Name Report For First Name THO:
THO
First name THO's origin is Vietnamese. THO means "longevity; long living". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with THO below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of tho.(Brown names are of the same origin (Vietnamese) with THO and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with THO - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming THO
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES THO AS A WHOLE:
muthoni thora hathor clotho melantho matholwch thor batholomeus sethos thoth thorn anthor erichthonius erysichthon phaethon phlegethon pirithous thomas aberthol anthonie asthore thomasin anthony danathon haethowine hahkethomemah johnathon jonathon otho othomann thom thoma thomdic thomkins thompson thoraldtun thormund thorndike thorne thornly thornton thorntun thorp thour winthorp bartholomew berthold thorpe thornley thorndyke thorm thormond thorley haethowin thomsina hathor-sakmet kulthoom amaethonNAMES RHYMING WITH THO (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ho) - Names That Ends with ho:
maho echo cho astolpho gaho ahtunowhiho igasho jericho pacho pancho sancho tocho vihoNAMES RHYMING WITH THO (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (th) - Names That Begins with th:
thabit thacher thacker thackere thaddea thaddeus thaddia thaddius thadina thadine thady thai thain thais thalassa thaleia thalia tham thamyris than thana' thanasis thanatos thane thang thanh thanos thao thaqib thara' tharen thatcher thaumas thaw thawain thaxte thaxter thay thayne 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 thressa thrisha thryth thrythwig thu thuan thuc thunder thurayya thurhloew thurl thurle thurleahNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH THO:
First Names which starts with 't' and ends with 'o':
tadao tadeo tajo takeo talo tanjiro tano tapio taro taurino tauro tavio teijo teiljo teo teodoro teppo terciero teyo timo timoteo tito tlaco tomeo tonio torio toro toshiro tulio tyroEnglish Words Rhyming THO
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES THO AS A WHOLE:
abdominothoracic | adjective (a.) Relating to the abdomen and the thorax, or chest. |
acanthocarpous | adjective (a.) Having the fruit covered with spines. |
acanthocephala | noun (n. pl.) A group of intestinal worms, having the proboscis armed with recurved spines. |
acanthocephalous | adjective (a.) Having a spiny head, as one of the Acanthocephala. |
acanthophorous | adjective (a.) Spine-bearing. |
acanthopodious | adjective (a.) Having spinous petioles. |
acanthopteri | noun (n. pl.) A group of teleostean fishes having spiny fins. See Acanthopterygii. |
acanthopterous | adjective (a.) Spiny-winged. |
adjective (a.) Acanthopterygious. |
acanthopterygian | noun (n.) A spiny-finned fish. |
adjective (a.) Belonging to the order of fishes having spinose fins, as the perch. |
acanthopterygii | noun (n. pl.) An order of fishes having some of the rays of the dorsal, ventral, and anal fins unarticulated and spinelike, as the perch. |
acanthopterygious | adjective (a.) Having fins in which the rays are hard and spinelike; spiny-finned. |
aerolithology | noun (n.) The science of aerolites. |
aethogen | noun (n.) A compound of nitrogen and boro/, which, when heated before the blowpipe, gives a brilliant phosphorescent; boric nitride. |
aforethought | noun (n.) Premeditation. |
adjective (a.) Premeditated; prepense; previously in mind; designed; as, malice aforethought, which is required to constitute murder. |
afterthought | noun (n.) Reflection after an act; later or subsequent thought or expedient. |
alethoscope | noun (n.) An instrument for viewing pictures by means of a lens, so as to present them in their natural proportions and relations. |
althorn | noun (n.) An instrument of the saxhorn family, used exclusively in military music, often replacing the French horn. |
amethodist | noun (n.) One without method; a quack. |
amianthoid | adjective (a.) Resembling amianthus. |
anacanthous | adjective (a.) Spineless, as certain fishes. |
anacoluthon | noun (n.) A want of grammatical sequence or coherence in a sentence; an instance of a change of construction in a sentence so that the latter part does not syntactically correspond with the first part. |
ananthous | adjective (a.) Destitute of flowers; flowerless. |
anethol | noun (n.) A substance obtained from the volatile oils of anise, fennel, etc., in the form of soft shining scales; -- called also anise camphor. |
anorthoscope | noun (n.) An optical toy for producing amusing figures or pictures by means of two revolving disks, on one of which distorted figures are painted. |
anthobian | noun (n.) A beetle which feeds on flowers. |
anthobranchia | noun (n. pl.) A division of nudibranchiate Mollusca, in which the gills form a wreath or cluster upon the posterior part of the back. See Nudibranchiata, and Doris. |
anthocarpous | adjective (a.) Having some portion of the floral envelopes attached to the pericarp to form the fruit, as in the checkerberry, the mulberry, and the pineapple. |
anthocyanin | noun (n.) Same as Anthokyan. |
anthodium | noun (n.) The inflorescence of a compound flower in which many florets are gathered into a involucrate head. |
anthography | noun (n.) A description of flowers. |
anthoid | adjective (a.) Resembling a flower; flowerlike. |
anthokyan | noun (n.) The blue coloring matter of certain flowers. Same as Cyanin. |
antholite | noun (n.) A fossil plant, like a petrified flower. |
anthological | adjective (a.) Pertaining to anthology; consisting of beautiful extracts from different authors, especially the poets. |
anthologist | noun (n.) One who compiles an anthology. |
anthology | noun (n.) A discourse on flowers. |
noun (n.) A collection of flowers; a garland. | |
noun (n.) A collection of flowers of literature, that is, beautiful passages from authors; a collection of poems or epigrams; -- particularly applied to a collection of ancient Greek epigrams. | |
noun (n.) A service book containing a selection of pieces for the festival services. |
anthomania | noun (n.) A extravagant fondness for flowers. |
anthophagous | adjective (a.) Eating flowers; -- said of certain insects. |
anthophore | noun (n.) The stipe when developed into an internode between calyx and corolla, as in the Pink family. |
anthophorous | adjective (a.) Flower bearing; supporting the flower. |
anthophyllite | noun (n.) A mineral of the hornblende group, of a yellowish gray or clove brown color. |
anthorism | noun (n.) A description or definition contrary to that which is given by the adverse party. |
anthotaxy | noun (n.) The arrangement of flowers in a cluster; the science of the relative position of flowers; inflorescence. |
anthozoa | noun (n. pl.) The class of the Coelenterata which includes the corals and sea anemones. The three principal groups or orders are Acyonaria, Actinaria, and Madreporaria. |
anthozoan | noun (n.) One of the Anthozoa. |
adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Anthozoa. |
anthozoic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Anthozoa. |
anticathode | noun (n.) The part of a vacuum tube opposite the cathode. Upon it the cathode rays impinge. |
antichthon | noun (n.) A hypothetical earth counter to ours, or on the opposite side of the sun. |
noun (n.) Inhabitants of opposite hemispheres. |
antipathous | adjective (a.) Having a natural contrariety; adverse; antipathetic. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH THO (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (ho) - English Words That Ends with ho:
bicho | noun (n.) See Jigger. |
borracho | noun (n.) See Borachio. |
broncho | noun (n.) A native or a Mexican horse of small size. |
cascalho | noun (n.) A deposit of pebbles, gravel, and ferruginous sand, in which the Brazilian diamond is usually found. |
derecho | noun (n.) A straight wind without apparent cyclonic tendency, usually accompanied with rain and often destructive, common in the prairie regions of the United States. |
echo | noun (n.) A sound reflected from an opposing surface and repeated to the ear of a listener; repercussion of sound; repetition of a sound. |
noun (n.) Fig.: Sympathetic recognition; response; answer. | |
noun (n.) A wood or mountain nymph, regarded as repeating, and causing the reverberation of them. | |
noun (n.) A nymph, the daughter of Air and Earth, who, for love of Narcissus, pined away until nothing was left of her but her voice. | |
noun (n.) A signal, played in the same manner as a trump signal, made by a player who holds four or more trumps (or as played by some exactly three trumps) and whose partner has led trumps or signaled for trumps. | |
noun (n.) A signal showing the number held of a plain suit when a high card in that suit is led by one's partner. | |
verb (v. t.) To send back (a sound); to repeat in sound; to reverberate. | |
verb (v. t.) To repeat with assent; to respond; to adopt. | |
verb (v. i.) To give an echo; to resound; to be sounded back; as, the hall echoed with acclamations. |
fracho | noun (n.) A shallow iron pan to hold glass ware while being annealed. |
gaucho | noun (n.) One of the native inhabitants of the pampas, of Spanish-American descent. They live mostly by rearing cattle. |
noun (n.) A member of an Indian population, somewhat affected by Spanish blood, in the archipelagoes off the Chilean coast. |
guacho | noun (n.) One of the mixed-blood (Spanish-Indian) inhabitants of the pampas of South America; a mestizo. |
noun (n.) An Indian who serves as a messenger. |
huaracho | noun (n.) A kind of sandal worn by Indians and the lower classes generally; -- usually used in pl. |
macho | noun (n.) The striped mullet of California (Mugil cephalus, / Mexicanus). |
malicho | noun (n.) Mischief. |
mallecho | noun (n.) Same as Malicho. |
moho | noun (n.) A gallinule (Notornis Mantelli) formerly inhabiting New Zealand, but now supposed to be extinct. It was incapable of flight. See Notornis. |
monarcho | noun (n.) The nickname of a crackbrained Italian who fancied himself an emperor. |
morpho | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of large, handsome, tropical American butterflies, of the genus Morpho. They are noted for the very brilliant metallic luster and bright colors (often blue) of the upper surface of the wings. The lower surface is usually brown or gray, with eyelike spots. |
mustacho | noun (n.) A mustache. |
mho | noun (n.) A unit of conductivity, being the reciprocal of the ohm. |
quebracho | noun (n.) A Chilian apocynaceous tree (Aspidosperma Quebracho); also, its bark, which is used as a febrifuge, and for dyspn/a of the lung, or bronchial diseases; -- called also white quebracho, to distinguish it from the red quebracho, a Mexican anacardiaceous tree (Loxopterygium Lorentzii) whose bark is said to have similar properties. |
noun (n.) A Chilian apocynaceous tree (Aspidosperma Quebracho); also, its bark, which is used as a febrifuge, and for dyspn/a of the lung, or bronchial diseases; -- called also white quebracho, to distinguish it from the red quebracho, a Mexican anacardiaceous tree (Loxopterygium Lorentzii) whose bark is said to have similar properties. |
poncho | noun (n.) A kind of cloak worn by the Spanish Americans, having the form of a blanket, with a slit in the middle for the head to pass through. A kind of poncho made of rubber or painted cloth is used by the mounted troops in the United States service. |
noun (n.) A trade name for camlets, or stout worsteds. |
rancho | noun (n.) A rude hut, as of posts, covered with branches or thatch, where herdsmen or farm laborers may live or lodge at night. |
noun (n.) A large grazing farm where horses and cattle are raised; -- distinguished from hacienda, a cultivated farm or plantation. |
reecho | noun (n.) The echo of an echo; a repeated or second echo. |
verb (v. t.) To echo back; to reverberate again; as, the hills reecho the roar of cannon. | |
verb (v. i.) To give echoes; to return back, or be reverberated, as an echo; to resound; to be resonant. |
sappho | noun (n.) Any one of several species of brilliant South American humming birds of the genus Sappho, having very bright-colored and deeply forked tails; -- called also firetail. |
sancho | noun (n.) The nine of trumps in sancho pedro. |
tallyho | noun (interj. & n.) The huntsman's cry to incite or urge on his hounds. |
noun (interj. & n.) A tallyho coach. |
who | noun (pron.) One; any; one. |
(object.) Originally, an interrogative pronoun, later, a relative pronoun also; -- used always substantively, and either as singular or plural. See the Note under What, pron., 1. As interrogative pronouns, who and whom ask the question: What or which person or persons? Who and whom, as relative pronouns (in the sense of that), are properly used of persons (corresponding to which, as applied to things), but are sometimes, less properly and now rarely, used of animals, plants, etc. Who and whom, as compound relatives, are also used especially of persons, meaning the person that; the persons that; the one that; whosoever. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH THO (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (th) - Words That Begins with th:
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. |
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. |
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. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH THO:
English Words which starts with 't' and ends with 'o':
tabacco | noun (n.) Tobacco. |
taboo | noun (n.) A total prohibition of intercourse with, use of, or approach to, a given person or thing under pain of death, -- an interdict of religious origin and authority, formerly common in the islands of Polynesia; interdiction. |
adjective (a.) Set apart or sacred by religious custom among certain races of Polynesia, New Zealand, etc., and forbidden to certain persons or uses; hence, prohibited under severe penalties; interdicted; as, food, places, words, customs, etc., may be taboo. | |
verb (v. t.) To put under taboo; to forbid, or to forbid the use of; to interdict approach to, or use of; as, to taboo the ground set apart as a sanctuary for criminals. |
tardo | noun (n.) A sloth. |
adjective (a.) Slow; -- a direction to perform a passage slowly. |
taro | noun (n.) A name for several aroid plants (Colocasia antiquorum, var. esculenta, Colocasia macrorhiza, etc.), and their rootstocks. They have large ovate-sagittate leaves and large fleshy rootstocks, which are cooked and used for food in tropical countries. |
tasco | noun (n.) A kind of clay for making melting pots. |
tasto | noun (n.) A key or thing touched to produce a tone. |
tattoo | noun (n.) A beat of drum, or sound of a trumpet or bugle, at night, giving notice to soldiers to retreat, or to repair to their quarters in garrison, or to their tents in camp. |
noun (n.) An indelible mark or figure made by puncturing the skin and introducing some pigment into the punctures; -- a mode of ornamentation practiced by various barbarous races, both in ancient and modern times, and also by some among civilized nations, especially by sailors. | |
verb (v. t.) To color, as the flesh, by pricking in coloring matter, so as to form marks or figures which can not be washed out. |
teloogoo | noun (n.) See Telugu. |
tempo | noun (n.) The rate or degree of movement in time. |
teredo | noun (n.) A genus of long, slender, wormlike bivalve mollusks which bore into submerged wood, such as the piles of wharves, bottoms of ships, etc.; -- called also shipworm. See Shipworm. See Illust. in App. |
terutero | noun (n.) The South American lapwing (Vanellus Cayennensis). Its wings are furnished with short spurs. Called also Cayenne lapwing. |
terzetto | noun (n.) A composition in three voice parts; a vocal (rarely an instrumental) trio. |
testudo | noun (n.) A genus of tortoises which formerly included a large number of diverse forms, but is now restricted to certain terrestrial species, such as the European land tortoise (Testudo Graeca) and the gopher of the Southern United States. |
noun (n.) A cover or screen which a body of troops formed with their shields or targets, by holding them over their heads when standing close to each other. This cover resembled the back of a tortoise, and served to shelter the men from darts, stones, and other missiles. A similar defense was sometimes formed of boards, and moved on wheels. | |
noun (n.) A kind of musical instrument. a species of lyre; -- so called in allusion to the lyre of Mercury, fabled to have been made of the shell of a tortoise. |
theorbo | noun (n.) An instrument made like large lute, but having two necks, with two sets of pegs, the lower set holding the strings governed by frets, while to the upper set were attached the long bass strings used as open notes. |
thoro | adjective (a.) Thorough. |
timpano | noun (n.) See Tympano. |
tinto | noun (n.) A red Madeira wine, wanting the high aroma of the white sorts, and, when old, resembling tawny port. |
tiro | noun (n.) Same as Tyro. |
tobacco | noun (n.) An American plant (Nicotiana Tabacum) of the Nightshade family, much used for smoking and chewing, and as snuff. As a medicine, it is narcotic, emetic, and cathartic. Tobacco has a strong, peculiar smell, and an acrid taste. |
noun (n.) The leaves of the plant prepared for smoking, chewing, etc., by being dried, cured, and manufactured in various ways. |
toco | noun (n.) A toucan (Ramphastos toco) having a very large beak. See Illust. under Toucan. |
tocororo | noun (n.) A cuban trogon (Priotelus temnurus) having a serrated bill and a tail concave at the end. |
toledo | noun (n.) A sword or sword blade made at Toledo in Spain, which city was famous in the 16th and 17th centuries for the excellence of its weapons. |
tomato | noun (n.) The fruit of a plant of the Nightshade family (Lycopersicum esculentun); also, the plant itself. The fruit, which is called also love apple, is usually of a rounded, flattened form, but often irregular in shape. It is of a bright red or yellow color, and is eaten either cooked or uncooked. |
tongo | noun (n.) The mangrove; -- so called in the Pacific Islands. |
toozoo | noun (n.) The ringdove. |
torilto | noun (n.) A species of Turnix (Turnix sylvatica) native of Spain and Northen Africa. |
tornado | noun (n.) A violent whirling wind; specifically (Meteorol.), a tempest distinguished by a rapid whirling and slow progressive motion, usually accompaned with severe thunder, lightning, and torrents of rain, and commonly of short duration and small breadth; a small cyclone. |
torpedo | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes belonging to Torpedo and allied genera. They are related to the rays, but have the power of giving electrical shocks. Called also crampfish, and numbfish. See Electrical fish, under Electrical. |
noun (n.) An engine or machine for destroying ships by blowing them up. | |
noun (n.) A quantity of explosives anchored in a channel, beneath the water, or set adrift in a current, and so arranged that they will be exploded when touched by a vessel, or when an electric circuit is closed by an operator on shore. | |
noun (n.) A kind of small submarine boat carrying an explosive charge, and projected from a ship against another ship at a distance, or made self-propelling, and otherwise automatic in its action against a distant ship. | |
noun (n.) A kind of shell or cartridge buried in earth, to be exploded by electricity or by stepping on it. | |
noun (n.) A kind of detonating cartridge or shell placed on a rail, and exploded when crushed under the locomotive wheels, -- used as an alarm signal. | |
noun (n.) An explosive cartridge or shell lowered or dropped into a bored oil well, and there exploded, to clear the well of obstructions or to open communication with a source of supply of oil. | |
noun (n.) A kind of firework in the form of a small ball, or pellet, which explodes when thrown upon a hard object. | |
noun (n.) An automobile with a torpedo body. | |
verb (v. t.) to destroy by, or subject to the action of, a torpedo. |
torso | noun (n.) The human body, as distinguished from the head and limbs; in sculpture, the trunk of a statue, mutilated of head and limbs; as, the torso of Hercules. |
tosto | adjective (a.) Quick; rapid. |
touraco | noun (n.) Same as Turacou. |
tremando | adjective (a.) Trembling; -- used as a direction to perform a passage with a general shaking of the whole chord. |
tremolando | adjective (a.) Same as Tremando. |
tremolo | noun (n.) The rapid reiteration of tones without any apparent cessation, so as to produce a tremulous effect. |
noun (n.) A certain contrivance in an organ, which causes the notes to sound with rapid pulses or beats, producing a tremulous effect; -- called also tremolant, and tremulant. |
trillo | noun (n.) A trill or shake. See Trill. |
trio | noun (n.) Three, considered collectively; three in company or acting together; a set of three; three united. |
noun (n.) A composition for three parts or three instruments. | |
noun (n.) The secondary, or episodical, movement of a minuet or scherzo, as in a sonata or symphony, or of a march, or of various dance forms; -- not limited to three parts or instruments. |
troco | noun (n.) An old English game; -- called also lawn billiards. |
tschego | noun (n.) A West African anthropoid ape allied to the gorilla and chimpanzee, and by some considered only a variety of the chimpanzee. It is noted for building large, umbrella-shaped nests in trees. Called also tscheigo, tschiego, nschego, nscheigo. |
tupelo | noun (n.) A North American tree (Nyssa multiflora) of the Dogwood family, having brilliant, glossy foliage and acid red berries. The wood is crossgrained and very difficult to split. Called also black gum, sour gum, and pepperidge. |
turbo | noun (n.) Any one of numerous marine gastropods of the genus Turbo or family Turbinidae, usually having a turbinate shell, pearly on the inside, and a calcareous operculum. |
turio | noun (n.) A shoot or sprout from the ground. |
turko | noun (n.) One of a body of native Algerian tirailleurs in the French army, dressed as a Turk. |
twelvemo | noun (a. & n.) See Duodecimo. |
two | noun (n.) One and one; twice one. |
noun (n.) The sum of one and one; the number next greater than one, and next less than three; two units or objects. | |
noun (n.) A symbol representing two units, as 2, II., or ii. |
tympano | noun (n.) A kettledrum; -- chiefly used in the plural to denote the kettledrums of an orchestra. See Kettledrum. |
typo | noun (n.) A compositor. |
tyro | noun (n.) A beginner in learning; one who is in the rudiments of any branch of study; a person imperfectly acquainted with a subject; a novice. |
tangelo | noun (n.) A hybrid between the tangerine orange and the grapefruit, or pomelo; also, the fruit. |
tango | noun (n.) A difficult dance in two-four time characterized by graceful posturing, frequent pointing positions, and a great variety of steps, including the cross step and turning steps. The dance is of Spanish origin, and is believed to have been in its original form a part of the fandango. |
noun (n.) Any of various popular forms derived from this. |
tapadero | noun (n.) One of the leather hoods which cover the stirrups of a Mexican saddle. |
tedesco | adjective (a.) German; -- used chiefly of art, literature, etc. |
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. |
tenno | noun (n.) Lit., King of Heaven; -- a title of the emperor of Japan as the head of the Shinto religion. |
trecento | noun (n. & a.) The fourteenth century, when applied to Italian art, literature, etc. It marks the period of Dante, Petrarch, and boccaccio in literature, and of Giotto in painting. |
tuxedo | noun (n.) A kind of black coat for evening dress made without skirts; -- so named after a fashionable country club at Tuxedo Park, New York. |