Words Starting With T
49 SAT and GRE words beginning with T. Each links to its full entry with a definition, an example sentence and related words.
- Tacitadjective
implied by or inferred from actions or statements
- Taciturnadjective
habitually reserved and uncommunicative
- Tangentialadjective
of or relating to or acting along or in the direction of a tangent
- Tangibleadjective
(of especially business assets) having physical substance and intrinsic monetary value
- Tantamountadjective
being essentially equal to something
- Tarnishverb
make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically
- Tautologynoun
(logic) a statement that is necessarily true
- Tawdryadjective
cheap and shoddy; - Judith Crist
- Tediousadjective
so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; ; ; ; ; ; - Edmund Burke; ; - Mark Twain
- Temeritynoun
fearless daring
- Temperateadjective
(of weather or climate) free from extremes; mild; or characteristic of such weather or climate
- Tenableadjective
based on sound reasoning or evidence
- Tenaciousadjective
stubbornly unyielding; ; ; ; - T.S.Eliot
- Tenetnoun
a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof
- Tentativeadjective
under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon
- Tenuousadjective
lacking substance or significance; ; ; ; a fragile claim to fame"
- Tepidadjective
feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm
- Terseadjective
brief and to the point; effectively cut short
- Therapeuticnoun
a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
- Thwartnoun
a crosspiece spreading the gunnels of a boat; used as a seat in a rowboat
- Timorousadjective
timid by nature or revealing timidity
- Tiradenoun
a speech of violent denunciation
- Toadynoun
a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage
- Torpornoun
a state of motor and mental inactivity with a partial suspension of sensibility
- Torquenoun
a twisting force
- Tortuousadjective
highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; - Sir Walter Scott
- Toutnoun
one who sells advice about gambling or speculation (especially at the racetrack)
- Tractableadjective
easily managed (controlled or taught or molded); ; - Samuel Butler
- Traduceverb
speak unfavorably about
- Transcendverb
be greater in scope or size than some standard
- Transcribeverb
rewrite or arrange a piece of music for an instrument or medium other than that originally intended
- Transgressverb
spread over land, especially along a subsiding shoreline
- Transientnoun
(physics) a short-lived oscillation in a system caused by a sudden change of voltage or current or load
- Translucentadjective
allowing light to pass through diffusely
- Transmuteverb
change or alter in form, appearance, or nature
- Travestynoun
a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way
- Treacherousadjective
tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans
- Treatisenoun
a formal exposition
- Trenchantadjective
having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect
- Trepidationnoun
a feeling of alarm or dread
- Trianglenoun
any of various triangular drafting instruments used to draw straight lines at specified angles
- Triteadjective
repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
- Trivialadjective
(informal) small and of little importance
- Truculentadjective
defiantly aggressive
- Truncateadjective
terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off
- Turbulentadjective
(of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence
- Turgidadjective
abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas
- Turpitudenoun
a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice
- Tyrannynoun
a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)