Name Report For First Name TEON:
TEON
First name TEON's origin is English. TEON means "harms". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with TEON below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of teon.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with TEON and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with TEON - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming TEON
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES TEON AS A WHOLE:
acteonNAMES RHYMING WITH TEON (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (eon) - Names That Ends with eon:
alcmaeon creon cleon dameon daveon dayveon deveon gideon jamarreon keon keveon napoleon simeon symeon taveon theon traveon gedeon actaeon leon caerleon deonRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (on) - Names That Ends with on:
afton carnation aedon solon strephon sidon cihuaton nijlon sokanon odion sion accalon dudon hebron pendragon antton erromon gotzon txanton zorion celyddon eburacon mabon bendision alston alton benton burton carelton fenton hamilton harrison histion kenton pierson preston ralston rawson remington rexton sexton stanton weston aymon ganelon vernon glendon lon anton acheron aeson agamemnon amphion amphitryon andraemon arion bellerophon biton cadmon cenon cercyon charon chiron corydon daemon demogorgon demophon deucalion echion endymion erysichthon euryton geryon haemon hyperion iasion iason ionNAMES RHYMING WITH TEON (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (teo) - Names That Begins with teo:
teo teodor teodora teodoro teodosie teofila teofile teoma teoxihuitlRhyming 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 tepiltzin tepin teppo terceira terciero terell teremun terence terentia teresa terese teresina teresita tereus teri terianaNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH TEON:
First Names which starts with 't' and ends with 'n':
taban tagan taidhgin taliesin tallon talon tamryn tamsin tamtun tan tanton taralynn taran taregan tarin tarleton taron tarrin taryn tarynn tavin tavion tavon taylan taylon tayson teriann terilynn terran terrin terron terryn teryn tevin teyacapan teyen teyrnon thain than tharen thawain thegn theron therron theyn thomasin thompson thoraldtun thorn thornton thorntun thuan thurstan thurston thurstun tiala-ann tien tiernan tilden tilian tillman tilman tilton timon timun tin tlazohtzin toan tobin tobrecan tobrytan tobyn tolan tolman tolucan toman tomkin tomlin tonalnan toran torben torean toren torin torion torn torran torrian tortain toryn trahern traian travion travon tredan treddian treffen tremain trennen trentenEnglish Words Rhyming TEON
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES TEON AS A WHOLE:
| lophosteon | noun (n.) The central keel-bearing part of the sternum in birds. |
| malacosteon | noun (n.) A peculiar disease of the bones, in consequence of which they become softened and capable of being bent without breaking. |
| metosteon | noun (n.) The postero-lateral ossification in the sternum of birds; also, the part resulting from such ossification. |
| pleurosteon | noun (n.) The antero-lateral piece which articulates the sternum of birds. |
| urosteon | noun (n.) A median ossification back of the lophosteon in the sternum of some birds. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH TEON (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (eon) - English Words That Ends with eon:
| aeon | noun (n.) A period of immeasurable duration; also, an emanation of the Deity. See Eon. |
| noun (n.) An immeasurable or infinite space of time; eternity; a long space of time; an age. | |
| noun (n.) One of the embodiments of the divine attributes of the Eternal Being. |
| badigeon | noun (n.) A cement or paste (as of plaster and freestone, or of sawdust and glue or lime) used by sculptors, builders, and workers in wood or stone, to fill holes, cover defects, or finish a surface. |
| noun (n.) A cement or distemper paste (as of plaster and powdered freestone, or of sawdust and glue or lime) used by sculptors, builders, and workers in wood or stone, to fill holes, cover defects, etc. |
| bludgeon | noun (n.) A short stick, with one end loaded, or thicker and heavier that the other, used as an offensive weapon. |
| cameleon | noun (n.) See Chaceleon. |
| chameleon | noun (n.) A lizardlike reptile of the genus Chamaeleo, of several species, found in Africa, Asia, and Europe. The skin is covered with fine granulations; the tail is prehensile, and the body is much compressed laterally, giving it a high back. |
| chirurgeon | noun (n.) A surgeon. |
| clergeon | noun (n.) A chorister boy. |
| curmudgeon | noun (n.) An avaricious, grasping fellow; a miser; a niggard; a churl. |
| dudgeon | noun (n.) The root of the box tree, of which hafts for daggers were made. |
| noun (n.) The haft of a dagger. | |
| noun (n.) A dudgeon-hafted dagger; a dagger. | |
| noun (n.) Resentment; ill will; anger; displeasure. | |
| adjective (a.) Homely; rude; coarse. |
| dungeon | noun (n.) A close, dark prison, common/, under ground, as if the lower apartments of the donjon or keep of a castle, these being used as prisons. |
| verb (v. t.) To shut up in a dungeon. |
| eon | noun (n.) Alt. of Aeon |
| escocheon | noun (n.) Escutcheon. |
| escutcheon | noun (n.) The surface, usually a shield, upon which bearings are marshaled and displayed. The surface of the escutcheon is called the field, the upper part is called the chief, and the lower part the base (see Chiff, and Field.). That side of the escutcheon which is on the right hand of the knight who bears the shield on his arm is called dexter, and the other side sinister. |
| noun (n.) A marking upon the back of a cow's udder and the space above it (the perineum), formed by the hair growing upward or outward instead of downward. It is esteemed an index of milking qualities. | |
| noun (n.) That part of a vessel's stern on which her name is written. | |
| noun (n.) A thin metal plate or shield to protect wood, or for ornament, as the shield around a keyhole. | |
| noun (n.) The depression behind the beak of certain bivalves; the ligamental area. |
| galleon | noun (n.) A sailing vessel of the 15th and following centuries, often having three or four decks, and used for war or commerce. The term is often rather indiscriminately applied to any large sailing vessel. |
| goodgeon | noun (n.) Same as Gudgeon, 5. |
| gudgeon | noun (n.) A small European freshwater fish (Gobio fluviatilis), allied to the carp. It is easily caught and often used for food and for bait. In America the killifishes or minnows are often called gudgeons. |
| noun (n.) What may be got without skill or merit. | |
| noun (n.) A person easily duped or cheated. | |
| noun (n.) The pin of iron fastened in the end of a wooden shaft or axle, on which it turns; formerly, any journal, or pivot, or bearing, as the pintle and eye of a hinge, but esp. the end journal of a horizontal. | |
| noun (n.) A metal eye or socket attached to the sternpost to receive the pintle of the rudder. | |
| verb (v. t.) To deprive fraudulently; to cheat; to dupe; to impose upon. |
| gyropigeon | noun (n.) A flying object simulating a pigeon in flight, when projected from a spring trap. It is used as a flying target in shooting matches. |
| habergeon | noun (n.) Properly, a short hauberk, but often used loosely for the hauberk. |
| haubergeon | noun (n.) See Habergeon. |
| inescutcheon | noun (n.) A small escutcheon borne within a shield. |
| leon | noun (n.) A lion. |
| letheon | noun (n.) Sulphuric ether used as an anaesthetic agent. |
| luncheon | noun (n.) A lump of food. |
| noun (n.) A portion of food taken at any time except at a regular meal; an informal or light repast, as between breakfast and dinner. | |
| verb (v. i.) To take luncheon. |
| magdaleon | noun (n.) A medicine in the form of a roll, a esp. a roll of plaster. |
| melodeon | noun (n.) A kind of small reed organ; -- a portable form of the seraphine. |
| noun (n.) A music hall. |
| mezereon | noun (n.) A small European shrub (Daphne Mezereum), whose acrid bark is used in medicine. |
| melungeon | noun (n.) One of a mixed white and Indian people living in parts of Tennessee and the Carolinas. They are descendants of early intermixtures of white settlers with natives. In North Carolina the Croatan Indians, regarded as descended from Raleigh's lost colony of Croatan, formerly classed with negroes, are now legally recognized as distinct. |
| napoleon | noun (n.) A French gold coin of twenty francs, or about $3.86. |
| noun (n.) A game in which each player holds five cards, the eldest hand stating the number of tricks he will bid to take, any subsequent player having the right to overbid him or a previous bidder, the highest bidder naming the trump and winning a number of points equal to his bid if he makes so many tricks, or losing the same number of points if he fails to make them. | |
| noun (n.) A bid to take five tricks at napoleon. It is ordinarily the highest bid; but sometimes bids are allowed of wellington, or of blucher, to take five tricks, or pay double, or treble, if unsuccessful. | |
| noun (n.) A Napoleon gun. | |
| noun (n.) A kind of top boot of the middle of the 19th century. | |
| noun (n.) A shape and size of cigar. It is about seven inches long. |
| nickelodeon | noun (n.) A place of entertainment, as for moving picture exhibition, charging a fee or admission price of five cents. |
| odeon | noun (n.) A kind of theater in ancient Greece, smaller than the dramatic theater and roofed over, in which poets and musicians submitted their works to the approval of the public, and contended for prizes; -- hence, in modern usage, the name of a hall for musical or dramatic performances. |
| paeon | noun (n.) A foot of four syllables, one long and three short, admitting of four combinations, according to the place of the long syllable. |
| pantheon | noun (n.) A temple dedicated to all the gods; especially, the building so called at Rome. |
| noun (n.) The collective gods of a people, or a work treating of them; as, a divinity of the Greek pantheon. |
| peon | noun (n.) See Poon. |
| noun (n.) A foot soldier; a policeman; also, an office attendant; a messenger. | |
| noun (n.) A day laborer; a servant; especially, in some of the Spanish American countries, debtor held by his creditor in a form of qualified servitude, to work out a debt. | |
| noun (n.) See 2d Pawn. |
| pheon | noun (n.) A bearing representing the head of a dart or javelin, with long barbs which are engrailed on the inner edge. |
| pigeon | noun (n.) Any bird of the order Columbae, of which numerous species occur in nearly all parts of the world. |
| noun (n.) An unsuspected victim of sharpers; a gull. | |
| verb (v. t.) To pluck; to fleece; to swindle by tricks in gambling. |
| pigwidgeon | noun (n.) A cant word for anything petty or small. It is used by Drayton as the name of a fairy. |
| pompoleon | noun (n.) See Pompelmous. |
| puncheon | noun (n.) A figured stamp, die, or punch, used by goldsmiths, cutlers, etc. |
| noun (n.) A short, upright piece of timber in framing; a short post; an intermediate stud. | |
| noun (n.) A split log or heavy slab with the face smoothed; as, a floor made of puncheons. | |
| noun (n.) A cask containing, sometimes 84, sometimes 120, gallons. |
| sconcheon | noun (n.) A squinch. |
| scutcheon | noun (n.) An escutcheon; an emblazoned shield. |
| noun (n.) A small plate of metal, as the shield around a keyhole. See Escutcheon, 4. |
| sturgeon | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of large cartilaginous ganoid fishes belonging to Acipenser and allied genera of the family Acipenseridae. They run up rivers to spawn, and are common on the coasts and in the large rivers and lakes of North America, Europe, and Asia. Caviare is prepared from the roe, and isinglass from the air bladder. |
| surgeon | noun (n.) One whose profession or occupation is to cure diseases or injuries of the body by manual operation; one whose occupation is to cure local injuries or disorders (such as wounds, dislocations, tumors, etc.), whether by manual operation, or by medication and constitutional treatment. |
| noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of chaetodont fishes of the family Teuthidae, or Acanthuridae, which have one or two sharp lancelike spines on each side of the base of the tail. Called also surgeon fish, doctor fish, lancet fish, and sea surgeon. |
| tampeon | noun (n.) See Tampion. |
| truncheon | noun (n.) A short staff, a club; a cudgel; a shaft of a spear. |
| noun (n.) A baton, or military staff of command. | |
| noun (n.) A stout stem, as of a tree, with the branches lopped off, to produce rapid growth. | |
| verb (v. t.) To beat with a truncheon. |
| widgeon | noun (n.) Any one of several species of fresh-water ducks, especially those belonging to the subgenus Mareca, of the genus Anas. The common European widgeon (Anas penelope) and the American widgeon (A. Americana) are the most important species. The latter is called also baldhead, baldpate, baldface, baldcrown, smoking duck, wheat, duck, and whitebelly. |
| wigeon | noun (n.) A widgeon. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH TEON (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (teo) - Words That Begins with teo:
| teocalli | noun (n.) Literally, God's house; a temple, usually of pyramidal form, such as were built by the aborigines of Mexico, Yucatan, etc. |
| teosinte | noun (n.) A large grass (Euchlaena luxurians) closely related to maize. It is native of Mexico and Central America, but is now cultivated for fodder in the Southern United States and in many warm countries. Called also Guatemala grass. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH TEON:
English Words which starts with 't' and ends with 'n':
| tabefaction | noun (n.) A wasting away; a gradual losing of flesh by disease. |
| tabellion | noun (n.) A secretary or notary under the Roman empire; also, a similar officer in France during the old monarchy. |
| tableman | noun (n.) A man at draughts; a piece used in playing games at tables. See Table, n., 10. |
| tablespoon | noun (n.) A spoon of the largest size commonly used at the table; -- distinguished from teaspoon, dessert spoon, etc. |
| tabularization | noun (n.) The act of tabularizing, or the state of being tabularized; formation into tables; tabulation. |
| tabulation | noun (n.) The act of forming into a table or tables; as, the tabulation of statistics. |
| taciturn | adjective (a.) Habitually silent; not given to converse; not apt to talk or speak. |
| tacksman | noun (n.) One who holds a tack or lease from another; a tenant, or lessee. |
| tactician | noun (n.) One versed in tactics; hence, a skillful maneuverer; an adroit manager. |
| taction | noun (n.) The act of touching; touch; contact; tangency. |
| tagliacotain | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Tagliacozzi, a Venetian surgeon; as, the Tagliacotian operation, a method of rhinoplasty described by him. |
| taguan | noun (n.) A large flying squirrel (Pteromys petuarista). Its body becomes two feet long, with a large bushy tail nearly as long. |
| tahitian | noun (n.) A native inhabitant of Tahiti. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Tahiti, an island in the Pacific Ocean. |
| tailpin | noun (n.) The center in the spindle of a turning lathe. |
| tain | noun (n.) Thin tin plate; also, tin foil for mirrors. |
| tairn | noun (n.) See Tarn. |
| talapoin | noun (n.) A small African monkey (Cercopithecus, / Miopithecus, talapoin) -- called also melarhine. |
| noun (n.) A Buddhist monk or priest. |
| talesman | noun (n.) A person called to make up a deficiency in the number of jurors when a tales is awarded. |
| taliacotian | adjective (a.) See Tagliacotian. |
| taliation | noun (n.) Retaliation. |
| talion | noun (n.) Retaliation. |
| talisman | noun (n.) A magical figure cut or engraved under certain superstitious observances of the configuration of the heavens, to which wonderful effects are ascribed; the seal, figure, character, or image, of a heavenly sign, constellation, or planet, engraved on a sympathetic stone, or on a metal corresponding to the star, in order to receive its influence. |
| noun (n.) Hence, something that produces extraordinary effects, esp. in averting or repelling evil; an amulet; a charm; as, a talisman to avert diseases. |
| tallyman | noun (n.) One who keeps the tally, or marks the sticks. |
| noun (n.) One who keeps a tally shop, or conducts his business as tally trade. |
| talon | noun (n.) The claw of a predaceous bird or animal, especially the claw of a bird of prey. |
| noun (n.) One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth. | |
| noun (n.) A kind of molding, concave at the bottom and convex at the top; -- usually called an ogee. | |
| noun (n.) The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt. |
| tamarin | noun (n.) Any one of several species of small squirrel-like South American monkeys of the genus Midas, especially M. ursulus. |
| tambourin | noun (n.) A tambourine. |
| noun (n.) An old Provencal dance of a lively character, common on the stage. |
| tamburin | noun (n.) See Tambourine. |
| tamilian | noun (a. & n.) Tamil. |
| tamkin | noun (n.) A tampion. |
| tampan | noun (n.) A venomous South African tick. |
| tampion | noun (n.) A wooden stopper, or plug, as for a cannon or other piece of ordnance, when not in use. |
| noun (n.) A plug for upper end of an organ pipe. |
| tampon | noun (n.) A plug introduced into a natural or artificial cavity of the body in order to arrest hemorrhage, or for the application of medicine. |
| verb (v. t.) To plug with a tampon. |
| tampoon | noun (n.) The stopper of a barrel; a bung. |
| tan | noun (n.) See Picul. |
| noun (n.) The bark of the oak, and some other trees, bruised and broken by a mill, for tanning hides; -- so called both before and after it has been used. Called also tan bark. | |
| noun (n.) A yellowish-brown color, like that of tan. | |
| noun (n.) A brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun; as, hands covered with tan. | |
| noun (n.) To convert (the skin of an animal) into leather, as by usual process of steeping it in an infusion of oak or some other bark, whereby it is impregnated with tannin, or tannic acid (which exists in several species of bark), and is thus rendered firm, durable, and in some degree impervious to water. | |
| noun (n.) To make brown; to imbrown, as by exposure to the rays of the sun; as, to tan the skin. | |
| adjective (a.) Of the color of tan; yellowish-brown. | |
| verb (v. i.) To get or become tanned. | |
| verb (v. t.) To thrash or beat; to flog; to switch. |
| tangun | noun (n.) A piebald variety of the horse, native of Thibet. |
| tannin | noun (n.) Same as Tannic acid, under Tannic. |
| tantalization | noun (n.) The act of tantalizing, or state of being tantalized. |
| tapayaxin | noun (n.) A Mexican spinous lizard (Phrynosoma orbiculare) having a head somewhat like that of a toad; -- called also horned toad. |
| tappen | noun (n.) An obstruction, or indigestible mass, found in the intestine of bears and other animals during hibernation. |
| tarbogan | noun (n. & v.) See Toboggan. |
| tardation | noun (n.) The act of retarding, or delaying; retardation. |
| tarditation | noun (n.) Tardiness. |
| tarin | noun (n.) The siskin. |
| tarlatan | noun (n.) A kind of thin, transparent muslin, used for dresses. |
| tarn | noun (n.) A mountain lake or pool. |
| tarpan | noun (n.) A wild horse found in the region of the Caspian Sea. |
| tarpaulin | noun (n.) A piece of canvas covered with tar or a waterproof composition, used for covering the hatches of a ship, hammocks, boats, etc. |
| noun (n.) A hat made of, or covered with, painted or tarred cloth, worn by sailors and others. | |
| noun (n.) Hence, a sailor; a seaman; a tar. |
| tarpon | noun (n.) Same as Tarpum. |
| tarragon | noun (n.) A plant of the genus Artemisa (A. dracunculus), much used in France for flavoring vinegar. |
| tartan | noun (n.) Woolen cloth, checkered or crossbarred with narrow bands of various colors, much worn in the Highlands of Scotland; hence, any pattern of tartan; also, other material of a similar pattern. |
| noun (n.) A small coasting vessel, used in the Mediterranean, having one mast carrying large leteen sail, and a bowsprit with staysail or jib. |
| tartarean | adjective (a.) Alt. of Tartareous |
| tartarian | noun (n.) The name of some kinds of cherries, as the Black Tartarian, or the White Tartarian. |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Tartaric |
| tasmanian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Tasmania, or Van Diemen's Land. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Tasmania; specifically (Ethnol.), in the plural, the race of men that formerly inhabited Tasmania, but is now extinct. |
| tatterdemalion | noun (n.) A ragged fellow; a ragamuffin. |
| tauromachian | noun (n.) A bullfighter. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to bullfights. |
| tautoousian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Tautoousious |
| tavern | noun (n.) A public house where travelers and other transient guests are accomodated with rooms and meals; an inn; a hotel; especially, in modern times, a public house licensed to sell liquor in small quantities. |
| tavernman | noun (n.) The keeper of a tavern; also, a tippler. |
| taxaspidean | adjective (a.) Having the posterior tarsal scales, or scutella, rectangular and arranged in regular rows; -- said of certain birds. |
| taxation | noun (n.) The act of laying a tax, or of imposing taxes, as on the subjects of a state, by government, or on the members of a corporation or company, by the proper authority; the raising of revenue; also, a system of raising revenue. |
| noun (n.) The act of taxing, or assessing a bill of cost. | |
| noun (n.) Tax; sum imposed. | |
| noun (n.) Charge; accusation. |
| taxicorn | noun (n.) One of a family of beetles (Taxicornes) whose antennae are largest at the tip. Also used adjectively. |
| teaspoon | noun (n.) A small spoon used in stirring and sipping tea, coffee, etc., and for other purposes. |
| teen | noun (n.) Grief; sorrow; affiction; pain. |
| noun (n.) To excite; to provoke; to vex; to affict; to injure. | |
| verb (v. t.) To hedge or fence in; to inclose. |
| teetan | noun (n.) A pipit. |
| tegmen | noun (n.) A tegument or covering. |
| noun (n.) The inner layer of the coating of a seed, usually thin and delicate; the endopleura. | |
| noun (n.) One of the elytra of an insect, especially of certain Orthoptera. | |
| noun (n.) Same as Tectrices. |
| teguexin | noun (n.) A large South American lizard (Tejus teguexin). It becomes three or four feet long, and is blackish above, marked with yellowish spots of various sizes. It feeds upon fruits, insects, reptiles, young birds, and birds' eggs. The closely allied species Tejus rufescens is called red teguexin. |
| teleostean | noun (n.) A teleostean fish. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the teleosts. |
| teleozoon | noun (n.) A metazoan. |
| telerythin | noun (n.) A red crystalline compound related to, or produced from, erythrin. So called because regarded as the end of the series of erythrin compounds. |
| tellen | noun (n.) Any species of Tellina. |
| tellurian | noun (n.) A dweller on the earth. |
| noun (n.) An instrument for showing the operation of the causes which produce the succession of day and night, and the changes of the seasons. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the earth. |
| telson | noun (n.) The terminal joint or movable piece at the end of the abdomen of Crustacea and other articulates. See Thoracostraca. |
| temeration | noun (n.) Temerity. |
| tempean | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Temple, a valley in Thessaly, celebrated by Greek poets on account of its beautiful scenery; resembling Temple; hence, beautiful; delightful; charming. |
| temporization | noun (n.) The act of temporizing. |
| temptation | noun (n.) The act of tempting, or enticing to evil; seduction. |
| noun (n.) The state of being tempted, or enticed to evil. | |
| noun (n.) That which tempts; an inducement; an allurement, especially to something evil. |
| ten | noun (n.) The number greater by one than nine; the sum of five and five; ten units of objects. |
| noun (n.) A symbol representing ten units, as 10, x, or X. | |
| adjective (a.) One more than nine; twice five. |
| tenaillon | noun (n.) A work constructed on each side of the ravelins, to increase their strength, procure additional ground beyond the ditch, or cover the shoulders of the bastions. |
| tenderloin | noun (n.) A strip of tender flesh on either side of the vertebral column under the short ribs, in the hind quarter of beef and pork. It consists of the psoas muscles. |
| noun (n.) A strip of tender flesh on either side of the vertebral column under the short ribs, in beef or pork. It consists of the psoas muscles. | |
| noun (n.) In New York City, the region which is the center of the night life of fashionable amusement, including the majority of the theaters, etc., centering on Broadway. The term orig. designates the old twenty-ninth police precinct, in this region, which afforded the police great opportunities for profit through conniving at vice and lawbreaking, one captain being reported to have said on being transferred there that whereas he had been eating chuck steak he would now eat tenderlion. Hence, in some other cities, a district largely devoted to night amusement, or, sometimes, to vice. |
| tendon | noun (n.) A tough insensible cord, bundle, or band of fibrous connective tissue uniting a muscle with some other part; a sinew. |
| tendron | noun (n.) A tendril. |
| tenon | noun (n.) A projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it, and made to insert into a mortise, and in this way secure together the parts of a frame; especially, such a member when it passes entirely through the thickness of the piece in which the mortise is cut, and shows on the other side. Cf. Tooth, Tusk. |
| verb (v. t.) To cut or fit for insertion into a mortise, as the end of a piece of timber. |
| tenonian | adjective (a.) Discovered or described by M. Tenon, a French anatomist. |
| tension | adjective (a.) The act of stretching or straining; the state of being stretched or strained to stiffness; the state of being bent strained; as, the tension of the muscles, tension of the larynx. |
| adjective (a.) Fig.: Extreme strain of mind or excitement of feeling; intense effort. | |
| adjective (a.) The degree of stretching to which a wire, cord, piece of timber, or the like, is strained by drawing it in the direction of its length; strain. | |
| adjective (a.) The force by which a part is pulled when forming part of any system in equilibrium or in motion; as, the tension of a srting supporting a weight equals that weight. | |
| adjective (a.) A device for checking the delivery of the thread in a sewing machine, so as to give the stitch the required degree of tightness. | |
| adjective (a.) Expansive force; the force with which the particles of a body, as a gas, tend to recede from each other and occupy a larger space; elastic force; elasticity; as, the tension of vapor; the tension of air. | |
| adjective (a.) The quality in consequence of which an electric charge tends to discharge itself, as into the air by a spark, or to pass from a body of greater to one of less electrical potential. It varies as the quantity of electricity upon a given area. | |
| () The pressure or tension of a confined body of vapor. The pressure of a given saturated vapor is a function of the temperature only, and may be measured by introducing a small quantity of the substance into a barometer and noting the depression of the column of mercury. |
| tentation | noun (n.) Trial; temptation. |
| noun (n.) A mode of adjusting or operating by repeated trials or experiments. |
| tepefaction | noun (n.) Act of tepefying. |
| terapin | noun (n.) See Terrapin. |
| terebration | noun (n.) The act of terebrating, or boring. |
| tergiversation | noun (n.) The act of tergiversating; a shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion. |
| noun (n.) Fickleness of conduct; inconstancy; change. |
| terin | noun (n.) A small yellow singing bird, with an ash-colored head; the European siskin. Called also tarin. |
| termination | noun (n.) The act of terminating, or of limiting or setting bounds; the act of ending or concluding; as, a voluntary termination of hostilities. |
| noun (n.) That which ends or bounds; limit in space or extent; bound; end; as, the termination of a line. | |
| noun (n.) End in time or existence; as, the termination of the year, or of life; the termination of happiness. | |
| noun (n.) End; conclusion; result. | |
| noun (n.) Last purpose of design. | |
| noun (n.) A word; a term. | |
| noun (n.) The ending of a word; a final syllable or letter; the part added to a stem in inflection. |
| tern | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of long-winged aquatic birds, allied to the gulls, and belonging to Sterna and various allied genera. |
| adjective (a.) Threefold; triple; consisting of three; ternate. | |
| adjective (a.) That which consists of, or pertains to, three things or numbers together; especially, a prize in a lottery resulting from the favorable combination of three numbers in the drawing; also, the three numbers themselves. |
| ternion | adjective (a.) The number three; three things together; a ternary. |
| terpin | noun (n.) A white crystalline substance regarded as a hydrate of oil of turpentine. |
| terpsichorean | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Terpsichore; of or pertaining to dancing. |
| terrapin | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of tortoises living in fresh and brackish waters. Many of them are valued for food. |
| terreen | noun (n.) See Turren. |
| terreplein | noun (n.) The top, platform, or horizontal surface, of a rampart, on which the cannon are placed. See Illust. of Casemate. |
| noun (n.) An embankment of earth with a broad level top, which is sometimes excavated to form a continuation of an elevated canal across a valley. |
| tertian | noun (n.) A disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day. |
| noun (n.) A liquid measure formerly used for wine, equal to seventy imperial, or eighty-four wine, gallons, being one third of a tun. | |
| adjective (a.) Occurring every third day; as, a tertian fever. |
| tessellation | noun (n.) The act of tessellating; also, the mosaic work so formed. |
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