Name Report For First Name TAU:
TAU
First name TAU's origin is African. TAU means "tswana of botswana name meaning "lion."". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with TAU below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of tau.(Brown names are of the same origin (African) with TAU and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with TAU - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming TAU
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES TAU AS A WHOLE:
tauret taura taurina murtaugh nootau staunton taurino tauroNAMES RHYMING WITH TAU (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (au) - Names That Ends with au:
chau kamau njau ferrau isabeau pauwau askuwheteau beau dareau dureau esau machau marceau matwau mongwau pannoowau sunukkuhkau fau devereauNAMES RHYMING WITH TAU (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ta) - Names That Begins with ta:
taavet taaveti taavetti taavi tab taban tabari tabatha tabbart tabbert taber tabetha tabia tabitha tablita tabor tabora taburer tacy tad tadao tadd tadeo tadesuz tadewi tadhg tadita tadleigh tafui tag tagan tage taggart tahbert taher tahir tahirah tahkeome tahki tahlia tahmelapachme tahnee tahra tahu tahurer tai taicligh taidgh taidhg taidhgin taigi tailayag taillefe taillefer taini taipa taishi tait taitasi taite taithleach taiyana taj tajah taji tajo taka takala takara takchawee takeo takhi takis takiyah takoda takouhi tal tala talal talawat talayeh talbert talbot talbott tale taleb talebot talehot talei taletha talford talia taliah talib talibah taliesin talihah talisha talitha talliaNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH TAU:
First Names which starts with 't' and ends with 'u':
tangakwunu tanu tariku tatu teirtu teru thu tobechukwu toru trieu tsuyu tuketu tutu tutyahu tzefanyahuEnglish Words Rhyming TAU
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES TAU AS A WHOLE:
| betaught | adjective (a.) Delivered; committed in trust. |
| bucentaur | noun (n.) A fabulous monster, half ox, half man. |
| noun (n.) The state barge of Venice, used by the doge in the ceremony of espousing the Adriatic. |
| centaur | noun (n.) A fabulous being, represented as half man and half horse. |
| noun (n.) A constellation in the southern heavens between Hydra and the Southern Cross. |
| centaurea | noun (n.) A large genus of composite plants, related to the thistles and including the cornflower or bluebottle (Centaurea Cyanus) and the star thistle (C. Calcitrapa). |
| centaury | noun (n.) A gentianaceous plant not fully identified. The name is usually given to the Erytheraea Centaurium and the Chlora perfoliata of Europe, but is also extended to the whole genus Sabbatia, and even to the unrelated Centaurea. |
| centauromachy | noun (n.) A fight in which centaurs take part, -- a common theme for relief sculpture, as in the Parthenon metopes. |
| hippocentaur | noun (n.) Same as Centaur. |
| instaurating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Instaurate |
| instauration | noun (n.) Restoration after decay, lapse, or dilapidation; renewal; repair; renovation; renaissance. |
| instaurator | noun (n.) One who renews or restores to a former condition. |
| kutauss | noun (n.) The India civet (Viverra zibetha). |
| minotaur | noun (n.) A fabled monster, half man and half bull, confined in the labyrinth constructed by Daedalus in Crete. |
| mistaught | adjective (a.) Wrongly taught; as, a mistaught youth. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Misteach |
| petaurist | noun (n.) Any flying marsupial of the genera Petaurus, Phalangista, Acrobata, and allied genera. See Flying mouse, under Flying, and Phalangister. |
| restaurant | noun (n.) An eating house. |
| restaurateur | noun (n.) The keeper of an eathing house or a restaurant. |
| restauration | noun (n.) Restoration. |
| staurolite | noun (n.) A mineral of a brown to black color occurring in prismatic crystals, often twinned so as to form groups resembling a cross. It is a silicate of aluminia and iron, and is generally found imbedded in mica schist. Called also granatite, and grenatite. |
| staurolitic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to staurolite; resembling or containing staurolite. |
| stauroscope | noun (n.) An optical instrument used in determining the position of the planes of light-vibration in sections of crystals. |
| staurotide | noun (n.) Staurolite. |
| tataupa | noun (n.) A South American tinamou (Crypturus tataupa). |
| tau | noun (n.) The common American toadfish; -- so called from a marking resembling the Greek letter tau (/). |
| noun (n.) The nineteenth letter (/, /) of the Greek alphabet, equivalent to English t. |
| taught | adjective (a.) See Taut. |
| () imp. & p. p. of Teach. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Teach |
| taunt | noun (n.) Upbraiding language; bitter or sarcastic reproach; insulting invective. |
| adjective (a.) Very high or tall; as, a ship with taunt masts. | |
| verb (v. t.) To reproach with severe or insulting words; to revile; to upbraid; to jeer at; to flout. |
| taunting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Taunt |
| () a. & n. from Taunt, v. |
| taunter | noun (n.) One who taunts. |
| tauntress | noun (n.) A woman who taunts. |
| taur | noun (n.) The constellation Taurus. |
| tauricornous | adjective (a.) Having horns like those of a bull. |
| tauridor | noun (n.) A bullfighter; a toreador. |
| tauriform | adjective (a.) Having the form of a bull. |
| taurine | noun (n.) A body occurring in small quantity in the juices of muscle, in the lungs, and elsewhere, but especially in the bile, where it is found as a component part of taurocholic acid, from which it can be prepared by decomposition of the acid. It crystallizes in colorless, regular six-sided prisms, and is especially characterized by containing both nitrogen and sulphur, being chemically amido-isethionic acid, C2H7NSO3. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the genus Taurus, or cattle. |
| taurocholate | noun (n.) A salt of taurocholic acid; as, sodium taurocholate, which occurs in human bile. |
| taurocholic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a conjugate acid (called taurocholic acid) composed of taurine and cholic acid, present abundantly in human bile and in that of carnivora. It is exceedingly deliquescent, and hence appears generally as a thick, gummy mass, easily soluble in water and alcohol. It has a bitter taste. |
| taurocol | noun (n.) Alt. of Taurocolla |
| taurocolla | noun (n.) Glue made from a bull's hide. |
| tauromachian | noun (n.) A bullfighter. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to bullfights. |
| tauromachy | noun (n.) Bullfighting. |
| taurus | noun (n.) The Bull; the second in order of the twelve signs of the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of April; -- marked thus [/] in almanacs. |
| noun (n.) A zodiacal constellation, containing the well-known clusters called the Pleiades and the Hyades, in the latter of which is situated the remarkably bright Aldebaran. | |
| noun (n.) A genus of ruminants comprising the common domestic cattle. |
| taurylic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found of a urine of neat cattle, and probably identical with cresol. |
| taut | adjective (a.) Tight; stretched; not slack; -- said esp. of a rope that is tightly strained. |
| adjective (a.) Snug; close; firm; secure. |
| tautegorical | adjective (a.) Expressing the same thing with different words; -- opposed to allegorical. |
| tautochrone | noun (n.) A curved line, such that a heavy body, descending along it by the action of gravity, will always arrive at the lowest point in the same time, wherever in the curve it may begin to fall; as, an inverted cycloid with its base horizontal is a tautochrone. |
| tautochronous | adjective (a.) Occupying the same time; pertaining to, or having the properties of, a tautochrone. |
| tautog | noun (n.) An edible labroid fish (Haitula onitis, or Tautoga onitis) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. When adult it is nearly black, more or less irregularly barred, with greenish gray. Called also blackfish, oyster fish, salt-water chub, and moll. |
| tautologic | adjective (a.) Tautological. |
| tautological | adjective (a.) Involving tautology; having the same signification; as, tautological expression. |
| tautologist | noun (n.) One who uses tautological words or phrases. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH TAU (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (au) - English Words That Ends with au:
| bandeau | noun (n.) A narrow band or fillet; a part of a head-dress. |
| noun (n.) A narrow band or fillet, as for the hair, part of a headdress, etc. |
| batardeau | noun (n.) A cofferdam. |
| noun (n.) A wall built across the ditch of a fortification, with a sluice gate to regulate the height of water in the ditch on both sides of the wall. |
| bateau | noun (n.) A boat; esp. a flat-bottomed, clumsy boat used on the Canadian lakes and rivers. |
| beau | noun (n.) A man who takes great care to dress in the latest fashion; a dandy. |
| noun (n.) A man who escorts, or pays attentions to, a lady; an escort; a lover. |
| bigarreau | noun (n.) Alt. of Bigaroon |
| boyau | noun (n.) A winding or zigzag trench forming a path or communication from one siegework to another, to a magazine, etc. |
| bulau | noun (n.) An East Indian insectivorous mammal (Gymnura Rafflesii), somewhat like a rat in appearance, but allied to the hedgehog. |
| bureau | noun (n.) Originally, a desk or writing table with drawers for papers. |
| noun (n.) The place where such a bureau is used; an office where business requiring writing is transacted. | |
| noun (n.) Hence: A department of public business requiring a force of clerks; the body of officials in a department who labor under the direction of a chief. | |
| noun (n.) A chest of drawers for clothes, especially when made as an ornamental piece of furniture. |
| bordereau | noun (n.) A note or memorandum, esp. one containing an enumeration of documents. |
| chapeau | noun (n.) A hat or covering for the head. |
| noun (n.) A cap of maintenance. See Maintenance. |
| chateau | noun (n.) A castle or a fortress in France. |
| noun (n.) A manor house or residence of the lord of the manor; a gentleman's country seat; also, particularly, a royal residence; as, the chateau of the Louvre; the chateau of the Luxembourg. |
| couteau | noun (n.) A knife; a dagger. |
| coteau | noun (n.) A hilly upland including the divide between two valleys; a divide. |
| noun (n.) The side of a valley. |
| esquimau | noun (n.) Same as Eskimo. |
| fabliau | noun (n.) One of the metrical tales of the Trouveres, or early poets of the north of France. |
| flambeau | noun (n.) A flaming torch, esp. one made by combining together a number of thick wicks invested with a quick-burning substance (anciently, perhaps, wax; in modern times, pitch or the like); hence, any torch. |
| fourneau | noun (n.) The chamber of a mine in which the powder is placed. |
| fricandeau | noun (n.) Alt. of Fricando |
| frau | noun (n.) In Germany, a woman; a married woman; a wife; -- as a title, equivalent to Mrs., Madam. |
| gaspereau | noun (n.) The alewife. |
| jetteau | noun (n.) See Jet d'eau. |
| kahau | noun (n.) A long-nosed monkey (Semnopithecus nasalis), native of Borneo. The general color of the body is bright chestnut, with the under parts, shoulders, and sides of the head, golden yellow, and the top of the head and upper part of the back brown. Called also proboscis monkey. |
| landau | noun (n.) A four-wheeled covered vehicle, the top of which is divided into two sections which can be let down, or thrown back, in such a manner as to make an open carriage. |
| manteau | noun (n.) A woman's cloak or mantle. |
| noun (n.) A gown worn by women. |
| moineau | noun (n.) A small flat bastion, raised in the middle of an overlong curtain. |
| morceau | noun (n.) A bit; a morsel. |
| neelghau | noun (n.) See Nylghau. |
| nilgau | noun (n.) see Nylghau. |
| noyau | noun (n.) A cordial of brandy, etc., flavored with the kernel of the bitter almond, or of the peach stone, etc. |
| nylghau | noun (n.) Alt. of Nylgau |
| nylgau | noun (n.) A large Asiatic antelope (Boselaphus, / Portax, tragocamelus), found in Northern India. It has short horns, a black mane, and a bunch of long hair on the throat. The general color is grayish brown. |
| pau | noun (n.) See Pah. |
| pilau | noun (n.) See Pillau. |
| pillau | noun (n.) An Oriental dish consisting of rice boiled with mutton, fat, or butter. |
| plateau | noun (n.) A flat surface; especially, a broad, level, elevated area of land; a table-land. |
| noun (n.) An ornamental dish for the table; a tray or salver. |
| portmanteau | noun (n.) A bag or case, usually of leather, for carrying wearing apparel, etc., on journeys. |
| radeau | noun (n.) A float; a raft. |
| rideau | noun (n.) A small mound of earth; ground slightly elevated; a small ridge. |
| rondeau | noun (n.) A species of lyric poetry so composed as to contain a refrain or repetition which recurs according to a fixed law, and a limited number of rhymes recurring also by rule. |
| noun (n.) See Rondo, 1. |
| rouleau | noun (n.) A little roll; a roll of coins put up in paper, or something resembling such a roll. |
| reseau | noun (n.) A network; |
| noun (n.) A system of lines forming small squares of standard size, which is photographed, by a separate exposure, on the same plate with star images to facilitate measurements, detect changes of the film, etc. | |
| noun (n.) In lace, a ground or foundation of regular meshes, like network. |
| tableau | noun (n.) A striking and vivid representation; a picture. |
| noun (n.) A representation of some scene by means of persons grouped in the proper manner, placed in appropriate postures, and remaining silent and motionless. | |
| noun (n.) The arrangement, or layout, of cards. |
| topau | noun (n.) The rhinocerous bird (a). |
| torteau | noun (n.) A roundel of a red color. |
| trousseau | noun (n.) The collective lighter equipments or outfit of a bride, including clothes, jewelry, and the like; especially, that which is provided for her by her family. |
| tonneau | noun (n.) In France, a light-wheeled vehicle with square or rounded body and rear entrance. |
| noun (n.) Orig., the after part of the body with entrance at the rear (as in vehicle in def. 1); now, one with sides closing in the seat or seats and entered by a door usually at the side, also, the entire body of an automobile having such an after part. | |
| noun (n.) = Tonne. |
| unau | noun (n.) The two-toed sloth (Cholopus didactylus), native of South America. It is about two feet long. Its color is a uniform grayish brown, sometimes with a reddish tint. |
| wekau | noun (n.) A small New Zealand owl (Sceloglaux albifacies). It has short wings and long legs, and lives chiefly on the ground. |
| watteau | adjective (a.) Having the appearance of that which is seen in pictures by Antoine Watteau, a French painter of the eighteenth century; -- said esp. of women's garments; as, a Watteau bodice. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH TAU (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (ta) - Words That Begins with ta:
| taas | noun (n.) A heap. See Tas. |
| tab | noun (n.) The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle. |
| noun (n.) A tag. See Tag, 2. | |
| noun (n.) A loop for pulling or lifting something. | |
| noun (n.) A border of lace or other material, worn on the inner front edge of ladies' bonnets. | |
| noun (n.) A loose pendent part of a lady's garment; esp., one of a series of pendent squares forming an edge or border. |
| tabacco | noun (n.) Tobacco. |
| tabanus | noun (n.) A genus of blood sucking flies, including the horseflies. |
| tabard | noun (n.) A sort of tunic or mantle formerly worn for protection from the weather. When worn over the armor it was commonly emblazoned with the arms of the wearer, and from this the name was given to the garment adopted for heralds. |
| 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. |
| tabaret | noun (n.) A stout silk having satin stripes, -- used for furniture. |
| 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. |
| tabbinet | noun (n.) A fabric like poplin, with a watered surface. |
| tabby | noun (n.) A kind of waved silk, usually called watered silk, manufactured like taffeta, but thicker and stronger. The watering is given to it by calendering. |
| noun (n.) A mixture of lime with shells, gravel, or stones, in equal proportions, with an equal proportion of water. When dry, this becomes as hard as rock. | |
| noun (n.) A brindled cat; hence, popularly, any cat. | |
| noun (n.) An old maid or gossip. | |
| adjective (a.) Having a wavy or watered appearance; as, a tabby waistcoat. | |
| adjective (a.) Brindled; diversified in color; as, a tabby cat. | |
| verb (v. t.) To water; to cause to look wavy, by the process of calendering; to calender; as, to tabby silk, mohair, ribbon, etc. |
| tabbying | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tabby |
| tabefaction | noun (n.) A wasting away; a gradual losing of flesh by disease. |
| tabefying | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tabefy |
| tabellion | noun (n.) A secretary or notary under the Roman empire; also, a similar officer in France during the old monarchy. |
| taberd | noun (n.) See Tabard. |
| tabernacle | noun (n.) A slightly built or temporary habitation; especially, a tent. |
| noun (n.) A portable structure of wooden framework covered with curtains, which was carried through the wilderness in the Israelitish exodus, as a place of sacrifice and worship. | |
| noun (n.) Hence, the Jewish temple; sometimes, any other place for worship. | |
| noun (n.) Figuratively: The human body, as the temporary abode of the soul. | |
| noun (n.) Any small cell, or like place, in which some holy or precious things was deposited or kept. | |
| noun (n.) The ornamental receptacle for the pyx, or for the consecrated elements, whether a part of a building or movable. | |
| noun (n.) A niche for the image of a saint, or for any sacred painting or sculpture. | |
| noun (n.) Hence, a work of art of sacred subject, having a partially architectural character, as a solid frame resting on a bracket, or the like. | |
| noun (n.) A tryptich for sacred imagery. | |
| noun (n.) A seat or stall in a choir, with its canopy. | |
| noun (n.) A boxlike step for a mast with the after side open, so that the mast can be lowered to pass under bridges, etc. | |
| verb (v. i.) To dwell or reside for a time; to be temporary housed. |
| tabernacling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tabernacle |
| 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. |
| tabes | noun (n.) Progressive emaciation of the body, accompained with hectic fever, with no well-marked logical symptoms. |
| tabescent | adjective (a.) Withering, or wasting away. |
| tabetic | noun (n.) One affected with tabes. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to tabes; of the nature of tabes; affected with tabes; tabid. |
| tabid | adjective (a.) Affected by tabes; tabetic. |
| tabific | adjective (a.) Alt. of Tabifical |
| tabifical | adjective (a.) Producing tabes; wasting; tabefying. |
| tabinet | noun (n.) See Tabbinet. |
| tablature | noun (n.) A painting on a wall or ceiling; a single piece comprehended in one view, and formed according to one design; hence, a picture in general. |
| noun (n.) An ancient mode of indicating musical sounds by letters and other signs instead of by notes. | |
| noun (n.) Division into plates or tables with intervening spaces; as, the tablature of the cranial bones. |
| table | noun (n.) A smooth, flat surface, like the side of a board; a thin, flat, smooth piece of anything; a slab. |
| noun (n.) A thin, flat piece of wood, stone, metal, or other material, on which anything is cut, traced, written, or painted; a tablet | |
| noun (n.) a memorandum book. | |
| noun (n.) Any smooth, flat surface upon which an inscription, a drawing, or the like, may be produced. | |
| noun (n.) Hence, in a great variety of applications: A condensed statement which may be comprehended by the eye in a single view; a methodical or systematic synopsis; the presentation of many items or particulars in one group; a scheme; a schedule. | |
| noun (n.) A view of the contents of a work; a statement of the principal topics discussed; an index; a syllabus; a synopsis; as, a table of contents. | |
| noun (n.) A list of substances and their properties; especially, a list of the elementary substances with their atomic weights, densities, symbols, etc. | |
| noun (n.) Any collection and arrangement in a condensed form of many particulars or values, for ready reference, as of weights, measures, currency, specific gravities, etc.; also, a series of numbers following some law, and expressing particular values corresponding to certain other numbers on which they depend, and by means of which they are taken out for use in computations; as, tables of logarithms, sines, tangents, squares, cubes, etc.; annuity tables; interest tables; astronomical tables, etc. | |
| noun (n.) The arrangement or disposition of the lines which appear on the inside of the hand. | |
| noun (n.) An article of furniture, consisting of a flat slab, board, or the like, having a smooth surface, fixed horizontally on legs, and used for a great variety of purposes, as in eating, writing, or working. | |
| noun (n.) Hence, food placed on a table to be partaken of; fare; entertainment; as, to set a good table. | |
| noun (n.) The company assembled round a table. | |
| noun (n.) One of the two, external and internal, layers of compact bone, separated by diploe, in the walls of the cranium. | |
| noun (n.) A stringcourse which includes an offset; esp., a band of stone, or the like, set where an offset is required, so as to make it decorative. See Water table. | |
| noun (n.) The board on the opposite sides of which backgammon and draughts are played. | |
| noun (n.) One of the divisions of a backgammon board; as, to play into the right-hand table. | |
| noun (n.) The games of backgammon and of draughts. | |
| noun (n.) A circular plate of crown glass. | |
| noun (n.) The upper flat surface of a diamond or other precious stone, the sides of which are cut in angles. | |
| noun (n.) A plane surface, supposed to be transparent and perpendicular to the horizon; -- called also perspective plane. | |
| noun (n.) The part of a machine tool on which the work rests and is fastened. | |
| verb (v. t.) To form into a table or catalogue; to tabulate; as, to table fines. | |
| verb (v. t.) To delineate, as on a table; to represent, as in a picture. | |
| verb (v. t.) To supply with food; to feed. | |
| verb (v. t.) To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate scores or projections from the middle, to prevent slipping; to scarf. | |
| verb (v. t.) To lay or place on a table, as money. | |
| verb (v. t.) In parliamentary usage, to lay on the table; to postpone, by a formal vote, the consideration of (a bill, motion, or the like) till called for, or indefinitely. | |
| verb (v. t.) To enter upon the docket; as, to table charges against some one. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the boltrope. | |
| verb (v. i.) To live at the table of another; to board; to eat. |
| tableing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Table |
| tablebook | noun (n.) A tablet; a notebook. |
| tablecloth | noun (n.) A cloth for covering a table, especially one with which a table is covered before the dishes, etc., are set on for meals. |
| tableman | noun (n.) A man at draughts; a piece used in playing games at tables. See Table, n., 10. |
| tablement | noun (n.) A table. |
| tabler | noun (n.) One who boards. |
| noun (n.) One who boards others for hire. |
| tablespoon | noun (n.) A spoon of the largest size commonly used at the table; -- distinguished from teaspoon, dessert spoon, etc. |
| tablespoonful | noun (n.) As much as a tablespoon will hold; enough to fill a tablespoon. It is usually reckoned as one half of a fluid ounce, or four fluid drams. |
| tablet | noun (n.) A small table or flat surface. |
| noun (n.) A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint, draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a picture. | |
| noun (n.) Hence, a small picture; a miniature. | |
| noun (n.) A kind of pocket memorandum book. | |
| noun (n.) A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague. | |
| noun (n.) A solid kind of electuary or confection, commonly made of dry ingredients with sugar, and usually formed into little flat squares; -- called also lozenge, and troche, especially when of a round or rounded form. |
| tableware | noun (n.) Ware, or articles collectively, for table use. |
| tabling | noun (n.) A forming into tables; a setting down in order. |
| noun (n.) The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding. | |
| noun (n.) A broad hem on the edge of a sail. | |
| noun (n.) Board; support. | |
| noun (n.) Act of playing at tables. See Table, n., 10. |
| taboo | noun (n.) A total prohibition of intercourse with, use of, or approach to, a given person or thing under pain of death, -- an interdict of religious origin and authority, formerly common in the islands of Polynesia; interdiction. |
| adjective (a.) Set apart or sacred by religious custom among certain races of Polynesia, New Zealand, etc., and forbidden to certain persons or uses; hence, prohibited under severe penalties; interdicted; as, food, places, words, customs, etc., may be taboo. | |
| verb (v. t.) To put under taboo; to forbid, or to forbid the use of; to interdict approach to, or use of; as, to taboo the ground set apart as a sanctuary for criminals. |
| tabooing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Taboo |
| 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. |
| taboring | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tabor |
| taborer | noun (n.) One who plays on the tabor. |
| taboret | noun (n.) A small tabor. |
| taborine | noun (n.) A small, shallow drum; a tabor. |
| taborite | noun (n.) One of certain Bohemian reformers who suffered persecution in the fifteenth century; -- so called from Tabor, a hill or fortress where they encamped during a part of their struggles. |
| tabour | noun (n. & v.) See Tabor. |
| tabouret | noun (n.) Same as Taboret. |
| noun (n.) A seat without arms or back, cushioned and stuffed: a high stool; -- so called from its resemblance to a drum. | |
| noun (n.) An embroidery frame. |
| tabrere | noun (n.) A taborer. |
| tabret | noun (n.) A taboret. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH TAU:
English Words which starts with 't' and ends with 'u':
| tabu | noun (n. & v.) See Taboo. |
| tajacu | noun (n.) Alt. of Tajassu |
| tajassu | noun (n.) The common, or collared, peccary. |
| tamandu | noun (n.) A small ant-eater (Tamandua tetradactyla) native of the tropical parts of South America. |
| tatou | noun (n.) The giant armadillo (Priodontes gigas) of tropical South America. It becomes nearly five feet long including the tail. It is noted for its burrowing powers, feeds largely upon dead animals, and sometimes invades human graves. |
| tatouhou | noun (n.) The peba. |
| tatu | noun (n.) Same as Tatou. |
| teledu | noun (n.) An East Indian carnivore (Mydaus meliceps) allied to the badger, and noted for the very offensive odor that it emits, somewhat resembling that of a skunk. It is a native of the high mountains of Java and Sumatra, and has long, silky fur. Called also stinking badger, and stinkard. |
| telugu | noun (n.) A Darvidian language spoken in the northern parts of the Madras presidency. In extent of use it is the next language after Hindustani (in its various forms) and Bengali. |
| noun (n.) One of the people speaking the Telugu language. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Telugu language, or the Telugus. |
| tennu | noun (n.) The tapir. |
| tinamou | noun (n.) Any one of several species of South American birds belonging to Tinamus and allied genera. |
| tolu | noun (n.) A fragrant balsam said to have been first brought from Santiago de Tolu, in New Granada. See Balsam of Tolu, under Balsam. |
| trabu | noun (n.) Same as Trubu. |
| trubu | noun (n.) An East India herring (Clupea toli) which is extensively caught for the sake of its roe and for its flesh. |
| turacou | noun (n.) Any one of several species of plantain eaters of the genus Turacus, native of Africa. They are remarkable for the peculiar green and red pigments found in their feathers. |
| tohubohu | noun (n.) Chaos; confusion. |
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