Name Report For First Name TORY:
TORY
First name TORY's origin is Irish. TORY means "from the knolls". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with TORY below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of tory.(Brown names are of the same origin (Irish) with TORY and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with TORY - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming TORY
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES TORY AS A WHOLE:
torynNAMES RHYMING WITH TORY (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ory) - Names That Ends with ory:
jory dory ivory amory cory emory gregory mallory roryRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ry) - Names That Ends with ry:
kundry tamary khairy barry avery emery perry salisbury thiery cleary ambry cherry devery hilary hillary kerry margery mary merry rosemary sherry aeary amery carbry cary conary darry dary derry ellery farry flannery gary gerry gilvarry gorry harry jeffery jeffry jerry keary larry leary montgomery mukonry murry rorry sallsbury sheary terry thierry torry zachary zackary zackery zakary dimitry stanbury kendry geary fakhry cundry khoury landry roxbury amaury henry aubry corry destry devry garryNAMES RHYMING WITH TORY (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (tor) - Names That Begins with tor:
tor toran torben torean toren torence torey torht torhte tori toriana torie torin torio torion torley tormaigh tormey tormod torn toro torr torra torran torrance torrans torree torrence torrey torri torrian torrie tortain toruRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (to) - Names That Begins with to:
toai toan toba tobechukwu tobey tobiah tobias tobie tobin tobrecan tobrytan toby tobyn tocho tochtli tod todd toft togquos tohias tohopka tohy toibe toirdealbach toirdealbhach toireasa tokala tolan toland toli tolinka tolland tolman toltecatl tolucan tom toman tomas tomasina tomasine tomek tomeo tomi tomik tomkin tomlin tommie tommy tonalnan tonasha tonauac tonda tong toni tonia tonia-javae tonio tonisha tony tonya tonye tooantuh tosh tosha toshi toshiroNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH TORY:
First Names which starts with 't' and ends with 'y':
tacy tally tamay tammy tanguy tansy tavey tawney tawny tearley tearly teddy teirney thady thay thieny thorley thornley thornly thursday thuy tiernay tierney tiffany tiffney tilly timmy timothy towley townly tracey tracy treacy treadway tredway trey trilby trinidy trinity troy ttoby tuesday tulley tully tymothyEnglish Words Rhyming TORY
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES TORY AS A WHOLE:
| abbreviatory | adjective (a.) Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging. |
| abditory | noun (n.) A place for hiding or preserving articles of value. |
| abjuratory | adjective (a.) Containing abjuration. |
| absolutory | adjective (a.) Serving to absolve; absolving. |
| absolvatory | adjective (a.) Conferring absolution; absolutory. |
| acceleratory | adjective (a.) Accelerative. |
| acclamatory | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or expressing approval by, acclamation. |
| accusatory | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, an accusation; as, an accusatory libel. |
| additory | adjective (a.) Tending to add; making some addition. |
| adhortatory | adjective (a.) Containing counsel or warning; hortatory; advisory. |
| adjuratory | adjective (a.) Containing an adjuration. |
| adjutory | adjective (a.) Serving to help or assist; helping. |
| admonitory | adjective (a.) That conveys admonition; warning or reproving; as, an admonitory glance. |
| adstrictory | adjective (a.) See Astrictory. |
| adulatory | adjective (a.) Containing excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address. |
| advocatory | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an advocate. |
| affirmatory | adjective (a.) Giving affirmation; assertive; affirmative. |
| aleatory | adjective (a.) Depending on some uncertain contingency; as, an aleatory contract. |
| alleviatory | adjective (a.) Alleviative. |
| amatory | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, producing, or expressing, sexual love; as, amatory potions. |
| ambagitory | adjective (a.) Ambagious. |
| ambulatory | noun (n.) A place to walk in, whether in the open air, as the gallery of a cloister, or within a building. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to walking; having the faculty of walking; formed or fitted for walking; as, an ambulatory animal. | |
| adjective (a.) Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable; as, an ambulatory court, which exercises its jurisdiction in different places. | |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to a walk. | |
| adjective (a.) Not yet fixed legally, or settled past alteration; alterable; as, the dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator. |
| amendatory | adjective (a.) Supplying amendment; corrective; emendatory. |
| amplificatory | adjective (a.) Serving to amplify or enlarge; amplificative. |
| annihilatory | adjective (a.) Annihilative. |
| annotatory | adjective (a.) Pertaining to an annotator; containing annotations. |
| annunciatory | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, announcement; making known. |
| anticipatory | adjective (a.) Forecasting; of the nature of anticipation. |
| appellatory | adjective (a.) Containing an appeal. |
| applicatory | noun (n.) That which applies. |
| adjective (a.) Having the property of applying; applicative; practical. |
| apprecatory | adjective (a.) Praying or wishing good. |
| appreciatory | adjective (a.) Showing appreciation; appreciative; as, appreciatory commendation. |
| approbatory | adjective (a.) Containing or expressing approbation; commendatory. |
| aratory | adjective (a.) Contributing to tillage. |
| aspiratory | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to breathing; suited to the inhaling of air |
| assentatory | adjective (a.) Flattering; obsequious. |
| assertory | adjective (a.) Affirming; maintaining. |
| asseveratory | adjective (a.) Asseverative. |
| assimilatory | adjective (a.) Tending to assimilate, or produce assimilation; as, assimilatory organs. |
| astrictory | adjective (a.) Astrictive. |
| auditory | noun (n.) An assembly of hearers; an audience. |
| noun (n.) An auditorium. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing; as, the auditory nerve. See Ear. |
| auscultatory | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to auscultation. |
| auxiliatory | adjective (a.) Auxiliary; helping. |
| balneatory | adjective (a.) Belonging to a bath. |
| benedictory | adjective (a.) Expressing wishes for good; as, a benedictory prayer. |
| bibitory | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to drinking or tippling. |
| blindstory | noun (n.) The triforium as opposed to the clearstory. |
| cachinnatory | adjective (a.) Consisting of, or accompanied by, immoderate laughter. |
| calcinatory | noun (n.) A vessel used in calcination. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH TORY (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ory) - English Words That Ends with ory:
| accessory | noun (n.) That which belongs to something else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate. |
| noun (n.) Same as Accessary, n. | |
| noun (n.) Anything that enters into a work of art without being indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental parts. | |
| adjective (a.) Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music. |
| adiaphory | noun (n.) Indifference. |
| admissory | adjective (a.) Pertaining to admission. |
| advisory | adjective (a.) Having power to advise; containing advice; as, an advisory council; their opinion is merely advisory. |
| allegory | noun (n.) A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject. |
| noun (n.) Anything which represents by suggestive resemblance; an emblem. | |
| noun (n.) A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured. |
| allusory | adjective (a.) Allusive. |
| amphigory | noun (n.) A nonsense verse; a rigmarole, with apparent meaning, which on further attention proves to be meaningless. |
| armory | noun (n.) A place where arms and instruments of war are deposited for safe keeping. |
| noun (n.) Armor; defensive and offensive arms. | |
| noun (n.) A manufactory of arms, as rifles, muskets, pistols, bayonets, swords. | |
| noun (n.) Ensigns armorial; armorial bearings. | |
| noun (n.) That branch of heraldry which treats of coat armor. |
| calculatory | adjective (a.) Belonging to calculation. |
| calefactory | noun (n.) An apartment in a monastery, warmed and used as a sitting room. |
| noun (n.) A hollow sphere of metal, filled with hot water, or a chafing dish, placed on the altar in cold weather for the priest to warm his hands with. | |
| adjective (a.) Making hot; producing or communicating heat. |
| calumniatory | adjective (a.) Containing calumny; slanderous. |
| cantatory | adjective (a.) Containing cant or affectation; whining; singing. |
| cardioinhibitory | adjective (a.) Checking or arresting the heart's action. |
| castigatory | noun (n.) An instrument formerly used to punish and correct arrant scolds; -- called also a ducking stool, or trebucket. |
| adjective (a.) Punitive in order to amendment; corrective. |
| category | noun (n.) One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament. |
| noun (n.) Class; also, state, condition, or predicament; as, we are both in the same category. |
| cementatory | adjective (a.) Having the quality of cementing or uniting firmly. |
| cenatory | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to dinner or supper. |
| chiccory | noun (n.) See Chicory. |
| chicory | noun (n.) A branching perennial plant (Cichorium Intybus) with bright blue flowers, growing wild in Europe, Asia, and America; also cultivated for its roots and as a salad plant; succory; wild endive. See Endive. |
| noun (n.) The root, which is roasted for mixing with coffee. |
| chrismatory | noun (n.) A cruet or vessel in which chrism is kept. |
| chylificatory | adjective (a.) Chylifactive. |
| circulatory | noun (n.) A chemical vessel consisting of two portions unequally exposed to the heat of the fire, and with connecting pipes or passages, through which the fluid rises from the overheated portion, and descends from the relatively colder, maintaining a circulation. |
| adjective (a.) Circular; as, a circulatory letter. | |
| adjective (a.) Circulating, or going round. | |
| adjective (a.) Subserving the purposes of circulation; as, circulatory organs; of or pertaining to the organs of circulation; as, circulatory diseases. |
| circumgyratory | adjective (a.) Moving in a circle; turning round. |
| circumlocutory | adjective (a.) Characterised by circumlocution; periphrastic. |
| circumrotatory | adjective (a.) turning, rolling, or whirling round. |
| citatory | adjective (a.) Having the power or form of a citation; as, letters citatory. |
| classificatory | adjective (a.) Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification. |
| clearstory | noun (n.) Alt. of Clerestory |
| clerestory | noun (n.) The upper story of the nave of a church, containing windows, and rising above the aisle roofs. |
| noun (n.) Same as Clearstory. |
| clerstory | noun (n.) See Clearstory. |
| coagulatory | adjective (a.) Serving to coagulate; produced by coagulation; as, coagulatory effects. |
| collusory | adjective (a.) Collusive. |
| collutory | noun (n.) A medicated wash for the mouth. |
| commandatory | adjective (a.) Mandatory; as, commandatory authority. |
| commemoratory | adjective (a.) Serving to commemorate; commemorative. |
| commendatory | noun (n.) A commendation; eulogy. |
| adjective (a.) Serving to commend; containing praise or commendation; commending; praising. | |
| adjective (a.) Holding a benefice in commendam; as, a commendatory bishop. |
| comminatory | adjective (a.) Threatening or denouncing punishment; as, comminatory terms. |
| commonitory | adjective (a.) Calling to mind; giving admonition. |
| communicatory | adjective (a.) Imparting knowledge or information. |
| compellatory | adjective (a.) Serving to compel; compulsory. |
| compensatory | adjective (a.) Serving for compensation; making amends. |
| competitory | adjective (a.) Acting in competition; competing; rival. |
| completory | noun (n.) Same as Compline. |
| adjective (a.) Serving to fulfill. |
| compulsatory | adjective (a.) Operating with force; compelling; forcing; constraining; resulting from, or enforced by, compulsion. |
| compulsory | adjective (a.) Having the power of compulsion; constraining. |
| adjective (a.) Obligatory; enjoined by authority; necessary; due to compulsion. |
| concessory | adjective (a.) Conceding; permissive. |
| conciliatory | adjective (a.) Tending to conciliate; pacific; mollifying; propitiating. |
| concionatory | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to preaching or public addresses. |
| conclusory | adjective (a.) Conclusive. |
| condemnatory | adjective (a.) Condemning; containing or imposing condemnation or censure; as, a condemnatory sentence or decree. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH TORY (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (tor) - Words That Begins with tor:
| tor | noun (n.) A tower; a turret. |
| noun (n.) High-pointed hill; a rocky pinnacle. |
| torbernite | noun (n.) A mineral occurring in emerald-green tabular crystals having a micaceous structure. It is a hydrous phosphate of uranium and copper. Called also copper uranite, and chalcolite. |
| torc | noun (n.) Same as Torque, 1. |
| torch | noun (n.) A light or luminary formed of some combustible substance, as of resinous wood; a large candle or flambeau, or a lamp giving a large, flaring flame. |
| noun (n.) A flashlight. |
| torchbearer | noun (n.) One whose office it is to carry a torch. |
| torcher | noun (n.) One who gives light with a torch, or as if with a torch. |
| torchlight | noun (n.) The light of a torch, or of torches. Also adjectively; as, a torchlight procession. |
| torchwood | noun (n.) The inflammable wood of certain trees (Amyris balsamifera, A. Floridana, etc.); also, the trees themselves. |
| torchwort | noun (n.) The common mullein, the stalks of which, dipped in suet, anciently served for torches. Called also torch, and hig-taper. |
| tore | noun (n.) The dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring. |
| noun (n.) Same as Torus. | |
| noun (n.) The surface described by the circumference of a circle revolving about a straight line in its own plane. | |
| noun (n.) The solid inclosed by such a surface; -- sometimes called an anchor ring. | |
| (imp.) of Tear | |
| () imp. of Tear. |
| toreador | noun (n.) A bullfighter. |
| toret | noun (n.) A Turret. |
| noun (n.) A ring for fastening a hawk's leash to the jesses; also, a ring affixed to the collar of a dog, etc. |
| toreumatography | noun (n.) A description of sculpture such as bas-relief in metal. |
| toreumatology | noun (n.) The art or the description of scupture such as bas-relief in metal; toreumatography. |
| toreutic | adjective (a.) In relief; pertaining to sculpture in relief, especially of metal; also, pertaining to chasing such as surface ornamentation in metal. |
| torgoch | noun (n.) The saibling. |
| torilto | noun (n.) A species of Turnix (Turnix sylvatica) native of Spain and Northen Africa. |
| torinese | noun (n. sing. & pl.) A native or inhabitant of Turin; collectively, the people of Turin. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Turin. |
| torment | noun (n.) An engine for casting stones. |
| noun (n.) Extreme pain; anguish; torture; the utmost degree of misery, either of body or mind. | |
| noun (n.) That which gives pain, vexation, or misery. | |
| verb (v. t.) To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture. | |
| verb (v. t.) To pain; to distress; to afflict. | |
| verb (v. t.) To tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with importunities, or with petty annoyances. | |
| verb (v. t.) To put into great agitation. |
| tormenting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Torment |
| adjective (a.) Causing torment; as, a tormenting dream. |
| tormenter | noun (n.) One who, or that which, torments; a tormentor. |
| noun (n.) An executioner. |
| tormentful | adjective (a.) Full of torment; causing, or accompainied by, torment; excruciating. |
| tormentil | noun (n.) A rosaceous herb (Potentilla Tormentilla), the root of which is used as a powerful astringent, and for alleviating gripes, or tormina, in diarrhea. |
| tormentise | noun (n.) Torture; torment. |
| tormentor | noun (n.) One who, or that which, torments; one who inflicts penal anguish or tortures. |
| noun (n.) An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels. |
| tormentress | noun (n.) A woman who torments. |
| tormentry | noun (n.) Anything producing torment, annoyance, or pain. |
| tormina | noun (n. pl.) acute, colicky pains; gripes. |
| torminous | adjective (a.) Affected with tormina; griping. |
| tornado | noun (n.) A violent whirling wind; specifically (Meteorol.), a tempest distinguished by a rapid whirling and slow progressive motion, usually accompaned with severe thunder, lightning, and torrents of rain, and commonly of short duration and small breadth; a small cyclone. |
| tornaria | noun (n.) The peculiar free swimming larva of Balanoglossus. See Illust. in Append. |
| torose | adjective (a.) Cylindrical with alternate swellings and contractions; having the surface covered with rounded prominences. |
| torosity | noun (n.) The quality or state of being torose. |
| torous | adjective (a.) Torose. |
| torpedinous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a torpedo; resembling a torpedo; exerting a benumbing influence; stupefying; dull; torpid. |
| torpedo | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes belonging to Torpedo and allied genera. They are related to the rays, but have the power of giving electrical shocks. Called also crampfish, and numbfish. See Electrical fish, under Electrical. |
| noun (n.) An engine or machine for destroying ships by blowing them up. | |
| noun (n.) A quantity of explosives anchored in a channel, beneath the water, or set adrift in a current, and so arranged that they will be exploded when touched by a vessel, or when an electric circuit is closed by an operator on shore. | |
| noun (n.) A kind of small submarine boat carrying an explosive charge, and projected from a ship against another ship at a distance, or made self-propelling, and otherwise automatic in its action against a distant ship. | |
| noun (n.) A kind of shell or cartridge buried in earth, to be exploded by electricity or by stepping on it. | |
| noun (n.) A kind of detonating cartridge or shell placed on a rail, and exploded when crushed under the locomotive wheels, -- used as an alarm signal. | |
| noun (n.) An explosive cartridge or shell lowered or dropped into a bored oil well, and there exploded, to clear the well of obstructions or to open communication with a source of supply of oil. | |
| noun (n.) A kind of firework in the form of a small ball, or pellet, which explodes when thrown upon a hard object. | |
| noun (n.) An automobile with a torpedo body. | |
| verb (v. t.) to destroy by, or subject to the action of, a torpedo. |
| torpent | adjective (a.) Having no motion or activity; incapable of motion; benumbed; torpid. |
| torpescence | noun (n.) The quality or state or being torpescent; torpidness; numbness; stupidity. |
| torpid | adjective (a.) Having lost motion, or the power of exertion and feeling; numb; benumbed; as, a torpid limb. |
| adjective (a.) Dull; stupid; sluggish; inactive. | |
| adjective (a.) An inferior racing boat, or one who rows in such a boat. | |
| adjective (a.) The Lenten rowing races. |
| torpidity | noun (n.) Same as Torpidness. |
| torpidness | noun (n.) The qualityy or state of being torpid. |
| torpifying | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Torpify |
| torpitude | noun (n.) Torpidness. |
| torpor | noun (n.) Loss of motion, or of the motion; a state of inactivity with partial or total insensibility; numbness. |
| noun (n.) Dullness; sluggishness; inactivity; as, a torpor of the mental faculties. |
| torporific | adjective (a.) Tending to produce torpor. |
| torquate | adjective (a.) Collared; having a torques, or distinct colored ring around the neck. |
| torquated | adjective (a.) Having or wearing a torque, or neck chain. |
| torque | noun (n.) A collar or neck chain, usually twisted, especially as worn by ancient barbaric nations, as the Gauls, Germans, and Britons. |
| noun (n.) That which tends to produce torsion; a couple of forces. | |
| noun (n.) A turning or twisting; tendency to turn, or cause to turn, about an axis. |
| torqued | adjective (a.) Wreathed; twisted. |
| adjective (a.) Twisted; bent; -- said of a dolphin haurient, which forms a figure like the letter S. |
| torques | noun (n.) A cervical ring of hair or feathers, distinguished by its color or structure; a collar. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH TORY:
English Words which starts with 't' and ends with 'y':
| tabby | noun (n.) A kind of waved silk, usually called watered silk, manufactured like taffeta, but thicker and stronger. The watering is given to it by calendering. |
| noun (n.) A mixture of lime with shells, gravel, or stones, in equal proportions, with an equal proportion of water. When dry, this becomes as hard as rock. | |
| noun (n.) A brindled cat; hence, popularly, any cat. | |
| noun (n.) An old maid or gossip. | |
| adjective (a.) Having a wavy or watered appearance; as, a tabby waistcoat. | |
| adjective (a.) Brindled; diversified in color; as, a tabby cat. | |
| verb (v. t.) To water; to cause to look wavy, by the process of calendering; to calender; as, to tabby silk, mohair, ribbon, etc. |
| tachydidaxy | noun (n.) A short or rapid method of instructing. |
| tachygraphy | noun (n.) The art or practice of rapid writing; shorthand writing; stenography. |
| taciturnity | noun (n.) Habilual silence, or reserve in speaking. |
| tackey | noun (a. & n.) See Tacky. |
| tacky | noun (n.) An ill-conditioned, ill-fed, or neglected horse; also, a person in a like condition. |
| adjective (a.) Sticky; adhesive; raw; -- said of paint, varnish, etc., when not well dried. | |
| adjective (a.) Dowdy, shabby, or neglected in appearance; unkempt. |
| tactility | noun (n.) The quality or state of being tactile; perceptibility by touch; tangibleness. |
| taffety | noun (n.) A fine, smooth stuff of silk, having usually the wavy luster called watering. The term has also been applied to different kinds of silk goods, from the 16th century to modern times. |
| taffy | noun (n.) A kind of candy made of molasses or brown sugar boiled down and poured out in shallow pans. |
| noun (n.) Flattery; soft phrases. |
| tallowy | adjective (a.) Of the nature of tallow; resembling tallow; greasy. |
| tally | noun (n.) Originally, a piece of wood on which notches or scores were cut, as the marks of number; later, one of two books, sheets of paper, etc., on which corresponding accounts were kept. |
| noun (n.) Hence, any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book; especially, one kept in duplicate. | |
| noun (n.) One thing made to suit another; a match; a mate. | |
| noun (n.) A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as, to make or earn a tally in a game. | |
| noun (n.) A tally shop. See Tally shop, below. | |
| noun (n.) To score with correspondent notches; hence, to make to correspond; to cause to fit or suit. | |
| noun (n.) To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or outboard. | |
| adjective (a.) Stoutly; with spirit. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be fitted; to suit; to correspond; to match. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make a tally; to score; as, to tally in a game. |
| tamability | noun (n.) The quality or state of being tamable; tamableness. |
| taminy | noun (n.) A kind of woolen cloth; tammy. |
| tammy | noun (n.) A kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, -- used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc. |
| noun (n.) A sieve, or strainer, made of this material; a tamis. |
| tangency | noun (n.) The quality or state of being tangent; a contact or touching. |
| tangibility | noun (n.) The quality or state of being tangible. |
| tangly | adjective (a.) Entangled; intricate. |
| adjective (a.) Covered with tangle, or seaweed. |
| tanistry | noun (n.) In Ireland, a tenure of family lands by which the proprietor had only a life estate, to which he was admitted by election. |
| tannery | noun (n.) A place where the work of tanning is carried on. |
| noun (n.) The art or process of tanning. |
| tansy | noun (n.) Any plant of the composite genus Tanacetum. The common tansy (T. vulgare) has finely divided leaves, a strong aromatic odor, and a very bitter taste. It is used for medicinal and culinary purposes. |
| noun (n.) A dish common in the seventeenth century, made of eggs, sugar, rose water, cream, and the juice of herbs, baked with butter in a shallow dish. |
| tantivy | noun (n.) A rapid, violent gallop; an impetuous rush. |
| adverb (adv.) Swiftly; speedily; rapidly; -- a fox-hunting term; as, to ride tantivy. | |
| verb (v. i.) To go away in haste. |
| tapestry | noun (n.) A fabric, usually of worsted, worked upon a warp of linen or other thread by hand, the designs being usually more or less pictorial and the stuff employed for wall hangings and the like. The term is also applied to different kinds of embroidery. |
| verb (v. t.) To adorn with tapestry, or as with tapestry. |
| tardity | noun (n.) Slowness; tardiness. |
| tarry | noun (n.) Consisting of, or covered with, tar; like tar. |
| noun (n.) Stay; stop; delay. | |
| verb (v. i.) To stay or remain behind; to wait. | |
| verb (v. i.) To delay; to put off going or coming; to loiter. | |
| verb (v. i.) To stay; to abide; to continue; to lodge. | |
| verb (v. t.) To delay; to defer; to put off. | |
| verb (v. t.) To wait for; to stay or stop for. |
| tarsectomy | noun (n.) The operation of excising one or more of the bones of the tarsus. |
| tarsorrhaphy | noun (n.) An operation to diminish the size of the opening between eyelids when enlarged by surrounding cicatrices. |
| tarsotomy | noun (n.) The operation of cutting or removing the tarsal cartilages. |
| tartary | noun (n.) Tartarus. |
| tasty | noun (n.) Being in conformity to the principles of good taste; elegant; as, tasty furniture; a tasty dress. |
| superlative (superl.) Having a good taste; -- applied to persons; as, a tasty woman. See Taste, n., 5. |
| tatouay | noun (n.) An armadillo (Xenurus unicinctus), native of the tropical parts of South America. It has about thirteen movable bands composed of small, nearly square, scales. The head is long; the tail is round and tapered, and nearly destitute of scales; the claws of the fore feet are very large. Called also tatouary, and broad-banded armadillo. |
| tattlery | noun (n.) Idle talk or chat; tittle-tattle. |
| tauromachy | noun (n.) Bullfighting. |
| tautology | noun (n.) A repetition of the same meaning in different words; needless repetition of an idea in different words or phrases; a representation of anything as the cause, condition, or consequence of itself, as in the following lines: --//The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers,/And heavily in clouds brings on the day. Addison. |
| tautophony | noun (n.) Repetition of the same sound. |
| tawdry | noun (n.) A necklace of a rural fashion, bought at St. Audrey's fair; hence, a necklace in general. |
| superlative (superl.) Bought at the festival of St. Audrey. | |
| superlative (superl.) Very fine and showy in colors, without taste or elegance; having an excess of showy ornaments without grace; cheap and gaudy; as, a tawdry dress; tawdry feathers; tawdry colors. |
| tawery | noun (n.) A place where skins are tawed. |
| tawny | noun (n.) Of a dull yellowish brown color, like things tanned, or persons who are sunburnt; as, tawny Moor or Spaniard; the tawny lion. |
| taxability | noun (n.) The quality or state of being taxable; taxableness. |
| taxology | noun (n.) Same as Taxonomy. |
| taxonomy | noun (n.) That division of the natural sciences which treats of the classification of animals and plants; the laws or principles of classification. |
| teaberry | noun (n.) The checkerberry. |
| teapoy | noun (n.) An ornamental stand, usually with three legs, having caddies for holding tea. |
| teary | adjective (a.) Wet with tears; tearful. |
| adjective (a.) Consisting of tears, or drops like tears. |
| technicality | noun (n.) The quality or state of being technical; technicalness. |
| noun (n.) That which is technical, or peculiar to any trade, profession, sect, or the like. |
| technicology | noun (n.) Technology. |
| technology | noun (n.) Industrial science; the science of systematic knowledge of the industrial arts, especially of the more important manufactures, as spinning, weaving, metallurgy, etc. |
| techy | adjective (a.) Peevish; fretful; irritable. |
| tectology | noun (n.) A division of morphology created by Haeckel; the science of organic individuality constituting the purely structural portion of morphology, in which the organism is regarded as composed of organic individuals of different orders, each organ being considered an individual. See Promorphology, and Morphon. |
| tediosity | noun (n.) Tediousness. |
| teeny | adjective (a.) Very small; tiny. |
| adjective (a.) Fretful; peevish; pettish; cross. |
| tegumentary | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a tegument or teguments; consisting of teguments; serving as a tegument or covering. |
| telangiectasy | noun (n.) Telangiectasis. |
| telary | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a web; hence, spinning webs; retiary. |
| telegraphy | noun (n.) The science or art of constructing, or of communicating by means of, telegraphs; as, submarine telegraphy. |
| teleology | noun (n.) The doctrine of the final causes of things |
| noun (n.) the doctrine of design, which assumes that the phenomena of organic life, particularly those of evolution, are explicable only by purposive causes, and that they in no way admit of a mechanical explanation or one based entirely on biological science; the doctrine of adaptation to purpose. |
| telepathy | noun (n.) The sympathetic affection of one mind by the thoughts, feelings, or emotions of another at a distance, without communication through the ordinary channels of sensation. |
| telephony | noun (n.) The art or process of reproducing sounds at a distance, as with the telephone. |
| telescopy | noun (n.) The art or practice of using or making telescopes. |
| temerity | noun (n.) Unreasonable contempt of danger; extreme venturesomeness; rashness; as, the temerity of a commander in war. |
| temperancy | noun (n.) Temperance. |
| tempestivily | noun (n.) The quality, or state, of being tempestive; seasonableness. |
| temporality | noun (n.) The state or quality of being temporary; -- opposed to perpetuity. |
| noun (n.) The laity; temporality. | |
| noun (n.) That which pertains to temporal welfare; material interests; especially, the revenue of an ecclesiastic proceeding from lands, tenements, or lay fees, tithes, and the like; -- chiefly used in the plural. |
| temporalty | noun (n.) The laity; secular people. |
| noun (n.) A secular possession; a temporality. |
| temporary | adjective (a.) Lasting for a time only; existing or continuing for a limited time; not permanent; as, the patient has obtained temporary relief. |
| temporomaxillary | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to both the temple or the temporal bone and the maxilla. |
| temptability | noun (n.) The quality or state of being temptable; lability to temptation. |
| temulency | noun (n.) Intoxication; inebriation; drunkenness. |
| tenability | noun (n.) The quality or state of being tenable; tenableness. |
| tenacity | noun (n.) The quality or state of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or retentiveness, of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of purpose. |
| noun (n.) That quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force; cohesiveness; the effect of attraction; -- as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc. | |
| noun (n.) That quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness; viscosity. | |
| noun (n.) The greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder, -- usually expressed with reference to a unit area of the cross section of the substance, as the number of pounds per square inch, or kilograms per square centimeter, necessary to produce rupture. |
| tenacy | noun (n.) Tenaciousness; obstinacy. |
| tenancy | noun (n.) A holding, or a mode of holding, an estate; tenure; the temporary possession of what belongs to another. |
| noun (n.) A house for habitation, or place to live in, held of another. |
| tenantry | noun (n.) The body of tenants; as, the tenantry of a manor or a kingdom. |
| noun (n.) Tenancy. |
| tendency | noun (n.) Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result. |
| tendry | noun (n.) A tender; an offer. |
| tenebrosity | noun (n.) The quality or state of being tenebrous; tenebrousness. |
| tenementary | adjective (a.) Capable of being leased; held by tenants. |
| tenerity | adjective (a.) Tenderness. |
| tenotomy | noun (n.) The division of a tendon, or the act of dividing a tendon. |
| tenpenny | adjective (a.) Valued or sold at ten pence; as, a tenpenny cake. See 2d Penny, n. |
| adjective (a.) Denoting a size of nails. See 1st Penny. |
| tensibility | noun (n.) The quality or state of being tensible; tensility. |
| tensility | noun (n.) The quality or state of being tensile, or capable of extension; tensibility; as, the tensility of the muscles. |
| tensity | noun (n.) The quality or state of being tense, or strained to stiffness; tension; tenseness. |
| tentory | noun (n.) The awning or covering of a tent. |
| tenuity | noun (n.) The quality or state of being tenuous; thinness, applied to a broad substance; slenderness, applied to anything that is long; as, the tenuity of a leaf; the tenuity of a hair. |
| noun (n.) Rarily; rareness; thinness, as of a fluid; as, the tenuity of the air; the tenuity of the blood. | |
| noun (n.) Poverty; indigence. | |
| noun (n.) Refinement; delicacy. |
| tephramancy | noun (n.) Divination by the ashes of the altar on which a victim had been consumed in sacrifice. |
| tepidity | noun (n.) The quality or state of being tepid; moderate warmth; lukewarmness; tepidness. |
| teratogeny | noun (n.) The formation of monsters. |
| teratology | noun (n.) That branch of biological science which treats of monstrosities, malformations, or deviations from the normal type of structure, either in plants or animals. |
| noun (n.) Affectation of sublimity; bombast. |
| tercentenary | noun (n.) The three hundredth anniversary of any event; also, a celebration of such an anniversary. |
| adjective (a.) Including, or relating to, an interval of three hundred years. |
| termagancy | noun (n.) The quality or state of being termagant; turbulence; tumultuousness; as, a violent termagancy of temper. |
| termatary | noun (n.) Same as Termatarium. |
| terminatory | adjective (a.) Terminative. |
| terminology | noun (n.) The doctrine of terms; a theory of terms or appellations; a treatise on terms. |
| noun (n.) The terms actually used in any business, art, science, or the like; nomenclature; technical terms; as, the terminology of chemistry. |
| termly | adjective (a.) Occurring every term; as, a termly fee. |
| adverb (adv.) Term by term; every term. |
| termonology | noun (n.) Terminology. |
| ternary | noun (n.) A ternion; the number three; three things taken together; a triad. |
| adjective (a.) Proceeding by threes; consisting of three; as, the ternary number was anciently esteemed a symbol of perfection, and held in great veneration. | |
| adjective (a.) Containing, or consisting of, three different parts, as elements, atoms, groups, or radicals, which are regarded as having different functions or relations in the molecule; thus, sodic hydroxide, NaOH, is a ternary compound. |
| terreity | noun (n.) Quality of being earthy; earthiness. |
| terrenity | noun (n.) Earthiness; worldliness. |
| territory | noun (n.) A large extent or tract of land; a region; a country; a district. |
| noun (n.) The extent of land belonging to, or under the dominion of, a prince, state, or other form of government; often, a tract of land lying at a distance from the parent country or from the seat of government; as, the territory of a State; the territories of the East India Company. | |
| noun (n.) In the United States, a portion of the country not included within the limits of any State, and not yet admitted as a State into the Union, but organized with a separate legislature, under a Territorial governor and other officers appointed by the President and Senate of the United States. In Canada, a similarly organized portion of the country not yet formed into a Province. |
| terry | noun (n.) A kind of heavy colored fabric, either all silk, or silk and worsted, or silk and cotton, often called terry velvet, used for upholstery and trimmings. |
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