TORR
First name TORR's origin is English. TORR means "tower". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with TORR below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of torr.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with TORR and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming TORR
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES TORR AS A WHOLE:
torra torree torrey torri torrie torrance torrans torry kestorr torran torrence torrianNAMES RHYMING WITH TORR (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (orr) - Names That Ends with orr:
igorrRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (rr) - Names That Ends with rr:
dharr mearr athmarr birr carr eadelmarr edelmarr filmarr finnobarr fionnbarr kerr lamarr osmarr ulmarr valdemarr waldemarr willmarr curr farr barr garr starr parrNAMES RHYMING WITH TORR (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 tortain toru tory torynRhyming 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 toshiro tostig tote tototl totsi toukere tournour toussaint toussnint tovaNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH TORR:
First Names which starts with 't' and ends with 'r':
taber tabor taburer taher tahir tahurer taillefer tamar tamir tanner taylar tayler taylor taysir teamhair telfer telfor telfour teodor tesar teucer thacher thacker thatcher thaxter thor thour thunder tier tipper treabhar trevor tripper tucker tudor tupper turner tyger tylar tyler tylorEnglish Words Rhyming TORR
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES TORR AS A WHOLE:
otorrh/a | noun (n.) A flow or running from the ear, esp. a purulent discharge. |
spermatorrhea | noun (n.) Alt. of Spermatorrhoea |
spermatorrhoea | noun (n.) Abnormally frequent involuntary emission of the semen without copulation. |
subtorrid | adjective (a.) Nearly torrid. |
torrefaction | noun (n.) The act or process of torrefying, or the state of being torrefied. |
torrefying | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Torrefy |
torrent | noun (n.) A violent stream, as of water, lava, or the like; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice. |
noun (n.) Fig.: A violent or rapid flow; a strong current; a flood; as, a torrent of vices; a torrent of eloquence. | |
noun (n.) Rolling or rushing in a rapid stream. |
torrential | adjective (a.) Alt. of Torrentine |
torrentine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a torrent; having the character of a torrent; caused by a torrent . |
torricellian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Torricelli, an Italian philosopher and mathematician, who, in 1643, discovered that the rise of a liquid in a tube, as in the barometer, is due to atmospheric pressure. See Barometer. |
torrid | adjective (a.) Parched; dried with heat; as, a torrid plain or desert. |
adjective (a.) Violenty hot; drying or scorching with heat; burning; parching. |
torridity | noun (n.) Torridness. |
torridness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being torrid or parched. |
torril | noun (n.) A worthless woman; also, a worthless horse. |
torrock | noun (n.) A gull. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH TORR (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (orr) - English Words That Ends with orr:
dorr | noun (n.) The dorbeetle; also, a drone or an idler. See 1st Dor. |
verb (v. t.) To deceive. [Obs.] See Dor, v. t. | |
verb (v. t.) To deafen with noise. |
mhorr | noun (n.) See Mohr. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH TORR (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 TORR:
English Words which starts with 't' and ends with 'r':
tabarder | noun (n.) One who wears a tabard. |
noun (n.) A scholar on the foundation of Queen's College, Oxford, England, whose original dress was a tabard. |
tabasheer | noun (n.) A concretion in the joints of the bamboo, which consists largely or chiefly of pure silica. It is highly valued in the East Indies as a medicine for the cure of bilious vomitings, bloody flux, piles, and various other diseases. |
tabernacular | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a tabernacle, especially the Jewish tabernacle. |
adjective (a.) Formed in latticework; latticed. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to huts or booths; hence, common; low. |
tabler | noun (n.) One who boards. |
noun (n.) One who boards others for hire. |
tabor | noun (n.) A small drum used as an accompaniment to a pipe or fife, both being played by the same person. |
verb (v. i.) To play on a tabor, or little drum. | |
verb (v. i.) To strike lightly and frequently. | |
verb (v. t.) To make (a sound) with a tabor. |
taborer | noun (n.) One who plays on the tabor. |
tabour | noun (n. & v.) See Tabor. |
tabular | adjective (a.) Having the form of, or pertaining to, a table (in any of the uses of the word). |
adjective (a.) Having a flat surface; as, a tabular rock. | |
adjective (a.) Formed into a succession of flakes; laminated. | |
adjective (a.) Set in squares. | |
adjective (a.) Arranged in a schedule; as, tabular statistics. | |
adjective (a.) Derived from, or computed by, the use of tables; as, tabular right ascension. |
tachometer | noun (n.) An instrument for measuring the velocity, or indicating changes in the velocity, of a moving body or substance. |
noun (n.) An instrument for measuring the velocity of running water in a river or canal, consisting of a wheel with inclined vanes, which is turned by the current. The rotations of the wheel are recorded by clockwork. | |
noun (n.) An instrument for showing at any moment the speed of a revolving shaft, consisting of a delicate revolving conical pendulum which is driven by the shaft, and the action of which by change of speed moves a pointer which indicates the speed on a graduated dial. | |
noun (n.) An instrument for measuring the velocity of the blood; a haematachometer. |
tacker | noun (n.) One who tacks. |
tafferer | noun (n.) See Taffrail. |
tagger | noun (n.) One who, or that which, appends or joins one thing to another. |
noun (n.) That which is pointed like a tag. | |
noun (n.) Sheets of tin or other plate which run below the gauge. | |
noun (n.) A device for removing taglocks from sheep. |
tahr | noun (n.) Same as Thar. |
tailor | noun (n.) One whose occupation is to cut out and make men's garments; also, one who cuts out and makes ladies' outer garments. |
noun (n.) The mattowacca; -- called also tailor herring. | |
noun (n.) The silversides. | |
noun (n.) The goldfish. | |
verb (v. i.) To practice making men's clothes; to follow the business of a tailor. |
taker | noun (n.) One who takes or receives; one who catches or apprehends. |
talebearer | noun (n.) One who officiously tells tales; one who impertinently or maliciously communicates intelligence, scandal, etc., and makes mischief. |
taleteller | noun (n.) One who tells tales or stories, especially in a mischievous or officious manner; a talebearer; a telltale; a tattler. |
talker | noun (n.) One who talks; especially, one who is noted for his power of conversing readily or agreeably; a conversationist. |
noun (n.) A loquacious person, male or female; a prattler; a babbler; also, a boaster; a braggart; -- used in contempt or reproach. |
tallier | noun (n.) One who keeps tally. |
tallower | noun (n.) An animal which produces tallow. |
talookdar | noun (n.) Alt. of Talukdar |
talukdar | noun (n.) A proprietor of a talook. |
tamanoir | noun (n.) The ant-bear. |
tambour | noun (n.) A kind of small flat drum; a tambourine. |
noun (n.) A small frame, commonly circular, and somewhat resembling a tambourine, used for stretching, and firmly holding, a portion of cloth that is to be embroidered; also, the embroidery done upon such a frame; -- called also, in the latter sense, tambour work. | |
noun (n.) Same as Drum, n., 2(d). | |
noun (n.) A work usually in the form of a redan, to inclose a space before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a larger work. It is arranged like a stockade. | |
noun (n.) A shallow metallic cup or drum, with a thin elastic membrane supporting a writing lever. Two or more of these are connected by an India rubber tube, and used to transmit and register the movements of the pulse or of any pulsating artery. | |
verb (v. t.) To embroider on a tambour. |
tamer | noun (n.) One who tames or subdues. |
tamper | noun (n.) One who tamps; specifically, one who prepares for blasting, by filling the hole in which the charge is placed. |
noun (n.) An instrument used in tamping; a tamping iron. | |
verb (v. i.) To meddle; to be busy; to try little experiments; as, to tamper with a disease. | |
verb (v. i.) To meddle so as to alter, injure, or vitiate a thing. | |
verb (v. i.) To deal unfairly; to practice secretly; to use bribery. |
tamperer | noun (n.) One who tampers; one who deals unfairly. |
tanager | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of bright-colored singing birds belonging to Tanagra, Piranga, and allied genera. The scarlet tanager (Piranga erythromelas) and the summer redbird (Piranga rubra) are common species of the United States. |
tanier | noun (n.) An aroid plant (Caladium sagittaefolium), the leaves of which are boiled and eaten in the West Indies. |
tanner | noun (n.) One whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them into leather by the use of tan. |
noun (n.) A sixpence. |
tannier | noun (n.) See Tanier. |
tantalizer | noun (n.) One who tantalizes. |
taper | noun (n.) A small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light. |
noun (n.) A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness in an elongated object; as, the taper of a spire. | |
adjective (a.) Regularly narrowed toward the point; becoming small toward one end; conical; pyramidical; as, taper fingers. | |
verb (v. i.) To become gradually smaller toward one end; as, a sugar loaf tapers toward one end. | |
verb (v. t.) To make or cause to taper. |
tapir | noun (n.) Any one of several species of large odd-toed ungulates belonging to Tapirus, Elasmognathus, and allied genera. They have a long prehensile upper lip, short ears, short and stout legs, a short, thick tail, and short, close hair. They have three toes on the hind feet, and four toes on the fore feet, but the outermost toe is of little use. |
tapiser | noun (n.) A maker of tapestry; an upholsterer. |
tapper | noun (n.) The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor); -- called also tapperer, tabberer, little wood pie, barred woodpecker, wood tapper, hickwall, and pump borer. |
tappester | noun (n.) A female tapster. |
tapster | noun (n.) One whose business is to tap or draw ale or other liquor. |
tar | noun (n.) A sailor; a seaman. |
noun (n.) A thick, black, viscous liquid obtained by the distillation of wood, coal, etc., and having a varied composition according to the temperature and material employed in obtaining it. | |
verb (v. t.) To smear with tar, or as with tar; as, to tar ropes; to tar cloth. |
targeteer | noun (n.) One who is armed with a target or shield. |
tarnisher | noun (n.) One who, or that which, tarnishes. |
tarrier | noun (n.) One who, or that which, tarries. |
noun (n.) A kind of dig; a terrier. |
tarsier | noun (n.) See Tarsius. |
tartar | noun (n.) A reddish crust or sediment in wine casks, consisting essentially of crude cream of tartar, and used in marking pure cream of tartar, tartaric acid, potassium carbonate, black flux, etc., and, in dyeing, as a mordant for woolen goods; -- called also argol, wine stone, etc. |
noun (n.) A correction which often incrusts the teeth, consisting of salivary mucus, animal matter, and phosphate of lime. | |
noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Tartary in Asia; a member of any one of numerous tribes, chiefly Moslem, of Turkish origin, inhabiting the Russian Europe; -- written also, more correctly but less usually, Tatar. | |
noun (n.) A person of a keen, irritable temper. | |
noun (n.) See Tartarus. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Tartary in Asia, or the Tartars. |
tasimer | noun (n.) An instrument for detecting or measuring minute extension or movements of solid bodies. It consists essentially of a small rod, disk, or button of carbon, forming part of an electrical circuit, the resistance of which, being varied by the changes of pressure produced by the movements of the object to be measured, causes variations in the strength of the current, which variations are indicated by a sensitive galvanometer. It is also used for measuring minute changes of temperature. |
tasker | noun (n.) One who imposes a task. |
noun (n.) One who performs a task, as a day-laborer. | |
noun (n.) A laborer who receives his wages in kind. |
taskmaster | noun (n.) One who imposes a task, or burdens another with labor; one whose duty is to assign tasks; an overseer. |
taster | noun (n.) One who tastes; especially, one who first tastes food or drink to ascertain its quality. |
noun (n.) That in which, or by which, anything is tasted, as, a dram cup, a cheese taster, or the like. | |
noun (n.) One of a peculiar kind of zooids situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophora. They somewhat resemble the feeding zooids, but are destitute of mouths. See Siphonophora. |
tatter | noun (n.) One who makes tatting. |
noun (n.) A rag, or a part torn and hanging; -- chiefly used in the plural. | |
verb (v. t.) To rend or tear into rags; -- used chiefly in the past participle as an adjective. |
tattler | noun (n.) One who tattles; an idle talker; one who tells tales. |
noun (n.) Any one of several species of large, long-legged sandpipers belonging to the genus Totanus. |
taunter | noun (n.) One who taunts. |
taur | noun (n.) The constellation Taurus. |
tauridor | noun (n.) A bullfighter; a toreador. |
taverner | noun (n.) One who keeps a tavern. |
tawer | noun (n.) One who taws; a dresser of white leather. |
taxer | noun (n.) One who taxes. |
noun (n.) One of two officers chosen yearly to regulate the assize of bread, and to see the true gauge of weights and measures is observed. |
taxgatherer | noun (n.) One who collects taxes or revenues. |
taxor | noun (n.) Same as Taxer, n., 2. |
taxpayer | noun (n.) One who is assessed and pays a tax. |
teacher | noun (n.) One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor. |
noun (n.) One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination. |
teamster | noun (n.) One who drives a team. |
tear | noun (n.) A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moisten the parts and facilitate their motion. Ordinarily the secretion passes through the lachrymal duct into the nose, but when it is increased by emotion or other causes, it overflows the lids. |
noun (n.) Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins. | |
noun (n.) That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge. | |
noun (n.) The act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure. | |
noun (n.) A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass. | |
verb (v. t.) To separate by violence; to pull apart by force; to rend; to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment; to tear the skin or flesh. | |
verb (v. t.) Hence, to divide by violent measures; to disrupt; to rend; as, a party or government torn by factions. | |
verb (v. t.) To rend away; to force away; to remove by force; to sunder; as, a child torn from its home. | |
verb (v. t.) To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair. | |
verb (v. t.) To move violently; to agitate. | |
verb (v. i.) To divide or separate on being pulled; to be rent; as, this cloth tears easily. | |
verb (v. i.) To move and act with turbulent violence; to rush with violence; hence, to rage; to rave. |
tearer | noun (n.) One who tears or rends anything; also, one who rages or raves with violence. |
teaseler | noun (n.) One who uses teasels for raising a nap on cloth. |
teaser | noun (n.) One who teases or vexes. |
noun (n.) A jager gull. | |
noun (n.) A shunt winding on field magnets for maintaining their magnetism when the main circuit is open. |
teazer | noun (n.) The stoker or fireman of a furnace, as in glass works. |
tedder | noun (n.) A machine for stirring and spreading hay, to expedite its drying. |
noun (n.) Same as Tether. | |
verb (v. t.) Same as Tether. |
teemer | noun (n.) One who teems, or brings forth. |
teetotaler | noun (n.) One pledged to entire abstinence from all intoxicating drinks. |
tegular | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a tile; resembling a tile, or arranged like tiles; consisting of tiles; as, a tegular pavement. |
telegrapher | noun (n.) One who sends telegraphic messages; a telegraphic operator; a telegraphist. |
telemeter | noun (n.) An instrument used for measuring the distance of an object from an observer; as, a telescope with a micrometer for measuring the apparent diameter of an object whose real dimensions are known. |
noun (n.) An apparatus for recording at a distant station the indications of physical instruments such as the thermometer, galvanometer, etc. |
teleosaur | noun (n.) Any one of several species of fossil suarians belonging to Teleosaurus and allied genera. These reptiles are related to the crocodiles, but have biconcave vertebrae. |
telethermometer | noun (n.) An apparatus for determining the temperature of a distant point, as by a thermoelectric circuit or otherwise. |
teller | noun (n.) One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer. |
noun (n.) One of four officers of the English Exchequer, formerly appointed to receive moneys due to the king and to pay moneys payable by the king. | |
noun (n.) An officer of a bank who receives and counts over money paid in, and pays money out on checks. | |
noun (n.) One who is appointed to count the votes given in a legislative body, public meeting, assembly, etc. |
telpher | noun (n.) A contrivance for the conveyance of vehicles or loads by means of electricity. |
noun (n.) Specif., the equipment or apparatus used in a system of electric transportation by means of carriages which are suspended on an overhead conductor, as of wire. |
temper | noun (n.) The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities; just combination; as, the temper of mortar. |
noun (n.) Constitution of body; temperament; in old writers, the mixture or relative proportion of the four humors, blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy. | |
noun (n.) Disposition of mind; the constitution of the mind, particularly with regard to the passions and affections; as, a calm temper; a hasty temper; a fretful temper. | |
noun (n.) Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure; as, to keep one's temper. | |
noun (n.) Heat of mind or passion; irritation; proneness to anger; -- in a reproachful sense. | |
noun (n.) The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling; as, the temper of iron or steel. | |
noun (n.) Middle state or course; mean; medium. | |
noun (n.) Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar. | |
verb (v. t.) To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage; to soothe; to calm. | |
verb (v. t.) To fit together; to adjust; to accomodate. | |
verb (v. t.) To bring to a proper degree of hardness; as, to temper iron or steel. | |
verb (v. t.) To govern; to manage. | |
verb (v. t.) To moisten to a proper consistency and stir thoroughly, as clay for making brick, loam for molding, etc. | |
verb (v. t.) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use. | |
verb (v. i.) To accord; to agree; to act and think in conformity. | |
verb (v. i.) To have or get a proper or desired state or quality; to grow soft and pliable. |
temperer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, tempers; specifically, a machine in which lime, cement, stone, etc., are mixed with water. |
templar | noun (n.) One of a religious and military order first established at Jerusalem, in the early part of the 12th century, for the protection of pilgrims and of the Holy Sepulcher. These Knights Templars, or Knights of the Temple, were so named because they occupied an apartment of the palace of Bladwin II. in Jerusalem, near the Temple. |
noun (n.) A student of law, so called from having apartments in the Temple at London, the original buildings having belonged to the Knights Templars. See Inner Temple, and Middle Temple, under Temple. | |
noun (n.) One belonged to a certain order or degree among the Freemasons, called Knights Templars. Also, one of an order among temperance men, styled Good Templars. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a temple. |
temporizer | noun (n.) One who temporizes; one who yields to the time, or complies with the prevailing opinions, fashions, or occasions; a trimmer. |
temporomalar | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to both the temple and the region of the malar bone; as, the temporomalar nerve. |
tempter | noun (n.) One who tempts or entices; especially, Satan, or the Devil, regarded as the great enticer to evil. |
tender | noun (n.) One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse. |
noun (n.) A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. | |
noun (n.) A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. | |
noun (n.) An offer, either of money to pay a debt, or of service to be performed, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture, which would be incurred by nonpayment or nonperformance; as, the tender of rent due, or of the amount of a note, with interest. | |
noun (n.) Any offer or proposal made for acceptance; as, a tender of a loan, of service, or of friendship; a tender of a bid for a contract. | |
noun (n.) The thing offered; especially, money offered in payment of an obligation. | |
noun (n.) Regard; care; kind concern. | |
superlative (superl.) Easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit. | |
superlative (superl.) Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained. | |
superlative (superl.) Physically weak; not hardly or able to endure hardship; immature; effeminate. | |
superlative (superl.) Susceptible of the softer passions, as love, compassion, kindness; compassionate; pitiful; anxious for another's good; easily excited to pity, forgiveness, or favor; sympathetic. | |
superlative (superl.) Exciting kind concern; dear; precious. | |
superlative (superl.) Careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; -- with of. | |
superlative (superl.) Unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild. | |
superlative (superl.) Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain. | |
superlative (superl.) Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate; as, a tender subject. | |
superlative (superl.) Heeling over too easily when under sail; -- said of a vessel. | |
verb (v. t.) To offer in payment or satisfaction of a demand, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture; as, to tender the amount of rent or debt. | |
verb (v. t.) To offer in words; to present for acceptance. | |
verb (v. t.) To have a care of; to be tender toward; hence, to regard; to esteem; to value. |
tenor | noun (n.) A state of holding on in a continuous course; manner of continuity; constant mode; general tendency; course; career. |
noun (n.) That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding. | |
noun (n.) Stamp; character; nature. | |
noun (n.) An exact copy of a writing, set forth in the words and figures of it. It differs from purport, which is only the substance or general import of the instrument. | |
noun (n.) The higher of the two kinds of voices usually belonging to adult males; hence, the part in the harmony adapted to this voice; the second of the four parts in the scale of sounds, reckoning from the base, and originally the air, to which the other parts were auxillary. | |
noun (n.) A person who sings the tenor, or the instrument that play it. |
tensor | noun (n.) A muscle that stretches a part, or renders it tense. |
noun (n.) The ratio of one vector to another in length, no regard being had to the direction of the two vectors; -- so called because considered as a stretching factor in changing one vector into another. See Versor. |
tentacular | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a tentacle or tentacles. |
tenter | noun (n.) One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman. |
noun (n.) A kind of governor. | |
noun (n.) A machine or frame for stretching cloth by means of hooks, called tenter-hooks, so that it may dry even and square. | |
verb (v. i.) To admit extension. | |
verb (v. t.) To hang or stretch on, or as on, tenters. |
tenthmeter | noun (n.) Alt. of Tenthmetre |
tentmaker | noun (n.) One whose occupation it is to make tents. |
tenuiroster | noun (n.) One of the Tenuirostres. |
tepor | noun (n.) Gentle heat; moderate warmth; tepidness. |
tergiversator | noun (n.) One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion. |
termer | noun (n.) One who resorted to London during the law term only, in order to practice tricks, to carry on intrigues, or the like. |
noun (n.) One who has an estate for a term of years or for life. |
terminator | noun (n.) One who, or that which, terminates. |
noun (n.) The dividing line between the illuminated and the unilluminated part of the moon. |
terminer | noun (n.) A determining; as, in oyer and terminer. See Oyer. |
termor | noun (n.) Same as Termer, 2. |
terrar | noun (n.) See 2d Terrier, 2. |
terrier | noun (n.) An auger or borer. |
noun (n.) One of a breed of small dogs, which includes several distinct subbreeds, some of which, such as the Skye terrier and Yorkshire terrier, have long hair and drooping ears, while others, at the English and the black-and-tan terriers, have short, close, smooth hair and upright ears. | |
noun (n.) Formerly, a collection of acknowledgments of the vassals or tenants of a lordship, containing the rents and services they owed to the lord, and the like. | |
noun (n.) In modern usage, a book or roll in which the lands of private persons or corporations are described by their site, boundaries, number of acres, or the like. |
terror | noun (n.) Extreme fear; fear that agitates body and mind; violent dread; fright. |
noun (n.) That which excites dread; a cause of extreme fear. |
tesselar | adjective (a.) Formed of tesserae, as a mosaic. |