English words: time hangs heavily to timebomb
300 English words, part 65 of 131 of the words starting with T, A to Z. 5 have a page of their own.
English words time hangs heavily to timebomb
- time hangs heavily phrase: Alternative form of time hangs heavy.
- time hangs heavy phrase: A moment when time seems to pass very slowly.
- time heals proverb: Ellipsis of time heals all wounds.
- time heals all hurts proverb: Synonym of time heals all wounds.
- time heals all sorrows proverb: Synonym of time heals all wounds.
- time heals all things proverb: Synonym of time heals all wounds.
- time heals all wounds proverb: Negative feelings eventually fade away.
- time heals every wound proverb: Alternative form of time heals all wounds.
- time hedge noun: The act or practice of holding a trade for only the required time in order to capture the targeted risk.
- time hierarchy theorem noun: A theorem that demonstrates that allowing Turing machines additional computation time strictly increases the class of languages that they can decide.
- time history noun: A technique used in the field of structural dynamics to evaluate the behavior of structures under different loads and conditions, involving simulating the...
- time-homogeneous Markovian type noun: Synonym of time-independent Markovian type.
- time-honored adjective: Honored because of great age, or long usage.
- time-honoured adjective: Alternative spelling of time-honored.
- time hopping noun: A communications signal technique in which the transmission time is varied according to a pseudorandom sequence, useful in antijamming, etc.
- time horizon noun: A fixed point of time in the future where certain processes will be evaluated or assumed to end.
- time immemorial noun: Time that extends beyond memory or record.
- time in interjection, noun, verb: The period of a live action roleplaying event when players are in character.
- time in the sun noun: Synonym of day in the sun.
- time in time again adverb: Eggcorn of time and time again.
- time inconsistency noun: Synonym of dynamic inconsistency.
- time-independent adjective: Not time-dependent; not determined by the value of a variable representing time.
- time-independent Markovian type noun: Having the Markov property.
- time-independent Schrödinger equation noun: The equation ̂Hψ(⃑r)=Eψ(⃑r), for some constant E; applies to separable solutions Ψ(⃑r,t)=ψ(⃑r)ϕ(t) to the Schrödinger equation.
- time integration noun: A numerical method for solving differential equations that describes the manner in which a system changes over time.
- time-intensive adjective: Synonym of time-consuming.
- time-intensively adverb: In a time-intensive way or manner.
- time interval noun: A period of time with fixed, well-defined limits.
- time-invariance noun: A form of a system whose behavior, i.e., its response to inputs, does not change with time.
- time-invariant adjective: That does not vary over time.
- time is a flat circle proverb: Many (usually negative or value-neutral) things that occur or times that pass are not unique, but are quite similar to a multitude of similar occurrences...
- time is a great healer proverb: Synonym of time heals all wounds.
- time is a great healer of all wounds proverb: Synonym of time heals all wounds.
- time is money proverb: Money is wasted (in lost wages, missed opportunities, etc.) when a person's time is not used productively; time is valuable and should not be wasted.
- time is of the essence phrase: Time is an essential consideration (in regard to an action or response); haste is necessary.
- time is on one's side phrase: Used to refer that someone will eventually win against an opponent by waiting for the opponent's eventual defeat.
- time is ripe phrase: A suitable time has arrived for a particular activity.
- time is short phrase: Synonym of clock is ticking.
- time is the great healer proverb: Alternative form of time is a great healer.
- time is ticking phrase: Synonym of clock is ticking.
- time is up phrase: Alternative form of time's up.
- time it out verb: To wait, to delay.
- time jump noun, verb: A change to the same thing at a different time.
- time keep verb: Alternative form of timekeep.
- time-keeper noun: Alternative form of timekeeper.
- time keeping noun, verb: Alternative form of timekeeping.
- time killer noun: An activity which unproductively consumes a large amount of time; a distraction.
- time-killing adjective: That which kills time.
- time lady noun: A female voice that is heard on a speaking clock that a person could dial to find out the current time, down to the second, before the age of the Internet...
- time lag noun, verb: A period of time between one event and another; a delay.
- time lamp noun: An oil lamp from the 17th and 18th centuries, that burned at a fixed rate and consisted of a reservoir marked in units of time.
- time lapse adjective, noun /ˈtaɪmˌlæps/: Of or relating to a technique in which exposures are taken at fewer intervals than usual so that, on playback, a naturally slow process may be viewed at an...
- time letter of credit noun: A letter of credit requiring a payment by the issuer after accepting drafts drawn under it after a period of time.
- time-like adjective: Alternative spelling of timelike.
- time limit noun, verb: A time by which something must be finished.
- time-limited adjective: Subject to a time limit.
- time line noun: Dated form of timeline.
- time loan noun: A loan that must be repaid by a certain time.
- time lock noun: A lock, typically on a door in a bank vault, that cannot be unlocked before a specified time.
- time loop noun: A hypothetical or fictional instance of characters living through a set period of time repeatedly until the loop can be broken.
- time-loop logic noun: A hypothetical system of computation that exploits the Novikov self-consistency principle to compute answers much faster than possible with the standard...
- time machine noun: A hypothetical device used to travel into the past or the future.
- time management noun: The planning and control of time spent on specific activities, especially to increase efficiency and productivity.
- time-manner-place noun: A sentence structure that defines the order of adpositional phrases and adverbs in a sentence.
- time marker noun: An instrument that traces the timeline, usually in seconds, upon the smoked paper of a kymograph in physiologic experiments.
- time marketing noun: A guideline or strategy regarding the introduction of a product in the marketplace or a timely advertisement to consumers.
- time-memory trade-off noun: Synonym of space-time trade-off.
- time migration noun: An algorithm designed for the processing of seismic data in an area where the changes in lateral velocity are not significant, but the structures are...
- time money noun: Money which is loaned or prepared to be loaned for a specified period of time.
- time-motion study noun: Alternative form of time and motion study.
- time note noun: A promissory note that specifies a date (or dates) when repayment must be made.
- time of arrival noun: The time when someone or something, especially a train, bus, or other public conveyance, is expected to arrive; the time when it does in fact arrive.
- time of asking noun: A repeated occurrence or event.
- time-of-check to time-of-use noun: A class of software bugs caused by a race condition involving the checking of the state of a part of a system, such as a security credential, and the use of...
- time of concentration noun: The amount of time required for water to flow from the most remote point in a watershed to the watershed outlet, as a measure of the response of a watershed...
- time of day noun: The time according to the clock.
- time of death noun: The exact moment of death, denoting the precise date and time of which is established in the location of the residence of a decedent, as a matter of record.
- time of delivery noun: Synonym of delivery time.
- time of departure noun: The time when an airplane or other public conveyance is scheduled to depart.
- time of flight noun: Used attributively to describe various processes, devices, etc, that use the time an object or light takes to travel a certain distance. See Derived terms.
- time-of-flight mass spectrometry noun: a technique of separating ions of different masses by measuring the time taken to traverse a fixed distance through a magnetic field
- time of grace noun: The time during the year when deer are fattest and fit for hunting.
- time of life noun: A person's (approximate) age, as a guide to what they might be expected to be doing.
- time of memory noun: A reference to a point in time that is so distant that no living individual has knowledge or proof that would contradict a right or a custom purported to...
- time of night noun: A particular period during the night.
- time of occurrence noun: An event, such as the time of death or the time of incident, that is crucial to a death investigation.
- time of old noun: Synonym of time immemorial
- time of one's life noun: A period of enjoying oneself immensely, or more than ever before.
- time of origin noun: The point in time in which a message is released for transmission.
- time of pericenter passage noun: A time at which an orbiting body passes through the pericenter, closest to the central body.
- time of pericentre passage noun: Alternative spelling of time of pericenter passage.
- time of pitch noun: The moment when the pitcher begins the motion of pitching the ball and, by the rules of the game, has committed himself to throwing the pitch.
- time of the end noun: Synonym of endtime.
- time of the month noun: Synonym of menstruation: the monthly period during which a fertile woman menstruates.
- time of the year noun: Alternative form of time of year.
- time of travel noun: Synonym of travel time.
- time-of-use meter noun: A device that measures and records the usage of electricity during a prespecified period of the day cumulatively over a meter reading period.
- time-of-use rates noun: A dynamic electric rate schedule that adjusts prices that are dependent on peak usage, as based on the time of day and season.
- time of useful consciousness noun: The amount of time a person is able to function effectively in an environment of inadequate oxygen supply.
- time of year noun: A particular period in the year.
- time off noun: A period of time where one is not required to work.
- time offset noun: Synonym of UTC offset.
- time on noun: The period of time added on at the end of each quarter to compensate for time being stopped during regular time.
- time on device noun: The time spent playing on a gaming machine, seen as a metric.
- time on ice noun: Synonym of icetime (time spent on the ice rink)
- time-one map noun: A type of diffeomorphism that represents the evolution of a dynamical system over a unit time interval, where each point in the system's phase space is...
- time-one mapping noun: Synonym of time-one map.
- time opera noun: A subgenre of science fiction featuring complex and dramatic plotlines involving time travel.
- time optimal control problem noun: The determination of the minimum time in which a controlled object whose movement is described by a system of ordinary differential equations can be...
- time order noun: An order that changes its form after a certain time period, by becoming either a market or a limited price order, or is cancelled altogether.
- time-ordered adjective: Of a definition, presenting information in a specific chronological order, starting from the earliest event or concept and moving forward in a sequential...
- time ordering noun: The arrangement of a set of values in chronological order, starting from the earliest event or concept and moving forward in a sequential manner.
- time out interjection, noun, verb /ˈtaɪm.aʊt/: A short break in the action of a sport, for substitution, consultation, etc.
- time out of mind adverb, noun: The distant past beyond anyone's memory.
- time over phrase: Synonym of game over in the case where the player has exceeded a time limit.
- time parameter noun: A function used to specify the maximum CPU utilization time permitted for the job to execute.
- time parameter space noun: A mathematical construct or structure in which a time parameter plays a major role, or the set of possible values for a time parameter.
- time past prepositional phrase: For a considerable amount of time.
- time patrol noun: Synonym of time police (“an organization which regulates time travel”).
- time-payment noun: Payment that is based on the total amount of time worked.
- time pencil noun: Synonym of pencil detonator.
- time period noun /ˈtaɪm pɪɚ.i.əd/: The length of time during which an activity occurs or a condition remains, which may be measured either in seconds or in millions of years, depending upon...
- time-phased adjective: That is distributed or organized over a time period or across a specific timeline.
- time-piece noun: Alternative form of timepiece.
- time, place and manner restriction noun: Alternative form of time, place or manner restriction.
- time, place or manner restriction noun: A content-neutral limitation imposed by the government or other institution on expressive activity.
- time plan noun: A type of system permitting the payment of goods or services by installments.
- time plane noun: A model where space and time are considered as a single four-dimensional entity.
- time-pleaser noun: Alternative form of timepleaser.
- time-point noun: Alternative form of time point.
- time-point set noun: A temporal order of pitches in a tone row indicating the instants at which the notes begin.
- time police noun: An organization which regulates time travel, especially with the purpose of preventing the past from being modified.
- time policy noun: A type of marine insurance policy that covers the insured for a specified time period.
- time-poor adjective: Not having enough time to do things one wishes to do.
- time porn noun: Media, especially television shows, which depict people enjoying unrealistic amounts of free time.
- time preference noun: A measure of the preference a consumer has for immediate enjoyment rather than enjoyment at a future time.
- time-preference theory of interest noun: A theory stating that interest arises when present goods are exchanged for future goods because people prefer present goods over future ones.
- time pressure noun: Stress that arises from a tight deadline; an urgency from needing to finish something when there is barely enough or not enough time.
- time projection chamber noun: A type of particle detector that uses a combination of electric fields and magnetic fields together with a sensitive volume of gas or liquid to perform a...
- time quantum noun: Synonym of time slice.
- time rate noun: A form of compensation in which an employee is paid for the amount of time spent at work, usually as a weekly wage or a monthly salary.
- time recorder noun: time clock
- time-release adjective: Alternative form of timed-release.
- time-resolved adjective: Referring to a spectroscopic technique involving measurements made over a very short known time period or after excitation of the sample.
- time reversal noun: An operation that transforms a physical system undergoing a sequence of events into one in which the events take place in the reverse sequence.
- time reversal invariance noun: The principle that if a sequence of events is possible, then the same sequence is also possible in the reverse order.
- time reversal mirror noun: A device that uses a transducer to sample, to reverse in time, and to reemit an acoustic field or another type of wave.
- time reversal signal processing noun: A technique that either creates an optimal carrier signal for communication, reconstructs a source event, or focuses on high-energy waves to a point in space.
- time-reverse verb: To subject something to a transformation in which the passage of time and all of its velocities are theorized to be reversed.
- time's a-wasting phrase: Time is running out; time is being wasted
- time's arrow noun: Alternative form of arrow of time.
- time's up phrase /ˈtaɪmz ˌʌp/: The deadline has passed; there is no more available time.
- time sampling noun: A method of collecting data or information involving the notation and recording of an occurrence of a target behavior whenever it is observed during a...
- time-saver noun: Alternative form of timesaver.
- time-saving adjective: Alternative form of timesaving.
- time scale noun: A series of events used as a rough measure of duration.
- time scramble noun: A situation in which one or both players have very little remaining time on their clocks, therefore increasing the chance of inaccuracies or blunders being...
- time section noun: A diagram whose two coordinates are time and distance, usually height.
- time sense noun: An ability to sense the passage of time and to estimate and compare its intervals.
- time-sensitive adjective: Sensitive to latency or small variations in time; time-critical.
- time series noun: A set of data points, each of which represents the value of the same variable at different times, normally at uniform intervals.
- time series animation noun: The depiction or presentation of different events or incidents in a chronological or sequential order according to a particular attribute.
- time served adjective, noun: Time spent in remand awaiting trial, when credited after a guilty verdict usually by subtracting from the sentence.
- time-server noun: Alternative form of timeserver.
- time service noun: The determination and announcement of the correct time, conducted as part of the duties of an astronomical observatory.
- time-serving adjective, noun: Opportunism.
- time-servingness noun: Alternative form of timeservingness.
- time-sharing noun, verb: The joint ownership or lease of a property by multiple people who can only use it for specified periods every year, or every other year.
- time sheet noun: Alternative form of timesheet.
- time-shift noun, verb: Alternative form of timeshift.
- time shifting noun, verb: The practice of recording a broadcast with the intention of watching or listening to it later at a more convenient time.
- time shutter noun: A shutter in a camera designed for making time exposures.
- time sight noun: An observation by sextant of the altitude of a celestial body in order to determine the time and hence the longitude.
- time signal noun: A visible, audible, mechanical, or electronic signal used as a reference to determine the time of day.
- time signature noun: A symbol or numerical sign placed on a stave to indicate the meter; in the case of a numerical time signature, the numerator is the number of beats per bar,...
- time sink noun: Something that consumes a great deal of time, usually with little or no benefit; a waste of time.
- time slice noun /ˈtaɪmslaɪs/: The period of time for which a process is allowed to run in a preemptive multitasking system.
- time slicing noun: A technique used to share a processor in a round robin manner with all of the tasks of the same priority, allowing lower priority tasks when idle.
- time slip noun: Alternative form of timeslip (“a phenomenon that causes unexpected time travel”).
- time slot noun: Alternative form of timeslot.
- time-space noun: The concepts of time and space considered as a single entity.
- time-space complexity noun: The combination of the measure of the amount of time and space in which an algorithm requires to run or solve a given decision problem.
- time-space compression noun: The process in which time taken to travel is accelerated and the significance of space between distant places is reduced.
- time-space convergence noun: The process, made possible by technological innovations in transportation and communication, by which distant places are brought closer together in terms of...
- time-space grid noun: The combination of a geographical area divided into equal sectors and a regular time interval.
- time span noun: Alternative spelling of timespan.
- time-span reduction noun: A subset of the generative theory of tonal music, based on information gleaned from metrical and grouping structures, in which tree structure-style...
- time spent laughing is time spent with the gods proverb: Laughter is bliss.
- time spent listening noun: The amount of time that an average listener that is surveyed spends listening to each radio station at one time, before changing the station or turning it off.
- time spirit noun: Synonym of zeitgeist.
- time spread noun: Synonym of calendar spread.
- time stamp noun, verb: Alternative form of timestamp.
- time stamped adjective, verb: Marked with a timestamp.
- time standard noun: An agreed method of measuring time; a specification or standard of either the rate at which time passes, or of points in time, or of both.
- time stands still phrase: Used to emphasize a moment in time that is either catastrophic or even enjoyable in which one's sense of time is frozen or suspended.
- time step noun: A type of rhythmic tap combination.
- time stop noun: A stop (mechanical part that adjusts an aperture or interval size) which operates on a timer.
- time stream noun: Alternative form of timestream.
- time-stretch verb: To change the speed or duration of (an audio signal) without affecting its pitch.
- time stretch analog-to-digital converter noun: A device for digitizing analog signals of very high bandwidth, effectively slowing down the original signal in time (or compressing its bandwidth) before it...
- time-stretched adjective, verb: Altered in speed or duration without affecting the original pitch.
- time stretching noun, verb: Alternative form of time stretching.
- time study noun: A direct and continuous observation of a task, using a timekeeping device to record the time taken to accomplish the task.
- time suck noun: Alternative form of timesuck.
- time switch noun, verb: A switch activated automatically at a preset time.
- time table noun: Alternative spelling of timetable.
- time-taker noun: A task or process that is time-consuming.
- time-taking adjective: Time-consuming.
- time tape noun, verb: A tape placed on an IV bag, on which the nurse periodically marks the level and time, used to track the speed at which the solution is infusing.
- time-taper noun: A type of timing device consisting of a bowl floating in a brass dish.
- time term noun: A term of an equation in which the main variable is time (symbolized as t).
- time test noun: A test of fitness in which a person exercises for a defined period
- time tested adjective: Tested and proved to be reliable over a period of time.
- time theft noun: The situation where an employee fraudulently receives compensation for an amount of time during which no work was performed.
- time thief noun: Something or someone that consumes an inordinate amount of time, especially without achieving anything productive.
- time thrust noun: A thrust made at the moment the opponent draws breath for his or her own thrust.
- time to come noun: In the future; in the foreseeable future.
- time-to-digital converter noun: A device for recognizing events and providing a digital representation of the time they occurred.
- time to expiry noun: The amount of time remaining until a financial contract expires.
- time to kill noun: A period during which one has no responsibilities to fulfill, often while waiting for some event or outcome, and therefore must find some activity to...
- time to live noun: A mechanism which limits the lifespan or lifetime of data in a computer or network.
- time to make the donuts phrase: A time to make an effort and to accomplish tasks.
- time to market adjective, noun: The length of time between the conception of a product and its availability for sale.
- time to maturity noun: Synonym of time to expiry.
- time to progression noun: The length of time from the moment of diagnosis or the commencement of treatment for a disease until the moment the disease begins to worsen or spread to...
- time to time adverb: from time to time
- time trace noun: A graphical representation or plot depicting the manner in which a specific quantity changes over time.
- time track noun: Synonym of timeline (“an individual universe or reality”).
- time tracking noun: A written record of the working hours of the employees of a company or organization in order to ensure accurate compensation.
- time-tracking software noun: A program or application allowing a user to record the amount of time spent on tasks or projects.
- time trade noun: The request of a shipper to exchange a batched shipment with another shipper.
- time train noun: A train of wheels that turns the hands and drives the balance and escapement of a timepiece.
- time transfer noun: A scheme or technique used for creating and distributing standard time scales such as International Atomic Time, whereby astronomical observatories...
- time travel noun, verb: Travel to the past or to the future, typically by means of a time machine or a wormhole.
- time travel debugging noun: A form of software debugging allowing the user to step back and forward through the recorded prior execution of a program.
- time traveler noun /ˈtaɪm ˌtɹæv.əl.əɹ/: Alternative spelling of time-traveller.
- time-traveling noun: The act or practice of traveling into the future or past.
- time traveller noun: One who engages in time travel.
- time-travelling noun: Alternative spelling of time-traveling.
- time trial noun: An unpaced race in which riders or teams leaving at regular intervals are timed over a preset course or distance, the winner being the rider or team to...
- time trial bicycle noun: a racing bicycle designed for use in an individual race against the clock.
- time-trialing noun: A competition where competitors race individually against the clock, aiming for the fastest time over a set course, rather than racing directly against each...
- time trialist noun /ˈtaɪm ˈtɹaɪəlɪst/: Someone who competes in a time trial.
- time-trialling noun: Alternative spelling of time-trialing.
- time triallist noun: Alternative spelling of time trialist.
- time triangle noun: Any type of device that is used to measure time.
- time-tried adjective: Tested and proved to be reliable over a period of time.
- time trouble noun: In a game played with a time control, the situation in which a player has little time to complete the required moves, thus increasing the probability of...
- time tunnel noun: A passageway enabling time travel.
- time twin noun: Either of two people born at the same time on the same day and thus supposed to have similar traits or life events.
- time under tension noun: The amount of time a muscle or set of muscles are being continuously stressed.
- time unit noun: Synonym of unit of time.
- time until expiration noun: Synonym of time to expiry.
- time use noun: The use or utilization of time.
- time-use research noun: An interdisciplinary field of study dedicated to learning how people allocate their time during an average day.
- time-use survey noun: A statistical survey which aims to report data, on average, on the manners and ways of people spending their time.
- time value noun: Synonym of time premium.
- time value of money noun: A widely accepted conjecture that there is greater benefit to receiving a sum of money now rather than an identical sum later.
- time vampire noun: A person, obligation, or activity that drains one's time; a time-waster.
- time-variant adjective: Of a system whose output response depends on the moment of observation as well as the moment of input signal application.
- time-varied gain noun: Synonym of time-gain compensation.
- time-varied gain control noun: Synonym of time-gain compensation.
- time-varying adjective: Referring to any voltage of a varying time, current or an electromagnetic wave carrying information.
- time violation noun: The breaking of a rule where a player takes too long to get ready between a point
- time wage noun: A form of compensation where an employee is paid based on the amount of time worked, regardless of the amount of work produced.
- time-waiter noun: A person who anticipates a favorable moment or turn of events; an opportunist.
- time warp noun, verb: A hypothetical discontinuity in the flow of time that would uncausally move events from one time period to another.
- time was phrase: It was once true (that)...; there was a time when...
- time-waste noun, verb: The wasting of time.
- time-waster noun: Someone who wastes their own time or the time of others.
- time-wasting noun: Alternative form of timewasting.
- time watch noun, verb: Synonym of time detector.
- time-weighted adjective: calculated from selected discrete values over a specified time period
- time-white adjective: Of a man, white-haired due to age.
- time will tell phrase: Events and outcomes cannot be known beforehand.
- time window noun: Synonym of window of time.
- time window out verb: To be removed or disqualified through a time window.
- time-wise adjective, adverb: Alternative form of timewise.
- time word noun: A word that denotes or relates to time, encompassing concepts such as duration, frequency, or a specific point in time.
- time work noun: Alternative form of timework.
- time-worker noun: Alternative form of timeworker.
- time-worn adjective: Alternative form of timeworn.
- time you got a watch phrase: A phrase used to reply to the question what time is it?.
- time zone noun: A range of longitudes where a common standard time is used.
- time-zone arbitrage noun: A trading strategy where an investor exploits price differences of the same asset that arise due to the different opening and closing times of global...
- time-zone disease noun: Synonym of jet lag
- time-zone fatigue noun: Synonym of jet lag
- timeable adjective: Capable of being timed.
- timeband noun: A fixed period of time representing a division of the day or night.
- timebank noun: Alternative spelling of time bank.
- timebanking noun: Alternative spelling of time banking.
- timebase noun: A time period used as a base measurement or frequency.
- timebill noun: Alternative form of time bill (especially sense 2).
- timebinding noun: Alternative form of time-binding.
- timeblock noun, verb: A fixed segment of time (such as any of the hours in a day) used as a unit for scheduling.
- timebomb noun: Alternative form of time bomb.
Part 64 · Part 66 · English words: T
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under T: 39,191 words, in 131 parts.