Name Report For First Name THOR:
THOR
First name THOR's origin is Scandinavian. THOR means "myth name (god of thunder)". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with THOR below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of thor.(Brown names are of the same origin (Scandinavian) with THOR and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with THOR - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming THOR
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES THOR AS A WHOLE:
thora hathor thorn anthor asthore thoraldtun thormund thorndike thorne thornly thornton thorntun thorp winthorp thorpe thornley thorndyke thorm thormond thorley hathor-sakmetNAMES RHYMING WITH THOR (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (hor) - Names That Ends with hor:
senghorRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (or) - Names That Ends with or:
amaor rigmor nassor antor blamor escalibor zigor donkor tor gaynor agenor alphenor castor elpenor fedor kirkor mentor polymestor andor gabor rendor sandor tabor vidor tudor fyodor ifor amor blancheflor caylor dior dohtor elienor elinor ellinor flor leonor lysanor mor noor taylor anzor ator auctor avidor branor cador calibor cathmor chancellor christofor connor conor cristofor dunmor ector ektor elidor elmoor eskor gregor hector heitor ivor konnor lalor macgregor moor nestor nicanor pryor rainor raynor sagremor salvador saylor skylor sumernor telfor teodor trevor tylor victor whitmoor winsor xalbador xalvador viktor ivankor ixidor feodor etor alastor senior windsor salhfor radnor redfor priorNAMES RHYMING WITH THOR (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (tho) - Names That Begins with tho:
tho thom thoma thomas thomasin thomdic thomkins thompson thomsina thoth thourRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (th) - Names That Begins with th:
thabit thacher thacker thackere thaddea thaddeus thaddia thaddius thadina thadine thady thai thain thais thalassa thaleia thalia tham thamyris than thana' thanasis thanatos thane thang thanh thanos thao thaqib thara' tharen thatcher thaumas thaw thawain thaxte thaxter thay thayne the thea thearl thecla theda thegn thekla thelma thema themis thenoma thenomia theoclymenus theodora theodore theodorus theodosios theola theomund theon theone theophaneia theophania theophanie theophile theophilia theora theore theoris thera therese thermuthis theron therron thersites theseus thetis theyn thi thia thibaud thieny thierry thiery thinh thira thirza thisbe thressa thrishaNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH THOR:
First Names which starts with 't' and ends with 'r':
taber taburer taher tahir tahurer taillefer tamar tamir tanner taylar tayler taysir teamhair telfer telfour tesar teucer thunder tier tipper torr tournour treabhar tripper tucker tupper turner tyger tylar tylerEnglish Words Rhyming THOR
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES THOR AS A WHOLE:
| abdominothoracic | adjective (a.) Relating to the abdomen and the thorax, or chest. |
| althorn | noun (n.) An instrument of the saxhorn family, used exclusively in military music, often replacing the French horn. |
| anthorism | noun (n.) A description or definition contrary to that which is given by the adverse party. |
| author | noun (n.) The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator. |
| noun (n.) One who composes or writes a book; a composer, as distinguished from an editor, translator, or compiler. | |
| noun (n.) The editor of a periodical. | |
| noun (n.) An informant. | |
| verb (v. t.) To occasion; to originate. | |
| verb (v. t.) To tell; to say; to declare. |
| authoress | noun (n.) A female author. |
| authorial | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an author. |
| authorism | noun (n.) Authorship. |
| authoritative | adjective (a.) Having, or proceeding from, due authority; entitled to obedience, credit, or acceptance; determinate; commanding. |
| adjective (a.) Having an air of authority; positive; dictatorial; peremptory; as, an authoritative tone. |
| authority | noun (n.) Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authorization; as, the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children; the authority of a court. |
| noun (n.) Government; the persons or the body exercising power or command; as, the local authorities of the States; the military authorities. | |
| noun (n.) The power derived from opinion, respect, or esteem; influence of character, office, or station, or mental or moral superiority, and the like; claim to be believed or obeyed; as, an historian of no authority; a magistrate of great authority. | |
| noun (n.) That which, or one who, is claimed or appealed to in support of opinions, actions, measures, etc. | |
| noun (n.) Testimony; witness. | |
| noun (n.) A precedent; a decision of a court, an official declaration, or an opinion, saying, or statement worthy to be taken as a precedent. | |
| noun (n.) A book containing such a statement or opinion, or the author of the book. | |
| noun (n.) Justification; warrant. |
| authorizable | adjective (a.) Capable of being authorized. |
| authorization | noun (n.) The act of giving authority or legal power; establishment by authority; sanction or warrant. |
| authorizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Authorize |
| authorized | adjective (a.) Possessed of or endowed with authority; as, an authorized agent. |
| adjective (a.) Sanctioned by authority. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Authorize |
| authorizer | noun (n.) One who authorizes. |
| authorless | adjective (a.) Without an author; without authority; anonymous. |
| authorly | adjective (a.) Authorial. |
| authorship | noun (n.) The quality or state of being an author; function or dignity of an author. |
| noun (n.) Source; origin; origination; as, the authorship of a book or review, or of an act, or state of affairs. |
| bathorse | noun (n.) A horse which carries an officer's baggage during a campaign. |
| blackthorn | noun (n.) A spreading thorny shrub or small tree (Prunus spinosa), with blackish bark, and bearing little black plums, which are called sloes; the sloe. |
| noun (n.) A species of Crataegus or hawthorn (C. tomentosa). Both are used for hedges. |
| boxthorn | noun (n.) A plant of the genus Lycium, esp. Lycium barbarum. |
| buckthorn | noun (n.) A genus (Rhamnus) of shrubs or trees. The shorter branches of some species terminate in long spines or thorns. See Rhamnus. |
| cephalothorax | noun (n.) The anterior portion of any one of the Arachnida and higher Crustacea, consisting of the united head and thorax. |
| ecthoreum | noun (n.) The slender, hollow thread of a nettling cell or cnida. See Nettling cell. |
| endothorax | noun (n.) An internal process of the sternal plates in the thorax of insects. |
| entothorax | noun (n.) See Endothorax. |
| exauthoration | noun (n.) Deprivation of authority or dignity; degration. |
| futhorc | noun (n.) Alt. of Futhork |
| futhork | noun (n.) The Runic alphabet; -- so called from the six letters f, u, / (th), o (or a), r, c (=k). |
| haematothorax | noun (n.) Same as Hemothorax. |
| hawthorn | noun (n.) A thorny shrub or tree (the Crataegus oxyacantha), having deeply lobed, shining leaves, small, roselike, fragrant flowers, and a fruit called haw. It is much used in Europe for hedges, and for standards in gardens. The American hawthorn is Crataegus cordata, which has the leaves but little lobed. |
| haythorn | noun (n.) Hawthorn. |
| hemoothorax | noun (n.) An effusion of blood into the cavity of the pleura. |
| hydrothorax | noun (n.) An accumulation of serous fluid in the cavity of the chest. |
| inauthoritative | adjective (a.) Without authority; not authoritative. |
| interthoracic | adjective (a.) In the thorax. |
| intrathoracic | adjective (a.) Within the thora/ or chest. |
| lanthorn | noun (n.) See Lantern. |
| mesothoracic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the mesothorax. |
| mesothorax | noun (n.) The middle segment of the thorax in insects. See Illust. of Coleoptera. |
| metathoracic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the metathorax. |
| metathorax | noun (n.) The last or posterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Illust. of Coleoptera. |
| mesothorium | noun (n.) A radioactive product intermediate between thorium and radiothorium, with a period of 5.5 years. |
| ornithorhynchus | noun (n.) See Duck mole, under Duck. |
| orthorhombic | adjective (a.) Noting the system of crystallization which has three unequal axes at right angles to each other; trimetric. See Crystallization. |
| phthor | noun (n.) Fluorine. |
| plethora | noun (n.) Overfullness; especially, excessive fullness of the blood vessels; repletion; that state of the blood vessels or of the system when the blood exceeds a healthy standard in quantity; hyperaemia; -- opposed to anaemia. |
| noun (n.) State of being overfull; excess; superabundance. |
| plethoretic | adjective (a.) Plethoric. |
| plethoric | adjective (a.) Haeving a full habit of body; characterized by plethora or excess of blood; as, a plethoric constitution; -- used also metaphorically. |
| plethorical | adjective (a.) Plethoric. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH THOR (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (hor) - English Words That Ends with hor:
| anchor | noun (n.) A iron instrument which is attached to a ship by a cable (rope or chain), and which, being cast overboard, lays hold of the earth by a fluke or hook and thus retains the ship in a particular station. |
| noun (n.) Any instrument or contrivance serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a contrivance to hold the end of a bridge cable, or other similar part; a contrivance used by founders to hold the core of a mold in place. | |
| noun (n.) Fig.: That which gives stability or security; that on which we place dependence for safety. | |
| noun (n.) An emblem of hope. | |
| noun (n.) A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together. | |
| noun (n.) Carved work, somewhat resembling an anchor or arrowhead; -- a part of the ornaments of certain moldings. It is seen in the echinus, or egg-and-anchor (called also egg-and-dart, egg-and-tongue) ornament. | |
| noun (n.) One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges; also, one of the calcareous spinules of certain Holothurians, as in species of Synapta. | |
| noun (n.) An anchoret. | |
| verb (v. t.) To place at anchor; to secure by an anchor; as, to anchor a ship. | |
| verb (v. t.) To fix or fasten; to fix in a stable condition; as, to anchor the cables of a suspension bridge. | |
| verb (v. i.) To cast anchor; to come to anchor; as, our ship (or the captain) anchored in the stream. | |
| verb (v. i.) To stop; to fix or rest. |
| camphor | noun (n.) A tough, white, aromatic resin, or gum, obtained from different species of the Laurus family, esp. from Cinnamomum camphara (the Laurus camphara of Linnaeus.). Camphor, C10H16O, is volatile and fragrant, and is used in medicine as a diaphoretic, a stimulant, or sedative. |
| noun (n.) A gum resembling ordinary camphor, obtained from a tree (Dryobalanops camphora) growing in Sumatra and Borneo; -- called also Malay camphor, camphor of Borneo, or borneol. See Borneol. | |
| verb (v. t.) To impregnate or wash with camphor; to camphorate. |
| ephor | noun (n.) A magistrate; one of a body of five magistrates chosen by the people of ancient Sparta. They exercised control even over the king. |
| ichor | noun (n.) An ethereal fluid that supplied the place of blood in the veins of the gods. |
| noun (n.) A thin, acrid, watery discharge from an ulcer, wound, etc. |
| isochor | noun (n.) A line upon a thermodynamic diagram so drawn as to represent the pressures corresponding to changes of temperature when the volume of the gas operated on is constant. |
| lithophosphor | noun (n.) A stone that becomes phosphoric by heat. |
| metaphor | noun (n.) The transference of the relation between one set of objects to another set for the purpose of brief explanation; a compressed simile; e. g., the ship plows the sea. |
| mannerchor | noun (n.) A German men's chorus or singing club. |
| phosphor | noun (n.) Phosphorus. |
| noun (n.) The planet Venus, when appearing as the morning star; Lucifer. |
| rethor | noun (n.) A rhetorician; a careful writer. |
| senhor | noun (n.) A Portuguese title of courtesy corresponding to the Spanish se–or or the English Mr. or sir; also, a gentleman. |
| thor | noun (n.) The god of thunder, and son of Odin. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH THOR (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (tho) - Words That Begins with tho:
| thole | noun (n.) A wooden or metal pin, set in the gunwale of a boat, to serve as a fulcrum for the oar in rowing. |
| noun (n.) The pin, or handle, of a scythe snath. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bear; to endure; to undergo. | |
| verb (v. i.) To wait. |
| tholing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thole |
| thomaean | noun (n.) Alt. of Thomean |
| thomean | noun (n.) A member of the ancient church of Christians established on the Malabar coast of India, which some suppose to have been originally founded by the Apostle Thomas. |
| thomism | noun (n.) Alt. of Thomaism |
| thomaism | noun (n.) The doctrine of Thomas Aquinas, esp. with respect to predestination and grace. |
| thomist | noun (n.) A follower of Thomas Aquinas. See Scotist. |
| thomite | noun (n.) A Thomaean. |
| thomsenolite | noun (n.) A fluoride of aluminium, calcium, and sodium occurring with the cryolite of Greenland. |
| thomsonian | noun (n.) A believer in Thomsonianism; one who practices Thomsonianism. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Thomsonianism. |
| thomsonianism | noun (n.) An empirical system which assumes that the human body is composed of four elements, earth, air, fire, and water, and that vegetable medicines alone should be used; -- from the founder, Dr. Samuel Thomson, of Massachusetts. |
| thomsonite | noun (n.) A zeolitic mineral, occurring generally in masses of a radiated structure. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia, lime, and soda. Called also mesole, and comptonite. |
| thong | noun (n.) A strap of leather; especially, one used for fastening anything. |
| thooid | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a group of carnivores, including the wovels and the dogs. |
| thoracentesis | noun (n.) The operation of puncturing the chest wall so as to let out liquids contained in the cavity of the chest. |
| thoracic | noun (n.) One of a group of fishes having the ventral fins placed beneath the thorax or beneath the pectorial fins. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the thorax, or chest. |
| thoracica | noun (n. pl.) A division of cirripeds including those which have six thoracic segments, usually bearing six pairs of cirri. The common barnacles are examples. |
| thoracometer | noun (n.) Same as Stethometer. |
| thoracoplasty | noun (n.) A remodeling or reshaping of the thorax; especially, the operation of removing the ribs, so as to obliterate the pleural cavity in cases of empyema. |
| thoracostraca | adjective (a.) An extensive division of Crustacea, having a dorsal shield or carapec/ //niting all, or nearly all, of the thoracic somites to the head. It includes the crabs, lobsters, shrimps, and similar species. |
| thoracotomy | noun (n.) The operation of opening the pleural cavity by incision. |
| thoral | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a bed. |
| thorax | noun (n.) The part of the trunk between the neck and the abdomen, containing that part of the body cavity the walls of which are supported by the dorsal vertebrae, the ribs, and the sternum, and which the heart and lungs are situated; the chest. |
| noun (n.) The middle region of the body of an insect, or that region which bears the legs and wings. It is composed of three united somites, each of which is composed of several distinct parts. See Illust. in Appendix. and Illust. of Coleoptera. | |
| noun (n.) The second, or middle, region of the body of a crustacean, arachnid, or other articulate animal. In the case of decapod Crustacea, some writers include under the term thorax only the three segments bearing the maxillipeds; others include also the five segments bearing the legs. See Illust. in Appendix. | |
| noun (n.) A breastplate, cuirass, or corselet; especially, the breastplate worn by the ancient Greeks. |
| thoria | noun (n.) A rare white earthy substance, consisting of the oxide of thorium; -- formerly called also thorina. |
| thoric | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to thorium; designating the compounds of thorium. |
| thorite | noun (n.) A mineral of a brown to black color, or, as in the variety orangite, orange-yellow. It is essentially a silicate of thorium. |
| thorium | noun (n.) A metallic element found in certain rare minerals, as thorite, pyrochlore, monazite, etc., and isolated as an infusible gray metallic powder which burns in the air and forms thoria; -- formerly called also thorinum. Symbol Th. Atomic weight 232.0. |
| thorn | noun (n.) A hard and sharp-pointed projection from a woody stem; usually, a branch so transformed; a spine. |
| noun (n.) Any shrub or small tree which bears thorns; especially, any species of the genus Crataegus, as the hawthorn, whitethorn, cockspur thorn. | |
| noun (n.) Fig.: That which pricks or annoys as a thorn; anything troublesome; trouble; care. | |
| noun (n.) The name of the Anglo-Saxon letter /, capital form /. It was used to represent both of the sounds of English th, as in thin, then. So called because it was the initial letter of thorn, a spine. | |
| verb (v. t.) To prick, as with a thorn. |
| thornback | noun (n.) A European skate (Raia clavata) having thornlike spines on its back. |
| noun (n.) The large European spider crab or king crab (Maia squinado). |
| thornbill | noun (n.) Any one of several species of small, brilliantly colored American birds of the genus Rhamphomicron. They have a long, slender, sharp bill, and feed upon honey, insects, and the juice of the sugar cane. |
| thornbird | noun (n.) A small South American bird (Anumbius anumbii) allied to the ovenbirds of the genus Furnarius). It builds a very large and complex nest of twigs and thorns in a bush or tree. |
| thornbut | noun (n.) The turbot. |
| thornless | adjective (a.) Destitute of, or free from, thorns. |
| thornset | adjective (a.) Set with thorns. |
| thorntail | noun (n.) A beautiful South American humming bird (Gouldia Popelairii), having the six outer tail feathers long, slender, and pointed. The head is ornamented with a long, pointed crest. |
| thoro | adjective (a.) Thorough. |
| thorough | noun (n.) A furrow between two ridges, to drain off the surface water. |
| adjective (a.) Passing through; as, thorough lights in a house. | |
| adjective (a.) Passing through or to the end; hence, complete; perfect; as, a thorough reformation; thorough work; a thorough translator; a thorough poet. | |
| adverb (adv.) Thoroughly. | |
| adverb (adv.) Through. | |
| prep (prep.) Through. |
| thoroughbred | noun (n.) A thoroughbred animal, especially a horse. |
| adjective (a.) Bred from the best blood through a long line; pure-blooded; -- said of stock, as horses. Hence, having the characteristics of such breeding; mettlesome; courageous; of elegant form, or the like. |
| thoroughfare | noun (n.) A passage through; a passage from one street or opening to another; an unobstructed way open to the public; a public road; hence, a frequented street. |
| noun (n.) A passing or going through; passage. |
| thoroughgoing | adjective (a.) Going through, or to the end or bottom; very thorough; complete. |
| adjective (a.) Going all lengths; extreme; thoroughplaced; -- less common in this sense. |
| thoroughness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being thorough; completeness. |
| thoroughpaced | adjective (a.) Perfect in what is undertaken; complete; going all lengths; as, a thoroughplaced Tory or Whig. |
| thoroughpin | noun (n.) A disease of the hock (sometimes of the knee) of a horse, caused by inflammation of the synovial membrane and a consequent excessive secretion of the synovial fluid; -- probably so called because there is usually an oval swelling on each side of the leg, appearing somewhat as if a pin had been thrust through. |
| thoroughsped | adjective (a.) Fully accomplished; thoroughplaced. |
| thoroughwax | noun (n.) An umbelliferous plant (Bupleurum rotundifolium) with perfoliate leaves. |
| noun (n.) Thoroughwort. |
| thoroughwort | noun (n.) Same as Boneset. |
| thorow | adjective (a.) Thorough. |
| prep (prep.) Through. |
| thorp | noun (n.) Alt. of Thorpe |
| thorpe | noun (n.) A group of houses in the country; a small village; a hamlet; a dorp; -- now chiefly occurring in names of places and persons; as, Althorp, Mablethorpe. |
| those | noun (pron.) The plural of that. See That. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH THOR:
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. |
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