First Names Rhyming TELEMACHUS
English Words Rhyming TELEMACHUS
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES TELEMACHUS AS A WHOLE:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH TELEMACHUS (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 9 Letters (elemachus) - English Words That Ends with elemachus:
Rhyming Words According to Last 8 Letters (lemachus) - English Words That Ends with lemachus:
Rhyming Words According to Last 7 Letters (emachus) - English Words That Ends with emachus:
Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (machus) - English Words That Ends with machus:
| epimachus | noun (n.) A genus of highly ornate and brilliantly colored birds of Australia, allied to the birds of Paradise. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (achus) - English Words That Ends with achus:
| urachus | noun (n.) A cord or band of fibrous tissue extending from the bladder to the umbilicus. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (chus) - English Words That Ends with chus:
| anaptychus | noun (n.) One of a pair of shelly plates found in some cephalopods, as the ammonites. |
| aptychus | noun (n.) A shelly plate found in the terminal chambers of ammonite shells. Some authors consider them to be jaws; others, opercula. |
| bacchus | noun (n.) The god of wine, son of Jupiter and Semele. |
| bronchus | noun (n.) One of the subdivisions of the trachea or windpipe; esp. one of the two primary divisions. |
| elenchus | noun (n.) Same as Elench. |
| jacchus | noun (n.) The common marmoset (Hapale vulgaris). Formerly, the name was also applied to other species of the same genus. |
| menobranchus | noun (n.) A large aquatic American salamander of the genus Necturus, having permanent external gills. |
| ophiuchus | noun (n.) A constellation in the Northern Hemisphere, delineated as a man holding a serpent in his hands; -- called also Serpentarius. |
| ornithorhynchus | noun (n.) See Duck mole, under Duck. |
| rhamphorhynchus | noun (n.) A genus of pterodactyls in which the elongated tail supported a leathery expansion at the tip. |
| rhonchus | noun (n.) An adventitious whistling or snoring sound heard on auscultation of the chest when the air channels are partially obstructed. By some writers the term rhonchus is used as equivalent to rale in its widest sense. See Rale. |
| synochus | noun (n.) A continuous fever. |
| trochus | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of marine univalve shells belonging to Trochus and many allied genera of the family Trochidae. Some of the species are called also topshells. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (hus) - English Words That Ends with hus:
| acanthus | noun (n.) A genus of herbaceous prickly plants, found in the south of Europe, Asia Minor, and India; bear's-breech. |
| | noun (n.) An ornament resembling the foliage or leaves of the acanthus (Acanthus spinosus); -- used in the capitals of the Corinthian and Composite orders. |
| ailanthus | noun (n.) Same as Ailantus. |
| amaranthus | noun (n.) Alt. of Amarantus |
| amianthus | noun (n.) Earth flax, or mountain flax; a soft silky variety of asbestus. |
| asaphus | noun (n.) A genus of trilobites found in the Lower Silurian formation. See Illust. in Append. |
| aspalathus | noun (n.) A thorny shrub yielding a fragrant oil. |
| | noun (n.) A genus of plants of the natural order Leguminosae. The species are chiefly natives of the Cape of Good Hope. |
| canthus | noun (n.) The corner where the upper and under eyelids meet on each side of the eye. |
| cirrhus | noun (n.) Same as Cirrus. |
| compsognathus | noun (n.) A genus of Dinosauria found in the Jurassic formation, and remarkable for having several birdlike features. |
| dianthus | noun (n.) A genus of plants containing some of the most popular of cultivated flowers, including the pink, carnation, and Sweet William. |
| gyracanthus | noun (n.) A genus of fossil fishes, found in Devonian and carboniferous strata; -- so named from their round, sculptured spines. |
| ichthus | noun (n.) In early Christian and eccesiastical art, an emblematic fish, or the Greek word for fish, which combined the initials of the Greek words /, /, / /, /, Jesus, Christ, Son of God, Savior. |
| paragnathus | noun (n.) One of the two lobes which form the lower lip, or metastome, of Crustacea. |
| | noun (n.) One of the small, horny, toothlike jaws of certain annelids. |
| polyanthus | noun (n.) The oxlip. So called because the peduncle bears a many-flowered umbel. See Oxlip. (b) A bulbous flowering plant of the genus Narcissus (N. Tazetta, or N. polyanthus of some authors). See Illust. of Narcissus. |
| rhadamanthus | noun (n.) One of the three judges of the infernal regions; figuratively, a strictly just judge. |
| rhus | noun (n.) A genus of shrubs and small treets. See Sumac. |
| schirrhus | noun (n.) See Scirrhus. |
| scirrhus | noun (n.) An indurated organ or part; especially, an indurated gland. |
| | noun (n.) A cancerous tumor which is hard, translucent, of a gray or bluish color, and emits a creaking sound when incised. |
| scolithus | noun (n.) A tubular structure found in Potsdam sandstone, and believed to be the fossil burrow of a marine worm. |
| scyphus | noun (n.) A kind of large drinking cup, -- used by Greeks and Romans, esp. by poor folk. |
| | noun (n.) The cup of a narcissus, or a similar appendage to the corolla in other flowers. |
| | noun (n.) A cup-shaped stem or podetium in lichens. Also called scypha. See Illust. of Cladonia pyxidata, under Lichen. |
| sisyphus | noun (n.) A king of Corinth, son of Aeolus, famed for his cunning. He was killed by Theseus, and in the lower world was condemned by Pluto to roll to the top of a hill a huge stone, which constantly rolled back again, making his task incessant. |
| skirrhus | noun (n.) See Scirrhus. |
| strophanthus | noun (n.) A genus of tropical apocynaceous shrubs having singularly twisted flowers. One species (Strophanthus hispidus) is used medicinally as a cardiac sedative and stimulant. |
| suigothus | noun (n. pl.) The Scandinavian Goths. See the Note under Goths. |
| thus | noun (n.) The commoner kind of frankincense, or that obtained from the Norway spruce, the long-leaved pine, and other conifers. |
| | adverb (adv.) In this or that manner; on this wise. |
| | adverb (adv.) To this degree or extent; so far; so; as, thus wise; thus peaceble; thus bold. |
| tophus | noun (n.) One of the mineral concretions about the joints, and in other situations, occurring chiefly in gouty persons. They consist usually of urate of sodium; when occurring in the internal organs they are also composed of phosphate of calcium. |
| | noun (n.) Calcareous tufa. |
| typhus | noun (n.) A contagious continued fever lasting from two to three weeks, attended with great prostration and cerebral disorder, and marked by a copious eruption of red spots upon the body. Also called jail fever, famine fever, putrid fever, spottled fever, etc. See Jail fever, under Jail. |
| zoanthus | noun (n.) A genus of Actinaria, including numerous species, found mostly in tropical seas. The zooids or polyps resemble small, elongated actinias united together at their bases by fleshy stolons, and thus forming extensive groups. The tentacles are small and bright colored. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH TELEMACHUS (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 9 Letters (telemachu) - Words That Begins with telemachu:
Rhyming Words According to First 8 Letters (telemach) - Words That Begins with telemach:
Rhyming Words According to First 7 Letters (telemac) - Words That Begins with telemac:
Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (telema) - Words That Begins with telema:
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (telem) - Words That Begins with telem:
| 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. |
| telemechanic | adjective (a.) Designating, or pert. to, any device for operating mechanisms at a distance. |
| telemeteorograph | noun (n.) Any apparatus recording meteorological phenomena at a distance from the measuring apparatus, as by electricity or by compressed air; esp., an apparatus recording conditions at many distant stations at a central office. |
| telemetrograph | noun (n.) A combination of the camera lucida and telescope for drawing and measuring distant objects. |
| telemotor | noun (n.) A hydraulic device by which the movement of the wheel on the bridge operates the steering gear at the stern. |
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (tele) - Words That Begins with tele:
| teledu | noun (n.) An East Indian carnivore (Mydaus meliceps) allied to the badger, and noted for the very offensive odor that it emits, somewhat resembling that of a skunk. It is a native of the high mountains of Java and Sumatra, and has long, silky fur. Called also stinking badger, and stinkard. |
| telegram | noun (n.) A message sent by telegraph; a telegraphic dispatch. |
| telegrammic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a telegram; laconic; concise; brief. |
| telegraph | noun (n.) An apparatus, or a process, for communicating intelligence rapidly between distant points, especially by means of preconcerted visible or audible signals representing words or ideas, or by means of words and signs, transmitted by electrical action. |
| | verb (v. t.) To convey or announce by telegraph. |
| telegraphing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Telegraph |
| telegrapher | noun (n.) One who sends telegraphic messages; a telegraphic operator; a telegraphist. |
| telegraphic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the telegraph; made or communicated by a telegraph; as, telegraphic signals; telegraphic art; telegraphic intelligence. |
| telegraphical | adjective (a.) Telegraphic. |
| telegraphist | noun (n.) One skilled in telegraphy; a telegrapher. |
| telegraphy | noun (n.) The science or art of constructing, or of communicating by means of, telegraphs; as, submarine telegraphy. |
| teleocephial | noun (n. pl.) An extensive order of bony fishes including most of the common market species, as bass, salmon, cod, perch, etc. |
| teleological | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to teleology, or the doctrine of design. |
| teleologist | noun (n.) One versed in teleology. |
| teleology | noun (n.) The doctrine of the final causes of things |
| | noun (n.) the doctrine of design, which assumes that the phenomena of organic life, particularly those of evolution, are explicable only by purposive causes, and that they in no way admit of a mechanical explanation or one based entirely on biological science; the doctrine of adaptation to purpose. |
| teleophore | noun (n.) Same as Gonotheca. |
| teleorganic | adjective (a.) Vital; as, teleorganic functions. |
| 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. |
| teleosaurus | noun (n.) A genus of extinct crocodilian reptiles of the Jurassic period, having a long and slender snout. |
| teleost | noun (n.) One of the Teleosti. Also used adjectively. |
| teleostean | noun (n.) A teleostean fish. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the teleosts. |
| teleostei | noun (n. pl.) A subclass of fishes including all the ordinary bony fishes as distinguished from the ganoids. |
| teleostomi | noun (n. pl.) An extensive division of fishes including the ordinary fishes (Teleostei) and the ganoids. |
| teleozoic | adjective (a.) Having tissued composed of cells. |
| teleozoon | noun (n.) A metazoan. |
| telepathy | noun (n.) The sympathetic affection of one mind by the thoughts, feelings, or emotions of another at a distance, without communication through the ordinary channels of sensation. |
| telepheme | noun (n.) A message by a telephone. |
| telephone | noun (n.) An instrument for reproducing sounds, especially articulate speech, at a distance. |
| | verb (v. t.) To convey or announce by telephone. |
| telephonic | adjective (a.) Conveying sound to a great distance. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the telephone; by the telephone. |
| telephony | noun (n.) The art or process of reproducing sounds at a distance, as with the telephone. |
| telepolariscope | noun (n.) A polariscope arranged to be attached to a telescope. |
| telerythin | noun (n.) A red crystalline compound related to, or produced from, erythrin. So called because regarded as the end of the series of erythrin compounds. |
| telescope | noun (n.) An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies. |
| | adjective (a.) To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass; to come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another. |
| | adjective (a.) Capable of being extended or compacted, like a telescope, by the sliding of joints or parts one within the other; telescopic; as, a telescope bag; telescope table, etc. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cause to come into collision, so as to telescope. |
| telescoping | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Telescope |
| telescopic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Telescopical |
| telescopical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a telescope; performed by a telescope. |
| | adjective (a.) Seen or discoverable only by a telescope; as, telescopic stars. |
| | adjective (a.) Able to discern objects at a distance; farseeing; far-reaching; as, a telescopic eye; telescopic vision. |
| | adjective (a.) Having the power of extension by joints sliding one within another, like the tube of a small telescope or a spyglass; especially (Mach.), constructed of concentric tubes, either stationary, as in the telescopic boiler, or movable, as in the telescopic chimney of a war vessel, which may be put out of sight by being lowered endwise. |
| telescopist | noun (n.) One who uses a telescope. |
| telescopy | noun (n.) The art or practice of using or making telescopes. |
| telesm | noun (n.) A kind of amulet or magical charm. |
| telesmatic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Telesmatical |
| telesmatical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to telesms; magical. |
| telespectroscope | noun (n.) A spectroscope arranged to be attached to a telescope for observation of distant objects, as the sun or stars. |
| telestereoscope | noun (n.) A stereoscope adapted to view distant natural objects or landscapes; a telescopic stereoscope. |
| telestic | adjective (a.) Tending or relating to a purpose or an end. |
| telestich | noun (n.) A poem in which the final letters of the lines, taken consequently, make a name. Cf. Acrostic. |
| telethermometer | noun (n.) An apparatus for determining the temperature of a distant point, as by a thermoelectric circuit or otherwise. |
| teleutospore | noun (n.) The thick-celled winter or resting spore of the rusts (order Uredinales), produced in late summer. See Illust. of Uredospore. |
| telechirograph | noun (n.) An instrument for telegraphically transmitting and receiving handwritten messages, as photographically by a beam of light from a mirror. |
| telega | noun (n.) A rude four-wheeled, springless wagon, used among the Russians. |
| telegony | noun (n.) The supposed influence of a father upon offspring subsequent to his own, begotten of the same mother by another father. |
| telegraphone | noun (n.) An instrument for recording and reproducing sound by local magnetization of a steel wire, disk, or ribbon, moved against the pole of a magnet connected electrically with a telephone receiver, or the like. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (tel) - Words That Begins with tel:
| telamones | noun (n. pl.) Same as Atlantes. |
| telangiectasis | noun (n.) Dilatation of the capillary vessels. |
| telangiectasy | noun (n.) Telangiectasis. |
| telary | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a web; hence, spinning webs; retiary. |
| telic | adjective (a.) Denoting the final end or purpose, as distinguished from ecbatic. See Ecbatic. |
| telling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tell |
| | adjective (a.) Operating with great effect; effective; as, a telling speech. |
| tell | noun (n.) That which is told; tale; account. |
| | noun (n.) A hill or mound. |
| | verb (v. t.) To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money. |
| | verb (v. t.) To utter or recite in detail; to give an account of; to narrate. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make known; to publish; to disclose; to divulge. |
| | verb (v. t.) To give instruction to; to make report to; to acquaint; to teach; to inform. |
| | verb (v. t.) To order; to request; to command. |
| | verb (v. t.) To discern so as to report; to ascertain by observing; to find out; to discover; as, I can not tell where one color ends and the other begins. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make account of; to regard; to reckon; to value; to estimate. |
| | verb (v. i.) To give an account; to make report. |
| | verb (v. i.) To take effect; to produce a marked effect; as, every shot tells; every expression tells. |
| tellable | adjective (a.) Capable of being told. |
| tellen | noun (n.) Any species of Tellina. |
| 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. |
| tellership | noun (n.) The office or employment of a teller. |
| tellina | noun (n.) A genus of marine bivalve mollusks having thin, delicate, and often handsomely colored shells. |
| telltale | noun (n.) One who officiously communicates information of the private concerns of others; one who tells that which prudence should suppress. |
| | noun (n.) A movable piece of ivory, lead, or other material, connected with the bellows of an organ, that gives notice, by its position, when the wind is exhausted. |
| | noun (n.) A mechanical attachment to the steering wheel, which, in the absence of a tiller, shows the position of the helm. |
| | noun (n.) A compass in the cabin of a vessel, usually placed where the captain can see it at all hours, and thus inform himself of the vessel's course. |
| | noun (n.) A machine or contrivance for indicating or recording something, particularly for keeping a check upon employees, as factory hands, watchmen, drivers, check takers, and the like, by revealing to their employers what they have done or omitted. |
| | noun (n.) The tattler. See Tattler. |
| | noun (n.) A thing that serves to disclose something or give information; a hint or indication. |
| | noun (n.) An arrangement consisting of long strips, as of rope, wire, or leather, hanging from a bar over railroad tracks, in such a position as to warn freight brakemen of their approach to a low overhead bridge. |
| | adjective (a.) Telling tales; babbling. |
| tellural | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the earth. |
| tellurate | noun (n.) A salt of telluric acid. |
| telluret | noun (n.) A telluride. |
| tellureted | noun (n.) Combined or impregnated with tellurium; tellurized. |
| tellurhydric | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, hydrogen telluride, which is regarded as an acid, especially when in solution. |
| tellurian | noun (n.) A dweller on the earth. |
| | noun (n.) An instrument for showing the operation of the causes which produce the succession of day and night, and the changes of the seasons. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the earth. |
| telluric | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the earth; proceeding from the earth. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to tellurium; derived from, or resembling, tellurium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with tellurous compounds; as, telluric acid, which is analogous to sulphuric acid. |
| telluride | noun (n.) A compound of tellurium with a more positive element or radical; -- formerly called telluret. |
| 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. |
| tellurite | noun (n.) A salt of tellurous acid. |
| | noun (n.) Oxide of tellurium. It occurs sparingly in tufts of white or yellowish crystals. |
| 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. |
| tellurous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to tellurium; derived from, or containing, tellurium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with telluric compounds; as, tellurous acid, which is analogous to sulphurous acid. |
| telodynamic | adjective (a.) Relating to a system for transmitting power to a distance by means of swiftly moving ropes or cables driving grooved pulleys of large diameter. |
| teloogoo | noun (n.) See Telugu. |
| telotrocha | noun (n.) An annelid larva having telotrochal bands of cilia. |
| telotrochal | adjective (a.) Alt. of Telotrochous |
| telotrochous | adjective (a.) Having both a preoral and a posterior band of cilla; -- applied to the larvae of certain annelids. |
| telotype | noun (n.) An electric telegraph which prints the messages in letters and not in signs. |
| 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. |
| telpherage | noun (n.) The conveyance of vehicles or loads by means of electricity. |
| | noun (n.) Specif., electric transportation of goods by means of carriages suspended on overhead conductors, as of wire, the power being conveyed to the motor carriage by the wires on which it runs. Telpherage and telpher are sometimes applied to such systems in which the motive power is not electricity. |
| telson | noun (n.) The terminal joint or movable piece at the end of the abdomen of Crustacea and other articulates. See Thoracostraca. |
| telugu | noun (n.) A Darvidian language spoken in the northern parts of the Madras presidency. In extent of use it is the next language after Hindustani (in its various forms) and Bengali. |
| | noun (n.) One of the people speaking the Telugu language. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Telugu language, or the Telugus. |
| telautogram | noun (n.) A message transmitted and recorded by a teleautograph. |
| telautograph | noun (n.) A facsimile telegraph for reproducing writing, pictures, maps, etc. In the transmitter the motions of the pencil are communicated by levers to two rotary shafts, by which variations in current are produced in two separate circuits. In the receiver these variations are utilized by electromagnetic devices and levers to move a pen as the pencil moves. |
| telegraphoscope | noun (n.) An instrument for telegraphically transmitting a picture and reproducing its image as a positive or negative. The transmitter includes a camera obscura and a row of minute selenium cells. The receiver includes an oscillograph, ralay, equilibrator, and an induction coil the sparks from which perforate a paper with tiny holes that form the image. |
| telehydrobarometer | noun (n.) An instrument for indicating the level of water in a distant tank or reservior. |
| telelectric | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to transmission, as of music, to a distance by electricity. |
| telelectroscope | noun (n.) Any apparatus for making distant objects visible by the aid of electric transmission. |
| telenergy | noun (n.) Display of force or energy at a distance, or without contact; -- applied to mediumistic phenomena. |
| telengiscope | noun (n.) An instrument of such focal length that it may be used as an observing telescope for objects close at hand or as a long-focused microscope. |
| telephote | noun (n.) A telelectric apparatus for producing images of visible objects at a distance. |
| telephoto | adjective (a.) Telephotographic; specif., designating a lens consisting of a combination of lenses specially designed to give a large image of a distant object in a camera of relatively short focal length. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH TELEMACHUS:
English Words which starts with 'tele' and ends with 'chus':
English Words which starts with 'tel' and ends with 'hus':
English Words which starts with 'te' and ends with 'us':
| tedious | adjective (a.) Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome. |
| temerarious | adjective (a.) Unreasonably adventurous; despising danger; rash; headstrong; audacious; reckless; heedless. |
| temerous | adjective (a.) Temerarious. |
| tempestuous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a tempest; involving or resembling a tempest; turbulent; violent; stormy; as, tempestuous weather; a tempestuous night; a tempestuous debate. |
| temporaneous | adjective (a.) Temporarity. |
| temptatious | adjective (a.) Tempting. |
| tenacious | adjective (a.) Holding fast, or inclined to hold fast; inclined to retain what is in possession; as, men tenacious of their just rights. |
| | adjective (a.) Apt to retain; retentive; as, a tenacious memory. |
| | adjective (a.) Having parts apt to adhere to each other; cohesive; tough; as, steel is a tenacious metal; tar is more tenacious than oil. |
| | adjective (a.) Apt to adhere to another substance; glutinous; viscous; sticking; adhesive. |
| | adjective (a.) Niggardly; closefisted; miserly. |
| | adjective (a.) Holding stoutly to one's opinion or purpose; obstinate; stubborn. |
| tendinous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a tendon; of the nature of tendon. |
| | adjective (a.) Full of tendons; sinewy; as, nervous and tendinous parts of the body. |
| tendonous | adjective (a.) Tendinous. |
| tenebrificous | adjective (a.) Tenebrific. |
| tenebrious | adjective (a.) Tenebrous. |
| tenebrous | adjective (a.) Dark; gloomy; dusky; tenebrious. |
| tenesmus | noun (n.) An urgent and distressing sensation, as if a discharge from the intestines must take place, although none can be effected; -- always referred to the lower extremity of the rectum. |
| tentaculiferous | adjective (a.) Producing or bearing tentacles. |
| tentiginous | adjective (a.) Stiff; stretched; strained. |
| | adjective (a.) Lustful, or pertaining to lust. |
| tenuifolious | adjective (a.) Having thin or narrow leaves. |
| tenuious | adjective (a.) Rare or subtile; tenuous; -- opposed to dense. |
| tenuous | adjective (a.) Thin; slender; small; minute. |
| | adjective (a.) Rare; subtile; not dense; -- said of fluids. |
| | adjective (a.) Lacking substance, as a tenuous argument. |
| teretous | adjective (a.) Terete. |
| tergeminous | adjective (a.) Threefold; thrice-paired. |
| tergiferous | adjective (a.) Carrying or bearing upon the back. |
| terminus | noun (n.) Literally, a boundary; a border; a limit. |
| | noun (n.) The Roman divinity who presided over boundaries, whose statue was properly a short pillar terminating in the bust of a man, woman, satyr, or the like, but often merely a post or stone stuck in the ground on a boundary line. |
| | noun (n.) Hence, any post or stone marking a boundary; a term. See Term, 8. |
| | noun (n.) Either end of a railroad line; also, the station house, or the town or city, at that place. |
| terraqueous | adjective (a.) Consisting of land and water; as, the earth is a terraqueous globe. |
| terreous | adjective (a.) Consisting of earth; earthy; as, terreous substances; terreous particles. |
| terrestrious | adjective (a.) Terrestrial. |
| terrigenous | adjective (a.) Earthborn; produced by the earth. |
| tersanctus | noun (n.) An ancient ascription of praise (containing the word "Holy" -- in its Latin form, "Sanctus" -- thrice repeated), used in the Mass of the Roman Catholic Church and before the prayer of consecration in the communion service of the Church of England and the Protestant Episcopal Church. Cf. Trisagion. |
| testaceous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to shells; consisted of a hard shell, or having a hard shell. |
| | adjective (a.) Having a dull red brick color or a brownish yellow color. |
| testudinarious | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the shell of a tortoise; resembling a tortoise shell; having the color or markings of a tortoise shell. |
| testudineous | adjective (a.) Resembling the shell of a tortoise. |
| tetanus | noun (n.) A painful and usually fatal disease, resulting generally from a wound, and having as its principal symptom persistent spasm of the voluntary muscles. When the muscles of the lower jaw are affected, it is called locked-jaw, or lickjaw, and it takes various names from the various incurvations of the body resulting from the spasm. |
| | noun (n.) That condition of a muscle in which it is in a state of continued vibratory contraction, as when stimulated by a series of induction shocks. |
| tetrachotomous | adjective (a.) Having a division by fours; separated into four parts or series, or into series of fours. |
| tetracoccous | adjective (a.) Having four cocci, or carpels. |
| tetradactylous | adjective (a.) Having, or characterized by, four digits to the foot or hand. |
| tetradynamous | adjective (a.) Belonging to the order Tetradynamia; having six stamens, four of which are uniformly longer than the others. |
| tetragynous | adjective (a.) Belonging to the order Tetragynia; having four styles. |
| tetramerous | adjective (a.) Having the parts arranged in sets of four; as, a tetramerous flower. |
| | adjective (a.) Having four joints in each of the tarsi; -- said of certain insects. |
| tetrandrous | adjective (a.) Belonging to the class Tetrandria. |
| tetrapetalous | adjective (a.) Containing four distinct petals, or flower leaves; as, a tetrapetalous corolla. |
| tetraphyllous | adjective (a.) Having four leaves; consisting of four distinct leaves or leaflets. |
| tetrapterous | adjective (a.) Having four wings. |
| tetrasepalous | adjective (a.) Having four sepals. |
| tetraspermous | adjective (a.) Having four seeds. |
| tetricous | adjective (a.) Tetric. |
| tetterous | adjective (a.) Having the character of, or pertaining to, tetter. |
