TENNYSON
First name TENNYSON's origin is English. TENNYSON means "son of dennis". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with TENNYSON below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of tennyson.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with TENNYSON and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming TENNYSON
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES TENNYSON AS A WHOLE:
NAMES RHYMING WITH TENNYSON (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 7 Letters (ennyson) - Names That Ends with ennyson:
Rhyming Names According to Last 6 Letters (nnyson) - Names That Ends with nnyson:
Rhyming Names According to Last 5 Letters (nyson) - Names That Ends with nyson:
Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (yson) - Names That Ends with yson:
addyson alyson bryson chayson clayson dayson grayson greyson jayson tayson tyson wayson allysonRhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (son) - Names That Ends with son:
harrison pierson rawson aeson iason jason hanson son ailison crimson ellison emerson maddison madison mattison raison adalson addison aliceson alison alson anderson anson atkinson benson branson brantson brookson carlson carson charleson colson davidson davison dawson demason dennison dickson eallison eason eddison edson edwardson elson eorlson esrlson farquharson ferguson fergusson garrson garson gregson henderson henson jackson jakson jameson jamieson jamison johnson judson kadison kaison larson macpherson mason masson matheson matson morrison neason nelson nickson nicson nikson ourson parkinson paulson pearson perkinson peterson pherson randson robertson rowson ruadson sampsonNAMES RHYMING WITH TENNYSON (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 7 Letters (tennyso) - Names That Begins with tennyso:
Rhyming Names According to First 6 Letters (tennys) - Names That Begins with tennys:
Rhyming Names According to First 5 Letters (tenny) - Names That Begins with tenny:
Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (tenn) - Names That Begins with tenn:
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (ten) - Names That Begins with ten:
tenoch tentagilRhyming 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 teo teodor teodora teodoro teodosie teofila teofile teoma teon teoxihuitl tepiltzin tepin teppo terceira terciero terell teremun terence terentia teresa terese teresina teresita tereus teri terianaNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH TENNYSON:
First Names which starts with 'ten' and ends with 'son':
First Names which starts with 'te' and ends with 'on':
terron teyrnonFirst 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 taveon tavin tavion tavon taylan taylon teriann terilynn terran terrin terryn teryn tevin teyacapan teyen thain than tharen thawain thegn theon 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 traveon travion travon tredan treddian treffen tremainEnglish Words Rhyming TENNYSON
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES TENNYSON AS A WHOLE:
tennysonian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Alfred (Lord) Tennyson, the English poet (1809-92); resembling, or having some of the characteristics of, his poetry, as simplicity, pictorial quality, sensuousness, etc. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH TENNYSON (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 7 Letters (ennyson) - English Words That Ends with ennyson:
Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (nnyson) - English Words That Ends with nnyson:
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (nyson) - English Words That Ends with nyson:
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (yson) - English Words That Ends with yson:
foyson | noun (n.) See Foison. |
hyson | noun (n.) A fragrant kind of green tea. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (son) - English Words That Ends with son:
advowson | noun (n.) The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church. [Originally, the relation of a patron (advocatus) or protector of a benefice, and thus privileged to nominate or present to it.] |
antimason | noun (n.) One opposed to Freemasonry. |
arson | noun (n.) The malicious burning of a dwelling house or outhouse of another man, which by the common law is felony; the malicious and voluntary firing of a building or ship. |
bason | noun (n.) A basin. |
bawson | noun (n.) A badger. |
noun (n.) A large, unwieldy person. |
benison | noun (n.) Blessing; beatitude; benediction. |
bison | noun (n.) The aurochs or European bison. |
noun (n.) The American bison buffalo (Bison Americanus), a large, gregarious bovine quadruped with shaggy mane and short black horns, which formerly roamed in herds over most of the temperate portion of North America, but is now restricted to very limited districts in the region of the Rocky Mountains, and is rapidly decreasing in numbers. |
bisson | adjective (a.) Purblind; blinding. |
boson | noun (n.) See Boatswain. |
caisson | noun (n.) A chest to hold ammunition. |
noun (n.) A four-wheeled carriage for conveying ammunition, consisting of two parts, a body and a limber. In light field batteries there is one caisson to each piece, having two ammunition boxes on the body, and one on the limber. | |
noun (n.) A chest filled with explosive materials, to be laid in the way of an enemy and exploded on his approach. | |
noun (n.) A water-tight box, of timber or iron within which work is carried on in building foundations or structures below the water level. | |
noun (n.) A hollow floating box, usually of iron, which serves to close the entrances of docks and basins. | |
noun (n.) A structure, usually with an air chamber, placed beneath a vessel to lift or float it. | |
noun (n.) A sunk panel of ceilings or soffits. |
caparison | noun (n.) An ornamental covering or housing for a horse; the harness or trappings of a horse, taken collectively, esp. when decorative. |
noun (n.) Gay or rich clothing. | |
verb (v. t.) To cover with housings, as a horse; to harness or fit out with decorative trappings, as a horse. | |
verb (v. t.) To aborn with rich dress; to dress. |
cargason | noun (n.) A cargo. |
cavesson | noun (n.) Alt. of Cavezon |
chanson | noun (n.) A song. |
comparison | noun (n.) The act of comparing; an examination of two or more objects with the view of discovering the resemblances or differences; relative estimate. |
noun (n.) The state of being compared; a relative estimate; also, a state, quality, or relation, admitting of being compared; as, to bring a thing into comparison with another; there is no comparison between them. | |
noun (n.) That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude. | |
noun (n.) The modification, by inflection or otherwise, which the adjective and adverb undergo to denote degrees of quality or quantity; as, little, less, least, are examples of comparison. | |
noun (n.) A figure by which one person or thing is compared to another, or the two are considered with regard to some property or quality, which is common to them both; e.g., the lake sparkled like a jewel. | |
noun (n.) The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts. | |
verb (v. t.) To compare. |
crimson | noun (n.) A deep red color tinged with blue; also, red color in general. |
adjective (a.) Of a deep red color tinged with blue; deep red. | |
verb (v. t.) To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden. | |
(b. t.) To become crimson; to blush. |
damson | noun (n.) A small oval plum of a blue color, the fruit of a variety of the Prunus domestica; -- called also damask plum. |
diapason | noun (n.) The octave, or interval which includes all the tones of the diatonic scale. |
noun (n.) Concord, as of notes an octave apart; harmony. | |
noun (n.) The entire compass of tones. | |
noun (n.) A standard of pitch; a tuning fork; as, the French normal diapason. | |
noun (n.) One of certain stops in the organ, so called because they extend through the scale of the instrument. They are of several kinds, as open diapason, stopped diapason, double diapason, and the like. |
disdiapason | noun (n.) An interval of two octaves, or a fifteenth; -- called also bisdiapason. |
disherison | noun (n.) The act of disheriting, or debarring from inheritance; disinhersion. |
disputison | noun (n.) Dispute; discussion. |
dobson | noun (n.) The aquatic larva of a large neuropterous insect (Corydalus cornutus), used as bait in angling. See Hellgamite. |
dorsimeson | noun (n.) (Anat.) See Meson. |
elison | noun (n.) Division; separation. |
noun (n.) The cutting off or suppression of a vowel or syllable, for the sake of meter or euphony; esp., in poetry, the dropping of a final vowel standing before an initial vowel in the following word, when the two words are drawn together. |
empoison | noun (n.) Poison. |
verb (v. t.) To poison; to impoison. |
encheson | noun (n.) Alt. of Encheason |
encheason | noun (n.) Occasion, cause, or reason. |
flotson | noun (n.) Goods lost by shipwreck, and floating on the sea; -- in distinction from jetsam or jetson. |
foison | noun (n.) Rich harvest; plenty; abundance. |
freemason | noun (n.) One of an ancient and secret association or fraternity, said to have been at first composed of masons or builders in stone, but now consisting of persons who are united for social enjoyment and mutual assistance. |
gambeson | noun (n.) Same as Gambison. |
gambison | noun (n.) A defensive garment formerly in use for the body, made of cloth stuffed and quilted. |
garrison | noun (n.) A body of troops stationed in a fort or fortified town. |
noun (n.) A fortified place, in which troops are quartered for its security. | |
verb (v. t.) To place troops in, as a fortification, for its defense; to furnish with soldiers; as, to garrison a fort or town. | |
verb (v. t.) To secure or defend by fortresses manned with troops; as, to garrison a conquered territory. |
geason | adjective (a.) Rare; wonderful. |
godson | noun (n.) A male for whom one has stood sponsor in baptism. See Godfather. |
grandson | noun (n.) A son's or daughter's son. |
grison | noun (n.) A South American animal of the family Mustelidae (Galictis vittata). It is about two feet long, exclusive of the tail. Its under parts are black. Also called South American glutton. |
noun (n.) A South American monkey (Lagothrix infumatus), said to be gluttonous. |
herisson | noun (n.) A beam or bar armed with iron spikes, and turning on a pivot; -- used to block up a passage. |
intercomparison | noun (n.) Mutual comparison of corresponding parts. |
jetson | noun (n.) Goods which sink when cast into the sea, and remain under water; -- distinguished from flotsam, goods which float, and ligan, goods which are sunk attached to a buoy. |
noun (n.) Jettison. See Jettison, 1. |
jettison | noun (n.) The throwing overboard of goods from necessity, in order to lighten a vessel in danger of wreck. |
noun (n.) See Jetsam, 1. |
keelson | noun (n.) A piece of timber in a ship laid on the middle of the floor timbers over the keel, and binding the floor timbers to the keel; in iron vessels, a structure of plates, situated like the keelson of a timber ship. |
kelson | noun (n.) See Keelson. |
lesson | noun (n.) Anything read or recited to a teacher by a pupil or learner; something, as a portion of a book, assigned to a pupil to be studied or learned at one time. |
noun (n.) That which is learned or taught by an express effort; instruction derived from precept, experience, observation, or deduction; a precept; a doctrine; as, to take or give a lesson in drawing. | |
noun (n.) A portion of Scripture read in divine service for instruction; as, here endeth the first lesson. | |
noun (n.) A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning. | |
noun (n.) An exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study. | |
verb (v. t.) To teach; to instruct. |
lewisson | noun (n.) An iron dovetailed tenon, made in sections, which can be fitted into a dovetail mortise; -- used in hoisting large stones, etc. |
noun (n.) A kind of shears used in cropping woolen cloth. |
liaison | noun (n.) A union, or bond of union; an intimacy; especially, an illicit intimacy between a man and a woman. |
livraison | noun (n.) A part of a book or literary composition printed and delivered by itself; a number; a part. |
malison | noun (n.) Malediction; curse; execration. |
mason | noun (n.) One whose occupation is to build with stone or brick; also, one who prepares stone for building purposes. |
noun (n.) A member of the fraternity of Freemasons. See Freemason. | |
verb (v. t.) To build stonework or brickwork about, under, in, over, etc.; to construct by masons; -- with a prepositional suffix; as, to mason up a well or terrace; to mason in a kettle or boiler. |
meson | noun (n.) The mesial plane dividing the body of an animal into similar right and left halves. The line in which it meets the dorsal surface has been called the dorsimeson, and the corresponding ventral edge the ventrimeson. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH TENNYSON (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 7 Letters (tennyso) - Words That Begins with tennyso:
Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (tennys) - Words That Begins with tennys:
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (tenny) - Words That Begins with tenny:
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (tenn) - Words That Begins with tenn:
tennantite | noun (n.) A blackish lead-gray mineral, closely related to tetrahedrite. It is essentially a sulphide of arsenic and copper. |
tenne | noun (n.) A tincture, rarely employed, which is considered as an orange color or bright brown. It is represented by diagonal lines from sinister to dexter, crossed by vertical lines. |
tennis | noun (n.) A play in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racket or with the open hand. |
verb (v. t.) To drive backward and forward, as a ball in playing tennis. |
tennu | noun (n.) The tapir. |
tenno | noun (n.) Lit., King of Heaven; -- a title of the emperor of Japan as the head of the Shinto religion. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (ten) - Words That Begins with ten:
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. |
tenability | noun (n.) The quality or state of being tenable; tenableness. |
tenable | adjective (a.) Capable of being held, naintained, or defended, as against an assailant or objector, or againts attempts to take or process; as, a tenable fortress, a tenable argument. |
tenableness | noun (n.) Same as Tenability. |
tenace | noun (n.) The holding by the fourth hand of the best and third best cards of a suit led; also, sometimes, the combination of best with third best card of a suit in any hand. |
tenacious | adjective (a.) Holding fast, or inclined to hold fast; inclined to retain what is in possession; as, men tenacious of their just rights. |
adjective (a.) Apt to retain; retentive; as, a tenacious memory. | |
adjective (a.) Having parts apt to adhere to each other; cohesive; tough; as, steel is a tenacious metal; tar is more tenacious than oil. | |
adjective (a.) Apt to adhere to another substance; glutinous; viscous; sticking; adhesive. | |
adjective (a.) Niggardly; closefisted; miserly. | |
adjective (a.) Holding stoutly to one's opinion or purpose; obstinate; stubborn. |
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. |
tenaculum | noun (n.) An instrument consisting of a fine, sharp hook attached to a handle, and used mainly for taking up arteries, and the like. |
tenacy | noun (n.) Tenaciousness; obstinacy. |
tenaille | noun (n.) An outwork in the main ditch, in front of the curtain, between two bastions. See Illust. of Ravelin. |
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. |
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. |
tenant | noun (n.) One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title of which is in another; -- correlative to landlord. See Citation from Blackstone, under Tenement, 2. |
noun (n.) One who has possession of any place; a dweller; an occupant. | |
verb (v. t.) To hold, occupy, or possess as a tenant. |
tenanting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tenant |
tenantable | adjective (a.) Fit to be rented; in a condition suitable for a tenant. |
tenantless | adjective (a.) Having no tenants; unoccupied; as, a tenantless mansion. |
tenantry | noun (n.) The body of tenants; as, the tenantry of a manor or a kingdom. |
noun (n.) Tenancy. |
tench | noun (n.) A European fresh-water fish (Tinca tinca, or T. vulgaris) allied to the carp. It is noted for its tenacity of life. |
tending | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tend |
tend | adjective (a.) To move in a certain direction; -- usually with to or towards. |
adjective (a.) To be directed, as to any end, object, or purpose; to aim; to have or give a leaning; to exert activity or influence; to serve as a means; to contribute; as, our petitions, if granted, might tend to our destruction. | |
verb (v. t.) To make a tender of; to offer or tender. | |
verb (v. t.) To accompany as an assistant or protector; to care for the wants of; to look after; to watch; to guard; as, shepherds tend their flocks. | |
verb (v. t.) To be attentive to; to note carefully; to attend to. | |
verb (v. i.) To wait, as attendants or servants; to serve; to attend; -- with on or upon. | |
verb (v. i.) To await; to expect. |
tendance | noun (n.) The act of attending or waiting; attendance. |
noun (n.) Persons in attendance; attendants. |
tendence | noun (n.) Tendency. |
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. |
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. |
tendering | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tender |
tenderfoot | noun (n.) A delicate person; one not inured to the hardship and rudeness of pioneer life. |
noun (n.) See Boy scout. |
tenderling | noun (n.) One made tender by too much kindness; a fondling. |
noun (n.) One of the first antlers of a deer. |
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. |
tenderness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). |
tendinous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a tendon; of the nature of tendon. |
adjective (a.) Full of tendons; sinewy; as, nervous and tendinous parts of the body. |
tendment | noun (n.) Attendance; care. |
tendon | noun (n.) A tough insensible cord, bundle, or band of fibrous connective tissue uniting a muscle with some other part; a sinew. |
tendonous | adjective (a.) Tendinous. |
tendosynovitis | noun (n.) See Tenosynovitis. |
tendrac | noun (n.) Any one of several species of small insectivores of the family Centetidae, belonging to Ericulus, Echinope, and related genera, native of Madagascar. They are more or less spinose and resemble the hedgehog in habits. The rice tendrac (Oryzorictes hora) is very injurious to rice crops. Some of the species are called also tenrec. |
tendril | adjective (a.) A slender, leafless portion of a plant by which it becomes attached to a supporting body, after which the tendril usually contracts by coiling spirally. |
adjective (a.) Clasping; climbing as a tendril. |
tendriled | adjective (a.) Alt. of Tendrilled |
tendrilled | adjective (a.) Furnished with tendrils, or with such or so many, tendrils. |
tendron | noun (n.) A tendril. |
tendry | noun (n.) A tender; an offer. |
tene | noun (n. & v.) See 1st and 2d Teen. |
tenebrae | noun (n.) The matins and lauds for the last three days of Holy Week, commemorating the sufferings and death of Christ, -- usually sung on the afternoon or evening of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, instead of on the following days. |
tenebricose | adjective (a.) Tenebrous; dark; gloomy. |
tenebrific | adjective (a.) Rendering dark or gloomy; tenebrous; gloomy. |
tenebrificous | adjective (a.) Tenebrific. |
tenebrious | adjective (a.) Tenebrous. |
tenebrose | adjective (a.) Characterized by darkness or gloom; tenebrous. |
tenebrosity | noun (n.) The quality or state of being tenebrous; tenebrousness. |
tenebrous | adjective (a.) Dark; gloomy; dusky; tenebrious. |
tenement | noun (n.) That which is held of another by service; property which one holds of a lord or proprietor in consideration of some military or pecuniary service; fief; fee. |
noun (n.) Any species of permanent property that may be held, so as to create a tenancy, as lands, houses, rents, commons, an office, an advowson, a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, and the like; -- called also free / frank tenements. | |
noun (n.) A dwelling house; a building for a habitation; also, an apartment, or suite of rooms, in a building, used by one family; often, a house erected to be rented. | |
noun (n.) Fig.: Dwelling; abode; habitation. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH TENNYSON:
English Words which starts with 'ten' and ends with 'son':
English Words which starts with 'te' and ends with 'on':
teaspoon | noun (n.) A small spoon used in stirring and sipping tea, coffee, etc., and for other purposes. |
teleozoon | noun (n.) A metazoan. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
ternion | adjective (a.) The number three; three things together; a ternary. |
tessellation | noun (n.) The act of tessellating; also, the mosaic work so formed. |
testamentation | noun (n.) The act or power of giving by testament, or will. |
testation | noun (n.) A witnessing or witness. |
testification | noun (n.) The act of testifying, or giving testimony or evidence; as, a direct testification of our homage to God. |
teston | noun (n.) A tester; a sixpence. |
testoon | noun (n.) An Italian silver coin. The testoon of Rome is worth 1s. 3d. sterling, or about thirty cents. |
tetanization | noun (n.) The production or condition of tetanus. |
tetracolon | noun (n.) A stanza or division in lyric poetry, consisting of four verses or lines. |
tetradon | noun (n.) See Tetrodon. |
tetragon | noun (n.) A plane figure having four sides and angles; a quadrangle, as a square, a rhombus, etc. |
noun (n.) An aspect of two planets with regard to the earth when they are distant from each other ninety degrees, or the fourth of a circle. |
tetragrammaton | noun (n.) The mystic number four, which was often symbolized to represent the Deity, whose name was expressed by four letters among some ancient nations; as, the Hebrew JeHoVaH, Greek qeo`s, Latin deus, etc. |
tetrahedron | noun (n.) A solid figure inclosed or bounded by four triangles. |
tetrahexahedron | noun (n.) A solid in the isometric system, bounded by twenty-four equal triangular faces, four corresponding to each face of the cube. |
tetrakishexahedron | noun (n.) A tetrahexahedron. |
tetraspaston | noun (n.) A machine in which four pulleys act together. |
tetrodon | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of plectognath fishes belonging to Tetrodon and allied genera. Each jaw is furnished with two large, thick, beaklike, bony teeth. |
teuton | noun (n.) One of an ancient German tribe; later, a name applied to any member of the Germanic race in Europe; now used to designate a German, Dutchman, Scandinavian, etc., in distinction from a Celt or one of a Latin race. |
noun (n.) A member of the Teutonic branch of the Indo-European, or Aryan, family. |