Name Report For First Name TESS:
TESS
First name TESS's origin is English. TESS means "abbreviation of teresa which is a popular saint's name of uncertain meaning". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with TESS below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of tess.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with TESS and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with TESS - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming TESS
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES TESS AS A WHOLE:
tessema countess tessa tessia tessieNAMES RHYMING WITH TESS (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ess) - Names That Ends with ess:
bess caress chess inness jess ness burgess hovhaness ionessRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ss) - Names That Ends with ss:
ariss yabiss ferghuss devoss alliss alyss arliss berniss bliss blyss candiss corliss jenalyss lsss marliss welss arlyss cass daileass douglass iniss joss mannuss moss norcross prentiss ross terriss natass lass kandiss curtiss russNAMES RHYMING WITH TESS (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (tes) - Names That Begins with tes:
tesanee tesar tesfaye tesiaRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (te) - Names That Begins with te:
tea teadora teagan teaghue teague teal tealia teamhair teanna teaonia tearlach tearle tearley tearly teca tecla ted tedd teddi teddie teddy tedman tedmond tedmun tedmund tedra tedric tedrick teegan teela teetonka teferi tefnut tegan tegene tegid tehuti tehya teicuih teigan teige teijo teiljo teimhnean teiran teirney teirtu teisha teithi teka tekle telamon telegonus telemachus telen telephus telfer telfor telford telfour tellan telma telutci teme temima temira temman tempeltun tempest tempeste temple templeton tennyson tenoch tentagil teo teodor teodora teodoro teodosie teofila teofile teoma teon teoxihuitl tepiltzin tepin teppo terceira terciero terell teremun terence terentia teresa tereseNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH TESS:
First Names which starts with 't' and ends with 's':
t'iis takis tallis talus tamas tamnais tanis tannis tantalus tas tavis tereus teris terris terrys tethys teuthras tevis tewodros thaddeus thaddius thais thamyris thanasis thanatos thanos thaumas themis theoclymenus theodorus theodosios theoris thermuthis thersites theseus thetis thomas thomkins thurs thyestes tigris tiresias tiridates titos titus tityus tobias togquos tohias tomas torrans toxeus travers travis treves trevls triptolemus trophonius troyes tuomas turannos tydeus tyeis tyndareus typhoeus tyrusEnglish Words Rhyming TESS
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES TESS AS A WHOLE:
| anchoritess | noun (n.) An anchoress. |
| citess | noun (n.) A city woman |
| contesseration | noun (n.) An assemblage; a collection; harmonious union. |
| countess | noun (n.) The wife of an earl in the British peerage, or of a count in the Continental nobility; also, a lady possessed of the same dignity in her own right. See the Note under Count. |
| diatessaron | noun (n.) The interval of a fourth. |
| noun (n.) A continuous narrative arranged from the first four books of the New Testament. | |
| noun (n.) An electuary compounded of four medicines. |
| delicatessen | noun (n. pl.) Relishes for the table; dainties; delicacies. |
| giantess | noun (n.) A woman of extraordinary size. |
| hermitess | noun (n.) A female hermit. |
| hostess | noun (n.) A female host; a woman who hospitably entertains guests at her house. |
| noun (n.) A woman who entertains guests for compensation; a female innkeeper. |
| jesuitess | noun (n.) One of an order of nuns established on the principles of the Jesuits, but suppressed by Pope Urban in 1633. |
| moabitess | noun (n.) A female Moabite. |
| monotessaron | noun (n.) A single narrative framed from the statements of the four evangelists; a gospel harmony. |
| mutessarif | noun (n.) In Turkey, an administrative authority of any of certain sanjaks. They are appointed directly by the Sultan. |
| mutessarifat | noun (n.) In Turkey, a sanjak whose head is a mutessarif. |
| quintessence | noun (n.) The fifth or last and highest essence or power in a natural body. See Ferment oils, under Ferment. |
| noun (n.) Hence: An extract from anything, containing its rarest virtue, or most subtle and essential constituent in a small quantity; pure or concentrated essence. | |
| noun (n.) The fifth or last and highest essence or power in a natural body. See Ferment oils, under Ferment. | |
| noun (n.) Hence: An extract from anything, containing its rarest virtue, or most subtle and essential constituent in a small quantity; pure or concentrated essence. | |
| verb (v. t.) To distil or extract as a quintessence; to reduce to a quintessence. | |
| verb (v. t.) To distil or extract as a quintessence; to reduce to a quintessence. |
| quintessential | adjective (a.) Of the nature of a quintessence; purest. |
| adjective (a.) Of the nature of a quintessence; purest. |
| poetess | noun (n.) A female poet. |
| politesse | noun (n.) Politeness. |
| portesse | noun (n.) See Porteass. |
| prelatess | noun (n.) A woman who is a prelate; the wife of a prelate. |
| priestess | noun (n.) A woman who officiated in sacred rites among pagans. |
| prophetess | noun (n.) A female prophet. |
| pultesse | noun (n.) Alt. of Pultise |
| regentess | noun (n.) A female regent. |
| saintess | noun (n.) A female saint. |
| semidiatessaron | noun (n.) An imperfect or diminished fourth. |
| servantess | noun (n.) A maidservant. |
| tesselar | adjective (a.) Formed of tesserae, as a mosaic. |
| tessellata | noun (n. pl.) A division of Crinoidea including numerous fossil species in which the body is covered with tessellated plates. |
| tessellating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tessellate |
| tessellate | adjective (a.) Tessellated. |
| verb (v. t.) To form into squares or checkers; to lay with checkered work. |
| tessellated | adjective (a.) Formed of little squares, as mosaic work; checkered; as, a tessellated pavement. |
| adjective (a.) Marked like a checkerboard; as, a tessellated leaf. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Tessellate |
| tessellation | noun (n.) The act of tessellating; also, the mosaic work so formed. |
| tessera | noun (n.) A small piece of marble, glass, earthenware, or the like, having a square, or nearly square, face, used by the ancients for mosaic, as for making pavements, for ornamenting walls, and like purposes; also, a similar piece of ivory, bone, wood, etc., used as a ticket of admission to theaters, or as a certificate for successful gladiators, and as a token for various other purposes. |
| tesseraic | adjective (a.) Diversified by squares; done in mosaic; tessellated. |
| tesseral | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, tesserae. |
| adjective (a.) Isometric. |
| tessular | adjective (a.) Tesseral. |
| viscountess | noun (n.) The wife of a viscount. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH TESS (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ess) - English Words That Ends with ess:
| abbess | noun (n.) A female superior or governess of a nunnery, or convent of nuns, having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have over the monks. See Abbey. |
| abjectedness | noun (n.) A very abject or low condition; abjectness. |
| abjectness | noun (n.) The state of being abject; abasement; meanness; servility. |
| ableness | noun (n.) Ability of body or mind; force; vigor. |
| abominableness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being abominable; odiousness. |
| abortiveness | noun (n.) The quality of being abortive. |
| abruptness | noun (n.) The state of being abrupt or broken; craggedness; ruggedness; steepness. |
| noun (n.) Suddenness; unceremonious haste or vehemence; as, abruptness of style or manner. |
| abscess | noun (n.) A collection of pus or purulent matter in any tissue or organ of the body, the result of a morbid process. |
| absentness | noun (n.) The quality of being absent-minded. |
| absoluteness | noun (n.) The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness. |
| absorptiveness | noun (n.) The quality of being absorptive; absorptive power. |
| abstemiousness | noun (n.) The quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing in the use of food and strong drinks. It expresses a greater degree of abstinence than temperance. |
| abstersiveness | noun (n.) The quality of being abstersive. |
| abstractedness | noun (n.) The state of being abstracted; abstract character. |
| abstractiveness | noun (n.) The quality of being abstractive; abstractive property. |
| abstractness | noun (n.) The quality of being abstract. |
| abstruseness | noun (n.) The quality of being abstruse; difficulty of apprehension. |
| absurdness | noun (n.) Absurdity. |
| abusiveness | noun (n.) The quality of being abusive; rudeness of language, or violence to the person. |
| accentless | adjective (a.) Without accent. |
| acceptableness | noun (n.) The quality of being acceptable, or suitable to be favorably received; acceptability. |
| access | noun (n.) A coming to, or near approach; admittance; admission; accessibility; as, to gain access to a prince. |
| noun (n.) The means, place, or way by which a thing may be approached; passage way; as, the access is by a neck of land. | |
| noun (n.) Admission to sexual intercourse. | |
| noun (n.) Increase by something added; addition; as, an access of territory. [In this sense accession is more generally used.] | |
| noun (n.) An onset, attack, or fit of disease. | |
| noun (n.) A paroxysm; a fit of passion; an outburst; as, an access of fury. |
| accessariness | noun (n.) The state of being accessary. |
| accessoriness | noun (n.) The state of being accessory, or connected subordinately. |
| accidentalness | noun (n.) The quality of being accidental; casualness. |
| accommodableness | noun (n.) The quality or condition of being accommodable. |
| accommodateness | noun (n.) Fitness. |
| accountable ness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being accountable; accountability. |
| accurateness | noun (n.) The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision. |
| accustomedness | noun (n.) Habituation. |
| acidness | noun (n.) Acidity; sourness. |
| acquaintedness | noun (n.) State of being acquainted; degree of acquaintance. |
| acquisitiveness | noun (n.) The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession. |
| noun (n.) The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing. |
| acridness | noun (n.) The quality of being acrid or pungent; irritant bitterness; acrimony; as, the acridity of a plant, of a speech. |
| acrimoniousness | noun (n.) The quality of being acrimonious; asperity; acrimony. |
| actionless | adjective (a.) Void of action. |
| activeness | noun (n.) The quality of being active; nimbleness; quickness of motion; activity. |
| actless | adjective (a.) Without action or spirit. |
| actress | noun (n.) A female actor or doer. |
| noun (n.) A female stageplayer; a woman who acts a part. |
| actualness | noun (n.) Quality of being actual; actuality. |
| acuteness | noun (n.) The quality of being acute or pointed; sharpness; as, the acuteness of an angle. |
| noun (n.) The faculty of nice discernment or perception; acumen; keenness; sharpness; sensitiveness; -- applied to the senses, or the understanding. By acuteness of feeling, we perceive small objects or slight impressions: by acuteness of intellect, we discern nice distinctions. | |
| noun (n.) Shrillness; high pitch; -- said of sounds. | |
| noun (n.) Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis. |
| adaptableness | noun (n.) The quality of being adaptable; suitableness. |
| adaptedness | noun (n.) The state or quality of being adapted; suitableness; special fitness. |
| adaptiveness | noun (n.) The quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt. |
| adaptness | noun (n.) Adaptedness. |
| addictedness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being addicted; attachment. |
| adeptness | noun (n.) The quality of being adept; skill. |
| adequateness | noun (n.) The quality of being adequate; suitableness; sufficiency; adequacy. |
| adhesiveness | noun (n.) The quality of sticking or adhering; stickiness; tenacity of union. |
| noun (n.) Propensity to form and maintain attachments to persons, and to promote social intercourse. |
| adiposeness | noun (n.) Alt. of Adiposity |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH TESS (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (tes) - Words That Begins with tes:
| test | noun (n.) A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement. |
| noun (n.) Examination or trial by the cupel; hence, any critical examination or decisive trial; as, to put a man's assertions to a test. | |
| noun (n.) Means of trial; as, absence is a test of love. | |
| noun (n.) That with which anything is compared for proof of its genuineness; a touchstone; a standard. | |
| noun (n.) Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment; ground of admission or exclusion. | |
| noun (n.) Judgment; distinction; discrimination. | |
| noun (n.) A reaction employed to recognize or distinguish any particular substance or constituent of a compound, as the production of some characteristic precipitate; also, the reagent employed to produce such reaction; thus, the ordinary test for sulphuric acid is the production of a white insoluble precipitate of barium sulphate by means of some soluble barium salt. | |
| noun (n.) A witness. | |
| noun (n.) Alt. of Testa | |
| verb (v. t.) To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel; to subject to cupellation. | |
| verb (v. t.) To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try; as, to test the soundness of a principle; to test the validity of an argument. | |
| verb (v. t.) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent; as, to test a solution by litmus paper. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make a testament, or will. |
| testing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Test |
| noun (n.) The act of testing or proving; trial; proof. | |
| noun (n.) The operation of refining gold or silver in a test, or cupel; cupellation. |
| testa | noun (n.) The external hard or firm covering of many invertebrate animals. |
| noun (n.) The outer integument of a seed; the episperm, or spermoderm. |
| testable | adjective (a.) Capable of being tested or proved. |
| adjective (a.) Capable of being devised, or given by will. |
| testacea | noun (n. pl.) Invertebrate animals covered with shells, especially mollusks; shellfish. |
| testacean | noun (n.) Onr of the Testacea. |
| testaceography | noun (n.) The science which treats of testaceans, or shellfish; the description of shellfish. |
| testaceology | noun (n.) The science of testaceous mollusks; conchology. |
| testaceous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to shells; consisted of a hard shell, or having a hard shell. |
| adjective (a.) Having a dull red brick color or a brownish yellow color. |
| testacy | noun (n.) The state or circumstance of being testate, or of leaving a valid will, or testament, at death. |
| testament | noun (n.) A solemn, authentic instrument in writing, by which a person declares his will as to disposal of his estate and effects after his death. |
| noun (n.) One of the two distinct revelations of God's purposes toward man; a covenant; also, one of the two general divisions of the canonical books of the sacred Scriptures, in which the covenants are respectively revealed; as, the Old Testament; the New Testament; -- often limited, in colloquial language, to the latter. |
| testamental | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a testament; testamentary. |
| testamentary | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a will, or testament; as, letters testamentary. |
| adjective (a.) Bequeathed by will; given by testament. | |
| adjective (a.) Done, appointed by, or founded on, a testament, or will; as, a testamentary guardian of a minor, who may be appointed by the will of a father to act in that capacity until the child becomes of age. |
| testamentation | noun (n.) The act or power of giving by testament, or will. |
| testamur | noun (n.) A certificate of merit or proficiency; -- so called from the Latin words, Ita testamur, with which it commences. |
| testate | noun (n.) One who leaves a valid will at death; a testate person. |
| adjective (a.) Having made and left a will; as, a person is said to die testate. |
| testation | noun (n.) A witnessing or witness. |
| testator | noun (n.) A man who makes and leaves a will, or testament, at death. |
| testatrix | noun (n.) A woman who makes and leaves a will at death; a female testator. |
| teste | noun (n.) A witness. |
| noun (n.) The witnessing or concluding clause, duty attached; -- said of a writ, deed, or the like. |
| tester | noun (n.) A headpiece; a helmet. |
| noun (n.) A flat canopy, as over a pulpit or tomb. | |
| noun (n.) A canopy over a bed, supported by the bedposts. | |
| noun (n.) An old French silver coin, originally of the value of about eighteen pence, subsequently reduced to ninepence, and later to sixpence, sterling. Hence, in modern English slang, a sixpence; -- often contracted to tizzy. Called also teston. |
| testern | noun (n.) A sixpence; a tester. |
| verb (v. t.) To present with a tester. |
| testes | noun (n.) pl. of Teste, or of Testis. |
| (pl. ) of Testis |
| testicardines | noun (n. pl.) A division of brachiopods including those which have a calcareous shell furnished with a hinge and hinge teeth. Terebratula and Spirifer are examples. |
| testicle | noun (n.) One of the essential male genital glands which secrete the semen. |
| testicond | adjective (a.) Having the testicles naturally concealed, as in the case of the cetaceans. |
| testicular | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the testicle. |
| testiculate | adjective (a.) Shaped like a testicle, ovate and solid. |
| adjective (a.) Having two tubers resembling testicles in form, as some species of orchis. |
| testiere | noun (n.) A piece of plate armor for the head of a war horse; a tester. |
| testif | adjective (a.) Testy; headstrong; obstinate. |
| testification | noun (n.) The act of testifying, or giving testimony or evidence; as, a direct testification of our homage to God. |
| testificator | noun (n.) A testifier. |
| testifier | noun (n.) One who testifies; one who gives testimony, or bears witness to prove anything; a witness. |
| testifying | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Testify |
| testimonial | adjective (a.) A writing or certificate which bears testimony in favor of one's character, good conduct, ability, etc., or of the value of a thing. |
| adjective (a.) Something, as money or plate, presented to a preson as a token of respect, or of obligation for services rendered. | |
| adjective (a.) Relating to, or containing, testimony. |
| testimony | noun (n.) A solemn declaration or affirmation made for the purpose of establishing or proving some fact. |
| noun (n.) Affirmation; declaration; as, these doctrines are supported by the uniform testimony of the fathers; the belief of past facts must depend on the evidence of human testimony, or the testimony of historians. | |
| noun (n.) Open attestation; profession. | |
| noun (n.) Witness; evidence; proof of some fact. | |
| noun (n.) The two tables of the law. | |
| noun (n.) Hence, the whole divine revelation; the sacre/ Scriptures. | |
| verb (v. t.) To witness; to attest; to prove by testimony. |
| testiness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being testy; fretfulness; petulance. |
| testis | noun (n.) A testicle. |
| teston | noun (n.) A tester; a sixpence. |
| testone | noun (n.) A silver coin of Portugal, worth about sixpence sterling, or about eleven cents. |
| testoon | noun (n.) An Italian silver coin. The testoon of Rome is worth 1s. 3d. sterling, or about thirty cents. |
| testudinal | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tortoise. |
| testudinarious | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the shell of a tortoise; resembling a tortoise shell; having the color or markings of a tortoise shell. |
| testudinata | noun (n. pl.) An order of reptiles which includes the turtles and tortoises. The body is covered by a shell consisting of an upper or dorsal shell, called the carapace, and a lower or ventral shell, called the plastron, each of which consists of several plates. |
| testudinate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Testudinated |
| testudinated | adjective (a.) Resembling a tortoise shell in appearance or structure; roofed; arched; vaulted. |
| testudineous | adjective (a.) Resembling the shell of a tortoise. |
| testudo | noun (n.) A genus of tortoises which formerly included a large number of diverse forms, but is now restricted to certain terrestrial species, such as the European land tortoise (Testudo Graeca) and the gopher of the Southern United States. |
| noun (n.) A cover or screen which a body of troops formed with their shields or targets, by holding them over their heads when standing close to each other. This cover resembled the back of a tortoise, and served to shelter the men from darts, stones, and other missiles. A similar defense was sometimes formed of boards, and moved on wheels. | |
| noun (n.) A kind of musical instrument. a species of lyre; -- so called in allusion to the lyre of Mercury, fabled to have been made of the shell of a tortoise. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH TESS:
English Words which starts with 't' and ends with 's':
| taas | noun (n.) A heap. See Tas. |
| tabanus | noun (n.) A genus of blood sucking flies, including the horseflies. |
| tabes | noun (n.) Progressive emaciation of the body, accompained with hectic fever, with no well-marked logical symptoms. |
| tactics | noun (n.) The science and art of disposing military and naval forces in order for battle, and performing military and naval evolutions. It is divided into grand tactics, or the tactics of battles, and elementary tactics, or the tactics of instruction. |
| noun (n.) Hence, any system or method of procedure. |
| tactless | adjective (a.) Destitute of tact. |
| tailless | adjective (a.) Having no tail. |
| tailoress | noun (n.) A female tailor. |
| taintless | adjective (a.) Free from taint or infection; pure. |
| talcous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to talc; composed of, or resembling, talc. |
| tales | noun (n.) Persons added to a jury, commonly from those in or about the courthouse, to make up any deficiency in the number of jurors regularly summoned, being like, or such as, the latter. |
| (syntactically sing.) The writ by which such persons are summoned. |
| talipes | noun (n.) The deformity called clubfoot. See Clubfoot. |
| tallness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being tall; height of stature. |
| talus | noun (n.) The astragalus. |
| noun (n.) A variety of clubfoot (Talipes calcaneus). See the Note under Talipes. | |
| noun (n.) A slope; the inclination of the face of a work. | |
| noun (n.) A sloping heap of fragments of rock lying at the foot of a precipice. |
| tameless | adjective (a.) Incapable of being tamed; wild; untamed; untamable. |
| tameness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being tame. |
| tamias | noun (n.) A genus of ground squirrels, including the chipmunk. |
| tamis | noun (n.) A sieve, or strainer, made of a kind of woolen cloth. |
| noun (n.) The cloth itself; tammy. |
| tantalus | noun (n.) A Phrygian king who was punished in the lower world by being placed in the midst of a lake whose waters reached to his chin but receded whenever he attempted to allay his thirst, while over his head hung branches laden with choice fruit which likewise receded whenever he stretched out his hand to grasp them. |
| noun (n.) A genus of wading birds comprising the wood ibises. |
| taperness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being taper; tapering form; taper. |
| tapis | noun (n.) Tapestry; formerly, the cover of a council table. |
| verb (v. t.) To cover or work with figures like tapestry. |
| taplings | noun (n. pl.) The strong double leathers by which the two parts of a flail are united. |
| taranis | noun (n.) A Celtic divinity, regarded as the evil principle, but confounded by the Romans with Jupiter. |
| tarantass | noun (n.) A low four-wheeled carriage used in Russia. The carriage box rests on two long, springy poles which run from the fore to the hind axletree. When snow falls, the wheels are taken off, and the body is mounted on a sledge. |
| tardigradous | adjective (a.) Moving slowly; slow-paced. |
| tardiness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being tardy. |
| tarras | noun (n.) See Trass. |
| tarsius | noun (n.) A genus of nocturnal lemurine mammals having very large eyes and ears, a long tail, and very long proximal tarsal bones; -- called also malmag, spectral lemur, podji, and tarsier. |
| tarsometatarsus | noun (n.) The large bone next the foot in the leg of a bird. It is formed by the union of the distal part of the tarsus with the metatarsus. |
| tarsus | noun (n.) The ankle; the bones or cartilages of the part of the foot between the metatarsus and the leg, consisting in man of seven short bones. |
| noun (n.) A plate of dense connective tissue or cartilage in the eyelid of man and many animals; -- called also tarsal cartilage, and tarsal plate. | |
| noun (n.) The foot of an insect or a crustacean. It usually consists of form two to five joints. |
| tartareous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Tartarus; hellish. |
| adjective (a.) Consisting of tartar; of the nature of tartar. | |
| adjective (a.) Having the surface rough and crumbling; as, many lichens are tartareous. |
| tartarous | adjective (a.) Containing tartar; consisting of tartar, or partaking of its qualities; tartareous. |
| adjective (a.) Resembling, or characteristic of, a Tartar; ill-natured; irritable. |
| tartarus | noun (n.) The infernal regions, described in the Iliad as situated as far below Hades as heaven is above the earth, and by later writers as the place of punishment for the spirits of the wicked. By the later poets, also, the name is often used synonymously with Hades, or the Lower World in general. |
| tartness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being tart. |
| tas | noun (n.) A heap. |
| verb (v. t.) To tassel. |
| tasteless | adjective (a.) Having no taste; insipid; flat; as, tasteless fruit. |
| adjective (a.) Destitute of the sense of taste; or of good taste; as, a tasteless age. | |
| adjective (a.) Not in accordance with good taste; as, a tasteless arrangement of drapery. |
| tauntress | noun (n.) A woman who taunts. |
| tauricornous | adjective (a.) Having horns like those of a bull. |
| taurus | noun (n.) The Bull; the second in order of the twelve signs of the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of April; -- marked thus [/] in almanacs. |
| noun (n.) A zodiacal constellation, containing the well-known clusters called the Pleiades and the Hyades, in the latter of which is situated the remarkably bright Aldebaran. | |
| noun (n.) A genus of ruminants comprising the common domestic cattle. |
| tautochronous | adjective (a.) Occupying the same time; pertaining to, or having the properties of, a tautochrone. |
| tautologous | adjective (a.) Repeating the same thing in different words; tautological. |
| tautoousious | adjective (a.) Having the same essence; being identically of the same nature. |
| tawdriness | noun (n.) Quality or state of being tawdry. |
| tawniness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being tawny. |
| taws | noun (n.) A leather lash, or other instrument of punishment, used by a schoolmaster. |
| taxis | noun (n.) Manipulation applied to a hernial tumor, or to an intestinal obstruction, for the purpose of reducing it. |
| noun (n.) In technical uses, as in architecture, biology, grammar, etc., arrangement; order; ordonnance. |
| taxless | adjective (a.) Free from taxation. |
| teachableness | noun (n.) Willingness to be taught. |
| teachless | adjective (a.) Not teachable. |
| tearless | adjective (a.) Shedding no tears; free from tears; unfeeling. |
| techiness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being techy. |
| technicalness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being technical; technicality. |
| technicals | noun (n. pl.) Those things which pertain to the practical part of an art, science, or profession; technical terms; technics. |
| technics | noun (n.) The doctrine of arts in general; such branches of learning as respect the arts. |
| tectonics | noun (n.) The science, or the art, by which implements, vessels, dwellings, or other edifices, are constructed, both agreeably to the end for which they are designed, and in conformity with artistic sentiments and ideas. |
| noun (n.) The science or art by which implements, vessels, buildings, etc., are constructed, both in relation to their use and to their artistic design. |
| tectrices | noun (n. pl.) The wing coverts of a bird. See Covert, and Illust. of Bird. |
| tedious | adjective (a.) Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome. |
| teemless | adjective (a.) Not fruitful or prolific; barren; as, a teemless earth. |
| teens | noun (n. pl.) The years of one's age having the termination -teen, beginning with thirteen and ending with nineteen; as, a girl in her teens. |
| telamones | noun (n. pl.) Same as Atlantes. |
| telangiectasis | noun (n.) Dilatation of the capillary vessels. |
| teleosaurus | noun (n.) A genus of extinct crocodilian reptiles of the Jurassic period, having a long and slender snout. |
| tellurous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to tellurium; derived from, or containing, tellurium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with telluric compounds; as, tellurous acid, which is analogous to sulphurous acid. |
| telotrochous | adjective (a.) Having both a preoral and a posterior band of cilla; -- applied to the larvae of certain annelids. |
| temerarious | adjective (a.) Unreasonably adventurous; despising danger; rash; headstrong; audacious; reckless; heedless. |
| temerous | adjective (a.) Temerarious. |
| temperateness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being temperate; moderateness; temperance. |
| tempestuous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a tempest; involving or resembling a tempest; turbulent; violent; stormy; as, tempestuous weather; a tempestuous night; a tempestuous debate. |
| temporalness | noun (n.) Worldliness. |
| temporaneous | adjective (a.) Temporarity. |
| temporariness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being temporary; -- opposed to perpetuity. |
| temps | noun (n.) Time. |
| temptationless | adjective (a.) Having no temptation or motive; as, a temptationless sin. |
| temptatious | adjective (a.) Tempting. |
| temptress | noun (n.) A woman who entices. |
| tenableness | noun (n.) Same as Tenability. |
| tenacious | adjective (a.) Holding fast, or inclined to hold fast; inclined to retain what is in possession; as, men tenacious of their just rights. |
| adjective (a.) Apt to retain; retentive; as, a tenacious memory. | |
| adjective (a.) Having parts apt to adhere to each other; cohesive; tough; as, steel is a tenacious metal; tar is more tenacious than oil. | |
| adjective (a.) Apt to adhere to another substance; glutinous; viscous; sticking; adhesive. | |
| adjective (a.) Niggardly; closefisted; miserly. | |
| adjective (a.) Holding stoutly to one's opinion or purpose; obstinate; stubborn. |
| tenantless | adjective (a.) Having no tenants; unoccupied; as, a tenantless mansion. |
| tenderness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). |
| tendinous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a tendon; of the nature of tendon. |
| adjective (a.) Full of tendons; sinewy; as, nervous and tendinous parts of the body. |
| tendonous | adjective (a.) Tendinous. |
| tendosynovitis | noun (n.) See Tenosynovitis. |
| tenebrificous | adjective (a.) Tenebrific. |
| tenebrious | adjective (a.) Tenebrous. |
| tenebrous | adjective (a.) Dark; gloomy; dusky; tenebrious. |
| tenesmus | noun (n.) An urgent and distressing sensation, as if a discharge from the intestines must take place, although none can be effected; -- always referred to the lower extremity of the rectum. |
| tennis | noun (n.) A play in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racket or with the open hand. |
| verb (v. t.) To drive backward and forward, as a ball in playing tennis. |
| tenosynovitis | noun (n.) Inflammation of the synovial sheath enveloping a tendon. |
| noun (n.) Inflammation of the synovial sheath of a tendon. |
| tenpins | noun (n.) A game resembling ninepins, but played with ten pins. See Ninepins. |
| tentaculiferous | adjective (a.) Producing or bearing tentacles. |
| tenthredinides | noun (n. pl.) A group of Hymneoptera comprising the sawflies. |
| tentiginous | adjective (a.) Stiff; stretched; strained. |
| adjective (a.) Lustful, or pertaining to lust. |
| tenuifolious | adjective (a.) Having thin or narrow leaves. |
| tenuious | adjective (a.) Rare or subtile; tenuous; -- opposed to dense. |
| tenuirostres | noun (n. pl.) An artificial group of passerine birds having slender bills, as the humming birds. |
| tenuis | noun (n.) One of the three surd mutes /, /, /; -- so called in relation to their respective middle letters, or medials, /, /, /, and their aspirates, /, /, /. The term is also applied to the corresponding letters and articulate elements in other languages. |
| tenuous | adjective (a.) Thin; slender; small; minute. |
| adjective (a.) Rare; subtile; not dense; -- said of fluids. | |
| adjective (a.) Lacking substance, as a tenuous argument. |
| teretous | adjective (a.) Terete. |
| tergeminous | adjective (a.) Threefold; thrice-paired. |
| tergiferous | adjective (a.) Carrying or bearing upon the back. |
| termes | noun (n.) A genus of Pseudoneuroptera including the white ants, or termites. See Termite. |
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