilter | (noun) a device for emptying a cask by tilting it without disturbing the dregs | - |
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| (noun) someone who engages in a tilt or joust | - |
| tilth | (noun) arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops | Synonyms: cultivated land, farmland, ploughland, plowland, tillage, tilled land |
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| (noun) the state of aggregation of soil and its condition for supporting plant growth | - |
| tiltyard | (noun) (formerly) an enclosed field for tilting contests | - |
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