Name Report For First Name THAN:
THAN
First name THAN's origin is Vietnamese. THAN means "brilliant". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with THAN below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of than.(Brown names are of the same origin (Vietnamese) with THAN and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with THAN - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming THAN
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES THAN AS A WHOLE:
thana' athanasia pithasthana mathani lahthan athangelos athanasios thanatos thanos thang thanh bethanee bethani bethanie bethann bethanna bethany anthany athan baethan beathan bothan eithan johnathan jonathan leathan matthan nathanael nathanial nathaniel nethanel sruthan thane nathan ethan thanasis nathaniaNAMES RHYMING WITH THAN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (han) - Names That Ends with han:
achan lishan nishan shoushan siobhan farhan ferhan burhan nabhan rayhan aodhhan buadhachan ceileachan ciardubhan gabhan gaelbhan stiabhan johan khan maeghan meghan reaghan siubhan aahan aeshan alhan aodhan banbhan brochan brychan callaghan callahan ceallachan chan dubhan eachan eghan eoghan eshan garbhan han keaghan maolruadhan monohan naomhan reghan rohan roshan ruadhan seanachan shan shanahan sheehan siodhachan stephan strahan subhan suileabhan vaughan zephan sluaghan loghan deasmumhan cobhan corcurachan caomhan melechan comhghanRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (an) - Names That Ends with an:
ayan iman loiyan saran anan hanan janan rukan sawsan wijdan siran morgan regan nuallan jolan yasiman ran papan teyacapan tonalnan shuman lilian bian tan abdiraxman aman hassan labaan sultan taban aidan germianNAMES RHYMING WITH THAN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (tha) - Names That Begins with tha:
thabit thacher thacker thackere thaddea thaddeus thaddia thaddius thadina thadine thady thai thain thais thalassa thaleia thalia tham thamyris thao thaqib thara' tharen thatcher thaumas thaw thawain thaxte thaxter thay thayneRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (th) - Names That Begins with th:
the thea thearl thecla theda thegn thekla thelma thema themis thenoma thenomia theoclymenus theodora theodore theodorus theodosios theola theomund theon theone theophaneia theophania theophanie theophile theophilia theora theore theoris thera therese thermuthis theron therron thersites theseus thetis theyn thi thia thibaud thieny thierry thiery thinh thira thirza thisbe tho thom thoma thomas thomasin thomdic thomkins thompson thomsina thor thora thoraldtun thorley thorm thormond thormund thorn thorndike thorndyke thorne thornleyNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH THAN:
First Names which starts with 't' and ends with 'n':
tagan taidhgin taliesin tallon talon tamryn tamsin tamtun tanton taralynn taran taregan tarin tarleton taron tarrin taryn tarynn taveon tavin tavion tavon taylan taylon tayson teagan tedman tedmun teegan tegan teigan teimhnean teiran telamon telen tellan temman tempeltun templeton tennyson teon tepiltzin tepin teremun teriann terilynn terran terrin terron terryn teryn tevin teyen teyrnon thornton thorntun thuan thurstan thurston thurstun tiala-ann tien tiernan tilden tilian tillman tilman tilton timon timun tin tlazohtzin toan tobin tobrecan tobrytan tobyn tolan tolman tolucan toman tomkin tomlin toran torben torean toren torin torion torn torran torrian tortain toryn trahern traian traveon travion travon tredanEnglish Words Rhyming THAN
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES THAN AS A WHOLE:
| acrolithan | adjective (a.) Alt. of Acrolithic |
| athanasian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria in the 4th century. |
| athanor | noun (n.) A digesting furnace, formerly used by alchemists. It was so constructed as to maintain uniform and durable heat. |
| athanasia | noun (n.) Alt. of Athanasy |
| athanasy | noun (n.) The quality of being deathless; immortality. |
| chlormethane | noun (n.) A colorless gas, CH3Cl, of a sweet odor, easily condensed to a liquid; -- called also methyl chloride. |
| cisleithan | adjective (a.) On the Austrian side of the river Leitha; Austrian. |
| elizabethan | noun (n.) One who lived in England in the time of Queen Elizabeth. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to Queen Elizabeth or her times, esp. to the architecture or literature of her reign; as, the Elizabethan writers, drama, literature. |
| ethane | noun (n.) A gaseous hydrocarbon, C2H6, forming a constituent of ordinary illuminating gas. It is the second member of the paraffin series, and its most important derivatives are common alcohol, aldehyde, ether, and acetic acid. Called also dimethyl. |
| euthanasia | noun (n.) An easy death; a mode of dying to be desired. |
| euthanasy | noun (n.) Same as Euthanasia. |
| hydroxanthane | noun (n.) A persulphocyanate. |
| lanthanite | noun (n.) Hydrous carbonate of lanthanum, found in tabular while crystals. |
| lanthanum | noun (n.) A rare element of the group of the earth metals, allied to aluminium. It occurs in certain rare minerals, as cerite, gadolinite, orthite, etc., and was so named from the difficulty of separating it from cerium, didymium, and other rare elements with which it is usually associated. Atomic weight 138.5. Symbol La. |
| leviathan | noun (n.) An aquatic animal, described in the book of Job, ch. xli., and mentioned in other passages of Scripture. |
| noun (n.) The whale, or a great whale. |
| malamethane | noun (n.) A white crystalline substance forming the ethyl salt of malamic acid. |
| methane | noun (n.) A light, colorless, gaseous, inflammable hydrocarbon, CH4; marsh gas. See Marsh gas, under Gas. |
| methanometer | noun (n.) An instrument, resembling a eudiometer, to detect the presence and amount of methane, as in coal mines. |
| nitromethane | noun (n.) A nitro derivative of methane obtained as a mobile liquid; -- called also nitrocarbol. |
| oxamethane | noun (n.) Ethyl oxamate, obtained as a white scaly crystalline powder. |
| pickthank | noun (n.) One who strives to put another under obligation; an officious person; hence, a flatterer. Used also adjectively. |
| sathanas | noun (n.) Satan. |
| shorthand | noun (n.) A compendious and rapid method or writing by substituting characters, abbreviations, or symbols, for letters, words, etc.; short writing; stenography. See Illust. under Phonography. |
| thanage | noun (n.) The district in which a thane anciently had jurisdiction; thanedom. |
| thanatoid | adjective (a.) Deathlike; resembling death. |
| thanatology | noun (n.) A description, or the doctrine, of death. |
| thanatopsis | noun (n.) A view of death; a meditation on the subject of death. |
| thane | noun (n.) A dignitary under the Anglo-Saxons and Danes in England. Of these there were two orders, the king's thanes, who attended the kings in their courts and held lands immediately of them, and the ordinary thanes, who were lords of manors and who had particular jurisdiction within their limits. After the Conquest, this title was disused, and baron took its place. |
| thanedom | noun (n.) The property or jurisdiction of a thane; thanage. |
| thanehood | noun (n.) The character or dignity of a thane; also, thanes, collectively. |
| thaneship | noun (n.) The state or dignity of a thane; thanehood; also, the seignioralty of a thane. |
| thank | noun (n.) A expression of gratitude; an acknowledgment expressive of a sense of favor or kindness received; obligation, claim, or desert, or gratitude; -- now generally used in the plural. |
| noun (n.) To express gratitude to (anyone) for a favor; to make acknowledgments to (anyone) for kindness bestowed; -- used also ironically for blame. |
| thanking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thank |
| thankful | adjective (a.) Obtaining or deserving thanks; thankworthy. |
| adjective (a.) Impressed with a sense of kindness received, and ready to acknowledge it; grateful. |
| thankless | adjective (a.) Not acknowledging favors; not expressing thankfulness; unthankful; ungrateful. |
| adjective (a.) Not obtaining or deserving thanks; unacceptable; as, a thankless task. |
| thanksgiver | noun (n.) One who gives thanks, or acknowledges a kindness. |
| thanksgiving | noun (n.) The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies. |
| noun (n.) A public acknowledgment or celebration of divine goodness; also, a day set apart for religious services, specially to acknowledge the goodness of God, either in any remarkable deliverance from calamities or danger, or in the ordinary dispensation of his bounties. |
| thankworthiness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being thankworthy. |
| thankworthy | adjective (a.) Deserving thanks; worthy of gratitude; mreitorious. |
| thana | noun (n.) A police station. |
| unthank | noun (n.) No thanks; ill will; misfortune. |
| urethane | noun (n.) A white crystalline substance, NH2.CO.OC2H5, produced by the action of ammonia on ethyl carbonate. It is used somewhat in medicine as a hypnotic. By extension, any one of the series of related substances of which urethane proper is the type. |
| noun (n.) A white crystalline substance, NH2.COOC2H5, produced by the action of ammonia on ethyl carbonate or by heating urea nitrate and ethyl alcohol. It is used as a hypnotic, antipyretic, and antispasmodic. Hence, any ester of carbamic acid. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH THAN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (han) - English Words That Ends with han:
| acalephan | noun (n.) One of the Acalephae. |
| afghan | noun (n.) A native of Afghanistan. |
| noun (n.) A kind of worsted blanket or wrap. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Afghanistan. |
| astrachan | noun (a. & n.) See Astrakhan. |
| astrakhan | noun (n.) The skin of stillborn or young lambs of that region, the curled wool of which resembles fur. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Astrakhan in Russia or its products; made of an Astrakhan skin. |
| ataghan | noun (n.) See Yataghan. |
| attaghan | noun (n.) See Yataghan. |
| clachan | noun (n.) A small village containing a church. |
| khan | noun (n.) A king; a prince; a chief; a governor; -- so called among the Tartars, Turks, and Persians, and in countries now or formerly governed by them. |
| noun (n.) An Eastern inn or caravansary. |
| koluschan | adjective (a.) Alt. of Kolushan |
| kolushan | adjective (a.) Designating, or pert. to, a linguistic stock of North American Indians comprising the Tlinkit tribes of the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska and adjacent coast lands. Their language bears some affinity to Mexican tongues. |
| leiotrichan | noun (n.) One of the Leiotrichi. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Leiotrichi. |
| lochan | noun (n.) A small lake; a pond. |
| myophan | noun (n.) A contractile striated layer found in the bodies and stems of certain Infusoria. |
| orphan | noun (n.) A child bereaved of both father and mother; sometimes, also, a child who has but one parent living. |
| adjective (a.) Bereaved of parents, or (sometimes) of one parent. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to become an orphan; to deprive of parents. |
| oulachan | noun (n.) Same as Eulachon. |
| spleuchan | noun (n.) A pouch, as for tobacco. |
| trillachan | noun (n.) The oyster catcher. |
| ulotrichan | noun (n.) One of the Ulotrichi. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Ulotrichi. |
| yataghan | noun (n.) A long knife, or short saber, common among Mohammedan nations, usually having a double curve, sometimes nearly straight. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH THAN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (tha) - Words That Begins with tha:
| thalamencephalon | noun (n.) The segment of the brain next in front of the midbrain, including the thalami, pineal gland, and pituitary body; the diencephalon; the interbrain. |
| thalamic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a thalamus or to thalami. |
| thalamifloral | adjective (a.) Alt. of Thalamiflorous |
| thalamiflorous | adjective (a.) Bearing the stamens directly on the receptacle; -- said of a subclass of polypetalous dicotyledonous plants in the system of De Candolle. |
| thalamocoele | noun (n.) The cavity or ventricle of the thalamencephalon; the third ventricle. |
| thalamophora | noun (n. pl.) Same as Foraminifera. |
| thalamus | noun (n.) A mass of nervous matter on either side of the third ventricle of the brain; -- called also optic thalamus. |
| noun (n.) Same as Thallus. | |
| noun (n.) The receptacle of a flower; a torus. |
| thalassian | noun (n.) Any sea tortoise. |
| thalassic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the sea; -- sometimes applied to rocks formed from sediments deposited upon the sea bottom. |
| thalassinian | noun (n.) Any species of Thalaassinidae, a family of burrowing macrurous Crustacea, having a long and soft abdomen. |
| thalassography | noun (n.) The study or science of the life of marine organisms. |
| thaler | noun (n.) A German silver coin worth about three shillings sterling, or about 73 cents. |
| thalia | noun (n.) That one of the nine Muses who presided over comedy. |
| noun (n.) One of the three Graces. | |
| noun (n.) One of the Nereids. |
| thaliacea | noun (n. pl.) A division of Tunicata comprising the free-swimming species, such as Salpa and Doliolum. |
| thalian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Thalia; hence, of or pertaining to comedy; comic. |
| thallate | noun (n.) A salt of a hypothetical thallic acid. |
| thallene | noun (n.) A hydrocarbon obtained from coal-tar residues, and remarkable for its intense yellowish green fluorescence. |
| thallic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to thallium; derived from, or containing, thallium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with the thallous compounds; as, thallic oxide. |
| thalline | noun (n.) An artificial alkaloid of the quinoline series, obtained as a white crystalline substance, C10H13NO, whose salts are valuable as antipyretics; -- so called from the green color produced in its solution by certain oxidizing agents. |
| adjective (a.) Consisting of a thallus. |
| thallious | adjective (a.) See Thallous. |
| 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. |
| thallogen | noun (n.) One of a large class or division of the vegetable kingdom, which includes those flowerless plants, such as fungi, algae, and lichens, that consist of a thallus only, composed of cellular tissue, or of a congeries of cells, or even of separate cells, and never show a distinction into root, stem, and leaf. |
| thalloid | adjective (a.) Resembling, or consisting of, thallus. |
| thallophyte | noun (n.) Same as Thallogen. |
| noun (n.) A plant belonging to the Thallophyta. |
| thallous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to thallium; derived from, or containing, thallium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with the thallic compounds. |
| thallus | noun (n.) A solid mass of cellular tissue, consisting of one or more layers, usually in the form of a flat stratum or expansion, but sometimes erect or pendulous, and elongated and branching, and forming the substance of the thallogens. |
| thammuz | noun (n.) Alt. of Tammuz |
| thamnophile | noun (n.) A bush shrike. |
| thamyn | noun (n.) An Asiatic deer (Rucervus Eldi) resembling the swamp deer; -- called also Eld's deer. |
| thar | noun (n.) A goatlike animal (Capra Jemlaica) native of the Himalayas. It has small, flattened horns, curved directly backward. The hair of the neck, shoulders, and chest of the male is very long, reaching to the knees. Called also serow, and imo. |
| verb (v. impersonal, pres.) It needs; need. |
| tharms | noun (n. pl.) Twisted guts. |
| tharos | noun (n.) A small American butterfly (Phycoides tharos) having the upper surface of the wings variegated with orange and black, the outer margins black with small white crescents; -- called also pearl crescent. |
| thatch | noun (n.) Straw, rushes, or the like, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain. |
| noun (n.) A name in the West Indies for several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching. | |
| noun (n.) To cover with, or with a roof of, straw, reeds, or some similar substance; as, to thatch a roof, a stable, or a stack of grain. |
| thatching | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thatch |
| noun (n.) The act or art of covering buildings with thatch; so as to keep out rain, snow, etc. | |
| noun (n.) The materials used for this purpose; thatch. |
| thatcher | noun (n.) One who thatches. |
| thaught | noun (n.) See Thwart. |
| thaumatolatry | noun (n.) Worship or undue admiration of wonderful or miraculous things. |
| thaumatrope | noun (n.) An optical instrument or toy for showing the presistence of an impression upon the eyes after the luminous object is withdrawn. |
| thaumaturge | noun (n.) A magician; a wonder worker. |
| thaumaturgic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Thaumaturgical |
| thaumaturgical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to thaumaturgy; magical; wonderful. |
| thaumaturgics | noun (n.) Feats of legerdemain, or magical performances. |
| thaumaturgist | noun (n.) One who deals in wonders, or believes in them; a wonder worker. |
| thaumaturgus | noun (n.) A miracle worker; -- a title given by the Roman Catholics to some saints. |
| thaumaturgy | noun (n.) The act or art of performing something wonderful; magic; legerdemain. |
| thave | noun (n.) Same as Theave. |
| thawing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thaw |
| thaw | noun (n.) The melting of ice, snow, or other congealed matter; the resolution of ice, or the like, into the state of a fluid; liquefaction by heat of anything congealed by frost; also, a warmth of weather sufficient to melt that which is congealed. |
| verb (v. i.) To melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften; -- said of that which is frozen; as, the ice thaws. | |
| verb (v. i.) To become so warm as to melt ice and snow; -- said in reference to the weather, and used impersonally. | |
| verb (v. i.) Fig.: To grow gentle or genial. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause (frozen things, as earth, snow, ice) to melt, soften, or dissolve. |
| thawy | adjective (a.) Liquefying by heat after having been frozen; thawing; melting. |
| thallophyta | noun (n. pl.) A phylum of plants of very diverse habit and structure, including the algae, fungi, and lichens. The simpler forms, as many blue-green algae, yeasts, etc., are unicellular and reproduce vegetatively or by means of asexual spores; in the higher forms the plant body is a thallus, which may be filamentous or may consist of plates of cells; it is commonly undifferentiated into stem, leaves, and roots, and shows no distinct tissue systems; the fronds of many algae, however, are modified to serve many of the functions of the above-named organs. Both asexual and sexual reproduction, often of a complex type, occur in these forms. The Thallophyta exist almost exclusively as gametophytes, the sporophyte being absent or rudimentary. By those who do not separate the Myxophyta from the Tallophyta as a distinct phylum the latter is treated as the lowermost group in the vegetable kingdom. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH THAN:
English Words which starts with 't' and ends with 'n':
| tabefaction | noun (n.) A wasting away; a gradual losing of flesh by disease. |
| tabellion | noun (n.) A secretary or notary under the Roman empire; also, a similar officer in France during the old monarchy. |
| tableman | noun (n.) A man at draughts; a piece used in playing games at tables. See Table, n., 10. |
| tablespoon | noun (n.) A spoon of the largest size commonly used at the table; -- distinguished from teaspoon, dessert spoon, etc. |
| tabularization | noun (n.) The act of tabularizing, or the state of being tabularized; formation into tables; tabulation. |
| tabulation | noun (n.) The act of forming into a table or tables; as, the tabulation of statistics. |
| taciturn | adjective (a.) Habitually silent; not given to converse; not apt to talk or speak. |
| tacksman | noun (n.) One who holds a tack or lease from another; a tenant, or lessee. |
| tactician | noun (n.) One versed in tactics; hence, a skillful maneuverer; an adroit manager. |
| taction | noun (n.) The act of touching; touch; contact; tangency. |
| tagliacotain | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Tagliacozzi, a Venetian surgeon; as, the Tagliacotian operation, a method of rhinoplasty described by him. |
| taguan | noun (n.) A large flying squirrel (Pteromys petuarista). Its body becomes two feet long, with a large bushy tail nearly as long. |
| tahitian | noun (n.) A native inhabitant of Tahiti. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Tahiti, an island in the Pacific Ocean. |
| tailpin | noun (n.) The center in the spindle of a turning lathe. |
| tain | noun (n.) Thin tin plate; also, tin foil for mirrors. |
| tairn | noun (n.) See Tarn. |
| talapoin | noun (n.) A small African monkey (Cercopithecus, / Miopithecus, talapoin) -- called also melarhine. |
| noun (n.) A Buddhist monk or priest. |
| talesman | noun (n.) A person called to make up a deficiency in the number of jurors when a tales is awarded. |
| taliacotian | adjective (a.) See Tagliacotian. |
| taliation | noun (n.) Retaliation. |
| talion | noun (n.) Retaliation. |
| talisman | noun (n.) A magical figure cut or engraved under certain superstitious observances of the configuration of the heavens, to which wonderful effects are ascribed; the seal, figure, character, or image, of a heavenly sign, constellation, or planet, engraved on a sympathetic stone, or on a metal corresponding to the star, in order to receive its influence. |
| noun (n.) Hence, something that produces extraordinary effects, esp. in averting or repelling evil; an amulet; a charm; as, a talisman to avert diseases. |
| tallyman | noun (n.) One who keeps the tally, or marks the sticks. |
| noun (n.) One who keeps a tally shop, or conducts his business as tally trade. |
| talon | noun (n.) The claw of a predaceous bird or animal, especially the claw of a bird of prey. |
| noun (n.) One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth. | |
| noun (n.) A kind of molding, concave at the bottom and convex at the top; -- usually called an ogee. | |
| noun (n.) The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt. |
| tamarin | noun (n.) Any one of several species of small squirrel-like South American monkeys of the genus Midas, especially M. ursulus. |
| tambourin | noun (n.) A tambourine. |
| noun (n.) An old Provencal dance of a lively character, common on the stage. |
| tamburin | noun (n.) See Tambourine. |
| tamilian | noun (a. & n.) Tamil. |
| tamkin | noun (n.) A tampion. |
| tampan | noun (n.) A venomous South African tick. |
| tampeon | noun (n.) See Tampion. |
| tampion | noun (n.) A wooden stopper, or plug, as for a cannon or other piece of ordnance, when not in use. |
| noun (n.) A plug for upper end of an organ pipe. |
| tampon | noun (n.) A plug introduced into a natural or artificial cavity of the body in order to arrest hemorrhage, or for the application of medicine. |
| verb (v. t.) To plug with a tampon. |
| tampoon | noun (n.) The stopper of a barrel; a bung. |
| tan | noun (n.) See Picul. |
| noun (n.) The bark of the oak, and some other trees, bruised and broken by a mill, for tanning hides; -- so called both before and after it has been used. Called also tan bark. | |
| noun (n.) A yellowish-brown color, like that of tan. | |
| noun (n.) A brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun; as, hands covered with tan. | |
| noun (n.) To convert (the skin of an animal) into leather, as by usual process of steeping it in an infusion of oak or some other bark, whereby it is impregnated with tannin, or tannic acid (which exists in several species of bark), and is thus rendered firm, durable, and in some degree impervious to water. | |
| noun (n.) To make brown; to imbrown, as by exposure to the rays of the sun; as, to tan the skin. | |
| adjective (a.) Of the color of tan; yellowish-brown. | |
| verb (v. i.) To get or become tanned. | |
| verb (v. t.) To thrash or beat; to flog; to switch. |
| tangun | noun (n.) A piebald variety of the horse, native of Thibet. |
| tannin | noun (n.) Same as Tannic acid, under Tannic. |
| tantalization | noun (n.) The act of tantalizing, or state of being tantalized. |
| tapayaxin | noun (n.) A Mexican spinous lizard (Phrynosoma orbiculare) having a head somewhat like that of a toad; -- called also horned toad. |
| tappen | noun (n.) An obstruction, or indigestible mass, found in the intestine of bears and other animals during hibernation. |
| tarbogan | noun (n. & v.) See Toboggan. |
| tardation | noun (n.) The act of retarding, or delaying; retardation. |
| tarditation | noun (n.) Tardiness. |
| tarin | noun (n.) The siskin. |
| tarlatan | noun (n.) A kind of thin, transparent muslin, used for dresses. |
| tarn | noun (n.) A mountain lake or pool. |
| tarpan | noun (n.) A wild horse found in the region of the Caspian Sea. |
| tarpaulin | noun (n.) A piece of canvas covered with tar or a waterproof composition, used for covering the hatches of a ship, hammocks, boats, etc. |
| noun (n.) A hat made of, or covered with, painted or tarred cloth, worn by sailors and others. | |
| noun (n.) Hence, a sailor; a seaman; a tar. |
| tarpon | noun (n.) Same as Tarpum. |
| tarragon | noun (n.) A plant of the genus Artemisa (A. dracunculus), much used in France for flavoring vinegar. |
| tartan | noun (n.) Woolen cloth, checkered or crossbarred with narrow bands of various colors, much worn in the Highlands of Scotland; hence, any pattern of tartan; also, other material of a similar pattern. |
| noun (n.) A small coasting vessel, used in the Mediterranean, having one mast carrying large leteen sail, and a bowsprit with staysail or jib. |
| tartarean | adjective (a.) Alt. of Tartareous |
| tartarian | noun (n.) The name of some kinds of cherries, as the Black Tartarian, or the White Tartarian. |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Tartaric |
| tasmanian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Tasmania, or Van Diemen's Land. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Tasmania; specifically (Ethnol.), in the plural, the race of men that formerly inhabited Tasmania, but is now extinct. |
| tatterdemalion | noun (n.) A ragged fellow; a ragamuffin. |
| tauromachian | noun (n.) A bullfighter. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to bullfights. |
| tautoousian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Tautoousious |
| tavern | noun (n.) A public house where travelers and other transient guests are accomodated with rooms and meals; an inn; a hotel; especially, in modern times, a public house licensed to sell liquor in small quantities. |
| tavernman | noun (n.) The keeper of a tavern; also, a tippler. |
| taxaspidean | adjective (a.) Having the posterior tarsal scales, or scutella, rectangular and arranged in regular rows; -- said of certain birds. |
| taxation | noun (n.) The act of laying a tax, or of imposing taxes, as on the subjects of a state, by government, or on the members of a corporation or company, by the proper authority; the raising of revenue; also, a system of raising revenue. |
| noun (n.) The act of taxing, or assessing a bill of cost. | |
| noun (n.) Tax; sum imposed. | |
| noun (n.) Charge; accusation. |
| taxicorn | noun (n.) One of a family of beetles (Taxicornes) whose antennae are largest at the tip. Also used adjectively. |
| teaspoon | noun (n.) A small spoon used in stirring and sipping tea, coffee, etc., and for other purposes. |
| teen | noun (n.) Grief; sorrow; affiction; pain. |
| noun (n.) To excite; to provoke; to vex; to affict; to injure. | |
| verb (v. t.) To hedge or fence in; to inclose. |
| teetan | noun (n.) A pipit. |
| tegmen | noun (n.) A tegument or covering. |
| noun (n.) The inner layer of the coating of a seed, usually thin and delicate; the endopleura. | |
| noun (n.) One of the elytra of an insect, especially of certain Orthoptera. | |
| noun (n.) Same as Tectrices. |
| teguexin | noun (n.) A large South American lizard (Tejus teguexin). It becomes three or four feet long, and is blackish above, marked with yellowish spots of various sizes. It feeds upon fruits, insects, reptiles, young birds, and birds' eggs. The closely allied species Tejus rufescens is called red teguexin. |
| teleostean | noun (n.) A teleostean fish. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the teleosts. |
| teleozoon | noun (n.) A metazoan. |
| 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. |
| tellen | noun (n.) Any species of Tellina. |
| 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. |
| telson | noun (n.) The terminal joint or movable piece at the end of the abdomen of Crustacea and other articulates. See Thoracostraca. |
| temeration | noun (n.) Temerity. |
| tempean | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Temple, a valley in Thessaly, celebrated by Greek poets on account of its beautiful scenery; resembling Temple; hence, beautiful; delightful; charming. |
| temporization | noun (n.) The act of temporizing. |
| temptation | noun (n.) The act of tempting, or enticing to evil; seduction. |
| noun (n.) The state of being tempted, or enticed to evil. | |
| noun (n.) That which tempts; an inducement; an allurement, especially to something evil. |
| ten | noun (n.) The number greater by one than nine; the sum of five and five; ten units of objects. |
| noun (n.) A symbol representing ten units, as 10, x, or X. | |
| adjective (a.) One more than nine; twice five. |
| tenaillon | noun (n.) A work constructed on each side of the ravelins, to increase their strength, procure additional ground beyond the ditch, or cover the shoulders of the bastions. |
| tenderloin | noun (n.) A strip of tender flesh on either side of the vertebral column under the short ribs, in the hind quarter of beef and pork. It consists of the psoas muscles. |
| noun (n.) A strip of tender flesh on either side of the vertebral column under the short ribs, in beef or pork. It consists of the psoas muscles. | |
| noun (n.) In New York City, the region which is the center of the night life of fashionable amusement, including the majority of the theaters, etc., centering on Broadway. The term orig. designates the old twenty-ninth police precinct, in this region, which afforded the police great opportunities for profit through conniving at vice and lawbreaking, one captain being reported to have said on being transferred there that whereas he had been eating chuck steak he would now eat tenderlion. Hence, in some other cities, a district largely devoted to night amusement, or, sometimes, to vice. |
| tendon | noun (n.) A tough insensible cord, bundle, or band of fibrous connective tissue uniting a muscle with some other part; a sinew. |
| tendron | noun (n.) A tendril. |
| tenon | noun (n.) A projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it, and made to insert into a mortise, and in this way secure together the parts of a frame; especially, such a member when it passes entirely through the thickness of the piece in which the mortise is cut, and shows on the other side. Cf. Tooth, Tusk. |
| verb (v. t.) To cut or fit for insertion into a mortise, as the end of a piece of timber. |
| tenonian | adjective (a.) Discovered or described by M. Tenon, a French anatomist. |
| tension | adjective (a.) The act of stretching or straining; the state of being stretched or strained to stiffness; the state of being bent strained; as, the tension of the muscles, tension of the larynx. |
| adjective (a.) Fig.: Extreme strain of mind or excitement of feeling; intense effort. | |
| adjective (a.) The degree of stretching to which a wire, cord, piece of timber, or the like, is strained by drawing it in the direction of its length; strain. | |
| adjective (a.) The force by which a part is pulled when forming part of any system in equilibrium or in motion; as, the tension of a srting supporting a weight equals that weight. | |
| adjective (a.) A device for checking the delivery of the thread in a sewing machine, so as to give the stitch the required degree of tightness. | |
| adjective (a.) Expansive force; the force with which the particles of a body, as a gas, tend to recede from each other and occupy a larger space; elastic force; elasticity; as, the tension of vapor; the tension of air. | |
| adjective (a.) The quality in consequence of which an electric charge tends to discharge itself, as into the air by a spark, or to pass from a body of greater to one of less electrical potential. It varies as the quantity of electricity upon a given area. | |
| () The pressure or tension of a confined body of vapor. The pressure of a given saturated vapor is a function of the temperature only, and may be measured by introducing a small quantity of the substance into a barometer and noting the depression of the column of mercury. |
| tentation | noun (n.) Trial; temptation. |
| noun (n.) A mode of adjusting or operating by repeated trials or experiments. |
| tepefaction | noun (n.) Act of tepefying. |
| terapin | noun (n.) See Terrapin. |
| terebration | noun (n.) The act of terebrating, or boring. |
| tergiversation | noun (n.) The act of tergiversating; a shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion. |
| noun (n.) Fickleness of conduct; inconstancy; change. |
| terin | noun (n.) A small yellow singing bird, with an ash-colored head; the European siskin. Called also tarin. |
| termination | noun (n.) The act of terminating, or of limiting or setting bounds; the act of ending or concluding; as, a voluntary termination of hostilities. |
| noun (n.) That which ends or bounds; limit in space or extent; bound; end; as, the termination of a line. | |
| noun (n.) End in time or existence; as, the termination of the year, or of life; the termination of happiness. | |
| noun (n.) End; conclusion; result. | |
| noun (n.) Last purpose of design. | |
| noun (n.) A word; a term. | |
| noun (n.) The ending of a word; a final syllable or letter; the part added to a stem in inflection. |
| tern | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of long-winged aquatic birds, allied to the gulls, and belonging to Sterna and various allied genera. |
| adjective (a.) Threefold; triple; consisting of three; ternate. | |
| adjective (a.) That which consists of, or pertains to, three things or numbers together; especially, a prize in a lottery resulting from the favorable combination of three numbers in the drawing; also, the three numbers themselves. |
| ternion | adjective (a.) The number three; three things together; a ternary. |
| terpin | noun (n.) A white crystalline substance regarded as a hydrate of oil of turpentine. |
| terpsichorean | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Terpsichore; of or pertaining to dancing. |
| terrapin | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of tortoises living in fresh and brackish waters. Many of them are valued for food. |
| terreen | noun (n.) See Turren. |
| terreplein | noun (n.) The top, platform, or horizontal surface, of a rampart, on which the cannon are placed. See Illust. of Casemate. |
| noun (n.) An embankment of earth with a broad level top, which is sometimes excavated to form a continuation of an elevated canal across a valley. |
| tertian | noun (n.) A disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day. |
| noun (n.) A liquid measure formerly used for wine, equal to seventy imperial, or eighty-four wine, gallons, being one third of a tun. | |
| adjective (a.) Occurring every third day; as, a tertian fever. |
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