| toll | v. | to lure, to attract, to decoy | ||
| tombola | n. | raffle or lottery at which winning tickets are drawn from a rotating drum; such a drum | ||
| tomelet | n. | small tome | ||
| tomnoddy | n. | fool, dunce; puffin | ||
| tonitruate | v. | to thunder | ||
| tonneau | n. | rear compartment of an automobile, esp. in earlier models | ||
| topee | n. | lightweight Indian hat made from pith of the sola plant, pith helmet | ||
| toper | n. | heavy or excessive drinker | ||
| toponymic | adj. | of or related to the study of place names | ||
| toponymy | n. | study of place names | ||
| toque | n. | small cap or bonnet; small brimless hat or hat with narrow brim, worn by women; [Canadian] knitted cap, often with pom-pom on the crown | ||
| torpid | adj. | dormant, unmoving; sluggish, inactive; lacking vigor, apathetic | ||
| totipotent | adj. | capable of becoming anything (said of cells able to become any type of cell in an embryo) | biology | |
| tow | n. | shorter fibers of flax separated from the longer more useful strands | ||
| toxophilite | n. | a lover or devotee of archery | ||
| traduce | v. | to speak of someone in a malicious and false way, to slander; to transmit (from one person or generation to another) | ||
| traducianism | n. | doctrine that the soul is generated from the parents at the moment of conception | ||
| trainband | n. | civilian militia company of London and other areas, during Stuart rule and after | ||
| translucid | adj. | transparent, translucent; permitting the passage of light without allowing perfect vision of objects behind | ||
| Transoxania | n. | region beyond the Oxus River, northeast of the historical Persian province of Khorasan | ||
| transpicuous | adj. | transparent, easily understood | ||
| transpontine | adj. | of or related to (something on) the farther side of a bridge; of or related to the area south of the Thames river in London; of or related to sensational plays of the 19th Century presented in the area south of the River Thames | ||
| transude | v. | to ooze through | ||
| trapezium | n. | irregular quadrilateral, four-sided plane rectilinear figure not a parallelogram | ||
| treen | adj. | made wholly of wood | ||
| trenail | n. | hardwood pin used to fasten together timbers (also treenail) | ||
| trews | n. | close-fitting trousers, often of tartan pattern | ||
| tribadism | n. | lesbianism | ||
| trichotillomania | n. | mental disorder in which the sufferer undergoes strong urges to pull out his or her hair | ||
| trichotomy | n. | division into three | ||
| triolet | n. | eight-line poem having rhyme scheme abaaabab with 1st line repeated as the 4th and 7th lines, and the 2nd as the 8th | ||
| tripos | n. | examination for bachelor’s degree at Cambridge; courses taken in preparation for such exams | ||
| triptyque | n. | temporary customs permit for a motor vehicle which serves as a vehicular passport | ||
| tripudiate | v. | to dance in joy, triumph, or contempt | ||
| trituration | n. | the reduction of a substance to a fine powder | ||
| trocar | n. | perforator enclosed in a cannula or metal tube used in surgery for draining fluids, etc. | ||
| tropology | n. | the use of tropes or figures of speech | ||
| tropopause | n. | atmospheric boundary layer between troposphere and stratosphere | ||
| trotter | n. | animal that trots; foot of an animal (esp. sheep or pig) used as food | ||
| trow | v. | to believe, to trust | ||
| trucidate | v. | to massacre, to murder, to kill, to slaughter | ||
| truckle | v. | to submit timidly; to submit from unworthy motives | ||
| truckle bed | n. | low bed on casters for rolling it beneath a fixed bed when not in use | ||
| truculent | adj. | fierce, cruel, barbarous | ||
| trudge | v. | to walk laboriously or wearily | ||
| truncheon | n. | broken off piece; fragment of spear or lance | ||
| trunnion | n. | one of pair of pivots supporting something; cylindrical projection from cannon supporting same on its carriage | ||
| tucker | n. | linen, lace, or similar piece worn around top of bodice | ||
| tufa | n. | limestone formed from calcareous deposits from springs or lakes | ||
| tulwar | n. | Indian saber |
