First Names Rhyming TRITON
English Words Rhyming TRITON
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES TRÝTON AS A WHOLE:
| triton | noun (n.) A fabled sea demigod, the son of Neptune and Amphitrite, and the trumpeter of Neptune. He is represented by poets and painters as having the upper part of his body like that of a man, and the lower part like that of a fish. He often has a trumpet made of a shell. |
| | noun (n.) Any one of many species of marine gastropods belonging to Triton and allied genera, having a stout spiral shell, often handsomely colored and ornamented with prominent varices. Some of the species are among the largest of all gastropods. Called also trumpet shell, and sea trumpet. |
| | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of aquatic salamanders. The common European species are Hemisalamandra cristata, Molge palmata, and M. alpestris, a red-bellied species common in Switzerland. The most common species of the United States is Diemyctylus viridescens. See Illust. under Salamander. |
| tritone | noun (n.) A superfluous or augmented fourth. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH TRÝTON (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (riton) - English Words That Ends with riton:
| briton | noun (n.) A native of Great Britain. |
| | adjective (a.) British. |
| indobriton | noun (n.) A person born in India, of mixed Indian and British blood; a half-caste. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (iton) - English Words That Ends with iton:
| barbiton | noun (n.) An ancient Greek instrument resembling a lyre. |
| chiton | noun (n.) An under garment among the ancient Greeks, nearly representing the modern shirt. |
| | noun (n.) One of a group of gastropod mollusks, with a shell composed of eight movable dorsal plates. See Polyplacophora. |
| karyomiton | noun (n.) The reticular network of fine fibers, of which the nucleus of a cell is in part composed; -- in opposition to kytomiton, or the network in the body of the cell. |
| kytomiton | noun (n.) See Karyomiton. |
| mirliton | noun (n.) A kind of musical toy into which one sings, hums, or speaks, producing a coarse, reedy sound. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ton) - English Words That Ends with ton:
| acton | noun (n.) A stuffed jacket worn under the mail, or (later) a jacket plated with mail. |
| aketon | noun (n.) See Acton. |
| astrophyton | noun (n.) A genus of ophiurans having the arms much branched. |
| asyndeton | noun (n.) A figure which omits the connective; as, I came, I saw, I conquered. It stands opposed to polysyndeton. |
| badminton | noun (n.) A game, similar to lawn tennis, played with shuttlecocks. |
| | noun (n.) A preparation of claret, spiced and sweetened. |
| barton | noun (n.) The demesne lands of a manor; also, the manor itself. |
| | noun (n.) A farmyard. |
| baston | noun (n.) A staff or cudgel. |
| | noun (n.) See Baton. |
| | noun (n.) An officer bearing a painted staff, who formerly was in attendance upon the king's court to take into custody persons committed by the court. |
| baton | noun (n.) A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the baton of a field marshal; the baton of a conductor in musical performances. |
| | noun (n.) An ordinary with its ends cut off, borne sinister as a mark of bastardy, and containing one fourth in breadth of the bend sinister; -- called also bastard bar. See Bend sinister. |
| batton | noun (n.) See Batten, and Baton. |
| beton | noun (n.) The French name for concrete; hence, concrete made after the French fashion. |
| boston | noun (n.) A game at cards, played by four persons, with two packs of fifty-two cards each; -- said to be so called from Boston, Massachusetts, and to have been invented by officers of the French army in America during the Revolutionary war. |
| breton | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Brittany, or Bretagne, in France; also, the ancient language of Brittany; Armorican. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or relating to Brittany, or Bretagne, in France. |
| burton | noun (n.) A peculiar tackle, formed of two or more blocks, or pulleys, the weight being suspended to a hook block in the bight of the running part. |
| button | noun (n.) A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass. |
| | noun (n.) A catch, of various forms and materials, used to fasten together the different parts of dress, by being attached to one part, and passing through a slit, called a buttonhole, in the other; -- used also for ornament. |
| | noun (n.) A bud; a germ of a plant. |
| | noun (n.) A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door. |
| | noun (n.) A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion. |
| | noun (n.) To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; -- often followed by up. |
| | noun (n.) To dress or clothe. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button. |
| | () Alt. of evil |
| canton | noun (n.) A song or canto |
| | noun (n.) A small portion; a division; a compartment. |
| | noun (n.) A small community or clan. |
| | noun (n.) A small territorial district; esp. one of the twenty-two independent states which form the Swiss federal republic; in France, a subdivision of an arrondissement. See Arrondissement. |
| | noun (n.) A division of a shield occupying one third part of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top of the shield, meeting a horizontal line from the side. |
| | verb (v. i.) To divide into small parts or districts; to mark off or separate, as a distinct portion or division. |
| | verb (v. i.) To allot separate quarters to, as to different parts or divisions of an army or body of troops. |
| carton | noun (n.) Pasteboard for paper boxes; also, a pasteboard box. |
| caxton | noun (n.) Any book printed by William Caxton, the first English printer. |
| checklaton | noun (n.) Ciclatoun. |
| | noun (n.) Gilded leather. |
| cotton | noun (n.) A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. Long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes almost two inches long; short-staple, from two thirds of an inch to an inch and a half. |
| | noun (n.) The cotton plant. See Cotten plant, below. |
| | noun (n.) Cloth made of cotton. |
| | verb (v. i.) To rise with a regular nap, as cloth does. |
| | verb (v. i.) To go on prosperously; to succeed. |
| | verb (v. i.) To unite; to agree; to make friends; -- usually followed by with. |
| | verb (v. i.) To take a liking to; to stick to one as cotton; -- used with to. |
| croton | noun (n.) A genus of euphorbiaceous plants belonging to tropical countries. |
| crouton | noun (n.) Bread cut in various forms, and fried lightly in butter or oil, to garnish hashes, etc. |
| dermoskeleton | noun (n.) See Exoskeleton. |
| emplecton | noun (n.) A kind of masonry in which the outer faces of the wall are ashlar, the space between being filled with broken stone and mortar. Cross layers of stone are interlaid as binders. |
| endoskeleton | noun (n.) The bony, cartilaginous, or other internal framework of an animal, as distinguished from the exoskeleton. |
| exoskeleton | noun (n.) The hardened parts of the external integument of an animal, including hair, feathers, nails, horns, scales, etc.,as well as the armor of armadillos and many reptiles, and the shells or hardened integument of numerous invertebrates; external skeleton; dermoskeleton. |
| feuilleton | noun (n.) A part of a French newspaper (usually the bottom of the page), devoted to light literature, criticism, etc.; also, the article or tale itself, thus printed. |
| fronton | noun (n.) Same as Frontal, 2. |
| glutton | noun (n.) One who eats voraciously, or to excess; a gormandizer. |
| | noun (n.) Fig.: One who gluts himself. |
| | noun (n.) A carnivorous mammal (Gulo luscus), of the family Mustelidae, about the size of a large badger. It was formerly believed to be inordinately voracious, whence the name; the wolverene. It is a native of the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia. |
| | adjective (a.) Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing. |
| | verb (v. t. & i.) To glut; to eat voraciously. |
| hacqueton | noun (n.) Same as Acton. |
| haketon | noun (n.) Same as Acton. |
| homoioptoton | noun (n.) A figure in which the several parts of a sentence end with the same case, or inflection generally. |
| hyperbaton | noun (n.) A figurative construction, changing or inverting the natural order of words or clauses; as, "echoed the hills" for "the hills echoed." |
| jetton | noun (n.) A metal counter used in playing cards. |
| kingston | noun (n.) Alt. of Kingstone |
| krypton | noun (n.) An inert gaseous element of the argon group, occurring in air to the extent of about one volume in a million. It was discovered by Ramsay and Travers in 1898. Liquefying point, -- 152ˇ C.; symbol, Kr; atomic weight, 83.0. |
| laton | noun (n.) Alt. of Latoun |
| megaphyton | noun (n.) An extinct genus of tree ferns with large, two-ranked leaves, or fronds. |
| melocoton | noun (n.) Alt. of Melocotoon |
| melton | noun (n.) A kind of stout woolen cloth with unfinished face and without raised nap. A commoner variety has a cotton warp. |
| monton | noun (n.) A heap of ore; a mass undergoing the process of amalgamation. |
| moton | noun (n.) A small plate covering the armpit in armor of the 14th century and later. |
| mutton | noun (n.) A sheep. |
| | noun (n.) The flesh of a sheep. |
| | noun (n.) A loose woman; a prostitute. |
| neuroskeleton | noun (n.) The deep-seated parts of the vertebrate skeleton which are relation with the nervous axis and locomation. |
| panton | noun (n.) A horseshoe to correct a narrow, hoofbound heel. |
| phaeton | noun (n.) A four-wheeled carriage (with or without a top), open, or having no side pieces, in front of the seat. It is drawn by one or two horses. |
| | noun (n.) See Phaethon. |
| | noun (n.) A handsome American butterfly (Euphydryas, / Melitaea, Phaeton). The upper side of the wings is black, with orange-red spots and marginal crescents, and several rows of cream-colored spots; -- called also Baltimore. |
| phlogiston | noun (n.) The hypothetical principle of fire, or inflammability, regarded by Stahl as a chemical element. |
| phyton | noun (n.) One of the parts which by their repetition make up a flowering plant, each being a single joint of a stem with its leaf or leaves; a phytomer. |
| piston | noun (n.) A sliding piece which either is moved by, or moves against, fluid pressure. It usually consists of a short cylinder fitting within a cylindrical vessel along which it moves, back and forth. It is used in steam engines to receive motion from the steam, and in pumps to transmit motion to a fluid; also for other purposes. |
| pneumoskeleton | noun (n.) A chitinous structure which supports the gill in some invertebrates. |
| polyptoton | noun (n.) A figure by which a word is repeated in different forms, cases, numbers, genders, etc., as in Tennyson's line, -- "My own heart's heart, and ownest own, farewell." |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH TRÝTON (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (trito) - Words That Begins with trito:
| tritorium | noun (n.) Same as Triturium. |
| tritovum | noun (n.) An embryonic insect which has twice cast its skin previous to hatching from the egg. |
| tritozooid | noun (n.) A zooid of the third generation in asexual reproduction. |
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (trit) - Words That Begins with trit:
| trite | adjective (a.) Worn out; common; used until so common as to have lost novelty and interest; hackneyed; stale; as, a trite remark; a trite subject. |
| triternate | adjective (a.) Three times ternate; -- applied to a leaf whose petiole separates into three branches, each of which divides into three parts which each bear three leafiets. |
| tritheism | noun (n.) The opinion or doctrine that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three distinct Gods. |
| tritheist | noun (n.) One who believes in tritheism. |
| tritheistic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Tritheistical |
| tritheistical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to tritheism. |
| tritheite | noun (n.) A tritheist. |
| trithing | noun (n.) One of three ancient divisions of a county in England; -- now called riding. |
| trithionate | noun (n.) A salt of trithionic acid. |
| trithionic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to, or designating, a certain thionic acid, H2S3O6 which is obtained as a colorless, odorless liquid. |
| tritical | adjective (a.) Trite. |
| triticin | noun (n.) A carbohydrate isomeric with dextrin, obtained from quitch grass (Agropyrum, formerly Triticum, repens) as a white amorphous substance. |
| triticum | noun (n.) A genus of grasses including the various species of wheat. |
| triturable | adjective (a.) Capable of being triturated. |
| triturating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Triturate |
| trituration | noun (n.) The act of triturating, or reducing to a fine or impalpable powder by grinding, rubbing, bruising, etc. |
| triture | noun (n.) A rubbing or grinding; trituration. |
| triturium | noun (n.) A vessel for separating liquids of different densities. |
| tritylene | noun (n.) Propylene. |
| tritubercular | adjective (a.) Having or designating teeth with three cusps or tubercles; tricuspid. |
| | adjective (a.) Pertaining to trituberculy. |
| trituberculy | noun (n.) A theory of the development of mammalian molar teeth. The primitive stage is that of simple cones, as in reptiles. The simple cone then developed a smaller cone in front and another behind. Next, a cingulum was developed, and the three cones became arranged in a triangle, the two smaller cusps having moved to the outer side in upper and to the inner in lower molars. This primitive triangle is called the trigon or trigonid and this stage the tritubercular or trigonodont. The trigon being a cutting apparatus, an extension of the posterior part of the crown was developed in lower molars for crushing, and a smaller corresponding part appeared in upper molars. Another large cone then arose, usually from the cingulum. In more complex forms, smaller intermediate cusps appeared. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (tri) - Words That Begins with tri:
| triable | adjective (a.) Fit or possible to be tried; liable to be subjected to trial or test. |
| | adjective (a.) Liable to undergo a judicial examination; properly coming under the cognizance of a court; as, a cause may be triable before one court which is not triable in another. |
| triableness | noun (n.) Quality or state of being triable. |
| triacid | adjective (a.) Capable of neutralizing three molecules of a monobasic acid or the equivalent; having three hydrogen atoms which may be acid radicals; -- said of certain bases; thus, glycerin is a triacid base. |
| triacle | noun (n.) See Treacle. |
| triacontahedral | adjective (a.) Having thirty sides. |
| triaconter | noun (n.) A vessel with thirty banks of oars, or, as some say, thirty ranks of rowers. |
| triad | noun (n.) A union of three; three objects treated as one; a ternary; a trinity; as, a triad of deities. |
| | noun (n.) A chord of three notes. |
| | noun (n.) The common chord, consisting of a tone with its third and fifth, with or without the octave. |
| | noun (n.) An element or radical whose valence is three. |
| triadelphous | adjective (a.) Having stamens joined by filaments into three bundles. See Illust. under Adelphous. |
| triadic | adjective (a.) Having the characteristics of a triad; as, boron is triadic. |
| triakisoctahedron | noun (n.) A trigonal trisoctahedron. |
| trial | noun (n.) The act of trying or testing in any manner. |
| | noun (n.) Any effort or exertion of strength for the purpose of ascertaining what can be done or effected. |
| | noun (n.) The act of testing by experience; proof; test. |
| | noun (n.) Examination by a test; experiment, as in chemistry, metallurgy, etc. |
| | noun (n.) The state of being tried or tempted; exposure to suffering that tests strength, patience, faith, or the like; affliction or temptation that exercises and proves the graces or virtues of men. |
| | noun (n.) That which tries or afflicts; that which harasses; that which tries the character or principles; that which tempts to evil; as, his child's conduct was a sore trial. |
| | noun (n.) The formal examination of the matter in issue in a cause before a competent tribunal; the mode of determining a question of fact in a court of law; the examination, in legal form, of the facts in issue in a cause pending before a competent tribunal, for the purpose of determining such issue. |
| triality | noun (n.) Three united; state of being three. |
| trialogue | noun (n.) A discourse or colloquy by three persons. |
| triamide | noun (n.) An amide containing three amido groups. |
| triamine | noun (n.) An amine containing three amido groups. |
| triander | noun (n.) Any one of the Triandria. |
| triandria | noun (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants having three distinct and equal stamens. |
| triandrian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Triandrous |
| triandrous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Triandria; having three distinct and equal stamens in the same flower. |
| triangle | noun (n.) A figure bounded by three lines, and containing three angles. |
| | noun (n.) An instrument of percussion, usually made of a rod of steel, bent into the form of a triangle, open at one angle, and sounded by being struck with a small metallic rod. |
| | noun (n.) A draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle. |
| | noun (n.) A kind of frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which soldiers were bound when undergoing corporal punishment, -- now disused. |
| | noun (n.) A small constellation situated between Aries and Andromeda. |
| | noun (n.) A small constellation near the South Pole, containing three bright stars. |
| triangled | adjective (a.) Having three angles; triangular. |
| triangular | adjective (a.) Having three angles; having the form of a triangle. |
| | adjective (a.) Oblong or elongated, and having three lateral angles; as, a triangular seed, leaf, or stem. |
| triangulares | noun (n. pl.) The triangular, or maioid, crabs. See Illust. under Maioid, and Illust. of Spider crab, under Spider. |
| triangularity | noun (n.) The quality or state of being triangular. |
| triangulating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Triangulate |
| triangulation | noun (n.) The series or network of triangles into which the face of a country, or any portion of it, is divided in a trigonometrical survey; the operation of measuring the elements necessary to determine the triangles into which the country to be surveyed is supposed to be divided, and thus to fix the positions and distances of the several points connected by them. |
| triarchy | noun (n.) Government by three persons; a triumvirate; also, a country under three rulers. |
| triarian | adjective (a.) Occupying the third post or rank. |
| triarticulate | adjective (a.) Having three joints. |
| trias | noun (n.) The formation situated between the Permian and Lias, and so named by the Germans, because consisting of three series of strata, which are called in German the Bunter sandstein, Muschelkalk, and Keuper. |
| triassic | noun (n.) The Triassic formation. |
| | adjective (a.) Of the age of, or pertaining to, the Trias. |
| triatic | adjective (a.) A term used in the phrase triatic stay. See under Stay. |
| triatomic | adjective (a.) Having three atoms; -- said of certain elements or radicals. |
| | adjective (a.) Having a valence of three; trivalent; sometimes, in a specific sense, having three hydroxyl groups, whether acid or basic; thus, glycerin, glyceric acid, and tartronic acid are each triatomic. |
| tribal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a tribe or tribes; as, a tribal scepter. |
| tribalism | noun (n.) The state of existing in tribes; also, tribal feeling; tribal prejudice or exclusiveness; tribal peculiarities or characteristics. |
| tribasic | adjective (a.) Capable of neutralizing three molecules of a monacid base, or their equivalent; having three hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by basic elements on radicals; -- said of certain acids; thus, citric acid is a tribasic acid. |
| tribble | noun (n.) A frame on which paper is dried. |
| tribe | noun (n.) A family, race, or series of generations, descending from the same progenitor, and kept distinct, as in the case of the twelve tribes of Israel, descended from the twelve sons of Jacob. |
| | noun (n.) A number of species or genera having certain structural characteristics in common; as, a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals. |
| | noun (n.) A nation of savages or uncivilized people; a body of rude people united under one leader or government; as, the tribes of the Six Nations; the Seneca tribe. |
| | noun (n.) A division, class, or distinct portion of a people, from whatever cause that distinction may have originated; as, the city of Athens was divided into ten tribes. |
| | noun (n.) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line; as, the Duchess tribe of shorthorns. |
| | verb (v. t.) To distribute into tribes or classes. |
| triblet | noun (n.) Alt. of Tribolet |
| tribolet | noun (n.) A goldsmith's tool used in making rings. |
| | noun (n.) A steel cylinder round which metal is drawn in the process of forming tubes. |
| | noun (n.) A tapering mandrel. |
| tribometer | noun (n.) An instrument to ascertain the degree of friction in rubbing surfaces. |
| tribrach | noun (n.) A poetic foot of three short syllables, as, meblius. |
| tribracteate | adjective (a.) Having three bracts. |
| tribual | adjective (a.) Alt. of Tribular |
| tribular | adjective (a.) Of or relating to a tribe; tribal; as, a tribual characteristic; tribular worship. |
| tribulation | noun (n.) That which occasions distress, trouble, or vexation; severe affliction. |
| tribunal | noun (n.) The seat of a judge; the bench on which a judge and his associates sit for administering justice. |
| | noun (n.) Hence, a court or forum; as, the House of Lords, in England, is the highest tribunal in the kingdom. |
| | noun (n.) In villages of the Philippine Islands, a kind of townhall. At the tribunal the head men of the village met to transact business, prisoners were confined, and troops and travelers were often quartered. |
| tribunary | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to tribunes; as, tribunary powers or authority. |
| tribunate | noun (n.) The state or office of a tribune; tribuneship. |
| tribune | noun (n.) An officer or magistrate chosen by the people, to protect them from the oppression of the patricians, or nobles, and to defend their liberties against any attempts that might be made upon them by the senate and consuls. |
| | noun (n.) Anciently, a bench or elevated place, from which speeches were delivered; in France, a kind of pulpit in the hall of the legislative assembly, where a member stands while making an address; any place occupied by a public orator. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH TRÝTON:
English Words which starts with 'tr' and ends with 'on':
| trabeation | noun (n.) Same as Entablature. |
| tractation | noun (n.) Treatment or handling of a subject; discussion. |
| traction | noun (n.) The act of drawing, or the state of being drawn; as, the traction of a muscle. |
| | noun (n.) Specifically, the act of drawing a body along a plane by motive power, as the drawing of a carriage by men or horses, the towing of a boat by a tug. |
| | noun (n.) Attraction; a drawing toward. |
| | noun (n.) The adhesive friction of a wheel on a rail, a rope on a pulley, or the like. |
| tractoration | noun (n.) See Perkinism. |
| tradition | noun (n.) The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery. |
| | noun (n.) The unwritten or oral delivery of information, opinions, doctrines, practices, rites, and customs, from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; the transmission of any knowledge, opinions, or practice, from forefathers to descendants by oral communication, without written memorials. |
| | noun (n.) Hence, that which is transmitted orally from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; knowledge or belief transmitted without the aid of written memorials; custom or practice long observed. |
| | noun (n.) An unwritten code of law represented to have been given by God to Moses on Sinai. |
| | noun (n.) That body of doctrine and discipline, or any article thereof, supposed to have been put forth by Christ or his apostles, and not committed to writing. |
| | verb (v. t.) To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down. |
| traduction | noun (n.) Transmission from one to another. |
| | noun (n.) Translation from one language to another. |
| | noun (n.) Derivation by descent; propagation. |
| | noun (n.) The act of transferring; conveyance; transportation. |
| | noun (n.) Transition. |
| | noun (n.) A process of reasoning in which each conclusion applies to just such an object as each of the premises applies to. |
| trajection | noun (n.) The act of trajecting; a throwing or casting through or across; also, emission. |
| | noun (n.) Transposition. |
| tralation | noun (n.) The use of a word in a figurative or extended sense; ametaphor; a trope. |
| tralatition | noun (n.) A change, as in the use of words; a metaphor. |
| tranation | noun (n.) The act of swimming over. |
| tranquilization | noun (n.) Alt. of Tranquillization |
| tranquillization | noun (n.) The act of tranquilizing, or the state of being tranquilized. |
| transaction | noun (n.) The doing or performing of any business; management of any affair; performance. |
| | noun (n.) That which is done; an affair; as, the transactions on the exchange. |
| | noun (n.) An adjustment of a dispute between parties by mutual agreement. |
| transanimation | noun (n.) The conveyance of a soul from one body to another. |
| transcension | noun (n.) The act of transcending, or surpassing; also, passage over. |
| transcolation | noun (n.) Act of transcolating, or state of being transcolated. |
| transcription | noun (n.) The act or process of transcribing, or copying; as, corruptions creep into books by repeated transcriptions. |
| | noun (n.) A copy; a transcript. |
| | noun (n.) An arrangement of a composition for some other instrument or voice than that for which it was originally written, as the translating of a song, a vocal or instrumental quartet, or even an orchestral work, into a piece for the piano; an adaptation; an arrangement; -- a name applied by modern composers for the piano to a more or less fanciful and ornate reproduction on their own instrument of a song or other piece not originally intended for it; as, Liszt's transcriptions of songs by Schubert. |
| transcursion | noun (n.) A rambling or ramble; a passage over bounds; an excursion. |
| transduction | noun (n.) The act of conveying over. |
| transelementation | noun (n.) Transubstantiation. |
| transexion | noun (n.) Change of sex. |
| transfixion | noun (n.) The act of transfixing, or the state of being transfixed, or pierced. |
| transformation | noun (n.) The act of transforming, or the state of being transformed; change of form or condition. |
| | noun (n.) Any change in an organism which alters its general character and mode of life, as in the development of the germ into the embryo, the egg into the animal, the larva into the insect (metamorphosis), etc.; also, the change which the histological units of a tissue are prone to undergo. See Metamorphosis. |
| | noun (n.) Change of one from of material into another, as in assimilation; metabolism; metamorphosis. |
| | noun (n.) The imagined possible or actual change of one metal into another; transmutation. |
| | noun (n.) A change in disposition, heart, character, or the like; conversion. |
| | noun (n.) The change, as of an equation or quantity, into another form without altering the value. |
| transfretation | noun (n.) The act of passing over a strait or narrow sea. |
| transfusion | noun (n.) The act of transfusing, or pouring, as liquor, out of one vessel into another. |
| | noun (n.) The act or operation of transferring the blood of one man or animal into the vascular system of another; also, the introduction of any fluid into the blood vessels, or into a cavity of the body from which it can readily be adsorbed into the vessels; intrafusion; as, the peritoneal transfusion of milk. |
| transgression | noun (n.) The act of transgressing, or of passing over or beyond any law, civil or moral; the violation of a law or known principle of rectitude; breach of command; fault; offense; crime; sin. |
| transition | noun (n.) Passage from one place or state to another; charge; as, the transition of the weather from hot to cold. |
| | noun (n.) A direct or indirect passing from one key to another; a modulation. |
| | noun (n.) A passing from one subject to another. |
| | noun (n.) Change from one form to another. |
| translation | noun (n.) The act of translating, removing, or transferring; removal; also, the state of being translated or removed; as, the translation of Enoch; the translation of a bishop. |
| | noun (n.) The act of rendering into another language; interpretation; as, the translation of idioms is difficult. |
| | noun (n.) That which is obtained by translating something a version; as, a translation of the Scriptures. |
| | noun (n.) A transfer of meaning in a word or phrase, a metaphor; a tralation. |
| | noun (n.) Transfer of meaning by association; association of ideas. |
| | noun (n.) Motion in which all the points of the moving body have at any instant the same velocity and direction of motion; -- opposed to rotation. |
| translavation | noun (n.) A laving or lading from one vessel to another. |
| transliteration | noun (n.) The act or product of transliterating, or of expressing words of a language by means of the characters of another alphabet. |
| translocation | noun (n.) removal of things from one place to another; substitution of one thing for another. |
| transmeation | noun (n.) The act of transmeating; a passing through or beyond. |
| transmigration | noun (n.) The act of passing from one country to another; migration. |
| | noun (n.) The passing of the soul at death into another mortal body; metempsychosis. |
| transmission | noun (n.) The act of transmitting, or the state of being transmitted; as, the transmission of letters, writings, papers, news, and the like, from one country to another; the transmission of rights, titles, or privileges, from father to son, or from one generation to another. |
| | noun (n.) The right possessed by an heir or legatee of transmitting to his successor or successors any inheritance, legacy, right, or privilege, to which he is entitled, even if he should die without enjoying or exercising it. |
| transmogrification | noun (n.) The act of transmogrifying, or the state of being transmogrified; transformation. |
| transmutation | noun (n.) The act of transmuting, or the state of being transmuted; as, the transmutation of metals. |
| | noun (n.) The change or reduction of one figure or body into another of the same area or solidity, but of a different form, as of a triangle into a square. |
| | noun (n.) The change of one species into another, which is assumed to take place in any development theory of life; transformism. |
| transnatation | noun (n.) The act of swimming across, as a river. |
| transpiration | noun (n.) The act or process of transpiring or excreting in the form of vapor; exhalation, as through the skin or other membranes of the body; as, pulmonary transpiration, or the excretion of aqueous vapor from the lungs. Perspiration is a form of transpiration. |
| | noun (n.) The evaporation of water, or exhalation of aqueous vapor, from cells and masses of tissue. |
| | noun (n.) The passing of gases through fine tubes, porous substances, or the like; as, transpiration through membranes. |
| transplantation | noun (n.) The act of transplanting, or the state of being transplanted; also, removal. |
| | noun (n.) The removal of tissues from a healthy part, and the insertion of them in another place where there is a lesion; as, the transplantation of tissues in autoplasty. |
| | noun (n.) The removal of a bodily organ or of tissues from one person, and the insertion of them into another person to replace a damaged organ or tissue; as, the transplantation of a heart, kidney, or liver. |
| transportation | noun (n.) The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; carriage from one place to another; removal; conveyance. |
| | noun (n.) Transport; ecstasy. |
| transposition | noun (n.) The act of transposing, or the state of being transposed. |
| | noun (n.) The bringing of any term of an equation from one side over to the other without destroying the equation. |
| | noun (n.) A change of the natural order of words in a sentence; as, the Latin and Greek languages admit transposition, without inconvenience, to a much greater extent than the English. |
| | noun (n.) A change of a composition into another key. |
| transubstantiation | noun (n.) A change into another substance. |
| | noun (n.) The doctrine held by Roman Catholics, that the bread and wine in the Mass is converted into the body and blood of Christ; -- distinguished from consubstantiation, and impanation. |
| transudation | noun (n.) The act or process of transuding. |
| | noun (n.) Same as Exosmose. |
| transumption | noun (n.) Act of taking from one place to another. |
| transvasation | noun (n.) The act or process of pouring out of one vessel into another. |
| transvection | noun (n.) The act of conveying or carrying over. |
| transversion | noun (n.) The act of changing from prose into verse, or from verse into prose. |
| transvolation | noun (n.) The act of flying beyond or across. |
| trapezohedron | noun (n.) A solid bounded by twenty-four equal and similar trapeziums; a tetragonal trisoctahedron. See the Note under Trisoctahedron. |
| | noun (n.) A tetartohedral solid of the hexagonal system, bounded by six trapezoidal planes. The faces of this form are common on quartz crystals. |
| treason | noun (n.) The offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance, or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power; disloyalty; treachery. |
| | noun (n.) Loosely, the betrayal of any trust or confidence; treachery; perfidy. |
| trepidation | noun (n.) An involuntary trembling, sometimes an effect of paralysis, but usually caused by terror or fear; quaking; quivering. |
| | noun (n.) Hence, a state of terror or alarm; fear; confusion; fright; as, the men were in great trepidation. |
| | noun (n.) A libration of the starry sphere in the Ptolemaic system; a motion ascribed to the firmament, to account for certain small changes in the position of the ecliptic and of the stars. |
| tridiapason | noun (n.) A triple octave, or twenty-second. |
| trifluctuation | noun (n.) A concurrence of three waves. |
| trigon | noun (n.) A figure having three angles; a triangle. |
| | noun (n.) A division consisting of three signs. |
| | noun (n.) Trine, an aspect of two planets distant 120 degrees from each other. |
| | noun (n.) A kind of triangular lyre or harp. |
| | noun (n.) A kind of game at ball played by three persons standing at the angular points of a triangle. |
| | noun (n.) The cutting region of the crown of an upper molar, usually the anterior part. That of a lower molar is the Tri"go*nid (/). |
| trihedron | noun (n.) A figure having three sides. |
| trilithon | noun (n.) A monument consisting of three stones; especially, such a monument forming a kind of doorway, as among the ancient Celts. |
| trillion | noun (n.) According to the French notation, which is used upon the Continent generally and in the United States, the number expressed by a unit with twelve ciphers annexed; a million millions; according to the English notation, the number produced by involving a million to the third power, or the number represented by a unit with eighteen ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration. |
| trilobation | noun (n.) The state of being trilobate. |
| tripartition | noun (n.) A division by threes, or into three parts; the taking of a third part of any number or quantity. |
| triplication | noun (n.) The act of tripling, or making threefold, or adding three together. |
| | noun (n.) Same as Surrejoinder. |
| tripudiation | noun (n.) The act of dancing. |
| trisagion | noun (n.) An ancient anthem, -- usually known by its Latin name tersanctus.See Tersanctus. |
| trisection | noun (n.) The division of a thing into three parts, Specifically: (Geom.) the division of an angle into three equal parts. |
| trisoctahedron | noun (n.) A solid of the isometric system bounded by twenty-four equal faces, three corresponding to each face of an octahedron. |
| trispaston | noun (n.) A machine with three pulleys which act together for raising great weights. |
| trogon | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of beautiful tropical birds belonging to the family Trogonidae. They are noted for the brilliant colors and the resplendent luster of their plumage. |
| tron | noun (n.) See 3d Trone, 2. |
| trucidation | noun (n.) The act of killing. |
| trullization | noun (n.) The act of laying on coats of plaster with a trowel. |
| truncation | noun (n.) The act of truncating, lopping, or cutting off. |
| | noun (n.) The state of being truncated. |
| | noun (n.) The replacement of an edge or solid angle by a plane, especially when the plane is equally inclined to the adjoining faces. |
| truncheon | noun (n.) A short staff, a club; a cudgel; a shaft of a spear. |
| | noun (n.) A baton, or military staff of command. |
| | noun (n.) A stout stem, as of a tree, with the branches lopped off, to produce rapid growth. |
| | verb (v. t.) To beat with a truncheon. |
| trunnion | noun (n.) A cylindrical projection on each side of a piece, whether gun, mortar, or howitzer, serving to support it on the cheeks of the carriage. See Illust. of Cannon. |
| | noun (n.) A gudgeon on each side of an oscillating steam cylinder, to support it. It is usually tubular, to convey steam. |
| trusion | noun (n.) The act of pushing or thrusting. |
| trutination | noun (n.) The act of weighing. |
| trygon | noun (n.) Any one of several species of large sting rays belonging to Trygon and allied genera. |
| triskelion | noun (n.) Alt. of Triskele |
