English Words: T
27,828 words · Page 249 of 557
Of or relating to Carl Peter Thunberg (1743–1828), Swedish naturalist who collected and described many plants and animals new to European science.
The loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air around a lightning bolt.
A legendary creature associated with lightning and thunder, as well as the god Raijin, depicted as various animals.
A plant found in China, Tripterygium wilfordii, which is used in traditional Chinese medicine.
Any of the ten 100-letter words occurring in James Joyce's experimental 1939 novel Finnegans Wake.
A large drum giving a deep booming sound when struck, used to imitate the sound of thunder.
A mythological bird, often associated with stormy weather, especially in various indigenous North American mythologies.
A long-horned beetle (Sarosesthes fulminans) whose larva bores in the trunks of oak and chestnut trees.
A sudden, loud thunder caused by a nearby lightning strike; a shock of thunder, as opposed to a reverberating rumble.
A large, dark cloud, usually a cumulonimbus, charged with electricity and producing thunder and lightning.
A domed arena for steel-cage jousting in the Australian post-apocalyptic film Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985), now used to describe an enclosed arena where fighting events take place and have no rules.
A roughly spherical, nodule-like geological structure, similar to a geode, that is formed within a rhyolitic lava flow.
A pyrotechnic device that generates a loud noise, used to simulate battlefield conditions.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English alphabetical index for the letter T contains 27,828 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 557 pages, and you are currently viewing page 249. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.
For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "T" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.