English Words: T
27,828 words · Page 54 of 557
A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring to bed, usually given about a quarter of an hour after tattoo; the signal is sometimes also given during the funeral of a soldier.
An imaginary creature, in Meitei folklore, described by a mother to frighten her child to stop crying, which was misunderstood by a tiger for a man, who mistakenly mount on the very tiger, mistaking it as a horse, thereby resulting in a panicking situation for both the thief and the tiger.
A pronounced vertical ridge down the center of a breastplate, or rarely by extension a ridge on another item of armor.
The fixtures used to dispense water at a sink, shower, or bathtub, consisting of a spout or shower head and control devices such as knobs or levers.
A thermostable DNA polymerase known for its relatively high rate of transcription errors.
A fried corn or flour tortilla, filled usually with beef or chicken and cheese, rolled up, and dipped in a form of salsa, or guacamole.
A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organic materials such as wood, peat, or coal.
To cover (a person) in sticky tar, then cover in feathers which stick to the tar; an archaic means of humiliating a person.
A difficult, abstract problem that worsens as one attempts to handle it; a sticky situation, especially one where attempts to make it better only make it worse.
A rare genetic disorder involving thrombocytopenia with absence of the radius in the forearm and a dramatically reduced platelet count.
To characterize (someone or something) using the same undesirable attribute, especially unjustly.
A white or beige nearly odorless powder used as a thickening agent and stabilizer for food, produced by separating and grinding the endosperm of Tara spinosa seeds.
An indigenous ethnic group of the Americas, inhabiting the state of Chihuahua in Mexico.
A fish, Nemadactylus macropterus, between 30 and 60 centimeters long and found off the coast of Australia and South America.
A Japanese food made from salted cod or pollack roe (originally cod, but now mostly pollack).
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 54. 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.