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tableau: n. An arrangement of inanimate figures representing a scene from real life.
tacit: adj. Understood.
taciturn: adj. Disinclined to conversation.
tack: n. A small sharp-pointed nail.
tact: n. Fine or ready mental discernment shown in saying or doing the proper thing.
tactician: n. One who directs affairs with skill and shrewdness.
tactics: n. Any maneuvering or adroit management for effecting an object.
tangency: n. The state of touching.
tangent: adj. Touching.
tangible: adj. Perceptible by touch.
tannery: n. A place where leather is tanned.
tantalize: v. To tease.
tantamount: adj. Having equal or equivalent value, effect, or import.
tapestry: n. A fabric to which a pattern is applied with a needle, designed for ornamental hangings.
tarnish: v. To lessen or destroy the luster of in any way.
taut: adj. Stretched tight.
taxation: n. A levy, by government, of a fixed contribution.
taxidermy: n. The art or process of preserving dead animals or parts of them.
technic: adj. Technical.
technicality: n. Something peculiar to a particular art, trade, or the like.
technique: n. Manner of performance.
technography: n. The scientific description or study of human arts and industries in their historic development.
technology: n. The knowledge relating to industries and manufactures.
teem: v. To be full to overflowing.
telepathy: n. Thought-transference.
telephony: n. The art or process of communicating by telephone.
telescope: v. To drive together so that one slides into the another like the sections of a spy-glass.
telltale: adj. That gives warning or information.
temerity: n. Recklessness.
temporal: adj. Pertaining to or concerned with the affairs of the present life.
temporary: adj. Lasting for a short time only.
temporize: v. To pursue a policy of delay.
tempt: v. To offer to (somebody) an inducement to do wrong.
tempter: n. An allurer or enticer to evil.
tenacious: adj. Unyielding.
tenant: n. An occupant.
tendency: n. Direction or inclination, as toward some objector end.
tenet: n. Any opinion, principle, dogma, or doctrine that a person believes or maintains as true.
tenor: n. A settled course or manner of progress.
tense: adj. Strained to stiffness.
tentative: adj. Done as an experiment.
tenure: n. The term during which a thing is held.
tercentenary: adj. Pertaining to a period of 300 years.
termagant: adj. Violently abusive and quarrelsome.
terminal: adj. Pertaining to or creative of a boundary, limit.
terminate: v. To put an end or stop to.
termination: n. The act of ending or concluding.
terminus: n. The final point or goal.
terrify: v. To fill with extreme fear.
territorial: adj. Pertaining to the domain over which a sovereign state exercises jurisdiction.
terse: adj. Pithy.
testament: n. A will.
testator: n. The maker of a will.
testimonial: n. A formal token of regard, often presented in public.
thearchy: n. Government by a supreme deity.
theism: n. Belief in God.
theocracy: n. A government administered by ecclesiastics.
theocrasy: n. The mixed worship of polytheism.
theologian: n. A professor of divinity.
theological: adj. Based on or growing out of divine revelation.
theology: n. The branch of theological science that treats of God.
theoretical: adj. Directed toward knowledge for its own sake without respect to applications.
theorist: n. One given to speculating.
theorize: v. To speculate.
thereabout: adv. Near that number, quantity, degree, place, or time, approximately.
therefor: adv. For that or this.
thermal: adj. Of or pertaining to heat.
thermoelectric: adj. Denoting electricity produced by heat.
thermoelectricity: n. Electricity generated by differences of temperature,
thesis: n. An essay or treatise on a particular subject.
thoroughbred: adj. Bred from the best or purest blood or stock.
thoroughfare: n. A public street or road.
thrall: n. One controlled by an appetite or a passion.
tilth: n. Cultivation.
timbre: n. The quality of a tone, as distinguished from intensity and pitch.
timorous: adj. Lacking courage.
tincture: n. A solution, usually alcoholic, of some principle used in medicine.
tinge: n. A faint trace of color.
tipsy: adj. Befuddled with drinks.
tirade: n. Harangue.
tireless: adj. Untiring.
tiresome: adj. Wearisome.
Titanic: adj. Of vast size or strength.
toilsome: adj. Laborious.
tolerable: adj. Moderately good.
tolerance: n. Forbearance in judging of the acts or opinions of others.
tolerant: adj. Indulgent.
tolerate: v. To passively permit or put up with.
toleration: n. A spirit of charitable leniency.
topography: n. The art of representing on a map the physical features of any locality or region with accuracy.
torpor: n. Apathy.
torrid: adj. Excessively hot.
tortious: adj. Wrongful.
tortuous: adj. Abounding in irregular bends or turns.
torturous: adj. Marked by extreme suffering.
tractable: adj. Easily led or controlled.
trait: n. A distinguishing feature or quality.
trajectory: n. The path described by a projectile moving under given forces.
trammel: n. An impediment.
tranquil: adj. Calm.
tranquility: n. Calmness.
tranquilize: v. To soothe.
transact: v. To do business.
transalpine: adj. Situated on the other side of the Alps.
transatlantic: adj. Situated beyond or on the other side of the Atlantic.
transcend: v. To surpass.
transcendent: adj. Surpassing.
transcontinental: adj. Extending or passing across a continent.
transcribe: v. To write over again (something already written)
transcript: n. A copy made directly from an original.
transfer: v. To convey, remove, or cause to pass from one person or place to another.
transferable: adj. Capable of being conveyed from one person or place to another.
transferee: n. The person to whom a transfer is made.
transference: n. The act of conveying from one person or place to another.
transferrer: n. One who or that which conveys from one person or place to another.
transfigure: v. To give an exalted meaning or glorified appearance to.
transfuse: v. To pour or cause to pass, as a fluid, from one vessel to another.
transfusible: adj. Capable of being poured from one vessel to another.
transfusion: n. The act of pouring from one vessel to another.
transgress: v. To break a law.
transience: n. Something that is of short duration.
transient: n. One who or that which is only of temporary existence.
transition: n. Passage from one place, condition, or action to another.
transitory: adj. Existing for a short time only.
translate: v. To give the sense or equivalent of in another language or dialect.
translator: n. An interpreter.
translucence: n. The property or state of allowing the passage of light.
translucent: adj. Allowing the passage of light.
transmissible: adj. That may e sent through or across.
transmission: n. The act of sending through or across.
transmit: v. To send trough or across.
transmute: v. To change in nature, substance, or form.
transparent: adj. Easy to see through or understand.
transpire: v. To come to pass.
transplant: v. To remove and plant in another place.
transposition: n. The act of reversing the order or changing the place of.
transverse: adj. Lying or being across or in a crosswise direction.
travail: n. Hard or agonizing labor.
travesty: n. A grotesque imitation.
treacherous: adj. Perfidious.
treachery: n. Violation of allegiance, confidence, or plighted faith.
treasonable: adj. Of the nature of betrayal, treachery, or breech of allegiance.
treatise: n. An elaborate literary composition presenting a subject in all its parts.
treble: adj. Multiplied by three.
trebly: adv. Triply.
tremendous: adj. Awe-inspiring.
tremor: n. An involuntary trembling or shivering.
tremulous: adj. Characterized by quivering or unsteadiness.
trenchant: adj. Cutting deeply and quickly.
trepidation: n. Nervous uncertainty of feeling.
trestle: n. An open braced framework for supporting the horizontal stringers of a railway-bridge.
triad: n. A group of three persons of things.
tribune: n. Any champion of the rights and liberties of the people: often used as the name for a newspaper.
trickery: n. Artifice.
tricolor: adj. Of three colors.
tricycle: n. A three-wheeled vehicle.
trident: n. The three-pronged fork that was the emblem of Neptune.
triennial: adj. Taking place every third year.
trimness: n. Neatness.
trinity: n. A threefold personality existing in the one divine being or substance.
trio: n. Three things grouped or associated together.
triple: adj. Threefold.
triplicate: adj. Composed of or pertaining to three related things or parts.
triplicity: n. The state of being triple or threefold.
tripod: n. A three-legged stand, usually hinged near the top, for supporting some instrument.
trisect: v. To divide into three parts, especially into three equal parts.
trite: adj. Made commonplace by frequent repetition.
triumvir: n. One of three men united coordinately in public office or authority.
trivial: adj. Of little importance or value.
troublesome: adj. Burdensome.
truculence: n. Ferocity.
truculent: adj. Having the character or the spirit of a savage.
truism: n. A statement so plainly true as hardly to require statement or proof.
truthful: adj. Veracious.
turgid: adj. Swollen.
turpitude: n. Depravity.
tutelage: n. The act of training or the state of being under instruction.
tutelar: adj. Protective.
tutorship: n. The office of a guardian.
twinge: n. A darting momentary local pain.
typical: adj. Characteristic.
typify: v. To serve as a characteristic example of.
typographical: adj. Pertaining to typography or printing.
typography: n. The arrangement of composed type, or the appearance of printed matter.
tyrannical: adj. Despotic.
tyranny: n. Absolute power arbitrarily or unjustly administrated.
tyro: n. One slightly skilled in or acquainted with any trade or profession.