THOM
First name THOM's origin is English. THOM means "derives from thomas twin". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with THOM below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of thom.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with THOM and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming THOM
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES THOM AS A WHOLE:
thomas thomasin hahkethomemah othomann thoma thomdic thomkins thompson thomsinaNAMES RHYMING WITH THOM (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (hom) - Names That Ends with hom:
gershomRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (om) - Names That Ends with om:
adom effiom menhalom chrysostom absalom ahsalom avsalom avshalom calibom crom malcom odom shalom tom waldrom ransom anscom blossom kulthoom alhsomNAMES RHYMING WITH THOM (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (tho) - Names That Begins with tho:
tho thor thora thoraldtun thorley thorm thormond thormund thorn thorndike thorndyke thorne thornley thornly thornton thorntun thorp thorpe thoth thourRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (th) - Names That Begins with th:
thabit thacher thacker thackere thaddea thaddeus thaddia thaddius thadina thadine thady thai thain thais thalassa thaleia thalia tham thamyris than thana' thanasis thanatos thane thang thanh thanos thao thaqib thara' tharen thatcher thaumas thaw thawain thaxte thaxter thay thayne the thea thearl thecla theda thegn thekla thelma thema themis thenoma thenomia theoclymenus theodora theodore theodorus theodosios theola theomund theon theone theophaneia theophania theophanie theophile theophilia theora theore theoris thera therese thermuthis theron therron thersites theseus thetis theyn thi thia thibaudNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH THOM:
First Names which starts with 't' and ends with 'm':
tamam tatum taydem tim tristram tumEnglish Words Rhyming THOM
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES THOM AS A WHOLE:
anthomania | noun (n.) A extravagant fondness for flowers. |
bathometer | noun (n.) An instrument for measuring depths, esp. one for taking soundings without a sounding line. |
crithomancu | noun (n.) A kind of divination by means of the dough of the cakes offered in the ancient sacrifices, and the meal strewed over the victims. |
fathom | noun (n.) A measure of length, containing six feet; the space to which a man can extend his arms; -- used chiefly in measuring cables, cordage, and the depth of navigable water by soundings. |
noun (n.) The measure or extant of one's capacity; depth, as of intellect; profundity; reach; penetration. | |
verb (v. t.) To encompass with the arms extended or encircling; to measure by throwing the arms about; to span. | |
verb (v. t.) The measure by a sounding line; especially, to sound the depth of; to penetrate, measure, and comprehend; to get to the bottom of. |
fathoming | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fathom |
fathomable | adjective (a.) Capable of being fathomed. |
fathomer | noun (n.) One who fathoms. |
fathomless | adjective (a.) Incapable of being fathomed; immeasurable; that can not be sounded. |
adjective (a.) Incomprehensible. |
lithomancy | noun (n.) Divination by means of stones. |
lithomarge | noun (n.) A clay of a fine smooth texture, and very sectile. |
opisthomi | noun (n. pl.) An order of eellike fishes having the scapular arch attached to the vertebrae, but not connected with the skull. |
ornithomancy | noun (n.) Divination by means of birds, their flight, etc. |
orthometric | adjective (a.) Having the axes at right angles to one another; -- said of crystals or crystalline forms. |
orthometry | noun (n.) The art or practice of constructing verses correctly; the laws of correct versification. |
orthomorphic | adjective (a.) Having the right form. |
stethometer | noun (n.) An apparatus for measuring the external movements of a given point of the chest wall, during respiration; -- also called thoracometer. |
thomaean | noun (n.) Alt. of Thomean |
thomean | noun (n.) A member of the ancient church of Christians established on the Malabar coast of India, which some suppose to have been originally founded by the Apostle Thomas. |
thomism | noun (n.) Alt. of Thomaism |
thomaism | noun (n.) The doctrine of Thomas Aquinas, esp. with respect to predestination and grace. |
thomist | noun (n.) A follower of Thomas Aquinas. See Scotist. |
thomite | noun (n.) A Thomaean. |
thomsenolite | noun (n.) A fluoride of aluminium, calcium, and sodium occurring with the cryolite of Greenland. |
thomsonian | noun (n.) A believer in Thomsonianism; one who practices Thomsonianism. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Thomsonianism. |
thomsonianism | noun (n.) An empirical system which assumes that the human body is composed of four elements, earth, air, fire, and water, and that vegetable medicines alone should be used; -- from the founder, Dr. Samuel Thomson, of Massachusetts. |
thomsonite | noun (n.) A zeolitic mineral, occurring generally in masses of a radiated structure. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia, lime, and soda. Called also mesole, and comptonite. |
xanthoma | noun (n.) A skin disease marked by the development or irregular yellowish patches upon the skin, especially upon the eyelids; -- called also xanthelasma. |
xanthomatous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to xanthoma. |
xanthomelanous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the lighter division of the Melanochroi, or those races having an olive or yellow complexion and black hair. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH THOM (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (hom) - English Words That Ends with hom:
whom | noun (pron.) The objective case of who. See Who. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH THOM (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (tho) - Words That Begins with tho:
thole | noun (n.) A wooden or metal pin, set in the gunwale of a boat, to serve as a fulcrum for the oar in rowing. |
noun (n.) The pin, or handle, of a scythe snath. | |
verb (v. t.) To bear; to endure; to undergo. | |
verb (v. i.) To wait. |
tholing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thole |
thong | noun (n.) A strap of leather; especially, one used for fastening anything. |
thooid | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a group of carnivores, including the wovels and the dogs. |
thor | noun (n.) The god of thunder, and son of Odin. |
thoracentesis | noun (n.) The operation of puncturing the chest wall so as to let out liquids contained in the cavity of the chest. |
thoracic | noun (n.) One of a group of fishes having the ventral fins placed beneath the thorax or beneath the pectorial fins. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the thorax, or chest. |
thoracica | noun (n. pl.) A division of cirripeds including those which have six thoracic segments, usually bearing six pairs of cirri. The common barnacles are examples. |
thoracometer | noun (n.) Same as Stethometer. |
thoracoplasty | noun (n.) A remodeling or reshaping of the thorax; especially, the operation of removing the ribs, so as to obliterate the pleural cavity in cases of empyema. |
thoracostraca | adjective (a.) An extensive division of Crustacea, having a dorsal shield or carapec/ //niting all, or nearly all, of the thoracic somites to the head. It includes the crabs, lobsters, shrimps, and similar species. |
thoracotomy | noun (n.) The operation of opening the pleural cavity by incision. |
thoral | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a bed. |
thorax | noun (n.) The part of the trunk between the neck and the abdomen, containing that part of the body cavity the walls of which are supported by the dorsal vertebrae, the ribs, and the sternum, and which the heart and lungs are situated; the chest. |
noun (n.) The middle region of the body of an insect, or that region which bears the legs and wings. It is composed of three united somites, each of which is composed of several distinct parts. See Illust. in Appendix. and Illust. of Coleoptera. | |
noun (n.) The second, or middle, region of the body of a crustacean, arachnid, or other articulate animal. In the case of decapod Crustacea, some writers include under the term thorax only the three segments bearing the maxillipeds; others include also the five segments bearing the legs. See Illust. in Appendix. | |
noun (n.) A breastplate, cuirass, or corselet; especially, the breastplate worn by the ancient Greeks. |
thoria | noun (n.) A rare white earthy substance, consisting of the oxide of thorium; -- formerly called also thorina. |
thoric | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to thorium; designating the compounds of thorium. |
thorite | noun (n.) A mineral of a brown to black color, or, as in the variety orangite, orange-yellow. It is essentially a silicate of thorium. |
thorium | noun (n.) A metallic element found in certain rare minerals, as thorite, pyrochlore, monazite, etc., and isolated as an infusible gray metallic powder which burns in the air and forms thoria; -- formerly called also thorinum. Symbol Th. Atomic weight 232.0. |
thorn | noun (n.) A hard and sharp-pointed projection from a woody stem; usually, a branch so transformed; a spine. |
noun (n.) Any shrub or small tree which bears thorns; especially, any species of the genus Crataegus, as the hawthorn, whitethorn, cockspur thorn. | |
noun (n.) Fig.: That which pricks or annoys as a thorn; anything troublesome; trouble; care. | |
noun (n.) The name of the Anglo-Saxon letter /, capital form /. It was used to represent both of the sounds of English th, as in thin, then. So called because it was the initial letter of thorn, a spine. | |
verb (v. t.) To prick, as with a thorn. |
thornback | noun (n.) A European skate (Raia clavata) having thornlike spines on its back. |
noun (n.) The large European spider crab or king crab (Maia squinado). |
thornbill | noun (n.) Any one of several species of small, brilliantly colored American birds of the genus Rhamphomicron. They have a long, slender, sharp bill, and feed upon honey, insects, and the juice of the sugar cane. |
thornbird | noun (n.) A small South American bird (Anumbius anumbii) allied to the ovenbirds of the genus Furnarius). It builds a very large and complex nest of twigs and thorns in a bush or tree. |
thornbut | noun (n.) The turbot. |
thornless | adjective (a.) Destitute of, or free from, thorns. |
thornset | adjective (a.) Set with thorns. |
thorntail | noun (n.) A beautiful South American humming bird (Gouldia Popelairii), having the six outer tail feathers long, slender, and pointed. The head is ornamented with a long, pointed crest. |
thoro | adjective (a.) Thorough. |
thorough | noun (n.) A furrow between two ridges, to drain off the surface water. |
adjective (a.) Passing through; as, thorough lights in a house. | |
adjective (a.) Passing through or to the end; hence, complete; perfect; as, a thorough reformation; thorough work; a thorough translator; a thorough poet. | |
adverb (adv.) Thoroughly. | |
adverb (adv.) Through. | |
prep (prep.) Through. |
thoroughbred | noun (n.) A thoroughbred animal, especially a horse. |
adjective (a.) Bred from the best blood through a long line; pure-blooded; -- said of stock, as horses. Hence, having the characteristics of such breeding; mettlesome; courageous; of elegant form, or the like. |
thoroughfare | noun (n.) A passage through; a passage from one street or opening to another; an unobstructed way open to the public; a public road; hence, a frequented street. |
noun (n.) A passing or going through; passage. |
thoroughgoing | adjective (a.) Going through, or to the end or bottom; very thorough; complete. |
adjective (a.) Going all lengths; extreme; thoroughplaced; -- less common in this sense. |
thoroughness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being thorough; completeness. |
thoroughpaced | adjective (a.) Perfect in what is undertaken; complete; going all lengths; as, a thoroughplaced Tory or Whig. |
thoroughpin | noun (n.) A disease of the hock (sometimes of the knee) of a horse, caused by inflammation of the synovial membrane and a consequent excessive secretion of the synovial fluid; -- probably so called because there is usually an oval swelling on each side of the leg, appearing somewhat as if a pin had been thrust through. |
thoroughsped | adjective (a.) Fully accomplished; thoroughplaced. |
thoroughwax | noun (n.) An umbelliferous plant (Bupleurum rotundifolium) with perfoliate leaves. |
noun (n.) Thoroughwort. |
thoroughwort | noun (n.) Same as Boneset. |
thorow | adjective (a.) Thorough. |
prep (prep.) Through. |
thorp | noun (n.) Alt. of Thorpe |
thorpe | noun (n.) A group of houses in the country; a small village; a hamlet; a dorp; -- now chiefly occurring in names of places and persons; as, Althorp, Mablethorpe. |
those | noun (pron.) The plural of that. See That. |
thoth | noun (n.) The god of eloquence and letters among the ancient Egyptians, and supposed to be the inventor of writing and philosophy. He corresponded to the Mercury of the Romans, and was usually represented as a human figure with the head of an ibis or a lamb. |
noun (n.) The Egyptian sacred baboon. |
thought | noun (n.) The act of thinking; the exercise of the mind in any of its higher forms; reflection; cogitation. |
noun (n.) Meditation; serious consideration. | |
noun (n.) That which is thought; an idea; a mental conception, whether an opinion, judgment, fancy, purpose, or intention. | |
noun (n.) Solicitude; anxious care; concern. | |
noun (n.) A small degree or quantity; a trifle; as, a thought longer; a thought better. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Think | |
() imp. & p. p. of Think. |
thoughtful | adjective (a.) Full of thought; employed in meditation; contemplative; as, a man of thoughtful mind. |
adjective (a.) Attentive; careful; exercising the judgment; having the mind directed to an object; as, thoughtful of gain; thoughtful in seeking truth. | |
adjective (a.) Anxious; solicitous; concerned. |
thousand | noun (n.) The number of ten hundred; a collection or sum consisting of ten times one hundred units or objects. |
noun (n.) Hence, indefinitely, a great number. | |
noun (n.) A symbol representing one thousand units; as, 1,000, M or CI/. | |
adjective (a.) Consisting of ten hundred; being ten times one hundred. | |
adjective (a.) Hence, consisting of a great number indefinitely. |
thousandfold | adjective (a.) Multiplied by a thousand. |
thousandth | noun (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by a thousand; one of a thousand equal parts into which a unit is divided. |
adjective (a.) Next in order after nine hundred and ninty-nine; coming last of a thousand successive individuals or units; -- the ordinal of thousand; as, the thousandth part of a thing. | |
adjective (a.) Constituting, or being one of, a thousand equal parts into which anything is divided; the tenth of a hundredth. | |
adjective (a.) Occurring as being one of, or the last one of, a very great number; very small; minute; -- used hyperbolically; as, to do a thing for the thousandth time. |
thowel | noun (n.) Alt. of Thowl |
thowl | noun (n.) A thole pin. |
noun (n.) A rowlock. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH THOM:
English Words which starts with 't' and ends with 'm':
taedium | noun (n.) See Tedium. |
taenidium | noun (n.) The chitinous fiber forming the spiral thread of the tracheae of insects. See Illust. of Trachea. |
taintworm | noun (n.) A destructive parasitic worm or insect larva. |
tandem | noun (n.) A team of horses harnessed one before the other. |
noun (n.) A tandem bicycle or other vehicle. | |
adverb (adv. & a.) One after another; -- said especially of horses harnessed and driven one before another, instead of abreast. |
tangram | noun (n.) A Chinese toy made by cutting a square of thin wood, or other suitable material, into seven pieces, as shown in the cut, these pieces being capable of combination in various ways, so as to form a great number of different figures. It is now often used in primary schools as a means of instruction. |
tantalism | noun (n.) A punishment like that of Tantalus; a teasing or tormenting by the hope or near approach of good which is not attainable; tantalization. |
tantalum | noun (n.) A rare nonmetallic element found in certain minerals, as tantalite, samarskite, and fergusonite, and isolated as a dark powder which becomes steel-gray by burnishing. Symbol Ta. Atomic weight 182.0. Formerly called also tantalium. |
tantrum | noun (n.) A whim, or burst of ill-humor; an affected air. |
taoism | noun (n.) One of the popular religions of China, sanctioned by the state. |
tapetum | noun (n.) An area in the pigmented layer of the choroid coat of the eye in many animals, which has an iridescent or metallic luster and helps to make the eye visible in the dark. Sometimes applied to the whole layer of pigmented epithelium of the choroid. |
tapeworm | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of cestode worms belonging to Taenia and many allied genera. The body is long, flat, and composed of numerous segments or proglottids varying in shape, those toward the end of the body being much larger and longer than the anterior ones, and containing the fully developed sexual organs. The head is small, destitute of a mouth, but furnished with two or more suckers (which vary greatly in shape in different genera), and sometimes, also, with hooks for adhesion to the walls of the intestines of the animals in which they are parasitic. The larvae (see Cysticercus) live in the flesh of various creatures, and when swallowed by another animal of the right species develop into the mature tapeworm in its intestine. See Illustration in Appendix. |
taproom | noun (n.) A room where liquors are kept on tap; a barroom. |
tarantism | noun (n.) A nervous affection producing melancholy, stupor, and an uncontrollable desire to dance. It was supposed to be produced by the bite of the tarantula, and considered to be incapable of cure except by protracted dancing to appropriate music. |
tarentism | noun (n.) See Tarantism. |
targum | noun (n.) A translation or paraphrase of some portion of the Old Testament Scriptures in the Chaldee or Aramaic language or dialect. |
tarpum | noun (n.) A very large marine fish (Megapolis Atlanticus) of the Southern United States and the West Indies. It often becomes six or more feet in length, and has large silvery scales. The scales are a staple article of trade, and are used in fancywork. Called also tarpon, sabalo, savanilla, silverfish, and jewfish. |
tartarum | noun (n.) See 1st Tartar. |
tauriform | adjective (a.) Having the form of a bull. |
tautomerism | noun (n.) The condition, quality, or relation of metameric substances, or their respective derivatives, which are more or less interchangeable, according as one form or the other is the more stable. It is a special case of metamerism; thus, the lactam and the lactim compounds exhibit tautomerism. |
team | noun (n.) A group of young animals, especially of young ducks; a brood; a litter. |
noun (n.) Hence, a number of animals moving together. | |
noun (n.) Two or more horses, oxen, or other beasts harnessed to the same vehicle for drawing, as to a coach, wagon, sled, or the like. | |
noun (n.) A number of persons associated together in any work; a gang; especially, a number of persons selected to contend on one side in a match, or a series of matches, in a cricket, football, rowing, etc. | |
noun (n.) A flock of wild ducks. | |
noun (n.) A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto. | |
verb (v. i.) To engage in the occupation of driving a team of horses, cattle, or the like, as in conveying or hauling lumber, goods, etc.; to be a teamster. | |
verb (v. t.) To convey or haul with a team; as, to team lumber. |
technism | noun (n.) Technicality. |
tecum | noun (n.) See Tucum. |
tedium | noun (n.) Irksomeness; wearisomeness; tediousness. |
teem | adjective (a.) To think fit. |
verb (v. t.) To pour; -- commonly followed by out; as, to teem out ale. | |
verb (v. t.) To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mold, with molten metal. | |
verb (v. i.) To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply. | |
verb (v. i.) To be full, or ready to bring forth; to be stocked to overflowing; to be prolific; to abound. | |
verb (v. t.) To produce; to bring forth. |
teetotalism | noun (n.) The principle or practice of entire abstinence, esp. from intoxicating drinks. |
teetotum | noun (n.) A child's toy, somewhat resembling a top, and twirled by the fingers. |
tegmentum | noun (n.) A covering; -- applied especially to the bundles of longitudinal fibers in the upper part of the crura of the cerebrum. |
telegram | noun (n.) A message sent by telegraph; a telegraphic dispatch. |
telesm | noun (n.) A kind of amulet or magical charm. |
tellurism | noun (n.) An hypothesis of animal magnetism propounded by Dr. Keiser, in Germany, in which the phenomena are ascribed to the agency of a telluric spirit or influence. |
tellurium | noun (n.) A rare nonmetallic element, analogous to sulphur and selenium, occasionally found native as a substance of a silver-white metallic luster, but usually combined with metals, as with gold and silver in the mineral sylvanite, with mercury in Coloradoite, etc. Symbol Te. Atomic weight 125.2. |
tenaculum | noun (n.) An instrument consisting of a fine, sharp hook attached to a handle, and used mainly for taking up arteries, and the like. |
tentaculiform | adjective (a.) Shaped like a tentacle. |
tentaculum | noun (n.) A tentacle. |
noun (n.) One of the stiff hairs situated about the mouth, or on the face, of many animals, and supposed to be tactile organs; a tactile hair. |
tentorium | noun (n.) A fold of the dura mater which separates the cerebellum from the cerebrum and often incloses a process or plate of the skull called the bony tentorium. |
teraphim | noun (n. pl.) Images connected with the magical rites used by those Israelites who added corrupt practices to the patriarchal religion. Teraphim were consulted by the Israelites for oracular answers. |
terbium | noun (n.) A rare metallic element, of uncertain identification, supposed to exist in certain minerals, as gadolinite and samarskite, with other rare ytterbium earth. Symbol Tr or Tb. Atomic weight 150. |
terebratuliform | adjective (a.) Having the general form of a terebratula shell. |
tergum | noun (n.) The back of an animal. |
noun (n.) The dorsal piece of a somite of an articulate animal. | |
noun (n.) One of the dorsal plates of the operculum of a cirriped. |
term | noun (n.) That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary. |
noun (n.) The time for which anything lasts; any limited time; as, a term of five years; the term of life. | |
noun (n.) In universities, schools, etc., a definite continuous period during which instruction is regularly given to students; as, the school year is divided into three terms. | |
noun (n.) A point, line, or superficies, that limits; as, a line is the term of a superficies, and a superficies is the term of a solid. | |
noun (n.) A fixed period of time; a prescribed duration | |
noun (n.) The limitation of an estate; or rather, the whole time for which an estate is granted, as for the term of a life or lives, or for a term of years. | |
noun (n.) A space of time granted to a debtor for discharging his obligation. | |
noun (n.) The time in which a court is held or is open for the trial of causes. | |
noun (n.) The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice. | |
noun (n.) A word or expression; specifically, one that has a precisely limited meaning in certain relations and uses, or is peculiar to a science, art, profession, or the like; as, a technical term. | |
noun (n.) A quadrangular pillar, adorned on the top with the figure of a head, as of a man, woman, or satyr; -- called also terminal figure. See Terminus, n., 2 and 3. | |
noun (n.) A member of a compound quantity; as, a or b in a + b; ab or cd in ab - cd. | |
noun (n.) The menses. | |
noun (n.) Propositions or promises, as in contracts, which, when assented to or accepted by another, settle the contract and bind the parties; conditions. | |
noun (n.) In Scotland, the time fixed for the payment of rents. | |
noun (n.) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail. | |
noun (n.) To apply a term to; to name; to call; to denominate. |
termatarium | noun (n.) Any nest or dwelling of termes, or white ants. |
terminism | noun (n.) The doctrine held by the Terminists. |
terrorism | noun (n.) The act of terrorizing, or state of being terrorized; a mode of government by terror or intimidation. |
noun (n.) The practise of coercing governments to accede to political demands by committing violence on civilian targets; any similar use of violence to achieve goals. |
tetartohedrism | noun (n.) The property of being tetartohedral. |
tetradrachm | noun (n.) Alt. of Tetradrachma |
tetrapharmacom | noun (n.) Alt. of Tetrapharmacum |
tetrapharmacum | noun (n.) A combination of wax, resin, lard, and pitch, composing an ointment. |
teutonicism | noun (n.) A mode of speech peculiar to the Teutons; a Teutonic idiom, phrase, or expression; a Teutonic mode or custom; a Germanism. |
thallium | noun (n.) A rare metallic element of the aluminium group found in some minerals, as certain pyrites, and also in the lead-chamber deposit in the manufacture of sulphuric acid. It is isolated as a heavy, soft, bluish white metal, easily oxidized in moist air, but preserved by keeping under water. Symbol Tl. Atomic weight 203.7. |
thanedom | noun (n.) The property or jurisdiction of a thane; thanage. |
theanthropism | noun (n.) A state of being God and man. |
noun (n.) The ascription of human atributes to the Deity, or to a polytheistic deity; anthropomorphism. |
thedom | noun (n.) Success; fortune; luck; chance. |
theiform | adjective (a.) Having the form of tea. |
theism | noun (n.) The belief or acknowledgment of the existence of a God, as opposed to atheism, pantheism, or polytheism. |
noun (n.) The morbid condition resulting from the excessive use of tea. |
them | noun (pron.) The objective case of they. See They. |
theogonism | noun (n.) Theogony. |
theophilanthropism | noun (n.) The doctrine of the theophilanthropists; theophilanthropy. |
theorem | noun (n.) That which is considered and established as a principle; hence, sometimes, a rule. |
noun (n.) A statement of a principle to be demonstrated. | |
verb (v. t.) To formulate into a theorem. |
theosophism | noun (n.) Belief in theosophy. |
thermomagnetism | noun (n.) Magnetism as affected or caused by the action of heat; the relation of heat to magnetism. |
thermotropism | noun (n.) The phenomenon of turning towards a source of warmth, seen in the growing parts of some plants. |
thraldom | noun (n.) The condition of a thrall; slavery; bondage; state of servitude. |
thralldom | noun (n.) Thraldom. |
threadworm | noun (n.) Any long, slender nematode worm, especially the pinworm and filaria. |
thrum | noun (n.) One of the ends of weaver's threads; hence, any soft, short threads or tufts resembling these. |
noun (n.) Any coarse yarn; an unraveled strand of rope. | |
noun (n.) A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen. | |
noun (n.) A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam. | |
noun (n.) A mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn. | |
verb (v. t.) To furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe. | |
verb (v. t.) To insert short pieces of rope-yarn or spun yarn in; as, to thrum a piece of canvas, or a mat, thus making a rough or tufted surface. | |
verb (v. i.) To play rudely or monotonously on a stringed instrument with the fingers; to strum. | |
verb (v. i.) Hence, to make a monotonous drumming noise; as, to thrum on a table. | |
verb (v. t.) To play, as a stringed instrument, in a rude or monotonous manner. | |
verb (v. t.) Hence, to drum on; to strike in a monotonous manner; to thrum the table. |
thuggism | noun (n.) Thuggee. |
thulium | noun (n.) A rare metallic element of uncertain properties and identity, said to have been found in the mineral gadolinite. |
thummim | noun (n. pl.) A mysterious part or decoration of the breastplate of the Jewish high priest. See the note under Urim. |
thunderstorm | noun (n.) A storm accompanied with lightning and thunder. |
thunderworm | noun (n.) A small, footless, burrowing, snakelike lizard (Rhineura Floridana) allied to Amphisbaena, native of Florida; -- so called because it leaves its burrows after a thundershower. |
tiebeam | noun (n.) A beam acting as a tie, as at the bottom of a pair of principal rafters, to prevent them from thrusting out the wall. See Illust. of Timbers, under Roof. |
titanium | noun (n.) An elementary substance found combined in the minerals manaccanite, rutile, sphene, etc., and isolated as an infusible iron-gray amorphous powder, having a metallic luster. It burns when heated in the air. Symbol Ti. Atomic weight 48.1. |
titanotherium | noun (n.) A large American Miocene mammal, allied to the rhinoceros, and more nearly to the extinct Brontotherium. |
toadyism | noun (n.) The practice of meanly fawning on another; base sycophancy; servile adulation. |
tom | noun (n.) The knave of trumps at gleek. |
noun (n.) A familiar contraction of Thomas, a proper name of a man. | |
noun (n.) The male of certain animals; -- often used adjectively or in composition; as, tom turkey, tomcat, etc. |
tomentum | noun (n.) The closely matted hair or downy nap covering the leaves or stems of some plants. |
tomium | noun (n.) The cutting edge of the bill of a bird. |
tongueworm | noun (n.) Any species of Linguatulina. |
toom | adjective (a.) Empty. |
verb (v. t.) To empty. |
torulaform | adjective (a.) Having the appearance of a torula; in the form of a little chain; as, a torulaform string of micrococci. |
toryism | noun (n.) The principles of the Tories. |
totem | noun (n.) A rude picture, as of a bird, beast, or the like, used by the North American Indians as a symbolic designation, as of a family or a clan. |
totemism | noun (n.) The system of distinguishing families, clans, etc., in a tribe by the totem. |
noun (n.) Superstitious regard for a totem; the worship of any real or imaginary object; nature worship. |
tractarianism | noun (n.) The principles of the Tractarians, or of those persons accepting the teachings of the "Tracts for the Times." |
traditionlism | noun (n.) A system of faith founded on tradition; esp., the doctrine that all religious faith is to be based solely upon what is delivered from competent authority, exclusive of rational processes. |
traducianism | noun (n.) The doctrine that human souls are produced by the act of generation; -- opposed to creationism, and infusionism. |
tram | noun (n.) A four-wheeled truck running on rails, and used in a mine, as for carrying coal or ore. |
noun (n.) The shaft of a cart. | |
noun (n.) One of the rails of a tramway. | |
noun (n.) A car on a horse railroad. | |
noun (n.) A silk thread formed of two or more threads twisted together, used especially for the weft, or cross threads, of the best quality of velvets and silk goods. | |
noun (n.) Same as Trammel, n., 6. | |
verb (v. t.) To convey or transport on a tramway or on a tram car. | |
verb (v. i.) To operate, or conduct the business of, a tramway; to travel by tramway. |
trangram | noun (n.) Something intricately contrived; a contrived; a puzzle. |
transcendentalism | noun (n.) The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge. |
noun (n.) Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction. |
transformism | noun (n.) The hypothesis, or doctrine, that living beings have originated by the modification of some other previously existing forms of living matter; -- opposed to abiogenesis. |
transom | noun (n.) A horizontal crossbar in a window, over a door, or between a door and a window above it. Transom is the horizontal, as mullion is the vertical, bar across an opening. See Illust. of Mullion. |
noun (n.) One of the principal transverse timbers of the stern, bolted to the sternpost and giving shape to the stern structure; -- called also transsummer. | |
noun (n.) The piece of wood or iron connecting the cheeks of some gun carriages. | |
noun (n.) The vane of a cross-staff. | |
noun (n.) One of the crossbeams connecting the side frames of a truck with each other. |
trapeziform | adjective (a.) Having the form of a trapezium; trapezoid. |
trapezium | noun (n.) A plane figure bounded by four right lines, of which no two are parallel. |
noun (n.) A bone of the carpus at the base of the first metacarpal, or thumb. | |
noun (n.) A region on the ventral side of the brain, either just back of the pons Varolii, or, as in man, covered by the posterior extension of its transverse fibers. |
traulism | noun (n.) A stammering or stuttering. |
traumatism | noun (n.) A wound or injury directly produced by causes external to the body; also, violence producing a wound or injury; as, rupture of the stomach caused by traumatism. |
tribalism | noun (n.) The state of existing in tribes; also, tribal feeling; tribal prejudice or exclusiveness; tribal peculiarities or characteristics. |
trichiuriform | adjective (a.) Like or pertaining to the genus Trichiurus or family Trichiuridae, comprising the scabbard fishes and hairtails. |
trichroism | noun (n.) The quality possessed by some crystals of presenting different colors in three different directions. |
trichromatism | noun (n.) The quality, state, or phenomenon of being trichromatic. |
triclinium | noun (n.) A couch for reclining at meals, extending round three sides of a table, and usually in three parts. |
noun (n.) A dining room furnished with such a triple couch. |