Name Report For First Name TOR:
TOR
First name TOR's origin is African. TOR means "king". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with TOR below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of tor.(Brown names are of the same origin (African) with TOR and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with TOR - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming TOR
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES TOR AS A WHOLE:
viktoria catori victoria voctorita antor tortain toru tormod castor mentor polymestor torio dohtor pastora salbatora salvatora stormie stormy torey tori toriana torie torra torree torrey torri torrie victorina vittoria ator auctor ector ektor hector heitor kotori nestor salbatore salvatore storme torben torhte torin torley tormaigh tormey torn toro torrance torrans torry tory toryn victor victoriano victorino victorio victoro winetorp viktor kestorr ettore etor alastor bittor torht attor victorine storm heolstor torr satordi toran torean toren torence torion torran torrence torrianNAMES RHYMING WITH TOR (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (or) - Names That Ends with or:
amaor rigmor hathor nassor senghor blamor escalibor zigor thor donkor gaynor agenor alphenor anthor elpenor fedor kirkor andor gabor rendor sandor tabor vidor tudor fyodor ifor amor blancheflor caylor dior elienor elinor ellinor flor leonor lysanor mor noor taylor anzor avidor branor cador calibor cathmor chancellor christofor connor conor cristofor dunmor elidor elmoor eskor gregor ivor konnor lalor macgregor moor nicanor pryor rainor raynor sagremor salvador saylor skylor sumernor telfor teodor trevor tylor whitmoor winsor xalbador xalvador ivankor ixidor feodor senior windsor salhfor radnor redfor prior aescfor pellanor geor eleanor dor glor rodor favor grosvenor escanor mador avigdor maynor honorNAMES RHYMING WITH TOR (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (to) - Names That Begins with to:
toai toan toba tobechukwu tobey tobiah tobias tobie tobin tobrecan tobrytan toby tobyn tocho tochtli tod todd toft togquos tohias tohopka tohy toibe toirdealbach toirdealbhach toireasa tokala tolan toland toli tolinka tolland tolman toltecatl tolucan tom toman tomas tomasina tomasine tomek tomeo tomi tomik tomkin tomlin tommie tommy tonalnan tonasha tonauac tonda tong toni tonia tonia-javae tonio tonisha tony tonya tonye tooantuh tosh tosha toshi toshiro tostig tote tototl totsi toukere tournour toussaint toussnint tova tovi towley townly townsend toxeus toyaNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH TOR:
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 thacher thacker thatcher thaxter thour thunder tier tipper treabhar tripper tucker tupper turner tyger tylar tylerEnglish Words Rhyming TOR
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES TOR AS A WHOLE:
| abactor | noun (n.) One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves. |
| abator | noun (n.) One who abates a nuisance. |
| noun (n.) A person who, without right, enters into a freehold on the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee. |
| abbreviator | noun (n.) One who abbreviates or shortens. |
| noun (n.) One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form. |
| abbreviatory | adjective (a.) Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging. |
| abdicator | noun (n.) One who abdicates. |
| abditory | noun (n.) A place for hiding or preserving articles of value. |
| abductor | noun (n.) One who abducts. |
| noun (n.) A muscle which serves to draw a part out, or form the median line of the body; as, the abductor oculi, which draws the eye outward. |
| aberuncator | noun (n.) A weeding machine. |
| abettor | noun (n.) One who abets; an instigator of an offense or an offender. |
| abjuratory | adjective (a.) Containing abjuration. |
| abnegator | noun (n.) One who abnegates, denies, or rejects anything. |
| abrogator | noun (n.) One who repeals by authority. |
| absolutory | adjective (a.) Serving to absolve; absolving. |
| absolvatory | adjective (a.) Conferring absolution; absolutory. |
| abstorted | adjective (a.) Wrested away. |
| accelerator | noun (n.) One who, or that which, accelerates. Also as an adj.; as, accelerator nerves. |
| acceleratory | adjective (a.) Accelerative. |
| accentor | noun (n.) One who sings the leading part; the director or leader. |
| noun (n.) A genus of European birds (so named from their sweet notes), including the hedge warbler. In America sometimes applied to the water thrushes. |
| acceptor | noun (n.) One who accepts |
| noun (n.) one who accepts an order or a bill of exchange; a drawee after he has accepted. |
| acclamatory | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or expressing approval by, acclamation. |
| accommodator | noun (n.) He who, or that which, accommodates. |
| accumulator | noun (n.) One who, or that which, accumulates, collects, or amasses. |
| noun (n.) An apparatus by means of which energy or power can be stored, such as the cylinder or tank for storing water for hydraulic elevators, the secondary or storage battery used for accumulating the energy of electrical charges, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A system of elastic springs for relieving the strain upon a rope, as in deep-sea dredging. |
| accusatorial | adjective (a.) Accusatory. |
| accusatory | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, an accusation; as, an accusatory libel. |
| acquisitor | noun (n.) One who acquires. |
| actor | noun (n.) One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer. |
| noun (n.) A theatrical performer; a stageplayer. | |
| noun (n.) An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes. | |
| noun (n.) One who institutes a suit; plaintiff or complainant. |
| actuator | noun (n.) One who actuates, or puts into action. |
| adaptorial | adjective (a.) Adaptive. |
| additory | adjective (a.) Tending to add; making some addition. |
| adductor | noun (n.) A muscle which draws a limb or part of the body toward the middle line of the body, or closes extended parts of the body; -- opposed to abductor; as, the adductor of the eye, which turns the eye toward the nose. |
| adhortatory | adjective (a.) Containing counsel or warning; hortatory; advisory. |
| adjudicator | noun (n.) One who adjudicates. |
| adjuratory | adjective (a.) Containing an adjuration. |
| adjutator | noun (n.) A corruption of Agitator. |
| adjutor | noun (n.) A helper or assistant. |
| adjutory | adjective (a.) Serving to help or assist; helping. |
| administrator | noun (n.) One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager. |
| noun (n.) A man who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority. |
| administratorship | noun (n.) The position or office of an administrator. |
| admonitor | noun (n.) Admonisher; monitor. |
| admonitorial | adjective (a.) Admonitory. |
| admonitory | adjective (a.) That conveys admonition; warning or reproving; as, an admonitory glance. |
| adstrictory | adjective (a.) See Astrictory. |
| adulator | noun (n.) A servile or hypocritical flatterer. |
| adulatory | adjective (a.) Containing excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address. |
| adulterator | noun (n.) One who adulterates or corrupts. |
| advocatory | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an advocate. |
| aerator | noun (n.) That which supplies with air; esp. an apparatus used for charging mineral waters with gas and in making soda water. |
| noun (n.) That which supplies with air or gas | |
| noun (n.) An apparatus used for charging mineral waters with gas and in making soda water. | |
| noun (n.) A fumigator used to bleach grain, destroying fungi and insects. |
| affirmatory | adjective (a.) Giving affirmation; assertive; affirmative. |
| aggregator | noun (n.) One who aggregates. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH TOR (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (or) - English Words That Ends with or:
| accensor | noun (n.) One of the functionaries who light and trim the tapers. |
| affeeror | noun (n.) One who affeers. |
| aggressor | noun (n.) The person who first attacks or makes an aggression; he who begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant. |
| agistator | noun (n.) See Agister. |
| agistor | noun (n.) Formerly, an officer of the king's forest, who had the care of cattle agisted, and collected the money for the same; -- hence called gisttaker, which in England is corrupted into guest-taker. |
| noun (n.) Now, one who agists or takes in cattle to pasture at a certain rate; a pasturer. |
| agitator | noun (n.) One who agitates; one who stirs up or excites others; as, political reformers and agitators. |
| noun (n.) One of a body of men appointed by the army, in Cromwell's time, to look after their interests; -- called also adjutators. | |
| noun (n.) An implement for shaking or mixing. |
| agricultor | noun (n.) An agriculturist; a farmer. |
| algor | noun (n.) Cold; chilliness. |
| alienator | noun (n.) One who alienates. |
| alienor | noun (n.) One who alienates or transfers property to another. |
| alleviator | noun (n.) One who, or that which, alleviates. |
| alligator | noun (n.) A large carnivorous reptile of the Crocodile family, peculiar to America. It has a shorter and broader snout than the crocodile, and the large teeth of the lower jaw shut into pits in the upper jaw, which has no marginal notches. Besides the common species of the southern United States, there are allied species in South America. |
| noun (n.) Any machine with strong jaws, one of which opens like the movable jaw of an alligator | |
| noun (n.) a form of squeezer for the puddle ball | |
| noun (n.) a rock breaker | |
| noun (n.) a kind of job press, called also alligator press. |
| alliterator | noun (n.) One who alliterates. |
| alluminor | noun (n.) An illuminator of manuscripts and books; a limner. |
| amalgamator | noun (n.) One who, or that which, amalgamates. Specifically: A machine for separating precious metals from earthy particles by bringing them in contact with a body of mercury with which they form an amalgam. |
| ambassador | noun (n.) Alt. of Embassador |
| ambulator | noun (n.) One who walks about; a walker. |
| noun (n.) A beetle of the genus Lamia. | |
| noun (n.) A genus of birds, or one of this genus. | |
| noun (n.) An instrument for measuring distances; -- called also perambulator. |
| ameliorator | noun (n.) One who ameliorates. |
| amputator | noun (n.) One who amputates. |
| ancestor | noun (n.) One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father. |
| noun (n.) An earlier type; a progenitor; as, this fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse. | |
| noun (n.) One from whom an estate has descended; -- the correlative of heir. |
| 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. |
| angor | noun (n.) Great anxiety accompanied by painful constriction at the upper part of the belly, often with palpitation and oppression. |
| animator | noun (n.) One who, or that which, animates; an animater. |
| annihilator | noun (n.) One who, or that which, annihilates; as, a fire annihilator. |
| annotator | noun (n.) A writer of annotations; a commentator. |
| annunciator | noun (n.) One who announces. Specifically: An officer in the church of Constantinople, whose business it was to inform the people of the festivals to be celebrated. |
| noun (n.) An indicator (as in a hotel) which designates the room where attendance is wanted. |
| antecessor | noun (n.) One who goes before; a predecessor. |
| noun (n.) An ancestor; a progenitor. |
| antecursor | noun (n.) A forerunner; a precursor. |
| anterior | adjective (a.) Before in time; antecedent. |
| adjective (a.) Before, or toward the front, in place; as, the anterior part of the mouth; -- opposed to posterior. |
| antichlor | noun (n.) Any substance (but especially sodium hyposulphite) used in removing the excess of chlorine left in paper pulp or stuffs after bleaching. |
| anticipator | noun (n.) One who anticipates. |
| anticor | noun (n.) A dangerous inflammatory swelling of a horse's breast, just opposite the heart. |
| apparitor | noun (n.) Formerly, an officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders. |
| noun (n.) A messenger or officer who serves the process of an ecclesiastical court. |
| appellor | noun (n.) The person who institutes an appeal, or prosecutes another for a crime. |
| noun (n.) One who confesses a felony committed and accuses his accomplices. |
| appointor | noun (n.) The person who selects the appointee. See Appointee, 2. |
| appreciator | noun (n.) One who appreciates. |
| approbator | noun (n.) One who approves. |
| appropriator | noun (n.) One who appropriates. |
| noun (n.) A spiritual corporation possessed of an appropriated benefice; also, an impropriator. |
| approximator | noun (n.) One who, or that which, approximates. |
| arbitrator | noun (n.) A person, or one of two or more persons, chosen by parties who have a controversy, to determine their differences. See Arbitration. |
| noun (n.) One who has the power of deciding or prescribing without control; a ruler; a governor. |
| arbor | noun (n.) A kind of latticework formed of, or covered with, vines, branches of trees, or other plants, for shade; a bower. |
| noun (n.) A tree, as distinguished from a shrub. | |
| noun (n.) An axle or spindle of a wheel or opinion. | |
| noun (n.) A mandrel in lathe turning. |
| arborator | noun (n.) One who plants or who prunes trees. |
| archchancellor | noun (n.) A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court. |
| architector | noun (n.) An architect. |
| archtraitor | noun (n.) A chief or transcendent traitor. |
| ardor | noun (n.) Heat, in a literal sense; as, the ardor of the sun's rays. |
| noun (n.) Warmth or heat of passion or affection; eagerness; zeal; as, he pursues study with ardor; the fought with ardor; martial ardor. | |
| noun (n.) Bright and effulgent spirits; seraphim. |
| arendator | noun (n.) In some provinces of Russia, one who farms the rents or revenues. |
| armor | noun (n.) Defensive arms for the body; any clothing or covering worn to protect one's person in battle. |
| noun (n.) Steel or iron covering, whether of ships or forts, protecting them from the fire of artillery. |
| arpentator | noun (n.) The Anglicized form of the French arpenteur, a land surveyor. |
| articulator | noun (n.) One who, or that which, articulates; as: (a) One who enunciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH TOR (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (to) - Words That Begins with to:
| toad | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of batrachians belonging to the genus Bufo and allied genera, especially those of the family Bufonidae. Toads are generally terrestrial in their habits except during the breeding season, when they seek the water. Most of the species burrow beneath the earth in the daytime and come forth to feed on insects at night. Most toads have a rough, warty skin in which are glands that secrete an acrid fluid. |
| toadeater | noun (n.) A fawning, obsequious parasite; a mean sycophant; a flatterer; a toady. |
| toadfish | noun (n.) Any marine fish of the genus Batrachus, having a large, thick head and a wide mouth, and bearing some resemblance to a toad. The American species (Batrachus tau) is very common in shallow water. Called also oyster fish, and sapo. |
| noun (n.) The angler. | |
| noun (n.) A swellfish. |
| toadflax | noun (n.) An herb (Linaria vulgaris) of the Figwort family, having narrow leaves and showy orange and yellow flowers; -- called also butter and eggs, flaxweed, and ramsted. |
| toadhead | noun (n.) The golden plover. |
| toadish | adjective (a.) Like a toad. |
| toadlet | noun (n.) A small toad. |
| toadstone | noun (n.) A local name for the igneous rocks of Derbyshire, England; -- said by some to be derived from the German todter stein, meaning dead stone, that is, stone which contains no ores. |
| noun (n.) Bufonite, formerly regarded as a precious stone, and worn as a jewel. See Bufonite. |
| toadstool | noun (n.) A name given to many umbrella-shaped fungi, mostly of the genus Agaricus. The species are almost numberless. They grow on decaying organic matter. |
| toady | noun (n.) A mean flatterer; a toadeater; a sycophant. |
| noun (n.) A coarse, rustic woman. | |
| verb (v. t.) To fawn upon with mean sycophancy. |
| toadying | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Toady |
| toadyism | noun (n.) The practice of meanly fawning on another; base sycophancy; servile adulation. |
| toasting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Toast |
| () a. & n. from Toast, v. |
| toaster | noun (n.) One who toasts. |
| noun (n.) A kitchen utensil for toasting bread, cheese, etc. |
| toastmaster | noun (n.) A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts. |
| toat | noun (n.) The handle of a joiner's plane. |
| tobacco | noun (n.) An American plant (Nicotiana Tabacum) of the Nightshade family, much used for smoking and chewing, and as snuff. As a medicine, it is narcotic, emetic, and cathartic. Tobacco has a strong, peculiar smell, and an acrid taste. |
| noun (n.) The leaves of the plant prepared for smoking, chewing, etc., by being dried, cured, and manufactured in various ways. |
| tobacconing | noun (n.) Smoking tobacco. |
| tobacconist | noun (n.) A dealer in tobacco; also, a manufacturer of tobacco. |
| noun (n.) A smoker of tobacco. |
| tobine | noun (n.) A stout twilled silk used for dresses. |
| tobit | noun (n.) A book of the Apocrypha. |
| toboggan | noun (n.) A kind of sledge made of pliable board, turned up at one or both ends, used for coasting down hills or prepared inclined planes; also, a sleigh or sledge, to be drawn by dogs, or by hand, over soft and deep snow. |
| verb (v. i.) To slide down hill over the snow or ice on a toboggan. |
| tobogganing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Toboggan |
| tobogganer | noun (n.) Alt. of Tobogganist |
| tobogganist | noun (n.) One who practices tobogganing. |
| toccata | noun (n.) An old form of piece for the organ or harpsichord, somewhat in the free and brilliant style of the prelude, fantasia, or capriccio. |
| tocher | noun (n.) Dowry brought by a bride to her husband. |
| tockay | noun (n.) A spotted lizard native of India. |
| toco | noun (n.) A toucan (Ramphastos toco) having a very large beak. See Illust. under Toucan. |
| tocology | noun (n.) The science of obstetrics, or midwifery; that department of medicine which treats of parturition. |
| tocororo | noun (n.) A cuban trogon (Priotelus temnurus) having a serrated bill and a tail concave at the end. |
| tocsin | noun (n.) An alarm bell, or the ringing of a bell for the purpose of alarm. |
| tod | noun (n.) A bush; a thick shrub; a bushy clump. |
| noun (n.) An old weight used in weighing wool, being usually twenty-eight pounds. | |
| noun (n.) A fox; -- probably so named from its bushy tail. | |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To weigh; to yield in tods. |
| toddling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Toddle |
| toddle | noun (n.) A toddling walk. |
| verb (v. i.) To walk with short, tottering steps, as a child. |
| toddler | noun (n.) One who toddles; especially, a young child. |
| toddy | noun (n.) A juice drawn from various kinds of palms in the East Indies; or, a spirituous liquor procured from it by fermentation. |
| noun (n.) A mixture of spirit and hot water sweetened. |
| tody | noun (n.) Any one of several species of small insectivorous West Indian birds of the genus Todus. They are allied to the kingfishers. |
| toe | noun (n.) One of the terminal members, or digits, of the foot of a man or an animal. |
| noun (n.) The fore part of the hoof or foot of an animal. | |
| noun (n.) Anything, or any part, corresponding to the toe of the foot; as, the toe of a boot; the toe of a skate. | |
| noun (n.) The journal, or pivot, at the lower end of a revolving shaft or spindle, which rests in a step. | |
| noun (n.) A lateral projection at one end, or between the ends, of a piece, as a rod or bolt, by means of which it is moved. | |
| noun (n.) A projection from the periphery of a revolving piece, acting as a cam to lift another piece. | |
| verb (v. t.) To touch or reach with the toes; to come fully up to; as, to toe the mark. | |
| verb (v. i.) To hold or carry the toes (in a certain way). |
| toeing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Toe |
| toed | adjective (a.) Having (such or so many) toes; -- chiefly used in composition; as, narrow-toed, four-toed. |
| adjective (a.) Having the end secured by nails driven obliquely, said of a board, plank, or joist serving as a brace, and in general of any part of a frame secured to other parts by diagonal nailing. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Toe |
| toffee | noun (n.) Alt. of Toffy |
| toffy | noun (n.) Taffy. |
| toft | noun (n.) A knoll or hill. |
| noun (n.) A grove of trees; also, a plain. | |
| noun (n.) A place where a messuage has once stood; the site of a burnt or decayed house. |
| toftman | noun (n.) The owner of a toft. See Toft, 3. |
| tofus | noun (n.) Tophus. |
| noun (n.) Tufa. See under Tufa, and Toph. |
| toga | noun (n.) The loose outer garment worn by the ancient Romans, consisting of a single broad piece of woolen cloth of a shape approaching a semicircle. It was of undyed wool, except the border of the toga praetexta. |
| togated | adjective (a.) Dressed in a toga or gown; wearing a gown; gowned. |
| toged | adjective (a.) Togated. |
| toggery | noun (n.) Clothes; garments; dress; as, fishing toggery. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH TOR:
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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