| tub | (noun) a large open vessel for holding or storing liquids | Synonyms: vat |
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| (noun) a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body | Synonyms: bathing tub, bathtub |
| (noun) the amount that a tub will hold | Synonyms: tubful |
| tuba | (noun) the lowest brass wind instrument | Synonyms: bass horn, sousaphone |
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| tubal | (adjective) of or relating to occurring in a tube such as e.g. the Fallopian tube or Eustachian tube | - |
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| tubbiness | (noun) the property of having a plump and round body | Synonyms: chubbiness, pudginess, rolypoliness |
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| tubby | (adjective) short and plump | Synonyms: dumpy, podgy, pudgy, roly-poly |
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| tube | (noun) conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases | Synonyms: tubing |
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| (noun) an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city) | Synonyms: metro, subway, subway system, underground |
| (noun) electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope | Synonyms: electron tube, thermionic tube, thermionic vacuum tube, thermionic valve, vacuum tube |
| (noun) (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure | Synonyms: tube-shaped structure |
| (noun) a hollow cylindrical shape | Synonyms: pipe |
| (verb) place or enclose in a tube | - |
| (verb) convey in a tube | - |
| (verb) ride or float on an inflated tube | - |
| (verb) provide with a tube or insert a tube into | - |
| tubed | (adjective) of a tire; having an inner tube | - |
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| tubeless | (adjective) of a tire; not needing an inner tube | - |
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| (noun) pneumatic tire not needing an inner tube to be airtight | Synonyms: tubeless tire |
| tubelike | (adjective) constituting a tube; having hollow tubes (as for the passage of fluids) | Synonyms: cannular, tube-shaped, tubular, vasiform |
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| tuber | (noun) a fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage | - |
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| tubercle | (noun) a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament | Synonyms: eminence, tuberosity |
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| (noun) small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant | Synonyms: nodule |
| (noun) a swelling that is the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis | - |
| tubercular | (adjective) relating to tuberculosis or those suffering from it | - |
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| (adjective) pertaining to or of the nature of a normal tuberosity or tubercle | - |
| (adjective) characterized by the presence of tuberculosis lesions or tubercles | - |
| (adjective) constituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus | Synonyms: tuberculous |
| (noun) a person with pulmonary tuberculosis | Synonyms: consumptive, lunger |
| tuberculate | (adjective) covered with tubercles | - |
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| tuberculin | (noun) a sterile liquid containing a purified protein derivative of the tuberculosis bacterium; used in the diagnosis of tuberculosis | - |
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| tuberculoid | (adjective) resembling tuberculosis | - |
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| tuberculosis | (noun) infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages) | Synonyms: T.B., TB |
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| tuberculous | (adjective) constituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus | Synonyms: tubercular |
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| tuberose | (noun) a tuberous Mexican herb having grasslike leaves and cultivated for its spikes of highly fragrant lily-like waxy white flowers | Synonyms: Polianthes tuberosa |
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| tuberosity | (noun) a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament | Synonyms: eminence, tubercle |
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| tuberous | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a tuber | - |
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| tubful | (noun) the amount that a tub will hold | Synonyms: tub |
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| tubing | (noun) conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases | Synonyms: tube |
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| tubocurarine | (noun) a toxic alkaloid found in certain tropical South American trees that is a powerful relaxant for striated muscles | Synonyms: curare |
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| tubular | (adjective) constituting a tube; having hollow tubes (as for the passage of fluids) | Synonyms: cannular, tube-shaped, tubelike, vasiform |
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| tubule | (noun) a small tube | - |
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