Name Report For First Name TUM:
TUM
First name TUM's origin is African. TUM means "myth name (great god of annu)". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with TUM below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of tum.(Brown names are of the same origin (African) with TUM and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with TUM - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming TUM
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES TUM AS A WHOLE:
fatuma atum nefertum tumaini ur-atum autumn tatumNAMES RHYMING WITH TUM (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (um) - Names That Ends with um:
kulthum geranium odahingum anum khnum calum colum lilium caellum calibum callum culum healum maccallum mekledoodum waeringawicum wiccum nahum machum barnum galvariumNAMES RHYMING WITH TUM (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (tu) - Names That Begins with tu:
tuan tuathal tucker tuckere tudor tuesday tugenda tuireann tuketu tulio tulley tullia tully tulsi tunde tung tunleah tuomas tupi tupper tuppere turannos turi turner turquine tutankhamun tutu tutyahu tuuli tuvya tuwa tuyen tuyetNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH TUM:
First Names which starts with 't' and ends with 'm':
tamam taydem tham thom thorm tim tom tristramEnglish Words Rhyming TUM
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES TUM AS A WHOLE:
aconitum | noun (n.) The poisonous herb aconite; also, an extract from it. |
acustumaunce | noun (n.) See Accustomance. |
adiantum | noun (n.) A genus of ferns, the leaves of which shed water; maidenhair. Also, the black maidenhair, a species of spleenwort. |
adytum | noun (n.) The innermost sanctuary or shrine in ancient temples, whence oracles were given. Hence: A private chamber; a sanctum. |
ageratum | noun (n.) A genus of plants, one species of which (A. Mexicanum) has lavender-blue flowers in dense clusters. |
amentum | noun (n.) Same as Ament. |
apostume | noun (n.) See Aposteme. |
arboretum | noun (n.) A place in which a collection of rare trees and shrubs is cultivated for scientific or educational purposes. |
asphaltum | noun (n.) Mineral pitch, Jews' pitch, or compact native bitumen. It is brittle, of a black or brown color and high luster on a surface of fracture; it melts and burns when heated, leaving no residue. It occurs on the surface and shores of the Dead Sea, which is therefore called Asphaltites, or the Asphaltic Lake. It is found also in many parts of Asia, Europe, and America. See Bitumen. |
noun (n.) A composition of bitumen, pitch, lime, and gravel, used for forming pavements, and as a water-proof cement for bridges, roofs, etc.; asphaltic cement. Artificial asphalt is prepared from coal tar, lime, sand, etc. |
autumn | noun (n.) The third season of the year, or the season between summer and winter, often called "the fall." Astronomically, it begins in the northern temperate zone at the autumnal equinox, about September 23, and ends at the winter solstice, about December 23; but in popular language, autumn, in America, comprises September, October, and November. |
noun (n.) The harvest or fruits of autumn. | |
noun (n.) The time of maturity or decline; latter portion; third stage. |
autumnal | adjective (a.) Of, belonging to, or peculiar to, autumn; as, an autumnal tint; produced or gathered in autumn; as, autumnal fruits; flowering in autumn; as, an autumnal plant. |
adjective (a.) Past the middle of life; in the third stage. |
barytum | noun (n.) The metal barium. See Barium. |
bitume | noun (n.) Bitumen. |
bitumed | adjective (a.) Smeared with bitumen. |
bitumen | noun (n.) Mineral pitch; a black, tarry substance, burning with a bright flame; Jew's pitch. It occurs as an abundant natural product in many places, as on the shores of the Dead and Caspian Seas. It is used in cements, in the construction of pavements, etc. See Asphalt. |
noun (n.) By extension, any one of the natural hydrocarbons, including the hard, solid, brittle varieties called asphalt, the semisolid maltha and mineral tars, the oily petroleums, and even the light, volatile naphthas. |
bituminating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bituminate |
bituminiferous | adjective (a.) Producing bitumen. |
bituminization | noun (n.) The process of bituminizing. |
bituminizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bituminize |
bituminous | adjective (a.) Having the qualities of bitumen; compounded with bitumen; containing bitumen. |
centumvir | noun (n.) One of a court of about one hundred judges chosen to try civil suits. Under the empire the court was increased to 180, and met usually in four sections. |
centumviral | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the centumviri, or to a centumvir. |
centumvirate | noun (n.) The office of a centumvir, or of the centumviri. |
contumacious | adjective (a.) Exhibiting contumacy; contemning authority; obstinate; perverse; stubborn; disobedient. |
adjective (a.) Willfully disobedient to the summous or prders of a court. |
contumacy | noun (n.) Stubborn perverseness; pertinacious resistance to authority. |
noun (n.) A willful contempt of, and disobedience to, any lawful summons, or to the rules and orders of court, as a refusal to appear in court when legally summoned. |
contumelious | adjective (a.) Exhibiting contumely; rudely contemptuous; insolent; disdainful. |
adjective (a.) Shameful; disgraceful. |
contumely | noun (n.) Rudeness compounded of haughtiness and contempt; scornful insolence; despiteful treatment; disdain; contemptuousness in act or speech; disgrace. |
costume | noun (n.) Dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period. |
noun (n.) Such an arrangement of accessories, as in a picture, statue, poem, or play, as is appropriate to the time, place, or other circumstances represented or described. | |
noun (n.) A character dress, used at fancy balls or for dramatic purposes. |
costumer | noun (n.) One who makes or deals in costumes, as for theaters, fancy balls, etc. |
crassamentum | adjective (a.) A semisolid mass or clot, especially that formed in coagulation of the blood. |
custumary | adjective (a.) See Customary. |
datum | noun (n.) Something given or admitted; a fact or principle granted; that upon which an inference or an argument is based; -- used chiefly in the plural. |
noun (n.) The quantities or relations which are assumed to be given in any problem. |
debituminization | noun (n.) The act of depriving of bitumen. |
depositum | noun (n.) Deposit. |
desideratum | noun (n.) Anything desired; that of which the lack is felt; a want generally felt and acknowledge. |
detumescence | noun (n.) Diminution of swelling; subsidence of anything swollen. |
dictum | noun (n.) An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; an apothegm. |
noun (n.) A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it. | |
noun (n.) The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it. | |
noun (n.) An arbitrament or award. |
equisetum | noun (n.) A genus of vascular, cryptogamic, herbaceous plants; -- also called horsetails. |
erratum | noun (n.) An error or mistake in writing or printing. |
extumescence | noun (n.) A swelling or rising. |
factotum | noun (n.) A person employed to do all kinds of work or business. |
factum | noun (n.) A man's own act and deed |
noun (n.) Anything stated and made certain. | |
noun (n.) The due execution of a will, including everything necessary to its validity. | |
noun (n.) The product. See Facient, 2. |
fretum | noun (n.) A strait, or arm of the sea. |
frustum | noun (n.) The part of a solid next the base, formed by cutting off the, top; or the part of any solid, as of a cone, pyramid, etc., between two planes, which may be either parallel or inclined to each other. |
noun (n.) One of the drums of the shaft of a column. |
hamatum | noun (n.) See Unciform. |
incertum | adjective (a.) Doubtful; not of definite form. |
intumescing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intumesce |
intumescence | noun (n.) The act or process of swelling or enlarging; also, the state of being swollen; expansion; tumidity; especially, the swelling up of bodies under the action of heat. |
noun (n.) Anything swollen or enlarged, as a tumor. |
intumescent | adjective (a.) Swelling up; expanding. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH TUM (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (um) - English Words That Ends with um:
abandum | noun (n.) Anything forfeited or confiscated. |
abomasum | noun (n.) Alt. of Abomasus |
abraum | noun (n.) Alt. of Abraum salts |
absinthium | noun (n.) The common wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), an intensely bitter plant, used as a tonic and for making the oil of wormwood. |
acetabulum | noun (n.) A vinegar cup; socket of the hip bone; a measure of about one eighth of a pint, etc. |
noun (n.) The bony cup which receives the head of the thigh bone. | |
noun (n.) The cavity in which the leg of an insect is inserted at its articulation with the body. | |
noun (n.) A sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related animals. | |
noun (n.) The large posterior sucker of the leeches. | |
noun (n.) One of the lobes of the placenta in ruminating animals. |
achenium | noun (n.) A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup; -- called a naked seed by the earlier botanists. |
acrodactylum | noun (n.) The upper surface of the toes, individually. |
acropodium | noun (n.) The entire upper surface of the foot. |
acrotarsium | noun (n.) The instep or front of the tarsus. |
acroterium | noun (n.) One of the small pedestals, for statues or other ornaments, placed on the apex and at the basal angles of a pediment. Acroteria are also sometimes placed upon the gables in Gothic architecture. |
noun (n.) One of the pedestals, for vases or statues, forming a part roof balustrade. |
actinium | noun (n.) A supposed metal, said by Phipson to be contained in commercial zinc; -- so called because certain of its compounds are darkened by exposure to light. |
addendum | noun (n.) A thing to be added; an appendix or addition. |
aecidium | noun (n.) A form of fruit in the cycle of development of the Rusts or Brands, an order of fungi, formerly considered independent plants. |
agallochum | noun (n.) A soft, resinous wood (Aquilaria Agallocha) of highly aromatic smell, burnt by the orientals as a perfume. It is called also agalwood and aloes wood. The name is also given to some other species. |
agendum | noun (n.) Something to be done; in the pl., a memorandum book. |
noun (n.) A church service; a ritual or liturgy. [In this sense, usually Agenda.] |
alabastrum | noun (n.) A flower bud. |
alarum | noun (n.) See Alarm. |
album | noun (n.) A white tablet on which anything was inscribed, as a list of names, etc. |
noun (n.) A register for visitors' names; a visitors' book. | |
noun (n.) A blank book, in which to insert autographs sketches, memorial writing of friends, photographs, etc. |
alburnum | noun (n.) The white and softer part of wood, between the inner bark and the hard wood or duramen; sapwood. |
alcyonium | noun (n.) A genus of fleshy Alcyonaria, its polyps somewhat resembling flowers with eight fringed rays. The term was also formerly used for certain species of sponges. |
algum | noun (n.) Same as Almug (and etymologically preferable). |
noun (n.) A tree or wood of the Bible (2 Chron. ii. 8; 1 K. x. 11). |
allium | noun (n.) A genus of plants, including the onion, garlic, leek, chive, etc. |
allodium | noun (n.) Freehold estate; land which is the absolute property of the owner; real estate held in absolute independence, without being subject to any rent, service, or acknowledgment to a superior. It is thus opposed to feud. |
alluvium | noun (n.) Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas. |
alum | noun (n.) A double sulphate formed of aluminium and some other element (esp. an alkali metal) or of aluminium. It has twenty-four molecules of water of crystallization. |
verb (v. t.) To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of alum; to treat with alum. |
aluminium | noun (n.) The metallic base of alumina. This metal is white, but with a bluish tinge, and is remarkable for its resistance to oxidation, and for its lightness, having a specific gravity of about 2.6. Atomic weight 27.08. Symbol Al. |
aluminum | noun (n.) See Aluminium. |
alyssum | noun (n.) A genus of cruciferous plants; madwort. The sweet alyssum (A. maritimum), cultivated for bouquets, bears small, white, sweet-scented flowers. |
ambulacrum | noun (n.) One of the radical zones of echinoderms, along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays. |
noun (n.) One of the suckers on the feet of mites. |
ammonium | noun (n.) A compound radical, NH4, having the chemical relations of a strongly basic element like the alkali metals. |
amoebaeum | noun (n.) A poem in which persons are represented at speaking alternately; as the third and seventh eclogues of Virgil. |
amomum | noun (n.) A genus of aromatic plants. It includes species which bear cardamoms, and grains of paradise. |
amphibium | noun (n.) An amphibian. |
anacardium | noun (n.) A genus of plants including the cashew tree. See Cashew. |
androecium | noun (n.) The stamens of a flower taken collectively. |
animalculum | noun (n.) An animalcule. |
anoplotherium | noun (n.) A genus of extinct quadrupeds of the order Ungulata, whose were first found in the gypsum quarries near Paris; characterized by the shortness and feebleness of their canine teeth (whence the name). |
antependium | noun (n.) The hangings or screen in front of the altar; an altar cloth; the frontal. |
antheridium | noun (n.) The male reproductive apparatus in the lower, consisting of a cell or other cavity in which spermatozoids are produced; -- called also spermary. |
anthodium | noun (n.) The inflorescence of a compound flower in which many florets are gathered into a involucrate head. |
antibrachium | noun (n.) That part of the fore limb between the brachium and the carpus; the forearm. |
anticlinorium | noun (n.) The upward elevation of the crust of the earth, resulting from a geanticlinal. |
antrum | noun (n.) A cavern or cavity, esp. an anatomical cavity or sinus |
apodyterium | noun (n.) The apartment at the entrance of the baths, or in the palestra, where one stripped; a dressing room. |
apothecium | noun (n.) The ascigerous fructification of lichens, forming masses of various shapes. |
aquarium | noun (n.) An artificial pond, or a globe or tank (usually with glass sides), in which living specimens of aquatic animals or plants are kept. |
arachnidium | noun (n.) The glandular organ in which the material for the web of spiders is secreted. |
arcanum | noun (n.) A secret; a mystery; -- generally used in the plural. |
noun (n.) A secret remedy; an elixir. |
archegonium | noun (n.) The pistillidium or female organ in the higher cryptogamic plants, corresponding to the pistil in flowering plants. |
archipterygium | noun (n.) The primitive form of fin, like that of Ceratodus. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH TUM (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (tu) - Words That Begins with tu:
tuatera | noun (n.) See Hatteria. |
tub | noun (n.) An open wooden vessel formed with staves, bottom, and hoops; a kind of short cask, half barrel, or firkin, usually with but one head, -- used for various purposes. |
noun (n.) The amount which a tub contains, as a measure of quantity; as, a tub of butter; a tub of camphor, which is about 1 cwt., etc. | |
noun (n.) Any structure shaped like a tub: as, a certain old form of pulpit; a short, broad boat, etc., -- often used jocosely or opprobriously. | |
noun (n.) A sweating in a tub; a tub fast. | |
noun (n.) A small cask; as, a tub of gin. | |
noun (n.) A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft; -- so called by miners. | |
verb (v. t.) To plant or set in a tub; as, to tub a plant. | |
(i.) To make use of a bathing tub; to lie or be in a bath; to bathe. |
tubbing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tub |
noun (n.) The forming of a tub; also, collectively, materials for tubs. | |
noun (n.) A lining of timber or metal around the shaft of a mine; especially, a series of cast-iron cylinders bolted together, used to enable those who sink a shaft to penetrate quicksand, water, etc., with safety. |
tuba | noun (n.) An ancient trumpet. |
noun (n.) A sax-tuba. See Sax-tuba. |
tubal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a tube; specifically, of or pertaining to one of the Fallopian tubes; as, tubal pregnancy. |
tubby | adjective (a.) Resembling a tub; specifically sounding dull and without resonance, like a tub; wanting elasticity or freedom of sound; as, a tubby violin. |
tube | noun (n.) A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe. |
noun (n.) A telescope. | |
noun (n.) A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance. | |
noun (n.) The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla. | |
noun (n.) A priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and Friction. | |
noun (n.) A small pipe forming part of the boiler, containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases, or else surrounded by water and forming a flue for the gases to pass through. | |
noun (n.) A more or less cylindrical, and often spiral, case secreted or constructed by many annelids, crustaceans, insects, and other animals, for protection or concealment. See Illust. of Tubeworm. | |
noun (n.) One of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk. | |
noun (n.) A tunnel for a tube railway; also (Colloq.), a tube railway. | |
verb (v. t.) To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well. |
tubing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tube |
noun (n.) The act of making tubes. | |
noun (n.) A series of tubes; tubes, collectively; a length or piece of a tube; material for tubes; as, leather tubing. |
tubeform | adjective (a.) In the form of a tube; tubular; tubiform. |
tuber | noun (n.) A fleshy, rounded stem or root, usually containing starchy matter, as the potato or arrowroot; a thickened root-stock. See Illust. of Tuberous. |
noun (n.) A genus of fungi. See Truffle. | |
noun (n.) A tuberosity; a tubercle. |
tubercle | noun (n.) A small knoblike prominence or excrescence, whether natural or morbid; as, a tubercle on a plant; a tubercle on a bone; the tubercles appearing on the body in leprosy. |
noun (n.) A small mass or aggregation of morbid matter; especially, the deposit which accompanies scrofula or phthisis. This is composed of a hard, grayish, or yellowish, translucent or opaque matter, which gradually softens, and excites suppuration in its vicinity. It is most frequently found in the lungs, causing consumption. |
tubercled | adjective (a.) Having tubercles; affected with, tubercles; tuberculate; as, a tubercled lung or stalk. |
tubercular | adjective (a.) Having tubercles; affected with tubercles; tubercled; tuberculate. |
adjective (a.) Like a tubercle; as, a tubercular excrescence. | |
adjective (a.) Characterized by the development of tubercles; as, tubercular diathesis. |
tuberculate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Tuberculated |
tuberculated | adjective (a.) Tubercled; tubercular. |
tuberculin | noun (n.) A fluid containing the products formed by the growth of the tubercle bacillus in a suitable culture medium. |
tuberculization | noun (n.) The development of tubercles; the condition of one who is affected with tubercles. |
tuberculose | adjective (a.) Alt. of Tuberculous |
tuberculous | adjective (a.) Having tubercles; affected with, or characterized by, tubercles; tubercular. |
adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or affected with, a tuberculosis. |
tuberculosis | noun (n.) A constitutional disease characterized by the production of tubercles in the internal organs, and especially in the lungs, where it constitutes the most common variety of pulmonary consumption. |
tuberculum | noun (n.) A tubercle. |
tuberiferous | adjective (a.) Producing or bearing tubers. |
tuberose | noun (n.) A plant (Polianthes tuberosa) with a tuberous root and a liliaceous flower. It is much cultivated for its beautiful and fragrant white blossoms. |
adjective (a.) Tuberous. |
tuberosity | noun (n.) The state of being tuberous. |
noun (n.) An obtuse or knoblike prominence; a protuberance. |
tuberous | adjective (a.) Covered with knobby or wartlike prominences; knobbed. |
adjective (a.) Consisting of, or bearing, tubers; resembling a tuber. |
tubeworm | noun (n.) Any annelid which constructs a tube; one of the Tubicolae. |
tubfish | noun (n.) The sapphirine gurnard (Trigla hirundo). See Illust. under Gurnard. |
tubful | noun (n.) As much as a tub will hold; enough to fill a tub. |
tubicolae | noun (n. pl.) A division of annelids including those which construct, and habitually live in, tubes. The head or anterior segments usually bear gills and cirri. Called also Sedentaria, and Capitibranchiata. See Serpula, and Sabella. |
tubicolar | adjective (a.) Tubicolous. |
tubicole | noun (n.) One of the Tubicolae. |
tubicolous | adjective (a.) Inhabiting a tube; as, tubicolous worms. |
tubicorn | noun (n.) Any ruminant having horns composed of a bony axis covered with a horny sheath; a hollow-horned ruminant. |
tubicornous | adjective (a.) Having hollow horns. |
tubiform | adjective (a.) Having the form of a tube; tubeform. |
tubinares | noun (n. pl.) A tribe of sea birds comprising the petrels, shearwaters, albatrosses, hagdons, and allied birds having tubular horny nostrils. |
tubipora | noun (n.) A genus of halcyonoids in which the skeleton, or coral (called organ-pipe coral), consists of a mass of parallel cylindrical tubes united at intervals by transverse plates. These corals are usually red or purple and form large masses. They are natives of the tropical parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. |
tubipore | noun (n.) Any species of the genus Tubipora. |
tubiporite | noun (n.) Any fossil coral of the genus Syringopora consisting of a cluster of upright tubes united together by small transverse tubules. |
tubivalve | noun (n.) A shell or tube formed by an annelid, as a serpula. |
tubman | noun (n.) One of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer. Cf. Postman, 2. |
tubular | adjective (a.) Having the form of a tube, or pipe; consisting of a pipe; fistular; as, a tubular snout; a tubular calyx. Also, containing, or provided with, tubes. |
tubularia | noun (n.) A genus of hydroids having large, naked, flowerlike hydranths at the summits of long, slender, usually simple, stems. The gonophores are small, and form clusters at the bases of the outer tentacles. |
tubulariae | noun (n. pl.) See Tubularida. |
tubularian | noun (n.) Any hydroid belonging to the suborder Tubularida. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the tubularians. |
tubularida | noun (n. pl.) An extensive division of Hydroidea; the tubularians; -- called also Athecata, Gymnoblastea, and Tubulariae. |
tubulate | adjective (a.) Tubular; tubulated; tubulous. |
tubulated | adjective (a.) Made in the form of a small tube; provided with a tube, or elongated opening. |
tubulation | noun (n.) The act of shaping or making a tube, or of providing with a tube; also, a tube or tubulure; as, the tubulation of a retort. |
tubulature | noun (n.) A tubulure. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH TUM:
English Words which starts with 't' and ends with 'm':
taedium | noun (n.) See Tedium. |
taenidium | noun (n.) The chitinous fiber forming the spiral thread of the tracheae of insects. See Illust. of Trachea. |
taintworm | noun (n.) A destructive parasitic worm or insect larva. |
tandem | noun (n.) A team of horses harnessed one before the other. |
noun (n.) A tandem bicycle or other vehicle. | |
adverb (adv. & a.) One after another; -- said especially of horses harnessed and driven one before another, instead of abreast. |
tangram | noun (n.) A Chinese toy made by cutting a square of thin wood, or other suitable material, into seven pieces, as shown in the cut, these pieces being capable of combination in various ways, so as to form a great number of different figures. It is now often used in primary schools as a means of instruction. |
tantalism | noun (n.) A punishment like that of Tantalus; a teasing or tormenting by the hope or near approach of good which is not attainable; tantalization. |
tantalum | noun (n.) A rare nonmetallic element found in certain minerals, as tantalite, samarskite, and fergusonite, and isolated as a dark powder which becomes steel-gray by burnishing. Symbol Ta. Atomic weight 182.0. Formerly called also tantalium. |
tantrum | noun (n.) A whim, or burst of ill-humor; an affected air. |
taoism | noun (n.) One of the popular religions of China, sanctioned by the state. |
tapetum | noun (n.) An area in the pigmented layer of the choroid coat of the eye in many animals, which has an iridescent or metallic luster and helps to make the eye visible in the dark. Sometimes applied to the whole layer of pigmented epithelium of the choroid. |
tapeworm | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of cestode worms belonging to Taenia and many allied genera. The body is long, flat, and composed of numerous segments or proglottids varying in shape, those toward the end of the body being much larger and longer than the anterior ones, and containing the fully developed sexual organs. The head is small, destitute of a mouth, but furnished with two or more suckers (which vary greatly in shape in different genera), and sometimes, also, with hooks for adhesion to the walls of the intestines of the animals in which they are parasitic. The larvae (see Cysticercus) live in the flesh of various creatures, and when swallowed by another animal of the right species develop into the mature tapeworm in its intestine. See Illustration in Appendix. |
taproom | noun (n.) A room where liquors are kept on tap; a barroom. |
tarantism | noun (n.) A nervous affection producing melancholy, stupor, and an uncontrollable desire to dance. It was supposed to be produced by the bite of the tarantula, and considered to be incapable of cure except by protracted dancing to appropriate music. |
tarentism | noun (n.) See Tarantism. |
targum | noun (n.) A translation or paraphrase of some portion of the Old Testament Scriptures in the Chaldee or Aramaic language or dialect. |
tarpum | noun (n.) A very large marine fish (Megapolis Atlanticus) of the Southern United States and the West Indies. It often becomes six or more feet in length, and has large silvery scales. The scales are a staple article of trade, and are used in fancywork. Called also tarpon, sabalo, savanilla, silverfish, and jewfish. |
tartarum | noun (n.) See 1st Tartar. |
tauriform | adjective (a.) Having the form of a bull. |
tautomerism | noun (n.) The condition, quality, or relation of metameric substances, or their respective derivatives, which are more or less interchangeable, according as one form or the other is the more stable. It is a special case of metamerism; thus, the lactam and the lactim compounds exhibit tautomerism. |
team | noun (n.) A group of young animals, especially of young ducks; a brood; a litter. |
noun (n.) Hence, a number of animals moving together. | |
noun (n.) Two or more horses, oxen, or other beasts harnessed to the same vehicle for drawing, as to a coach, wagon, sled, or the like. | |
noun (n.) A number of persons associated together in any work; a gang; especially, a number of persons selected to contend on one side in a match, or a series of matches, in a cricket, football, rowing, etc. | |
noun (n.) A flock of wild ducks. | |
noun (n.) A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto. | |
verb (v. i.) To engage in the occupation of driving a team of horses, cattle, or the like, as in conveying or hauling lumber, goods, etc.; to be a teamster. | |
verb (v. t.) To convey or haul with a team; as, to team lumber. |
technism | noun (n.) Technicality. |
tecum | noun (n.) See Tucum. |
tedium | noun (n.) Irksomeness; wearisomeness; tediousness. |
teem | adjective (a.) To think fit. |
verb (v. t.) To pour; -- commonly followed by out; as, to teem out ale. | |
verb (v. t.) To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mold, with molten metal. | |
verb (v. i.) To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply. | |
verb (v. i.) To be full, or ready to bring forth; to be stocked to overflowing; to be prolific; to abound. | |
verb (v. t.) To produce; to bring forth. |
teetotalism | noun (n.) The principle or practice of entire abstinence, esp. from intoxicating drinks. |
teetotum | noun (n.) A child's toy, somewhat resembling a top, and twirled by the fingers. |
tegmentum | noun (n.) A covering; -- applied especially to the bundles of longitudinal fibers in the upper part of the crura of the cerebrum. |
telegram | noun (n.) A message sent by telegraph; a telegraphic dispatch. |
telesm | noun (n.) A kind of amulet or magical charm. |
tellurism | noun (n.) An hypothesis of animal magnetism propounded by Dr. Keiser, in Germany, in which the phenomena are ascribed to the agency of a telluric spirit or influence. |
tellurium | noun (n.) A rare nonmetallic element, analogous to sulphur and selenium, occasionally found native as a substance of a silver-white metallic luster, but usually combined with metals, as with gold and silver in the mineral sylvanite, with mercury in Coloradoite, etc. Symbol Te. Atomic weight 125.2. |
tenaculum | noun (n.) An instrument consisting of a fine, sharp hook attached to a handle, and used mainly for taking up arteries, and the like. |
tentaculiform | adjective (a.) Shaped like a tentacle. |
tentaculum | noun (n.) A tentacle. |
noun (n.) One of the stiff hairs situated about the mouth, or on the face, of many animals, and supposed to be tactile organs; a tactile hair. |
tentorium | noun (n.) A fold of the dura mater which separates the cerebellum from the cerebrum and often incloses a process or plate of the skull called the bony tentorium. |
teraphim | noun (n. pl.) Images connected with the magical rites used by those Israelites who added corrupt practices to the patriarchal religion. Teraphim were consulted by the Israelites for oracular answers. |
terbium | noun (n.) A rare metallic element, of uncertain identification, supposed to exist in certain minerals, as gadolinite and samarskite, with other rare ytterbium earth. Symbol Tr or Tb. Atomic weight 150. |
terebratuliform | adjective (a.) Having the general form of a terebratula shell. |
tergum | noun (n.) The back of an animal. |
noun (n.) The dorsal piece of a somite of an articulate animal. | |
noun (n.) One of the dorsal plates of the operculum of a cirriped. |
term | noun (n.) That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary. |
noun (n.) The time for which anything lasts; any limited time; as, a term of five years; the term of life. | |
noun (n.) In universities, schools, etc., a definite continuous period during which instruction is regularly given to students; as, the school year is divided into three terms. | |
noun (n.) A point, line, or superficies, that limits; as, a line is the term of a superficies, and a superficies is the term of a solid. | |
noun (n.) A fixed period of time; a prescribed duration | |
noun (n.) The limitation of an estate; or rather, the whole time for which an estate is granted, as for the term of a life or lives, or for a term of years. | |
noun (n.) A space of time granted to a debtor for discharging his obligation. | |
noun (n.) The time in which a court is held or is open for the trial of causes. | |
noun (n.) The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice. | |
noun (n.) A word or expression; specifically, one that has a precisely limited meaning in certain relations and uses, or is peculiar to a science, art, profession, or the like; as, a technical term. | |
noun (n.) A quadrangular pillar, adorned on the top with the figure of a head, as of a man, woman, or satyr; -- called also terminal figure. See Terminus, n., 2 and 3. | |
noun (n.) A member of a compound quantity; as, a or b in a + b; ab or cd in ab - cd. | |
noun (n.) The menses. | |
noun (n.) Propositions or promises, as in contracts, which, when assented to or accepted by another, settle the contract and bind the parties; conditions. | |
noun (n.) In Scotland, the time fixed for the payment of rents. | |
noun (n.) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail. | |
noun (n.) To apply a term to; to name; to call; to denominate. |
termatarium | noun (n.) Any nest or dwelling of termes, or white ants. |
terminism | noun (n.) The doctrine held by the Terminists. |
terrorism | noun (n.) The act of terrorizing, or state of being terrorized; a mode of government by terror or intimidation. |
noun (n.) The practise of coercing governments to accede to political demands by committing violence on civilian targets; any similar use of violence to achieve goals. |
tetartohedrism | noun (n.) The property of being tetartohedral. |
tetradrachm | noun (n.) Alt. of Tetradrachma |
tetrapharmacom | noun (n.) Alt. of Tetrapharmacum |
tetrapharmacum | noun (n.) A combination of wax, resin, lard, and pitch, composing an ointment. |
teutonicism | noun (n.) A mode of speech peculiar to the Teutons; a Teutonic idiom, phrase, or expression; a Teutonic mode or custom; a Germanism. |
thallium | noun (n.) A rare metallic element of the aluminium group found in some minerals, as certain pyrites, and also in the lead-chamber deposit in the manufacture of sulphuric acid. It is isolated as a heavy, soft, bluish white metal, easily oxidized in moist air, but preserved by keeping under water. Symbol Tl. Atomic weight 203.7. |
thanedom | noun (n.) The property or jurisdiction of a thane; thanage. |
theanthropism | noun (n.) A state of being God and man. |
noun (n.) The ascription of human atributes to the Deity, or to a polytheistic deity; anthropomorphism. |
thedom | noun (n.) Success; fortune; luck; chance. |
theiform | adjective (a.) Having the form of tea. |
theism | noun (n.) The belief or acknowledgment of the existence of a God, as opposed to atheism, pantheism, or polytheism. |
noun (n.) The morbid condition resulting from the excessive use of tea. |
them | noun (pron.) The objective case of they. See They. |
theogonism | noun (n.) Theogony. |
theophilanthropism | noun (n.) The doctrine of the theophilanthropists; theophilanthropy. |
theorem | noun (n.) That which is considered and established as a principle; hence, sometimes, a rule. |
noun (n.) A statement of a principle to be demonstrated. | |
verb (v. t.) To formulate into a theorem. |
theosophism | noun (n.) Belief in theosophy. |
thermomagnetism | noun (n.) Magnetism as affected or caused by the action of heat; the relation of heat to magnetism. |
thermotropism | noun (n.) The phenomenon of turning towards a source of warmth, seen in the growing parts of some plants. |
thomism | noun (n.) Alt. of Thomaism |
thomaism | noun (n.) The doctrine of Thomas Aquinas, esp. with respect to predestination and grace. |
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. |
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. |
thraldom | noun (n.) The condition of a thrall; slavery; bondage; state of servitude. |
thralldom | noun (n.) Thraldom. |
threadworm | noun (n.) Any long, slender nematode worm, especially the pinworm and filaria. |
thrum | noun (n.) One of the ends of weaver's threads; hence, any soft, short threads or tufts resembling these. |
noun (n.) Any coarse yarn; an unraveled strand of rope. | |
noun (n.) A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen. | |
noun (n.) A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam. | |
noun (n.) A mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn. | |
verb (v. t.) To furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe. | |
verb (v. t.) To insert short pieces of rope-yarn or spun yarn in; as, to thrum a piece of canvas, or a mat, thus making a rough or tufted surface. | |
verb (v. i.) To play rudely or monotonously on a stringed instrument with the fingers; to strum. | |
verb (v. i.) Hence, to make a monotonous drumming noise; as, to thrum on a table. | |
verb (v. t.) To play, as a stringed instrument, in a rude or monotonous manner. | |
verb (v. t.) Hence, to drum on; to strike in a monotonous manner; to thrum the table. |
thuggism | noun (n.) Thuggee. |
thulium | noun (n.) A rare metallic element of uncertain properties and identity, said to have been found in the mineral gadolinite. |
thummim | noun (n. pl.) A mysterious part or decoration of the breastplate of the Jewish high priest. See the note under Urim. |
thunderstorm | noun (n.) A storm accompanied with lightning and thunder. |
thunderworm | noun (n.) A small, footless, burrowing, snakelike lizard (Rhineura Floridana) allied to Amphisbaena, native of Florida; -- so called because it leaves its burrows after a thundershower. |
tiebeam | noun (n.) A beam acting as a tie, as at the bottom of a pair of principal rafters, to prevent them from thrusting out the wall. See Illust. of Timbers, under Roof. |
titanium | noun (n.) An elementary substance found combined in the minerals manaccanite, rutile, sphene, etc., and isolated as an infusible iron-gray amorphous powder, having a metallic luster. It burns when heated in the air. Symbol Ti. Atomic weight 48.1. |
titanotherium | noun (n.) A large American Miocene mammal, allied to the rhinoceros, and more nearly to the extinct Brontotherium. |
toadyism | noun (n.) The practice of meanly fawning on another; base sycophancy; servile adulation. |
tom | noun (n.) The knave of trumps at gleek. |
noun (n.) A familiar contraction of Thomas, a proper name of a man. | |
noun (n.) The male of certain animals; -- often used adjectively or in composition; as, tom turkey, tomcat, etc. |
tomentum | noun (n.) The closely matted hair or downy nap covering the leaves or stems of some plants. |
tomium | noun (n.) The cutting edge of the bill of a bird. |
tongueworm | noun (n.) Any species of Linguatulina. |
toom | adjective (a.) Empty. |
verb (v. t.) To empty. |
torulaform | adjective (a.) Having the appearance of a torula; in the form of a little chain; as, a torulaform string of micrococci. |
toryism | noun (n.) The principles of the Tories. |
totem | noun (n.) A rude picture, as of a bird, beast, or the like, used by the North American Indians as a symbolic designation, as of a family or a clan. |
totemism | noun (n.) The system of distinguishing families, clans, etc., in a tribe by the totem. |
noun (n.) Superstitious regard for a totem; the worship of any real or imaginary object; nature worship. |
tractarianism | noun (n.) The principles of the Tractarians, or of those persons accepting the teachings of the "Tracts for the Times." |
traditionlism | noun (n.) A system of faith founded on tradition; esp., the doctrine that all religious faith is to be based solely upon what is delivered from competent authority, exclusive of rational processes. |
traducianism | noun (n.) The doctrine that human souls are produced by the act of generation; -- opposed to creationism, and infusionism. |
tram | noun (n.) A four-wheeled truck running on rails, and used in a mine, as for carrying coal or ore. |
noun (n.) The shaft of a cart. | |
noun (n.) One of the rails of a tramway. | |
noun (n.) A car on a horse railroad. | |
noun (n.) A silk thread formed of two or more threads twisted together, used especially for the weft, or cross threads, of the best quality of velvets and silk goods. | |
noun (n.) Same as Trammel, n., 6. | |
verb (v. t.) To convey or transport on a tramway or on a tram car. | |
verb (v. i.) To operate, or conduct the business of, a tramway; to travel by tramway. |
trangram | noun (n.) Something intricately contrived; a contrived; a puzzle. |
transcendentalism | noun (n.) The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge. |
noun (n.) Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction. |
transformism | noun (n.) The hypothesis, or doctrine, that living beings have originated by the modification of some other previously existing forms of living matter; -- opposed to abiogenesis. |
transom | noun (n.) A horizontal crossbar in a window, over a door, or between a door and a window above it. Transom is the horizontal, as mullion is the vertical, bar across an opening. See Illust. of Mullion. |
noun (n.) One of the principal transverse timbers of the stern, bolted to the sternpost and giving shape to the stern structure; -- called also transsummer. | |
noun (n.) The piece of wood or iron connecting the cheeks of some gun carriages. | |
noun (n.) The vane of a cross-staff. | |
noun (n.) One of the crossbeams connecting the side frames of a truck with each other. |
trapeziform | adjective (a.) Having the form of a trapezium; trapezoid. |
trapezium | noun (n.) A plane figure bounded by four right lines, of which no two are parallel. |
noun (n.) A bone of the carpus at the base of the first metacarpal, or thumb. | |
noun (n.) A region on the ventral side of the brain, either just back of the pons Varolii, or, as in man, covered by the posterior extension of its transverse fibers. |
traulism | noun (n.) A stammering or stuttering. |
traumatism | noun (n.) A wound or injury directly produced by causes external to the body; also, violence producing a wound or injury; as, rupture of the stomach caused by traumatism. |
tribalism | noun (n.) The state of existing in tribes; also, tribal feeling; tribal prejudice or exclusiveness; tribal peculiarities or characteristics. |